The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-22
ANTI-IMPERIALISTS
ISSUE AN ADDRESS.
Ask the Aid Of All Who Join Them
In Fearing for the Rcpub-
lies Life.

CHICAGO, Oct. H--Thn Anti-fmperiai-
fstic League issued an address tonight to
'All Independent Voters in the United
j. Bryan for president. Among the names
attached to the document are those OF
George 8. Boutwell,. Boston; ID. II. Cham
q South Carolina Joseph :, Fowler.
Washington, 2. e, ex-united states SEN
atov; Edward L. Godkin, New York /,
William Lloyd Garrison. Boston; Judson
Harmon. Cincinnati, ex-attorney general (.
bishop r. d: Huntington, syracuse, n.
r.; Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Bos-
tom ex-Congressman Henry u. johnson,
indiana: William U. Lord, Portland. Or;
sity: franklin Pierce. New York; Arthur
NJ shepard, New York; Morield Storey,
Edwin ms Grans E Ws.
Fargo Express Company, United States
Senator George l.. WELLINGTON. Maryland.
and ex-Congressman 3onn Dewitt War
ner, New York
The address says:
I'VE regard with profound apprehen-
sion the course OF the present ad'mintstra-
ton In Puerto Rico and the Philippines,
Our prior acquisitions were of adjacent
territory, extension of area of constitu-
tionai government and the creation OF
new states OF the Union. We made their
few inhabitants citizens our people set
situations OF freedom. For the first time
in our history II IL now proposed that the
president and congress- shall rule vast
Of our constitutional system. Officials
sworn TO support the constitution and
deriving all their powers therefrom have
ACQUIRED colonies and assumed arbitrary
without consent. and to tar them without
representation. This policy OFFERS TO the
people OF Puerto Rico and the Philip
pines no hope OF Independence. no pros
poet OF American citizenship, no represent
tation In tho congress which taxes them.
This r. the government OF men by arbi-
trary power: this IL Imperialism.
We believe II In the first duty of the
American people to statmp with their
disapprovai doctrines 80 hostile to liberty
and dangerous To constitutional govern
their government Is to continue represen-
tatlve. their servants must not have or
exercise any but constitutional pawerS.
Between the claim Of freedom. that all
and the dogma OF tyranny, that might
makes right, there II no middle ground.
We have not prior 70 this year supported
now concur IN certsin OF his views or
minor issues. Yet his position on the
supreme issue Of the present campaign rs
so sound. and his advocacy OF u has been
40 able and courageous, that We new
favor hts election AZ the most effective
way of showing dtenpproval OF Mr. Me-
Kinieys course. Without claiming any
special political influence. We unite for
what cur example may be worth TO our
fellow citizens IN this statement OF pro-
posed action in the presence Of n greater
danger than We have encountered since
the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth~the
danger that We are TO be transformed
from a republic founded ON tho peclar-
alton OF Independence guided by the
councils OF Washington. into g0lgar.
commonplace empire. founded on phys.
cal force. We invite the corporation II
OIL independent voters 20 avert this great
and Impending danger"