Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-10-25
Address To independent voters.

ions were of adjacent territory for the
extension of the area of Constitutional
government and the creation of new
states OF the union. We made their
few inhabitants citizens; our people
settled them; we there established the
institutions of freedom. For the first
time in our history 1t is now proposed
that the president and congress shall
rule vast territories and millions of
men outside our constitutional system.
Officials sworn to support the con-
stitntion and deriving all their powers
therefrom have acquired colonies and
assumed arbitrary authority to gov
ern their inhabitants without consent
and to tax them without representa-
ton. This policy offers to the people
of Porto Rico and the Philippines no
hope of independence, no prospect of
American citizenship, no representa-
ton in the congress which taxes them.
This is the government of men by
arbitrary power; this is imperialism.
We believe that 1t is the first duty
of the American people to stamp with
their disapproval doctrines so hostile
to liberty and dangerous to constitu-
tional government. II they remain
free and their government is to
continue representative their servants
must not have or exercise any but
constitutional powers. Between the
CLAIM of freedom that all men are
entitled to equal political rights and
the dogma of tyranny that might
makes might, there Is no middle
ground.
We have not prior to this year sup
ported the candidacy of Mr.. Bryan.
We do not DOW concur with certain
of his views on minor issues. Yet his
position on the supreme issue of the
present campaign is SO sound, and his
advocacy of it has been so able and
courageous that we now favor his
election as the most effective way of
showing disapproval of Mr.. McKin-
ley's course. Without claiming any
special political influence, we unite,
for what our example may be worth
to our fellow-citizens, in this state
ment of proposed action in the pres
ence of ''a greater danger than we
have encountered since the Pilgrims
landed at Plymouth-the danger that
we are to be transformed from re-
public, founded on the declaration of
independence, guided by the counsels
of Washington, into a vulgar, COM
monplace empire, founded on physi-
cal force" We invite the cooperation
of all independent voters to avert
this great and impending danger.
George S. Boutwell,, Boston. lex
Gov. ana ex-Sec. of-the treasury
Charles Gordon Ames, Boston.
Melville B. Anderson, Leland Stan
ford University.
Francis Fischer Browne, Chicago.
editor of ''The Dlal.)
John Beatty, Ohio. General in civil
war and ex-congressman.)
William Birney, Washington, D. G.
D. f. Bremner, Chicago.
Albert S. Cook, Yale University.
D II Chamberlain, Massachusetts,.
ex-governor of South Carolina.
Charles r Goldman, Massachusetts,.
Henry B CABOT, Boston.
Starr Willard Cutting, University of
Chicago.
Noah z Davis. University of Virginia.
John Dewey, University of Chicago.
Dana Estes, Boston.
Louis r Enrich, Colorado.
Joseph S Fowler, Washington, D @
ex-United States Senator.
Edwin L Godkin, New York former
editor of "The Nation" and IN Y
Evening Post"
William Lloyd Garrison, Boston.
Judson Harmon. Cincinnati ex sttor-
ney general Q s.
f D Huntington, Syracuse bishop of
P E Church.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Bos-
ton.
William Gardner Hale, University of
Chicago.
George Lincoln Hendricksop, Univer-
sity of Chicago.
Henry Q johnson. congressman
of Indiana.
Edward Holton James, Seattle, Wash
ington.
William R Lord. Portland, Oregon.
Louis r Larson, Minneapolis ex- judge
John Y Lemoyne, Baltimore. ex-cong-
ressmRu-
Chasles F Lummia. Los Angles, editor
Land of Sunshine.
Joseph Lee. Boston.