New-York tribune., 1900-10-14
ALTGELD TO WoRKINGMEN
PERHAPS THE FLAG SHOULD FLOAT
OVER MANILA" HE ADMITS IN
BROOKLYN

Ex-Governor John P Altgeld OF Illinois discussed
the Issues of the Campaign before large audi
ence last evening at the Clermcnt Avenue Rink
Brooklyn. The meeting was held under the au-
spices Of the Workingmen's League of Brooklyn
John Swinton presided Mr.. Altgeld. in opening
his address, said:
Ill i has been said that this campaign Is to be de
Cibea Cbel upon I the full dinner pail" But ask
hundred thousand miners of Pennsylvania? No, il
onopos The only good featue Of ana trust Hl is
mat reaches into the pockets of the Republicans
ttected from the hordes of foreign laborers, then
competition of foreign products Strange to say
the tbers mas never been single prosecution under
manage the Administration Trusts do believe
can stand upon public platform and say
OF Democracy William Jennings Bryan -
Discussing the foreign policy at Washington. Mr.
Altgeld said:
Secretary Hay and President Mckinley made a
treaty to build the NicaTaguan Canal wherein this
keep British gunboats from destroying what we
shall build: If Mckinley is elected. this treaty
VIII be ratified, a fact that hundreds of Republf-
r65 5R Aasf ss fa5a portion Of the Kondlke when
5Snd ma DIT they have wherever gold is discovered
me present Administration has taken steps to pull
down the American flag which floats over a popu-
latlon or American miners the Alaskan border.
tocratic Englishman. famed the wide world over
Tor 10 s ms gam bling coekghting and idling gold
the liberty of two heroic nations Mark Hanna ap-
were downed seventy-fve million Americans
round that their heart throbbing sympathies could
not find vent through the proper chanels of
Administration
Speaking of expansion Mr.. Altgeld said
We have expanded continually and egitimatey
since 1903 but we have developed only by extending
me principles of self-government and of the Bill
OF hlghts. There was not word Of self-govern-
ment in the Paris Treaty. BY the defeat of the
Bacon resolution. the Fipinos were told they could
never never De Iree men, that We are going to govern
them according to the Spanish system. The fact
makes it a question of Imperialism, and not a
question OF expansion. Perhaps the flag should float
over Manila. I shall not discuss that But wher
ever that flag floats let there be human progress.
justice, equality and righteousness. The nineteenth
century is authority for the statement that no
government sell ten million human souls We
can send army to Germany and to England and
If we can subdue them shall have exactly the
same right to do II have to do il in the
Philippines The dinner pail and the man with the
hoe pay the additional $3O0,WOW0 which our new
policy has thrust upon us yearly:
Uncle Sam has put on steelshod boots, has shout
dered gun. and is tramping the world. looking for
trouble t What need have we Of new glory? How
no nation this ridden planet which has
led in human progress, And We have held out the
without the firing of single shot.
We have 10000 soldiers and carpet baggers to
take care Of and support there. Thirty years
cost of the War Re American pT Pese1 acting
on the behest of the American syndicate and not
on weak people. solely for the sake of glory.
You who were born abroad. are you willing to
from which you fed: that mockery of glory and
strut which ground you down.? Are you ready to
A New-York trust nagnate forced Congress forced
the President himself to throttle free trade with
future to the disgust and Chagrn of the
York St wb9 forced 5 fn so TI b
words and betray the American people 1t is time
that the American people again into their in
heritance