Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-11
ing the Representatives of a great war

power.
We forget the warning Of Washington
as to entangling alliances with foreign
nations. We forget the great princl-
pies of the Monroe doctrine Under
which Jefferson said in 1920, 1.-The day
is not far distant when we may formal
" require a meridian of partition
through the ocean which separates the
two hemispheres on the hither side of
which no European gun shall ever be
heard nor an American OH the other"
We have sent our guns across that
meridian and are now conquering peo-
pie In the far east and helping the war
lords Of Europe to divide the loot and
the territory and fix the indemnity in
China.
The Republican party under the adj.
ministration Of President Mckinley
has added nothing to the greatness or
the influence of this government If 1t
has not in fact destroyed both. We
were respectable world power before
Mark Hanna and his protege took
charge of the government. We were a
world power when we defeated En-
| gland In open warfare on land and sea
In 1912. We were q world power re-
| spected as such when we promulgated
the Monroe doctrine, and said to all the
nations of Europe you shall not extend
| by one foot your systems or your terri
tory upon the American continent and
we were obeyed. We were world pow
| err when we taught the nations the les
son of human liberty and showed them
an example of popular government. We
were world power when we crammed
the Monroe doctrine down the throat 81
! Enssla.;. racn she i,ieG 10 s.:;.,a.i the
gold mines of Venezuela and she COW.
cred before the defiance of Die: Olney
and Grover Cleveland like a whipped
| spaniel.
Mckinley has made us such world
power that we are toadylng to England
like Canadian Misunderstanding to get
her gracious consent to build an !Amerl.
can canal with American money across
an American isthmus. Such world
power that for the first time In our his.
tory the Monroe doctrine has been vlo-
lated and our flag has been hauled
down and that of England put up, on
American territory on the coast in Alas
ka. Mckinley and his Secretary OF
State were the first in the history of the
country TO surrender American terri.
tory to England.
4 But we are asked what does the Dem
ocratic party propose to do with this
problem which the Spanish war has
thrust upon us. Every Democrat knows
you have but to read the history of
our country to find the solution that the
Democrats offer for that problem. The
Democratic party, by Its great leader,
Thomas Jefferson, met that question in
1877 and adopted an ordinance and
made a compact for the Northwest ter
ritory that laid down for all time their
position on the government of terri
tories. They gave to the territory of
the northwest self-government under
laws made by the legislature chosen by
the inhabitants of the American terri.
tory. Even the territorial officers APP
pointed by the Federal government
were to be freeholders within the terri
tory. They had their bill of rights.
They had their compact that bound the
| States already in the Union. The same
Democratic principles were applied to
the States carved out of the Louisiana
purchase. You can read 1t in the or
ganic law Of Iowa. You can read 1t in
the constitutional rights offered to New
Mexico and Calfornia-in the policy
that within two years after the treaty
with Mexico admitted California into
| the union of States.
The Democratic party can have no
policy with regard to this acquired ter
ritory except to apply the principles
defined by the Declaration of Independ
ence, and the Constitution of the United
States. We have the Philippines, l
think unjustly and unwisely. We have
spent $780, 600 to carry out the Pres
ident's un-American idea of forcing the
sovereignty of the United States on
these islands. They have been sancti-
fed by the blood of thousands of Ameri-
can citizens. Our flag floats there.
Almost forty years ago million pat
riots marched from their homes in the
North to make that flag in truth as well
as in name flag of the free, to make
1t impossible for man anywhere to
breathe the air that famed its folds
and be a slave. BY solemn treaty of
Mckinley with the Sultan of Sulu this
1 government protects today, has for
nearly three years, both polygamy and
slavery under that flag. For the first
time in our history people have been
led to hate our flag because it stands to
them for conquest, for imperial rule.
Carpetbnggcry for the Philippines.
The Inauguration Of the carpet bag
system for the Philippines has not
waited long after the passage of the
amendment to the army appropriation
act. President Taft, of the Philippine
Commission, has already commenced
the establishment of several paper civil