The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-09-16
COL, TOM FITCH
STIRS REPUBLICANS

disposition voHii. without fegard ta
50. b. named Hanna ana drowned
in the nearest ruHI Another ueuu-
cratic REMEDY Dr. o. place ON the ffee
list nu articles manufactured hy trusts.
We might az well proclaim free trade
nt once. Cor whenever fortirn uanufac-
turcrs wanted an open Amen. nn mar
ket. they could accomplish DO .s Hrgin-
lEing American trusts
WHAT TO 10 Win TE. PHILIP
PINES
Finally the democrats present to Va
the issue which they call antrim
perialism" They assert that the Re-
publican party is fracturiag the Consu-
tuition and outraging civilization 10y
not surrendoring the Philippine Islands
to the Tagal bandits. They cry out
against Pro slicnt Roosevelt FOR not
adopting course, which. II adopted.
would cause his Impeachment: and bring
upon him the just contempt Of the
civilized world. They accuse Bepubh-
cans of being short-tuniced, BRASS
breast-plated. bare-legged Pretorian
guards. intend upon enslaving the
Fiipinos following only the will of a
caucus created Caesar determined upon
smashing our Constitution INFO frag-
ments, resolved upon changing our Re
public into an empire. and they assert
that this country can only be saved
from its awful fate by elacting Demo-
Gratis to Office.
/ shall not attempt to discuss the
fine-spun constitutional distractions
put forward by Democrats in support
of their new doctrine OF anti-imperial-
ism. We all know that Democrats were
equally eager with Republicans for the
spanish war. We all know that the
Philippines were acquired by the treaty
of Paris. and we all know that the
treaty of Paris was ratified only by
the aid of William j. Bryan and the
seventeen Democratic Senators who
voted for it.
The Republican policy is to keep the
Islands and develop them into free
prosperous, progressive American
mmunities-Colones now, Territories
by and by, States it may be in the far
distant future, but always better ruled,
and freer, and more prosperous than
they ever have been, or ever can be
under any other mag than the stars and
stripes
The Democratic policy is embraced
. in the three craven words give them
up" Democrats ask the American peo-
Pile to shrink back trembling and afraid
from the grand destiny that awaits
them; to abandon all, lose all. retire
from the position of a word-power and
withdraw our flag from the waters of
the Pacific. &c..
"A COwARDLY POLICY.
If such a ,cowardly and hn-American
policy We're adopted the sneerins ma
tons would write over the grave Of
American rule in the Orient, the epitaph
which somebody inscribed on the monu
ment of an infak who died within an
hour after his birth
Since you SO very soon were done for,
1 wonder what you We're begun for"
(Applause.)
When George Dewey stood upon the
deck of his ship and uttered his pious
and emphatic order, Oh the tor
pedoes, go ahead"-when the we'll
directed shells of his fleet sunk Spanish
stoth and despotism beneath the waters
of Manila Bay, and crashed open the
gates of the Orient, where eight hum
dred millions of people will become our
customers, for civilization creates
wants IS well as supplies them; when
the roar of our guns sounded their
salute to the new world power, whose
starry emblem f'oated that day in vic
tory, who would have ventured 10 pre-
dict that in three or four years time
lHt VI america, III lltiI
ravening hunger for office, would have
abjured the one patriotic act in all
their history, and would have pointed
their feeble and trembling fingers at the
Philippines, and squeaked in quavering
chorus give them up" (Applause)>
A SENTENCE OF SHAME.
Will this nation consent to write such
a sentence of shame across the fair
brow of our Goddess and bid her close
her ears to the jeers of Europe and
proceed to give up" the Philippines?
Rather let us adopt the indignant an
swer of the unregenerate but patriotic
news-boy and cry Ito hell with give
them up"
No, we will not give them up" We
will accept and fulfill the responsibility
and the duty which the God of Battles
has rested upon us The awakening of
Asia, the development of the resources
of the Philippines, the growth of COM
nerce around and across the vast clip
. tic of seas, whose trade currents con-
verge here, will make IF Honolulu a.
great and opulent city, and her people
will never vote for the candidates of
a party which proposes to give them
up" And this nation will never gave
them up" for its steps are forward
its legions are marching for progress
for prosperity, for freedom. and those
who attempt to stand in the way of it's
advance will be beaten down and cover
ed up by the tide of patriotic public
sentiment, even as the tide in the Bay
of Fundy advances with voice of thun-
der and crest of foam, and submerges
the rocks and sands that lie in its path.
FOR FORTY-SIX YEARS.
| should extend this address far be-
yond the limits of your patience were
| to attempt to further discuss national
politics. The truth of history which
cannot be gainsayed is that for forty
six years the Democratic party has
espoused every fantasy in finance, and