The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-08-01

plish the subjugation of the people
This plea admits the gravamen OF our
whole contention that the methods ven
have pursued are inseparable from the
policy you have adopted. The sub
Jugation of a distant people of diff
ferent race is a bloody and cruel task
which demands bloody and cruel in
struments. The plea of the President
and Secretary Root may justify tAe
army, but il does not Justify the waE-
Ii may offer some excuse for the in
struments. but none whatever for the
authors of criminal aggressions fou
cannot Justify the means unless yoa
can Justify the ends. The end in this
case and the object is to destroy ths
liberty of people who but lately we're
your allies and your brothers In arms
and who had never offended You ex-
cept by wishing to be free. And
this. fellow citizens, is the record OF
Republic which is supposed to
cherish the Declaration of Independ-
ence. We have but to look back to
the beginning of our war with Spain
to see how far we have wandered
from our own ideals as a nation. Oar
war in Cuba was for liberty and hu-
manity. Our war in the Philippines
is for subjugation and spoils. The
first war was blessed of heaven aud
approved by the enlightened judgment
of mankind. The second war is a
crime against liberty and the curse OF
God is upon it. Against the people
of the Philippine Islands whom our
armies were sent forth to slaughter
we had no other cause of quarrel than
that which the wolf had with the
lamb.
DEMOCRATIC EXPANSION.
The Democratic party has never 60
quired territory without signing a
covenant that its inhabitants should
be clothed with all the rights usf
American citizenship and protected ay
all the guarantees of the ConstitntsuH;
that they should be organized Into
self governing communities 1nllA
finally admitted as States of the AnlgTi-
can Union. The Democratic party has
acquired territory in order that il
might add new States to the Union
and new stars to the flag. But II M
one thing to add new star to the flag
and another to put there blot OF dirt
and human blood and call it star.
Upon every part of the map OF this
country that marks an acquisition 5s
the Democratic party you may write
Statehood. - Citizenship ana the
Constitution. Upon that which
marks the acquisition of the Republic
can party you must write Gong uered
province, - ''Vassal subjects ana
''Despotic power. Whatever Repub-
lican friends may say, the two policies
are not one and the Same. The one Id
not precedent tor the other. Ths
governments established throughout
the territory of the Louisiana Purchase
are not identical in form or spirit
with the government You have estan-
lished in the Philippine Islands Ths
difference between citizen and subject,
between State and province, between
constitution, freedom and unlimited
power, that is the difference between
Democratic and Republican expansion
Ladies and gentlemen, it is charac-
| teristic of this policy OF ''malev0ient
Discrimination" that it should seek to-
masquerade as a missionary of hu-
mainly. Such pretexts are merely
the fig leaves of criminal aggression
The staple of the argument for the policy
is simply the greed for gain and the