The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-17

| of mankind to relieve itself of the
pangs OF tyranny was exhibited and
| from Boston harbor to jamestown,
| from New York to New Orleans the
hardy American frontiersman main
| tanned and upheld with his life and
property the right he believed the God
ed in his breast
The star spangled banner wherever
seen, upon the high seas or distant
lands brought tears of JOY to every
eye, hope and consolation to every
heart and the fervd wish in every soul
that it would live until the day of
eternal judgment and yet in the year
1900 the closing moments of the mosL
eventful history of mankind, a great
and powerful party in our country has
said that the constitution of our coun-
try does not follow the flag, that the
constitution of our country does not
protect individuals where the banner
of the free may float and that the
| Declaration of independence is not
what in terms it expresses.
The Army Power Is Ruler.
We have an army of thousands or
men, 10000 miles from their native
home, not at the request of the people
among whom they are stationed. not
at the request of the American people,
but at the request Of the militant part
of the dominant party who believe that
the time has come when the founda-
ton stones of the great American Re-
public should be changed.
| 1t is as impossible that republic
should be the ruler of colonies as it
is that night and day will be inter-
mingled. "One man cannot govern
another man without that mans con-
set" exclaimed one of the greatest
men of the American Republic. The
truth he uttered then is truth today,
and when you and I clasp one anoth-
er's hand on the 4th of July, and sing
the praises of our great republic, it Is
with blanched cheek and weakened
heart we think of the ten millios
human beings away and beyond the
Pacific whom the flag of the free holds
in subjugation.
The Republican party say they
point with pride to the course they
have pursued in these islands, Sir,
the pride they may feel, is not the
pride wish. do not believe an
American army should be stationed
yuv1 ho hi, io,, Sfo fro
people, not even in our own land. For
one hundred years of our national ex
istence standing army of less than
10000 men was sufficient to maintain
and uphold the dignity and honor oil
our great nation, but in the morning O
the Twentieth century, with the sun
shine of twenty centuries of Christian
civilization beaming upon all human
} ity, the great American Republic hat
!, vast army far beyond it's shores, no
} for the purpose of freeing, but for sub
jugating. This cannot be for civiliza
: ton, for six million of the people We
: went to subjugate are Christians.
car not be for trade for the trade Of
that country today with us is less tina.
; i: was prior to the time we entered
/ their port.
ConmerciaIism by Force.
l wish for moment to bring home
to you a realizing sense of the ques
ton of trade. Commercialism seem
to be the thought animating the-Amer
can people today. wish my count,,
,, to be commercially wonderful. l wisf
the fruits of her labor. the product.
OF her sail to enter every known por
but | wish it to go where invited.
wish it to be welcomed by the hant
Of the free. not by the chained hant
of the slave.
| turn for a single instant to thu
, closing of the books of the fiscal yea
CT 1903. and with reference to tn
, Philippine Islands. and 1 find that W.
originally paid twenty million dollar
i. for the ten million people We hav,
spent nearly three hundred millions i,
maintaining our army and the vast in
; cldental expenses connected there
with. When look on the credit sid,
, | find that for the fiscal year 1903 We
exported to that country somethin:
, like four million dollars worth o
, goods, and of that four million I fine
that the principal item consisted O
intoxicating drinks. Over one tent
OF our entire trade with the Philip
pines for the year 1903 was alcoholic
.
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