Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-09-17

! of mankind to relieve itself OF the
pangs of tyranny was exhibited and
from Boston harbor to Jamestown,
hardy American frontiersman main
tanned and upheld with his life and
property the right he believed the God
of nature as we'll as man had implant-
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 fervid 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 most
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. Zone 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 clasp one anoth-
er's hand on the 4th of July. and sing
the praises of our great republic. 1T 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
1 pride wish. do not believe an
American army should be stationed
anywhere for the subjllgation of a free
I people, not even in our own land. For
one hundred years of our national ex-
istence standing army of less than
1 10000 men was sufficient to maintain
and uphold the dignity and honor of
i our great nation, but in the morning OF
| the Twentieth century, with the sun
| shine of twenty centuries of Christian
/ civilization beaming upon all human
! ity. the great American Republic had
/ 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. II
car not be for trade for the trade of
| tEat country today with us is less than
t. was prior to the time we entered
/ their port.
commercialism by Force.
wish for moment to bring home
to you realizing sense of the Ques-
ton of trade. Commercialism seems
to be the thought animating the Amerf
can people today. | wish my country
(. to be commercially wonderful. / wish
/ the fruits of her labor. the produc,s
I of her sail to enter every known port
! but | wish it to go where invited. i
wish it to be welcomed by The hand
of the free, not by the chained hann
! OF the slave.
| turn for q Single instant to the
/ closing of the books of the fiscal year
CT 1903. and with reference to the
Philippine Islands, and | find that we
originally paid twenty million dollars
for the ten million people. We have
spent nearly three hundred millions in
maintaining our army and the vast in
cidental expenses connected there
with. When | look on the credit side
| find that for the fiscal year 1909 we
exported to that country something
like four million dollars worth of
goods, and of that four million finu
that the principal item consisted of
/ Intoxicating drinks. Over one tenth
of our entire trade with the Philip
pines for the year 1903 was alcoholic