Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-09-15
Of mankind to relieve itself of the

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
of nature as well 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 OF
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 a 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, 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
\ he
people, not even in our own land. For
one hundred years of our national ex-
1stence a standing army of less than
10000 men was sufficient to maintain
and uphold the dignity and honor of
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
1ty, the great American Republic had
] a vast army far beyond it's shores, not
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
can not be for trade, for the trade of
that country today with us is less than
it was prior to the time we entered
their port.
commerciaIism by Force.
1 wish for moment to bring home
to you a realizing sense of the cues.
ton of trade. Commercialism seems
to be the thought animating the Amer1
can people today. wish my country
to be commercially wonderful. wish
the fruits of her labor. the products
OF her sail to enter every known port
but wish it to go where invited. l
Wish 1t to be welcomed by the hand
OF the free. not by the chained hano
of the slave.
turn for single instant to the
closing of the books of the fiscal year
Of 1903. and with reference to the
Philippine Islands, and l 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
l find that for the fiscal year 1903 we
exported to that country something
like four million dollars worth of
goods, and of that four million fino
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
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