New-York tribune., 1904-10-16
JUDGE PARKER's SPEECH.
Judge Parker replied as follows:


Colonel Goldman. Professor Hardop and Gentle
men: I greatly appreciate the compliment OF your
presence. and the assurance OF the support oI
tance OF the issue To which YOU refer cannot he
the thoughtful patriotic men all over the country;
Permit me to call your attention 10 the p2ruon OF
crnment has right TO make one set of laws for
those at home and another ana a dlIreIIent ST. ST.
Incapable Of being govern@d under American laws
in consouauce with the American Constitutions.
that people ought not to be part OF the American
domain We insist that We ought to do for the
Eilipnos what We have done aIGfadX Il Tor Inc tne
Cubans and that ii is our duty - make that prom
iSe now, and upon suitable guarantees OF proc
ton 10 citizens of our own ana other countries
tSsIqett mere al the tlt 81 oI % @ 80 ~ ND
pendent, 10 work out their own destlny, Inc
In eject for il declares that governments derive
erned"
I have before said that we may disregard the
Philippines. and that responsibility Will be best
subserved by preparing the ISLANDERS as rapidly as
I@ssible for self-goyernment. and giving to them
rtssonabII nrenarad For mis- means {nde-
pendence for the Filipinos in the fullest OF
selves as the Cubans do, unassisted unless asking
help, undirected. unless asking advice; untraqi-
ticians and uncontrolled by US
REPLIES TO SECRETARY TAFT.
Secretary Taft has said "A promise to give ulti-
mate independents" will he construed by the more
Il
sc 10 grant Independence in the near future and
during the present generation. The success OF the
pends on having tive FiIipinos understand that we
are there for tho benefit, but that expect 70
stay there indefinitely In working the good we
propose 10 90 them" Here we have the issue clear
il defined The Republican party stands for the
subjugaton OF defenccless foreign peoples. Democ-
rsry stands for freedom. we relieved Spain of this
our We paid. and are paying. enormously for
the privilege OF performing the operation Spain
early decades OF the sixteenth century She had
Every true American would despise man who
would not hight 70 the ist gasp Ior the land Of MS
freside and the birthplace OF his babes. Did not
our nlustrious ancestors I'm the Revolution do so?
For what does civiliZed man revere the memory or
Washington? Are not the Irish still chatting under
the English yoke Win the BOer sym0athzer re-
fuse his sympathy To the Filipino patriot defending
tvTant2 30 We not honor every man who has sac
ridced at freedoms holy altar? When the battle
var vessels the Filipinos hoped the freedom for
which they had struggled so long finally ap-
preaching Our hstory seemed To guarantee that
oiIr ambition would be to see them free. happy and
We pernctually point with pride TO our love Of
liberty The Republican platform asserts that
.gffv' Lears ago the Republican party came into
existence dedicated among other purposes to the
syroot tasf of arresting the extension OF human
sia that sounds well But II sueaks of the
virtue ~ another generation. All the leaders of the
In their niace have come very different men. We
need not point out that which principally differ
antia +es them II readily suggests itself But we
will refer OF the results Of that difference.
a fter our utter defeat of the Spaniard the Re
nubIican administration paid 10 the vain oppressor
of the unconquered Filipino S0.000.OO0 for this un-
certain ontion on this victims lands tenements
~D1 terejffa nents. In the attempt to bolster the
ortion we have wasted more than s65a OO0OOO more
Of the peoples money ana sacrificed more than
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