Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-17
FILIPINOS FREE
Parker's Second Speech Of
the Campaign.
CLUBS RECEPTION At ESOPUS
Presidential Candidate Takes Issue
With Ex-Governor Taft on h
Subject of Our Island %
3 Colony.

Colony.
ESOPUS, N. Y, Oct. 1T.AJudge Par
ker addressed two visiting delegations
on the political issue, making his second
speech of the campaign since accepting
the Democratic, nomination for the
presidency. The delegations represent
ed the Parker Independent club and
the Avon Beach Regular Democratic
club of Long Island.
When Judge Parker stepped from
the house he was greeted with hand
clapping. Colonel Charles r.. Goldman
of Boston and Professor Henry w.
Harden of New York made extended
speeches. Both speakers confined their
remarks to the Philippine Islands ques-
ton and a discussion of the attitude of
the Republican administration on that
question.
Professor Harden followed with a
chapter in the early diplomatic history
of the United States, together with a
review of speeches in congress on the
Philippine question and their bearing
on the various treaties respecting the
islands. a.
Judge Parker spoke in part as fol-
lows:
II greatly appreciate the compliment
Of your presence and the assurance of
the support of yourselves and those
you represent. The importance of the
issue to which you refer cannot be
overestimated. 1t is attracting the at
tention of the thoughtful, patriotic
men all over the country. Permit me
to call your attention to the portion of
the Democratic platform relating to it.
No government has a right to make
n set of laws for those at home and
another and a different set of laws alb
solute in their character for those in
the colonies Wherever there may ex-
list a people incapable of being gov
erned under American laws in conso-
nance with the American constitution
that people ought not to be part of the
American domain. We insist that we
ought to do for the Filipinos what we
have done already for the Cubans and
that it is our duty to make that prom
Use now and upon suitable guarantee Of
protection to citizens of our own and
other countries resident there at the
time Of our withdrawal, set the Fill
pino people upon their feet, free and
independent, to work out their own
destiny. The Declaration of Independ-
ence, born in the brain of the father of
Democracy, says the same thing in eff
feet, for it declares that governments
derive their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed
II have before said that we may not
disregard the responsibility imposed by
possession of the Philippines, and that
responsibility will be best subserved
by preparing the islanders as rapidly
rs possible for self government and
giving to them the assurance that it
will come as soon as they are reason
ably prepared for it, This means in
dependence for the Filipinos in the full
est n of the word. When prepared
they may govern themselves, as the
Cubans do, unassisted, unless asking
help; undirected, unless asking advice;
untrammeled by our politics, unincum-
bered by our politicians and uncon-
trolled by us.
Secretary Taft has said: "A promise
construed by the more violent element,
disposed to agitation, to be a promise
to grant independence in the near fu-
ture and during the present genera
ton. The success of the experiment
we are making in the Philippines de-
ponds on having the Filipinos under
stand that we are there for, their bene-
fit, but that we expect to stay there
indefinitely in working out the good
we propose to do Them Here we have
the issue clearly defined. The Repub-
lican party stands for the subjugation
of defenseless foreign peoples. Democ-
racy stands for freedom. We relieved
Philippines, to plunge it into our own.
We paid, and are paying, enormously
for the privilege of performing the op-
Grafton. Spain had been trying to con-
quer the islands since the early de-
cades of the sixteenth century. She
had never quite succeeded. That is not
surprising. Every true American
would despise a man who would not
fight to the last gasp for the land of
his Preside and the birthplace of his
babes. Did not u illustrious ances-
tors in the Revolution do SO? For
what does civilized man revere the
memory of Washington? Are not the
Irish still chatting under the English
yoke? Will the Boer s%ympathizer re-
fuse his sympathy to the Filipino
patriot defending his hearthstone
against the Spanish spoiler and ty-
rant? Do we not honor every man who
has sacrificed at freedoms holy altar7
When the battleships of u great re-
public destroyed the Spanish war YES
sells the Filipinos hoped the freedom
for which they had struggled so long
was finally approaching. Our history
seemed to guarantee that our ambi
ton would be to see them free, happy
and nr0snarous