Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-27
BY JOHN HAY.
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unconstitutional all money spent ioi
the general welfare. TO promote
,,,h,cb was one Of the special obJecls
Co.. u.hicb the Constitution was brought
into being. Do we want TO give our
H., yittIe Army to the care of those
mo think Il ought to. be disbanded, or
our Navy-which under TINS Adiiiiiis
fration has carried our nag INTO 81
many distant seas, never on Wahtoii
errand Of hostility. but always as lhe
friend Of American commerce anu inc
protector of our citiZens-do we want
/, bapded over to the men who say II
oupht IN he thrown to the scrap heap:
DO We want the Philippines abahdoIeu
to be the victims OF misrule at the
hands of their own agitators. or the
prey of any cOvetouS power thdt may
wish to enslave them for its own
profit Do We want to sneak out OF
the Isthmus Of Panama, acknowledge
we hay,. no right there. and bdsely sur
render the hope and the dream Of cen
turtles? And do We want 70 iofsake
and rrpudiate the foreign policy Of NC
kinley ana Roosevelt. which was also
the policy Of Lincoln and Monroe,
which had It's august origin III the hedrt
and brain Of George Washington, or
treating all countries as friends, doing
business it'll all the peoples OF good
will, meeting courtesy with courtesy
md wrong with frmEess, being just TO
all nations and partial to none?
These are not idle questions. Every
one Of them is directly involved in the
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of them there is not man here to-
night but knows how the Republican
party stands. In our platform, in our
record in the words of our candidates,
our views and our intentions are made
known to the world. Our path is
marked out for US 50 plainly that even
if we wanted to We could not deviate
from it. If the people want con-
tinuation of the policies Of the last
Eight years, they know they will get it
from the Republican party. But what
man in this audience. what man in this
universe, can tell what Judge Parker
would do if he We're elected next
month? Perhaps-and this is the
theory of the most optimistic of his
suppOrters-he might do just what Mr..
Roosevelt is doing; and perhaps he
would take the opposite view of all
public questions. There comes no
light on this vital inquiry from the
Democratic platform. 1t lodges some
questions and straddles others; it
makes charges without a basis of truth
Or probability. 1t palters in a double
sense Oh all the questions upon which
M
seek it from the candidates we are nc
better off. When they do not contra
dict the platform they contradict eacf
other and themselves. They have
been for holding the Philippines ant
for sruttling from them. They are fol
free silver. to judge by their acts; they
are for a gold standard to judge by
their words. They are for free trade
and fair degree of protection. Or
one point they and the platform agree
They are in favor Of the Constitution
except in the southern states.
But whatever the platform and tn
candidates may profess it is perfect.
clear that the vast proportion of tn
party. as at present organized. is OPP
posed to the Republican principles Sc
forth in our platform and avowed BY
our candidates. They are opposed t.
the gold standard; to protection o
American Industries; to all our pro
gram. foreign and domestic: and thei
candidate. if he should happen to b.
elected. would be confronted will
chaos at the very outset of his ad
mmistration.
He has recently made a speech whicl
would he very shirt of Nessus to hin
if he We're called on to carry his word
into action. He has at last come t
the point where. he is willing to say W
must abandon the Philippines. In hi
speech of acceptance he acknowledge
our responsibility for them and said W
should give them self-government. Hi
friends. i'm great distress of mind, erie
out to him that that was the Republi
can doctrine and that what he intend
ed to say was that we had no re
spOnsbility for them and must Civ
them independence. Certainly, tina
was what | meant said the judge-an
he wrote something like it i'm his lette
of acceptance. But even that wa
not enough. and ten days ago he re
vised his views again. and now de
cIares for the absolute abandonment
nf the islands and for an immediat
proclamation of our intention to do Sc
Among the reasons he gives for thi
reckless and ill-considered utteranC
are some which show an incredible
carelessness Of the facts.
He began by saying they have cos
us S6I0. 100000 and an enormous con
tinuing sum to keep them; some put
rs high as 100000 600 annually TIL
truth. accessible to him and to every
body, is that they have cost us not t
exceed s1S9, OO0.O O0 and the annual dis
hursement on their account is abou
81 ZOO. 900. He said further, that the
had cost us 100000 lives, wherein he
wrong to the extent Of about J95, O0
But there seems no limit to his cage
credulousness. Since he put out thes
fairy figures, he has heard Mr.. Atkir
son and has swallowed without wink
ing his grotesdue estimate that tn
islands have cost us twelve hundre
millions and that the present expens
of them is two hundred millions
year. He seems surprised by thes
vast sums. Why should he stop a
millions and billions? We may rea
sonably expect that the next warnin
or, from Esopus will be shoutin
Guadrillions to a startled world. Fl
seems able to believe anything-all Ii