The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-10-22
JUDGE PARKER ON
THE PHILIPPINES
The Democratic Presidential Can
didate Talks to Delegations.
HIS SECOND CAMPAIGN SPEECH
Declares the United States Has Fot Full
filled Its Obligations Assumed When
the Islands Were Wrested
From Spain.

l5.-7Judge Parker to-day addressed
two visiting delegations on the politi'
cal issues, making his second speech Of
the campaign since accepting the dem
ocratic nomination for the presidency
| The delegation numbered about l2O
men, a score representing the Parker
Independent club and the others the
Avon Beach regular democratic club
of Long Island.
Judge Parker met them on his YER
anda and was greeted with handicap
ping. Col. Charles B. Goldman, of Bos-
ton, and Prof. Henry w. Harden, OF
New York, made extended speeches on
the Philippine question.
After quoting the plank in the dem
ocratic platform on the Philippine
question, Judge Parker said:
Judge Parker's Speech.
The declarations of independence.
born in the brain of the father of de-
mocracy, says the same thing in effect,
for it declares that governments de
rive their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed"
| have before said that we may not
disregard the responsibility imposed
by possession of the Philippines, and
that the responsibility will be best
subserved by preparing the islanders
as rapidly as possible for s~elf-govern-
ment and giving to them the assur-
ance that 1t will come as soon as they
are reasonably prepared for it"
This means independence for the
Filipinos in the fullest sense of the
word. When prepared they may gov
ern themselves, as the Cubans do I'M
assisted, unless asking advice, untram-
meled by IL politics, unincumbered
by our politicians and uncontrolled by
us.
Secretary Taft has said "a promise
to give ultimate independence will be
construed by the more violent element,
disposed to agitation, to be a promise
to grant independence in the near flu
ture and during the present generation.
The success of the experiment we are
making in the Philippines depends on
having the Filipinos understand that
We are there for their benefit, but that
we expected to stay there indefinitely
In working out the good we propose to
do them"
Here we have the issue clearly de-
fined. The republican party stands for
the subjugation of defenseless foreign
Democracy stands for free
dom. We relieved Spain of this thorn
in her flesh, the Philippines, to plunge
1t into our own. We paid, and are pay
ing, enormously for the privilege of
the operation. Spain had
been trying to conquer the islands
the early decades of the sixteenth
She had never quite succeed
ed. That is not surprising. Every true
American would despise a man who
would not fight to the last gasp for the
land of his fireside and the
birthplace of his babes. Did not our
.llustrious ancestors in the revolution
so? For what do civilized men re-
yere the memory of Washington? Are
lot the Irish still chafing under the
English yoke? Will the Boer sympa-
.hizer refuse his sympathy to the Fill
)ino patriot defending his hearthstone
the Spanish spoiler and tyrant? |
Do we not honor every man who has
sacrificed at freedoms holy altar?
History's Guarantee.
When the battle ships of our great
'epublic destroyed the Spanish war
ressels the Filipinos hoped the free
lom for which they had struggled so
ong was finally approaching. Our his
DRY seemed to guarantee that our am
,ition would be to see them free, ndp-
W and prosperous. We perpetually
'oint with pride to u love of liberty.
The republican platform asserts that,
fifty years ago the republican party
anne into existence, dedicated, among
Their purposes, to the great task of ar
the extension of human slav-
ry.
Arresting the extension of human
That sounds well. But it
peaks of the virtue of another gener-
ton. All the leaders of the republican
arty of that day have passed away.
o their places have come very differ
Mt men. We need not point out that
hitch principally differentiates them.
readily suggests itself. But we will
efer to II OF the results OF that diff
I
After our utter defeat Of the SpAN- ]
lrds, the republican administration 4
aid to the vain oppressor of the un- .
onquered Filipino $40. 200, 900 for this !
ncertain option on this victims lands. .
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