The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-16
julius Kahn and E.A. Hayes Gain
Friends at Meeting at ALEXANDRIA
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Democracy denounces protection as the
robbery Of the many for the benefit Of
The few. Further, they denounce the
action Of the Republican party in ref
erence to the lands we have taken I'M
der our protection as being imperialis-
tic and despotic. Now, when they say
that they mean that we have not eX-
tended to the people Of the Philippine
Islands all the same political rights
and privileges which we enjoy here,
they mean that We do not let them
elect their Judges and chief officers, nor
send Senators and Representatives 10
our Congressional, in short, we are
governing these people as colonies, and
that our government of them is tend
ing TO the destruction Of all the funda-
mental principles upon which our Gov
eminent has been founded. Now, there
is nothing in all this. 1t is merely the
veriest political buncombe. To show
this we DO not have TO go farther than
10 our own earliest and most funda-
mental laws
PHILIPPINE QUESTION.
When Thomas Jefferson was Presi-
dent, a pretty good Democrat or at
least so usually regarded. we made the
Louisiana purchase. And did the
fathers extend the constitution. that
IS, IN the sense our Democratic friends
would have 1t extended in the Philip
pines, over that great territory? No.
The Congress and President inaugu-
rated such a government as in their
wisdom they thought best and most
serviceable TO the people.
II am not one of those who is will
ing TO see the American flag pulled
down any place when it has once been
put I'D. I want it to stay there.
Especially in the Philippine Islands.
Don't let us run away from our ma
tional destiny. I would be ashamed
TO see us falter in the course which
Providence and our own future as well
as a regard for these people who have
been placed under our care has
marked out for US. I believe that the
time will come when these FilipinOs
will thank God for the blessing which
our American Government has
brought TO them. In that day those
islanders viii be ready to fight for
our flag Just as we are ready to fight
for il, because they will have learned
10 love it.
See what an opportunity is offered
TO the American people in the Orient.
A trade. the richest in the world,
which reaches up into the hundreds
OF millions and which viii some day
grow into billions Of dollars is waiting
for US to reach across this Pacific
Ocean of ours and to take it. Our
Pacific Ocean, for I believe that we
can claim it as our sea. and in the
future will make good the claim, let us
reach across this ocean and take up
this trade. which is going to surpass
anything the world has ever known.
TALKS, OF PROTECTION.
Now I am going to talk about an
other subject, one that will make you
feel tired as soon as I mention ii, for
its various phases have been more
thrashed over in the last generation of
American politics than anything else.
But I cannot pass il by tonight, for if
there is one thing that is the core of
Republicanism more than another 1t
is protection. The Democrats de-
nCunce protection as the robbery of
the many for the benefit of the few.
Let US look at this matter plainly for
4 little while. Manufacturers have TO
pay more for their labor in this coun-
try than they DO in any other. Now
some Of these manufacturers may say
that If labor here were on the same
plane as in European countries, Great
Britain. Germany and the rest. they
could sweep the markets of the world.
Now I am going to give you some
hcmely illustrations Of the way our
protection laws work These laws