Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-07-18
The Race Question

The race question has brought countless
woes to this country. The calm wisdom
of the American people should see to it
that IL brings no more.
To revive the dead and hateful race and
sectional animOsities in any part of our
common country means confusion, dstrac-
ton Of business and the reOpening Of
wounds now happily healed North. south,
east and west have but recently stood to-
gether in line Of battle from the walls of
Pekn to the hills Of Santiago, and as
ssharers Of Il common glory and a common
destiny we should share fraternally the
common burdens.
We therefore deprecate and condemn the
Bourbon-like. selfish and narrow spirit OF
the recent Republican convention at Chi
embers Of racial and sectional strife. and
we appeal from it to the sober common
sense and patriotic spirit of the American
people.
PoIysamy Condemned
We demand the determination Of polyg-
amy within the jurisdiction of the United
States and the complete separation of
church and state in political affairs
Freedom For FiIipinos
We favor the preservation in so far as
we can of an open door for worlds COM
merce in the Orient without unnecessary
ENHANCEMENT iii Oriental and European af-
fairs. and without arbitrary, unlimited, ir-
responsible aud absolute government any
where within our jurisdiction. We oppose
an indefinite. irresponsible, discretionary
and vague absolutism and policy of CO.
lonial exploitation, no matter where or by
whom invoked or exercised. All men under
the American flag entitled to the pro-
lection of the institutions whose emblem
the flag is. We insist that we ought to do
for the EilipinOs what we have already
done for the Cubans. And ii is our intent,
as soon as IL can be done wisely and safely
for the Filipinos themselves, and after
amicable arrangements with them concern
ing naval stations, c0aling stations and
trade relations and upon suitable guar
antees of protection to all national and in
people up their feet, free and independ-
ent, to work out their own destiny The
endeavor Of the secretary OF war, by
pIedging the governments endorsement for
'promoters' in the Philippine Islands. to
Iative exploitation Of the archipelago
which was only temporarily held up by the
opposition of Democratic senators In the
permanent ENHANCEMENT from which 1t will
be difficult to escape.
Republicans Criticized
The existing Republican administration
has been spasmodic, cratic, sensational,
spectacular and arbitrary. 1t has made it.
self satire upon the congress, the courts,
and upon the settled practices and usages
of national and international law.
1t summoned the congress into hasty and
futile extra session and virtually adjourned
IL. leaving behind in its flight from Wash
ing uncalled calendars and unaccomplishet
tasks.
1t made war. which is the sole power 0
congress, without its authority, thereb.
uSufpluS one. Ol It's lunuduleHldI pTtEOSd
tiyes. 1t violated a plain statute of tn
United States as well as plain treaty obliga
tionS. International usageS and cOnstitu
tional law; and has done so under pre-
tense of executing Il great public polio
which could have been more easily al
fected lawfully, constitutionally and wit
honor.
Ii forced strained and unnatural con
structiOns upon statutes uSurping judicia
Interpretation. and substituting congress
SiOnal enactment decree.
II withdrew from congress their Gus
tomary duties of investigation which hav
heretofore made the representatives of tn
people and the states the terror Of evil
doors.
Ii conducted a secretive investigation o
its own and boosted of a few sample con
victiOns, while ii threw broad cOverlet owe
the bureaus which had been their chOse
field of operative abuses and kept in powe
the superior officers under whose admins
tratiOn the crimes had been committed
Ii ordered assault upon some monopolies
but. paralyzed by its first victory, it fun
out the flag of truce and cried out that i
would not run Misunderstanding its futur
purposes beclouded by its vacllations.
Appeal to the Country
Conducting the campaign upon this decla
ration of our principles and purposes, w