Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-17
SET FILIpINOS FREE
Parker's Second Speech of
 the Campaign.
CLUBS RECEPTION AT EsOPUs,

CLUBS RECEPTION AT ESOPUS. Presidential Candidate Takes Issue
 With Ex-Governor Taft on the
 Subject of Our Island
 Colony.
 ESOPUS, N. Y., Oct. 17.-Judge 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 ". Hardon of New York made extended speeches. Both speakers confined their remarks to the Philippine Islands ques- ton and discussion of the attitude of the Republican administration on that question.
 Professor Hardon followed with a chapter in the early diplomatic history 
 review of speeches in congress on the Philippine question and their bearing on the various treaties respecting the islands.
 Judge Parker spoke in part, as fol- lows:
 T 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 overesdmafed. 1t is attracting the att 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 one set of laws for those at hone' and another and different set Of laws abs solute In their character for those in the colonies Wherever there may ex- ist 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 ise 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 Fili- 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 ef- feet, for 1t declares that governments derive their just powers from the con- sent of the governed r "I have before said that we may not 1 disregard the responsibility imposed by possession of the Philippines, and that 1 responsibility will be best subseryed l by preparing the islanders as rapidly as possible for self government and 1 giving to them the assurance that it l will come as soon as they are reason ably prepared for it. This means in 1 dependence for the Filipinos ia the full est sense 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- | l trolled by us.
 Secretary Taft Fas said: "A promise to give ultimate independence will be construed by the more violent clement. disposed to, agitation, to be promise I 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- pends on having the Filipinos under stand that we are there for their heue- l fit, but that we expect to stay there indefinitely in working out the good we propose to do then.' Here we have the issue clearly defined The Repub- lican party stands for the subjugation of dsfenseless foreign peoples. Democ- racy stands for freedom. We relieved Spain of this thorn in her flesh, the Philippines, to plunge it into our own. We paid, and are payiRg, enormously for the privilege of performing the op- eration. 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 man who would not fight to the last gasp for the land of l his fireside and the birthplace of his babes. Did not our illustrious ances- tors in the Revolution do so? For what does civilized man revere the memory of Washington? Are not the Irish still chafing under the English I yoke? Will the Boer sympathizer re- l fuse his sympathy to the Filipino ] patriot defending his hearthstone against the Spanish spoiler and ty- l rant? Do we not honor every man who has sacrificed at freedoms holy altar When the battleships of our great re public destroyed the Spanish war ves- 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 prosperous"
 Boston Girl.
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