Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-11-03
a BELATED KEYNOTE
JUDGE ALTON @. PARKER DE.
flames HIS COuNTRYMEN.
Quotes Unnamed Authorities and Mis-
represents History In an Attack
Upon the Honor and Honesty of His
Own Nation.

New York world. Abandoning lOr tHlS
occasion his stand upon the archaic plat
form of Buchanan and pctrihed inter
probation of the Constitution, Judge
Parker parrots the imperious views of
Joseph Pulitzer, demanding the nban-
donment of the Philippines to the forces
of snvagery and reaction from which
American civilization has rescued them.
There can be no doubt that the oc-
casion for the sounding of this belated
keynote" of ilabby campaign was
deliberately planned and carried out.
Two hitherto unheard-of marching clubs
led by Colonel Charles Il. Goldman.
of Boston. and Henry w. Harden, OF
New York, fervcnt scuttlers both, APP
pcared before the judge on his porch at
toscmount, and hombarded him with
"two extended addresses on the infamy
of American rule in the Philippines.
Then Judge Parker unrolled the speech
that bears internal evidence in every line
of having been written for him, and went
them one better in classifying the record
and miSreprescnting the bene6cent aim
OF American control in the islands pes
cued from the oppression of Spain.
70 Justify himself in his attack upon
the American position in the Philippines,
Judge Parker quoted from an anony-
NOUS student of conditions there"
whose phrases also bear striking re-
scmblance to the balance of the address
in which they were tttingly cmhalmed
This unnamed malignant, in the face OF
overwhelming testimony to the contrary,
has the effrontery to say OF our officials
there AT the best they have been in
efficient; at the worst dishonest cor
rupt and despotic. The islands seem
to have succeeded in getting the very
dregs of our people" This would classi-
fy Secretary William IL. Taft and his
associates and Successors in Manila as
| among the dregs of our people.
Judge Parker further quotes from this
| anonymous defamer of American rule in
! the Philippines: "Agriculturaly, the
| country for the time ruined. Land
| is going out of civilizations; the popu.n-
! ton is ill-fed and in some places unable
| to get work. The country is Over-hur-
| dened with taxation, disease is prevalent,
the farm animals dead the towns in
many places in ruins, whole districts in
the hands of lndrones, the price of prod
ucts poor and unremunerative."
If this were n true or even an approXi-
mntely true indictment of the conditions
existing in the Philippines rs the effect
of our occupation, what would be the
verdict of mankind? Would it not he
| that the American nation was not fit to
govern itself. let alone a semi-ciylized
and dependent race?
Affects the Whole People.
In this matter it is impossible to dis
tingush between the Republican party
and the American people. The former
| Is merely the instrument of the latter
in the Philippines, and If Judge Parker
were elected President in November, it
| would not could not change the char
acter OF the American government in
the Philippines pending the time even
! he would allow "thc islanders to prepare
| themselves for Self-governmG@t."
! During dhat period does Judge Parker
! think that he could fnd. in the ranks
of Tammany any men better fitted to
| uphold the honor, justice and liberty OF
! American rule, than the men who have
established peace, order, schools, and
courts of justice in the islands? The
| question suggests its own Answer-he
| could not though he We're to draft his
own favorte cOunselors. David B. Kin,
| William +. Sheehan, Charles Murphy
and Pat McCarren to assist in the diff
cult task.
Upon such absolutely false and malig-
nant premises Judge Parker proceeds to
arraiGn the American administration in
| the Philippines in terms which from
the dawn of history demagogues have
employed in their attacks upon success
full government, Here is specimen
! passage:
D,,Aa el1 .bo a,,., 4, III,
| ippincs In preparation for the enjoyment OF
the blessed privileges we possess, we should
guard carefully against tho danger to our
| selves of an imperinlistic policy. History
teaches that from repubicanlsm to imper.
| iaiism the movement Is gradual and UNI
| perceived of the people. Its ominouS prog
| ress, when discovered, leaves open but two
courses-SuDmsslOn or resort to violence.
We can picture Colonel" Goldman
and Mr.. Harden and the serred ranks
of the "Avon Beach Regular Democratic
Club of Long Island" shivering in awe.
struck unison over this horrible alterna.
| live conjured out of the miasma of
Joseph Pulitzer's diseased Imagination
That Judge Parker should clutch at il
as a drowning man at a straw only
proves the desperation of his campaign
Not content with citing history to sup
port VIGOROUSLY false testimony against
| ms cOuntrymcn III the IniNpplneS, he
also invokes it's aid in support of the
generalization that there is mo instance
OF nation receiving from her colonies
anything like an adequate return for
the blood and treasure spent" Eng
lands National debt" he solemnly but
ignorantly averred, was doubled by the
revolt of the thirteen colonies it had cost
so much to secure. The American ex.
pansionist, following European argument
alleges that annexation OF the Philip.
pines must promote progress, foster com.
merce and industry, and introduce the
lcaven of civilization into backward
and inferior race. The evidence of his
tory Is to the contrary"
However such appeals to history may
have ticliled the ears of the avon
Beach Regular Democratic Club of Long
Island" they must have made "Colouel"
Goldman and Mr.. Harden vince.
Truth of History.
The evidence of history and of contem-
pOraneOus conditions afford incontrovert-
| lille proof that Engand's greatness To-