The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-08-06

become citizens and not subjects, ana
that the same thing ts true Win re-
gard TO Santo Domingo
Three Declarations by the Hoosier.
Senator Beveridge in his last paper
made three declarations. in the first
Of which he said that throughout all
ages administrative peoples nave ex-
tended heir customs and cultures ps
administration Of government 70 Tess
developed people. he also aIleged
that The people OF our blood and We
ourselves have always been restless e1-
pansfonists," and hat we must have
more foreign trade" To this Mr..
Bryan replies:
His reasons are not sufficient
Moral principles cannot be 80 easily
ignored. II is true that history has
given US many illustriOus examples OF
rations which have tneiI
Governments over weaker nations, but
history has also shown US the maj
overthrow of those c~onquering nations
which substituted might for right ana
ignored the claims Of justice:
For the God who relgned over
Babylon
Is the Cod who is reiREing vet
To the excuse that the United States
is destined TO it's present course MT.
Bryan recalls that destiny has been
defined as the dark apology for err
ror.' re points out that Senate
Beveridge's suggestion of commercial
expansion az a reason for imperial
ism, is the same arbument that has
been most potential in the making Of
im~perialists. After declaring that
such a policy is only putting the dol
lar above the man and that 1T IS a
policy along the line which was de-
nounced by Lincoln. Mr.. Bryan says:
Only One Side.
eThe Senator gives US but one side
of the account; he magnifies our trade
and ignores the cost to use. We are
appropriating for the army and navy
more than n hundred millions a
year In excess of our army and navy
appropriations ten years ago Our
expenditures far exceed our
inreasc1 trade, and all of h people
pay the expenses, while a few get the
benefit Of the trade.
tie Senator attempts to use the
e in the South as a shield to
ward off the attacks of Democrats, but
in so doing he betrays his lack of know
ledge Of the Democratic position The
qualifications were imposed,
not the colored man is in
caoahJe Of self-government, but be-
canso he is not sufficiently advanced
t" govern the white race. Where the
races are thrown together the
question is not whether the blach man
is CAPABLE of self-government, but
whether he is capable of administer
ing the government under which both
bve. In such cases the more
race as a matter of self
preservation fixed suffrage qualifca-
items IL order to protect the civil
But Senator Be~veridge over
lt ok the fact that h Democrats
Of the South show more considera-
ton to the black man than the Re-
rubllcans show to the brown men Of
tn. Orient. In the first place the suf-
frage qualifications of the South raised
a temporary barrier to suffrage, and
under all the amendments adopted
of the colored men now vote,
and new voters are added year after
but under a colonial policy the
Fflipinos are permanently barred
from the rights of citizenship. On
this point the black man of the South
has a distinct advantage over the Fill
pinO.
Laws Protect Negroes.
Second, the colored people of the
South are protected by the constitu-
ton of the United States and by the
constitution of the various States. In
this respect also the black man of
the South has an advantage over the
brown man of the Orient.
Third. the colored people OF the
South live under laws which the white
people make for themselves. The
Filipinos live under laws which we
make for them. and under which we
would not ourselves be willing to
live. This is the real evil of a colon
ial policy, the evil which outweighs
all others and which cannot be eradi-
Gated while colonialism survives. In
thjC rnCrnot tho h1on1- va, Of tho
South has an immense advantage over
the Filipino. Is it not astonishing
that the Republican party which came
into existence by championing the
rights of the black man should now
be so Indifferent to the rights of the
brown men? And is it not strange
that it should attempt to involve this
government in the solution of a race
question seven thousand miles away
from home when the race question
that we now have is SO difficult of So
luton"
.'Imperialism."
The term imperialism" as used in
1900 is, according to Senator Bever-
idge, who cites the Encyclopedia
Americana as authority. nothing more
than a political catch word" The
Senator defends imperialism occord-
ing to the same authority which de-
fines 1t as: THE national policy which
tends towards the expansion of ma
tiOnal dominion and national ideas
over a geographical area wider than
that of nationl boundAies.'
Denying that the Philippines are a
of weakness, as claimed by Mr..
Bryan, Senator Beverage declares that
If Russia had held them in the war
with Japan the difficulties of the
Mikado's army and navy would have
been q~uadrupled. He says that the
Philippines are strategically one of
the strongest points for the United
States in military or naval operations
in the Far East. 1t is necessary to
fortify them and Senator Bev-
eridge declares thai this will
done as soon as eve quit playing
politics with world questions" Speak
ing of affairs in Cuba he saws:
w know in advance. of course,
that they will again tear down the
government that we build UP for
them and thai once more we will be
forced to return. But when we do
return the third time we will stav
If brave but impractical
like Mr.. Bryan, and cow
ardly, ignorant politicians, like many
active persons in Dot parties, think
that the American people are going
to back and fail forever with this Gu
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