Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-09-21
|MPERIALIST TAFT
REPEATS FALSE ASSERTIONS AS
To DEMOCRACY.
Charges Democratic Party With Pro-
vOking Insure CtiOn in the Philip
ines. Tie Should 60 to MaSSaChu.
SettS and Attack the Memory of
George II. HOar.

With all the: respect that is due the
presidential candidate of great po-
lltical party, forbearance is extreme
ly difficult when he transcends the
limits of PARTISAN tolerance. In his
stumping tour, Mr.. Taft has more
than once repeated the stale and false
assertion that the democratic party
and William j. Bryan, as one of its
leaders, in opposing the policy of i'm
perialism, were guilty of provoking
the insurrection in the Philippines.
No matter by whom asserted, whether
by the republican candidate for pres
ident or by the most reckless of his
followers, this calumnious attempt to
indict half the American nation de-
serves the most emphatic condemna-
ton. What else is it than a charge
that all the opponents of Imperialism,
democrats and republicans, are trait
ors to the country and guilty of all
the bloodshed in the Philippines?
This, to say the least is very con-
venient if a quite unscrupulous way
of shifting grave responsibility.
The policy of imperialism of which
Mr.. Taft was the principal agent at
Manila for number of years never
had as able and as vigorous an oppon-
ent as the late George F. Hoar, re-
publican senator from Massachusetts.
His eloquent speeches in denunciation
of policy at war with American in
stitutions have by no means lost their
impression upon the country. They
will inspire many vote against the
presidential candidate who is the
foremost champion of the imperialis-
tic scheme of holding millions of
brown men in remote lands in colonial
subsection and who seeks to clothe it
with the pious cant of Glove of hu-
manity." More so completely as
George F. Hoar stripped the mingled
earth-hnnger and Jingoism that die
tated this imperial policy of it's fimsy
pretensions of philanthropy.
When Senator Hoar was taunted by
Senator Foraker and other imperial
lists with encouraging rebellion in the
Philippines, e.triumphantly respond
ed by qnOting the speeches of Burke,
Fox, Barre and other Englishmen in
defense of the cause of the American
Revolution. These patriots were de-
Tending the liberties of the English
people against the tytanny of George
the Third and his ministers as much
as the liberties of their kin beyond the
seas. For this noble stand they lost
nothing in credit with the English
nation or with posterity. Nor has
the fame of George F. Hoar as
statesman and patriot been lessened
any by his efforts to prevent the dead
ly virus of imperialism from destroy
ing American love of constitutional
freedom.
If Mr.. Taft thinks otherwise let him
go into Massachusetts and assail the
memory of George F. Hoar, as he as
sails Mr.. Bryan, for opposing colonial
rule over the Philippines as conquered
provinces. But he will not dare it.
He finds it safer to attack the memory
of the foremost of anti-imperialist pa
triots by implication. If for nothing
else than his love of imperial and au-
tocratic rule the republican candidate
for president deserves the condemna-
tion of the American people in this
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