The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-27

l ship and harmony; a people whose | blood had infused with our own coun- l trymen,-if 1t was as to these our fa- thers warned us and by the wisdom l of ages sought to guide us from the error of destruction, what can be of l fered as a palliation when our viola | tions extend to a sphere and to a peo- | pie who from the birth of their first light were ever strangers to our God | and enemies to our country and our 1 kindred,-the Asiatics!
 | It was Democracy who warned our country that the victories of war with l Spain would if not watched make vic l tims of the victorS. We bade our na- | tion be on guard against the flatter- l ing allurements of profit dangled be- l fore their eyes as an inducement to | forsake the guidance of the fathers | and ignore the traditions of their Re- | public.
 Democracy posted sentinels along l the course of the new adventure of government by the conquest in the Philippine Islands, that these v1gils l might cry out from every eminence or l danger, Thus far and no further! Democracy foretold and forewarned of
 the complication of entanglements the | first violations of our ancient creeds would entail We took faith by the l holy law of the sacred prophets and cried aloud to the ruthless hands of | Republican party madness, Remove not the ancient landmarks that thy | fathers have set.' To this came the response of our opponents authors and creators of the new policy for our un- doing-branding us as traitors to the l flag; ''deserters of opportunity and l "cravens' to abandon the privileges of riches for the preservation of ideals. Democracy still unmoved by the spirit of exploitation offering reward; unawed by the threats of ostracism from the equality of privileges in the | Republic; Democracy still cried ous her protest and preached her faith from the text of the Constitution | while she sounded her warnings through the lips of the resurrected spirits of Yorktown and Appomattox. When James Russell Lowell was Minister to England he was addressed by Guizot, the French historian, with the question, How long, MT. Lowell, do you think your Republic can exist as presently constituted?" To which our minister promptly replied, Just so long, Sir, as the sons shall be true to the ideals of the fathers This sentence embodies the faith of Amer ica. It was the blood consecrated creed of Democracy's deathless devo- tion. Republic and Constitution, One and Forever!
 Our governmental masters at Wash ington not content with the burdens of six hundred millions dollars deficit, together with the dangers the Philip pines put upon us, have given them selves up to the service of unpatriotic financial interests of England and America, and to obey their uses in violation of every precedent of the past, in opposition to every principle
 of self preservation has entered the
 main continent of Asia and laid the
 hands of the invader upon the private property of the Chinese, Japanese and
 Russians; and with the seizure de-
 mand to appropriate a portion of their
 railroads and territory in Manchuria,
 and if declined to forcibly confiscate
 their country in partition among the
 unsuitable wolves of imperial con-
 quest.
 affairs of Japanese Manchuria, Chin
 ese Manchuria and Russian Siberia,
 has brought forth from each the voice
 of anger and the spirit of vengeance.
 Japan demands that in return for
 America sending her citizens into Ja-
 pan to exploit that country, the Jap-
 anese be permitted to enter America
 without qualification and upon equal
 privileges with the citizens of the
 United States. Japan demands that
 the now existing treaty of restriction
 of emigration expire and that recip-
 rOc1ty or emigration snail be given
 by America in the new treaty or re-
 taliation by Japan must follow, which
 carries the threat of war. China ex-
 acts that since we now refuse to abide
 by our time honored policy of Ameri-
 ca for the Americans peace to all and
 no pillage to any, and to the contrary
 now seek to ravage her land of it's
 territory, prevent her people the priv
 ilege they have known for centuries
 of entering the Philippines; the Chi
 nese in turn demand that they shall
 have the privilege of free emigration
 to America or the penalty of univer-
 sal boycott of Americas products be
 inflicted as a penalty for refusal. Rus
 sia recalling to us that in the hour of
 stupendous conflict in this country,
 Nhan the. unien was .on the eve of