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VOL. II LIBERTY, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1900 NO 26
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K pels lis to such action. '
We have good reason to sup
pose that the average school pu-
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pu win gBir ui.sgusteu wiwj uie
geographies of the future when
lie tries to find out to what
country Porto Rica belongs.
islands of the seas offer no more
inducements to the strong for
conquest, and colinization.
America has gobbled up Hawaii
siezed the Philipine and claimed
her portion of the Samoan isles.
England, Prance and Germany
have takeu up their spheres of
influence in Africa the last act
being in progress now, destoying
the last vestige of Boer indepen
dence by. England.
Nowbecause China is helpless
commercial greed asserts itself
and compels the governments to
try deprive them of their country
and their ancient customs.
It is simply criminal on I the
part of the powers. We cannot
see the justice in the act. j It
may be becau se we are old fogy
enough to believe that we should
respect other peoples righ
If my neighbor was raised to -
his work different, or to eat di:
ferent food why should I tr,
their party can go to any length,
gloss oyer any facts, appeal to
any interest, pray to any God,
and the American people will
sustain them. The note of .arro
gance that comes to the surface
here and there makes no discord
in such a setting. Mr. Wolcott
glides as easily as a swan into his
callous remark; "We are actu-
ally owners of the Philippine
Islands' and : 8,000,000. human
beings. What a gulf between
the Wolcott who made that state '
mentin Philadelphia and the Lin
coln who said that no man had a
right to govern another without
tbatother's consent! And how
gracefully Mr. Lodge reaches '
his, climax "We make, no hyp
ocritical pretenses of being inter
ested in the Philippines, solely
on account oi otners ...... we
believe in trade expansion. V
Indeed a trade of expansion that
makes of Luzon a . running river
to force him to do as I do. If of blood 'and brings Mr. Lodge
Where is Dewey? .
Bryan and (?)
the Chinese are satisfied to go
to market with a wheel-barrow
it is none of my business. That
to speak with curling lip of men
'ho, under such names as L'Ou-
rture, Boli ver and Marti, : hid
China is about ready to be gob
bled up by the other powers, in
the name of civilization. Yes, it
is called civilization but i t is cer
tainly not strictly in accordance
with the deffinition of the word.
It is fa Ise to claim that that is the
object. The true reason for the
present disturbances in China is
The greed of the rest of the world,
Africa and the Americas and the
is ho reason why I snould force foY-merly been worshipped by
them to build railroads. If it hi to as the apostles and martyrs
is civilization to compel them to oftiberty!
adopt western ideas at the point lis our opinion that, with all
of the bayonet then civilization its' sjblendor, the Republican con
is antagonistic to theteachiugs yentiAn of 1900 has it fatal lack,
of Jesus Christ, and we would which appears nowhere; more .
do well to have less of it. clearly than 'in the brilliant
We hope tliat our govern merit speeches of its two chairmen,
will keep hands off. The peo- The con science, the idealism, the
pie are not all mad yet, and will glorious fidelity to human rights.
assuredly rebuke those in au : which are now embodied by
thority at the ballot box if they Hoar, Boutwell, Edmunds and
put this country in a muddle in the rest, are not there. The ma-
China, terialism of Hanna, the cynical
ethics of Lodge, the s washbuck-
. The following is clipped from ier fervor of Roosvelt, all these
the Springfield .Republican. It are there, arid they dominate ev
speaks from an independent erything. It is hot , surprising
stand-point: s that the proceedings are describ
Hanna Convention Orators, edas lacking in enthusiasm. Nor
Those speeches pulsate with is it strange that the greater
the easy-confidence and sense apostasy of the republic in the r
of mastery which conditions' not far East is left almost to: a foot . s r
unnaturally have created in the note in the platform, while fhe
leaders of the party of to day. convention orators huridly pass
These men seem . to feel that the. subject by. . V :'