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UAKRJSON'S CLARION-SPEECII.
By far the most remarkable utterance
from any American citizen during the
last twelvemonth is the recent power
ful and loftily patriotic address of ex-
President Harrison at Ann Arbor. The
more it is studied , the more camly cour
ageous and unanswerable is it in vindica
tion of the bedrock principles of justice
and constitutional liberty that underlie
our republic. In clearness of reasoning ,
in entire mastery of the whole question ,
and in its resonant ring for freedom ,
that speech recalls Abraham Lincoln.
It is a bugle-clarion that ought to arouse
the nation.
Now that the ghost of Bryanismis
laid , we Lincoln republicans who helped
to put William MoKinley in the White
House for the next four years have a
right to be heard , and a patriotic duty
to perform. We take our president at
his own word , and solemnly protest
against further "criminal aggression. "
You may remember that I wrote in
these columns ( before the election ) an
urgent appeal to all anti-imperialists to
unite in saving our nation from the
mischiefs and miseries of Bryanism.
And I added that I- was perfectly confi
dent that "the conscience of the Ameri
can people , and the irresistible logic of
events would yefc insure justice to the
Filipinos. " Every day is confirming
that prediction. As "the stars in their
courses fought against Sisera , " so is the
logic of events defeating the attempt to
vassalize those Filipinos who have for
many years been struggling for inde
pendence. Congress refuses to act , and
tosses the responsibility on the presi
dent. He , in turn , disclaims responsi
bility and senfls"out "commissions" who
have no legislative-or executive athority !
How much longer must this tragic
travesty of republicanism go forward ?
I trust that the .petition and remon
strance now beipg- circulated will be
signed by tens of thousands who voted
for MoKinley , but did not vote for im
perialism.
What a Christmas to end the nine
teenth century ! The angel's song of
"peace on earth" drowned by the roar
of guns and the wails of the wounded
The foremost Christian nation of En-
rope butchering in South Africa fellow-
Christians who are repeating the heroism
of Thermopylae I Christian America
butchering a people to whom we were
three years ago utter strangers , and whenever
never had a thought to harm us 1 This
too , in defiance of the judgment of Harrison
risen , Cleveland , Hoar , Hale , Edmunds
Carlisle , and other leading statesmen
whom all the world honors 1 In view o
all these things I am ready to shout , anc
tens of thousands will reeoho it , "Got
bless Benjamin Harrison 1" Theodore
L. Cuyler , in New York Evening Post
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