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October 26, 1900
Twice A Week Plain Dealer
Cresco, Howard County, Iowa
What is this article about?
Political argument against U.S. imperialism, claiming subjugation of Porto Rico, Hawaii, and Philippines violates republican ideals and constitutional limits, posing a crisis between republic and empire.
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Under the Free Flag
The Supreme Purpose of the People Should Be to
Oppose All Attempts to Grasp Imperial Power.
REPUBLIC FACES A PROFOUND CRISIS
The Republic is confronted by great national
crises-involving the perpetuity of
the institutions founded by the fathers.
For the first time in our country's history it has undertaken to subjugate foreign
people and to rule them by despotic power.
The president is waging war upon people of alien birth for asserting the very
principles for which the fathers of our own republic pledged their lives, their fortunes
and their sacred honors.
The policy of the president offers the inhabitants of Porto Rico, Hawaii and the
Philippines no hope of independence, no prospect of American citizenship, no constitutional
protection, no representation in the Congress which taxes him.
This is the government of men by arbitrary power without their consent; this
Imperialism.
This is the issue which the Kansas City platform declares to be the paramount
question in American politics.
There is no room under the American flag for subjects. The president and congress,
who derive all their powers from the Constitution, can govern no man without
regard to its limitations.
No nation can endure part citizen and part subject.
We have come as a people to the parting of the ways. Which shall it be-Republic
or Empire?
Shall we remain true to the American ideal or shall we adopt the sword?
Is the Republic of Washington and Jefferson ready for this tremendous stride
backward?
Under the Free Flag
The Supreme Purpose of the People Should Be to
Oppose All Attempts to Grasp Imperial Power.
REPUBLIC FACES A PROFOUND CRISIS
The Republic is confronted by great national
crises-involving the perpetuity of
the institutions founded by the fathers.
For the first time in our country's history it has undertaken to subjugate foreign
people and to rule them by despotic power.
The president is waging war upon people of alien birth for asserting the very
principles for which the fathers of our own republic pledged their lives, their fortunes
and their sacred honors.
The policy of the president offers the inhabitants of Porto Rico, Hawaii and the
Philippines no hope of independence, no prospect of American citizenship, no constitutional
protection, no representation in the Congress which taxes him.
This is the government of men by arbitrary power without their consent; this
Imperialism.
This is the issue which the Kansas City platform declares to be the paramount
question in American politics.
There is no room under the American flag for subjects. The president and congress,
who derive all their powers from the Constitution, can govern no man without
regard to its limitations.
No nation can endure part citizen and part subject.
We have come as a people to the parting of the ways. Which shall it be-Republic
or Empire?
Shall we remain true to the American ideal or shall we adopt the sword?
Is the Republic of Washington and Jefferson ready for this tremendous stride
backward?
What sub-type of article is it?
Political Essay
Anti Imperialist Rhetoric
What themes does it cover?
Justice
Moral Virtue
What keywords are associated?
Imperialism
Republic
Subjugation
Constitutional Protection
Kansas City Platform
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Philippines
What entities or persons were involved?
President
Washington
Jefferson
Where did it happen?
Porto Rico, Hawaii, Philippines, Kansas City
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Key Persons
President
Washington
Jefferson
Location
Porto Rico, Hawaii, Philippines, Kansas City
Story Details
The Republic faces a crisis by subjugating foreign peoples through despotic power, denying them independence, citizenship, constitutional protection, and representation, contrary to American principles; this imperialism is the paramount issue, and the nation must choose between republic and empire.