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THOSE WHO WOULD OPPOSE IMPERIALISM

The American Anti-Imperialist League

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|Background: |Whether the ruthless slaughter of the Filipinos shall end next month or next year is |

|The American Anti-Imperialist League was founded in 1899, after the United States |but an incident in a contest that must go on until the Declaration of Independence and|

|occupied Cuba and Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands. Cuba became practically |the Constitution of the United States are rescued from the hands of their betrayers… |

|independent, although the United States retained until 1934 the legal right to |We propose to contribute to the defeat of any person or party that stands for the |

|intervene in Cuban domestic [in Cuba] and foreign [relations with other countries] |forcible subjugation [taking control] of any people . We shall oppose for reelection |

|affairs. Both Puerto Rico and the Philippines became American colonies. The Filipinos |all who in the White House or in Congress betray American liberty in pursuit of |

|(people who were from the Philippines) revolted against American rule in February, |un-American ends. We still hope that both of our great political parties will support |

|1899, and were suppressed in 1902 after a bloody, ruthless guerrilla war. Most |and defend the Declaration of Independence in the closing campaign of the century. |

|Americans supported overseas expansion, but many of the nation's most highly |We hold, with Abraham Lincoln, that "no man is good enough to govern another man |

|distinguished citizens - including Andrew Carnegie and William James, were appalled by|without that other's consent. When the white man governs himself, that is |

|American imperialism. In 1899 they founded the American Anti-Imperialist League in |self-government, but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is |

|order to campaign, unsuccessfully as it turned out, against American Imperialism. |more than self-government-that is despotism [using absolute, unjust authority]." "Our|

|Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League |reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the |

|We hold that the policy known as imperialism is hostile to liberty and tends toward |spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands. Those who deny |

|militarism, an evil from which it has been our glory to be free. We regret that it has|freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and under a just God cannot long |

|become necessary in the land of Washington and Lincoln to reaffirm that all men, of |retain it." |

|whatever race or color, are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We|We cordially invite the cooperation of all men and women who remain loyal to the |

|maintain that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. |Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. |

|We insist that the subjugation [to take complete control] of any people is "criminal |"Platform of the American Antilmperialist League," in Speeches, Correspondence, ard |

|aggression" and open disloyalty to the distinctive principles of our Government. |Political Papers of Carl Schurz, vol. 6, ed. Frederick Bancroft (New York: 1913). |

|We earnestly [strongly] condemn the policy of the present National Administration in | |

|the Philippines. It seeks to extinguish the spirit of 1776 in those islands. We | |

|deplore [disapprove of] the sacrifice of our soldiers and sailors, whose bravery | |

|deserves admiration even in an unjust war. We denounce the slaughter of the Filipinos | |

|as a needless horror. We protest against the extension of American sovereignty by | |

|Spanish methods. | |

|We demand the immediate cessation [end] of the war against liberty, begun by Spain and| |

|continued by us. We urge that Congress be promptly convened to announce to the | |

|Filipinos our purpose to concede [give] to them the independence for which they have | |

|so long fought and which of right is theirs. | |

|The United States have always protested against the doctrine of international law | |

|which permits the subjugation of the weak by the strong… | |

Critical Thinking About the Anti-Imperialist League

Directions: Based on your understanding of the document above, answer the following questions.

1) What was the purpose of the Anti-Imperialist League? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2) What countries became American colonies?

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3) Who were some of the people that founded the American Anti-Imperialist League?

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4) Why did these founders organize the American Anti-Imperialist League? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5) According to the Anti-Imperialist League, what action is disloyal to our government? (see para #1!) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6) What does subjugation mean? _________________________________________________________

7) What does the author mean when he states that imperialism “seeks to extinguish the spirit of 1776”? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

8) Who has betrayed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States according to this author? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9) Who will the Anti-Imperialist League oppose in elections? Why? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

10) Summarize the quote by Abraham Lincoln in the second to last paragraph? What is the main point of this quote? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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