History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . of 314 EXPANSION [1900 recent quotations from the most authorita-tive Republican sources proving that it wasnot only an issue, but one of the mostimportant ones which ever agitated theRepublic. As Democrats put it, Balaamprophesied in favor of Israel. Several minor matters were much dweltupon by campaigners, with a net result fav-orable to the Democrats. A great many inhis own party believed, no doubt wrongly,that the Presidents policy had in mainfeatures been influenced by considerationfor powerful financ
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . of 314 EXPANSION [1900 recent quotations from the most authorita-tive Republican sources proving that it wasnot only an issue, but one of the mostimportant ones which ever agitated theRepublic. As Democrats put it, Balaamprophesied in favor of Israel. Several minor matters were much dweltupon by campaigners, with a net result fav-orable to the Democrats. A great many inhis own party believed, no doubt wrongly,that the Presidents policy had in mainfeatures been influenced by considerationfor powerful financial interests, or that atpoints these had in effect coerced him tocourses contrary to what he considered commissariat scandal in the SpanishWar incensed many, as did the growthof army, navy, and militarism incidentto the new colonial policy. Then there was the awkwardness withwhich the Administration had treated theFilipinos. In 1900 it seemed clear thatthese people could never be brought underthe flag otherwise than by coercion. Anti-imperialists were not alone in the con-. I goo] POLITICS AT END OF CENTURY 317 viction that Aguinaldos followers had beenneedlessly contemned, harassed, and exas-perated, and that had greater frankness,tact, and forbearance been used toward themthey would, of their own accord, have soughtthe shelter of the Stars and Stripes. More-over, our measures toward the Filipinos hadalienated Cuba, so that the voluntary adhes-ion of this island to the United States, sodesirable and once so easily within reach, wasno longer a possibility ; while the coercionof Cuba, in view of our profession when wetook up arms for her, would be condemnedby all mankind as national perfidy. The sympathy of official Republicanismwith the British in the Boer War tended tosolidify the Irish vote as Democratic, but—and it was among the novelties of the cam-paign—Republicans no longer feared toalienate the Irish. The Governments ap-parent apathy toward the Boers also d
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