Anti Imperialist League Platform

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Platform of the Anti-Imperialism League (October 1899)- Liberty Tracts, Number 4

A color image of a printed page titled "Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League." The page has yellowed from age and the bottom right hand corner has been torn off. It is full of writing. The first paragraph reads "We hold that the policy known as imperialism is hostile to liberty and tends towards militarism, an evil from which it has been our glory to be free. We regret that it has become necessary in the land of Washington and Lincoln to reaffirm that all men, of whatever race or color, are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We maintain that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. We insist that the subjugation of any people is

The Platform of the Anti-Imperialism League in October 1899.

American Anti-Imperialist League, “Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League,” in Frederick Bancroft, ed., Speeches, Correspondence, and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, vol. 6, (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913), 77, note 1, available on Modern History Sourcebook: American Anti-Imperialist League, 1899.

We hold that the policy known as imperialism is hostile to liberty and tends toward militarism, an evil from which it has been our glory to be free. We regret that it has become necessary in the land of Washington and Lincoln to reaffirm that all men, of whatever race or color, are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We maintain that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. We insist that the subjugation of any people is “criminal aggression” and open disloyalty to the distinctive principles of our Government.

Anti-Imperialism and Challenges to the US Role in the Philippines

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