Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-27


enough to eat. hear that they have no
fashionable churches, but no Philippine
mother Stays her infant for burial Zee.
They have but few, IL any, merchant
princes: but their successful" men do
not bride city aldermen to sell out their
constituents. They lack the civilization
that breeds whiskey rings and a credit
mobilier but Freedmans bureau~is I'M
known TO them. Let the Imperiallsts
bring forward documentary proof OF Fill
pino crimes and immoralitles, and ! will
agree TO match them, four TO one, from
the current files Of American newspapers.
Let them predict what will happen II the
B'ilipinos have liberty and independence,
and L will show worse things that have
happened I'm the country that proposes
to give them good government"
One hundred and twenty-five years ago
the Injustice OF taxation without repre-
sentation was thought a good enough ek-
cuse for the Declaration OF Independence
and the war of the revolution. Has the
injustice OF that day become Justice to-
day? For II is not proposed to give the
Filipinos representation In our or their
government; they are 10 be our vassals.
No amount OF fiapdoodle, either on the
part Of Mckinley or the New York Jour
nal, is going to answer the Issue raised
The proposed annexation Of the Philip
pines is called 'the Jeffersonian principle
OF national expansion" by the New York
Journal. The Dispatch has already shown
conclusively that such annexation IS not
Jeffersonlan.
William Jennings Bryan, whose hands
AMI conscience are clean, IS opposed to
Imperialism. And now comes Mr.. w. II.
Hearst owner OF the New York Journal
reading the riot act 10 Mr. Bryan over his
own signature. Listen:
I'VE demanded the acquisition OF ter
ritory in the West Indies and the re-
tention Of all the Philippines. We now
demand the government of our new terri
tories as integral parts of this country,
according TO the American idea, without
any programme of militarism or impe
rialism foreign to the fundamental prn-
ciples of our republic. The Demo-
Gratis in Congress cannot do better than
adopt this, the Journals national policy,
as their national policy-it is popular, il
Is Democratic and it is right. The De
mocracy has the great fight to continue
against the forces of special privilege
and corruption and greed. 1t cannot
afford TO weaken its influence and dimn-
ish its power for good by adopting atti-
tudes In opposition to na-.onal progress
and development, which are unpopular,
undemocratic. and essentially wrong
W. r. Hearst" sliAa
Now. what is the american idea"
according 10 which we are TO adopt re-
mote and essentially different territories
and peoples as integral parts OF our
country. With what fundamental prln-
ciples of this republic does this proposed
annexation chime? 1t Is undemocratic
and essentially wrong Who says so?
Mr. Hearst. Is Mr.. Hearst the only but
90,
Hearst should come off, would Uncle
Sam lose his shirt? Again, We read:
THE Journal believes that any one who
hauled down the flag in the Philippines
would be, politically, as dead as Grover
Cleveland, who hauled down the flag I'm
HalSaii." Grover Cleveland Is not a
political corpse because he hauled down
the flag In Hawaii. Had he done nothing
worse than that; had he kept the faith
to the platform of 1892; had he not sold
out his party, he would very likely be
in the White House to-day. He did
right 10 haul down the flag In Hawaii:
the flag had no business there. IL was
hoisted by as remorseless a band OF
pirates as ever robbed a defenceless peo-
pie; hoisted by the sons OF missionaries
who had gone TO Christianize and civil
iZe the Hawaiians. While the mission
60 - hSiC I'll i1NAaiilNAiSs lhciE SOllS we're
robbing the people Of their lands and
rights.
Because we have freed the Filipinos
from Spanish misrule, shall we. there
fore, make them our vassals? DO | ac-
quire ownership in the person and pro-
perty Of the man whom / deliver from a
highwayman? But" say the Imperial
lists, that's different: here are millions
Of people delivered by a nation count
ing millions" All the more reason for
doing justice. What is injustice IL done
to one man can never be Justice when
done 10 millions.
WILLIAM G.. EGGLESTON.
Worsham, Va.