The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-08
Capt. Joe Waters FavOrs Terri
tOrial Expansion.
Never Pull cold Glory" Down
Where 1t Has Once
BEEN SET A-WAVING.
American Church and School
Should Go
Hand in Hand in the Philip
pines and degenerate Them.

Captain J. G. Waters is in favor of
holding the Philippines. In speaking of
the position this government should as
sumo on that question he said today:
If Dewey had kept Aguinaldo at
arms length, taken on assistance from
him on going into the bay, had not
given him arms and ammunition, had
not advised with him, had not fought
with him the common enemy together,
but had gone into Manila harbor, des-
troyed MontOjo's fleet as he did, the
Philippine question would have an
swered itself. The United States would
then have had no duty to perform
toward it, and it would have been none
of our business.
AS it has been. we sought the as
SiStance of AguinaldO, he pfIOted Dewey
into the bay, they fought the common
enemy together. and when we needed
his assistance, the insurgnet force shed
ats blood and sacrificed the lives of it's
soldiers IN What was supposed and ex-
pected to be a mutual cause, and it
would be a Spanish trick this govern
ment is incapable of doing, to Surren-
der the insurgents back to the despOt-
ISM OF spain. The public man or pO-
Htical party that dares consent to this
would be condemned in the eyes of the
whole world. The flag never goes back.
The churches of this country will be a
unit to prevent it. All missionary effort
there has been unavailing in the past.
a PROSECUTING, partisan, rantankerOus
priesthood, surrounded by the sacred
circle of the church, protected by the
deSpOtiSm of Spain, with more than
half the power of Spain, has met our
cOlpOrteurs at the ships gangWays, and
rendered them muskets for mission
aries, tally for tally, but no Sankey's
hymns, Bible house tracts, or Scrip
lures have landed. If we churches have
any ambition, it is to go where they
tell US to keep out. And we are going.
There is n0T0 hing effective q = In
when it heads the procession. The
American Tract society knows it. The
flag is of itself an eVangelizer. I am
patriotic enough to say that priests in
the Philippines have been the prime
ministers of Spain. The stars and
stripes viii never give place to the
bars of CASTLE so potent of misery in
the past. Hereafter the United States
will furnish the priests for the Philip
pines. And it is a wonder that ministers
do not discuss this problem instead of
law, physics and literature, as it is a
question that is more vital to the
church than any that has touched her
sails since Luther and Melancthon, if
/ have their names Alright
1.-The commerce of this country will
never permit the United States to give
over. If the United States keep the
Philippines our young men will go
there. The American hoe and ditching
machine will reclaim those tropical
sWamps and make them producing
farms. When we tile and ditch the
Philippines they will get rid of ma
1aria and be ready, for the first time,
to receive the gospel. We will send the
Yankee school marin. The prObabili-
ties of those islands for commerce are
just wonderful. When they get to have
a taste of the liberty of the United
States, they will understand the diff
ference between it and the Spanish
license that authorizes them to live
if they can afford to pay the occupation
tax.
1.-THE Philippines will have a COM
merce. It will commence to grow with
the first issue of bonds. County seat
elections will make money easy. They
will begin to understand the use of
spoken speech during the first cam
Paign for county elections. There will
come heralded by prospectus and poster
the American daily newspaper, after
which the community will be immuned
from despOtism, revolution and Monroe
doctrines.
1.-THE great American houses with
prophetic eye see all the pOtentialities
of commerce by extending the United
States to the Philippines, and they will
at once take advantage of it by estab-
aishing houses in Manila where they
will directly confront China, Japan,
South Sea palatines. The entire COM
mercial instinct of the United States
will be unit upon that point; and
while the benefits to be derived by
commerce by a taking of the Philip
pines will be uppermOst in the minds
of business men of America, they Will
push, as they have the right to do, the
moral sentiment of our people, to the
front. Where the flag goes it stays.
We can not afford to invoke the assist
ance of an insurgent and leave him to
the DercV of Spa