The times., 1898-06-05

to declare her an outlaw and the COM
mon enemy of mankind, we should also
evict her from Porto Rico, where the
conditions of misrtle persecution, CUT
rage and murder have been the same
In short, this eminent authority, like
others of his ilk, refuses to recognize
the decree of the American people is
sued Immediately after the Maine was
destroyed: Spain must leave the
Western Hemisphere foreyer!'
AS to the Philippine branch of the
| question, it only needs to be said that
| once having rescued the downtrodden
Inhabitants of the archipelago frCm the
horrors of Spanish oppression, it would
take great many heartless cloistered
| Tories to convince the country that
they ought TO be relegated to the rob-
| berries, tortures and slavery of their
old taskmasters. But this is a point
Of view that DR.. WooIsey, deep in the
| sophistries of Dana's Notes on Whea-
ton, is incapable of taking. To him it is
| only question of preserving our re-
cent system of Chinese provincial isola-
| ton, under which the people of America
| only busted themselves in producing
wealth Cor the sugar. oil and othe
monopolists who endow institutions az
learning" and establish chairs of poll
| teal economy, warranted to teach
nothing but the pure gospel of the
sanctity of stolen wealth and peonage
of labor
According to this pundit. it is ridicu-
| lous in Us to talk about holding the
| Philippines when We have only de-
| stroyed the fleet that protected them.
Even if We were in full military pos
! session. he asserts that Spanish SOW
ereignty would. thereby, not be extin-
guished, but only suspended. 1t would
have to be revived or removed by
! treaty of peace: Spain will thus re-
tain rights. even in case of complete
conquest. which must be eventually
weighed and adjusted 1t will be OBJ
/ served that when the rights of the
! United States are to- be analyzed DR.
| " oolsey is inclined TO interpret them
according to the strict letter of tn oreti-
! cal international law, according to his
own standards. and not agreeably to
! those OF precedent or custom among
the leading progressive nations. On the
| other hand. he admits that. in the ase
of Alsace-Lorraine. although the popu-
| lation was civilized and highly intel
| ligent, it was conquered and annexed TO
Germany against the wishes of a vast
majority of its denizens.
Other powers also have interests. "a d
the good doctor asks with alarm:
How far the United States by posses
sion of the Philippines. would place
| itself within the European vortex, to
be buffeted and cajoled. thwarted and
urged on, forced out from its safe and
/ comfortable isolation into the treach-
| erous sea OF enmities and alliances"
| Your college professor is ever pessim-
list on every subject except endow-
ments and legacies. and he can make
| up in rhetoric what he lacks in pa
triotism. stt
1t seems to Dr. Woolsey that the
| problem of governing the mixed races
| of the Philippines, in case we held
| them, would be serious obstacle. He
| experiences a slight pang Of cOnscie e
and admits that it would be a little
hard to turn them back To the grind
ing tyranny" of Spa n. but adds: In
less we do retain our conquests. how
ever, the line of least resistance would
seem to lead TO Spanish ownership
| again." That will never be- We have
allied ourselves with the native insur-
| gents against the common enemy We
| should be perfidious to abandon them
| to the boot, rack, componte and mas
| sacre which would follow our with
| drawal They may not be fitted for
| American citizenship, and it may be
| true in principle that the satrap sys-
| TEN is repugnant TO our political
| ideas" but it is not altogether new. We
! have worked it on the aborlgines of this
continent, and once, for several years,
on the people of the Southern States
| Since we have taken the islands and
every commercial instinct bids us keep
them, a little thing like that need not
rob us OF sleep.
Nor will the pale ghost of militafism
which Dr. Woolsey invokes scare us
in the least What armies of occuFa-
ton may cost in the Philippines and
elsewhere will be recouped from the
revenues of those regions. AS for the
Navy, the American people have de-
cided that they mean to have one, any
way, so that need not count. Further
more, there is a universal national de-
termination to do and accomplish about
all the things that the Eliot Woolsey
school of reactionists deprecate. We
will build and protect the Nicaragua
Canal and to do this. we will have q
strong naval base in the Caribbean
and another in Hawaii; and we win
keep the Philippines and Porto Rico.
1t need not be apprehended that an
tagonism to these designs and meas
ures of combined interest and necessity,
clad in Oxford cap and gown, will
| amount to anything. But if it should
we can always send the auxiliary
| cruisers Harvard and Yale steaming
into Cambridge and New Haven to dis
cipline the offending dons.
The Times. being right by habit. was
| customarily so in assuming that the de-
struction of the collier Merrimac was de-
signed by our naval authorities to block
| up the channel of Santiago. The cour-
tesy of Admiral Cervera, in sending a
| flag of truce to compliment Sampson upon