Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-06-07
THEY ARE NOT FOR BARTER
British West Indies Cannot be Traded
for the Philippines.
United States viii Hold Cuba and the Phil
ppineS for Their Order and
Good Government.

| ODuer tne neaulng, Not Mer-
chandize," the Montreal Witness
has this article:
Many United States journals
discuss and support the PROPOSE
ton which originated in Washing
ton, not of course from official
sources, that the PhilippineIslands
when they come into possession of
the United States should be barter.
ed for the British West Indian
islands. These islands, accordi q
to the Washington correspondent,
"bave been watched by American
authorities with growing solicitude
because they are part of Great
BritsIn's Gordon of fronting the
Atlantic coast of the United
States, aud fol ming al almost i'm
pregnable base of offensive and
defensive action at our very
gates. "Tbe Barmudas are included
by the Americans among the West
Indies, t"ough nothing is said of
British Guiana. There can be no
doubt that from the mere point
Ot view of the commercial trader
The Philippine Islands are worth
far more than the British West
Indies, perhaps more even than
all the West Indies-Cuha, the
Pearl of the ADtilles," included.
But there are insurnouptable OBJ
stacles in the way of such a trade.
Many of the inhabitants of these
islands are British, blood of the
blood and bone of the bone of the
p ople of England, LELAND and
Scotland; Can they be bsrtered
away as if they were chsttels of
TIL United Kingdom ? All the
inhabitants Of the West Iudies arr
British subjects by birth, whose
sons are tighting in the British
amy; can they be exchanged for
Philippine lsland~ra, VIII, would
p obably fight, at frs, at least,
against the Briti-h ? There is
MT much to b. said, perhaps,
against the United States barter
in - away he Philippine l-landers,
who have just come into her pos
ssion from SPAN as the sporls
t war, though We suppose that
even they shpul'i have something
t say about their own destiny.
Blu the ltrl'i-h subj, Cts of the
West Indies, white and black, ara
t ee met, tnjo'i,g Ike liberty
with all b ltlsh su jects, and they
~ no. for 'a'tAr or sale, how
ev.r goon a bargain might b.
mad With them TO- the rest of
tue empir. The Philippine Isl =
auders a d the Cubaus will, we
hope, some day long hence, be
come good citizens of the United
States; meantime the protection
OF that coun'ry will be for them
an escape from virtual slavery to
freedom, aud they will obtain
their share of self gov
eminent when they are fit
for it. The United States will,
we hope, be led to assume its pro-
per position as one of the great
powers, not of Europe, but of the
world. Great Britain is not in
the West Iudies with the idea of
menacing the United States, as
the United States has recently
had good reason to know; she is
there just as the United States is
in America, because British PEG
pie have made their homes there.
and the forliicat ons are there for
the protection of those people aud
Of the genera protection Of the
empire, The United States, hav
lug assumed the responsibility in
the name of humanity of turning
the Spauiards out of Cuba, will
have to stay there and in the
Philippine Islands also until
order and good govern ment are
established, and that will be for a
long time.