Evening star., 1898-08-06
An English View Of What This Coun-.
try Owes to the World.
A FALSE PLEA OF GENEROSITY
America Must See That Spanish
Misrule is Ended.
CUBA AND THE PHILIPPINES


| Just now employed to induce America to
| make a quick peace with Spain strike us
| as not only unfounded. but profoundly i'm
| moral. What did America go to war for?
| First of all, to terminate Spains authority
| over her colonies. which Americans be-
| heved to be tyrannical destructive of hui
| man happiness, and in all ways bad.
| whether their evidence in support of that
| belief was good, believe IL to have
| peen' or as bad as average Spaniards as
| sert, or as accidental and temporary as
| many thoughtful Spaniards maintain has
| little to do with our present subject The
| Americans believed the charge heartily.
and so believing went into a war which, to
| all human appearance will end in giving
them the power to terminate the misrule
| which so affronted their consciences A
| moralist would say, one would think that
| having begun so great a work they were
| bound to carry IT through, that they had
| contracted welghty, even terrible, obllga-
| lions toward the colonists OF Spain ana
| We're bound TO discharge those obliRation.
| without thinking too much OF the conse-
| Quences to themselves. They can IL they
| like being Angio-Saxons give the colonirts
| urn urn ana lenlent government, and. as the
| historian will say, in the merest Justice.
| ana out OF decent care for their own self
| respect, they ought to do il. That how
| ever is not the opinion of most OF onr con
| temporaries either in Great Britain or I'm
| Europe They are crying aloud to WASH
/
| Iory' TO restore TO Spain, II not Porto
| Rico-the value of which as a naval STA
| tlon they Understandable all events the
| Philippines.
The Philippine Situation.
We Will tell them what generosity" un-
uer such circumstances means II means
| that Spain should recover full authoritv
| over S0oOOO0 of dark persons whom she
| mas Tor 800 years so governed that as Mr..
| Foreman testihes, the children av Win
| shrleks IL they see a ''Castillian and
| should recover it at the very moment when
| every virtue as well as every wee in a
| opahlaro VIII incline him toward severity
| IN punishment. He will be fun of IovaIty
TO his country and full of vengeance aeaInst
rebels who have insulted her. and in the
| strength of both feelings ne Will strike as
| Spanlards struck in Peru. Ii means thar
Americans, having ENCOURAGED them 10 re-
| Noit are TO hand over the > 600 600 of Ta-
gas TO nation which regards their re,yoIt
not only as a crime-that is usuaI-but as
an unparalleled insolence calling aloud for
Snasusement. 1t means that the United
| states, which of all powers should Keen en-
| gagements because of her relation ia tba
| TWO continents in which she claims heee
niony' are TO betray Aguinaldo and The
Whole tribe of Tagals = 600 COO of dark No.,
PIE who have accepted Christianity ana ais
play many considerable quaIities-thougb
| mercy, we Tear, attracts them as little as IL
| attracts some SpaniarGs-into those Span
lards hands. America NAV be conneIIel
| oy continental coalition 70 do this thins
ana yet be blameless, for there can be no
SIN Where there is no Will; but TO do II
| voluntarily under the false ulea Of .ssSa1
| eroslty would be nothing less than a base
ness. She had better even partition the is
| Iailds among the great powers though as
| we maintain, she is bound having unset a
| pad civilization, to provide good one and
not 70 shirk responsibilities which from
the moment Admiral Dewey broke lnrn fba
| harbor of Manila she took upon herself
The Case i'm Cuba.
The case is just as strong i'm Cuha or
| stronger, for it has there this aggrayation
that In Cuba there is danger of the most
Irlshtful or all wars. a war between the
| coiors, and that the native Cubans having
dreaded oppression for 2o0 years. have be-
come merciiessly hard, cannot concefva
that their oppressoTs have rights and are
| as ready TO put Spaniards to death al sf.ht
ana merely as Spaniards we were when
| lhey invaded Ireland, and Were sunnosad
70 De hkeiy TO lead an insurrection IL
ashinston honestly thinks it can govern
Cupa, Ia the true sense of government
| through protectorate, well and good
We differ, but the right of judging is theirs
not ours; but that to secure good govern
ment In Cuba is their bouuden duty we
nave no doubt whatever. They have en-
iTanchlsed a people. and they must see that
enitanchlSement is not for them a curse
III generosity is to be exercised at all
IL should De in regard to Porto Rico where
the only American claim will be right of
conquest: but the same writer's who are so
keen about the Philippines surrender Porto
RICO we 90 I OF say they are in the wrong
about that island, for IL does not lie I'm En-
glishmen's mouths to declare conquest a
pad title; but about the Philippines they
are advising pseudo-chivalry which, like
much of chivairy las an anti-moral basis.
and We believe they are in the wrong for
another reason also. They forget what the
Influence of dependencies will be on the
union itself
Americas Part In the Future History
The future of the world will depend
greatly upon the political character Of
Americans. When in 1850 they are 20o.ee0.-
o0o, and have absorbed, as they will absorb
the swa1ms of immigrants whose presence
new makes contir.oLtals doubt-except just
after great sea fght-whether Americans
are Englishmen, their purposes. their ideas.
their will will be to all mankind matter of
the gravest momert. They will be able il
much stlrred TO crush any single people,
except perhaps the Slavs To fit the Ameri-
cans for that destiny the first necessity is
that they should. before they are irressti-
Bile, have difficulties. depende ncies, compli-
Gated ard urgent relations with the re-
mainder OF mankind. At present every
thing is too easy to them. and they live
too much to themselves comparing thern-
selves with themselves" as the Scripture
has 1t, till they have no idea of equals and
see their own powers well as rights
through on. medium and their rivals
through another. They thought, not out
Oh poastlu1neSs, but pure tneXperience, that
they could crush Spain and liberate Cuba
in a fortnight. The Spanish war will teach
them much. but to be fit for their great
work Americans must learn how TO govern
as well as how to be governed, must add
to their splendid patriotism the English
gift of cold and lofty tolerance: must learn
how to keep subordinate governments as
clean OF corruption as their supreme
court is; must, above all, learn the lesson
none have yet learned except the English
how to keep dark races subject while they
are being educated without incessant mem
aces of force. They have to create a great
fleet yet confine its action to police work;
they have to enlist great army, yet pre-
serve their own liberties fully: they have
to maintain civil service which can ad-
minister successfully, yet remain all the
time submissive. cordially submissive, to
the will of the toilers who pay for all.
They have, in fact, to exchange their role
of prosperity for role of greatness among
mankind.
He Was Injured Internally.
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