The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-10-21

buried with their advocates. Washington
and his principles lived while his detrac
tors and defamers and their issue are for
gotten. So of that type of critics who
sought in 1861, as we'll as now, to make
cheap political capital out of the
ignoble issues be everlastingly for
gotten, while Grant, and Dewey, Lincoln
and Mckinley, and the issues they es-
poused shall gather increasing glory with
the coming ages Their cry is Calamity
and Reform bat what they want is
sboilS and pozOer.
History makes no excuses for the men
and measures that misunderstood the
times. ALaS, that IN this glorious hour OF
triumph, any should drink ofthat partisan
elixir that sometimes makes men forget
their country and their eOunt,.y'S honor.
These little Americans would put letters
on the angel of freedom
The red, the black and the brown races
look to the whites to civilize aud evan
gelize. Freedoms policy IN the PhtAiPbfneS
zV0nla be n0thozV much could be made out
of them, but hozV much could be made OF
them.
We were once colonies ourselves, and
should not be unmindful of the higher
duties that colonization and humanity i'm
pose upon those nations charged with the
physical, intellectual and moral conditions
of men make the present, and perhaps for
many centuries yet to come, colonial rela-
lions between the weaker and stronger
races necessary. That relation is not to be
entered into altogether for gain, but is a
sacred trust to be administered.
This work. can conceive of none no
bler-would be both interesting and up
lifting, blessing both the race that gives
and the race that receives. The English
standing army has large percentage of
natives in her columns. With standing
army of but little over 100000 she pre-
serves law and order over 400, 000 600 people.
Our regular army for garrison duty could
be made up largely of the brown race in
the Philippines, differed by Americans
This could be made an important step in
their education and civilization. With
these islands in the sea, and standing
army of 100000, half of them Filipinos, and
a navy second to no other nation, America
can long insure the peace of the world.
Necessity is always potent factor in the
formation of public opinion Necessity
seems to demand that we retain what We
have conquered How can we let go2 The
foreign policy of Christian nation cannot
be antagonistic to good morals. Good
morals demand that we stay and care for
those whom the fortunes of war have made
our wards.
During the century, in some of these
islands of the Pacific, feuds have existed
until less than a dozen men, woman and
children were left, and these are still fight
ing as to who should be king God forbid
that, having robbed them of their ancient
government, we should leave them to
despotism and anarchy. The law of right
eousness is above the law of utility. Shall
we take Luzon and abandon the remnant?
To do this would be both cowardly and
immoral for strong civilized and Christian
nation. LuZon in area, wealth and in
population, they say, is the larger and
better part of the Philippines, and we can
we'll afford to abandon the rest. 1t is a
more humane policy to "let the tail go
with the hide"
Let us not shut the gates of mercy or of
freedom on the Philippines, or any part
thereof.
THE HOPE OF MANKIND.
When Lafayette sailed forth from
Spanish port to succor Washington he
wrote back to his young bride at Paris,
For love of me become good American.
The welfare of America is closely bound
up in the welfare of mankind. 1t is about
to become the safe asylum of virtue of
prophetic. The highest aspirations of men,
now as then, turn to America as the last
hope of mankind for progressive self
government. This generation will soon pass
away but it's work will remain.
This is o. PEOPLES government, the
people make its history, and the peo-
pie will protect it's honor, and silence those
who make low issues, when highborn
thoughts and heroic deeds are adding to
the rising glories of the nation.
Can it be possible that in Minnesota,
when her gifted and patriotic son is giving
lofty conceptions to the question of our
new boundaries, our citizens will, by
lethargy on their part, permit the election
of legislature that will choose some other
senator in his placer The people of Min
nesota are not ungrateful, as such a sug
gestion would imply. In our present
senators = Davis and Nelson = Minnesota
has conspicuous service and influence, and
they merit and will receive marked ex-
pressions of approval in our ballots.
We ozOe q aeep debt to Mckinley. With so
carried on the war that political criticism
breaks in silence at his feet. Grand in
purpose, strong in action, he stands forth
to-day the srandest ruler, among mankind.
AS your highest public servant, he has dis
charged, superior to all criticism, the un-
expected and exalted duties of both peace
and war. 1t is, then, but fitting that so
far as our people can do so by the ballot
that they both approve and encourage their
president.
They say there is danger that our people
will not take the trouble to vote this year
The questions involved in previous cleo
tions being settled, they will hardly take
the time to go to the polls Can it be that
people who have so cheerfully sent their
sons to the war, giving of their flesh and
blood for the cause of humanity, while
their boys have gone even to the opposite
side of the globe at the command of
Mckinley to add new luster to the fame
of Minnesota, will not themselves go as
far as from their homes to the polls in the
discharge of civic duties? 1t is not true.
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