The age-herald., 1898-09-22
SENATOR LINDSAY
 AND PHILIPPINES

expansion In the following authorized in- terview, which he gave me in Frankfort yesterday, he not only advocates retaining all territory taken in this war but ex- presses the belief that this government should hold the entire Philippines:
 What in your opinion,'' 1 asked the sen- ator, lis the correct solution of the ques- tion of the proper disposition of the Philip pine islands?
 "The situation would have been less diff1- cult if Admiral Dewey, after destroying the Spanish feet, had at once set sail for American waters and left the Spanish au- thorites to deal with them best they might
 His continued presence at Manila, with the army we have sent there since his yie- tory, has encouraged the insurgents, and discredited in their estimation the power of the Spanish government to such an ex- tent that Spain is regarded by them-and justly so-as unable to restore order or to preserve peaceful conditions in those coun- tries.
 "It is conceded on all hands that the na- tive races are not equal to the task of es- tablishing a stable government, and that upon the industrial classes of Luzon, and, in fact, of all the Philippines, tha the abandonment of their control to the native inhabitants.
 "If it were possible for Spain to re-estab- fish and successfully carry on in the Philippines her colonial policy, public opin- ion would not tolerate any agreement on our part that she should be permitted to re-establish her despotic way.
 "Circumstances seem to have rendered us answerable for the future of the Philip pines, and we cannot escape the duty of providing for the future welfare of their people.
 "We cannot content ourselves with re- taining the city of Manila, or the island of Luzon, and leaving the people of the re- maining islands subject to Spanish misgov- ernment.
 "We cannot afford to compel the people of those islands, other than Luzon, to make the experiment of self government. We cannot leave Germeny, France, Great Britain, Russia, Japan etc., to apportion out the territories we may not keep, or may not deem it profitable to keep, and the question you ask is to be considered from the standpoint of conditions which have unexpectedly come about within the last six months
 "Of course, we will reverse the policy by which we have always been governed in undertaking the managemnt and control of territories peopled as the Philippines are by a population which will probably never be equal to the task of self-govern- ment, but it will be equally revolutionary for us to hold and govern the richer island of Luzon, containing the great city of Manila as to take and hold all the islands.
 "There seems to be a general agreement that we are to keep sufficient territory upon which to establish a naval or coaling sta- tion, and the general feeling is that the city of Manila, and probably the island of Luzon, must be kept. It will be trifling with the situation in this way to minimize the revolutionary character of our de- parture from ancient precedents, and if we aSe to enter upon the contest for Asiatic trade by establishing a colony of a de- pendency in the group of the Philippines it seems to me that common sense would dictate we should hold the entire group.
 of we can control and civiize the people of one of those islands, we can control and gradually civilize the people of them all.
 "When in the exercise of superior power we concluded to absorb the Hawaiian islands, through the unauthorized joint resolution of the two houses of congress, we announced to the world our intention to become an active factor in the settlement of the trade relations of the Pacific coun- tries, and we are emphasizing that an- nouncement when we declare our intention to establish and maintain a trading post or naval station in the Philippines
 'It seems now to be agreed, also, that in furtherance of our new policy, we are to construct and own the Nicaragua canal, and all political parties are committed to that proposition. Such being the case, l do not see why we should inaugurate the change of our foreign policy by halfway or half-hearted measures. We can only justify our departure from the teachings of Washington and the early American statesmen by making the departure complete success.
 "We may honorably keep all we won by our arms in the Pacific ocean, as well as in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean sea, and we should provide against entangle- ments certain to grow out of the divided control of the Philippine islands by making our authority in those islands both para mount and exclusive, or else we should surrender them to Spain with the agree ment upon her part that they are not to be ceded to any other commercial power, in whole or in part.
 "ro keep the Philippines will not be to impose a hardship upon the Spanish gov ernment The world knows, and all edu- cated Spaniards know, that Spanish su- premacy can never be re-established in those countries.
 Ut will require on our part as great navy and practically as many troops to protect the Hawaiian islands and the is- land of Luzon, or the city of Manila, as to protect Hawaii and all the Philippines, so there is neither economy nor generosity in limiting our proposed expansion to one city or one island in the Philippine group. "If foreign markets in which to sell the products of our agriculturists and manu- lecturers, are to be secured through the acquisition of new territory, we will se- cure larger markets and greater benefits by following our policy of expansion to it's legitimate end.
 "It is not proposed in this instance to take into our keeping unwilling population or to force the blessings of our government on a reluctant people, as in the case of the