Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-12-07

the army and navy that the United States
will be obliged to maintain there.
''The people will see at once sprung
upon Congress proposition for a stand
| ing army OF 600 men, costing yearly
more than 100000 and naval in
crease OF from s15 700 900 to $50 1000, 900
year in addition, all of which must come
by the levy OF taxation. Not only will
no war tax be repealed, but the present
tax must be increased.
"The people of the Pacific coast will
find out that II we admit eight or ten
millions of Malays, Tngals, and Negritos
to become part CT our country, and to
have some or all the privileges OF citizen
ship, We must necessarily give to the
Chinese who are already in the country
the same privileges. The people of the
South will fad out that the admission OF
these alie,, races to the United States will
be another added intensification OF the
race problem, which is to-day, standing
menace in our own borders.
INSPIRATION OF OUR DIPLOMACY.
The great Irish American element OF
our population will find out that, not
outstanding Lord Salisbury's character
istic sneer, in his Guild hall speech, at
the new policy OF the United States, the
British foreign office is the inspiration Of
our present diplomacy, and, although
thousands OF these Irish Americans have,
of late years, been voting the republican
ticket, their protest over present condi-
tions cannot fail to be loud and deep.
Below all this with the business men of
the country, and wit b all thoughtful men,
the peril OF this departure from the set
tied policy of the government will be
seen more clearly from day to day.
with the exception OF the Alaska pur-
chase, which has been constant drag to
us, all OF her extension Of our territory has
been contiguous and has opened new
fields for the pioneer and the actual set
tier, who have butt up communities and
founded new states. Not one OF these
will ever go to the Philippines, which
are already thiekiy peopled with inhsb-
itants with whom we can never sssiniiate.
The President himself Will find that,
in order to secure peace, beside the go
900 900 which the United States is to pay
Spain, he is simply getting rid OF one war,
" hich Is already su Substantially ended, only
to find the country in a condition OF war
with the insurgents and the inhabitants
generally OF the Philippine ISLANDS, and
that he will constantly be obliged to call
upon Congress to furnish means Tor the
conduct OF this war.
COMPLICATION OF EASTERN POLITICS.
.He will also see that he and his success
sors in his great office, Will find them
selves involved in every complica, ion OF
Oriental policies and politics, and that as
We have for fifty years seen all Europe
cit her engaged in war or finishing war or
expecting and preparing for war, while
we have been prospecting in peace, the
same conditions Will apply here, and that
there will be no agitation Of the question
of Asiatic dependencies threatening to
light the torch OF war in Europe, in
" hich We will not he as much involved as
are the nations OF Europe.
"Fhe people OF the United States are
already beginning to find out that here
is nothing in the trade OF these islands,
in the people who nhabit them, in the
climate in which they are forced to live
that present any real attrac ion to us, but,
on the contrary, furnish Il notification to
us to keep our hands off.
'All these things will steadily grow in
the minds of the American people, and, as
| IN id in the beginning, 1t is not an i'm
probable thing that within one year from
nov nobody in the United States will
want he islands"