The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-12-10
REPLIES TO MURAT HALSTEAD
Is Opposed to the "Open Door" in
the Philippines.
A MOST INTERESTING LETTER
He Says England in India Stands
Upon a Volcano.

The following letter from Andrew Car
negic appeared in the New York World
of Nov. q, and is selr-eXplanatory:
| see that Mr.. Murat Halstead speak,
| ing at Homestead Pa. said "The Phil
! ippincs will be to the United States what
| India Is to England" This is what I
| believe they will be. but does Mr.. Hall
| stead know what India is to England?
| Perhaps he has never been to India-I
| have. have met the Indians who speak
| Englisl,--who have spoken to me freely,
| because | was an American. What does
education make of Indians? Incpient
rebels! They have taken to heart WASH
ington and our struggle for independ-
encc; they speak most of Cromwell and
of Bolivar, Wallace and Tell.
| England III India stands today upon
Il volcano. She has to keep 10000 Brit
ish troops there to hold the people in
subsection. She does not trust one gun
in the hands of native troops. They can
have muslcts, but tho artillery is all
! held by the British regiments. England
has been in India for nearly 200 years
this is the condition she is still in today.
or all the pcrils of England, that of In
dia is the greatest.
There Is scarcely statesman of Brit
ain who does not wish privately, "Would
that we were safely out Of lnda!' More
than one Of them hus said to ne, What
does India do for England? Ask the
desolatc homes that I have known in
| Britain. The late war against the Afri-
dis plunged many Thousands Of homes Of
England i'll mourning. The greatest
| weakness that England possesses today
is ln'lia. We're it not for India she
would not fear Russia.
| India is the curse of Britain and the
/ Philippines will be the curse of the
United States. If you teach suppressed
people at all you make them rebels Edu-
cation is fatal to the government of q
superior race. The slave holders UNDER
stood thisin order to maintain slavery
the slave could not be taught to read.
| I he declaration OF independence will
make cvu-y ambitious Filipino Il dis
satisfied subject.
thank MIR. IIalstcad for teaching me
that phrase. ] could not ask for any
thing better. The Philippines are to be
to the United States what India is to
Britain. Agreed.
/ hope the president of the United
/ States has heard what Mr.. Halstcad has
said, and that it will induce him to look
into the question of India and England.
! Upon this text | stake the whole issue
only let the Americans learn what India
/ is to Britain and the presidents policy
is doomed. Thanks again, friend Hal
stead.
In this mornings papers we are cor
rcctly told by the secretary of state that
| the "opcn door, does not mean free
trade, that the Philippines will have
their tariff, and that all products enter
ing the ports will be required to pay the
same duties, whether these be products
of American soil or labor, or of the low
priced labor of Europe, India, Australia
or the Argentine; but the secretary Of
state is also reported to have said that
this places all nations upon an equality.
Here he has made a pardonable mistake,
since he has no experience of commerce.
The manufacturer of Germany, France
or Britain, the farmer Of Australia and
Of the Baltic provinces of Russia and of
the Argentine, reach the Philippines ut
| about onc-half the freight cost that the
American farmer has to pay upon his
products or the American manufacturer
upon manufactured articles.
| The distance to Manila from the At
lmtlc scaboard is, say, $4,000 miles (via
| Cape; from Europe only. say, 5000; 49,
( 600 from New York (via Europe, which
is the shortest way); from Australasia
only about onc-hulf the distance Of that
| from San Francisco, say $500 miles,
against 1000; from India only 1000, from
| Argentina not much further than from
! San Francisco.
Therefore when President Mckinley
| agreed that thc products OF Europe and
/ the agricultural products Of Australia
ard Argentina and India should reach
the Philippines and pay only the same
tariff as products Of the soil and the
mine of his own country, he closed the
I door cfTectually upon American CONNER
| cial expansion in The Philippines.
! American products stood upon an equ-
| aiily with those Of foreign nations under
Spanish authority, except that Spain
was favored against all, and hero are the
| import figures for the last year OF
Philippine trade (1s9G) for which figures
arc available: 2
From Great britain and British
Colonies. Ii 3er cent. 6 ,420, 500