The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-12-10
CANNOT BE HELD AS COLONIES.


The other day Senator Vest, Of Mis-
souri,, sounded the first note of the anti
expansionists by introducing the follow
ing joint resolution in the United States
senate: =
'That under the constitution of the
United States no power is given to the
federal government to acquire territory
to be held and governed permanently as
colonies.
'The colonial SYSTEM of European ma
lions cannot be established under our
present constitution, but all territory ac-
quired by the government, except such
small amount as may be necessary for
coaling stations, creation of boundaries,
and similar governmental purposes, must
be acquired and governed with the pur-
pose of ultimately organizing such terri
tory into states suitable for admission
into the union"
Some Americans thoughtlessly recon-
mend that the recently acquired possess
sions from Spain be governed on the
English plan-that the Philippines be
governed by the United States as India
is governed by England. Andrew Carne-
gle tells in letter to a New York paper,
which is reproduced in this issue of The
erned, or, properly speaking, misgovern-
ed, by AngloSaxon England. Any
American who has read of Hastings and
Give in India would not like an Ameri-
can governor to copy their barbarity in
the Philippines, or anywhere else. If
Americans model their colonial govern
ment, if they are to have any, upon that
of England in the East In
dies. some future poet may
say of this republic what Montgom-
cry said of England, that it has won
an empire, but lost it's name" The fol-
lowing from the Sacramento Bee, in re-
ply to Bishop Hurst, of the M. E. Church,
who extolled England for her Justice and
education in India, will give an idea CT
the humanity of British rule in that col
ony and elsewhere:
Justice and education, forsooth!
What justice has she ever represented
save that bastard type which found its
highest illustration in blowing robbed
and defrauded Sepoys from the lannon's
mouth? What education among oppress-
ed peoples has she stood sponsor for but
that form Of education exemplifled in
1rico ho
people, against the protest of the Chi
nese government. because 1t represented
millions upon millions of profit to pirat-
ical British tradesmen? What civiliza-
ton has gone hand in hand with her con-
quests save that civilization which
taught her to massacre 10000 Dervishes
in the Soudan after, she had won her
'God-given victory there?"
What justice did she grant to the men
of Ireland? The justice of the prison
and the gibbet for daring to demand
their rights and proving faithful to their
religion? Did she not hunt them into
jails and ON to the gallows, or over the
seas because they wished to be educated
in their own faith Did she not deny
them all the privileges of education I'M
less they consented to be educated as
traitors to the creed in which their
mothers had been born?
And the justice and education which
England granted to India? Have not all
her acts to the people of India been those
day the East India Company first
treacherously gained a foothold there?
And what education has she ever blessed
the masses of India with unless it be