Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-07-06
DALI INDEPENDENT.
SHALL WE HOLD tn: PHILLIP
PINES.

follows:
@rhe"e are three-yes, fnur inter
ests to he kept n sight II regard to
the Piillipncs). The 'e appertain to
the former o.ereigu, to the inhabi-
tants themselves to the other ira ling
powers whose CONNIE cial and pnliti-
cal brlance may he affected, and to
the United States.
@D The rights of Spain:
@Miiitary occupation does not wipe
out the Sovereignty Of an invaded
territory That sovereignty may he
incapable Of assertion. yet it survives
in suspense, as it were-untii either
revi %: Il or removed 10y treaty of
peace. Spain will thus retalL rights,
even in the case Of complete con.
quest; which must he eventually
weighed and adjusted What line
this will take must depend UPON the
influence Of other powers. upon our
own sense of exp, diency, and upon
the fortune Of war in other directions.
~ The rights of the PHILIPPINE
Islanders.
at would he unwarrhntPd to say
that no cession 0f the Sc Islands could
be Legitimate unless ratified by the
wishes of their inhabitants. In d
highly civilized community this is
the modern tendency. though even
then yielding to political rXiSencies,
us in Alsuce. Lorraine. But it is IL
practical Iues ion whether the Phil
ipn' IS coul he anything but bur
den:r0 thus country il their transfer
prove to he again st the will Of their
millions of iunabitints, many alread,
in revolt, and who are absolutely
furailR. to nnr blood, orr uSages, our
LAWS. our ideals.
(H rlle interests OF other powers:
"Here the vital question ia how far
The Unit ii States, by poss ,ssion of
the PHILIPPINES, would place itself
within the European vortex, to he
buiTetel and cajolel, thwarteiI, and
urged on, forced out from its safe
Uncomfortable isolation into the
treacherhuI sea of enmlties and ALI
ance'. When Japan made pence
with China ut SimOnojelI she receiv-
ed IL slice of the mainl md. Rhssi !.
France, and Germany combined to
~ NJ Ihtc
hal TO content herself wl.ll~an indem-
nifty nuu Fur.nJ5a. When we begin
to trench upon the trading preserve
of the great military poW ers, shah we
be similarly treated? WuulI we sub =.
NIT to such treatment?
N The rights and true interest
of the United States:
"The right of conquest is some
thng. The consciousness of bring
ing ii better government is some
thing. The prospect of favorable
vantage-Groundf for the extension Of
our Oriental trade is a temptation
But the problem is terribly complex
"What are the objec tons to the re-
tention by the United States of the
PHILIPPINES as future part of it's ter
ritory? Are they practical and sound,
or are they chiefly ethical, like the
one danger Of a war in defense of
humanity becoming selfish aggres-
sion) already gwen?
zone relates to the form Of govern
ment which could be applied to them.
Our conquests hitherto, as well as our
purchases, New Mexico and Cali.
fornia, as well as Louisiana aud
Alaska, have brought us territory
barely inhabited ut all. But here are
thickly populated Islands, whose
people are SO mixed in race, so nncer
tain i'll quality Of civilization, so des
tltute to all appearance in self-gover
ming capacity, as to make it doubt
full whether they could over ue
brought into our Union as an inte
grail part. For the present, at least
they must be governed with a strong
hand. This might ME IN indefinite
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