Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-08

a3f#s Iaat5ze=HH#t tae9 aee 6azHs fbe szsas9e-c s.aIza za Aaesfea hy Haaies aa9 HaZ aE#aHGlaFs spain has al- EasH.s gun Ha say fa Hef former sub5 feHf@. You Lave objected to our rule. | Ee#8 well. sHaf haze 8oB in blaeef SoH ..aFe s#7en Fiji fa strangers not Haal.s NQg4s e5t5 2atseHHHeft. They are also taking away yoae religion. 4 great mistake WHs made. in my opin- ion. tT oue Of our military officers in 2oftJ Rico. Ife put himself forth as an official leader iii establishing the Prot esta#e church. NOW. a4 aH American ruler He Lad 10 right and he was not asked to prevent the establishment tHeHe of Protestant church. nor MRS Ae asked to take part it Catholic Hor- ship. but the fact fhat he Was foremost ia founding Z Protestant church Was enough to make the simple Porto Heans take tHe new chapel 10 repre- sent the established church of the Unit ed States. + was enough to make tAeM think tEae Ameaea was officially opposed la tAa Catholic religion. If l Were America enemy today.l would say 10 American Frotes1auts. Hurry on Yeai missionaries to GHha Porto Rico aHa tlle Philippines and have them tell tAe Inhabitants ef those islands that then historic Gaith is wrong and that tAe9 ought t9 HeeouHe Protestants. This would be the spceGiest and most eff fectiye way 10 make the inhabitants of those islands disc0ntented
 New will eaH your attention to something that occurred in Algeria years ago. Before he became president of France General NacAladon was gov efH6f If Algeria. He was an ardent Catholic, as agaeut as any, and be be- HeYed that Roman Catholicism WAS tAe best religion for the whole world
 TAat he believed as an individual. But what aid he do as governor? Why. he issued orders restricting missionary ef- fost af any sort Catholic or Protestant He proposed 10 have peace while France was trXiug to assimilate that country. lie called the Noslem sheiks ta@etacr, and Ae assured chem that no NafaWmedaHe would be disturbed in the exercise of their faith He kept hfs word lie may have displeased soHe# missionaries, but he grounded French civilization iE Algeria and he did t 1u thy ealy possible way, too hN proving t0 an alien race and religion that the rpaeA Wc.e friends to both.
 Lei rS take Chat leaf out of French hfstai.'= aud f5!t t1 iii our owu book Even where organism reigns in those  HeW possessions the present is not the tune for American missionaries If any ksad, Protestant or Catholic. to rush iii and try to tma them AWAY from their rights speak as au American. Later on, when things are settled and when missionaries Wili be understood To he working in the uame of their belief and net as Americans, the question will be more easily solved as to what mission aries might be allowed to do
 lu fhe name ot religion of cfViIfza- tioa. of common sense. give the cath ollie Eilpinos at least a chance to know Us as Me really are; that We are uot oUt there 10 sir up religious as well as political hate. \ Minneapolis soldier the other day actually sent home from MauiIa as trophies from the Philippines Catholic vcstments. What sort of civilization is that to in troduce iuto those islands? We must assure the FHiRinos without delay chat 10 churches Will be footed. no vest ments stolen; that Catholic churches and monasteries will be respected ey- anywhere that what we are inrodue- ine is civilization under alieh Cath olies and Pfotestants have Aual E.ghts undasvq qual state n.el nzana.A