The San Francisco call., 1899-09-07

want to spend money, for the American
States. Tell me that we have to have the
Philippine Islands to furnish an invest
ment for American capital? Why? | re-
mind you that was only three years ago
when we had to have a financial system
patterned after England in order to in
yite English capital over to the United
we had to adopt an English financial sys-
TEN to get capital in the country and now
we have to adopt an English colonial sys-
tenn to get our capital out of the coun-
United States to the Philippine Islands is
taken out of the United States for in
" yestment watn1.9 W., Tell me that it will bring
twenty years the people of California were
pleading with the people of the rest of
the Union to rise up and help them close
the doors OF this country against Oriental
immigration, and now you want to force
eight millions of Malays into the United
States. Cloud cheers).
History of Colonization.
But, my friends, if you think that our
people will go to the Philippine Islands
read the history of other colonization
schemes. The Netherlands have had pos
session of Java for three hundred years
and yet there are less than sixty thou
sand people of European birth out of
twenty-five millions of people in Java.
you think that our people will go and
history of English rule in India England
has dominated India for $50 years. and
yet there are only 100000 people of British
birth in all India out of 300, 900 900 of peo-
pie. England, over-crowded England.
has only been able to force a handful of
her surplus population into India with
it's 900 souls. Do you believe that
these people in India enjoy having the
English there? If you do, 1 want to tell
you that it takes 10000 British soldiers
to make life bearable for 100000 British
army of 100000 to help a British army of
10000 to keep 100000 people of British
birth in the saddle while they ride 3OO,>
100000 of people in India That is the his
tory of English rule there and do you
think England does it for the purpose of
educating them? l want to tell you'll
want to tell the women that after $50
years of English rule in India less than
l per cent of the women of India can
read and write, and less than 5 per cent
of the total population. Do you tell me
that England is doing it for the spread
of religion? l tell you that after $50 years
of English rule In India less than l per
cent of the people have embraced the
Christian religion. And why should they?
Why should any man accept the Chris
tian religion at the hands of any man
man who breaches that you shall love
your neighbor as yourself and then
reaches his hand into his neighbors
pocket cloud cheers.)
But am not going to discuss this ques-
tion from the financial standpoint / am
going to discuss it from other stand
points.
Gold Loving Christianity.
What other argument is made in behalf
of an imperial policy? Why, we are told
that we have to go over there and con-
quer and hold in subsection the Filipinos
in order to extend the limits of the Chris
tian religion. My friends, / once thought
that the dollar argument was the lowest
argument ever made in behalf of i'm
perialism but l believe that the argu-
ment based upon Christian hypocrisy is
a meaner argument than the dollar argu-
daughter and cheers.) No, my friends
There is one more letter in the word: 1t
is love of gold-not love of God | de-
nounce forcible Christianity. When you
shoot the gospel out of Gatling gun the
man who is shot does not need the
gospel any more and the man who
is missed is too busy burying the
gospel appeals to the hearts of the hu-
man race. You can't administer it to the
body by hypodermic injections.
If you want to know what the Bible
says upon the subject of forcible Chris
tianity turn to that passage where Christ
visited the village of Samaria and where
they refused to receive him, and one Of
down fire from heaven to consume the
people as a punishment. and Christ re-
buked them and said: 'Ye know not what
manner of spirit We are of. The Son of
man is not come to destroy mems lives
but to. same them" That is the gospel
that we have learned to love.
l wish that every citizen in the United
read sermon delivered by Rev. W. T.