Gloucester County Democrat., 1899-10-12
SINGLE copy FIVE CENTS
NUMBER 10

rather than pay one cent Of tribute.
In the closing days Of this same cen
tury, when we number 75,OOO,OO0 souls,
William Mckinley pays tribute to the
petty despot Of tribe of Asiatie saw
ages.
-Four years ago 100000 Americans
were eager to fight for the Monroe doc
trine. Now it is to be abandoned at
once completely and forever without a
struggle, for we can't play the dog In
the manger in this hemisphere and the
freebooter In the eastern. II we claim
the right to colonize there, Europeans
will claim the right to colonize here.
From the wholesome, sensible, Ameri-
can doctrine that public debt is q
public curse we are beginning to prac-
tice the unhealthy and un.American
theory which the English preach that
a public debt is a public blessing and
are piling up at the rate of $4,000, coo
a month mountain of debt which our
grandchildren viii not live long enough
to see paid. Republican debts, like
the sins of the fathers, will extend to
the third and fourth generations. And
all these outfages upon the American
people are committed in the sacred
name of liberty!
Principle Sacrificed.
To this complexion has it come at
last, under Republican maladminis-
tration, that we are to sacrifice every
principle which we have cherished, ey-
cry principle that has tended to make
us great and honored as a people, in
order that we may bully a helpless
people fighting for the inaHenabIe
right to govern themselves as they
please-on their own ground-7 600
miles from our shores. For the sake
of human freedom and in the name OF
the proud race to which l belong I
protest against such internal idiocy.
One of two things is true about the
Philippines-either they are fit for self
government or they are not. If they
are, in heavens name let them govern
themselves. If they are not, we do
not want them for fellow citizens. The
jingoes can take either horn of that
dilemma they please, but whichever
they take they will be impaled upon it
1t is written thou canst not make a
silk purse out of sow's ear, and do
not believe you can make Malay fit
for American citizenship in thousand
years. 1t is not in the breed. / am
utterly opposed to corrupting and
jeopardizing our precious birthright Of
freedom by trying the experiment,
especially on so large a scale as the
jingoes would have us do.
/ do not pretend to be any better
than am, and say frankly that am
not shedding many tears about the
Filipinos. / don't care a bawbee wheth-
er Aguinaldo is another George Wash
ington come to Judgment, as Hon.
Henry NJ. Johnson of Indiana assert
ed him to be- or whether he is an in
famous scoundrel who ought to be in
the penitentiary on two counts, as Gen
eral Charles Henry Grosvenor Of Ohio
maintains. 1t is not for him and his
that my fears are aroused and my
sympathies expended, but for the
American people, who are the real suf-
ferers by reason of this wild and sense
less jingoism and who must pay the
piper for all this amazing dance of
death. It is not our duty to carry lib
erty to all the world 1t is our duty
and should be our pleasure to attend
strictly TO our own business. keep out
of world politics. steer clear Of world
quarrels and preserve the blessings OF
liberty to our posterity.
I am an American and a Caucasian.
Speaking for myself alone, would not
give one healthy. robust. intelligent.
Industrious. moral American white lad
in exchange for all the Malays who
now live or will live in the Philippine
Islands this side the great Judgment
day.