The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-08
A GUN WITH OUR GOSPEL.
REV. SAM JONES ON OUR POLICY
TOWARD THE TILIPINos.
of Americans to Give the Heather
n Bible After We XIII Him.

Jones has been here for the past two days
addressing the bush-meeting held neat
the town. He is not in the best of health
having Just returned from an extended
trip to the Pacific coast. where he has
been in great demand at the various
Chautauqua meetings out there. He left
tonight for Bethesda, Ohio and he has
engagements which Will fiji his time for
the next four weeks. In spite OF the fac,
that he is not in the best physical trim.
he has the same keen mentality and the
old forceful way of putting everything he
says
He was asked by a representative oil
The Post TO express himself on topics OF
current interest. In speaking on tho
Philippine question he frankly stated that
he was not an eypansionist. He said he
believed that in spite of the progress of
the Nineteenth century the world had not
moved enough to disprove the advice given
by Washington In his farewell address.
Those principles were eternal, and no
flight OF time could render them value
less or inapplicable to the needs OF the
Republic.
ITO tell the truth" continued Mr..
Jones, Il think we have more crops
planted than we can care for. If We are
no better guardians of the Philippines
than We have been of the Indians, the
Cinnamon, and the negroes. | fear for the
results of our so-called philanthropy. If
Frenchmen. who came to our relief in the
war of the revolution. had assumed the
same attitude we have taken toward Cuba
and the Philippines, we would have been
lighting that country yet,
NEW STYLE OF PHILANTHROPY.
Our old style of philanthropy was to
take the spelling book and the Bible. Lat
terly We have been using the gun and
the Bible as our implements of CONVEX
sion and civilization. We Protestants be-
lieve In no probation after death. There
fore. We argue, We put the heather on the
other side of probation. But IL is kind
of us to give him a Bible after we kill
him.
Il am not a believer in annexaSioe- by
determination. 1t may be philanthropic.
but 1t is not just The poor barbarians
may be wrong in misinterpreting our eff
forts to give them the benefits of civiliza-
tin, but l believe they are justified in
thinking that nation which can not take
care of its own inferior races need not
bid for any more contracts until IL has
shown that 1t knows how to fulfill them
The advantages of commerce are more
than offset by the difficulty OF holding
those poor savages until we can drive a
bargain with them"
When asked to give his views on Gov
ernor Gamblers statement of the race
problem. Mr.. Jones spoke us follows:
Governor Chandler. in his address, COW
ers great deal of ground, but he does
not touch on all the points. 1t Is a mis-
take to think that the South is responsible
stances alter cases. but they can not
change human nature. Yankee Doodle and
Dixie are both catching tunes. One Is
whistled on one side of Mason and Dix
on's line, and the other on the other side.
The sentiment that puts Wheeler and
Fitzhugh Lee in line with boys in blue
lasts until that particular crisis is over.
Then each side goes to whstling the
same old tune.
JUMP UP AND GROWL.
1.-The South is like dog whose master
whipped him for biting cat. The dog
knew he could never bite the cat any
more, but every time she passed him he
would jump at her and scare her now
we can't secede any more. But we can
jump up and growl every time something
happens that we don't like. In otner
words, we are going to run our little in
stitutions without aid or advice from
Yankee Doodle.
THE average negro in the South fares
as we'll as the average Chinaman In San
Francisco. Not one man In ten In the
South has ever seen lynching, TO say
nothing of having taken part in one.
discourage and denounce law
less hangings, except for the one crime OF
rape. And | want to say that rape means
rope. be 1t North or South.
II was born bred, and buttered In the
South. / never saw lynching. If one
ever took place within 100 miles of me l
did not know it till saw it in the papers.
Governor Gambler is right on the elimina-
tjon of ignorance and vice from the ballot
box A .characteress. moneyless, ignorant
negro or white man has no more business
at the polls on election day than mule
or a billy goat. and / mean no reflection
on the two latter animals.
what do think OF Bob Insersoil? l
have had my opinion pretty well ex-
pressed in an editorial comment in the
Atlanta Constitution. In brief. that edl-
torial said that Ingersoll fought in the
open and made no professions to being
other than he was. He did not profess
religion to betray It. He struck Chris
tianity no blow while pretending to hold
its doctrines But in all his life niger
soil never did one-h half the harm commit
ted by the Briggses. the Potters. the Ly-
man Abbots, and others OF like kidney
have done. are doing. and will continue to
do. 'Them's my sentiments.