The record-union., 1899-09-28

himself so the treatment Of races or
nations must be paternal when they
are weak, less paternal when they are
more advanced and in the direction Of
recognizing their complete ability to
manage their own affairs when they
have shown that they are able to de-
fend themselves and maintain their in
dependence. The man who would ad-
vocate treating the SavageS of Africa
and the people of England in the same
way would be as foolish and lacking In
sound Judgment as the man who would
make voters of ten-year-old boys. Only
a people who have reached a high state
of development are fitted for a free
government, complete independence
and political equality. 1t is fact
that the advocates of a Filipino Re,
public would do we'll to remember that
Asia has never in all history had
free government, and that even par
liamentary governments, or the So
called republic of Greece, which were
really only oligarchies, have never
been even attempted by an Asiatic
people. What is there in the past
history or experience of the Filipinos
to lead any one to suppose that they
have suddenly acquired the ability to
make the first exception to this uni
versal political experience of ASIA
Certainly no one would expect the
Spaniards to be very efficient teachers
of liberty, and a leader who accepts
bribe to desert his cause has hardly
demonstrated by that act his fitness
to be a Washington. On the con-
trary, the whole experience of the
American people with the Filipinos
shows that they are like all Asiatics;
deceitful, unreliable, and but very
slightly civilized The fact that this
Government has not been able to ar
range for an exchange of prisoners
shows that we are not fighting civil
lied people or one in any way fitted
to take its place among the nations or
the earth.
1t is the fad with the admirers OF
Aguinaldo to-day to compare the cause
he represents with the revolution; and
the people he is supposed to lead with
the Colonists who founded this re-
public The analogy is purely imagl-
nary In the first place it is safe TO
say that if the offer had been made
to our forefathers of as liberal form
of government as is proposed to the
Filipinos to-day this country, like Can
ada. would be under the British crown
now. The Colonies rebelled because OF
unjust taxation. That certainly cam
not be claimed as a cause of the Fill
pino outbreak, since no taxation OF any
kind has been attempted, no one is en-
deavoring to drag them across the seas
for trial, no one has even threatened to
deprive them of a local home govern
ment, but on the contrary they have
been offered practical independence ex-
cept in their foreign affairs
1t must be clear to any student or
history that the world is rapidly pass
ing under the control of the great white
nations, and the races which do not ac-
cept their domination are doomed. The
brown race is gone, the red race is
fast disappearing, and the day the
railroad is completed between Cairo
and Cape Town will see the beginning
of the end for the wild tribes of Africa.
The world was made for all humanity,
not for a few and people or race who
do not lend themselves to civilization
must go. There is no injustice in this.
It is but applying the great principle o.
the survival of the fittest to mankind.
Even from a sentimental standpoint it
is better that thousands should be
happy than that they should suffer,
and because a few prefer to hunt and
loaf rather than to till the soil and
labor there is no reasonswhy the most
fertile regions of the e4rth should be
given over to savagery and barbarism.
Te-; 1aaf Gh
live happily in the Dakotas to-day,
tilling the soil. raising families, supply
ing other millions with food or that a
few hundred indians should be allowed
10 use the vast plains which compose
those States for a hunting ground? 1t
would be wrong to wantonly kill the
aborigines but there is nothing wrong
in declaring that they shall work, for
the Almighty Himself has said that
man shall live by labor, and by en-
forcing the law of the survival oe the
fttest He is getting rid of those who
will not obey that law. If the indian
had been willing to lay down his ar
rows and have taken up the plow he
could have occupied an important place
in this country; like the negro he could
have been represented on the floors of
Congress. He can not complain that
! liberty and citizenship has been de-
MED him, for in this State he votes if
| he desires. His condition IS hs own
/ choosing. The United States offers ex-
| actly the same opportunities to the
| Filipinos to-day. They can become a
part of the Republic if they prove
| themselves capable of citizenship. To
say that they are being oppressed is
untrue, for only through this country
can they have true liberty. We must
| remember that there are eighty-five
different tribes speaking sixty differ
ent languages in the Philippines; Agui-
/ naldo represents only one tribe at best
why should he be allowed to dominate
over the rest? What right has this
country to replace civilized power by
barbarian in the islands? The trou-
bic with the good people who want to
compare the American of revolutionary
times with the Philippines of to. day is
| that they compare Aguinaldo and his
| followers with the wrong residents of
| this country a hundred and more years
ago; the comparison should be made
with the Indians of 1776 and not the
colonists, and Aguinaldo at best is only
a King Phillip or a Tecumseh, not a
! Washington nor Jefferson.
]. 4. G.
Sacramento, September 9th.
Granted a Divorce.
! Alice Dickerson was Yesterday
granted by Judge Hart a divorce from
John Dickerson