The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-24

send a governor general. back him with a
navy and army. and give TO the islands.
10 all intents and purposes. an imperial
government.
But what government could we give
them without surrendering our form,
and advertising 10 the world that It is
not sufficient for the handling of savage
or senli-savage tribes away from the
nome base? True, commission might be
sent there, as was sent 10 Louisiana after
the purchase and before statehood. send
with IL couple of warsh:pS, it could
organize a little army, calling 1t police
force. and in that way whip. the devil
round the stump. establish schools and
adjust the rights of property on a just
basis; but why should we2 Again, on
10 do so except by lowering ourselves TO
the level of Europe, and claiming that
the old brutal law OF might still rules
the world2
BY such an act we should have to adj
init that the suspicious of Europe were
well founded; we should awaken the
fears of Mexico and all Spanish America.
that at the first opportunity we would
interfere and absorb their countries-in
short, it would be a notice that We had
put aside a rule which we have adhered
to since the beginning, and were now
great military power, starting out Tor
the conquest of just, as much of this
world as we could subGue and retain. To
do it. too, would be to establish that the
plighted word of the president and con-
gress OF the United States IS worth no
more than dipiomauc promise made by
Great Britain or Russia or Germany. No
Philippines for US.
The foregoing is a complete editorial
from our morning contemporary which
shows
1. That it recognizes the application
of the solemn pledge to Cuba as bind
ing upon this government in all COM
plications growing out of the Spanish
war
2. That the Philippines with their
Dense heterogeneous population, their
enervating climatic influences, their
distance from our seat of government
and their proneness to perpetual
revolutions would make of them the
biggest elephant ever won in rattle.
3. That I'VE are bound to free Them
although everybody insists that order
should be restored first. AS to whether
annexation is desirable if the natives
should vote for it is an open question
in which many things are to be con-
sidered.
4. That it would puzzle us to estab-
fish a form of government for the peo-
pie of the archipelago and ali their
POSOildl lllStAluIlOiiSs Slavery,
which would not conflict with our ma
tional constitution and appear antag-
onistic to the principles on which this
republic is founded.
5. That to insist upon governing the
Filipinos without their consent is con-
trary to the spirit of the Declaration of
Independence and lowering to the
level that recognizes no right but that
of might.
6. That we should awaken the fears
of South American republics, which
we have done, by pursuing a course so
different from what we have always
and so suggestive of the per-
formances of the conquistadors whose
land grabbing exploits are still fresh
in the minds of our sister republics.
If we are to take this view of the
matter, and it is far more sensible than
anything since coming from the same
source, the conclusion is irresistible
No Philippines fer u.s.