The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-01-12

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OF the people of this country. The
money loaners who coerced borrow
ers did it upon that theory; the en-
ployers who coerced their employees
did it for the same reason. Self gov
eminent is a constant education: the
capacity for self government in
creases with participation in govern
ment
the Filipinos are not far enough
advanced to share in the government
of the people of the United States,
but they are competent to govern
themselves 1t is not fair to com
pare them with our own citizens, be-
cause the American people have been
educating themselves in the science
of government for nearly three cen
turtles, and while we have much to
learn we have already made great i'm
provement. The Filipinns will not
establish perfect government, but
they will establish a government as
nearly perfect rs they are competent
to enjoy, and the United States can
protect them from molestation from
without
WHY A COLONIAL POLICY
What excuse can be given for The
adoption of a colonial policy? Sec
rotary Gage discloses the secret in
his Savannah speech. l think we
might be justified in calling Mr. Gage
the Keynote of the Administration
because we look through him to learn
what is going on within the Executive
council chamber. He suggested that
philanthropy and 5 per cent" would
go hand in hand in the new venture.
These are two arguments which are
always used in favor of conquest.
Philanthropy and 5 per cent. The
one chloroforms the conscience Of the
conqueror, the other picks the peck
ct of the conquered.
Some say that philanthropy de-
mands that we govern the Filipinos
for their own good, while others as
sert that we must hold the islands
because of the pecuniary profit to be
derived from them. | deny the
soundness of both arguments For
chile annexation will not only be
criminal aggression Ito borrow Mr.,
McKinley's language of year ago.,
but it will cost more than it is worth.
and the whole people will pay the
cost, while few will reap all the
benefits.
Still weaker is the argument based |
upon religious duty. The Christian
religion rests upon the doctrine of
vcarious suffering and attonement:
the colonial policy rests upon the
doctrine of vicarious enjoyment.
When the desire to steal becomes
uncomfortable in an individual. he is
declared TO be kleptomanac and is
sent to an asylum; when the desire
to grab land becomes uncomfortable
in nation we are told that the sscur-
rents of destiny are flowing through
the hearts of men and that the Amer
lean people are entering upon their
manifest mission.
Shame upon the logic which locks
up the petty offender and enthrones
grand larceny. Have the people re-
turned to the worship of the Golden
Calf? Have they made unto them
selves new commandment consist
ent with the spirit of conquest and
the lust for empire? Is ''thou shalt
not steal upon a small scale" to be
substituted for the Law of Moses?
Awake, o Ancient Law-Giver.
awake. Break forth from thine un-
marked sepulcher and speed thee back
% the cloud crowned summit of
Mount Sinai; commune once more
with the God of our fathers and pro-
claim again the word engraven upon
he tablets of stone-the law that
vas, the law that is today the law
hat neither individual or nation can
rotate with impunity.
There is more Catarrh in this section
II the country than all other diseases
'ut together, and until the last few wears
was supposed TO be incurabe. For
reat many years doctors pronounced il
local disease, and prescribed local rem.
dies, and by constantly failing to cure
WITH local treatment, pronounced it in
uraole. Science has proven catarrh 10
e constitutional disease, and therefore
equires constitutional treatment. Halls
latarrh Cure. manufactured bv f. ]
)heney Il Co, Toledo, Ohio, is the only
institutional cure on the market. Il is
AIKEN internally in doses from 10 drops