The Monte Vista journal., 1899-02-11
BELL on IMPERIAL!Sn.

the people except asa patriotic
sentiment. The justice or injus-
tice underlying the government of
an alien race at the point of bay
onet, for the general commercial
benefits of the governing power,
has not heen seriously contemplate
ed by our people.
The enormous cost in treasure,
in annoyance and in blood, and
the never-ending menace of these
outposts to our tranquility and
national safety, and the paucity of
the possible remuneration there
from, have certainly not been thor
oughly considered by the conserva-
tive business men of the country,
or they would be up in solid phal-
anx against this most dangerous
and futile policy.
The matchless prowess and su-
periorlty of our Army and Navy
over that of our impoverished and
poorly equipped foe, has thrown
our citizens into n patriotic frenzy,
causing them to overlook the dan
ger aud moral wrong embodied in
our threatened act of looseDing the
chains of weak power simply to
replace them with those of n
stronger one.
We have millions of acres of as
fine soil as there is in the world,
throughout the arid West, with
great water courses teeming from
the Rocky Mountains and the ST.
ezra Nevadas going to waste. BY
taking even the twenty millions of
dollars they purpose paying for
the mythical sovereignty of SPAN
in the Philippines, or the iifty-sev-
en- millions, the increase expendi-
ture of the standing Army for one
year, that they are now trying to
force upon the people, they could
reclaim enough new homes. or
more new homes in the arid West,
than can be obtained upon every
island they covet; md they would
be homes upon which American
citizens could 1--we. while the 9TH
ers are homes. or pretended homes,
upon which the American citizen
cannot live.
A thorough development of the
arid West would give far greater
increase to commerce, with greater
and to American manufacturers.
than all the CONNER cc of the West
Indies and the Orient combined.
In the first place. We do not
need new territory, MS We have mil
lions of ncres of public domain
which, by the expenditure Of II lit
tie money in the building of rsser.
voirs and irrigation canals, can be
converted into more ideal homes
than can be found in all the coyc'-
ed islands, even though they were
lit places for people raised in a
temperate climate. We Rre not
/ Ike England, France and Ger.
many, circnmscribed within small
limits, requiring large numbers of
their population to either migrate
10 foreign countries or have the
mother country colonize and pro-
tee, them in some foreign land.
Not only this, bn, we made u sol
cam pledge 10 the world that we
did not engage in war for conquest
bu, ior the sake of humanity and
10 free down.trodden people.
II is folly for men TO moralize
Hbnnt civillzing barbarians ms they
Eould educate youth Of n civil
izpd race. |, takes centuries aud
II complete change Of environ.
mcn,a TO civilize human being.
". have tried for centuries 10 civ
iiiza tie nborigincs of thus country.
and have them about purified
aud nbon. nll laid nwny in the
grave. Spain civilized Cuba by
cS,crmina,ing the original popula.
ton. She civilized Mexico 10y tx.
terminating the .borigincs. When
the white missionaries sud fisher
men wen, To Hawaii. they had n
population Of 100, 600 natives; they
have civilized mud purified them
and sent them TO TINT bourne from
whence no weary traveller ever re-
turns, To the extent TINT they have
only 81. 900 natives aud they nrc
deprived Of MI the wealth Of their
mother country. This IL The way
tho Filipinos will bc civilized II We
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