Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-04-07
Col, WI. BRYhN'S NENBO0E'
It's Burden Will Be Opposition to Ex-
pansion by the United States

pansion by the United States
A SYMPOSIUM BY ANTI-IMPERIAL-
lists = CHAPTERS ARE CON-
TRIBUTED BY ANDREW CAR
NEGIE, SENATORS HOAR, DAN
TEL AND TELLER AND OTHER
OPPONENTS OF POLICY OF Elk
PANSION.
Chicago, April 6.-The Hon. William
]. Bryan is to publish a book entitled
Republic or Empire-the Philippine
Question, in which he discusses terri
torial expansion from every standpoint,
his argument being supplemented by
chapters dealing with the various
phases of the subject by Andrew Carne-
gle, George F. Hoar, John w. Daniel,
Henry NJ Teller and other statesmen
and scholars.
AS to imperialism, Mr.. Bryan says:
Imperialism finds it's inspiration in
dollars, not in duty. 1t is not our duty
to burden our people with increased
taxes in order to give few spectators
an opportunity for exploitation; it is
not our duty to sacrifice the best blood
of our nation in tropical jungles in an
attempt to stifle the very sentiments
which have given vitality to American
institutions; it is not our duty to deny
to the people of the Philippines the
right for which our forefathers fought
from Bunker Hill to Yorktown. I'M
perialism has been described as the
white mans burden But, since it
brushes the wealthy producer beneath
a weight of taxes it might with more
propriety be called the Poor mans
load'
"If the peace commission had de-
manded a harbor and coaling station
in the Philippines and had required
Spain to surrender the rest of the land
to the Filipinos, as she surrendered
Cuba to the Cubans, we would not now
be considering how to let go of these
islands. If the sum of $20,000,000 had
been necessary to secure SPANS re-
lease the payment of the amount fy the
Filipinos might have been guaranteed
by the United States"
Mr. Bryan also says that "the pur-
pose of annexation is to apply to the
government Of the Philippines methods
familiar to the people of Europe and
Asia, but new to the United States.
This departure from traditions was not
authorized by the people; whether it
will be ratified by them remains to be
seen. The responsibility rests first
upon Congress and afterward upon that
power which makes congresses. What
ever may be the wish of individuals or
the interests of parties, we may rest
assured that the final disposition CT the
Philippine question will conform to the
deliberate judgment Of the voters; they
constitute the court of last resort:
from whose decision there is no ap-
peal"
Mr. Carnegie thinks: india is the
curse of Britain, and the Philippines
will be the curse of the United States.
If you teach suppressed people at all
you make them rebels. Education is
fatal to the government Of a superior
race. The Declaration Of Independ-
ence will make every ambitious Fill
pino a thoroughly dissatisfied subject
''In war;" says Mr.. Daniel, cit is the
unexpected that happens. So in every
great and new adventure of peace. We
are asked now 1000 miles from our
native seat to grasp, against their will,
a million Of unwilling people-to seize
upon them, to take them by force Of
arms and deposit them, land and peo-
under the American flag, to make them
an integral part of this American re-
public
According to Mr.. Teller: 1--WE shall
make mistake if we make up our
minds that we are going to govern
these people from here that we are
going to govern them with the Anglo
Saxons whom we send out from here
to administer the affairs of that coun-
try. You will need your $4,000 soldiers
and in a little while you will need
more, for they are great people. They
are a people who know something of
are willing to contend for them, and l
believe it to be almost an axiom that a
people who will fight for their liberty
and who are willing to die for it are
capable of maintaining it when they
get it,"