The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-22


not for us to impose governments upon
other people, but to protect republican
ism, to develop it and to stand by it.
1t is for us to throw aside "old-world
molds" and not to take them up as
something better and more desirable
than our proved ideas of liberty; to
and live up to the stalwart measure of
our own unsurpassed national life.
The revival. or rather the reasserton
of Americanism is already rising to
commanding speech. Thus we find in
Guntons Magazine (high priest of the
cause of protection) this pregnant ut
terance:
This is no time for the United States
to dissipate any of it's wealth, intclli-
gence, public interest or craftsmanship
on an expansion-by- conquest policy
that even European nations have prac-
tically abandoned as mistaken and out
of date. Expansion to-day means eX-
pansion of commercial rights and moral
influence, not buying and subiugating
foreign lands and peoples. Civilizations
duty to the eastern races is to intro
duce among them modern industrial
and educational influences, and, With
develop under their own institutions,
customs and rulers up to higher stand
ards of life and higher planes of intel
ligence, freedom and character"
Even imperialists begin to tire of the
new toys, England's outworn policies
with which statesmen of the moment
have tempted the republic. Material
ism sought to gid them with the setm-
ing gold of patriotism, but the desper-
ate defense of the Filipinos has stripped
them of their tinsel. and the nation
shudder to realize that we are killing
our fellow beings-and for what? The
inquiry rises more and more impera-
lively. The clay of these, our oppon-
ents. is less polished than ours, they are
nearer to the original man, away from
whom evolution and freedom have car
ried US but their love of liberty stan Is
the supreme test, as they die for coun'
try Their bitterest critics admit that
the Filipinos are wonderfully initiative
so much so, indeed, that they have
set up, developed and established
government. It's model--God forgive
us; what would we have?-was the
great republic of the world. the United
States. bubble as we may, such is tie
accusing fact
We of the most favored republic are
engaged in overturning a rude altar of
liberty That is the deep damnation Of
it. What are those words of Lincoln?
our defense is the spirit which prizes
liberty as the heritage of all men, in
all lands, everywhere'-in the orient
not less than on the American CONT
nent. 1t was our defense once-is it less
our accusation now?
The people may wander, but they
will return Just so soon as the masses
understand that our immediate and
commanding national problem Sits
down to the issue Of Anglo-A merican-
ism versus mericanism-power and
syndicatsm against democracy
the one be rejected and the other insist
ed upon. In new and high sense the
watchword will be America for Ameri-
cans. Privilege against the people
cannot win here. 1t is the old, the new
er-ending battle of moral forces against
material ones. Protection. and not SUBJ
jugation, helpfulness and not dictation,
brotherhood and not reproach of in
feriority coupled with the roar of de-
vastation, love and not hate, peace and
not war-such is the creed of repub-
lie, and to it we shall square our prac-
tees.
Slowly the people wake, but surely,
to the shame of the republics masque-
rade in the strange trappings of mon
archical arrogance and injustice.