The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-04
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The Philippines In 1900.
Some points that are being made with
reference to the Philippine policy by
citizens, well meaning. and who are in
accord with the President, are being
mlsconstrued into comforting conhrma-
tons Of their own views by the enemies
of the administration. The recent In
terylew by Senator Burrows. who is
supporter of President Mckinley, and
his warm friend, is a case in point. Mr..
Burrows did not intend 1t, but the enc
mics OF the administration ind In it
comfort and interpret It to confirm
their position. What they expect to
happen next year. from the efscts Of
the senator's statements. and those Of
others who are anticipating a lengthy
campaign In the Philippines, is that
Aguinaldo will maintain his cause until
next year because the Americans VIII
be unable to conquer in that time.
These efforts and the failure" ae-
cording to the ants, will be disappoint-
ing and the country will elect Bryan
along with the antI-expanslon platform.
Then the Philippines will be abandon
ed. This contention is an assumption
that the country is willing to quilt, to
abandon Its sacred obligations and sac
rifce its honor.
The record of the United States does
not confirm this assumption. 1t is the
very reverse. The American people
have never yet repudiated an obliga-
ton. Here is an item illustrating In q
most striking way the truth of this as
sertion, from the Washington Star:
The greatest test to which the pluck OF
the American people has ever been put was
that when they were divided ,I INTO sW ~
camps against each other; IN lso4, t ti!.
three years OF the bloodiest int ,s ~
strife. party within the Union lines ae-
ciared the war to be a failure. " demand
ed that II cease. and at once ~ poIIuteI
10 the enormous losses In both DlooI 1Ilu
treasure, and asserted that the NJ oH gSIl
lowers Of Mr.. Lincoln, IN oVerWhelIpII,tts
numbers. rejected the proposition tne
vast sacrifice already made proved 10 6e
an incentive TO continued eGe ~, ~ ~ S
nothing; and In six months AFTER TINS az
cree was rendered at the ballot box, the
war prosecuted meanwhile with renewed
Vlgor. was brought 10 triu1n NJ SaIil Sl0se
and the Union was restored by force.
This action of the party, which de-
elared in national convention that the
war was a failure. and demanded that
the effort to continue 1t be abandoned,
was similar to what Bryan's party ex-
poets to do In the present case. provld-
ing the instruction continues until
next year, which is not probable.
AS to this point, 1t might be Imagined
as an illustration, that Aguinatdo IS
still fighting when the conventions meet
a year hence. and the Americans still
contesting to establish their authority
in the islands coded to them by treaty
and for which the civilized world holds
this country responsible The question
arises. win the Democratic convention
adopt platform, along with the nomi-
nation of Bryan, declaring the Philip
nine struggle failure; that 1t should
NOT be continued, but abandoned, and
that the troops will be withdrawn and
the whole territory handed over to
Aguinaldo. in case Bryan is elected
President?
This is the logic of the situation, or II
would be- in view of all the clrcum'
stances we have detailed; the issue can
not he ignored. because expansion Is al
ready fact, and anti expansior
means reduction-lt means to give Ut
what we have already secured By
treaty. We would have to get out Of
the philippines, and where would oul
honor before the world stand?
The Star. above quoted from, aptly
sizes up the attitude Of the Bryan
Democracy next year in the campaign
whom II says. Of the antl-expanslor
idea: THE American people are mol
cutters. a campaign waged on tbs
assumption that they are would be los
in its inception. The longer we remair
in the Philippines. and the greater oul
sacrifices to remain. the less likely oil
success this policy Of scuttle will be-
We take It that the Star means and II
Is true, that II the same course Is to n'
pursued next year, in the event OF tint
prolongation Of the situation. the Dem
oeratlc party pursued in 1854 the result
WIN be the same. History viii repeal
itself. To say that 1t will not is uniu',
to the people.