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the Philippines they must 60 back to
the insurgents. Were we now. to
leave them, their condition would be
even more lamentable than under the
corrupting rule of Spain.
New England senators may COM
pare the mercenary Aguinaldo to
Washington and Bolivar. They may
continue to offer moral support
against our arms and fleets. The peo-
pIe of the United States however will
not believe that the man who has
counseled wholesale slaughter of all
foreigners on the island is patriot
nor a statesman, nor qualified to erect
an Independent government.
Neither will they surrender into the
hands of Malay bowmen the lives of
thousands of innocent Spanish people
nor the millions of property whose
security is dependent upon civilized
and enlightened government.
If we are afraid to take the RESPONSE
bility, will History ever justify us in
destroying the only system of Govern
ment these islands possessed and then
abandoning them to the anarchy that
must follow native attempts to
govern?
Wether it he called Annexation,
Autonomy or Protectorate, the fu
ture of all these islands must be
Anglo-Saxon-pot Latin nor Malay
nor Japanese.
While the natives of these islands
will be given Liberty it must be Lib
erty on Anglo-Saxon lines. 1t will
never be the License under which the
Spanish American Republics have
Knocked Republican Government for
three.quarters of century past.
Hold all the Islands.
Do not all the arguments in favor of
holding Manila as coaling station
apply equally well to the island of Lu-
zon and the balance of the group?
Furthermore, will there not be much
less friction with foreign powers If we
at once take over the whole group as q
legitimate spoil of war? Nor Is there
any danger that the alleged ''powers"
will actively interfere If we boldly and
courageously stand by our rights. All
of them have too many troubles of
their own to actively antagonize the
rising giant Of the west, right on the
threshold of his recent victory.
There may be diplomatic threats
and murmurs, but no nation is In
shape to actively resist the United
States. Even If they do, the fleets Of
Japan and England are. both at our
command, and with this combination
we control the world.
The Russian Peril.
Nor from q larger historical view,
should our people overlook the fact
that any action regarding the Philip
pines will affect for good or evil the
whole future history Of Democratic
Government and the Anglo-Saxon
race.
One hundred years ago Napoleon
shrewdly remarked that the next
century would see the world Cossack
or Republican.
Since that day the colossal develop
ment of the Russian empire has
threatened to engulf the entire East
ern world in its onward progress.
The Latin race, now in decay, has
ceased to play any material part In the
history of the world. The next CEN
'tury must develop the supremacy OF
the Germanic or Slavonic race.
There is no room for compromise.
The Civilization Of America and
Europe and the Germanic race, or the
Civilization of Asia and the Slav must
finally survive. .,
While we please ourselves with
nursery traditions regarding the an
cient friendship of Russia for the
United States, 1t were little less than
idiocy to believe that there can be any
common unity between the extreme
Despotism and the extreme Democracy
of the age.
Russia represents ignorance, bigotry
and slavery of mankind. She has
placed her foot upon every germ that
makes towards progress and individ-
ual freedom. She is diametrically
opposed to every cherished theory
that the Germanic peoples hold re-
garding Politics, Religion or the Law.
She is the one great, ipexorable,
portentous enemy Of modern progress
and the Germanic race.
Having absorbed China, with 30O,.
OOO, 900 people at her command, what
will then become of Europe?
It will be Asiatic and not Germanlc.
And after Europe, what Of America
and the future Of Free Government in
the word?
paaI PERIL
It is difficult to impress upon
living in the security of
their virgin land that they owe exact
and certain duties to the future of
Democracy and Civilization. History
is but a story of the survival of the
races and race ideas. Why should
future history differ from the past?
If for no other reason, we should
hold the Philippines intact to estab-
lish q permanent and impregnable
barrier to the progress of Asiatic civ.
ilization in the world. England will
shortly have to fight decisive bat
tie for the existence of European
civilization in the East. While we
need not become involved in actual
war, we should give her all the moral
assistance in our power.
This can be done in no better way
than holding the key to the East,
which IN other hands might be betray-
ed into the enemy Of our race and
culture.
Voice OF the West.