New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-11-08

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4 The administration is pluuging from
one difficulty into another. The huge
army Of $4,000 men which will be in
the PHILIPPINES by Jan. 1 is to be aug
mented by every dsyice and twisting OF
the law that the legal ingenuity Of Sec
|retary Root can devise. Some $500
men in the hospital col ps, hitherto rank
ling as enlisted soldiers, are now other
wise designated, while nearly 5000
Chinese coolies attached 20 the service
as carriers, trench diggers and general
laborers are charged up against the rev.
|enues of Manila. .z.. .s
This, however, is only the beginning.
Recruiting is going on quietly and
steadily at every important point in the
United States where recruits can be OBJ
tanned. The regular army quota of
5000 men and the volunteer quota IF
$4,000 are filled. What, then, is up2
Otis force is to be kept up to an eff
cient standard of $4,000 men, and as
fast as his hospitals are filed with sick
and disabled soldiers they will be put on
board the returning transports sent back
to the United States and discharged.
The ''endless chain Of gold which has
for years haunted the dreams of the
Wall street fnanciers in charge of the
Treasury Department now finds its sub
stitute in an endless cham OF human
flesh and blood. The fact is, the admin
istration is looking for foreign complica-
tions and proposes to maintain SO large
an army In the PHILIPPINES that it can
defend itself against more dangerous
foe than the PHILIPPINES, or can, if need
ed to meet the exigencies Of its alliance
with Great Britain, assume the offensive.
Corroboratlon OF this is found in the
fact that the PHILIPPINE feet is to be
strengthened with battle ships and ar
mored cruisers until it is second in
Asiatic waters only to that of great
Britain, and in conjunction with that Of
Great Britain will represent a naval
force greater than that of Russia, France
and Germany combined. Heavy muni-
tions of war; representing millions of
dollars of value, are being rushed to
Manila. These military supplies are not
those alone required for service against
the Filipinos but include coast defence
guns for erection on Corregidol Island
| and at Cavite. Estimates have been
made by the War Department looking
to future expenditure of not less than
$5O,OO0,000 to make of Manila an Ash
attic Gibralter with dry docks. machine
shops and coal yards rivalling those of
Great Britain at Hong Kong.
Honolulu is to be protected by pow
erful naYal station at Pearl Harbor.
while Guam in the Carolines and Pago
Pago in the Samoan Islands, are to be
likewise developed. Even Ounalaska
in the Aleutlan chain is to have its ap-
propriatio.n -s....
IMPERIAL AGGRESSION, ..--
The country is asked to believe that
all these vast proposed expenditures are
'to develop American commerce" 1t
really means nothing short of Imperial
ism and criminal aggression. The heavy
war taxes now imposed are not to be re.
mitted or lessened. On the contrary
they are liable to be increased, or else
the expenses to be incurred are to be
met by further bond issues. Congress
will be asked to create Department of
the Colonies and the country will be in
vited to look at spectacle of America
ruling over millions Of subjects who are
never to be citizens, over colonies which
are never to be states, and at courts and
laws and administrations entirely out
side of the constitution.
Not only Porto Rico and the Philli
penes but Cuba, Hawaii and perhaps a
slice of the Chinese mainland are In
cluded in the program. Great Britain
has invited the United States to seize a
port in China and participate with her
in the spollation of that ancient empire.
Great Britain recognizes her own
military weakness and seeks the aid of
the United States in her scheme of
Asiatic dominion. "Great Britain is a
military power only by courtesy," said
Bismark five years ago. Her huniliat-
| ing reverses in South Africa st the hands
of the Beers prove the truth of this as
sertion. Unless the United States can
be roped into military alliance with
Great Britain that cOuntrv,a davs IF