The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-07-14
We MUST CONQUER
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, AS
THEIR PEOPLE HAVE MADE
WAR UPON US.
But We 90 to Them Not as Imperial
lists and Conquerors, But as
True Friends of Liberty.

Commander Dyer, of the Baltimore,
has given the anti-imperialists the
name "Goody-goodies." 1t fits.-Cin-
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
This is from paper that only few
days ago set down all Christians as
children or fools endorsing as a "cor-
rect diagnosis" the statement of
another sheet that no grown men were
any longer concerned for the welfare of
their souls, or words to that effect. 1t
would be interesting to know to just
how low level Of morality person
would have to go, not to be classed by
the c. T. as ''goody-goody."
'Goody-goody" is the sneer that vice
makes at virtue, always, when self
convicted. If a man lives a temperate,
virtuous, honest, correct life; to the
libertine, the gambler, the dishonest,
the debauchee, the drinker, he is q
"goody-goody," as if that were charge
against him that would bring him down
to their level.
No man can set his mark too high.
He cannot be too honest, too sober, too
virtuous, or too careful of the rights of
others.
The sneer at those who sympathlze
with the Filipinos, is weak. The anti
imperialists are majority of the
American people. A majority of the
American people are opposed to our
Nation entering upon career of con-
quest. If we sincerely desired to have
the American eagle spread its wings,
it would not be to sock its talons into
every pet lamb it came across, THAT
would be cowardly,) but we would want
it to carry off the best in the fold.
We would not send our navy and armies
to capture some of the feeble islands of
the sea, but we would take a man of
our size. We would take Canada and
Mexico and Central America, and the
whole of North America. Then we
could build the Nicaragua Canal
| within our own possessions, hold it in
case of war, and reap all it's advantages
in time of peace, for ourselves. We
would have the virile population of
Canada and her great wheat fields, and
| undeveloped resources added to our
Union, and we could dip one oar into
the Pacific, the other into the Atlantic,
and with the North Pole for steering
oar, paddle our own canoe around the
world in defiance of everything afloat
and ashore. That is, If we were spoil
ing to enter on q career of conquest.
But we didn't start in, to conquer
Cuba nor the Philippines. And they
never will be made permanent part of
the United States by conquest. Our
mission is not to conquer, but
to civilize and Christianize. The
statue in New York harbor is that
of Liberty Enlightening the World,
and not that of Greed and Cruelty
trampling under foot weaker nations.
We buckled on our armor in the name
OF Liberty and Humanity, and the man
or party that attempts to divert the
destiny of this nation into the channels
of conquest and glory will go down
before the ballots Of the American peo-
pie and the hand of righteous God.
But there is studied endeavor to
misrepresent those whose hearts SYM
pathize with the aspirations of the
FilipinOs, and thus to turn all patriots
against them.
From the first, the REPUBLICAN
urged that our Government rescue the
Filippinos from the thraldom of the
Spaniards. They were the man who
went down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
and whom the providences of God had
made our neighbors. We urged that
they should be included in the treaty
all of them-and that we should shield
them against all foreign nations, treat
them as our wards, help them develop
| their islands, secure peace and order,
and establish stable government, and
then give them their independence.
But the talk of the imperialists in this
country, that we intended to hold them
by conquest, drove them into an attack
upon our army, and we had nothing to
do but accept war, and now we must
fight it out till we conquer them.
| There is no other resource left. But
when we have forced them to behave
themselves, have fulfilled our obliga-
tions to the rest of the world, to see
that stable government is established
there, then, but not before, the people
of the United States will say to them
enter into your own inheritance.
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THE Republicans of Kentucky have
nominated Taylor for Governor.
ADMIRAL DEWEY arrived on the
Olympia, at Suez, Wednesday. He was
in good health.
|
The Oregon regiment arrived at San
Francisco, from Manila, Wednesday.
THEY'RE BEAUTIES.
Will Spittle is the inventor of the
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