The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-02-12

30 Wei t4dt IT starts tFrl w ~ -
ing you IS gift possessed by rev We
are having quite a dose these tilhes y.
"tho Whte mans turlen. Fres.aehl
Mckinley has had his way-'manifest
destiny" IS In the saddle. Eight or yen
millions Of people in those tropl,al
Islands have brcnmc "the wards OF me
nation The treaty has been ratlhea'
that country IS now part Of our tesr'-
tory. The aegis OF American soverelshy
IS over those islands Nations se'd)m
take backward steps properly WAeD once
70 ncstles beneath a flag has an uhSi"N-
able hold upon that lag Who can pierce
tho future?
II was q notable battle in the Ameri-
can Senate. II was q strange ana onl-
nous silence which President Mckinney
and the majority OF the Senators inss'-
ed upon and maintained respecting our
purposes regarding those peoples ana
ISLANDS. But for help from most uneN-
pectod quarter, Mr. Mckinley would not
have been able TO have forced the treaty
through the Senate just as IL came from
the Peace Commission. There Won nave
been enough Senators ready to tack on
to 81 a resolution declaring our intention
TO establish IN the Philippines separate
and free republic. But the deleatd DEM
ocradc candidate for the presidency MI.
Bryan. the day af,er he was released
from military service. came 70 The rescue
OF the President and said the treaty
should be ratified FIRST and the fight FOR
resolutions should como afterwards. lie
then went TO Washington and for several
days conferred with his personal friends
in the Senate and threw the weight OF
very distinct influence in favor OF putting
the treaty through just as it came. The
old Democratic Senators who had their
own plan OF campaign well in hand
Daniel, German Ne9u Berry, Jones, Till
nan and Cockrell-all 8. o tied This inter-
ference from Mr.. Bryan with ill-feigned
dissatisfaction The story comes from
Washington that I'm the cloak rooms ana
secret councils there many curses, not
loud but deep" were heard az the up
setting of the plans OF this co.erie by lhe
young Nebraskan leader. Al any rate
Bryan threw into confusion the perO-
cratic opposition to the treaty and assist
ed Presidcn, Mckinley IN anneXing The
Philippines. for that is the plain English
OF IL. Now, these SenatOrs-GOrman.
Daniel, Berry. Jones, 11ilman. COckrel.
Nes--have shown their purpose very
clearly TO leave Mr. Bryan severely alone
ano with his subsequent resolutions de-
claring OR policy On regard 10 the Philip
pines Hence The Independence Of the
Philippines goes 10 tie ground between
two Stools failing 90 SIT on the Vest
resolution IN the first Instance and fall
ing short OF the Bryan resolutions IN the
second instance, and Mr. Mckinley has
cleverly reached his goal once again the
Republican party has forced its imperial
istc principle upon an unwilling nation
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lack OF leadership among the Democrats.
But, let US take up the white mans
burden" Ana the very FIRST dash ont of
the box is a long telegranhlc story OF
battle and slaughter, Of d list OF killed
and wounded American soldiers. OF thcu.
sands OF Eilipnos dead and thousands OF
others writing IN bloody Wounds
story OF crude savagcry ~ baseness and
stupidity. Strange reading this for the
American people in the closing days OF
the nineteen D century, Think OF our
generation lighting with bow-and-arrew
men, OF slaugd.ering savages as Alex
ander did the Perslans. as Caesar did The
Gauls. Some of our citizens look upon
this as opening a way for per cent. in-
vcstments, others look upon it as letting
the Gospel in among heather shadows
Why take your gum" said q Puritan
dame to her pious lord az he started 20
church on Sunday morning. "Whcn Pro-
vldenco wills Il you VIII be killed whether
YOU 90 armed or not" Aye replied
her pl0us lord. "T know I shall de when
my time comes, but maybe an ln-ian's
time has come" The Filninos' time has
come. and our good. religious and puri-
tanicai folk are doing the business for
him very effectively. These pale-faced
fellows who have a scent for good land
have never yet lacked good reason for
making their way Shakespeare. I'm the
Tempest. gives us a fash of prophecy
on the relations between the white mar
and tho savage. as revealed On his pic
turc OF the relations between the noble
Prospero and the half ouman Callban
IL sounds very like the story OF Aguin-
aldo and Dewey IL Is also the history Of
the relations between the savage races
and civilization throughout rre wo,li
First, there IS the original possession OF
the land by the savage. and the landing
upon 10 by the white man. Next there
are the early and pleasant relations be-
tween the two. They Learn of each other
and join "a common objects and re-
searches. Says CaAban to Prcspero:
When thou earnest first
Thou strokedst me and madest much Of
me. woufst give me
Water with berries IN 81:
And then I loved thee
And showed thee all the qualities Of the
isle.
The fresh springs. brine pits. barren
places and fertile"
For a long time things 70 well between
tho two. bu, a moral gulf Is appearing
and soon equal Intercourse IS impossible
ba,"een them Now, hear Prospe-o
speak 10 Caliban:
Thy vic race
Though thou dldst learn. had that in g
which good natures