The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-11-18
PREPARING TEE WAY.
Tho Presidents Philippine Policy
Receives tho Fullest Indorse-
ment NJ a PeacemGker.

President McKinley's administration
has had no stronger words of justi;ica-
ton, we will not say of defense, than
were found in the very noteworthy
| speech of Hon. Eiihu Root, his new sec
rotary Of war, delivered recently nj the
Marquette club dinner at Chicago. lie
made complete answer to the anti-eN-
| pansioniSts. He emphasized facts that
had in part been told heretofore. but
which the undergraduates had either
refused TO hear or failed 10 remember.
These facts cannot be repeated too
| often or be remembered too long.
| Secretary Root says the problem
which confronted us in the Philip
! pines was how to hold back the uL-
! counted hordcs who surrounded Manila,
how TO keep in subsection the 100000
! Fi.ipinos in the city who had been or
dered to rise and massacre every Eu'
ropean, while we were waiting during
! the rainy season until new army
could be raised and sent a third of the
way around the world TO take the place
OF the returning volunteers. Seventeen
| thousand OF the latter have been
brought back, and Il new army of 27,-
! 900 has taken their places. Seventeen
| thousand more are on the way, 1900
in camp ready to start, and by the end
of November, Secretary Root adds, Co.,
| 600 American soldiers, the best youth
of America, will be ready for duty in
the Philippines.
| 1,,l il.
| TO the fact that we are not fighting the
! Filipino nation, because there is none;
! that there are hundreds of islands in
the Philippines, Inhabited by over GO
! tribes, speaking more than six lam
guagos. and every tribe but one ready
to accept American sovereignty. Adj
mirai Dewey, Gen. Greene and Presi-
dent Schurman says the Filipinos are
not fit for self-goyernment, and the iu-
surgCnis themselves only demand the
right OF self-goyernmcnt under the pro-
lection of The United States; the right
| 10 make war, but only with our help.
! The vast majority, including the men
| of property and intelligence of the
| Filipinos. are anxious for peace, and
| the secretary declared that 1--WE are
| fighting against the selfish ambition Of
military dictator brought from exile
| by an American ship, furnished with
arms by American soldiers, who has
been permitted to gather altthe forces
| ofdisOrder, has attained supreme power
! hy the assassination of his rival, and
maintains it BY the murder Of every
Lone whom he can reach who fayors the
| United States"
The secretary believes that as long as
| the American people stand behind the
| American soldier he will maintain the
honor of his flag. These are not mere
words of sentiment; they come from
| one of ultra-conservatism, u student of
the situation, Il man trained in thought
and naturally possessed of judicial
temperament We arc among those
| who believe that the anti-cXpansion
sentiment in this country has been
greatly ovcrestimated. The tendency
of the times is clear. What Charles
Kendall Adams, in his Interesting ar
ticlc in the Atlantic Monthly, calls the
ever Irresistible encroachment of TIE
occidcnt upon the orient. of the mol
crn spirit upon the spirit of antiquity
is noticeable among all the great ma
tions of the world. 1T is" says Mr..
Adams, 1.-The substitution of the rail
road train for the oX-cart and the cara
van. 1t is electricity driving out Tie
rushlight. 1t is the white man ever
civilizing the red man or pushing him
out of the way"
He might have added that ii is open
ing the doors that have been shut; il
is blazing the way with weapons of war
for the entrance OF perpetual peace.
In the words of Rev. Lyman j. Abbott,
at the recent international CongregG-
tional council at Bosion: 'Where con
science and reason are wanting, and
either despotism rules by the red
dened sword of anarchy runs its wild
amuck, the Christian must meet sword
with sword and awaken conscience and
reason through the wholesome fear OF
stronger arm" Bishop Thoburn,
fresh from the Philippines. said as
much in his recent interesting contri-
| button to these columns. and it is this
thought and not thirst for blood or an
eager pursuit of plumber that animates
the sentiment Of the American people
in reference to the Philippine question.
-Leslie's Weekly.
CURRENT COMMENT.