Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-07

who mixed up the parable of the Good
Samaritan with the parable of the
Sewer, and in attempting to repeat the
former, said: A man went from Jeru-
salem to Jericho, and as he went Tell
among thorns, and the thorns sprang
up and choked him. We entered the
Spanish war as peace-makers. I'M
perialists have an indistinct recollec-
ton that blessing has been promised
to the peacemakers, and also to the
meek, but their desire for more territory
has perverted their memories SO that,
as they recall the former, it reads:
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they
shall inherit the earth, Annexation
cannot be defended upon the ground
that we shall find
A PECUNIARY PROFIT
in the policy. The advantage which
may come to a few individuals who
hold the offices or who secure valuable
franchises cannot be properly weigh
ed against the money expended in gov
erning the Philippines, because the
money expended will be paid by those
who pay the taxes. We are not yet
in position to determine whether ttle
people of the United States as a who lie
will bring back from the Philippines
as much as they send there. There is
an old saying that it is not profitable
to buy a lawsuit. Our nation MAY
learn by experience that it is not wi Sc
to purchase the right to conquer pc o.
pie.
Spain, under compulsion, gives us
a quit claim to the Philippines in re-
turn for s2O,O0O,O00, but she does not
agree to warrant and defend our title
as against the Filipinos. To buy land
is one thing; to buy people is another.
Land is inanimate and makes no re-
sistance to a transfer of title; the peo
pie are animate and sometimes desire
voice in their own affairs. But meas
ured by dollars and cents, the conquest
of the Philippines may prove profit
able or expensive but it will certainly
prove embarrassing to those who still
hold to the doctrine which underlies
our republic. A military rule is an
tagonistic to our theory of government.
The arguments which are used to de-
fend it in the Philippines may be used
to excuse it in the United States. I'm
der military rule, much must be lef {
to the discretion of
THE MILITARY GOVERNOR,
and this can only be justified upon t ne
theory that the governor knows INC re
than the people whom he governed; is
better acquainted with their nel Ids
than they are themselves, is entir ely
in sympathy with them, and is tt Or
oughly honest and unselfish in his de-
sire to do them good. Such COM bin
alton of wisdom, integrity and lov is
difficult to find and the Republ lean
party will enter upon hard task when
it starts out to select suitable military
governors for our remote possess ions.
Even if the party has absolute conf
dence in its great political manager,
Senator Hanna, it must remember that
the people of Ohio have compelled him
to serve them in the United States, and
that inferior men must be entrusted
with the distribution of justice and
benevolence among the nations dark.
skinned subjects in the Pacific.
IF we enter upon a colonial policy,
we must expect to hear the command
Silence issuing with increasing EN- =
phasis from the imperialists. Whe n
the discussion of fundamental prime i
Piles is attempted in the United Stat -es,
if a member of Congress attempts to
criticise any injustice perpetrated 10y a
government official against a helpless
people, he will be warned to keep
silent unless his criticism encow ages
resistance to American authorit in
the Orient. If an orator on the f ourth
of July dares to speak of inalit enable
rights, or refers with commendat ion to
the manner in which our foreiathers
resisted taxation without repr asenta-
ton, he will be warned to keeT, silent
lest his utterances excite rebellion
among distant subjects. If we adopt
a colonial policy and pursue the course
which excited the revolution of 1916.
We must muff1e the tones of
THE OLD LIBERTY BELL
and commune in whispers when we
praise the patriotism of our fore,
fathers.
we cannot afford to destroy the
Declaration of independence; We can
not afford to erase from our con'stitu-
tons, State and national, the bill of
rights; we have not time to examine
the libraries of the nation and purge
them of the essays, the spec ches and
the books that defend that doctrine that
law is the crystallization- of public
opinion, rather than an emanation
from physical power
But even if we could destroy every
voctiCa IF tho 1auc which orc +bo....