The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-26
That Is the Present Purpose of the
United States.
INDEPENDENCE MAY COME
EX-CONGRESSMAN TELLS OF AID
ILLUSTRATIONS POLICY.
Believes President Mckinley Desires
to Do With Philippines As Is Be
ing Done With Cuba-We Are Re
sponsible to Civilized Nations For
Maintenance of Order.

Chicago, Aug. 25.-A special to the
Times-Herald from Shelbyville, Ills,
says:
There must be for the present a
government of the Philippines by the
United States, because there cannot.
for years to come. be a government of
the Philippines by the Philippines, for
the Philippines"
I'VE are bound to give freedom to the
Philippines. What Aguinaldo is fight
ing for is not freedom but independ-
ence."
There may be some day independ-
ence in the Philippines. The shortest
way to it is under the American flag"
With these sentences, former Con-
gresham George E. Adams of Chicago
struck the key notes of the address
which he delivered before the Lithia
Springs assembly. a sort of Western
Chautauqua at Lithia Springs, in this
county. His subject was Pending
Questions" and he had been led.
through a discussion of the possible
political issues of the next national
campaign, to make a thorough analysis
of what the United States had accom-
plished in the islands which have come
under its control and of what the
country purposed to accomplish in the
future.
After asserting the honor of the mo-
tives which had led the United States
to intervene in Cuban affairs for the
benefit of the Cubans. Mr. Adams ar
rayed his reasons for holding that the
aims set up in the policy of the United
States toward the Filipinos are the
same as those in the policy toward the
Cubans. although, perforce. the meth
DDS taken to attain this end are diff
ferent in the two cases.
The Same As Cuba.
Those who call themselves anti
imperialists," he said, "conine their
arguments TO the Philippine islands,
One of them said not long ago, that we
ought to treat the Filipinos as we
treat the Cubans. / believe it is pre-
cisely the same thing that we set out
to do, and are trying to do in both
cases. The motive is the same, the
policy is the same and the method
would have been the same but for
causes beyond our control"
After telling of this country's as
sumption of responsibility in Cuba as
result of Intervention without recog-
milton. Mr. Adams showed how the
United states was now giving govern
ing powers to the Cubans by en-
courasing local self-government. from
winch all free governments must rise
turning then to the Philippines. he
said:
This question of morals is substan-
tlally the same for the Philippines as
Tor Cuba There is this difference
however: We are responsible to the
society of civilized nations. of which We
are member. TO maintain order in the
Philippines, which Spain, with the as
sent of the civilized world. ruled for 400
years and then ceded. to us Cuba was
not ceded to us. 1t was simply evac-
uated by Spain STILL. we exercise au-
thority there. We have not asked the
consent OF the governed. The admin
istration has tried to do in the Philip
pines Just what it has tried to do in
Cuba
Mr. Adams then asked what course
the United States could have taken to
avoid the laborious task of establish
ing order in the Philippines after the
war. and found no answer The Amer
lean flag alone, he said, would bring
liberty there.
I'VE are bound" he continued ito
give freedom to the Philippines. What
Aguinaldo is fighting for is not freedom,
but independence. independence he
could not have even if we withdrew
our army and navy and hauled down
the stars and stripes in Manila. Lib
erty he can have under the American
flag in almost as large a measure as
the state of Illinois.
Let the people of the islands first
learn to govern themselves in their sew
eral villages, cities and parishes. If
then they choose to unite these villages,
cities and parishes into states, we ought
to help them to do so. If then the sew
eral states choose to unite TO form a
federal republic, we ought to help them
to do so, and if the federal republic thus
formed is strong enough to maintain
it's position as an independent nation
and choose the protection of its own
flag instead of the protection of the flag
of the United States. a large majority
of the American people would be glad
to speed it on its way"