Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-10-19

, Of spouses The Republican imperial
fsts propose 10 annex 100000 polyg-
amlsts IN the Philippine archipelago
Consistency is a very rare jewel, whose
beauties American voters viii do well
to consider.
Imperialism has led Us into tolerating
slavery. Into tolerating pOlygamy, into
/ t~0aeratIng q press censorship. into
scofing at the Declaration OF hide
| pendence, into splitting upon the con-
stitutiOn, into a practical abandonment
Of the Monroe doctrine. A century ago
Alexander Hamilton derided the con-
~ntitution as "a mere makeshift" n
weak rope OF sand Last year Gen
sral wesley Merritt exclaimed: The
constitution is played out There Is no
use to discuss it." For 123 years Amer
leans, without regard to political az
citations, have regarded the Declare
ton of Independence as the greatest
| state paper ever written by the hand
| of man. Last week the Washington
| Post, an ardent supporter OF b pres
! ent administration, denounced as flap
i uUO1NE VII kAEAN AGatAaA - ~
| the Declaration, Governments derive
their just powers from the consent Of
the governed" a proposition which, to
Rether with its twin, ''all men are ere
ated equal" has reyolutionized the
world and which constitutes the
foundation on which we have erected
our entire governmental superstrue-
ture.
Press Censorship.
In 1900 the American people arose In
their might. hurled the old Federal par
ty from power and buried Il In a grave
upon which there was inscribed, NO
Resurrection" because 1t had dared 10
abridge the freedom Of speech and the
freedom Of the press, but In 1883 Gen
eral Otis, dressed in a little brief au-
thority, with the c~onnivance and pre-
eumably BIZ order OF the administration
at washington. establishes a press
censorship which must cause the
grand Turk and the latest successor OF
Peter the Great to turn green with
envy. In the early days Of this cen
Jury, when we were a feeble folk,
Thomas jefferson waged war with the
Barhary powers and conquered them
rather than pay a cent Of tribute.
In the closing days OF this same cen
tury, when we number B.000,OO0 souls,
william Mckinley pays tribute to the
petty despot OF a tribe Of Asiatic saw
ages.
-Four years ago 5,000.O00 Americans
were eager to fight for the Monroe doc
frine. Now Il IL 10 be abandoned at
once completely and forever without n
struggle, for we can't play the dog in
the manger IN this hemisphere and the
freebooter in the eastern. II we claim
the right TO eolOnize there, Europeans
will claim the right to eolonlze here.
From the wholesome, sensible, Ameri-
can doctrine that a public debt is a
public curse we are beginning to prac-
tee the unhealthy and un-American
theory which the English preach that
a public debt is q public blessing and
are pillng up at the rate OF s12.0O0.00O
q month a mountain Of debt which our
grandchildren will not live long enough
to see paid. Republican debts. like
the sins OF the fathers, win extend to
the third and fourth generations. And
all these outrages upon the American
people are committed In the sacred
name Of liberty
PriaeipIe sasrfaeed.
To this complexion has 1t come at
last, under Republican ~maladminis-
tration. that we are to sacrifice every
principle which we have cherished, ey-
cry principle that has tended to make
Us great and honored Is a people, in
order that we may bully a helpless
people fighting for the inallenable
right to Eosern themselves as they
) pIease-on their own grOund-T,00O
miles from our shores. For the sake
} OF human freedom and In the name Of
the proud race to which / belong !
protest against such internal idiocy.
One Of two things is true about the
PhnIppines-elther they are At for self
government or they are not. If they
are, in heavens name let them govern
themselves. II they are not we do
not want them for fellow citizens. The
LIMOGES can take either horn Of that
dilemma they please. but whichever
|. they take they Will be impaled upon 1t.
/ 1t 10 written thou eanst not make a
silk purse out OF a sow's ear, and I do
not believe you can make a Malay 1T
for American citizenship in a thousand
years. II is not in the breed. l am
utterly opposed to e~orrupting and
teopardizlng our precious birthright Of
freedom by trying the experiment,
especially on 10 large a scale as the
tingoes would have rs do.
1 do not pretend to be any better
than I am, and ! say frankly that I am
not shedding many tears about the
F1Ipinos. | don't care 8 bawbee whetb-
er Aguinaido IL another George Wash
Ington come 10 Judgment as Hon.
Henry NJ. johnson Of Indiana assert.
. ed him to be. or whether he is an in
famous scoundrel who ought to be in
the p~enitestiary on two counts, as Gen
eral Charles Henry Grosvenor Of Ohio
maintains. II IL not for him and bis
that my fears are aroused and my
sympathies expended. but for the
American people, who are the real suf-
ferera By reason Of this wild and sense
less jingoism and who must pay the
piper for all this amazing dance Of
death. II Is not our duty to carry lib
erty 10 ell the world. II II our duty
and should be our pleasure 10 attend
strictly 70 our own business, keep out
81 world politics. steer clear Of world
quarrels and preserve the blessings Of
liberty 20 our pOsterity.
I am an American and a Caucasian.
Speaking for myself alone. I would not
aive one healthy. robust. Intelligent
Industrious, moral American white lad
IN exchange for ali the Mhlays who
now live or win live IN the Philippine
Islands this side the great judgment
Gay.