The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-05-26
The Philippine Question.

The Philippine war still drags along,
Notwithstanding daily reports from Wash
ington that it is about ended. The war
against Aguinaldo will doubtless termi-
nate when that ambitious chief is driven
out of Luzou, which he will eventually be,
if he does not surrender. But with the
ending of present hostilities the Philip
pine problem will not be solved. 1t will
have only begun. What are we to do
with these tropical islands and foreign
races? The foolish people and designing
people say civilize and spread our system
of government with public schools among
them. This is all idle dream of the phi
lauthropic mind and deceptive, selfish
plea of the exploiters. No dark race has
eyer accepted the white mans civilization
or religion. We have tried to teach the
black race our religion and civilization
for two hundred years, under the most
favorable conditions possible, and today
the proof is plain that our efforts have
been an utter failure. One generation
after emancipation shows a retrograde
movement The red race has faded out
as snow i'll the warm rays of the sun be
fore the white mans civilizing influence.
| The Australian and Hawaii races have
almost disappeared before the march of
the white race. A century of the white
mans presence has made the Hindoos not
free but slaves The natives of India have
not been civilized and Christianized by
the influence of the white man i'll his
meaning of the terms. Wherever the
white man has appeared among the dark
races he has dominated and subdued.
His civilization and religion do not suit
them and they succumb and sink below,
rather than rise to the level Of the white
standard.
We spent five thousand millions in
treasure and two millions of human lives
i'll putting down an aristocracy which was
built on black slavery and threatened to
overthrow republican government and
return to the serf and lord system of the
dark period of Europe, and in thirty
years from the end of that great sacrifice,
we find President and his advisers ex-
!, ercising kingly right, buying ten mil
: lions Of brown and yellow slaves from the
Spanish, the worst slavers of the white
race, and intent in establishing the Eng
f 1ish system Of colonial slavery. Are the
American people going to submit to this
attack on our system of popular govern,
ment? The signs are every day multi
: plying that they will not.
We have more at home in our own
country than we are able 10 manage to
prevent this exploiting class of.the god of
greed from overthrowing free government
and popular institutions. With a weak,
ambitious man in the Presidential seat,
that class is using all the power of the
government and deception to establish an
. oligarchy Of wealth and the English
system of colonization on the ruins Of
, popular government, and the attempt in
the Philippines is part of their scheme.
The American people are opposed 10 this
English system, and as they begin to
comprehend the designs of the men who
,, stand behind the President and prompt
his every act, they are showing an in
creasing opposition to the Philippine
colonization policy, They are for dealing
> honestly by the brown and yellow people
of the tropics which the Spanish war has
brought us in contact with. Grant them
complete independence and government
of their own forming, and leave them free
TO adopt our institutions if they desire
' them. The British plan of civilizing and
Outstanding with cannon and battalions
of soldiers has failed in a hundred years,
and it will work no better for us. The
cold steel and gunpowder plan has acted
admirably for exploiters and minions of
~. greed, and this is the class who have our
weak President in their keeping, and are
straining every nerve to establish the
British imperial system under the Amer
lean flag
Bryan has sternly opposed expansion
, on monarchical principles from its incep-
ton, and many of the strongest and best
men of the Republican party are with
= him, and the true spirit of liberty and
democracy Of the country are in opposi-
ton to the policy of the administration
=, and the opposition grows steadily.