The Irish standard., 1899-09-16
POLICY OF THE ADMINISTRATION,

don its piratical policy of colonization.
POLICY OF THE ADMINISTRATION.
There is no longer any doubt OF Nc
Kinley's Philippine policy, and it is
vain for anti-imperialists to expect him
to change it at this late day. He is re-
solved to subdue the Filipinos at any
cost and make them his vassals. He is
sending large army to the Orient to
crush his purchased islanders as soon as
the weather permits, and unless they
lay down their arms and bow to his i'm
perial yoke but few OF them will escape
destruction in the long run. The New
York World raises two objections to
McKinley's war Of subjugation.
I. 1t commits this country unaltcr-
ably to a war Of conquest, which is op-
posed to every one of the fundamental
principles of its government.
2. The Filipinos may decline to stand
still to be crushed. They are not idle
during the rainy season, and it is at
least conceivable that with stronger
forces drawn from their teeming mill
ions, and infamed with the undying
passion for liberty, they may be able to
continue indefinitely the tactics OF fight
ing, vanishing and reappearing which
have so harassed and baffled our gen.
erals and nullifed the valor of our SOL
diers thus far.
Whether the United States will sup
port perpetual war in the Philippines
will be determined next year, when the
democracy and the plutocracy will make
the question one Of the leading issues
OF the campaign. If the anti-imperial-
lists are triumphant at the polls they will
dispose of the Philippine question in a
manner that will prove satisfactory to
the Filipinos and honorable to this
great nation OF the West. When the
democracy gains supremacy and the
Plutocracy is overthrown justice will be
done to Aguinaldo and his followers,
ard our allies against Spain will be per-
mltted to govern themselves under an
American protectorate. They will be
glad to make any reasonable conces-
sions in the way OF naval and coaling
stations and give the United States the
preference in trade and commerce, and
repay the $2o,ooo,ooo which was fool
lshly given to Spain for the so-called
sovereignty OF the islands.
Some of the democratic papers are
beginning to echo the cry OF the pluto
cratic press and declare that it would
be humiliating for this powerful repub-
lie to withdraw its troops from the
Philippines under the fire OF the insurg-
ents. They therefore favor the prosecu
ton OF the war against Aguinaldo,
whom they stigmatize as "a blackmail-
ing Malay scoundrel." In reply to the
Chicago Chronicle which said that no
party in this country will ever win on
The proposition that the American peo-
pie should quit fighting in the face OF
the enemy John F. Finerty says in the
Citizen:
Such language would much better be-
come the London Times thar the Chi
cago Chronicle. The retreat under
fire" plea is puerilc. The fire is of our
own making. We are wrongfully in
possession of the property of another
people, who have never surrendered
their right to hold the soil upon which
they were born, and ii we don't get
licked i: is not the justice OF our cause,
but superior numbers and illimitable
resources, that will save us from dis
aster. The Filipino people never sold
their country to us. They were not
party to our decker with Spain. They
owe us nothing but contempt and
hatred. The Chronicles cool invitation
to them to "come into camp'-that is
to consent to be heeced by us, while
trusting to our "mcrcy"-is preposter-
Gus. They will do nothing Of the kind.
Even American valor is unequal to the
task OF conqucring bold and perse-
vering people, who know how to carry
on guerilla warfare in difficult coun
try. AS nation, we are now suffering
from the Anglo-Saxon big-head. Ma
poleon suffered from somewhat SIM
liar disease when, in 1903, he treacher-
ously seized upon Spain, just as we
have seized upon the Philippines. All
Spain, except few traitors, rose
against him. The legions that had
swept over empires and kingdoms at
Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena, Freidland
and Wagram, failed against the Spanish
peasants, who made upon them 'swar to
the knife and, in the words of Marshal
Ney, "massacred our (French) men in
detail This marshal, at Madrid,
warned Napoleon in words like these:
Sire. we are not fighting an army, but
nation. l see no end to this business.
When we defeat one force, another
takes its place But Napoleon per-
sisted in his evil course Just as McKir-
ley is now doing. Ney's prediction was