The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-01
BARNEY GIBBS EXPLAINING.

ing a collar democrat 30 become coi.e'
populst. AS matters now stand. the ieN'
National fight in politics will be between
\ Mckinley and Bryan; and the popuiis's
having once Endorsed Bryan. and having
more reason 10 do so now than four yeass
ago, will make no Roadway opposing NM
They can accept Bryan electors and ID
more with their State. county and dlstric'
tickets. The question of expanding De-
yond the seas will be the issue ON which
the National election will be decided.
THE frog tried to expand himself into
ain OK and bursted his anatomy. he was
not satisfied to be the biggest frog in his
own pond (see Aesops Fables)
1T is one thing to expand where the
man with the hoe can go without much
inconvenience and expense. ga his mule
or his wagon, with his gun and his dog
and COW; but 1t Is an entirely different
proposition TO expand where the man
with all these things must also have a
roll OF money, besides, to give up to ring
lish ship owners, to haul him owe: there.
The Anglo Saxon has never male sue
cess in expanding and in coloni1ing coun-
tries where 1t doesn't frost, and where
hog meat and strong liquor won't stay on
his stomach. It requires COOL pay geu-
orally from this government or corpora
ton to get an Englishman to stay in
tropical country, and he must have an en-
tire outfit Of tropical servants.
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THE Anglo-Sax has on n average
too much blood In him for 4 TROPICAL couh-
try; he will not make his home there, re
has got to have his blood chilled now and
then. He doesn't take to native wives.
He either kills or enslaves the jnfeior
race.
Look at the rush to Oklahoma. and
how few have gone TO Cuba. or to Spanish
Honduras. where Americans are well
liked; or to British Honduras, an old
English colony with rich soil; or even
to the extreme southern part of our States
Commercial expansion by means of the
Nicaragua canal and Pan American
railroad, and a sufficient navy, is all right;
but military expansion by means of per-
petual army occupation Is another The
Anglo Saxon will quickly settle in a real
tropical country when it is choice ba-
tween that and hades. Territorial e;pan-
sion and an increase in the standing army
means high taxes and eventual oppression
of the producer. Texas is an empire in
extent, and there are many problems CT
local government more important 10 oar
people than National end international
questions. The Beers have great troubles,
but we have troubles of our own. Texas
can cure the most of our troubles, but
not those of the Beers and the Filipinos.
The ordinary American mudsiller can't
get to the Philippines. And ii he could,
he could not stay there; wherefore should
he allow himself to be taxed to get or to
keep up that country? We really ought to
sell each of the thousand 'sllnds to some
rich American and make him duke, aud
take bond that he will trade with us,
but not to hold us responsible for the per-
manency of his crown. as between him
and the natives. We are short on duhe5,
and they come high.
''of course in our new poss 4ssons We
get some hereditary nobility; bit there
is no market for them, as they ara off
color and are not handy around Ike par
Tor or at receptions, because they woa't
wear clothes. They also want more than
one wife. The purchase Of lukes and
counts at ten millions per scalp, and even
bald heads counted, puts he balance Of
trade against us very frequently.
If we are TO take and retain the Phil
ippines as commercial proposition, we
ought TO make every possible dollar out
of them that we can get. Society wants
dukes and counts and we will never bs
prosperous as long as We buy them at
monopoly prices. 1t is cheap II to manu-
facture dukes. The richer We get the more
dukes are in demand Foreign dukes now
absorb American accumulatlons OF money
I'VE would agree that we would rro-
tect him as against big nations. We nigh. |
in this way get back purchase money ard
expenses, and still keep string on their
trade. That is better than incorpor ling
the Filiplnos in the body polite uneef
strain of Dolly Warden citizenship. So far
as the right or wrong or unconstitutionali-
ty is concerned 1t cuts no figure. /, never
has where majority of the people want
ed anything and were strong enough to get |
u. ManomeI nau communication from
the Lord to kill all the Christians, and the
Christians had one from the Lord to kill
all the Mahomedans.
Slavery was instituted, perpetuated and
abolished under the same constitution. So
was the income tax.
The constitutionality OF anything big
depends on whether you have the supreme
court right, and the message froin the
Lord depends upon whether you have the
fixed.
When Brigham Young wanted young
er and prett!er wife he got message
from the Lord, but he already had the girl
spotted.
1t doesn't require a very smart man tu
tx up message from thu ,.o-d, and II
here is any looting permitted or adyis-i
In the message he can find believers. The
only authenticated divine message did moi
promise much on earth.
We are shutting out from our ports
good individuals on account OF their pow
sffy, and are taking half-civilized tribes
he most of whom haven't dollar, and, in
act have no pockets to put dollar in
As matters now stand, the next prssden,
ial election Will turn IN the prilipplue
question, and the fight will he bs.w, en-