The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-07

to withdraw. II would be a confession
of our inability TO cope with these bar
barians and TO whip them into subjec-
ton, it would be ignomlnious, for the
American forces to back out of the Philip
pines at this time My advice TO the adj
ministration is to give Otis all the men
he may need and to instruct him 20 force
fighting until some sort of a solution of
the problem is solved.
LAS l have said repeatedly in my pub
lie utterances, all this trouble could
have been averted if the peace treaty
had been amended. We could have
sent our peace commissioners back TO
meet the Spanish ENJOYS, with instruc-
tons TO release the whole of the Phillips
pine Island, save Manila and sufficient
territory contiguous thereto for a naval
and coaling station. If this had been
done We would not to-day see this bogus
white elephant There would be no
war in the Philippines. There would
have been little loss of human blood
and, but small expenditure of public
money.
III President Mckinley had been of the
same mind after returning from his Ohio
trip as he was when he left Washington,
Otis would moi be calling for more troops,
there would have been no endless rebellion
in sight and the United States would
nave deem content WITH the POSSESSION VI
a naval and coaling base. If the peace
ENJOYS had been free to carry out their
original instructions to demand the ces-
sion of Manila and sufficient contiguous
territory for a naval and coaling base;' VI
they had been left free to conduct the ne
gotiations without being shackled by fur
Their instructions the peace treaty would
not have provided for acquisition Of the
entire archipelago.
Three members of the peace commits
SIGN, Day, Davis and Gray, were averse
to carrying out the Presidents instruc-
lions regarding the acquisition of the en-
tire group of islands. About this there
can be no doubt.
Foley of Imperialism,
"a policy of Imperialism must inevitably
be followed by militarism. Therefore, the
acquisition of outlying territory together
with several millions of people, entails
upon the government manifold dangers
| and respons ibilities. Just now 1t is not
possible to get the public ear on any ques-
ton outside of our own immediate Dor
ders. The reason for this is simple
enough To-day our people are enjoying
to a marked extent prosperity which they
have not known for many years. Not
since the Barring failure has there been
as much prosperity in the land as during
the past year.
THE war with Spain, which created
demand for labor in every branch Of trade
set the mills running on full time, created
market for American supplies, and gave
employment TO millions of laborers who
had been in idleness for three or four
years The remarkable rise in the price of
wheat and other farm products. the mil
lions of dollars spent by the government
in preparing for war, the purchase of
every conceivable line of supplies, guns,
ammunition, cannon, food, clothing, trans
ports, war vessels, all these things com
bined to create condition of prosperity.
when the merchant, the farmer and the
day laborer can sell their products, when
there is a demand for their commodities,
when the supply falls short of the demand,
then we find wave of prosperity sweeping
over the land. So IL is, l say, the public
ear is not turned to the momentous ques-
tions growing out OF the Spanish war. A
public speaker who has for his topic bitter
denunciation of the ADMINISTRATORS pol
lev in the far East Is given but scant at
tention. The people have no time to listen
to the arguments pro and con on imperial
ism, but are quite satisfied to pursue the
even tenor of their way.
"But there Is a time for everything.
When this tickle and uncertain prosperity
has passed away, when business conditions
again settle down to their normal state,
as they most certainly win do very soon,
when the prosperity bubble has been prick
ed then the American people will begin
to look about and give serious thought to
the grave questions of to-day"