The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
VERSUS IMPERIALISM

latest expression both houses OF Congress VIII at
tract the notice OF the civilized world. number OF
arguments have been made by Senator'S and Represen-
tatves that recall the Augusan days OF the republic,
and without detracting from the merits OF others, 1t
may be truthfully said that the speech OF Mr. Johnson
of Indiana almost deserves to rank classic
The extraordinary feature OF the annexation
scheme, fomented by mercenary greed and by that
vautng ambition which oerleaps itself" is that,
under our constitutional Government, it should have
had any serious advocates And whatever might be
said about other parts of the country, that in the
State OF California, it should have attracted either
popular or legislative support is doubly unaccount-
able. The inconsistencies and the glarlng disregard
OF most important interests into which the local
attorneys for the annexationSts have been betrayed
alone sufficient to repel the sympathy OF our in
tellgent citizens and especially those who not
avaricousy specuating upon the wealth OF the Phil
ippnes.
The Chronicle and the Examiner in many respects
antagonistic a unit upon Asiatic annexation.
They profess themselves to be strongly opposed to
the retention OF the Philippines colonial dependen-
ces with the open door policy for the special bene-
fit of Great Britain but favor their incorporation into
the territory of the United States, with citizenship
and all other rights flowing from that relation to the
Government The Pacific Coast has been and is
face OF longcontinued opposition in the East, after
vanly clamoring for years, succeeded in having the
exclusion law passed In this State a special vote
the subject was taken and only few struggling bal
lots were cast in favor OF the Chinese The intelli
gent discussion Of the danger threatened by peaceful
Mongolan invasion, the practical experience OF cities
IL other States to which the aggressive Chinese rap
idly spread and the excellent results OF the exclusion
laws, when ineficiently and dishonesty admin
isered converted every other part OF the Union to
policy, and it is true that when war with Spain
declared there sentiment in the country in
favor of the Mongolians except among few monopo-
lists who desired cheap labor George C. Gorham
once publicly canvassed the State for Governor, but
his friendship for the Chinese swept him into political
oblivion. c. P. Huntington always wanted cheap
labor for the railroad, but in the San Joaquin and
Sacramento valleys, in more places than one, his
Asiatc employees were not permitted to leave the
track In 1869, at a Fourth OF July celebration in
Oakland, Senator Stewart OF Nevada delivered
philippe on behalf OF the Chinese. But, for some
years. this entire nation has been held together for
the benefit OF the white and OF fellow citizens
OF African descent, upon whom the inestimable boon
OF freedom conferred by the Civil War, and thus
our national life brought into harmony with in
stitutions.
The Chronicle and the Examiner were forced to
express and to maintain the settled public opinion
and the legislation that warned Asia against any at
tempt to evade America 1t is not so long ago. in
deed that the tocsin OF alarm rung against the
little brown men" OF Japan, elated by their victory
over China and suspected of the preposterous belief
that they could compel to receive them in unlim-
tied numbers When, however, the war with Spain
began, this Caucasian republic had presented i'm
pregnabe front to the hordes of Asia and the paupers
and of MI for
cans who combined the best strains OF the great races
OF the earth.
Now however the Chronicle and Examner-par
mobile fratrun-in their desperate effort to Justify the
unconstitutional annexation of Asatic territory have
deliberately turned upon the people, whose rights and
whose interests they have pretended to represent So
far apprsed they antagonize the admnstra-
ton which in the Examiner is not so remarkable,
and they antagonize every member of Congress who
has far spoken for expansion by insisting upon the
investment OF the Philippines with the full legal right
and privileges that belong to American territory.
They know that absolute freedom of ocomotion is an
element OF American citizenship of which, even
though the constitution has been "outgrown' it can
not yet be deprived. They know that the Fipinos
once received as American citizens can spread them
selves every part of the republic. The facilities
OF intercourse with the Philippines in these modern
times when steam and electricity have become the
handmaids of man, is OF the chief arguments used
to justify the American people in plunging headlong
into the Asatic maelstrom, and these papers know
that when cheap laborers available, capital will
speedily devise means to bring the demand and the
supply together. 1t follows that all the arguments
against annexation in Asia that grow of the legal
framework of our Government, the history and the
character of people, and the spirit of our civil
zation in purely utilitarian sense overtopped by
the danger to industry involved in the orcibe absorp
ton of the Filipinos, under claim OF divine right
purchased from SPAIN and that on the borders of the
Pacific these arguments specialized by the Chronicle
and the Examiner, repudiate uniform policy and
our uniform demands and constitute the deepest
treachery to our people, who ready for the COM
mercial and financial supremacy of the twentieth
century but welded in the determination to pre-
Our existing standard Of race and of blood and
equally to reject political and individual contact with
Asiatc barbarians and polygamists who could never
assimilate with u.s. and who could only be ruled by
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