Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-04-07
city Of Manila as the advance "missionaries'

cant about converting the Filipinos, and con-
vert some of the heather at home, rather than
sail $1,000 miles away to do our work. Not
the hand of God, but the hand of corporate
greed and plumber, is waging this war. There
is not redeeming feature of religion or patriot
ism in the whole miserable business
1t is not sufficient to say that we can give
them better government than Spain gave
them, for they do not want our government
They want their own government, and, by ev-
cry principle that Americans hold dear, they
have right to their demand. To grant them
less than this is criminal aggression, indeed.
The poll-parrot patriot cries out "What shall
shall we pull down the hag?" Yes; thou
sand times yes! When the Stars and Stripes are
raised to protect unustihsble murder and rap
inc, haul them down. When the flag repre-
sents tyranny, instead of freedom, pull it down.
Every day Old Glory floats over one inch or
Filipino territory, she is more deeply dyed with
the blood of the innocent and crimsoned with
shame and dishonor. Better far than that an
other Filipino patriot lose his life at our hands,
the flags be gathered off their masts, be tucked
away among the life-preservers, aud the Amer
lean fleet, laden with the sons of American
homes, sail away under cover of night. 1t is
Drawer to acknowledge error than TO continue
wrong.
We have no more right to make war upon
and take the Philippines because we over
took the Spanish feet in their waters than we
would have to make war upon France or Eng
land had we overtaken the Spanish navy in any
of their waters Our ability to do the one and
inability to do the other has nothing whatever
to do with the principle involved.
The present folly is small when compared
with the future penalty this nation must and
will pay for this assault upon human rights
One race and blood cannot successfully rule an
other race and blood One or the other must
succumb. We have made sad failare in the
worse by the Negro To satisfy our graspng
cupidity, we lassoed the African in the jungle,
and made him our slave. He is with us to-day
"a citizen and voter-Io, 900, 900 strong--and
"What to do with the Negro?" is our might
iy-increasing problem. Unlike the Indian, he
ratio than his white ''superors.' To-day,
Greed is sending our ships and men $1,000
miles to fight and die under tropic skies that
we may lasso 10, 900, 900 Malays-a race strange
to us in every fibre of its being. We cannot
govern them, for they are not OF us. They
worship Mafomet and the dove. We worship
Christ and the dollar. When we get them,
what will we do with them? They hate us
with the bitterest intensity, as we deserve to be
hated by them. 1t will cost millions of treas
ure to hold them under military CONTROL and
this is the only way we can hold them. On
the back of every American taxpayer will be
a Malay subject We cannot hold them as
slaves They must become citizens. Their
colonies must become states and, sooner or
later, these millions of Malays will become
voters. With the ten million Negro voters and
ten million Malays that increase faster than the
white race, soon to become part of the body
polite of the United States, the serious minded
should consider what our unrighteous triumph
in the Asiatic seas will mean to the near future
of the superior peoples of this country. 1t is
no wonder that the honorable senator from
Massachusetts, declared that, as the result of
our policy, the death of the republic would
date from the administration Of William Nc
Kinley, unless we check his ruinous policy of
criminal aggression.
If we take possession of these islands, we
will find ourselves thrown into the unrest of
Old-World politics, which will keep in con-
slant turmoil the financial interests of the
United States
From any and every point of view there is