The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-07
BRYAN'S NEN BOOK
Bemoans the Principle and
Progress of imperialism"
NOT WHITE MANS BURDEN
But Poor Mans Load--Carne-
gle a Collaboration.
NOT WHITE MANS BURDEN

: Chicago, April 6.-The Hon. William j.
| Bryan is to publish book entitled RE
| public or Empire-the Philippine Cues
! ton" in which he discusses territorial ex-
| pansion from every standpoint, his argu-
! ment being supplemented by chapters deal
| ing with the various phases of the sub
| ject, by Andrew Carnegie, George +. Hoar,
| John w. Daniel, Henry NJ. Teller and other
| statesmen and scholars.
As to imperialism, Mr.. Bryan says: I'm
| perialism finds it's inspiration in dollars,
! not in duty. Tt is not our duty to burden
our people with increased taxes in order
to give a few spectators an opportunity
for exploitation; it is not our duty to sacri-
fee the best life-blood of our nation in
tropical jungles in order to stife the very
sentiments which have given vitality to
American institutions 1t is not our duty
10 deny 10 the people of the Philippines
the rights for which our forefathers fought
from Bunker Hill 10 Yorktown. Imperial
ism has been described as the white mans
burden But since it brushes the wealthy
producer beneath an increasing weight Of
taxes, it might with more propriety be
called the poor mans load.
eff the peace commissioners had de-
manded a harbor and coaling station in
the Philippines and had required Spain to
surrender the rest of the land to the Phil
ippinos, as she surrendered Cuba 10 the
Cubans, we would not now be considering
how to let go of the islands. If the sum
an l., TO nc,1ro
SPANS release, the payment of the amount
by the Filipinos might have been guaran-
teed by the United States"
Mr.. Bryan also says that the purpose of
annexation is to apply to the government
of the Filpinos. methods familiar to the
people of Europe and Asia but not in the
United States. This departure from ira
ditions,'' he declares, was not authorized
by the people; whether it will be ratified
by them remains to be seen. The respon-
sibility rests first upon congress and after
wards upon that power which makes con-
crosses. Whatever may be the wish of in
dividuals or the interests of parties, we
may rest assured that the final disposition
of the Philippine question will conform to
the deliberate judgment of the voters; they
whose decision there is no appeal.
Mr.. Carnegie thinks: india is the curse
Of Great Britain, and the Philippines will
be the curse of the United States. If you
teach suppressed people at all, you make
rebels of them. Education is fatal to the
government of a superior race. The dec
laration of independence will make every
ambitious Filipino a thoroughly dissatis-
fed subject
"In war;" says Mr.. Daniels, at is the I'M
expected that happens. So in every great
and new adventure of peace. We are
asked now to sally forth 1000 miles from
our native soil to grasp, against their will,
millions of unwilling people-to seize upon
them, to take them by force of arms and
deposit them, land and people, within the
lines Of the constitution under the Ameri-
can flag, then make them an integral part
of this American republic"
According to Mr.. Teller: I'VE shall make
a mistake if we make up our minds that
we are going to govern those people from
here; that we are going to govern them
with the Anglo-Saxons whom we send out
from here to administer the affairs of that
country. You will need your $4,000 soldiers,
and in a little while you will need more,
for they are a great people. They are a
people who know something of their rights
They are people who are willing 10 con-
tend for them, and believe IL to be almost
an axiom that people who will fight for
their liberty, and who are willing to die
for it, are capable Of maintaining it when
they get it."