The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-11-03

with the appropriations made then ano
four years ago we find that the appro-
nriations made now are 50, 900, 900 to S4,O00.000
greater thar they were then. In otner
words. this new departure. TINS attempt
to %subjugate the Filipino people, SIN one
form and In any other form costing the
American people between sSW.oW.Wv anu
$500. 900, 900 annually. Who pays thisY The
men and the women who do the work OF
America. The lawyers, the bankers, the
syndica ties and the men who are urging the
administration on in this policy and are
defending II do not pay one 1artning OF
that vast sum. National expenses ana ma
tional debts nave to be paid by
Bankers simply carry 1t to the treasury
and charge a commission for doing II,
which swells the burden. The products OF
the field and the products OF the shops
pay these expenses. American sweat and
American blood pay this vast sum.
What else does 1t involve Tor US! An
December, 1898, President Mckinley sent
a message to congress asking that the
regular army, which had generally con-
sisted of from 22.000 to 24,000 men, should
be increased to 100, 900 men. At hat time
the Spanish war was over. we were at
peace with the world. We hadn't even a
frontier to protect against Indians. We
needed a smaller army instead Of a larger
one. Yet the president asked that the
regular army be quadrupled.
"If we were in danger why not call for
volunteers? Volunteers fought the revo-
l%utionary war and founded this republic.
Volunteers drove the English off OF our
shores In 1872. Volunteers carried the
American flag all over Mexico and ran 1t
up on every fagpole down there. Vol
unteers fought the great civil war. formed
a battle line that stretched from the sea
to the far-away mountains, and with their
life blood wiped out slavery and cemented
this union. In 1898 volunteers came to the
front and drove an ancient despotfsm on
of the western hemisphere. The glory OF
the republic is written with the blood and
valor of her volunteers. Yet here comes
a president who wants not volunteers. but
a regular army.
The Question of Trade.
But we are to get trade. We are going
to get the markets of the orient In which
to sell the products OF our fields and the
products of our shops. All! my friends.
there was a time when we had a home
market hat consumed all the products OF
our manufacturers when they ran day
and night. That home market has been
destroyed. The purchasing power of our
people to-day is smaller in proportion to
the population than 1t once was. II 1t were
not we would not need a foreign market
for our manufactured goods.
Our total trade with the Philippines has
been w 5000. 600 and $40 600 a year.
Suppose 1t was to Increase. Suppose our
trade with China were to increase. Our
total trade with the whole orient will mo-
In 20 years equal what we now spend In one
year on this new imperialistic policy. And
the profits of the total possible trade with
all the orient will not in 100 years equal
we now spend In one year, and such
urnfite nc We oaf yil 90 tn a few syndi-
Gates and not to the American people who
bear this enormous burden.
But to settle the whole question as to
trade, the administration has entered into
a written agreement with the other ma
tons of the earth to maintain the open door
in the Philippines and In the orient. You
remember that last winter the admins.
tration journals claimed great credit fol
the administration because 1t had secured
the written agreement of other nations Il
maintain the open door. You ask what Is
the open door? Is that free trade? No
not necessarily. Open door simply means
that -an the nations of the earth, our owl
included. are to trade on equal terms. pay
the same duties n charges n be sub
ject to the same regulations.
well. II that is the case, II we get any
trade. we will have to compete for it, will
we not? We will have to compete witt
the German, the Spaniard, the English
AAaaA hAS az eb1f@ .f>
with all other people that see fit to trad
there. and we will get just such trade
as competition gives us, and we Will ge
not a dollar more. What are we to ge
for these 1906, 900. 900 or s400. 900, 900 a yea
that we are spending on this imperial poll
cy? What are we to get for the thou
sands of American lives that We arr
sending to the tropics to die? Simpl,
bloody hands, bleared eyes and scared
consciences. But the president now tell
us that divine Providence has guided us II
everything that we have done and ar,
doing.
Syndicates After Islands.
lover here in the Atlantic is the islam,
Of Porto Rico. 1t has about 100000 o
inhabitants; a peaceable, Industrious. fru
gal. h~ospitable people. In 1898 they wei
coined our army and cheered our flag
Gen. Miles issued a proclamation to thes
people In the name Of the American re
public in which he told them that W
would make their island a part of ou
republic: that they should be citizens
our country and that our flag would cor
fer on them all the blessings that 1t cor
ferred on the American people. They wer
willing to become citizens. They said I
Gen. Miles: We trust you. We have cor
idence in the honor of your great cour
try At that time they had Is represent
atives in the Spanish cortes. The wei
not taxed without representation, they ha
free access to the markets of Spain and a
of our possessions. We cut them loos
from all that. We would not let Ge'
many or England or any other Dur
. that would give them free markets ha,
them.
Then we held that people at arm
, length for a year and a half, during whio
they could not trade with any COUNT
without paying ruinous tariff taxes. "
reduced them to actual want. Last wi
S ter the president sent a message TO CO..
D gress in which he referred to the Por
Ricans and said that plain duty requir,
= US to make them citizens so that tn,
could trade with our people without pa,
ing tariff taxes, and every patriot in til
country. whether republican or democra
e said: Amen! that Is right
Mr.. Payne, chairman of the commit
in congress hat had the matter in charg
o drafted a bill embodying the recommend
n tons of the president. He made a spec
In support of that bill. Congress was ri
to pass that bill. Then a trust magma
named Oxnard. Of New York. hurried
Washington to prevent the passage of tn
, bill. 1t seems that 1t was not to the |
! terest Of his trust to have these peoI
made citizens.
l. Trust Magnate's Power.
/ ITO the establishment of the Americ,
e people and the .chagrin of the republica
d Of this country, to the disgust of (
y great republican journals of our own ci
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