Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-11

stump and in the press of faction IN
the United States, that every shot his
misguided followers fired into the
breasts OF American soldiers was like
the volleys fired by Washington's men
against the soldiers OF King George,
his insurrection would have dissolved
before it entirely crystallized.
"The Filipinos," Senator Beveridge
said, sare children utterly incapable
{ of seIf-government; the English or
Dutch systems Of government were
impossible and a protectorate imprac-
ticable.'
eve must never forget that in deal
ing with the Filipinos, we deal. with.
children. And SO our government
must be simple and strong. Simple
and sstrong-the meaning of those two
words must be written in every line
Of Philirpine legislation; realized in
every act of Philippine administra-
ton. y
"Our administrators must be exam
pies. You cannot teach the Filipino by
precept. An object lesson is the only
lesson he comprehends. He has no
conception, of pure, orderly, equal, inn
partial government. under equal laws
justly administered, because he has
never seen such a government. He
must be shown the simplest results of
good government by an actual example
in order that he may begin to under
stand its most elementary principles.
There must be no promise whatever of
the franchise Until the people have
been prepared for it,
Senator Beveridge claimed that the
nations power to make rules and reg
ulations for the government of its pos
sessions was not confined to any given
set of rules or regulations. 1t was not
confined to any particular formula of
laws of kind of government or type OF
administration.
"This question is deeper than any
question of party politics; deeper than
any question of isolated policy of our
country, even; deeper even than any
question of constitutional power. 1t
is elemental. 1t is racial. God has not
been preparing the english speaking
and Teutonic peoples of a thousand
years for nothing but vain and idle
self-contemplation and self administra-
ton. No, He has4made us the master
organizers of the world TO establish
system where chaos reigns. He has
given us the spirit of progress to over
whelm the forces of reaction thruout
the earth. He has made us adopts
in government that we may administer
government among savage and senile
peoples. Were it not for such force
as this, the world would relapse into
barbarism and night, and of all our
race, He has marked the American
people as His chosen nation to finally
lead in the regeneration of the world.
This is the divine mission of America,
and it holds for us all the profit, all
the glory, all the happiness possible
to man. We are trustees of the worlds
progress; guardians of its righteous
peace. The judgment of the Master is
upon us: 'Ye have been faithful over
few things; 4 will make you ruler
over many things.
What shall history say to us? Shall
| it say that we renounce that holy
| trust, left the savage to his base con-
dition, the wilderness to the reign of
waste, deserted duty, abandoned glory,
forgot our sordid profits even, because
we feared our strength and read the
charter of our powers with the doubt
er's eye and quibbler's mind?
Shall it say that called by events to
CAPTAIN and command the proudest,
ablest, purest race Of history, in his
tory's noblest work, we declined that
great commission? Our fathers would
not have had it so. No. They founded
no paralytic government incapable of
the simplest acts of administration.
They planted no sluggard people, pas
sive while the worlds work calls them.
They established no reactionary ma
ton. They unfurled no retreating
flag.
".That flag has never paused on its
onward march. Who dares halt it now
now when history's largest events
are CARRYING it forward, now when we
/ are at last one people, tho strong
enough for any task, great enough for
anv glory destiny can bestow. How