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TREAT CUBAN AND TAGAL ALIKE.


TREAT CUBAN AND TAGAL ALIKE.
What would you do with the Philip
the result of war or Of purchase, as you
please Would you give 1t back to them?
Would you have this people stand still
while a scramble was being maintained
by European nations for control OF 1t?
Whether it came to us through the direct
intervention of Providence, or as the lands
of one people have been coming to other
peoples since the race started out on its
tremendous career Of migration, we have
it. What must we do with it2 Be prac-
teal in your answer. Can we let 1t fall
into the laps Of other nations? Can we
let these people fall to cutting each
others throats? Then what is there for
us to do but just as we are doing?
These inquiries In their suggested an
swers embody the entire gospel Of inn
perialism in the Philippines. OF course
there are variations; but the answers
which these questions suggest represent
the most enlightened and liberal views
which can be found prevailing among adj
ministration politicians and editors Some
will add to 1t and say: It is merely the
suppression Of the more defective and
weaker for the more perfect and stronger
form of civilization and progress. These
semi-savages have no right to stand In
the path of the worlds progress. Let US
civilize them or else get rid of them.
We can be relied on to do better for them
than they can do for themselves. They
have no more right to that country than
the North American savage had to the
lands we ourselves now occupy. But this
latter sort of talk does not represent the
trend of thought OF those whose views
will be effective with the American peo-
pie if this policy of Imperialism Is des-
tined to receive the sanction of the mass
of the people in the several states. The
difference is not material. 1t is all the
doctrine of brute force. In the former
case care is being taken to preserve
Christian civilization. In the latter there
Is no thought of veneer. Brute force Is
thought strong and attractive enough to
show itself in it's native state.
What then, is the answer? Do with
the Tagals as you have done with the Gu
bans. You have the highest authority
for the claim that they are as fitted for
self-government as the Cubans are. Adj
miral Dewey, for one, has said So They
fought against the Spanish, as the Gu
bans did The Cuban instruction was
never any more successful than theirs.
The Cuban leaders and generals were
hung, shetland eXpatriated, just as theirs
were The4Cuhans might never have sue
ceeded againsts Spain any more than the
Filipinos. were itanot for American in
tervention. Cuba was included in that
treaty of peace. The evacuation Of Cuba
and the Philippines by the Spanish SOL
diery came as the result of that treaty.
1t is true that we did not pay anything
for Cuba, as we did for the Philippines.
But the Philippines were ours with
out dollar as fully as was Cuba
The difference lay just here: Our poll
ticians at Washington wanted both Cuba
and the Philippines But to rob the
Cubans of their country would have won
for them the execration Of mankind The
case of the Philippines was not so naked.
And so our Paris peace commissioners
were instructed to get the additional title
Of purchase, so far as it could be got.
1t was at one time popular among i'm
perialists to say that the Fflipines were
very superior people, and that all their
sorrows were due to the Spanish friars,
| and that if it were not for the "supersti-
ton on which Mr.. Beveridge laid so
much stress lately they would be perfect
ly able to look after their own affairs;
that they simply. wanted civil, religious
and political freedom, but were deprived
of 1t by the friars and the Spanish off,
Gals. -; ssst..
What, then, Is the reason Cuba and the
Philippines are not to be treated in the
same way? Why not give the Filipinos
| has been already asked, but no answer
has been essayed thus far. The country
awaits the answer to this specific ques-
| ton.