The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-05

The Maryland Democratic Club held its
regular weekly meeting last night at
/ Harper's Hall. Vice President Camalier
presided. The minutes of the last meet
| ing were read and approved. Mr. Allan
| D. Albert, jr, was then introduced and
addressed the club He spoke on the duty
| of the Gold Democrats in the campaign
| His address. which was scholarly and
finished, was attentively listened to by the
large audience, which frequently applaud
| ed the points scored against the Philip
pine policy of the Administration.
The address treated the subject from
three points of view-the expediency OF
Republican plans as indicated in Mr.. Nc
KinIeys letter OF acceptance; the prin-
cipIe on which they are based, and the
possible evils TO result from Democratic
victory. After a brief outline of the
events which led to American occupation
of the Philippines, the speaker quoted the
following parallel from one of the men
who framed the Paris Treaty:
Z" The situation is curiously like that OF
England in Egypt. says Mr.. Whitelaw
Reid. She interviewed, too, under far less
provocation, it must be admitted, and for
manitarian. But when some thought her
work was ended and that it was time for
her to CO. Lord Granville, on behalf of Mr.
Gladstone's Government, addressed the
other great European powers in note on
the outcome of which Congress might have
reflected with great profit before framing
its resolutions Although for the present"
Lord Granville said, "a British force re-
mains in Egypt for the preservation OF
public tranquility, Her Majesty's Govern
ment is DESTROYS of Withdrawing 1t as soon
as the state of the country and the organ
ization of proper means for the nainte-
nance of the Khedive's authority will ad-
nit of it, Fourteen years have passed
since these words for the present were
written, but Lord Kitchener has just COM
pleted the work of obtaining order in
| southern Egypt, and the army necessary
! for maintaining it is likely to be needed
there fourteen years further. II this is an
object lesson, reflect that Egypt has about
the same population as the Philippines, is
compact territory, half uninhabited, and
that her people met the British in open
warfare largely in open country.
Three centuries of warfare against
| the natives in Duzon have established
| the impossibility of hunting them down.
Ailments born of climate and sell are
agents as potent in assisting the island
| ordnance. Spain abandoned, scores of
years back, all hope Of reducing them
to submission, to quote the Schurman
! commission premises. II England, with
a regular standing force many times
greater than our extra army of today,
could not subdue less powerful opposi-
ton in Egypt in fourteen years. what
can we hope to do in the Philippines?
Suppose the nation approves the Repub-
. he, 10. til
the people OF the United States will con-
tinue to elect pro-war Administrations
tor fourteen years?
But grant the improbable-presup-
| pose the unquestioning support of
! peace-loving people in a war already
distasteful, and final victory over the
| Filipinos-will the Presidents scheme
of administration in Luzon prove stable?
The letter of acceptance states the re-
bellion is confined TO a single one out
of eighty tribes. If one-eightieth of
the islanders can today create such
great tumult what are we to do when
as with the American Indian, we at
tempt to remold the whole population
into American customs and morals?
Holland is successful in governing Java
because she permits there a dSzen things
to which the numerous American reform
associations could never consent Con-
marriage relation into the minds Of half
savages in oeeanica. Not one-eightieth,
not q small minority, would oppose US
then. but the whole people. One of the
most thoroughly informed and highly
trusted correspondents in Washington
| telegraphed his paper recently: There
| is no army officer whose opinion Is of
the least value who will not give his
private opinion that a permanent force
of $1,000 to 100000 men will be required
to push the policy of benevolent assim-
ilation" in the Philippines
Obnoxious to Thoughtful Men.
I'VE have already presupposed the i'm
probable. Concede even the impossible,
that an orderly government crammed down
their threats is accepted by the Filipinos
without further resistance, that their own
| traditions, government, customs civliZa-
| ton morals, and religion are peacefully
| supplanted by cur own. There is still such
strong objection to be urged against tho
reasonable consequences OF this Republican
campaign as TO vitiate it in the eyes of all
| thinking men. II We follow previous find
ings Of the United States Supreme Court
which / shall cite, the u 250, 600 people of
| these islands are citizens of the United
States. With or without the right 20 vote,
| with or without representation in our Con-
| gress, these citizens would have an IN
| doubted legal right to vote if they should
| immigrate to this country, and as citizens,
| would be superior to any exclusion act the
/ Congress might enact. Maryland has al
| ready so decided, and has admitted to her
| registration books the names of two native
| Porto Ricans living in Baltimore. Thus the
! gates OF the country are opened to polygiot
/ mass which Mr.. Whitelaw Reid defines az
| embracing all clImes, all religion, all
races-black, yellow, white, and their mix
ture-all conditions from pagan Ignorance
and the verge of cannibalism to the prod
| uct of centuries of civilization Is the
| misfortune OF thirty years ago to be re-
I peated in even more malignant form? Are
the blacks Of this country, whose citizen
! snip is Just emerging from the depths OF
the lowest syryility 70 unworthy and venal
! influences, are they to be given the COM
pany of an unlimited number of Malays,
/ kanakas, Asiatics. Chinese and cross
breeds? Before the fourteenth and ny
! teenth amendments were adopted ours was
nation in which every man was capable
of self government. That character was
! imperiled by Republican mistakes at the
close of the rebellion. Is 1t to be lost en-
tirely now? Mr.. Reid answers these ques-
| tons by the broad assertion The IN
haLitants of the islands will not migrate. >
Why, then, was the Chinese Exclusion act
a necessity? Ask the proprietors Of Amer
lean steam laundries whether the Chinese
Inigrnte. Ask the projectors of Western
railroads whether Aslatie labor exists. ASK
yourself whether laborers are likely to re-
main at work for 10 cents a day or less
when in another part of their country they
can earn at least Is cents.
"other considerations of expediency
might be urged. A large Office holding
class, thousands of miles from the home
government does not conduce to purity
of politics or government for unselfish