The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1900-10-30

The career of military conquest, her
fate and destiny were In the hands OF
" ju.t and illegitimate land-grabbers
and the manipulators of her military
proves, which ultimately resulted in
the conversion Of the republic into the
empire and the perpetustion Of the
slave system throughout the world.
Rome's course resulted In the enslAve-
ment of her people and the u innate
overthrow of her Constitution. The
psrversion of the Roman Constitution
and the dissolution of the Republic
and the institution OF the Empire WAS
due to her course of Imperialism.
Says Meyers, the historian, "That act
interference in Sicilian sffsirs) com.
mitted them (the Romsns) to a course
of foreign conquest.
Says James Anthony Frouds, that
eminent scholar and historian, who
wrote his "Sketch of Cmsar" long be-
fore the present agitation Of imperial
ism begun, From the time when
Rome became an empire, mistress OF
provinces. to which she was unable to
extend her own liberties, the days of
her slf-government were numbered"
The same author says further in his
treatment of the same subject, "If
there be one lesson which history
clearly teaches it 10 this, that free ma
tons cannot govern subject provinces.
If they are unable or unwilling to adj
nit their dependencies to share their
own Constitution, the Constitution
will itself fall in pieces from mere iu-
competence for its duties."
According 10 the position of the Adj
ministration we are either to have
subject provinces, or the FilipinoS
are TO form ali integral part Of our cit
izenship. No American citizen would
surely contend that we could consist.
emily hold subject provinces. There
fore, it muIt be the intention of the
Administration to make them an in
tegral part Of our citizenship. Now
can we consistently force people to
become a part of our citizenship
against its will and consent?
If the negro deserves freedom and
independence, why not the Flipinos |?
We spent billions in money and sac.
rifced millions of lives in breaking
the shsckleS of negro slavery, and are
now trying to enslave the Filipinos
and fGsten to this Government anoth-
er system Of fatal industrial slavery.
You may AJAX, "Hss not the negro
been elevated by his association with
u. p But he did not begin to i'm
prove until he was freed and his le-
gitimSte aspirations unhImpered and
his rightful opportunities uncircum-
Itdbed. They were not voluntarily
in their condition of sertdom, but did
endeAyor, in their weak way, to eV-
tricste themselves from their enslsv-
ed condition. So the Fllipinos, even
it be our intention to make OF them
American ctiz,ns, cannot rise in the
scale of civilization unlesa they be un
hsmpered in their legitimate sspirs-
tons, and circnmscribed in their
rightful opportunities When we
bought the Filipinos against their
ill and consent, in what respect did
we differ from New Orleans slave
merchant when he bought aud sold a
negro against his will and consent?
You may say, "the Filipino does rot
know what is best for him" The
Nav Orleans slave merchant could
have SAID the same thing just az con-
sisteutly. If 10 take the Filipino into
our Government is against hiI will +,
he will always be a slave. The ASSOC
citation of the negro and the indian
with us surely teaches that no race of
psople foreign to us in habit, thought,
language and nature, can be made an
integral part of our citizenship with.
out endangering the government; and
that amalgamstien with such people
is absolutely impossible. l believe
history warrants the statement that
the same republic cannot govern diff
ferent races or tribes of people, who
do not possess the property of amalga-
ton with the more intelligent and
ruling class.
Some say that we have the same
right to annex the Philippines as we
had to annex Louisiana, from the fact
that that territory contained race of
people, namely the Indians, who had
10 be sutjug .ted just AZ we were sub
jugatlng the Filipinos. Note the diff
ference: (D Louisiana did not then