Daily camera., 1900-07-27

of bimetallism. We are right in our op.
position to trusts-which is only saving
that man is right in opposing highway
robbery. We are right in opposing \
large standing army-for large standing
armies have ever been the engines and
means of despotism. We are right in
fighting imperialism; for this government
cannot long exist, half republic and half
empire. 1t will become all republic or
all empire. No man can at the same time
play successfully the dual role of Presi.
dent of the United States and Emperor
OF the Philippines.
Mr. Clark spoke for free coinage at
length and scored the Republican party
for its shifting of position on that ques.
ton. AS to the Wolcott commission he
declared it would have accomplished
something had it not been "hamstrung"
by the administration:
don't care baubee about Aguinaldo
and the Fllipnos. l am an American, a
| white man, of the blonde variety at tn 1t,
AID my sympathy, my heart. my soic.
itude 60 out to the American people.
They are the real sufferers in this wild
lingo business. and must pay the piper
in this mad dance of death. One of two
things is true about these Filipinos.
Either they are fit for self government
or they are not. The jlngos must take
one or the other horn of this dilemma
and whichever they take, mark me. they
will be impaled upon it. If they are fit
for self government, in Gods name let
them govern themselves.
If they are not fit, we don't want them
for fellow citizens. We have too many
who are not strictly prime and they vote
the Republican ticket with irritating and
monotonous regularity.
But one thing | do know and that is
that whether the Fillpinos are fit to
govern themselves or not, they are no,
tit to govern us and yet that is precisely
| what they will do If we take them into
political partnership with US, for the su-
preme court of the United States has re-
peated time and time again that the only
purpose we can have In acquiring terri
tory is to make states of it and if they are
ever admitted they will control the SEN
ate as well as the electoral college.
Where is the American citizen who is
willing to have that distant archipelago,
Inhabited by alien peoples, admitted in
to the union of states on a fat.footed
equality with our states?
You can not make a Malay fit for
| American citizenship in ten thousand
years, for it is written you can not make
silk purse out of sow's ear Fitness
| for American citizenship is largely a
matter of breed.
Speaking for myself alone would not
give the life of one healthy, brave, ambi
tious. moral, intelligent white boy in ex.
change for all OF the Filiplnos in the
archipelago or all that may be found
there until the crack OF doom.
humbly and tervently thank AL.
mighty God that not one drop of Ameri
can bloodshed IN this senseless lingo
war in the Philippines is upon my head
or upon my hands.
At the close of the Spanish war in the
summer of l896-for that is when it
really closed-we could have occupied
the most envlable position ever occupied
by any nation since the mornings stars
first sang together for JOY; and all we had
| to do was to do that which we owed it to
our fathers to do-which we owed it to
our traditions to do-whlCh we owed it
10 ourselves to do-whlch we owed it to
our children to do-which we owed it to
the cause of human liberty TO do-and
that was to say to both the Cubans and
the Filipinos: "You are free. Your
chains are broken. The Spanalds are
,hrashed. You helped US to do this
thing. Now set up your own government
and we will make the rest of the nations
keep their hands off of you or we will
shoot them off,