The evening times., 1900-01-30
The Fitipiaos' Inst Card.

Aside from any question of morals or
ethics involved in the phenomenon, it is
trlIe that TO some extent the sentiment OF
symnathv for the Beers in this country is
an honest one This, of course, does not
apply to the large number of sympathizers
who care as much for Beers as for the wild
men of Tibet, but supply that lack OF az
fection by their hatred for England. Nor
does il apply TO another and much more
obnoxious class whose only interest in the
South African struggle is TO make it
stalking horse for their desperate design
to rob the American people of the fruits OF
the war with Spain by compelling the Gov
ernment to haul down the Stars and Stripes
i'm the Philippines and to abandon the ar
rhipelago TO the whipped and hiding Agui-
naldo. and his scattered bands of cut
throat Tagal bandits.
II is from the last-named class of do
mestic revolutionists both in and outside
of Congress that We hear all the talk of
American intervention in South Africa.
Perhaps il is an interesting if not sug-
gestive reflection that. in the United States
f
demand that we should meddle violently
in European affairs. their favorite Fare
well Address" to the contrary notwith-
standing. are the seif-same individuals
who a few years ago yehemently denounc-
ed the very thought of intervention in
Cuba for humanitys sake. as Illegal. in
tolerable. and impious. One of the most
Of he hAlo
who is now ranting and roaring for a
chance to offer Great Britain casus belli
for future reference, few months before
the Spanish war was declaring that the
wholesale butchery of women and babies
by the fiend Weyler in Cuba. could furnish
/ no reason in international law or in equity
+ why we should do anything even to offend
1 a friendly nation. or display an imperti-
nent interest in its colonial affairs, policy
or practices.
We may be sure that it is not love for
suffering humanity, or for people strug-
Cling for independence that actuates such
! persons in their fierce desire to involvf
this country in a step, the fatal conse-
/ uuences of which they know and appre-
/ ciate. but which they would have it take
I for the promotion of their own sordit
end traitorous interests. They are fully
aware that interference by the United
States in a foreign war in which one o.
the belligerents is great European state
would establish precedent which would
give that or any other European state ar
equal right to interfere between the Uni
/ ted States and any Of its dependencies OF
between it and any country of the West
ern Hemisphere with which 1t might chance
to be at war. Moreover such action, un'
invited by both parties TO the contest
would be tantamount to a formal renun.
citation of the Monroe DSctrine.
The bolomen in Congress do not care fol
consequences, where the un-American in
terests of their hackers and financial as
sociates or contributors are concerned
Even at the cost. of abandoning the Mon
! roe Doctrine they would be delighted II
force our Government into a position
which, later, would give the concert o.
Europe an opportunity to intervene agains
us in the Philippines and make our pos
session Of that Pacific Empire untenable
What is the Constitution, or humanity, O.
the honor of the flag and nation to men
whose whole souls are bound up in th'
single object of preserving their robbie
mnnopolies by the exclusion of territor.
capable of producing sugar, tobacco, o
rum, in competition with their own ''in
fant industries" on the American main
land? 1t is TO such sources that the sym
pathy of the Congressional bolomen 70
the Beers is directly and obviously tracea
BILE.
Private citizens, affected by the idea tha
the soldiers fighting under Joubert an
foreign mercenaries like de Villebois- Ma
reuil. de Brialmont, and Albreeht, are isis
ter republicans, may be virtuously sym
pathetic with them; but we are not pre-
pared to believe that the creatures VIII
were once wont to stand up in the Ma
tional Legislature and laugh at the piteou
appeals of the starving reconcentrados ar
anything Of the kind. They have but on
purpose in view, which is TO embarrass tn
Government and to open the way for Euro
.pean intervention in our affairs; hopin
thereby in some manner to weaken tn
hold of America upon her, by them, hate
colonial possessions. They viii fail. q