The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-01-30
The FUHpInos' Inst Card.

Aside from any question OF morals or
ethics involved in the phenomenon. it is
true that to some extent the sentiment OF
sympathy 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
lection by their hatred for England. Nor
does il apply 10 another and much more
obnoxious class whose only interest in the
South African struggle is 70 make il a
stalking horse for their desperate design
to rob the American people OF the fruits OF
the war with Spain by compelling the Gov
eminent TO haul down the Stars and Stripes
in the Philippines and to abandon the ar
chipelago to the whipped and hiding Agui-
naldo. and his scattered bands OF cut
throat Tsgal bandits.
1t is from the last-named class OF do
nestle revolutionists both in and outside
Of Congress that We hear all the talk OF
American intervention in South Africa.
Perhaps Ct is an interesting 81 not sug-
gesuve reflection that. in the United States
Senate. certain leading opponents OF the
demand that we should NEEDLE violently
in European affairs. their favorite Fare
well Address" 10 the contrary nolwith-
standing are the seif-same individuals
who few years ago vehemently denounc-
ed the very thought OF intervention in
Cuba for humanity's sake. as Illegal. In
tolerable and impious One OF the most
vicious AMI constituencies Of the bOIomen.
who is now ranting and roaring for
chance to offer Great Britain a casus beIIi
for future reference, a few months before
the Spanish war was declaring that the
wholesale butchery of women and babies
by the fend Weyler in Cuba. could furnish
no reason in international law OF in equity
why We should do anything even 10 offend
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 involve
this country in a step, the fatal conse-
quenceg OF which they know and appre-
eiate, but which they would have It take
and traitorous interests. They are fully.
aware that interference by the United
States in a foreign war in which one Of
the belligerents is a great European state.
would establish a precedent which would
give that or any other European state an
equal right TO interfere between the Uni
ted States and any Of its dependencies or
between 1t and any country OF the West
ern Hemisphere with which Il might chance
TO be at war. Moreover such action. IN
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 fer
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 to
force our Government into a position
which later. would give the concert Of
Europe an opportunity TO intervene against
us in the Philippines and make our DOS
session OF that Pacific Empire untenable
What is the Constitution, or humanity. or
the honor OF the flag and nation to men.
hhoot Nuole ooutS arc DOunQ up In the
single object of preserving their rObbsr
mOnOpOlies by the exclusion of territory
capable OF producing sugar, tobacco. or
rum, in competition with their own "in-
FAINT industries" on the American main
land? It is TO such sources that the SYM
pathy Of the Congressional bOlomen for
the Beers is directly and obviously tracea-
BILE.
Private citizens. affected by the idea that
the soldiers fighting under Joubert and
foreign mercenaries like de VillebOis-A Ma
reuil, de Brialmont, and Albrecht, are sis
ter republicans" may be virtuously SYM
pathetic with them; but we are not pre-
pared to believe that the creatures who
were once wont to stand up in the Ma
tional Legislature and laugh at the piteous
appeals of the starving reconcentrados are
anything OF the kind. They have but one
purpose in view, which is to embarrass the
Government and to open the way for Euro
pean intervention in our affairs; hoping
thereby in some manner TO weaken the
hold of America upon her, by them, hated
colonial possessions. They Will fail. as