The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-23
Circulation Statement.
China and the Philippines.


motive for President MeKinley's deter
mination to scuttle out of China. re-
gardless of consequences to American
lives, property, and national honor, the
administration is fully conscious that
It's course does not meet with popular
approval. The excuse is made by its
Spokesman and organs, that every SOL
der possible TO command is needed to
re-enforee the army in the Philippines.
If that be true. conditions must have
undergone a radical change for the
worse in the archipelago since the
Taft Commission turned in its grapevine
cable campaign speech. Then nothing
was left of the Instruction so neatly
finished by Otis but few bands OF ia
drones in the mountain fastnesses. and
all the insurgent generals and pcl ticians
with the exception of Aguinaldo had sur
rendered and taken the oath of allegi-
ance. But now we are sclemnly as
sured that these few scattered lands
are making so much trouble that fifty
seven thousand troops are not sufii lent
to cope with them, and that Chance.
with most of his. brigade of five thousand
men. must be hurried hack to Manila
to stem the tide of the Philippine war.
II this is the situation now. what will
happen when the ADMINISTRATION begins
to withdraw the volunteers whose off,
GERS have mostly rendered their resigl a
items. which have been rejected under
promise that the homeward movement
would begin not later than November?
If our interests in China. and our M
tional dignity and honor, must be sacri-
feed to get out of the Empire with a
relief column three thousand strong TO
rescue Macarthur. what is TO be d7ne
To keep up his fighting strength aftsr
the volunteers begin to leave the IL
aads?
We are afraid it is a fact that Mac
Arthur has all he can do to keep the
fehting Filipinos at bay. If the country
is astonished that it should be so. the
Administration has its policy of sup
pressing the truth. concerning conditions
in the Philippines TO thank for it. The
old declarations so monotonously reiterated
again and again by Otis. and endorsed by
the War Department and the White House.
that the Instruction had been crushed.
were known to the officials who accepted
and advertised them, and in every first
class newspaper office in the United States,
to be utterly devoid of truth. and given out
for political effect only. At last the real
state OF things is revealed to the general
public. and not creditabiy to the Admin
istration.
Whether military conditions are as bad
as alleged. or only so for the purposes or
the Chinese scuttle, the American retreat
from China is calculated to subject us 10
the ridicule and contempt of the civilized
powers. They have never before witnessed
the spectacle of a great nation sacrificing
its duty, prestige, and honor in the face OF
a world crisis because IT'S Executive feared
that to maintain those desiderata might
unfayorably affect a little bueolic 'front.'
porch political campaign. They will find
it difficult to understand how ruler in
Mr. McKinIey's place, after usurping the
individual imperial power to levy war and
invade a foreign country. in violation Of
the Constitution of his own. could become
so panic-stricken as to abandon the prin,
ciples upon which he acted in making war
and range himself with the powers opposed
to those principles.
That Is the picture he presents to the
world. He is now a member in full com
munion of the Chino Russo Yanko ALI
anee. the objects of which, briefly stated
are to save China from the retribution
she justly deserves, and to maintain the
Empress Dowager in power; both for the
advantage of Russia, who is DESTROYS OF
1nonopolizing the plueking of the pigeon
and is doing some extremely effective
though cruel work in that direction in
Manchuria. That China should be found
in such an alliance, at first blush, is as
strange as that Mr.. Mckinley should be
But It is undeniable that Ii Hung Chang
and Prince Ching are playing the Russian
game while the American President is
playing theirs.