The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-10


pcatcd In exaggerated form among the
common people. Arms and ammunition
We're shipped from Asiatic ports to the
Filipinos by wretches claiming Ameri-
can citizenship: and these acts of In
fanny were coupled by the Malays with
American assaults ON our government at
home. The Filipinos do not understand
free speech. and therefore our tolerance
of American assaults on the American
president and the American government,
means to them that orr president Is in
the minority or he would not permit what
appears to them such trcasonable critt-
cism. 1t is believed nd stated in Luzon.
Panay and Ccbu. that the Fiipinos nave
only tn fight, harass, retreat. break up
are doing now. hut by any means hold
out until the next presidential election.
and our forces will be withdrawn. All
this has aided the enemy more than elm
ate, arms and battle. Senators, l have
heard these r. ports myself; | nave talked
with the people: i have seen our man
S!cd boys In the hospital and field; I
have stood on the firing line and beheld
our dead soldiers. their faces turned to
the pitiless southern sky: and. in sorrow
rather than anger. 1 say to those whose
voices i'm America have cheered those
misguided natives on to shoot our sol
dead and wounded boys of ours Is on
their hands: and the food of all the
years can never wash that stain away.
In sorrow rather than anger say these
words, for | earnestly believe that our
brothers knew Tot what they did.
Filipinos Incapable Of self-Govern-
rnant
But senators, II would be better to
abandon this combined garden and Gil
braltar of the Pacific, and count our
blood and treasure already spent ii prof
liable loss. than to apply any academic
arrangement of self-government to these
children. They are not capable of self
government How could they be? They
are not of IL sclf-governing race. They
are Oricntals. Malays, Instructed by Span
iai,ls i'm the latter's worst estate. They
know nothing OF practical government
except as they have witnessed the weak.
corrupt. cruel and capricious rule of
Spain. What magic Will anyone employ
TO dissolve in their minds and characters
those impressions of governors and gov
crned which three centuries Of misrule
has created? What alchemy will change
the oriental quality of their blood and
set the Self-S,Nernlng currents OF the
American pouring through their Malay
veins: How shall they, in the twinkling
OF an eye, be exalted to the heights or
self-govcrning peoples. which required a
thousand years Tor us IT, reach, Anglo.
Saxon though we are?
Let men beware how they employ the
term "sclf-Eovernment." 1t is II sacred
term. II is the watchword at the door
of III" inner temple of liberty: for liberty
does not always mean government.
Self-govcrnment Is Il method of liberty
the highest, simplest, best-and 1t is ac-
uuirc1 only after centuries of study and
struggle and experiment and instruction.
and all the elements of the progress Of
man. Self-governmcnt is no base and
common thing. to be bestowed on the
merely audacicus. II is tine degree which
CROWNS the graduate of liberty. not the
not t' vet mastereI mas, II The W alphaSet " Of free. %
dom. Savage blood; Oriental blood; Ma
hy ,hs o,"n, Io"n aiM!'isi pf nrnntn rMaIrn '"es'
I've We m,st ac, "n Ibe 81 sit,,aiin, ,s a.,
oxists m"i ,s " wa wouiI u,iu,, ~ h,re
tnIi,aG VIII, hurdroIS of hose nem,,r
w,.tiinr tbeir views as ~ he nrnctirni
wnrkinS,r. nf seif.""v"rrment % "o 1ha gr.nt :
,no inritT oirrnI,. J' nnt ,njor,tnn, an,,
m,rt icn, ton 4, u INV ', ,o,nrnnomt a,hnt
w. ~, 49, ,I;S,,,orod .r,nn th"n,
| ,Ieci,ro thnt soIf- -.ovsrnman, will s,,cceed
hocn,,S,. thn ",,n,SUar. ~ I,bor ,,;II cow
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,ni,;; ;; "," 'I''. '",' ,,d W., ,hat ~,
cn,,iG d,ani nno, ,,nnJ - niv,a''. w.
'i in'r t,,n. Ip", ,Is Soo ,,in;'I
nnnstit,,tn M prn,,nrm,,a,'t Iii mn,o;nntn "
tbn;w S,,ooos.ors chnnun tho" S. ,r,on,r tho
nao,,o w. w,ilI do ne ,ntinc a"I it,
| nine how and wberr elections will no
,,,r,., tbt a. 'men' t & uu. o'".I i ~ sbn
1sha,,in nnam ~, ,,,oh ,, ",.or,,,nnt u.
wo,,IG ha Ira,nui, h,cnn, nv s,ia -
n'nn 'e ;,;oiid ~ 90 ,r,,,,, nc 80, =.
| hh!pl,e ciit..iSeu ~ the EoNeIn!nen.
| wouio shooy inc omeiiasr, lew Oh lners
% %.iNr q s.t w . ~. u,.u.. ~, o'n,,u.ts VI W
a the yn,,riau - ~ ;n ',f nf ,ho ,ran
tino, wnriiinTs nf snlfI@oHornrant M me nptar-
t ~, "o,N,"sS VI i e".eL ;,
nian,ars IVA trader. and ,,. .'u
M os anu t,ausIS, , a,,u % ..arS , e,mp'oS
, ein ", .auo.' '"c 'i'e" WIN "o"'o IL" ''e
government
People Indolent: No Competition
,y;+h Orr Tohor
VIII" ouf Aaooi'
Example for decades will be necessary
| to instruct them in American ideas and
| methods of administration. Example.
| example: always example; this alone will
! teach them. AS Il race. their general
ability is poor Educators. both men
| and women. to whom I have talked il,
Cebu ana Luzon, were unanmous in the
| opinion that in all solid and useful edu-
| cation they are. as a people. dull and stu
/ pid. In SNOWY thirgs, like carving and
| painting. or embroidery, or music, they
have apparent aptitude, but even this is
superficial and never thorough They
| have facility of speech, too. The three
! hest educators on the island at different
times, made TO me the same Comparison.
| that the common people, in their stupd-
! ity. are like their caribou bulls. They
| are not even good agriculturalists. Their
waste of cane is ineXcusablc. Their dc :
| struction of hemp fibre is childish They
| are incurably indolent. They have no
| continuity or thoroughness of industry.
| They will quit work without notice and
| amusc themselves until the money they
! have earned is spent They are like chill
! dren playing at mems work. No one need
| fear their competition with our labor Ma
| reward could beguilc, no force compel,
| these children of indolence TO leave III, ir
| triliing lives for the fierce and fervii
| industry of high-wrought America The
| very reverse is the fact. One grea,
| problem is the necessary labor to develop
| these islands, To build the roads. oDei,
| the mines. clear the wilderness, drain the
| swamps drcdgc the harbors The natives
! will not supply IL; "A lingering prejudice
| against the Chinese may prevent MS from
| letting ,hrn ciInnlv IL JTltip,at.,,y ,,,ban