The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-04-12

them off and they would be out of the
way, but we cannot kill all Of them, be-
cause then there would be no trade; we
have got to leave some to trade with.
What are you going to do with them?
Are they going to become citizens? If
80 are you willing that they should look
forward to the time when they can elect
United States senators and representatives
and vote for a president? NY friends
this country is big enough, il man tries
to canvass it, without adding the Philip.
pine islands. l am not willing to have
the presidential election determined by
returns from the Philippine islands.
Are you? 1t is only a few years ago
when |, as a member of congress, had to
act upon proposition that came from
this western country. Your people came
down to Washington and begged us to
save the Pacific coast from the invasion
of Malays, and we did it. We voted the
bill, We excluded the Chinese, and now
are you going to demand of the country
that we help you to get s or 10 millions of
Filipinos. Is that what you mean? You
are not willing that these people should
be citizens, and if you are | am not
This state gave me twelve thousand ma
iority in '96. l would be glad to do any.
thing l can to please the people of Wash
ington, but, my friends, if the people of
this state for trade reasons are willing to
bring in eight or ten millions OF Malays
to degrade this civilization, l would
fight you as hard this time as fought
with you before. My friends, our civil
ization is too sacred product to be
thrown away in this manner l am not
willing that we should have heteroge-
GUS empire | am not willing that the
fate OF our race and of our nation shall
be in part determined by the Filipinos.
But what are you going to do if you have
them? They must either be citizens or
subjects. Then there is only one thing
that We can do, and that is to have them
separate from the United States. But,
people ask, are you going to draw the
army out and leave them to anarchy?
Nobody has ever proposed that. The
Bacon resolution didn't declare that we
we're going to draw out our army. 1t de-
clsred We would first establish suitable
government, worthy to be recognized as
such, and then turn the government over
to the Filipinos themselves and let it be
their government and not ours and |
add third that, having established
suitable government. and having given
them their independence, we will stand
by them like an elder brother as we have
stood by the republics OF Central and
South America, and say to the world
that whenever this nation helps reput
lie to stand upon its own ground, the
ground whereon it stands is holy ground,
and that no foreign government shall
ever set loot on that ground again. Gap
plause). Is there anything un-American
about that? That is what we promised
to the Cubans. When the war was over
Your president told the Cubans that our
purpose WAS utIoly W stay tutIe lot u
little while and establish suitable gov
eminent in place of the government we
overthrow. That is what we want to say
to the Fllipinos, and the Monroe doctrine
announces to the world THAT this nation
will not permit any nation to take foot
of land that belongs to the Cuban gov
ernment and that is what we want to
announce to the world in regard to the
Philippine islands. 1t is an American
plan. consistent with our traditions, and
believe with our interests also. When
a man says to me that it pays to carry OH
war for conquest want to read him
higher authority than the republicans
have vet been able to quote. Among the
early patriots Of this nation none were
wiser than franklin, and in June, 1915,
month prior to the signing of the delar-
alton Of independence, Franklin wrote q
letter to Lord Howe. Lord Howe had