The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-26
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government. will not appropriate the Fill
pinos land or permit Americans as in
diyfduals 10 seize il. II will protect the
Filipinos In its possessions. II any Ameri-
II VIII be because he buys IL from the
owner Under American administration
the Filiplno who owns his little plot or
ground will experience security in the
possession of his property which he has
never known before. The English in
Egypt and India have not taken the land
from its owners; they have confirmed the
occupants in their ownership In Hawaii
we have not taken the land from its own
ers; We have secured its owners in their
tration in the Philippines will also es-
tablish there that same security of prop
erty and life which are the very begin
nings OF civilization itself.
BRITAIN AND INDIA.
If it be said that tropical countries cam
not be peopled by the Caucasian race.
1 answer that, even if true (Which is
not yet proved, it is no reason why they
should not be governed by the Caucasian
race. India is a tropical country. India
is ruled by Great Britain TO the advantage
of India and England alike. Who denies
that India's 900 are better off under
English administration than under the bes-
tial tyranny of native rulers. to whom. the
agony of their subjects was their highest
form of amusement? If you think of pres
ent famine when L mention India, remind
you that famine was formerly so frequent
as 10 be familiar condition, and not the
hideous exception whose rarity now ex-
cites the pity of the world; and that with
famine walked the pestilence now nearly
unknown
Dare Mr.. Bryan say that he would have
India back TO its condition before England
Dare he say that he would withdraw Eng
lish rule now? If he dare not, he is
answered; Dare he say that he would
states and turn them back again 10 the
tiger rule of their brutal lords? If he
dare not. he is answered. Dare he say that
the Beers should restore the Transvaal
to its original owners? If he dare not. he
Is answered Dare he deny that the great
est progress shown upon the map or the
earth to-day is the progress of Egypt dur
ing the last twenty years under English
rule? If he dare not. he is answered. And
he dare not. If he proclaims his trust I'm
the Filipino people, who know not the
faith In the American people. who have
developed the. realities of liberty.
Grant. for the purposes of argument, the
oppositions premise that the white man
cannot people the Philippines. Grant, also
that the Malays of those islands cannot,
unaided, establish civilization there; build
roads, open mines. erect schools, maintain
social order, repress piracy and administer
safe government throughout the archipela-
so. And this must be granted: for they are
the same race which inhabit the Malay
peninsula What. then, is the conclusion
demanded by the general welfare of the
world? Surely not that this land, rich in
all that civilized man requires and these
people needing the very blessings they
ignorantly repel. should be remanded 10
savagery and the wilderness! If you say
this. you say that barbarism and unde-
veloped resources are better than civiliza-
ton and the earths resources developed.
What is the conclusion, then, which the
logic of civilization compels from these adj
mitted premises? 1T is that the reign of
law must be established throughout these
islands, their resources developed and
their people civilized by those in whose
blood resides the genius of administration.
Such are all Teutonic and Celtic peoples.
Java. Such are the Eenglsh; behold their
work all around the world. Such the Ger
man; behold his advance into the fields of
world-regeneration and administration.
Such were the French before Napoleon
diverted their energies: behold their work
in Canada, Louisiana and our great North
west. And such, more than any people who
ever lived. are the Americans, into whose
hands God has given the antipodes to de-
velop their resources, to regenerate their
PEOPLE and TO establish there the civiliza-
ton OF Hawthorn liberty and liberty-born
law. Lawton and Macarthur and our civil
commission are higher agents of civiliza-
ton than Auguinaldo. The stars and stripes
is a surer emblem of liberty and law than
any Malay standard that ever was or ever
can be raised.