The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-01-08
MONDAY. JANUARY S, 1909.
The Philippines i'm the senate.

There should be no particular scarcity OF
Interesting oratory on the floor of the
Senate from this time on. There is not
only the currency question to impart pleas
urabie excitement to the proceedings, but
the important one Of our colonial policy. .
In loose way, part Of the press refers !
to this matter as a fight over the issue .
Of expansion. but without reason. IRE 1
vocably accomplished facts cannot const- /
tute an issue, any more in the case Of OR I
recently acquired and legally incorporated 4
iusular possessions. than in that of the rule .
OF three. Both are res adjudicata.
But The faction which calls itself anti +.
imperialist' does not recognize anything /
dispieasng to its views or wishes With /
its admired Tagal leader Tho. it believes
in the existence Of a galaxy Of Malay
Washingtons. Lafayettes. and Lincolns,
a Filipino republic" and the divine right
OF mutiueers, battling for liberty TO tor
ture and butcher helpless prisoners. With
its no less venerated friend. Paul Kruger
il regards the earth as fat. and otherwise
lives In a past so remote that its choicest
spirits are beginning to fear the couse-
uueuyes if Mr. Mckinley should go mad
and attempt TO carry out the wild scheme
OF his predecessor, jefferson. and proceed 10
buy the territory OF Louisiana from Nspo-
leon.
Fortunately the American people at
large are not in the least affected by the
cry Of auti-imperialism. Since the shock
ing story told by Lieutenant Gilmore has
come TO their ears and they have heard
other tales OF the Boston Junta's amiable
head hunters. they viii be less tolerant Of
it than ever. The public of this country
understands what expansion means better
than its enemies imagine. American
farmers. miners merchants. and manufact-
urers fully appreciate the fact that the only
hope for bread i'm the mouths of their
children lies i'm an increase Of mar
Rets Of consumption for American pro-
ductions They knew that without q
strong territorial foothold and naval
bases in the Pacific China would be
closed TO us. and that unless We took
our place as a world power. the other COM
mercial nations would laugh at our efforts
10 seize and hold new trade in the East OF
elsewhere. in competition with them. There
l. also another consideration which makes
against the arguments Of the anu-imperial-
lists. as wei as against any idea that their
purposes are honest. Scratch one OF them
and YOU shall find the under skin labeled
with cane or beet sugar tobacco. oranges.
bananas. or New England rum. An;i-im-
perialism in its last analysis is The philan-
D. from
that the Chinese tariff protected area Of
the Union will be extended over new land
capable Of producing any Of the aforemen-
TONED things. and perhaps few others
In the words OF The distinguished South
eIn orator, III is nc use 10 talk about eX-
pansion. because We have done expanded
But, having reached that grand central sta
ton on the air line of manifest destiny.
we are bound TO pause and take our bear
iugs. that We may see where We are at
There are millions of patriotic Americans
who are heart and soul with President Nc
Kinley in his just determination to main
tain the honor OF our flag and the dignity
of our country. and keep every square inch |
Of soil which has come to as through the |
Spanish war who are still greatly dis 4
pleased with certain features Of the colo /
NAL policy of his Administration, as The !
same. so far. has developed.
For instance. nothing could bo much 1
more disappointing or detestable in the 1
eyes of disinterested citizens than the reign |
of favoritism, corruption. loot. and COM
mercial treason which has lourished in Lu- |
zon under the regime OF persons like Otis |
and Colonel DENLY. And, friends Of
Justice in this country are equally indg- !
nant over the manner in which Dingley |
oppression has been visited upon the un- |
happy loyal American community of Porto |
Rico. The course which has been pursued |
toward that island. in first cutting off its |
Spanish and Cuban markets, and then re-
fusing il access to our own, has been out |
rageous and disgracefuli as well as uncon-
stitutiOnal.
From the foregoing Illustrations it will |
not be difficult to conclude that while eN-
pausion is an accomplished fact and that
what We have we intend TO and will keep |
yet mere possession of the Philippine archi- |
pelago Guam Hawaii, and Porto Rico |
does not dispose of all the questions that |
we must meet, consider. and pass upon in |
connection with our colonial empire. And |
here ii may be well to interject the remark |
that the Administration is likely to find il |
much harder to gain national consent for |
the carrying out of its purposes and private 4
deals. based on the fact of possession, than |
it has been to rally the American people |
around the banner of an imperial policy.
This viii become apparent as the Fro |
gramme OF the Administration leaders is |
unfolded in the course of the colonial de- |
bate in the Senate. Already, Senator FRYE /
has disclosed a danger point, in his sug-
gestive advocacy of a scheme 10 buy out |
the territorial claims of the religious or. |
ders in the Philippines. arj to parcel out
the lands so purchased among the natives |
Now, if it is the intention of the Admins |
tration to make this proposition TO Con- |
gress, it goes without saying. that it viii |
produce strife which viii agitate the coun- |
try from emo 20 end. Everyone knows that |
the foundation of all the Filipino rebel /