The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-07-28

y | Philippines. We had to undo their work Il
: | Hawaii just as in the end. but at an ~
$ finite cost OF bloodshed and woe, We wsaat
n have to do In the Philippines should tAeS
] be successful In this election. Yet not oes
e OF them now would dream OF sayins sNs'
q we were not right about Hawaii In ;se'
Y they would not do so, when by s,SSNsf
| irony the Kansas city convention h&d ~
| rely upon the vote of Hawaii before y
could settle its views on the financial sSs'
, | TEN of our country.
. "As regards the Philippines even sse
! Kansas City convention felt that they hAj
| TO propose some policy, and what trey
propose IL that we should first give them
"a stable form OF government; second, In
dependence. and third, protection irNm
outside interference BY the order In
, which they put these propositions they
showed their estimate of their Importance.
, Well, what we are doing now Is precisely
, ard exactly To try and secure stable
form of government In the Philippines. and
the chief obstacle In our way is the sup
port given TO the bloody Aguinaldian OIL
garchy by their sympathizers among the
people who were represented In the kan
sas City convention, Moreover now we
actually are seeing that no outside nation
interferes In the island. After We have
secured stable government. we intend to
give them self-government as rapidly as
they are fitted for It, Our opponents say
that they wish now TO give them indie
pendence To give independence now
| would be precisely like giving independ-
cnce to the widest tribe of Apaches In
Arizona 1t would mean the turning over
| OF the most peaceful, law-abiding and
| prosperous part of the population TO be
| plundered by the barditti who are fol-
| lowing Aguinaldo. In China we see at
| this moment the awful tragedy that Is
| following just exactly such a movement
| as that which the so-called anti-imperiai-
| lists have championed in the Philippines.
The Boxers in China are the precise
analogues and representatives Of the
Aguinaldan rebels in the Philippines. Had
we adopted the policy OF scuttle' in the
Philippines, the policy which our politl-
cal opponents now champion. the streets
of Manila would have witnessed such
scenes as those of the streets of Peking
To allow the Filipino rebels to establish
their own so-called government and then
to protect them against other civilized ma |
tions would be exactly as If we now sided
with the Boxers In China, demanded for |
them the liberty to butcher their neigh
bors,' allowed them to establish their own |
independent government and then agreed |
to protect them from the wrath of civil |
lied mankind y more wicked absurdity |
than the Kansas City proposition Sor deal |
ing with the Philippines was never enunci- |
taed by the representatives, of a political |
party. ! would ask those. who by their |
word have encouraged the warfare of the |
Filipinos against us to recall the letter of |
Gen, Lawton written just before his death, |
In which he pointed out that the blood of |
his soldiers Redeemed the hands of the |
men at home who encouraged our foes |
abroad Some years ago when certain |
fasteners were clamoring in the name of |
humanity against the army officers who |
warred to protect the western settlers from |
the Indians, Gen. Sheridan wrote: i do not |
know how far these humanitarians should |
So l,..tr
but surely 1t Is the only excuse that can |
give a shadow of justification for aiding |
and abetting such horrid crimes The |
scheming politicians at Kansas city have |
not even the excuse Of ignorance when |
they incite the insurgents TO fresh war
rare against our soldiers with the base
hope that thereby they may further their
own political advancement.
Opponents of Expansion.
"There are doubtless many worthy and |
amlabe gentlemen of humanitarian ten
denotes. especially In the northeast, who |
oppose expansion now, as men like them |
have always opposed expansion. In 1911 |
when Louisiana was on the point of be- |
ing admitted to the union, and the coun-
try beyond the Mississippi-the country |
now carved into the great states from |
which so many of my hearers come-was |
being governed territorially. a prototype |
Of the modern anti-imperialists Hon. Jo- !
siah quincy, addressed the house Of rep |
resentatives in language that with very |
slight variation might be used by his sue |
cessors to-day. In a speech that would be |
quite in place at the Kansas City con- |
Vention. or in any anti-expansionist meet |
ing of to-day, he stated that his anxiety |
and distress of mind were wholly unprec- |
edented for with the admission Of the |
trans-M mississippi territory into the union, |
the liberties and the rights Of the whole |
people of the United States were so COM
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He declared that If Louisiana was admit
ted into the union, then the union ought |
Immediately to be dissolved. He de- |
nounced in unmeasured terms the terri
torial avidity' of the Americans of the |
day. He asserted that the constitution
was never constructed TO form cover
ing for the inhabitants Of the Missouri |
and the Red river country and finally, |
when his prophetic vision brought before
him the awful picture of senator's and rep
resentatives from west of the Mississippi |
arrogantly assuming a right TO take part |
in the legislation of the country, he asked
with fervor worthy of the most pro-
nounced anti-expanslonist Of to-day: DO |
you suppose the people of the northern
Atlantic states will or ought to look with
patience and see representatives and SEN
ators from the Red river and Missouri
country pouring into congress, managing
the concerns of a seaboard 1850 miles at
least from their residence and having a
preponderancy In councils In which con-
stitutionally they would never have been
admitted?' and he continued further to
harrow the minds of his hearers by stat
ing that the expansionists of that day
might sven intend to establish states in
Calif6rnfA'~fnd at the mouth of the Column
bia; and concluded by asserting that the
extension of the principle OF expansion to
states contemplated beyond the Mississip-
pt will not and ought not to be borne
Well, / am addressing at this moment citi-
zens from the very states, the possibilities
of whose existence appeared so terrible to
the excellent Mr.. quincy. You yourselves |
are the fruits of the expansion which he |
regarded as fraught with such immeasur- |
able disaster to the nation. You yourselves |
present the results of that policy which |
was followed from the days of Washing |
ton and Jefferson, through those of Jack |
son to the time when Seward purchased |
Alasia-the great American policy which |
has again been applied under President !
Mckinley. Absurd though the fears of
men like Quincy seem to us now they are |
no more absurd than the real or pretend
ed fears of our opponents will seem not
score of years hence. Picture TO your
selves the dreadful calamity that IL would
have been had our nation I'm 1911 listened
to the lcounsels of the shortsighted and
weak,hearted; IL California Texas and