The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1900-02-02
soUND DosrR1NE.
But Would You Pill Down Our
Flag When Once Raised?

ancestors in uur war with Grea
Britain and that which influences u
lin the Philippine war stand at oppos
|; lite extremes. The revolutionary wal
was fought to throw off our allegiance
20 Great Britain and establish ouI
independence. What we then sue
ceeded in doing We would now ere
vent the PHILIPPINES from doing. In
the old war Great Britain was the
blenders and We the defenders. In
the old war Great Britain crossed the
Atlantic to force us to obey her laws.
In the present war we have crossed
the Pacific to force the Filipinos to
obey our laws. In the old war we
were few in number and weak in
resources, fighting n we'll nigh all
powerful nation. Now we are the
| lnvincibles, fighting a people few in
Plumbers and-weatSin resources. The
war with Great Britain appealed to
our patrictism. The war with the
Filipinos does not appeal to our pa
triotism, because they have never
invaded or threatened to invade our
country. The Revolutionary war
inspired such sentiments $ as give me
liberty or give me death" The
Philippine war gives birth to 10 such
INSPIRATIONS. In this war the Prcsi
dent may appeal to our natioual
bride. but never to our honor. I'm
''ss there IS honor in thrashiDg a
cripple child for no other cause than
ability to do so. In the Revelation.
nry war Great Britain sustained the
-ame relation TO Us that We now sus.
tain to the FilipInos. The advan-
'age, in point Of equiry, being with
Great Britain. IOncc more we sus-
tain the same relation to the Fllipinos
that Spain sustained to Cuba when
We went t. Cuba's relief The ad-
vantage, in point Of equity being
with Spain. ln both wars Great
Britain and Spain were fighting to
hold land That belonged to them by
discovery arfdhng possession, while
we are now fighting to suppress an
insurrectlon of recent purchase. Our
war with spain in the interest Of
Cuba originated with the people who
used their representatives in Congress
! as arteries to reach the President,
and the President, by an act of Con-
gress, Was forced iuto' the Spanish
war in which he had no heart. We
| ueed no stronger evidence of the fact
that the administration was not in
sympathy with the war to free the
Cubans than the war he is now wag.
ing to make political slaves of the
Fiipinos. Divested of the incubus
Of self, the defendants Of our revolu-
tionary fathers, the Conftderates and
their defendants, patriots and free
men, can have ho sympathy with the
Philippine war. The Fllipinos AS
well as the Beers will be crushed,
hut the principle for which they fight
is understandable and can never die.
Well, we have started. Is there a
station this side Of Rome? ! know
full welt taat there are those who
will hoot at the idea of our Philip
pine egg hatching an empire, as the
phantom of an a!armcst But have
there been no revolutionary games
successfully played on the political
checker board Of the world that had
not half the force behiud it that the
transaction from republic to an EN-
pire that now menace our government
in the judgment of far seeing states
mar? Is there no Caesarism in the
McKinleyism that originated theWu
necessary and unrighteouS war with
the Fllipinos? Is there no imperial
tendencies in the trusts and combines
that are exacting of the laoorer and
consameran increased valuation on the
ss,da lnanufae.ared by th"ir lnnAGp-
olIes and that now influence the
PIetldent's acts Of omission and r0m-
Mss on rs they would the antics N
EI ju0ping Jack, tue string bAin., i'll
theh lands? Then what if the par
isan following that blinkS at every
,o!i;ical coac psion oi the President
ts tie peri Utinn OF staiec,uft and
.eady TO defoud it with all tho a"dcr
'f neophy1es. There is still auo;ho'
actor coua4clVe to imperialism TIA,
nay oe mentioned io this counccrioa.
Undar our Republican goyernden'
iihsre can bo no p,o,nincut place N
no Philippine Islands. We have NJ
State church, all religious are tqu 4,