Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-09-05

| o"'u iouS dBo, LibeTty anu OHious Oue
and inseparable., Mckinley fought to
save that Union, and he will fight IL need
be to save our liberties. All tho contest
now, apparently, is to show, not that the
Filipinos will be injured by annexation
to our country, but that we ourselves will
thereby loose our liberties. Even II we
intended to hold the Filipinos in sub
lection, would it follow that we would be
slaves? In olden times did the South
erner who held slaves cease to be free
man! To-day, while he announces that
he will kill the negroes and bulldoze
them and drive them from the polls, and
while he Is endeavoring by ingenious APP
plication OF constitutional law to disiran-
chise them, is his own liberty, for these
reasons, in danger? We all know that 1t
| is not.
.'ln the course OF President Mckinley
| toward the Filipinos not an act can be
found which indicates that he has even
| intended to treat them otherwise than to
| secure for them the greatest measure OF
liberty until Congress should decide what
| their status was to be-as the treaty pro-
| vides 1t shall do. He did not vacate the
islands on the order of Aguinaldo. AS
| the executive, he was bound to hold them
| although the land was sowed with dra-
| CONS teeth whichwere destined to spring
up armed mem. He had no more right to
give up the territory, which had been
| bought at the instance and requests of
Mr.. Bryan, than Bryan has at this mo-
ment. The land is red now with the
blood Of Lawton, Egbert, Stotzen berg,
Logan, and many OF their comrades. 1t has
become sacred soil for us-but sentiment
apart, potent as 1t is with patriotic people
let some one indicate what the Presi-
dent has done that he ought not to have
! done, or what has he failed to do that
! he ought to have done.
~ suppose that it is idle in the present
| excited state Of public feeling to argue
with the democrats that their avowed
policy is enhancing ten-fold the difficult
ties which confront us in pacifying the
islands. One cannot, however, avoid re-
GREETING that so many OF our people are
| encouraging and inflaming the Tagals to
| resistance. Resistance means death to
many OF Cur soldiers and to many Tagals
as we'll.
at Is believed by the insurgents that
Bryan's election Will insure their indie
pendence, and they are encouraged to hold
| out The success OF the democratic party
means success for them. II the Tagais
quit fighting and take the oath Of aiiegi-
ance, on the NON, ut the paramount issue
is dead, ma so is the democracy. In tnis
contest the democrats stake their all on
be continuance OF hspt:ng. Ii strikes
one rs udd That great party should base
its hope Of success on the killing and
wounding Of our troops. " i'll not
flame OF patriotism rie up over the laud
which " III testify that ut all hazards we
viii stand by the flag; that come what
may We wlii not turn our backs on the
Philippines, n disgraee1 and dishonored
natio.?
FUTURE tF PHILIPPINES.
"What We may do with the Philippines
ultimately IS not the question now. Ii ii
man believes that they should be hide
pendent, his Is not the time to urge that
solution. As we'll might the dissolution
Of the ties between India and England
have been advanced as a remedy when the
massacre OF Cswnpore took place. AS
well might our troops have been with
drawn from China while cur minister was
imprisoned. The democratic platform
on this subject reads:
"'We favor an immediate declaration OF the
nations purpose to give to the Filipinos, first
stable form of government; second, indepen-
dence, and third, protection from outsiue inter
ference such has been given for nearly a
century to the republics of Central and South
America
SIN the list Of things to be done, first
comes "a stable form OF government
W. are trying to give them that now. Ii
we retain them, the third clause, pro-
tection,' will necessarily follow. Why,
il we do not retain them, we should bur-
den ourselves with protecting them, is
not clearly perceptible. The modern doc
trine seems to be that we may not take
any foreign territory for our own, but
that whenever republic is born, we
must stand as its protector. We must
run amuck for the mere love OF running
it. We must pay taxes to support war
ships and armies III order that some
obscure nation may play at government.
1t is understood why we have an interest
in the South American republics-the
Monroe doctrine explains that-but why
we should become the "Don Qnixote" OF
the. world can not be satisfactorily ex-
planned. Let us at least be honest, and
when we say that the Filipinos shall be
independent, let US say so meaning what
the word implies. Let them go their way
and we ours-enemies i'll war and at
peace friends. Let us have no entang-
ling alliances nor stand sponsor for eople
who are aliens, and whose abiding place
is remote from our continent.
1.-THE democratic platform does not say