The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-22
GIVE FILIPINOS FREEDOM
SAYS MAJOR DICK YOUNG
Eminent Soldier and JuTiSt Fully Endorses the
Democratic Policy.
Instruction Will Continue For Years and the Islands Are
Not Worth the Enormous Cost.

ergo, there will be a subsisting cause
of complaint.
For the life of me, I am unable to
see what the commission can do ex-
cept TO take large masses of coniecturaI
testimony. Neither they nor their
agents can poke their noses beyond our
lines without danger OF getting a
Mauser in the nOstrtI- Civil govern
mentS Will be impossible without garri-
sons and it would require 200 600 men
to garrison the immense group of
islands.
Time will develop. The commission
is composed of able gentlemen and will
doubtless do as much to clarity the
situation as can be done.
ENDORSES BRYAN'S POLICY.
1 have seen the so-caued Bryan plat
form, as adopted in Nebraska. I am
fully and heartily in sympathy with its
provisions respecting these islands.
First, state form of government.
second, independence, and. third. nro-
lection from outside interference. as il
! has for nearly a century given protec-
ton to the republics of Central and
South America"
L believe the FiliDinOs capable of
Self-gOVernment after a short period
of instruction and guidance-there. can
/ be no doubt as to that; they furnish
men Of letters, brilliant jurists. artists.
musicians and artisans skilled in
hundred trades Without considering
/ whether our country can exist, con-
stitutiOnally. half free and half sub
Ject; without considering whether We
are bound by agreements, express or
implied, to give these people their in
| dependence, I am opposed TO the re-
tentiOn Of the islands on financial
grounds. American capital may find
/ investment in the sugar and hemp
plantations and other industries Of the
islands, but American labOring men
can neither thrive under this sun. nor.
/ should they attempt it. compete with
Scantily fed, clothed and sheltered ma
tives.
BEVERIDGE'S ARGUMENTS
Senator Beverage would convince
US that trade unlimited would spring
forth from these shores TO envelOD the
entire far east 1 cannot believe that
he reads history with discernment.
{ Spain possessed these islands for years
and gained no traffic with Asia Before
! the civil war we had some OF the most
/ extensive mercantile houses in the far
4 east. ana a feet OF merchantmen that
4 outnumbered the feet of any other ma
4 ton. We had then, as we still have,
/ the American concession at Shanghai
/ a large piece Of territory in which We
/ were and are free to establish our mer-
/ camille houses. But Notwithstanding
/ our former pre-emiuence, our rights at
| Shanghai. the nearneSs of our Pacific
ports 10 the Asian continent, ~ have
/ about ceased to do business With the
/ east until within the last few years
( since then our trade is springing for
| ward with leaps and bounds with
/ China and T9nq0 - thu ayvr,avca ar-cr1
/ OF England with HOngkong and Sin
| gapOre at the very portals of trade. 1t
/ is not cOnugUity that produces trade:
/ 1t is the fact that a country produces a
/ surplus of merchandise which il can
/ sell cheap.
/ Water IS no more certain to seek its
! level than d country its foreign mar
! kets under such conditions.
QUESTION OF COST.
| But against all of the glittering gen
| eralities Of the ''imperiali5t" who pirates
/ Of trade and commerce. is the GER
/ tain cost of increased army and navy,
/ which, at a cOnSerVa tive estimate, will
/ amount 10 60CO0,0O0 good gold dollars d
/ year. And all for what? To protect a
| few sugar-raising syndicates and To
/ indulge the fancy that We may increase
/ our trade by a few scores Of millions
/ with San FRANCISCO or New Orleans
/ (the canal once fnished) as a base, if
| We shall be able TO furnish the goods
| EX-SeCretary Olney pointed out that
! the islands instead of strengthening
( US, would tie constant source of weak
I ness N case Of a foreign war.
! No. sir. we do not want an archipeI-
| ago Of inSuTTeCJiOnIStS with the Op-
! pOTtunity for a few more sugar syn
! dicateS and a possible increase Of trade
amounting to a few millions a year at
! q certain cost of maintaining a large
/ army and navy 10 protect them.
/ Moreover. we do not want an alien
race as fellow citizens and certainly
not as subjects. We did an excellent
/ thing in freeing these people from the
/ yoke of Spain; now let US complete the
! good work by permitting them to as
/ sumo among the nations of the east
that equal and just relation TO which
/ the laws of nature and of natures God
4 entitle them.
T. S. Gen. Macarthur has lust issued