The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-09-28

NN4IM Nv sNitlHfAfHA tA4iHV HifH NNNIJAVtft
and while thesu Me mighty arguments
waive them NIL IA insignificant, com
pnrpd with thN muster argument o.
Tho mOgrnaa of civilization, Whiul
under tlML tho American people MI
hnneafOrlh to lend until 0nr dry II
done, For hanpetorWapd In The troop
linz of Tho c0lapA Ut Tho nAtiana they
ahnll cluster around md follow tho RI
Vublia'a MinW III Tim Stars, the mnH'
ter ilnH Of MI tho flnga OF amth,
Tho desire 0f the WllpinUs IN moi
the only factor In determining theil
government, jupl ~ tho desire OF nc
individual mnn determines hia con-
duet, III IN written In the moral Inv
OF individuals Tint "No man livath ID
himself %nlOnnJ' and N Ia no leas
written In thu moral law of peoples
that mo people llvNth To Itself
nlone,' IhN world In interested In
tho Philippines, and Inns " right 10 be,
Tho world IN Interested In india, md
hM4 II right 10 be, Civilization liz In
tMpaatad In Ghinn and itA government
and TINT IN Tho duty of civilization.
You ca,n0t lAle tho Philippines ont
Of thu operation Of th0Ao forces which
ArN binding NIL mankind Into ono ynAt
and united intelligence, When cir
1umatAnoe hna rnlaad our fling above
them, wa dnru not turn these mlsgnid4
ad children over IN destruction by
themselves or hp0ilntlOn by Others, and
then mike answer when tho uOd Of
nations requires them w our hnndH,
IAN my MOtheps' hoapepY"
Labor III iossiii"",
w Tho opposition lenyn Mo heights
Oh moral appeal and enter upon tho
common ground Of campaign nlgNs
mentA, oven there WI Will meet them,
w they declare tint " We keep tho
Philippines Tho American working.
mnn viii suffer by competition with
philippine lnbOf, answer thnt one
American will do moro IN n single day
thnn Il Filipino will do IN n working
week, And, therefore, They ohnnOt
compete with ua, " they W0nld, hut
they m0dnon whit we want md onn.
not HO VOL produce va produce what
they need md oAnnOt No we'll produce,
And, therefore, Wo ntu by mture In
dnAtrlnl brothers, not industrial fOaa,
and they would not compute with IN
" thay oould, Their products, their
climate md their aOil ma complies
menta, not competitors, with ours.
These possessions make I'M u world 10
and Of ourselves,
II The opposition declare that Fllia
plno labor will come Into competition
1kTif1 ANN 1nhnU hauap1Aa tha alttAtitaa. |
tiOn, following Tho flag, already OK
tends over tho Philippines, and with
the constitution, unrestricted trade, |
answer thnt tho opposition were In In"
y0r Of free trade with oil the W0fld
but yesterday, and declared that free
trade with NIL the world would baia-
Nv, md not cypress, American labor.
lf they were right yesterday, then
surely froa trade with nh inferior race,
paopling u small pnrt Of tho world,
md that belonging to tho republic It,
self, oannot injnpo American labor
today,
Tho opposition demands that the
shedding of blood shall oonAo, No does
tho government, But blood shnll
flow until American sympathy with
tho inAnTootiOn IN ropndlnted by tho
American people, The Philippine
peOpla-~aye, TIM wOrld-~looA upon
campaign IN n trial before the
pa0plo OF tho course OF Tho
American government In tho Philip.
pines, and the election will moan 10
them American endorsements or rebuko
OF tho American government. Since
men In Amepi0n began 10 hold out To
rebels In LusOn hope of an0oeaA +,
through change IN national admins.
since the nnnpproaiat0d
efforts Of our ponee.lOying president ,
through Tho OWL commission 10 stop .,
Ihe war convinced thN Malays thnt |,
wa feared them, -~eyory phnHe Of this
has boon planned mud pursued )
with reference IN this election, ,
I'm The senate Of thu United States, !.
~ January y, | aaid That III IA the do. !
,lared Intention OF Tho Wlipinos 10 !
resist, hnrass, broak up into small !,
DandH, resort IN guerilla warfare, and /.
~ NIL mems 10 continue Resistance :
until tho next presidential election" ! .
repeat That statement now, livery '
leyalopmont 0f nanrgont resistance
'0r more than u yanr WAS understood
md openly talked 0f In LuSon last
May md June, " from thu first there
md been united support Of tho Am0ri-
mi government In holding nl0ft tho
hag In tho Philippines, no
DlOOdshad would hayn ba0n necessary,
10 lives Of American soldiers required
% keep " floating thoro. Our dead
Tho American graves In
INT lind Of sunset Tho vacant
f%ag.drAped, In tho homes Of
.he p0publiel II Ii n subject TOO
aered for speeeh. And those who :
tho mlagnld0d natIyon Oh IN !, !.