The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-24
GIVE THEM THE BENEFIT OF THE
GAME LAW

fore complying with it's PROVISIONS.
GIVE THEM THE HENEFIT OF THE
GAME LAW.
The stories regularly telegraphed from
our new possessions in Asian waters of
the killing of Filipinos in punches of
from 10 to 100 or more have rabbit or
fish tinge to them. If it is true our new
ly-acquired citizens, armed with bows
and arrows, are being shot down at a
distance like clay birds at a shooting
match it is time that they begin to en-
JOY the benefit of the game laws. Fiji
pinos who never saw an American until
he entered their villages with a gun point
ed at them are being slaughtered every
day, and particulars of these killing
matches are spread before readers in
American homes morning, noon and
night 1t has become SO common that We
merely note the number of dead, 20 or
2G0, as may be. Less frequent rises
protest in our minds against what seems
ruthless murder and arson. We read with
! Indifference of the burning of the hum
BILE homes and villages and the killing Of
the inhabitants of a ar-off country, for
sooth because they attempted to resist
the advance of an armed enemy. We
took these islanders under our wing to
protect them against other nations. No
European country with territory in the
Orient can equal our record Of peaceful
conquest and Christian assimilation. We
have G5, ,O00 hunters ~over there, and more
are called for. Have the napless millions
of the Philippines right to live? Is
there a God-given or natural right that
says they must live in accordance with
our style of living. Nothing except might.
If they were the bigger nation we
wouldn't be there. 1--WE are in it." every
one says, and must see it to the end.
That is what the two men down in
Jones county, Iowa, said who spent S25,-
600 in law suits over the ownership OF a
calf. Great men and great nations can
afford to be magnanimous to weak men
and weak nations. Have we not worked
ourselves up to a frenzy over insults"
and ''resistance to cur authority which.
as a big people, We would or should have
condoned? If President Mckinley had
said to the armed Filipinos after the fall
of Manila, Now go home ard set up
your own kind OF government, and we
will hold Cavite as coaling station.
there would have been no trouble No.
Mr.. Mckinley wanted to change the; or
der Of the fathers, and a pretty mess.
he has made of it, We We're marching to
the industrial and commercial conquest
of the world 1t took TO battleship to
carry cutlery to England. watches to
Franco. locomotives. to Egypt, OF steel
bridges to Japan. MT Mckinley was
suddenly seized with the European dis
ease, to own and govern foreign posses
sions. He has attempted to break the
back of American trade there and set up
a new standard-the European one of
kings Washington uttered warnings
against foreign entanglements. Conniving
over spheres of influence in Asia is a
form of ENHANCEMENT through which Mr..
Mckinley has led us into trouble. Mr..
Lincoln deemed it necessary to change
leaders during the Civil war until he
found Grant. We must change leaders.
-=zcs--
Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin, asserts
that the Republican administration is not
responsible for the pillaging of Cuba by
its representatives. Neither was President
Cole Of the Globe Bank of Boston re-
spoasible for the pecula tons of his rep
reseutatives but Mr. Cole is in jail, to
remain eight years.
Mr.. Hale, of Maine, will not be made
a duke under the dynasty of Mckinley
He asserted i'll the senate that money
was being freely used to prevent the Civ
ing of Cuba to Cubans by the United
States.
And now a Chicago man wants the Of
flee of national embalmer-in-chfef Great
ed and is willing to become the en-
balmer. If he is successful his first task
will likely be to embalm the Republican
party.
A Washington wag suggests that the
administration might take that IS per cent
tariff from Porto Rico and apply it to
the financial wounds of Cuba.
Cinnamon in San Francisco seem over
particular They strenuousiy object TO
being inoculated with the bubonic plague.