Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-10-04

along the path to independence as rapid
ly as her own citizens are content that
she should go.
or course the presence Of troops in the
Philippines during the Tagal insurrection
has no more to do with militarism or i'm
perialism than had their presence in the
DakOtas. Minnesota and Wyoming dur
ing the many years which elapsed before
the final outbreaks of the Sioux were def
nitely put down. There is no more mill
tarism or imperialism in garrisoning Luz
zon until order is restored than there was
imperialism in sending soldiers to South
Dakota in 1890, during the Ogallalla out
break. The reasoning which justi6es our
having made war against Sitting Bull
also justifies our having checked the cut
breaks of Agunaldo and his followers, di-
rected, as they were. against Filipino and
American alike.
No Abandonment.
The only certain way of rendering 1t
necessary for our republic to enter on a
career of ''miitarsm" would be to aban-
don the Philippines to their own tribes,
and at the same time either to guarantee
stable government among these tribes
or to guarantee them against outside in.
reference. A far larger army would be
required to carry out any such policy
than will be required to secure order
under the American flag; while the pres
ence OF this flag ON the islands is really
the only possible security against outside
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Now a Question of Contraction.
Properly speaking. the question is now
not whether we shall expand-for we
have already expanded-but whether we
shall contract. The Philippines are now
part of American territory. To surren-
der them would he 10 surrender American
territory. They must. Of course. be gov
erned primarily in the interests of their
own citizens, Our first care must be for
the people of the islands which have
come under our guardianship as n result
of the most righteous foreign war that
has been waged within the memory Of
the present generation. They must be
au n,D IN .he interests or .neir an
napilah.s, anu INA. necessarny me mean,
ma. any ques',oh VI pe.sona, VI pai.san
pon'ies in 'neir a''on must oe
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Parallel with Indian Government.
II NUTS be remembered always that
GOVERNING these islands In the interest NJ
The inhabitants may not necessarilv be
10 govern them as the inhabitants at the
moment nrefer. to grant self-government
m I,nzon nnaer Apuinaldo wonld no like
granting self-royernment 10 an Apache
reservation under some local chief: and
this IL no more altered nv the fact that
the Filipinos fought the Spaniards than
u woulu ue py .ne iac. mat apaenes
na'e ,ons oeeu .raineu anu sinpioyeu !"
,ne on,leu STATES army anu na'e f.n
Iereu sigma, sersiee .ner.n. Jus. as 'ne