Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-03-30
THE IMrEHIALIsr RELIGION.
TIE GREEN.


Article II believe III keeping up
the old war taxes - prevent trade
and the new %Rr taxes 20 force
trade with Asia.
Article Il believe in excluding UNI
acknowledgements who wish to
ter our territory aud in including
uneducatcd Asiatics vino wish to
keep out.
Article 81 believe in home rule for
Ireland, but in alien rule for the
Spanish islands.
Article ii believe that the blacks
have IA right To govern themselves.
but that whites and blacks have IA
right To govern browns.
Article 81 believe in the Monroe
doctriue which forbids Europe 10
interfere with self government in
America, but permits America to
interfere with self government in
Asia.
Article G.-l believe that governments
get their just powers from the con-
S, mt of the governed in America,
hut for the contempt Of the govern.
ed i'll Asia.
Article II believe that taxation
without representation is tyranny
when applied to us, but phIlan-
thropy when applied by Us.
Article 81 believe that forciblc nm.
neXation is criminal aggression
but that Dayment to mon-ow rers
makes it benevolent assimiIation.
Article 81 believe that mIlitari5m
and foreign broils strengthen DIES
potIsm abroad. but RepubIicarism
at home.
Article H. i bciicvU that American
politics have made a little America
but the European policies will make
a greater America.
III IES COMMANDMENTS.
THOU shalt have 40 other Gods
before mt and only geld above
me.
Thou shalt not worship any gray
en- image except on bank noes,
3-ThOu shuit not take the name Of
the Lord thy God in vain. but shall
use it proiitably to sanrtity thy
greed.
i-Rcmembcr the Sabbath day to
keep it holy. On the seventh day
thou shalt do no labor. but thy
maid servant and thy man servant
and thy sweat shops and all that
fills thy purse must he kept gong,
o-lionor thy father aud thy mother
bnt scOrn the fathers Of thy coun.
try.
6-Thon shalt not kill except to ex.
tend trade.
I-TlI"u shalt not commit adultery
but may enter c%ntangIing alliances.
y Itlou shalt not steal but shall an
mex.
9--Thou shalt not bear false witness
but censor the dispatches.
lO-Ihou shalt not cOvet but grab.
II PRAYER.
q Thou, who dost exaIt the mighty
and put down those Of low dcrrer
crush we bcsccch thee the strurrIcs
OF the f%ilipinoa Tor Independence.
Force them tO recognize that free.
dom Is only the right Of the stronger
races and that, although they are
willing to die for it, they are not III
to live in it. May they and all men
forget tho Declaration 81 Tndcpcn-
dence, or il they remember il may
they also remember that il was no,
intended I" apply Ia Maluyg.
Strengthen IN us the pride of mon
II the cXaltiug conviction that we
are not rs other men are. Helm us TO
scorn the FiIipinOs ms children un-
worthy to the rights which our nm.
cestors had from the days Of bHrbar.
Ism. May We subject them Ia alien
military rulo knowing that this il tho
school in which self government and
manhood arc developed. Ma our
people forget that the Filipinoa had
established Il government IA which
ITO and property were secure before
We commanded them to lay down
their arms. aud enable the voters to
rejoice when thcy read Of villages dc.
stroycd Tor tho preservation of prop
@tY and men killed for the p]rcscrva.
ton 81 lie. Forbid, y Lord, that wo
should treat tho fIlipinos no wc have
treated the countries oi Spanish
America III tho past, protecting them
agains; foreign aggression and per.
Uniting them the government OF
their choice. Aid us IN our war Of
subjugation 10 the end TINT wo MAJ
use the FilipinOa Ia extend our trade
and Thy Giory-in the Orient. All
this we ask IN the maine Of Hin who
said, "Innsmuch ~ so have done il
unto ono ~ tho lcast Of these my
brethren, 80 have done it unto mo-
CHAELEq u. SrAur.