The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-31

out giving offense to some administra-
tien toady. One cannot salute the flag
but the jealousy of our imperialistic
neighbors is aroused.
What was it that Senator Rawlins
said that was 50 severe on the presi-
dent? Here is one passage from his
speech:
Get in line with the next administration.
Get in line with the masses of the whole
nation, and help crush the Moloch Of
wealth and greed that now rules in Wash
lngton. Get in line and help take out of
office president without principle and
party without platform.
Hasn't the Republican organ said in
substance the same thing time and
again? Hasn't it said that this adj
ministration is an aggregation of rogues
and Spectators that obtained it's cleo
ton through fraud and holds the rights
OF the people in contempt?
Here is another passage from the SEN
ators speech which made the Tory or
gan squirm:
The Republicans must not be restrained
by the constitution. They propose to in
the RuSSlaS. What objection can there be
10 the powers of the constitution going
wnere our free flag is TO be permanently
eSt5blShed2 Because the thirteenth
amendment says there must be no slavery
under our flag. II the flag goes with the
constitution, slavery must cease. The Re
pubhcans dare not point to Abraham Lin
coin noW-he freed slaves. But under Nc
klnley our flag is today floating over
slaves in the isian- of Mindanao. Presi-
dent Mckinley has violated his oath to
uphold the constitution because today he
IS violating the thirteenth amendment,
and should be impeached.
And when the senator said further,
Il have no apology to make for de-
Tending our flag and our constitution"
it was an insult to the Anglicized adj
ministration that every Anglicized
newspaper resented.
The Hanna organ assailed Mr.. Va
rian as a matter of course. It never
did like him. 4e wouldn't wear Ian
mans collar doesn't bear Hanna's
brand. He has thing to expect from
the goldbug press. But because Mr.
Varian holds that the pledge to Cuba
applied to all the colonists of Spain,
because he believes the Fflipinos should
be freed after order is restored, because
he says that our form of government
is not suited to these islanders, because
he says that to insist upon governing
the Tagals without their consent is
contrary to the Declaration of indie
pendence the Republican organ, with a
characteristic border outlaw swagger,
says:
He knows that when ne conjures up tho
hobgoblin of imperialism he is talking
through his own hat, and that the men
who cheer him are men who have nothing
under their hats.
. @ @
Let US see who have been talking
through their sombreros. Let us see
who conjured up the hobgoblin which
vanished from orr contemporaries sane
tum when it's widely known editor
stumbled over the corpse of silver in
Hanna's Washington headquarters.
Just before the Tribune decided for
a consideration 10 become a goldbug
advocate of every policy of the party
in power. it printed the following edi-
torial:
~
and German both favor holding the
Philippines permanently to swell our
trade in the southeastern Pacific. Both
senators. voted, we believe, for the
declaration to the world that this war
was to free Cuba and was not to be
war of conquest. That pledge was as
solemn as any pledge that great nation
can give, and it must be kept.
To MS the Philippines would be the
biggest elephant ever won in rattle, or
ever caught in jungle; we need a coal
ing station there, We need to hold the
islands Tor a little while until the final
settlements for the war can be made, but
that is all. Cuba and Porto Rico will give
us trouble enough, and they are close by
our doors.
We are bound to free them, restore
order there, and give the industries of
those islands resuscitation, and then
permit the people to choose by a fair vote
and honest count the form of government
that they desire.
If they should vote for annexation to
the United States, we do not see how
we could refuse their request but il
would be better for them to organize a
little republic Of their own, or even an
elective monarchy. for the islands will
need firm and just rule for good many
wears to COme-juSt such rule as DiaZ
is giving Mexico.
But the ruling race in the Philippines,
at least outside of the city OF Manila, are
Malavs. and in the islands outside of
Luzon are mostly MOhammedans. Put
ting aside every other question, waving
all promises and obligations, and con-
sidering the matter purely from a govern
mental standpoint, what form of govern
ment. not entirely antagonistic to the
principles on which our. government is
founded, could we organize there?
1t would be q simple question for Great
Britain, or Japan, or for Germany, which,
we believe. has Che most important prop
ertv interests there, for either could
send d governor general. hack him with
navy and army. and give to the islands,
TO all intents and purposes, an imperial
government.
But what government could we give
them without suTrendering our form.
and advertising to the world that il l.,
not sufficient Tor the handling of savage
or semi-saVage tribes away from the
home base? True, q commission might be
sent there. as was sent to Louisiana after
the purchase and before statehood, send
with IL a couple OF WarShipS, it could
organize a little army, calling it a police
force. and in that way whip the devil
round the stump, establish schools and
adjust the rights of property on a just
basis; but why should we? Again, on
what grounds could we claim the right
to do so except b. lowering ourselves TO
the level of Europe, and claiming that
the old brutal law of might still rules the
world?
BY such an act we should have to
admit that the suspicious of Europe were
well founded; We should awaken the fears
of Mexico and al Spanish-America, that
at the first opportunity we would inter-
fere and absorb their countries-in short
ii would be a notice that we had put
aside a rule which we have adhered to
since the beginning. and were now great
military power, starting out for the con-
quest of just as much of this world as
I'VE could subdue and retain. To do it.
too would be to establish that the plight
ed word of the president and congress of
the United States is worth no more than
a diplomatic promise made by Great
Britain or Russia or Germany. No Phil
ippines for US
Philip was evidently sober then,
,,,tatexey may he his condition todav