Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-09-20
nit a Cuban representative at their

court.
Only upon the promise of free
government was the Cuban indu-
ced to lay down their arms. They,
like the PHILIPPINE, wanted to
know the policy of the American
government, and was promised an
independent government as soon
as they demonstrated their ability
to govern themselves; but now,
that promise is so modified as to
grant only a protectorate!
In view of these facts, is it any
wonder the Philippine refuses to
lay down his arms, surrender his
ambitions and hopes, when he can
see nothing before him but sub
serviency, humiliation and slavery
to the Americans nation.
Governor Roosevelt said in his
Dakota tour, that Imperialism is
but shadow, epemereal, and
without substance.
Was this the case in the days
when Englan ruled her American
Colonies?
Was it the case wien France
sent her armies to Mexico and
placed Maximilian on the throne?
Was Imperialism but a shadow
when Spain held the scepter over
Cuba?
Was Imperialism without sub
stance when the Governor Of the
Colony of Virginia said: IL thank
God there are no public schools
in America, and hope there may
not be for some hundred years?
Is imperialism iphemreal in In
dia today, where her people pay
for the support of their govern
ment and help support the Grown,
when they support theirownarmy
and furnish troops to help Eng
land conquer their own contry,
while her own people die of star
walton for the lack OF food, which
money would provide?
Imperialism my be but a shadow
but if SO, it shields from the burn
ing rays of justice those whose
financial and social interests are
best subserved by imperialism.-
Those who can, the more easily ex-
tort the precious dollars from the
colonies than from an independent
people; while tho same cloud
shuts out from the people those
islands the sunlight of freedom.
of patriotism, of love and hope,
and drops upon them the pitilese
rain of discomfort, the hailstorm
rebellion and insubordinatiop.
Roosevelt further says, that the
acquisition of the Philippines was
the same as that of Hawaii. But
let US see ahether or not he told
the truth. Hawaii had deposea
her ruler and established gov
ernment of her own. Her people,
by voluntary petition. sought to
become part of the United States,
and their petitions were granted
and they are today citizens of the
United States.
In the case Of the PHILIPPINES,
they were striving to establish a
government of their own, their en-
emy was overthrown by our army
and while they had reason to hope
for freedom, not blow was struck
but hardly was the ink dried or
the articles of the treaty at Paris
until the administration organf
were clamoring for the retention
of our NEW POSSESSIONS, and the
Phillipions could see nothing fol
them but change of masters, anc
so kept up the conflict. They are
not even promised the possibility
of ever becoming a part of the
United States, nor even the rights
of citizenship.
When Hawaii was in revolt
against Queen Lii, had the U. s
government sent troops and con
quered her forces and taken pos
session OF the country by force
then their conquest would have
been analogous to that of the Phil
lipinoes. but as it is there is JUS
about as much similarity as there
is between a banana peel and ,
basket of peaches, and remindl
one of the fable wherein monkey