The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-10-27

writhed under q Spanish yoke Tor thrg
hundred years and were just mergir
into that strength, intelligence an
manhood that could bid defiance I
their foreign tyrant. They had hear
the call 10 rise and be free. svt.ai
1 care not by what fortuitous steps on
armies found themselves in the island Z
Luzon enough to know that they wer
there through the accident of war an,
not The statesmanship Of peace, and Ou
only title TO stay there "A fonnd in on
victory over the enemies of the Filipino
and the fact that we paid twenty nnillloi
dirty dollars 70 power they detesteC
for certain. goods, geographical ant
human, which that power was unable e
deliver to us. do not care whose fault
il was. Lam inclined to believe that il
was nobody Is conscious fault; IL was, il
you please, the leading of destiny"
but it was the destiny of evil, not the
destiny Of heaven IL was the destiny oI
might, which never did have the power
Of Discriminating between right and
wrong; it was the same destiny that
made Egypt so great that its mighty
pyramids still testify to its iron hand
and cruel disposition. -,
The world today 10 groaning under
the burden of the soldier. The best
hearts and clearest minds OF the race are
bending themselves 10 the problem Of
dismantling the fortresses Of the world,
Of retiring the bayonet and advancing
the plow. There is no question 90 great
as this and that the United States.
government is, unfortunately, found on
the wrong side Of the issue is evidence
Of the slow disinteRretion OF our ideals,
Of the subtle moral paralysis that our
commercialism and business conditions
have brought upon us. The United
States is found sustaining itself by that
older than mediaeval logic which assumes
the divine right of the sei-elected com.
petent to ride over the wishes of the
weak and the remoten II b,es
The political world today IL divided
into two world-classes, and only two.
There is no middle ground. One be-
lievcs in the authority Of might. in the
divine right of kings, in inherited
nobility, in titles by conquest, in the !
Legitimacy Of invasion, In possible gov
ernmentsimposed from without. This
is monarchy. In the dictionary Of
monarchy there is room for the words
colonies" dependencies, Z" Subjects"
''conquests," long armed governments,
They may impose upon remote and
alien people their wishes. This is
But in the dictionary Of
democracy there is no place for these
words. Democracy must believe that
.he best government az any given time
or any given people IL that government
which they themselves can attain;. tina
Il.e'poorest government ever achieved by
, people among themselves, by them
selves and for themselves is better for
hem than the best government ever
nvented from without, for tyranny il
tyranny, however benignant. Every
rue Republican is bound to echo the
IVY OF Caradog, the old Buton chieitain
imperious C@sar--'1 represent
! people who prefer to being unlettered
reemen to being polished slaves"
Let us not lose sight OF the facts. For
nearly Two years we have mer a brave
lnd persistent foe. We have sent 65,-
100 armed men across 1000 miles Of
water, 10 compel the brown to bow
'eneath white mans rule during this
ime we have sacrificed by disease, ac.
ident, and the horrible carnage OF the
battlefield, the lives OF about 5000 of our
,wn American youths, and by the most
Interpretation OF the cen.
'or's dispatches, five times that number
II natives, 10000 brown men who loved
reedom more than their lives we have
killed $4,000 men who have stood by
heir homes, who fell on their own soil,
1000 men who saw in the Stars and
Stripea, oar boasted emblem OF liberty,
he hated banner of an invading army,
.he Stars and Stripes which dying white
men once held up before the tear. dim
med eyes OF black slaves, declaring 10
hem that there were white men who
we're willing TO die for black mems
liberty. Today brown men look at this
banner and curse II with their last
breath, leaving an inheritance of hatred 1
o the invaders Of their liberty. Admit,
or argument's sake, tbe benignant pur-
pose OF our administmtion, admit that
humanity, and not the mineral wealth
md forest resources, has induced the in
'asion, il is enough for me 10 know that
We are not wanted there, that nine mill {
ion or more are afraid of us; that I
population twice as dense as the popula.
ion of Wisconsin is being compelled by
people on the other side OF the globe to
ubmit TO a government they do not
want because they are lnred by a dream
II seli-government OF which the United s
states was the model and the ideal.
This is 20 rae the paramount issue of
his campaign. What, compared to this
ny Of the dying Hlipinos, Is that clamor
or prosperity, aud how selfish and base
n this light is that "tremorp which
)haucey Depew says "has spread all 4
'ver the state Of New Yoik lest the
ommercial relations be disturbed"
Put over against this anxiety OF bankers
md business men for prosperity the