Washington sentinel., 1900-07-07

could have obtained all the commercial
facilities and advantages. all the accom-
modations for our navy and all the
necessary footholds for our Asiatic trade
by respecting the rights OF The Philippine
islanders and without killing thousands
and thousands Of them for the purpose
OF subjugating them to our sovereignty,
and those challenges have been unan-
swered.
ave could do the same thing today
by treating the Philippine islanders
upon the same principles upon which
we have promised to treat the Cubans.
Thus we could have obtained all that is
required for our commercial expansion
without shedding a single drop OF blood,
without abandoning tue fundamental
principles of our democracy, without
committing a single act OF treachery
such as we have been guilty Of and
without the incalculable cost which the
policv of the Administration has brought
upon us,
"Al this. by just pol cy, we misht
do today, Nobody has as yet dared to
deny this. Thus our policy of blood and
iron has not only been criminal aRgres-
sion, but has also been a stupid blunder,
and that blunier will grow IN stupidity
and in hideousness the longer we con-
tinue that policy. The socalled com
mercial argument, brought forward by
the imperialisls, is nothing but a false
pretense,
1--WE have increased our navy,
Increased our army. weakened our
power of defence by multiplying :he
territories we have to defsnd-and made
mortal enemies of the populstions
thereof--tremendous augmented the
expense drumming the Government, and
all without the slightest necessity.
"But what will be offered as the pest
way out OF the difficulty he was asked
1--WE canuot wake the dead "h"sr
innocent blood has been spilled" wa
the striking answer. I've cannot alto
gether expunge the disgraceiul page OF
history that has been written. But the
American people can rise up and declare
that the great wrongs attempted oV
misguided men in power shall not be
cousummated and approved
They can declare that the President
, and his abettors in this scheme oi
! conquest and aggrandizement used the
name of the republic and the people
falsely. We can ordain that the same
, policy we promised to apply to Cuba
shall be applied to all the foreign popu.
lation which in some manner have fallen
under our sway; that we shall aid them
in good faith and to the b st OF our ability
IN forming independent governments Of
: their own. and that we shall hold a
! protecting hand over them against
foreign interference
Don't you believe the foreign gov
ernments would az once Pouuce upon
, the Philippine Islands II we acknowl-
= edged the right Of the FIlipiuOs to an
4, independent z vrrum-ni2' was asked
r Il do not; and they will be far less
). inclined to do so, il they ever were, alter
n having witnessed the job we have I
e our hands In subjugating the FilipinOs'
It Moreover, ,sAIr. Mckinley himself in hi'
/. last message, said that no foreign powe
:. would permit another loreign power to
+. have them. THIS shows, too, the
e feasibility Of an agreement between az
" the parties coocerned, that none Of tn M
: shall have the Philippines, and that they
Sc shall be protected a. a neutral ground
r II one tenth OF the ingenuity which tins
OF ltmperialists exert now to Justify thei
al condition had been, or were even now
he employed in bringing about such
,le diplomatic agreement, il could surel
ne be accomplished that bugbear G
foreign interference is. therefore, falls
al pretence ss was the commercial argI
We ment,"