The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-01-24

lands example that can justify US
- Undertaking the same work? Toe mi
cradle, miserable, contemplate rot
Rudyard kipl ng where he talks abo,
the white mans burden it seem, to u
In the light Of English history is COZ
' temptible-the white mans burden
confer the curses Of ENglish rule upo
5 the other nations Of toe world
' England commenced with [relsu,
How Is it with Iadia? Thew hav
made no converts practically to Chri,
tianity in India neither Fave the nt
tlves learned the English language
None OF the people of India talk Ene
llsh. Ihey have to keep an army {
ZlO,OOO men to hold them in suhjactio
and prevent them from securing me
dern implements OF destruction, whil
they trample upon their rights as
people. What blessing has Elglan,
conferred upon India? Nothing bu
the TACT that taking away her foo,
supply has caused the starvation of
million OF men In India every year fo
years, aHd some years six or sever
millions OF people In year. One hun
drei aud fifty million dollars' worth O!
the fooa products OF India are shipped
away TO pay pensions in England, ant
the result is that the want OF tha
iood causes the people OF India tt
starve.
| Compare the provinces OF India ,ha,
DO not recognize English rule, that are
under an English protectorate, and you
| VIII find that there Is no starvation
there. The native princes rule, and
Inc people govern themselves, and El-
gland simply has suzsrainty over
them. There Is no starvation in those
provinces the starvation ia in the En-
gllsh part of India, where the English
system OF robbery and plumber be ds
sway: India gives no money to tho
English treasury, but India is a field
or exploiting private enterprise, aud
thus further enriching the already
oYer-rich classes that govern the EN-
glish empire.
What OF New Zealand? Z? Did the con.
quest of New ,aland confer the bless
!ngs OF Christianity upon New z ,aland?
why, 1T resulted in tho destruction of
the Inhabitants. To-day o great COLONY
OF English people are in New ,aIand
out the Inhabitants who formerly oc
cupied that land have disappeared as
the result OF English government.
How 1s it in Egypt? The Egyptian
government was bad, and bad for the
same reason that the English govern
ment was bad bat England went into
Egypt to enforce the collection of a
usurious debt for money which Egypt
never received. England went there
TO force upon that people debt which
was composed almost entirely OF inter.
eat at 26 per cent. on small sum of
money until to-day every acre OF
Egypt that is tillabe is taxed $40 a
year.
Every man, woman, and child In
Egypt OF native population, toiling
ana tllling the soil, is slave to the
English taxRatherer. Three thousand
i've hundred Eaglishmen wiring the
lakes by Imprisonment and by the lash
from those people, and yet the so.called
civilized world looks on with approval.
"a order to better enlarge their capa-
c,ty to pay taxes and bear burdens, the
Eng gllsh officials have compelled those
people to toll In y systematic manner,
leaving nothing for themselves but a
Care existence and a bare subsistence
% IL ls everywhere that England has
gone.
AS said before, England's fret con-
quest was Catholic Ireland, and the ex-
cuse Tor oppression there was that the
Irish were Catholics. How appropriate
that In our first act In the drama of i'm
perlallsm we should undertake the
Conquest OF another Catholic country,
should undertake the conquest of the
Philippines, and should make the same
miserable and contemplate excuse
W hich has justified England's atroci-
ties In Ireland during all time. From
the pulpits OF this country we hear
prayers for our success in order that
We may Introduce Christianity. Oh,
Mr.. President, If we are to go to war
against Catholics, it is not necessary
to go hall way around the world to do
so. We have more Of them at homo,
although there are 5000, 900 OF them
In the Philippines.
Ii these islands were rich in every
mineral mon desire, II their supplies
OF gold surpassed those of the Trnns-
vaal, II every other metal precious and
desirable were In unlimited quantities,
If their soil were so fertile that it sur
passed even the famous valleys OF the
Nile, II they could produce every com.
fort with half the effort with which it
can be produced elsewhere throughout
the world, yet | would oppose the an
nexatlon OF these Islands because it Is
wrong, because it leaves those who
have sneered at us in our claim that
we were advocates Of freedom a ius.
tidcation for their sneers in tho fu-
ture.
But, Mr.. President, hold that we
can not profit from these islands. None
OF our race live within the Tropics.
There Is not o colony OF our race, the
Aryan race, anywhere within % de-
grees OF the equator. The men OF our
race who have been doing commercial
business In Manila do not have their
families there. They raise a family of
half-mixed natives In Manila and leave
their real families at home. So it has
been with commercial England through
the Tropics everywhere, for you can no
more produce q white man, q man OF
our blood, In the Tropics than you can
polar bear. Climatic conditions place
their limits upon men just as firmly rs
upon plants and upon animals.
You can not claim that our race have
not been cOlonists and that they have
not gone forward to plant colonies
throughout tho world, for they have
but they settle In that belt around the
world, between the twenty. fifth and
tifty-fifth degrees OF north or south la.
titude.
Mr.. President, wo are told by the
President OF the United States and by
the orators who favor imperialism that
this will be q paying venture-that
trade follows the flag. We'll, the NOR.
ality Of that argument can be fairly Ii
lustrated, | think, In this way If II
boy OF a numerous family sho-.d cross Il
wide desert and find at the foot of a
mountain an old man with q family OF