The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-27

ty but in blessing. ! believe the F'ilipinos
San s of the rsis fnat a is
world-wide. journey TO their shores"
AnS s IS tSe p
dent whose messages. and whose treat
ment Tnen has has, been n mdesanbed by the senator
and cruel" That contest cannot be
cruel which seeks only to lift up and
his enemy. That contest cannot be
frapght rai with hardship, or oppressiop that
generation and the henetiting. of these
islanders of the sea. Mr. President, there
the sayages of the world, as yet unre-
claimed. than asking them to come with
OF the United States, in protection of
american. laws. and to sit under the
those islands to-day. When that result
talk Of Of our our eventual duty to tho those people.
But, Mr.. President If these utterances
Ie Seh,ef st irSm a Dako,a, ,asce sre
in all of the views which have recently
been bee stated on the floor by extremists soi in
Islands not as a rich conquest. We took
them as one of the penalties, and burdens
of war which was imposed upon us be
man race. we entered into this war be;
cause we could no longer listen unmoved
to the cry of sufferings in Cuba, and we
girded up our loins for the contest and
washed ourselves clean OF selfish purpose
was not war of aggression and that
we took the island of Cuba when we took
it solely that we might help fit 1t for
self-government and turn 1t over TO the
| people who occupy 1t.
When the war was inaugurated none OF
| us dreamed of our acquisition Of the
Philippine Islands; but when the war was
we then had to deal with our conquered
foe. we found the Philippines with more
pressions and hardships and cruelty We
found Spain humbled and bankrupt, a
derelict in the Pacific; and we took them
because if we had not taken them they
cations and might have passed into ufl-
worthy hands. and principally because of
And had they been, as bleak and barren
as the desert of Sahara, our duty to the
not have been less or different.
Mr.. President. we may have to keep
they are not to be kept for the reasons
so far stated. listened with the great
est interest to the remarks of the junior 5Ii.
he was fresh from the islands and from
an inspecton of them. | keep an open
cannot yet yield my approval of the reso-
luton he introduced because of the lrgu-
ments he adduced; He told us that there
had been given him nuggets of gold and
gold dust from placer .diggings: thai they
told him of mountain of forty miles or
coal: of unlimited beds of rich copper; he
told us OF great fields OF Indian corn,
rice. sugar. coffee and hemp, and Of the
rich and tempting valley OF Luzon.
He told us that the islands were peo-
pied by savages VINO could not be re-
claimed and that we mad made the mis-,
not with severity; that they would never
work and that we must get over our
lingering prejudice 20 Chinese labor, and
that in order to reap the benefit OF those
ers; but that the islands were rich, and
that therefore should hold them.
ment is base and sordid. This war. IS
we inaugurated 1t and as We carried It
slider first our duty to the people, Will go
down in history as one Of the nohlest
intention and purpose TO retain the Phil
tppine islands, Irrespective of the people
rich and fertile and valuable acquisition.
this war Will go down in history as a war
of conquest, waged by strong against 2
dishonorable war, worthy of the middle
ages. If we are to keep these islands !,
Is because We owe a duty growing out OF
the cause Of the war and not because
we were ae,e to ,Si TAKE theIn and tne sao
ing the Philippines would apply with
egda forSe TO our ioSdihg our Srnisers Sns
with shell and cruising around the world
seeking for savage islands which we
might conquer.
Mr.. President is there not some danger
that we are facing the question before us
maudlin2 l confess that l am shrinking
somewhat at frequent and constant ref
erence to Almighty God and his dealings
personal with the nations of the earth.
History has taught me that he usually
favors the heaviest battalions. and If he
governs men irrespective of human agen-
cies there are iniustices in history con-
cerning which we will never be set right
upon us.
May, it not be possible. Mr.. President.
that the divine plan goes no further than
to hold each individual responsible for his
actions toward his fellow man? II may
that God Almighty. as has been stated,
has trusted this whole question Of civil
the duty OF enlightening. heathendom ex7
clusively upon the English-speaking and
reutonic races and chiefly upon the peo-
tract from the remarks Of the senator
from Indiana (Mr. Beveridgel. He says;
THE Philippines are ours forever, ter
ritory belonging to the United states
the Constitution calls them; And just
table markets. We will not retreat from
either We will not repudiate our duty
our opportunity In the Orient. We will
not renounce our part in the mission Of
ization of the world. And we will move
forward to our work; not bowling out re-
dens, but with gratitude for a task
ing to Almighty God that he has marked
us as his chosen people. henCeiorth to
lead in the regeneration of the world
God has not been preparing the Eng
lish-speaking and Teutonic peoples for a
thousand years for nothing, but vain and
idle INSTRUMENTATION and selt-admira-
tion. No! He has made MS adopts
in government that may administer
government among savage and senile peo-
pies. And of all our race he has
marked the American people as his cho-
sen nation to finally lead in the regenera-
ton of the world. This is the divine mis-,
sion of America. and 1t holds for us all
the profit. all the glory, all the happiness
possible to man..
Mr.. President, | believe myself il is idle
for us 70 talk Of being "A God-given ma
ton. with an ablity to rcgenerate and
colonize and civilize not possessed by any
other people in the world. l was some
what startled b. tac uttcrances of the
senator from Indiana when he told us
that charity did not BEGIN at home, but
commenced outside and Uttered back, and
that. confessins the great municipal cor