Arizona republican., 1901-03-12

l everyone that at least the inhabitants of the Transvaal had in very recent years been allowed by England to pos sess independence, even if they did not exercise and enjoy independence at the very time when the last controversy with Great Britain arose..
 Third. While 1t is only about twen- | ty-five years since Great Britain first set up claim to the Transyaal--a claim always disputed and once since successfully resisted; Spain had for more than ten times that period ex- ercised an almost undisturbed control over the Philippines. It Is true that might does not make right, nor years of injustice obliterate wrong; but if the status quo is not to be recognized py nations, why did we not apply to the Indians and Aztecs for the title to Ari- zona and why does not England re- pudiate the titles established by Will | fam the Conqueror? It is indeed doubt | ful whether the Normans themselves, who remained in Normandy at the I time when William invaded England. | should not be busted in favor of the Franks, according to Filipino logic! Fourth The Philippines were wrest- ed from their oppressors by the mill tary forces of the United States. It Is not claimed, 1 believe, that anybody was trying to oppress the Boers, sn- less 1t was English themselves. Fifth. The U. s. government paid s20, ,O00,O 900 in gold for Spain's title to the Philippines. What has England paid, or offered to pay. for the South A To xrhn pay It?
 Sixth. IL is the unanimous testimony of competent witnesses that a large majority of the inhabitants of the Phil- ippines are in favor of American gov ernment. On the contrary all of the Boers, in the Transvaal and Orange State, are opposed to English rule, and even a majority in Natal and Cape Colony would rebel If they could hope for success.
 Seventh. The Filipinoes have had no experience in government, and cannot be expected to acquire, in day or a year, what 1t took Europe thou sand years to gain, viz: sufheient knowledge to enable them to estab- fish such governments and laws as would give security to life and proper ty, permancy to society and the condi- tions of progress and development to citizens On the other hand. the Boers are not barbarans nor Asiatics, but mostly emigrants from that nation in Europe which first broke the clouds of religious and political despotism and let in upon benighted world the sun light of mental and physical liberty. They have shown their capacity for self-government. and ask but to be left in the enjoyment of that indi- vidual freedom which they have been taught by inheritance as well as by experience to love and prize.
 Eighth. The differerce between Eng fish colonialism and American plan of ultimate statehood. The Boers, scat tered remnants of a noble and heroic ancestry, can look forward only to na- tional extinction ana social amalgma- ton with other colonial populations-a blank and dreary prospects or race an- initiation without compensatory in- terest in that foreign power, or rep resentation In the councils of that foreign government which is to rule over them. The F'ilipinoe, recently
 
 civilized records or recol,ections. may look forward to a series of upward steps in the direction of enlightment civilization, progress, civil and re- ligions liberty, and ultimate represen- tation in the galaxy of states of the great American union.
 It has been said that 1t would be de- 5tructive to the constitution to hold the Philippines as territories, and per- ilous to our civilization to admit them as states. Was 1t unconstitutional to hold the Louisiana territory, New Mex ico or Alaska?
 Our government has owned the ter ritory of Arizona for about fifty years, and yet 1t is not admitted as state. Who can say what the Fllipinos will be in fifty years? Lying in the very path of international commerce, strengthen ed by their connection with the great est of military powers, and stirred in all their intellectual and moral activi- ties by an association with and an in terest in the peoples and problems of civilization, what may not be accom- plished by them in that length of time, l To distrust our government is to dis trust ourselves. To oppose the admis- sion of new states is to oppose the con- tinuation of old states in the union. And to doubt the wisdom of territorial preparation for statehood is to doubt | the wisdom of stable government, | and lay foundation for that turbu- lence and anarchy which always pre- cedes a military despotism
 Is it evident, that with respect to events transpiring in South Africa and | in the Philippines circumstances alter cases"
 II DARROW