The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-21
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Important Issus.
EX-SENATOR EDMuNDs
Saws che Peop!s Have Not Yet
Settled II, and His Party
Must Answer for Its
Mistakes.

Mistakes.
In sn extended interview published
in the Boston Herald Monday last For
mer United States Senator Eimunds,
of Vermont, outlined his views in re-
gard to the future Of Cubs, Porto Rico
and the Philippines, in q manner
clearly indicating his belief that I'M
psrislism will continue to be an issue
in this country and that the Republi-
can party will continue to labor under
difficulties arising from these new pos
sessions.
81 think the governments course in
regard to Cubs has been wrong snd
unnecessary. We have net made good
our promises to Cubs, ans there vas
nothing to prevent Us from doirg 50.
We promised to give the Cubans their
freedom and wcu'd have stood much
better IN the eyes Of the world and II
our N estimation If We had done so.
my plan would have been to give
them complete independence, SIS We
promised to do; let them get up their
government, then some tina along in
the winter, perhaps, or before they had
had time to get into sny foreign entan-
glemants o, contract any debts, We
could have gone to them and explained
our position in the matter. We could
have told them that in order to protect
ourselves We must have some arrange.
ment By which they could not make
any alliances with other nations with
out the government Of the United
States being consulted; that we had
set them free, and it Was necessary for
Us to sec to it that our rights we're pro
tected. We could deal with them as
q republic and have something in the
nature Of treaty that would insure Us
all the protection necessary and If they
refused to enter any such an arrange
ment, it would be necessary and right
for Us to insist upon it, to tell them
firmly that they must agree to it or
tske the conse quelces. That would
have been my idea Of it, instead Of re-
fusing to fulfill our promises, and not
giving them IN opportunity to say
whether or not We should control their
foreign relations"
''Considering the amount Of Ameri-
can capital that is being invested IN
Cuba, and that our relations to the Gu
hans will be in a measure similar to
those which existed between England
and the Tcans7sal, do you think there
is any danger Of like trouble in
Cuba?'
mo, I should dislike to compare
anything to that horrible Transvsal af-
fair, but do think it likely that we
may have repetition Of the expert
ences Americans are having in Nsne-
zuela," said Mr. Ednunds. ''Cake
these asphalt affairs, for instance. 1t
is nothing tut reasonable to expect
that We will have to deal with Cuba as
We DO with some Of the South
American republics"
In my opinion We have more to
fear from Porto Rico than from Cuba,
Porto Rico is q part Of the United
States, and it will probably not be long
before il is flooded with snbitious
lawyers and other carpet basgers, Who
will soon be in control Of its affairs to
8 greater or less extent. Then there
will come time when the political
parties will have to consider the Q1es
tion of sdmitting Porto Rico into the
Union. The carpet-b2ggers and others
will find the conditions worse than re
ever had with any of the Rocky noun
tain territories that have besom, states.
We will have much worse people to
deal with than the Populisss Of the
, west.
''This will be due, in measure, to
the fact that Americans, or any Of tbs
northern races, can not retain their en-
ergy in warm elm stes; their children
do no not 1--we, while those Of the ns-
tives multiply; the northerner becomes
q very different man, he becomes Venal.
an afraid that when Porto r CO is
ready to be admitted into the Union
the isla I'd will be in the hands Of men
of this Glass. Then what DO We 6nd?
She will have the same representation
in the United States senate as doss
New York. She will probably send
two senators, representatives Of the
class ! have described. They will be
venal and purchasable and represent a
people so diferant from Americans
thst it seems to me, taking this view Of
it, that this is the greater danger We
have to fear from Porto Rico"
"Ehen what you say about Aneri-
cans in Cubs would apply to them in
the Philippiaes2"
Eyes, although conditions in the
Philippines are in many respects very
different. Those islands are farther
away, and We will probably have to
maintain an armed force there for 8
number of years. There will always be
more or less guerilla warfare going on
there, and We will be in somewhat the
same position that England is in India,
where she is always finding it neces-
ssry to suppress an uprising Of one
sort OF another. England's experience
in India has been much the same as
ours will be in Porto Rico and the
Philippines, that is, in regard to the
men who are sent out to those coun-
tries. It is well known fact that the
children Of Englishmen in India do
not live to be more than two years old,
and it is now the custom to send them
to Eaglsnd when very young. The eli
mate affects the Englishmsn in the
manner in which I have described, and
then, being far away from home, he
will do things that he otherwise would
not, so that there is always corruption
in the management Of afsirs."
Then you do not think our expert
ence in the Philippines hss been worth