Arizona daily citizen., 1901-07-13
THE WHITE MANS BURDEN.

The report from Washington concerning the
great increase of expenditure in the War Department
will occasion no surprise among those who consider
ed the cost of imperialism before we embarked upon
that expensive The increased burden that
would necessarily be entaed by the forcibe subJu'
cation of foreign peoples clearly explained from
the Democratic stump during the last campaign.
More nations have financially houndered, doubt,
upon the shoal of mtarysm than from any other
cause. Spain has paid well for her present degrade
ton. The paupers who ask aims in the Roman
streets personify the Italian Government which has
been reduced to bankruptcy by her miserable ambi-
tion for an imperial The British budget, re-
Gently submitted, showed fr.ghtfu expenditure as
a result of Englands war in South Africa. And now
we learn that the expense of the War Department
during the past year has increased almost fifty per
cent
Nor do the conditions promise any particular
reduction for the future. Although the Cubans
have been coerced into the acceptance of the Patt
amendment which is poor substitute for independ
ence we are told that the American troops will re-
main on the island to maintain peace, conduct cleo
TONS coerce legislation execute laws and in short
discharge all the other obligations of benevolent
tyrant. The present generation will probably not
Philippines. The expense of maintaining army
in our foreign possessions will necessarily increase
onr taxation. And Mr.. Carnegie comes with the
generous proposition that enlist army in the
quarrels of Great Britain and if need be to fight the
whole of Europe!
Mr. Hull of Iowa chairman of the Military Com
mittee in the House of Representatives who is now
in the Philippines after having thoroughly invest-
gated the conditions there and studied the character
of the natives, gives it his deliberate conclusion
that the subjugaton of the Islands is of the most
superficial sort. Mr. Beveridge of Indiana admitted
in the Senate that it might require several genera
tions to accomplish genuine pacfcation of the Is
lands The character of the people, passionate
resentfu and acuated by the spirit of revenge would
seem conductive to that result. Our perfdy and
deception invite it, Nature itself asserts it and the
greatest conquerors of history acted according to
that light IL them as declared by the exponents Of
the commercial oligarchy that directs our national
destiny we propose to hold the Philippines and
hold them forever" governing them by methods
s'simple and strong" we might we'll accustom
ourselves to increased expenditure in the de-
partment We should not permit ourselves to be
deceived by the participation OF recent insurgents in
the harmony banquets of the Fourth of July. Any
\ slave would prefer sumptuous banquet to the ball
I and chain; and even during brief experience we
have known instances of consprators serving with
seeming loyalty. The rebellion" merely shoulders
AT any moment it may burst into flame. And SO we
must continue to send our money and to our
possessions 1000 miles over the sea.
And then again are we not world power2 Must
We not have an army and navy capable of coping
Il with our adversaries? Must we not be prepared to
insist upon a proper division of the spoils? And
does not that require additional money?
The timid citizen who trembles at 80 pei
cent. increase should only wait,