The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-29

giles for nationality Of any people known
70 history. There is excellent reasC n
To- ehe y, that even az TINS Gay the e4-
lstlng Filipino government, low as II IS
IN estate and migratory TO some extent
as 70 location exercises wide ana re-
spected authority in the Philippine IS
lands and Is obeyed quite generally by
the local authorities in the Interior
There is not the slightest ground for
believing that any appreciate impress
son has been made upon the determine
ton OF the Philippine people TO resist us
ID the emo There is no evidence that any
strong native pro-American element has
2i1y existence whatever. As the result
Of two years Of wasting var We occupy
ABOUT one rly6-hunoreotn part or JnslL
archipelago. No district is really "paci-
lied We hold the ground our troops
stand on, practically nothing more
During the campaign of 300 il was
false accusation against the opponents
OF the nation policy that they were
keeping alive a smouldering .rebelliOn In
the Philippines The newspapers are
magazines made most of this foolish ar
gument and in many a pulpit where the
Christianity Of the Bible. the pious ana
thema Of prudent priesthood rose to
heaven on the wings of prayer"
Promises Not Fulfilled.
Mr.. Towne then declared that after the
election the resistance in the Philippines
increased and that it had been announced
In the senate within a week thar saOO0
american soldiers would be needed in the
islands for an indefinite period
us It not clear he injured that the
way OF duty IS equally the path OF profit?
DO We need 10 own people in order TO
trade with them2 Is II not better TO al
low our customers TO live, to have their
good VIII and give them the means of
payment, than to kill the strongest of
tAleTn, to earn the hatred of the survivors
AID TO impoverish all by desOiating war;
lie held that II was better 10 trade lib
erty TO the FiipinOS for security to the
United States in the islands than 10 force
sullen unwillingnesS into Slavisn COM
Pllance with some OF our customs by
the employment Of an army of I00CJ0
men.
IT was a habit of the defenders of the
administration policy 10 sneer at the
term ''imperiaiist," ne said. but it could
not De Sneered away. You can have
Imperialism without an empire. Just as
1 the Romans found that they could have a
more than royal master though he did
( not wear the name of king asserted Mr..
| T0wne.
''The retention of the Philippines viii
commit US 10 the whole programme of
empire There Is law among nations,
as Hamlet says there is among men, by
which "a bad appetite grows by what II
feeds on No nation in history has re
sisted 1t and TO every nation that mas
yielded TO it. il has brought disaster.
Athens SuccUmbed to it and persisted.
Rome INDUCED the mad ambition and fol
lowed 70 to her downfall 1t was the run
of Venice. 1t viii work the destruction
OF England, In my opinion, ere the close
of this Hateful century. Are we with all
the lessons of history before us, TO prove
the next victim of this insatiate passion
the greatest, most lamentable, most
EratuIOuS sacrifice in all human trag-
edy2
II do not wish to convey the impression
that in my opinion the present policy
viii at one fell SWOOp convert this repuD-
lie into empire in fact But DO say
1 that the seeds of empire Turk IN TINS
policy and in time VIII bring them to
their flower and fruit unless we make a
seasOnaDle prevention.