Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-12
;OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW.
written for the Timcs-Republlcaa


San Francisco, Sept. 1.-Congressman
Hull, of Iowa, who recently returned
from Manila and is spending few days
in this city, declares that if missionaries
are allowed to go to the island of Min
Ganao, whore the Moro tribe is domi-
:ant. we will have on our hands re-
be:lion which will cost immense sum to
suppress. He said:
AT present everything is very quiet
in Mindanao, but if missionaries ever
get down there there will be serious
trouble. The Moros are Mohammedans
and polygamy is part of their religion.
Just as soon as preachers get to work
among them. preaching against plural
wives, our difficulties will begin. aad
when these people rebel we will have
our hands full. They are fierce. war
like men, who do not know what sur
render means. Like all Moslems, they
are fanatical to the last degree and will
fight for their religion till the very last.
Spain never made any attempt to gov
ern them and thus avoided trouble,
There are 100000 Moros. and war with
them would make our trouble with It's
Filipinos look like child's play"
Altho the above Associated Press dis
patch has been printed in the T.-R. and
other dailies. not all have read it, 20
twill serve for a text of what follows.
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Before touching upon the question of
foreign missions, !. e., missionary work
III the Philippines. 1t is proper to say
nat there is a small number of our cit..
zens who are very much in earnest in
having this government by proclama-
ton and force make an attempt to end
polygamy and slavery in all of our new
colonies. These men. many of them
democrats, feel it terrible disgrace for
us to allow the Moros the delights CT
plural marriage. To be sure as a par
ty, during the days of Brigham Young's
reign in Utah, they did not see the enor-
nifty of such a crime to any greater ex-
tent than previous to the rebellion did
they see and feel the Gin of slavery in
our southern states. But allowance must
be made for even advanced ideas, even
in democratic ranks, and theoretically
Bryan and his followers are right. There
is. however. a mild suspicion that this
indignation from this quarter would be
much less If the democratic party hap
pened to be in power.
And many good religious people are
very much III earnest in having polyga-
my and slavery at an end in every part
of the world where floats the flag of the
| United States. To such people. honest
| thinking people, these words of Con-
| gresham Hull must be addressed Our
congressman seems to be unaware of the
| effort that is being made by the mug
wump class to have the United States
go into the foreign missionary work,
| using, of course, the methods pursued
by all civilized nations: First, declare
war against the Moros Kill as many as
We can, burn their homes, misuse their
women and butcher their children. Then
send over cargo of Bibles and say,
Now accept our grand religious sys-
| tenn, in which we neither allow slavery
nor polygamy." AS an advanced agent
of the government. the governmental
armed missionary might take along
| Senator Tillman to explain his United
States method of treating our former
slaves in South Carolina. Or that emf
\ nent citizen of New York would be per-
| fectly capable of being governmental
missionary COT course all this referring
to Boss Croaker) and explain to these
benighted Moslems how we discourage
polygamy in New York and encourage
| the beautiful system of the thousands of
houses of ill-fame In his city. Croker
should also be supplied with cargo of
Bibles for free distribution.
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| Congressman Hull assumes that mis-
| sionaries will be sen. to the Moros. We
all know they will go there, even IL not
sent by the missionary societies. We
know that even now devoted missiona-
ries are anxious and willing to go to
China and begin again their work right
| in the territory of the recent terrible.
| massacres. And this screed is not to
doubt the genuine Christian spirit that
seems to call such men and women to
such dangerous and prof1tless efforts,
but 1t is feeble effort to awaken a SEN
timent here at home that will make i'm
possible for lack of money any missions
airy effort for the present in the dis
turbed districts in China or among the
Mohammedaps in our new colonial pos
sessions. Using no other argument but
J the one Of will it pay? seems to be both