Sunday Washington globe., 1901-12-29
SUNDAY, DECEMBER %, 1901.
The Philippine Situation.

''The sword name of di cad yet when
Upon the freeman's thigh It's bound
While for his altar and his hearth,
The war drums roll, the trumpets sound
How sacred is it them
Whenever for the truth and right
II flashes in the van Of fight
Whether in some wild mountain pass
AS that where fell Leonidas;
Or on some sterile plain and stern,
A Marstou or BannOckburn;
Or amidst crags and bursting rills
The Switzer's Alps, gay Tyrol's hills;
Or as. when sunk the Armada's pride,
II CLEANS above the stormy tide
Still, still, whene 'er the battle word
Is liberty, when men do stand
For justice and their native land
Then heaven bless the swordp
Elsewhere we publish from the Manila
Cyltic an article on that city and the Fill
pinos which leaves no room to doubt that
American civilization can teach them little
else than those alleged advanced ideas
which are being condemned from pulpit
and rostrum by our preachers, moralists
and orators. The Filipino on his native
heath still stands sword in hand, to assert
his God-given rights of life, liberty and the
pursuit Of happiness in his own way, which
as it happens net 70 be according to our
ideas we send arzed uieTcsuaries to butcher
him on his very threshold and queuch with
his blood the FIRE heartEstone and Of as
piration for sacred Lbertyl
Chaffee, our military satrap in the
islands, resents the attempted efforts Of the
IS safnf
as represented by Judge Taft, and screams
historically for the blood of these ban
ditt and brigandsl" Precisely the very
names applied by George III and his min
listers, his mercenaries and his Hessians to
our rude forefathers" who fought the in
vaders for
The land their souls adored
For happy homes and altars free,
Their only talisman, the sword,
Their only spell word-Liberty
Anybody calmly reading and analyzing
the article on Manila, albeit written by
hostile hand, can see that we have invaded
a country and are endeavori ng to conquer
a people whose civilization almost dates
from our own on this continent. Their
churches, their seminaries their ware
houses their industries and their trade be-
speak people inspired by the Christian
religion, intelligent by cultivation of let
tiers ambitious by enterprises accom-
plished, and self-Ieliant by their adven-
lures in commerce.
When the hour of our revolution struck
we had no city on this continent the peer
of Manila in respect to the attributes men
tioned-uot even New York city, nor we're
our mercantile or professional classes su-
perior in wealth, enterprise aud letters
And if it is alleged that the majority of the
educated and wealthy inhabitants Of the
Philippines favors the invaders, so could
George III with much more force and
truth allege the same thing of the Ameri-
can cOlonists.
We are fighting AGAINST the PRINCIPLE
in the Philippines we fought to sustain in the
Revolution And we know it, But we are
a nation puffed up with our greatness and
wealth and consequently hypocritical and
grasping; and, hence we covet the Filipinos
possessions and we are now about to cast
lots in Congress for the Filipino's wealth
and virgin richness as the Roman soldiers
did for the sacred garments Of the Messiahl
We are riding like Rome rode, like all the
dynasties, republics and governments have
ridden which have oppressed and robbed
the weak-to deserved destruction and un-
mourned oblivion