The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-28

republic is at the SrdNeSt Crisis ~ -
history and / feel that "A necessary pre-
lininary to its getting safely out rs 70
cause the people 10 realize now ~ came
to get in"
proclamation that among the roses OF
its soft rhetoric Of love. its fair speech
about our coming, not as invaders OF
conouerers. but as friends OF the milo
sway OF justice and Of benevolent assiria-
nation' the already justly awakened
district of the t1lipinos clearly DenelQ
the unsheathed and unglittering steel
-If we are bent on slaughter, said
he "let it be in-0pen gulse- IT we lus1
for this peoples land, let US not glaze
our enterprise with raise ana slnls 49,
pretense- Rather let us boldly raise the
sonlbre flag Of International piracy,
whistle scruple down the wind and then
close in upon our feeble victim 10 the
cry Of Loot and glory. "
Mr. TOwne maintained that the United
States was under the obligation OF cir
clnstances, If not indeed OF actual
promise. to grant assistance to the Fill
pinos and that among nations the Tor
mer was quite as binding as the latter
Senator Towne then argued az length
in support of his contention that the
FilipinCS were perfectly capable Of gov
erning themselves. pointing out that ~
per cent Of the population OF Luzon can
read and write, and holding that the
government established by Agulnaido
was strong. symmetrical and progress
siVe, even in the difficult and turning
conditions which surrounded 1t, He de-
clared that the Filipino statesmen would
creditably meet almost anK emergency
Of administration in the most advanced
government and would have assisted
and ornamented the early struggles for
nationality OF any people known 70 MS
'tThere is excellent season to believe
that at this day the existing Filipino
government low as it is in estate ana
migratory to some extent as TO LOCATION
exercises a wide and respected authority
in the Philippine islands and IS opeyed
quite generally by the local authorities
in the interior. There is not the slight
est ground for believing that any ap-
probable impression has been made
upon the determination OF the Philippine
people to resist US to the end. There IS
no evidence that any strong pro-Anerl
can element has any existence What-
ever. As the result OF two years or
wasting war, we occupy about one
ive-hundredths part OF that archipelago
No district is really .pacified.' We hold
the ground our troops stand on prac-
tically nothing more
During the campaign of 1900 it was
a favorite accusation against the oppon-
ents of the administration policy that
they were keeping alive a smoulder1ng
rebellion in the Philippines The news
papers and magazines made much OF
this foolish argument and in many
pulpit where the gospel or the bullet
has supplanted the Christianity of the
Bible. the piOus anathema OF prudent
Mr.. Towne then declared that after
the elections the resistance in the phil
ippines increased and that II mad been
announced in the senate within week
that go 600 American soldiers would De
needed in the islands for an indefinite
period.
1T is rot clear, he inquired. that the
way of duty is equally the path Of
profit2 DO we need to own people IN or
der to trade with them2 1t IS not better
7elE
their good will and 10 leave them the
means Of payment, than to kill the
strongest of them, to earn the hatred of
the survivors and to impoverish all BY
He held that it was better to trade ILL
erty to the F'ilipinos for security TO the
United States in the islands than 70
force a sullen unWi1Iingness into slaVish
compliance with some of our customs by
the employment Of an army OF 100000
men,
1T was habit Of the defendersy Of the
administration policy to sheer at the
term imperialism he said, but it could
not be sneered away. You can have
imperialism without an emperor, just as
the Romans found that they could have
a more than royal master though he did
not wear the hated name OF king, as
serted Mr.. ToWne. 1.-The retention of the
Philippines viii commit us to the whole
programme of empire There is a. law
among nations. as Hamlet says there .
among men, by which a bad appetite
grows by what it feeds on. No nation
in history has resisted it and to every
nation that has yielded to it IL has
brought disaster. Athens succumbed 70
III and persisted. Rome INDUCED the NAL
ambition ard followed it to her DOOM 1t
was the ruin of Venice. It will work
the destruction ofEngland in my opinion
ere the close Of this fateful century Are
we with all the lessons Of history before
US, to prove the next victim Of this ic-
satiate passion, the greatest, most Ia
all human tragedy
II do not wish to convey the impress
sion that in my opinion the present pol
icy viii at one fell sWoOp convert this
republic into an empire in fact But I
do say that the seeds of empire Turk in
this policy and that time and favOring
environments will and. must bring them
to their flower and fruit unless we make
a seasOnable prevention.
God speed the day when the Ameri-
can people, whose annals blaze with rec
ords of unequalled heroism and who
again and always OF some cause demand
1t would freely pay with life itself the
price of its defense, shall have the moral
courage to do their civic duty-a rarer
thing than to face undaunted the can
mons mouth-and with their sovereign
voice declare that this unholy war for
greed and empire shall be stopped, and
that no ship Of the United States shall
ever again in all our history be sent to
other lands to war on people fighting for
their liberty.
! shall not willingly cease to dream
Of a twentieth century devoted to the
demonstration, the first and only one in
history that a government of the peo-
pie, for the people and by the people
need not perish from the earth There
IS an inspiration in the thought that to
our beloved country may be reserved
the eliminating glory Of the ages in
GROWING with success the long expert
nlent Of righteous self-government.
LEGISIATTVF SNAP SHOTS
The official who does the most work
IN the state house during the legislature
is the boy who runs the elevator.
The election bill TO destroy fusion will
be made special order one day this