The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-08-23
WILL NOT DOWN
imperialism Will Continue TO b,
Important issue.
EX-SENATOR EDM FUNDS
Says The People Have Not Vet
Settled u, and His Party
Must Answer for Its
Mistakes.

Must AnsWor tor Its
Mistakes,
In an extended interview published
in the Boston Herald Monday last For
NOR United Statos Senator Edmunds,
OF Vermont, outlined his viows in re-
gard to tho future Of Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippines, in manner
clearly indicating his belief that i'm
porislism will continue to bo an issue
in this country and that tho Republi-
can party will continue to labor under
difficulties arising from those now pos
sessions.
II think the govornmont's course in
regard to Cuba has boon wrong and
unnecessary. We havo net made good
our promises to Cuba, and there was
nothing to provont us from doing so.
y Wo promised to give tho Oubans thoir
free dom and would haYo stood much
bettor in tho eyes Of tho world and in
our o Nm estimation If wo had done so.
my plan would havo beon to givo
them complete independence, as We
promised to do; lot thom aet up thcir
government, then komo tins along in
the wintor, perhaps, or botoro thoy had
had time to got into any foreign entan-
clements or contract any debts, we
could have gone to them and explained
our ponition in tho matter, We could
have told them that in order to proteot
ourselves wo must have some arrange.
mont by which they could not mako
any nilianoou with other nations with
out the government OF tho United
States being oonsulted; that we had
set them free, and it WAS necessary for
liz to gee to it that our rights %ere Pre-
teotod. We could deal with them as
republic and have something in tho
nature of treaty that would inaure US
all the protection necessary and II they
refused to enter any such an arrange
ment, it would be necessary and right
for US to insist upon it, to tell them
firmly that they must agree to it or
take the conse quonoes. That would
have been my idea Of it, instead Of re.
fusing to fulfill our promises, and not
giving them an opportunity to say
whether or not wo should control thoir
foreign relations"
'Oonaidering the amount Of Ameri-
can capital that is being invested in
, Cuba, and that our rotations to the Gu
bans will be in a measure similar to
thoso which existed betwoen England
and the Transvaal, do you think there
is any danger Of like trouble in
Uuba1
''No, should dislike to compare
anything to that horrible Transvaal af-
fair, but I do think it likely that wo
may have a repetition Of tho expert,
enoes Americans are having in Vonc.
" zuola," aaid Mr.. Edmunds. "Take
theae asphalt affairs, for instance. 1t
Il is nothing but reasonable to expect
that We will have to deal with Cuba as
wo do with somo Of tho South
American republics.
I'm my opinion we havo moro tc
fear from Porto Rico than from Cuba
s i p0orto Isioo is q part Of the United
y States, and it will probably not Bio Ions
before it is flooded with ambitious
lawyers and othor carpet. baggers, whs
s. will soon be in CONTROL Of it's affairs tt
a greater or less extont Then there
will como timo when the politica
parties will have to oonsider the ques
tion Of admitting Porto Rico into the
Union. Tho oarpet-baggers and Others
will find the conditions worso than W
ever had with any Of the Rocky noun
tain territories that have become states
We will have much worse pooplo te
. decll with than the Populists Of the
west. -,s
''This will be duo, in measure, tc
the fact that Americans, or any of til
northern races, oan not retain their on.
orgy in warm climates; their ohildIcn
do no not live, while thoao of tho ma.
tives multiply; tho northorn or booomos
very different man, ho booomos yonal.
l am afraid that whom Porto Rico is
roady to be admitted into tho Union
the isla1 I'd will be in tho hands of mon
OF this clasa. Then what DO We find2
She will have the samo representation
IN the United States senate as docs
New York. She will probably send
two senators, representatives Of the
CLASS have described. They will be
venal and purohasablo and represent a
people so different from Americana
that it seems to mo, taking this viow of
it., that this 10 the greater danger We
have to fear from Porto Rico"
!" Then what you say about Ameri-
oang in Cuba would apply to them in
tho Philippinesf"
"Yes, although conditions in tho
Philippines arc in many respects vory
different. Those islands are farther
away, and we will probably have 10
maintain an armed force thoro for a
number Of years. Thoro will always be
more or loss guerilla warfare going on
there, and We Will be in somowha tho
same position that England is in India,
where she 10 always finding it necoB-
sary to supproas an uprising Of one
sort or another. Englands experience
in India haa boen much the same as
ours will be in Porto Rico and tho
Philippines, that is, in regard to tho
mon who are sont out to those ooun.
tries. It is woll known fact that the
ohildron Of Englishmon in India do
not live to be moro than two yoars old,
and it is now tho custom to sond then
to England whom very young. Tho eli.
mate affoots the Englishman in the
mannor in Which I have described and
thon, boing far away from homo, he
will do things that ho otherwise would
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