Evening star., 1901-12-10

they wall: Nothing can and nobody shall
save us from the body of this death'
They put Uncle Sam in the attitude Of
saying deliberately what the sinking for
eigner through a dislocation of his auxilia-
ries said in his fright: oh! Oh! 1 will be
drowned; nobody shall help mev'
Clearly the most disastrous of happen
ings from the point of view of the genuine
anti-imperialist would have been Supreme
Court decision that the United States could
not annex territory, even for a brief tenta-
tive period, without completely incorporat-
ing it as an integral part of the body polite,
and that consequently the Philippines, with
their millions of savage and semi-savage
Malays, were permanently and inseparably
an integral part Of the United States, their
people sharing in all the most cherished
privileges of American citizenship. The anti
imperialistic contention on this point in
volved a paradox and led logically to stulti-
fication. There should be enthusiastic re-
joicing among the anti-imperialists over
their own apparent defeat.
90 The existence of this limbo enables
the United States to carry out in good
faith, without disaster to itself, certain
pledges for spain's benefit contained in the
treaty Of Paris If the status did not
exist, the treaty must be violated and the
nations word broken.
"By the fourth and thirteenth articles of
the treaty the United States agree that for
ten years Spanish ships and merchandise
shall be admitted to the ports of the Phil
and merchandise Of the United States, and
Spanish scientific, literary and artistic
works. not subversive of public order, shall
continue to be admitted free of
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of these provisions could be carried out If
the Constitution required the customs reg
ulations Of the United States to apply to
those territories" Gustice Gray in Downes
against BidWell)
Is Essential to Filipino Welfare.
(D The people Of our new acquisitions
! themselves, as well as the expansionists,
anti-imperialists and upholders Of national
good faith among citizens Of the United
States, should welcome the creation Of the
status of appurtenant territory. 1t renders
possible that aexibility in the statutes to
be applied to them I'M the early stages Of
their Americanism which is absolutely es-
sential to their welfaFe;d
In the Philippines, for instance, Uniform
ity in all the 7Videly-differing islands of
tariffs, labor regallat1ons,, general laws, and
in forms and degreessofo self-government
would be destructive locally. both Of pros
perity and Of peace ;rsand in none Of the
islands, II the welfare Of the natives is to
be promoted, cam there be this complete
uniformity with the, corresponding laws of
the United States :. st
A radical difference Of treatment is re-
quired for the southern Philippines from
that which is wisely applied to the north
ern islands, and 'espsciany Luzon. The
former are Mahonetan, the latter Chris
tian. The peopler.of the former are to be
treated, for the present: at least, collec-
lively as tribes and managed through their
leaders the sultans and dattos The lat
ter are to be treated as individuals The
problems of the former are not only that
| of wise taxation, but of the gradual and
| tactful abolition OF slavery in conformity
with the constitutional prohibition and OF
problems are those of land, labor and taxa
! ton, and the difficulties to be surmounted
| are those arising in connection with the
| friars, the Katipunan, Chinese laborers
I and Tagalog insurgents.
| In handling the Sulu sultan and his archf.
pelago there will be need OF all the fexi.
| bility that is possible under the Constitu
| ton in the government OF appurtenant ter
| ritory; and in the end recourse may ever
| be necessary, under conditions which will
! yindicate the wisdom of its assertion, Il
| the power Of expelling incorrigible occu
pants from the limbo of appurtenancy int
i the outer darkness of the adjacent inferno
lying Just beyond the farthest limit Of tn,
American system.
II we do not exercise our power O.