The times., 1901-05-14

! great corporations have done 1her
| ability to do so and to stick together
/ to the end is another matter. Leaders
/ in the past. have often shown remark
! able placability at the crucial moment
and If Mr. Hanna and Mr.. Morgan were
! att to get their way when the ccai
| miners had the Presidential election to
use as a club over them, it is possible
that they and their associates might
! be able TO do the same thing again.
| schurman on-the Philippines.
Considering how much good sense
President Schurman, of Cornell, gener-
ally evinees. we are sorry to see that
he lends himself. in a recent paper pub
! lisked in Golfers Weekly" to the silly
contention that the Tagal rebellion in
the Philippines has collapsed because
of the reelection of President Mchln-
ley. Dr. Schurman's argument is that
AguinaIdo was assured that Democratic
! success in the Presidential election
would result in turning over the archi-
/ pelago tc the eighty or more tribes OF
/ semi civilized. barbarous, and savage
tribes inhabitins it. under the dictator
! ship of Aguinaldo.
Dr. SchurInan should be more care
ful than he is about throwing the slur
upon the Democratic party that his
! text conveys. As cold fact, he IS
wrong. It was no such hope that kept
the insurrection alive. but the fearful
incompetence of Otis. and the profit
/ abIeness of reasonable trade with the
rebels which grew up under his regime.
The more sensible military measures
and tactics Of General Macarthur, who
succeeded him, and that officers keener
eve for smuggling and other nefarious
practices pursued under his nose, made
Insurgency uncomfortable to the insur-
gents. and jobbery and robbery in Ma
Mia less renunerative for the jobbeTs
and robbers Their the insurrection fell
in pieces. as il would have done eight
cen months sooner il a man like Mac
Arthur. or Wheeler, or Lawton had
been placed in chief command VIXEN
Otis wes
Nevertheless, we are willing to con-
cede part OF DR.. Schurman's conten-
ton. There is no doubt that Aguinal-
dos. hopes were bolstered by means Of
sentimental encouragement, and per
hans money. contributed by his ad-
nirers in the United States; but they
. were not Democrats. II was as no.
I torious as possible that the election OF
Mr.. Bryan, should that happen, would
, not make the smallest difference in the
t determination Of the American people
TO keep and develop all territory
/ gained during the Spanish war True.
under a Democratic Administration, the
2 Philippine and Porto Rican colonies
, would have been ruled in accordance
= with the provisions and prohibitions of
the Constitution, and not in violation
. and defiance Of them; but they could
- have been held just as firmly as they
. now are. The political talk Of certain
n leaders. voicing only their personal
a views. and perhaps for temporary pur-
= poses. could not obscure the fact that
K the Democratic masses were and are
r. | for expansion. under constitutional
2 methods. quite as much as their Re
. publican opponents were and are foI
4 the same thing unconstitutionally and
- for the benefit Of the trusts and monop-
e Giles.
+ Because the head and front Of the
Tapal movement in this country was
: a prominent and influential Republican
q Senator. we viii not initiate the Cor
II nell presidents disingenuousness and
saw that AguinaldO's American support
= was. in a political sense, officially Re
c n,bIican. II is true, however, that its
= backing, fnanciering, and inspiration
e were Republican. From the time Ad
. rniral Dewey fought the Battle Of Ma
Y Mia Bay the leading exponents Of the
! Democratic press in the United State!
,f have been in favor Of holding and civ
ilizing the Philippine Islands, and 81
y have the Democratic masses. II is put
~ ting a stigma upon nOn-partisan pa
triotism. and discouraging it, for Dr
schurr1an TO assume, as inferentiall.
he does. that the party of opposition L
lt the trusts and monorolies, and to al
j. unconstitutional carpetbag imperialism
le in the colonies, is not as expansive ant
la as "imperialistic" within the strict let
4 fer Of the Constitution as any othe
J. element Of American citizenship.
le we have seen entirely too much o
J. this effort to capture the credit Of th
rs Spanish war. and tn assume all tn
al virtue Of having brought it about, b.
d our Republican friends. 1t was Demo
A. cratic persistency and Democratic ap
v. peaIs. in and outside Of Congress, I
I the humanity and conscience Of III
j. American people, that forced an un
ID willing Republican Administra tion int
Of hostilities with Spain. once in, Presi
Is dent Mckinley and his advisers an
to associates uerforce adopted the goo
be old Jeffersonian policy of expansion
ee | They plowed with the Democrat
heifer. and sowed the seeds of Demo
he cratic doctrine. They reaped a ric
q cron for the country Of imperial pos
nj sessions in the waters Of Asia, and
e fertile island In the West Indies. The
IL are seIo olne To whatever credit is thei
lr. due. Bet il Is neither nice nor wis
nd for an ex-PhllipDine Commissioner
TO contend that all these results were re
nd suits OF Republican initiative or actor