Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-06-28
The Fillpinos' New Government.

The fJIiplnoS' new government.
The Filpinos are going to be pre-
sented with a civil government by
President Mckinley on the Fourth of
July. The gullible and uniformed
should not be too hasty in reaching
conclusions. 1t is not the kind of
government the American mind has,
until lately, been attuned to-a gov
eminent in which the governed have
a voice. 1t is to be a civil govern
ment of the British kind, patterned
after the one the queen gave her In
dian empire. 1t is to be civil gov
eminent by.a commissioner whom the
president appoints. He is to be called
governor. This governor the presi-
dent has equipped with the powers of
an emperor. He is to make his own
rules and regulations and put them in
force as though they were statutes,
except that the governor may repeal,
alter, change or amend them at pleas
ure.
This civil government is not for a
country in state of war. The presi-
dent claims that in many provinces
the insurgents have been entirely
overcome and the country restored to
a state of peace. Not unwilling peace,
either, but peace the outgrowth of
complete satisfaction with American
rule. 1t is to such provinces, and
such only, that the ''ciyil govern
meut's is made aDDlicable
1t is difficult to realize that the
great republic of the world, the one
that had it's birth but a century ago
and rested its claims to existence upon
the fundamental right Of all men to
be equal before the law, and to be
governed only by agencies that de-
rived their powers from the consent
of the governed, will undertake to
rule by such system. These doc
trines were declared upon July 4, 1776,
not as applicable to the revolving
colonists alone, but as being the alien
able property of all men of all chimes
and of every condition. Now, with
| the United States at the zenith of it's
power, having held to that sacred
doctrine aS-its sheet anchor through
every storm. having with it cheered
the hearts of theQppressed and quick
ened the conSciences Of the rulers of
every land, after recognition by this
worlds teeming millions as the one
nation based upon the inalienable
rights of man, rejecting all kingly
DrerQgative and class privileges, with
principles Of moral grandeur in the
fabric never bafOEe woven into human
government, the United States de-
4scendS to the level of the lowest and
meanest government in the world. 1t
is true the government by which the
FilipinoS will be held kinder and more
charitable than the governments given
by some other nations to captured and
Subjugated colonies, but the principle
of government TO be applied is no
higher than that adopted by the
meaneSt in the world. It is a govern
ment of force administered by aliens;
one in which the governed is permit
ted no voice and to support which the
governed will be taxed. 1t is tyranny
regulated by the conSciences and civil
lization of the tyrants.
And this government is granted
the Filipinos as Fourth of july boon!
What more malapropoS day could be
selected for its Inauguration? Three
years ago Aguinaldo went to Manila
as the Americans alley to help them
conquer and drive from the archipel-
ago the Spanish oppressors. The reso-
tuition guaranteeing Cuban indepen-
dence had been adopted by congress.
In all the lis years of national exis-
tence not a step had been taken to in
dicatea purpose to capture and hold
colonies The DeclaFatio4. Of INDIE
pendenee had been canonized in tbs
American heart. From every church
and school and rostrum. and in every
newspaper and periodical in the land,