Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-07

in that they have sought, not alone to
convert the masses to an acceptance of
their stagnant policies, but by fair
means and foul to defeat the popular
will after 1t had been crystallized into
an irrevocable national Judgment. And
in doing SO they have not hesitated 10
arraign the American government be-
fore the world as breaker of pledges
and high-handed spoler Of the terri
torial and political rights Of defenseless
peoples. For this they have no valid de-
Tense; and now the time is demonstrate
ing the fallacy of their arguments and
the contemplate dishonesty of their
methods, public opinion is classifying
them with factions in the past whose
dsloyal acts. whether inspired by fan
atheism or faulty Judgment, are discred-
liable to American citizenship and a
stain upon their posterity. Senator
Hoar-always conscientious. but not al
ways right--was never so great, never
SO true an American as when, hearing
from the people. he loyalty bowed TO
the will of the majority and held his
peace Others. less wise and less hon
est, did not profit by his example AMI
have persisted in their hopeless and
mendacious campaign against expansion
until their voices has become profit
less and offensive discord in the land.
The question of expansion, so far as it
applies to the island territories now I'M
der the national flag, has been definitely
settled and further discussion of the
f,lmsy claim of the Tagal tribe to pO-
Etical independence is worse than
waste of words, since it tends to retard
the pacification of the islands, and adds
to the odium of those who continue to
indulge in it through spirit of sheer
antagonism to the popular WILL
This anti-expansion literature-much
of it wrong in theory and false in fact
will reflect but little credit upon lis
authors in the years to come, either as
! patriotic citizens or sagacious commen-
| ts.tors on the more important political
| events Of their time. They Will turn TO
| it with no pleasure when its predictions
| shall have been blown to the winds and
! its statements are known to be false.
ard their children after them will pass
| it in silence or read it with downcast
| eyes, This ought to be APPARENT to any
one not blind to his own folles or dead
to the lessons of history. Yet many of
the writer's of this literature have taken
pains to perpetuate their contributions
| to it. Instead of allowing it to be hid
den away in the files of the journals in
which is originally appeared piecemeal
in the form of letters written from the
Philippines, they have in many in
stances gone to the trouble and expense
of blasting their future by collecting
and publishing this damaging cores
pondence in book form. with their fun
names attached, and sometimes embel-
lished with their portraits. Perhaps the
| most fatuous case of this kind is that of
Albert G. Robinson. who was sent to the
Philippines as a staff correspondent OF
the New York Evening Post to advance
the claims of Aguinaldo. This he did
with a tireless contempt for truth. and
we now have his letters in 4OO-page
book under the title of THE Philippines
the War and the People" He Is proba-
bly, anxious to couple his name with
that Of 'the aspiring youth who fired
the Ephesian dome. San Francisco
! Chronicle.