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the already justly awakened distrust of
the Filipinos clearly beheld the unshe attn
ed and glittering steel of despotism."
IF we are bent on slaughter, said
he. "Iet it be in open gu:se. If we lust
for this peoples land, let US not gloss
our enterprise with false and sinister
pretense. Rather let us boldly raise the
sombre flag of international piracy, WhiS-
tie scruplc down the wind and then close
in upon our feeble victim to the cry Of
loot and glory.
A BINDING OBLIGATION
Mr. Towne maintained that the United
States was under the obligation OF CT
cumstances if not, indeed, of actual
promise to grant independence to tbs
Filipinos, and that, among nations, the
former was quite as binding as the lat
ter
Senator Towne then argued at length
in support of his contention that the Fiji
pinos were perfectly capable of govern
ing themselves, pointing out that 80 per
cent of the population of Luzon can read
and write and holding that the govern
ment established by Aguinaldo was
strong, symmetrical and progressive,
even in the difficult and disturbing con-
ditions which surrounded it. He de-
clared that the Filipino statesmen would
administration in even the most advanced
government and would have d:gn fcd and
ornarented the carly struggles for ma
tionality OF any people known to history
There is excellent reason to believe
hat even at this day the existing Fill
pinO government, low as 1t is in estate
and migratory to some extent as to To-
cation, exercises a wide and respected
authority in the Philippine islands and
is obeyed quite generally by the local
authorities in the interior.
FILIPINOs Rl1SOLUTE.
"There is not the slightest ground for
believing that any appreciable impress
sion has been made upon the determina-
ton of the Philippine people to resist Us
to the end. There is no evidence that
any strong native pro-American clement
has any existence whatever AS the re-
suit of two years of wasting war, we
occupy about one fiVe-hundredth part of
that archipelago. No district is really
pacifed.' We hold the ground our troops
stand on, practically nothing more.
During the campaign of 1900, it was a
favo.ite accusation against the oppon nts
of the administration policy that they
were keeping alive a Smouldering re-
bellion' in the Philippines. The news
papers and magazines made much of this
foolish argument and in many pulpit
where the gospel of the bullet has SUP
planted the Christianity of the Bible, the
pious anathema of prudent priesthood
rose to heaven on the wings of prayer"
Mr. Towne then declared that after the
elections the resistance in the Philip
pines increased and that it had been
announced in the senate within week
that 10000 American soldiers would be
needed in the islands for an indefinite
period
FROM THE MATERIAL POINT.
as it not Clear he inquired, that
the way of duty is equally the path of
profit? Do we need to own people in or
der to trade with them? Is it not bet
ter to allow our customers to live, to
have their good will, and to leave them
the means of payment, than to kill the
strongest of them. to earn the hatred
Of the survivors and to impoverish all
by desolating WARP
1t was a habit of the defenders of TIE
administration policy to sheer at the term
imperialism" he said, but it could not
be sneered away.
You can have Imperialism without an
emperor, Just as the Romans found that
they could have a more than royal mas
ter, though he did not wear the hated
name of king" asserted Mr.. Towne.
THE retention of the Philippines will
commit US to the whole programme of
empire. There is a law among nations,
as Hamlet says there is among men, by
which a bad appetite grows by what ii
feeds on. No nation in history has re-
sisted it and TO every nation that has
yielded to it it has brought disaster.
THE RESULT OF EMPIRE.
Athens succumbed to it and persisted.
Rome INDUCED the mad ambition and
followed it to her doom. 1t was the ruin
of Venice. 1t will work the destruction
of England, in my opinion, ere the close
of this fateful century. Are we, with
| all the lessons of history before US, to
| passion, the greatest, most lamentable
most gratuitous sacrifice in all human
tragedy?
81 do not wish to convey the impress
sion that in my opinion the present policy
will at one fell swoop convert this re-
public into an empire in fact But I do
say that the seeds of empire Turk in
this policy and that time and favoring
environment will and must bring them to
their flower and fruit unless we make
| a seasonable prevention.
God speed the day when the American
people, whose annals blaze with records
of unequaled heroism and who again
and always if some great cause demand
1t, would freely pay with life itself the
price of its defense, shall have the moral
| courage to do their civic duty-a rarer
thing than to face undaunted the can
mons moutll-and with their SOVEREIGN
voice declare that this unholy war for
greed and empire shall be stopped, and
that no soldier of the United States shall
ever again in all our history be sent to
other lands to war on people fighting
for their liberty.
Il shall not willingly cease to dream