The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-08-23
WILL NOT DOWN.
imperialism will Continue 10 !,
important lasuo.
EX-SENATOR EDMUNDs
Says the People Have Mot Yes
Settled u, and His Parry
Must Answer for It's
Mistakes.

Mistakes.
In an EXTENDED intorviow published
in the Boston Herald Monday last For
mer United States Senator Edmunds,
OF Vermont, ou..lned his viows in 70.
gard to tho future Of Cuba, Porto Rico
and tho Philippines, in q manner
clearly indicating his belief that i'm
porialism will continue to bo an issue
in this country and that tho Republi-
can party will continue to labor under
difficulties arising from those now pos.
sesions.
II think the governments course in
regard to Cuba has boon wrong and
unnecessary. We havo net made good
our promises to Cuba, and thoro was
nothing to prevent us from doing so.
We promised to give tho Cubans thoir
free dom and would have stood much
better in tho eyes of tho world and in
our Wn estimation If we had dono So.
MY plan would have boon 10 giyo
them complete independence, as wo
promised to do; lot thom got up their
government, then komo tims along il
tho winter, perhaps, or bcforo thoy had
had time to got into any foreign ontan-
clements or contract any debts, wo
could have gono to them and explained
our poaition in tho matter. We could
have told thom that in order to proteot
ourselves wo must have some arrange.
ment by which thoy could not mako
any aiiiances with other nations with
out tho government OF tho Unite d
States being consulted; that wo had
set them free, and 1t WAS nooosaary for
uB to 500 to it that our rights woro pro
teoted. We could deal with thom as
republic and have something in tho
nature Of treaty that would insure us
all tho protection nooossary and if they
refused to enter any such an arrange
mont, it would be necessary and right
for us to insist upon it, to toll them
firmly that they must agroe to it or
take the oonse quenoos. That would
have been my idea Of it, instead of re-.
fusing to fulfill our promises, and not
giving them m opportunity to say
whethor or not we should control their
foreign rotations"
''Oonaidering tho amount Of Ameri-
can capital that ia being invested in
Cuba, and that our relations to the Gu.
bans will be in q measure similar to
those whioh existed between England
and the Transyaal, do you think there
is any danger Of like trouble in
Ouba2
''Nc, I should dislike to compare
anything to that horrible Transvaal af-
fair, but I do think it likely that We
may have o repetition of the expert
ences Americans are having in Vonc
zuela," said Mr.. Edmunds. "rake
these asphalt affairs, for instance. I,
is nothing but reasonable to expect
thatwe Will havo to deal with Cuba az
wo do with somo of the Soutl
American republics"
In my opinion we havc moro &
fear from Porto Rico than from Cuba
i E'orto Rico Isl part Of the ,Unitol
4 States, and 1t will probably not be Ion,
before it isS flooded with ambitious
s lawyeye and othor carpet. baggers, VIII,
will soon be in control Of it's affairs t,
o creator or loss extont. Then there
will come timo when the polilioa
parties will have to consider the ques
tion Of admitting Porto Rico into th,
B Union. Tho carpet baggors and othor
will find the conditions worse than N,
oyor had with any Of the Rocky noun
tain territories that have become states
We will have much worao peoplo t
dccl with than the Populists Of thu
west.
'"This will DO due, in measure, tt
the fact that Americans, or any Of tn
northern races, oan not retain their on.
orgy In warm climates; their children
do no not live, while thoso of the na.
tives multiply; the northernor becomes
Q very different man, ho becomes yenal.
l am afraid that whom Porto RICO is
ready to bo admitted into tho Union
the isla I'd will be in tho hands of mon
OF this GLASS. Then what do We find2
Sho will have tho same representation
in the United States senate as docs
New York. She will probably sond
two aonators, representatives of the
class / have described. They will be
venaI and purohaaablo and represent a
people so different from Americana
that it seems to me, taking this viow Of
it, that this 10 tho greater danger we
have to fear from Porto Rioo."
Then what you say about Ameri-
cans in CUBA would apply to thom in
the Philippines?'
"Yes, although conditions in tho
Philippines arc in many respects worry
differont. Those islands are farther
away, and we will probably hayo TO
maintain an armed foroe thoro for a
number of years. Thoro will always be
moro or loss guerilla warfare going on
there, and We will be in somewhat tho
same position that England is in India,
whore sho is always finding it neoes-
sary to suppress an uprising Of one
sort or another. England's experience
in India has been much tho samo ae
ours will bo in Porto Rico and tho
Philippines, that ID, in regard to tho
mon who are aent out to those ooun
tries. 1t is woll known fact that the
childron Of Eaglishmon in India do
not live to bo moro than two yoars old,
and it is now tho custom to sond them
to England whom very young. Tho eli.
mate Affects the Englishman in the
mannor in Rhioh I have described, and
thon, being far away from homo, he
will do things that ho othorwiso would
not, 80 that thoro is always corruption
lin the management Of affairs."
Theh you do not think our oxpori.
ence in the Philippines has boon worth
tho enormous oost2"
THAT would dopond on how you