The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-26
A GARRISON FINISH.

What queer pranks fa.e is playing
With the little band of Boston anti
imperialists! William Lloyd Garrison, the
old-tine friend of the Filipino. has come
out fiat footed in defense of the down.
trodden Chinaman. Garrisons con-
sistency is a jewel which up to date ia
without a flaw. He advocated the de-
serton of our national duty in the
Philippines. He counseled cowardice
when the natives attacked our soldiers
there. He was one of the coterie which
gave aid ana comfort to the enemy and
tried to justify treason. All this he did
for the Filipinos, and he found mis-
guided supporters who looked upon him
as a chip of the old Block and an adj
vocate of constitutional liberty who was
hard to beat. But now the Chinese
question has been laid at the door OF
the undergraduates, and Garrison de-
tends the Chinese with the same ferVor
he employed in advocating the cause of
bushwhacking Filipincs. In recent
speech in Broomfield church. Boston,
Garrison proved that as a single-handed
ton he was entitled to the premier
honors. WI Ting Fang and other nota-
BILE opposers of the Geary law, were
clearly outclassed by the stanch friend
of the insurgents in the Philippines and
the Monaghan immigrants who are wait
ing for an open door policy to allow
them to enter into competition with
American labor. AS an advocate of the
yellow plague, Garrison is without
peer. He favors making this continent
a dumping ground for Chinese, and TO
prove his contentious he rings the
changes on the constitutional liberty
dodge he used in defense of the Filipino
Insurgents.
1t is not hard to determine the reason
advocates of Filipino treachery ami
Chinese immigration are taking a stand
which is not approved by the majority
of the American people. The arguments
of anti-imperialists and friends of Chi
nese immigration are not founded upon
a practical basis. They scared amid the
clouds on the issue raised by Aguinaldo's
rebellion and are up in the air on the
Chinese exclusion question The value
of every principle in the Declaration of
Independence and the constitution lies
in its common-sense application to every
day affairs In applying these principles
the American people excel. A few whose
ideas respecting constitutional rights
seem to be continually out of balance in
sist upon taking Impractical views of
public questions. The fine-spun theories
of the anti-imperialists sounded we'll.
Aguinaldo and his followers were made
the subjects Of heated controversy until
it was thought in many quarters that
substantial support in the way Of public
sentiment was behind the cranky Bos-
ton alarmists. When the question was
submitted to the people an overwhelm-
ing wave of public disfavor engulfed the
defamers of American soldiers and enc
mics of our national policy. That's ex-
actly the kind of finish which will over
take Garrison and his colleagues should
they attempt to make an issue of the
Chinese exclusion act. The American
people are practical in all matters Of
government. They denounced the anti
imperialists and they will take pleasure
in sinking opponents of the Geary law
under the weight of public disfavor.