The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-24
 MT. Carnegie's Generous ORer for the Philippines.

l ID lHe Euitof ol the Journal ana courier
 An editorial in the Register criticises
 MT. Carnegie for offering to reimburse
 the United States the twenty million
 dollars which was paid for the Philip
 pines, and give to the F'ilipinos the
 freedom for which they were fighting
 when they aided the army of the l United States to subdue the Spanish l power at Manila.
 The Register says: Tt is now in
 order that he should state at length
 his reasons for assuming that the l United States would ever enter into such bargain" Why is he called up-
 on to state his reasons for so assum- 1 ing? How has he shown that he did 1 assume anything of the sort? He be- l lieved, doubtless, like many other broad minded and intelligent men, that the United States had no right to buy l territory from Spain which Spain did | not possess. Very likely he believes,
 States has no right to force its sover- eighty upon the Filipinos at the point of the sword.
 The Filipinos had driven the power of
 Spain out of all of these islands, ex-
 cepting a little section at Manila.
 There is ample evidence that a large
 share of the inhabitants of the Philip
 pines are perfectly fit for self govern ment. Their constitution and laws made by themselves are good evidence of this. MT. Carnegie might well re- gard the action of the United States, in trying to subdue these liberty lov- ing people, as a national crime. Be- lieving this, he might well, if he had the means and the generosity, offer to reimburse the United States for Its out lay to Spain. He Is not called upon to assume that the United States will or will not accept his offer. He made an offer in the interest of justice, hu- manity and liberty. He made an offer in a cause similar to that for which our fathers in the Revolution fought, and in the belief of very many broad minded men, the Filipinos have bet ter right to their liberty than our fore fathers, or, to state 1t more clearly, I may say that England had a far bet ter title to her Colonies than we have, or ever had, to the Philippines.
 If MT Carnegie, with many others, believed that the Filipinos ought to be given their liberty, and he was willing to spend twenty millions to reimburse the outlay of the United States to Spain. it is not his part of the trans action to assume that his offer will or will not be accepted. He made the of at f-ns 6 lyith "a T,if In taG to accept it or not. When he originally made it, the convenient doctrine that 1t was our duty to civilize the Philippine people with the bayonet, dunn dunn bullets. the sword, the water cure, and by burning their dwellings, and other barbarous practises, was not as it has been since. The first impulse was that we would take certain of Spains possessions from her in war. We had not at first investi- gated whether Spain ought to have these possessions, or whether they ought to belong to the Filipinos.
 Having started on the course of ac- | luisition of Spain's territory, we found l t difficult to recede It tickled the na- .ional pride of many people to have on the other side of the world. We would like to emulate our British cousin in having our drum beat 1 leard around the world Many people mistake national vanity for patriotism. 4 hundred years ago, when we were weak nation, freedom and liberty were watch words Later, when Kos iusko, Kossuth and Garibaldi repre- ented liberty, they were popular in America Now that we are strong, we To not hear so much said about "all nen having been created free and qual,' as was said in 1776.
 MT Carnegie offered a magnificent ct of human generosity Thousand ines pity it is that his offer was not aken two years ago. How many less wrongs would this nation have to nswer for? How much less treasure would have been spent? How many ess of our young men in the Philip ines would have been brut alized? For he Register to allude to MT. Carnegies roposed act as "a bribe'i is a. pitiful of incapacity to understand
 muni1cent offer in the interests of FAIR PLAY.
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