Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1902-03-24


BsNE / formulate wise Philippine poicy-a policy
which shall be the principles of our republic
k@&NAN with the facts of the suation dentNe
LDWeE and permanent in its character and therefore fitted
~'1..-nsz shape and color all legislation requisite
ENTHUSIASTIC RANTINe ON
THE ONE HANo AND ON THE OTHER OF INERTIA AND DRIFT
OF UNCERTAIN COURSES, OF TEMPORARY ExPE0'ENTs HAS
GONE THE TIME APPROACHES TO SET OUR PHILIPPINE
COMPASS BY THE FIXED STARS.
take starting point the motives and objects with which
went into the Philippines They mpressivey voiced by lres
dent Mckinley and he them for three OUR
PURPOSE WAS NOT SELF. H. IT WAS HUMANITA
RIAN; III WAS NOT TIE NIFTY OF SELF AGGRAN-
DIZEMENT, II WAS NOT TIE GREED OF POWER AND
DOMINION BUT tMTRUISM CARING FOR THE HAPPI
NESS OF OTHERS PHILANTHROPY RELIEVING THE FL
IIPINOS OF OPPRESSION AND CONFERRING ON THEM
other and less worthy aims appealed individual Americans and to
groups of Americans. Yet the humanitarian object Of be
ang the pnos from Spanish tyranny and bcsovn upon them
the boon of freedom that decided the president and people of the
United States compel Spain cedc her sovereignty
the Philippine Islands, IF OUR PRESENCE IN THE PHIL
1PPINES BE NOT JUSTIFIED IN IT'S PURPOSE AND IN
TENT, THEN OUR SOLDIERS BLOOD is ON OUR HANDS,
AYE, AND ALL THE BLOOD IN THAT CASE INNOCENT,
OF TIE FILIPINOS WE HAVE FOUGHT the misery we
have caused their families and the devastation wrought
their homes But assert that to confer blessing the final
of from Spain of sovereignty the Philip
pines Nothing has happened since alter purpose On this
fundamental point President Roosevelt who less explicit than
President Mckinley, has said eve hope do for them what has
before been done for people the o make them
government the really
What does this but that the Fipnos be taught
govern themselves Americans Engshm themevesa
And it necessary to observe that progressive liberty from
the nature of the issue in sovereign independence?
AND SAY THAT coNsuMMAToN is INFINITELY TO BE PRE-
FERREo TO THEIR INCORPORATION INTO THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA AS STATE OR EVEN AS TERRITORY
the policy of the American people admit
Asiatc country the and privileges of territory
in this republic the United States Of America THUS IF YOU
LOOK BEYOND THE PRESENT AND THE NEAR FU
TURE, YOU DEsCRY IN THE DIM DISTANCE AN INDIE
PENDENT AND SOVEREIGN PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC.
YOU will make the Philippine Islands
integral and organic part of the United States of America The
objections the plan nsuperabe the against it irwin
cbe the hostility to ngraned and neradcab Very WE'LL what
then colony, dependency? For time this status may sufce
permanent arrangement impossible Fpinos
dsed the experience of centuries into these last half dozen years
They have dreamed of liberty they have fought for liberty they
have in the east the of independence.
The American people have always sympathzed with thc apra
nationaes after freedom and independence And when
institutions have been conferred upon the Fnos
the people, through their regularly constituted pokenwhic
Luna Mavar and Lukbn werepeton for freedom and
independence and show that they capable maintaining law and
order and iscagng their international obligations be
doubted that the American people would grant such petition?
THE MISTAKE OF AeuiNALDo AND TIE INSURGENTS
THEY WERE NOT MERE RRIeANDs AND RossERs) WAS
APPROACHING THE UNITED STATES WITH RIFLES INSTEAD
PETITIONS.
From the American point of view Philippine independence is
inevitable and from the American point of Philippine
pendence is consummaion devoutly to be wished
DECENT KIND GOVERNMENT
FLIPiNos BETTER THAN THE BEST POSSIBLE GOVERN
FlLPINos BY AMERICANS.
that anxious congress grant the Fpino
institutions With such powers ideas and
they have them in harness quickly and let them
tug under the burden of national affairs This way
trained in government If the Filpnos learn gov
ern themselves, the they get it the better.
In $50? did not make the period of waiting shorter
generation owing the lack Of omogene and
among the diverse peoples of these islands the
experience by the natives during of