The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-06-18
The Policy OF Despotisnn.
Continued from Ist page.)


1 sion, ana of Congress TO govern them.
! Here the two doctrines are brought in
to sharp antagonism.
In Cuba of right, just government,
according to you, must rest on the
consent of the governed. Her people
are to institute a new government,
| laying it's foundations on such princi.
PIES and organizing its powers in such
| form as to them shall seem most likely
| to effect their safety and happiness"
In the Philippine Islands govern.
rent is to be instituted by power
10000 miles away, to be in the begin.
hing a despotism, established by mill.
tary power, and to be such, to use the
language of the McEnery resolution
such as shall seem for the interest of
the United States"
You have given both doctrines a
three years trial. Three years Is
sometimes a very long time and some
times very short time in human af.
fairs. / believe the whole life of the
Savior, after He first made His divine
r':ssion known, lasted but three
years. Three years has wrought
mighty change in Cuba, and it has
wrought mighty change in the Phil.
ipr inc Islands. We have had plenty
of time to try both experiments Now.
what has each cost you, and what has
each profted you?
In stating this account of profit and
less | hardly know which to take uu
first, principles and honor or material
interests should have known very
wei which to have taken up first down
To three years ago-what you cali the
sentimental, the ideal, the historical
IN the right side of the column; the
cost or the profit in honor or shame
aId in character and in principle and
moral influence, in true national glory;
or the practical side, the cost in mon.
ey and gain, in life and health, IN
wasted labor, in diminished national
strength, or in prospects of trade and
money getting.
should naturally begin where our
fathers used to begin. But somehow
the things gets so inextricably blend.
ed that we cannot keep them separate.
This world is 80 made that you cannot
keep honesty, and sound policy, and
freedom, and material prosperity, and
good government, and the consent of
the governed. apart. Men who under
take to make money by cheating pay
for it by failure in business If you try
to keep order by military despotism
you suffer from it by revolution and
by barbarity in war. If a strong PEG
pie try to govern a weak one against
its WILL the home Government will get
despotic, too.
You cannot maintain despotism in
Asia and republic in America II
You try to deprive even a savage or a
S"t ""Ai"h VI Mo JUDI Il6utS you can
never do 1t without becoming a say,
age or barbarian yourself.
Has there been any practical states
manship in our dealing with Cuba?
You had precisely the same problem
in the East and in the West. You
knew all about conditions in Cuba.
There has been no lack of counsellors
to whisper In the ear of the President
and Senate and House the dishonor.
able counsel that we should hold on
to Cuba, without regard to our pledges
or our principles. and that the resolu.
ton of the. Senator from Colorado
(Mr. Teller was great mistake.
do not know how other men may feel,
but think that the statesmen who
have had something to do with bring.
ing Cuba into the family of nations,
when they look back upon career,
that my friends who sit around me,
when each comes to look back upon a
career of honorable and brilliant PUB.
lie service, will count the share they
mad in that as among the brightest,
the greenest, and the freshest laurels
in their crown.
| do not think could honestly re.
peat all the compliments which the
Senator from Wisconsin is in the habit