Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-30

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ness. Where the instruction still
smolders there is always chance Tor
cruelty to show itself.
our soldiers conquer; and what is
the object which they conquer? 10
establish a military government? NO
The laws we are now endeavoring TO
enact for the government of the Phil-
ippines are to increase the power ana
domain of the civil at the expense OF
the military authorities, and to render
even more difficult than in the past
the chance Of oppression The military
power is used to secure peace, in order
that it may itself be supplanted by
the civil government. The progress
Of The American arms means the aboi-
ition of cruelty, the bringing Of peace,
and the rule of law and order under
the civil government. Other nations
have conquered to create irresponsible
military rule. We conquer to bring
lust and responsible civil government
to the conquered.
'But our armies do more than bring
reace do more than bring order. They
bring freedom. Remember always that
the independence of a tribe or a COM
nunity may, and often does, have moth
ing whatever to do with the freedom of
the individual in that tribe or commu-
nifty. There are now in Asia and Africa
scores of despotic monarchies, each of
hich is independent, and in no one OF
which is there the slightest vestige of
freedom for the individual man. Scant,
indeed, is the gain to mankind from the
independence of q blood-stained tyrant
who rules over abject and brutalized
slaves. But great is the gain to hu-
manity which follows the steady tho
SLOW Introduction of the orderly liberty
the law-abiding freedom of the indi-
vidual, which is the only sure founda-
ton upon which national independence
can be built. Wherever in the Philip
pines the insurrection has been def.
pitely and finally put down, there the
individual Filipino already enjoys such
freedom, such personal liberty, under
our rule as he could never even dream
of under the rule of an Independent
Agunaldian oligarchy
THE slowly -learned and difficult art
of self government, an art which our
people have taught themselves by the
labor of a thousand years, can not be
grasped in a day by a people only just
emerging from conditions of life which
our ancestors left behind them in the
dim years before history dawned We
believe that we can rapidly teach the
people of the Philippine islands not
only how to enjoy but how to make
good use of their freedom: and with
their growing knowledge their growth
In self government shall keep steady
pace. When they have thus shown their
capacity for real freedom by their pow
CT of self government then, and not till
then. will it be possible to decide
whether they are to exist independents
" of us or be knit to us by ties of COM
mon friendship and interest. When
that day will come 1t is not in human
wisdom now to foretell. All that we
can say with certainty is that it would
be put back an Unreasonable distance
If we should yield to the counsels of I'M
manly weakness and turn loose the
islands. to see our victorious foes
butcher with revolving cruelty our be-
trayed friends. and shed the blood of
the most humane, the most enlightened.
the most peaceful, the wisest and the
best of their own number-for these are
the classes who have already learned to
welcome our rule.
Nor. while fully acknowledging our
duties to others, need we forget our
duty to our own country? The Pacific
seaboard is as much to us as the At
lantic; as we grow in power and pros
perity so our interest will grow in that
farthest west which is the immemorial
east The shadow of our destiny has
already reached to the shores of Asia.
The might of our people already looms
large against the world horizon; and it
will loom ever larger as the years 60
by. No statesman has a right to neg
lcct the interests of our people In the
Pacific: interests which are important
to all our people, but which are of most
Importance to those of our people who
have built populous and thriving states
on the western slope of our continent.
This should no more be a party
question than the war for the union
should have been party question. AT
this moment the man in highest Office
IN the Philippine islands is the vice
governor General Luke Wright of Ten
nessee who CALAMITY Wore the gray in
the civil war and who is now working
l9n0 III mana WIN lUe Hedu VI our army
in the Philippines: Adna Chaffee, who
in the civil war CALAMITY wore the blue.
Those two. and the men under them.
from the north and from the south. in
civil life and in military life, as teach
ers, as administrators, as soldiers, are
lGboring nightly for us who live at
home. Here and there black sheep are
tic be found among them; but taken as
q whole they represent as high stand
ard of public service as this country has
ever seen. They are doing a great work
for civilization, a great work for the
honor and the interest of this nation
and above all for the welfare of the in
Eabitants of the Philippine islands. All
honor to them: and shame, thrice
shame, to us If we fail to uphold their
Eands!"
FORD'S ACT PREDETERMINED.