The independent., 1903-06-18

lne latest news from the fulllp"
pines is that the regions inhabited by
the Moros is to be made colony Of
the Philippine colony. A colony Of q
colony is new thing in the world,
but the attempt of the imperialists TO
engraft colonies upon free republic
IL likely to produce many entangle-
ments such as statesmen never
dreamed of in all the history of gov
ernment.
The Chamberlain proposition to es-
tablish protection in England has met
with almost universal opposition in
parliament and the ministers were OBJ
liged in order to save the government
from dissolution to declare that it
was not the policy of the cabinet, but
only the private opinion of Mr.. Cham
berlain and Mr.. Balfour, and was not
to be adopted as a government policy.
In the discussion, Sir John Gorst re-
peated statement that has often
been made in these columns. He
said: "A great portion of the rising
generation in the United Kingdom Is
already SO degenerate and poverty
stricken that anything tending to in.
crease the price OF food would threaten
a national disaster"
The later speeches of the president
on his recent trip were all non-politi-
cal and consisted for the most part Of
trite aphorisms with which all would
agree, pertaining to the same truths
that we were all taught In our youth
and read in the school books. There
was one sentence delivered at the
dedication of the new church to which
the president belongs in Washington
worth preservation. He said: "Ono
sad, one lamentable phase of human
implying the loftiest ideas have been
used as cloaks for the commission of
dreadful deeds Of iniquity" No pop
ulist can help rejecting that just suca
words as these were used as cloaks for
the dreadful deeds of iniquity which
has accompanied the whole imperial
policy from the beginning. The
slaughter of 100000 innocent people
was called benevolent assimilation"
duty" destiny and 'the guiding
hand of providence. The president
is a supporter of imperialism.
There were only six passengers
killed on all the railroads last year in
Great Britain and the year before
none at all. Compare that with the
slaughter of thousands by the Ameri-
can railroads run to make dividen Is
on watered stock.
Reports are being published charg-
ing the most inhuman treatment of
military prisoners at Malahi military
prison, located at Lcyuna Bay, near
Manila. The prisoners have been
able to smuggle out a report of their
treatment (Which is most horrible)
and make plea to the authorities at
Washington. But what hope is there
that any relief can be obtained frora
imperial authorities 10000 miles
away? An army serving in a foreign
country where it has despotic power
and where the people are looked upon
as an inferior race always has and
always will become brutalized. From
torturing Filipinos it is a natural stea
to torturing prisoners of our own
race.
The massacres of Christian Mace
domains by the Turkish troops is mucn
more extensive and horrible than that
of the Jews at Kishineff and there are
no public protests in this or any other
country. The reason of that is that
the German emperor is a friend of
the sultan and stands every other
country off that would be inclined to
interfere. The Germans have large
interests and many special franchises
liz Turkey. The degree of horror ex-
pressed for massacres of innocent peo-
pie is mainly gagged by money inter
ests. II there were no immensely
wealthy Jews in this country, the
great dailies would treat the murder
and outrages in Kishineff in an en-
tirely different manner. The poor
Macedonians have no wealthy friends
anywhere. .~.
King Alexander and Queen DragS
Of Servia were murdered in their pal
ace last Thursday night and new
government under a new DYNASTY was