The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02

richneo6 OF these now posseop
sions Of the United States, while th1
mining products, the sections of luif&
Der, the exhibit of hemp in all stages
Vt manufacture. and other things cat
lscted by the United States Government
are all displayed there to show the peo-
pie of this country that under proper
direction and With faithful assistance
the people of the Philippines can. III tho
long years to come, demonstrate their
capacity and their fitness to be cousil--
cred among the peoples of the earth.
The savage Tribes.
Over in another corner of the reserves
tion one may find savage tribes brought
to st. Louis as types of the people who
still roam over the islands, who have
never been properly classified, who make
no returns to census officers, who were
never controlled hy the Spanish Govern-
ment, and who are the people above ALI
others over whom the United States
must extend the genius of its own civili-
cation.
1t was the Sunday after the hystcri-
cal convention of the Democratic PARTY
had closed its labor. The gates OF the
big Fair We're barred to all but the priv
LEGGED officials OF the Exposition ln the
lgorrote village the 1.-the. active. dog
eating Savages were amusing themselves
after their own fashion in their weekly
holiday. There were no crowd To in
terrupt chem. Tley roamed around the
reservation as free from care as if in
their own forest. The Youngsters car
ried on a sham battle. and the Older men
and women of the tribe smoked and
laughed and enjoyed themselves in their
SlnnIn uy-n f.rli.,
On the steps of the headquarters
house sat the shrewd. good-natured. ex-
Yankee soldier. who had secured the
concession and brought these SnvagcS to
st. Louis where they have SINCE been.
the most interesting feature Of a most
interesting exposition. He had Just FIN
ished reading a newspaper which con-
tanned a copy of The Democratic plat
form. pledging tina, party TO the ulti-
mate independence of the Filipinos. and
as he laid down the newspaper. slanc-
ing from time 10 time over has brown
skinned charges. whom he had learned
to love and who looked up 10 him rs q
father, lie expressed himself with nat
ural quaintneSs rs to political situations:
Democrats Changed Their Opinions.
Look at those people now, frhry are
amiable, good-natured, tractabIe saw
ages, but they are ,savages just the same.
1t seems foolish to talk of independence
for people who don't wear any more
clothes than they do. went out TO The
Islands in Il regiment which had \ Whole
lot of Democrats in it. but There We're
mighty few Democrats came back. he
cause We were in a place whcr. We Lad
it put up to us every day how ianger-
Gus ii WAS to talk of independence among
people who We're wholly untitled 10 I'M
derstand the responsibility of political
freedom. What do you suppose those
people over there, who are now enjoy
ing themselves throwing stones At each
other, and saving themselves from IN
jury with their shields, would do if they
were turned loose on the streets of ST.
Louis, and told to hustle for themselves?
In fifteen minutes after they had been
attacked by some street Arabs. there
would be the biggest row you ever saw,
and all the statute laws from here to
Washington Wouldn't keep those nice,
little. brown men from sticking 4 knife
into every white man they saw, / stayed
q Democrat more time than most of our
regiment, but ! nm done with it now.
This talk of independence, if persisted
in. will sooner or later provoke J bloody
revolution in the Islands. A promise Of
immediate independence is a serious
thing. The Finipinos themselves will
think they are entitled to liberty before
we do, and the result would be a differ
ence of opinion which would mean blood.
for one don't propose to belong to
any party which deliberately shuts its
eyes to the great duty of the American
people, which is 10 meet the conditions
as we find them now, to educate the peo-
pie of the Philippines up to u condition
of comparative civilization, and then to
let the future be determined by the flu
ture."