Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-11-09
TELEPHONE NO. SO.
THE PHILIPPINE QUESTION.


and what profit have we derived from
it. We have sold $4,000, 900 OF
merchandise there, and if the govern
ment owned it all, and if it were all
profit, IT would be spending 5000 600, 600
to get chance to sell $16, 0O0,0 900; but
the government does not own it, and it
Is not all profit. The profit is small,
and what there is goes to private iu-
dividuals, while the people at large
bear the burdeQ OF that Philippine
policy. We have had it now for six
years and the republican party is not
willing to announce tbs reason III
justification of its policy. For six
years we have challenged the republi
cans TO defend Imperialism. -Four
years ago we declared it the paramount
issue of the campaign. but the republi
cans refused then to meet the ISSUE:
they refuse now to meet it. When we
asked them in 1900 what they were going
to do with the Filipino islands, what
did they say? Why, they said we can.
not talk to the Philippines while they
have their guns In their hands They
said, let the Filipinos lay down their
arms and then we Will talk to them.
Don't you remember what they said?
Well, the FilipinoS laid down their
arms and then what did the republicans
say. They said there was nothing to
talk about. They would not discuss
the ques ton when there was war, and
they would not discuss it when we had
peace, because the end OF the war, they.
said settled the question. And these
republicans imagine that unless a man
has gun in his hand and has it aimed
at you, he hasn't any right to demand
consideration of his rights; and if he
has the gun and is aiming at. you, he
hasn't any right then, either.
Why do the republicans refuse to
discuss this question? Why don't
they give US the basis of the title which
they claim? How did we get the
Filipinos? Did we buy them from
Spain? What right has a republic to
buy subjects of Spanish king? Demo
Gratis deny the right of republic based
on the declaration OF independence
to buy subjects from anybody at any
price. If we can buy subjects of a
Spanish king at $3.50 apiece, then we
can sell them to some other king, when
we can get So for them, and make So 80
on the transaction. More than that, if
we can buy Filipinos from Spanish
king, then our government can sell
American citizens into subsection to a
king.
Democrats deny the right of the
government to sell one human being to
any king or potentate on earth; and if
we cannot sell Americans, we cannot
buy Asiatics, and then kill them be-
cause they object to being bought.
What other basis of title? Why, we
whipped them and they are ours. That
is what they say, but that is the found.
alton of monarchies.
Democrats deny the right Of eighty
millions of people TO whip eight millions
and then claim title to them. If
eighty millions can whip eight millions
and then own them, then a big man
can whip little one and own HIM.
Why don't they defend their policy?
They dare not do it. Are they going
to hold these people as subjects forever?
They will not tell. Are they going to
make them citizens after while and
bring race question more difficult of
solution than the one we have? They
will not tell. Yon cannot ind out
what they arb going to do. Democrats
believe in giving the Filipino
independence, and in promising it now,
not after he is dead And what does
the president say in answer to that
proposition? Why, he says that we
might have to take it back if we did
make a promise.
We found the FilipInos lighting for
their liberty and they were fighting for
their liberty when most of the i'm
perialists of today didn't know whether
the Philippine islands were in the east
erS hemisphere or in the western
hemisphere, but these people were
fighting for their liberties, and Just as
they were about to secure them from
the Spanish king our government step
ped up and took the king off to one side
and said: Don't give them to them;
we will pay you twenty millions for
them, and now we have got their
liberties. and we don't know what to
do With them. Afraid to give them
back for fear they might not make
good use of them.
line president says that we should
have anarchy there, and Taft says we
would have chaos there. and they agree
that the condition would be terrible.
and that those people might divide into
Factions and might try to kill each other.
What can we do in such a desperate