The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-16
Warning to "Oppressors."

IL tho aOtlllIll9tIdtiOu OLWtue& OIlIeuf 6tAteS
should be continued in its hands, 1t pro-
poses to undertake to apply any remedy?
VIII It enact for the Philippines proper
statutes for regulating their affairs, with
some view to their Interest? Will 1t give
their perlshtng shipping relief? VIII It
glvesthem tariff regulations under which
they can exist?
I'VE hold the Philippine Islands Have
We taken proper steps to fulfill the obli-5
cations therein assumed? Are the Phillip
pine Islands to-day a self%-support1ng
community? Are their efforts toward
acquiring such position embarrassed at
every turn by the legislation we nave
forced upon them? Had we left them to
thc!r W devices they might have dealt
with fo:egn nations. Had wa brought
them within the United States Of America
they might have dealt with US. To-Day
they can do neither.
Where are the Philippine markets?
Where the development of the natural re-
sources? WHY should not those Islands,
asserted by all, and conceded by all, to
have great natural resources, be self
supporting? I warn the Republican party
that 1t Is not an unhenrd OF proposition
that an oppresscd-I use the term adj
visedly-an oppressed people should be
FESTIVE.
True questions which have concerned
our relations with the Philippine Islands
from the moment OF our taking them.fand
which remain to-day utterly untouched
for any good to the islands themselves,
and the questions which will regulate
their future; in other words. the real
bnSes on which the Philippine 4Islands in
terest lis politically are Philippine tariff,
Philippine taxation and encouragement
to their shipping interests. These mat
ters, regulated to the adynnta go to these
isla nds, Philippine independence will APP
pear on the immediate horizon, Continue
as wc are doing to Cypress these people,,
and ono OF the most Yexed questions that
this nation has ever been called upon to
deal with Will confront US unfortunately.
Submission or Violence.
'But aside from the duties We owe the
TllIpinos to aid them In preparation for
we possess, We should guard carefully
against the change to ourselves, OF an
lmperlnlistic policy. History teaches that
from Rcpuhllcanism to imperialism tho
movement is gradual, and impoverished OF
tho people. It's ominous progress, when
discovered, leaves open but two courses-
submission or resort to violence.
THAT oEr people may never be com.
PEELED to choose between these fearful
alternatives should no our prayer. But
we should work as we'll MS pray. And our
work should be to guard the foundation
on which our government rests, It's basis
is that OF declared i~dens-ideas that are
stronger thar hattleships and armies
ideas which for more than n century have
stimulated our development. and which
have given promise that our world mis-
sion' shall be MOTTO seize tho territory Of
distant peoples, and rule them With 9
~scepter Of iron, but to establish truth
and honor, justice and peace, among the
nations.
1--WE must choose whether within our
borders the basis OF government SHAH
continue Ia be this ideallsm, OF a mate-
rialism which is the sure precursor OF
dissolution, for'no nation can endure upon
a basis OF materialismb however splendid,
Prudence requires that choice bio made
'ingtime, The time II now"