The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-15


same result II our intervention had been
wholly diplomatic and peaceful?
But while the present administration with
our new navy IL much like n boy wi tn his
first gun, and by jumping at every possible
pretext for using II threatens to make 1t
u menace TO our own safety az well as q
NUISANCE to the world at large, the admin
istration .proclivities in that direction are
| among the most harmless features OF itB
| foreign policy. IL has demonstrated by the
Panama coup its utter contempt for the
| obligations Of international law and OF trea-
ties, and its thorough adoption Of the doc
trine that weak state has no rights which
a strong state IL bound to respect and may
| be despoiled Of its sovereignty and territory
in the interest of collective civilization"
or on any other, specious plea which the
despoiler may think adapted to the case.
1t has followed up the Panama coup by q
manifesto in effect addressed to the South
| AmericanStates generally and declaring that
80 long as they behave themselves-and
we are, Of course, the judge Of that be-
havior-they will not be interfered with by
the United States, which can mean nothing
else than that In the case OF misbehavior
they will be interfered with.
What Is the net result Of 1t all? SO far
as concerns the world at large, our foreign
policy as shaped by the Republican party 10
! characterized by swagger by meddlesome-
ness and by lawessness. In its special
bearing upon other American States 1t IL
aggressive, arrogant and menacng, turns
peoples naturally our allies and friends into
enemies, whose enmity Is all the more dan
gerous because masked and postponed In its
manifestation to abide some favorable
opportunity for making it effective.
HOW GREAT BRITAIN Is PLEASED.
Who is to gain by it, and who is to be
pleased by it? One gamer and one party
to be pleased il, Of course. an admins
tration that is bent on militarism, that is,
set on carrying "big stick, and to justify
tunity, NOT to say pretext, for using it!
Another, gamer, another party immensely
gratiiied are our English cousins. in this
policy of taking charge of the South Ameri-
can continent, the Republican party is but
playing the same English game it played
when we grabbed the Philippine Islands, and
has been playing ever since. Why did the
English hail that grab with delight and
enthusiasm they have not even had the tact
to disguise? Well, for one thing, it was a
distinct lowering of American ideals to the
English level so that, if Americans were
tempted to inquire, Why are you English
shooting Beers? the English were enabl led to
retort, Wherefore are you Americans shoot
ing Filipinos?
But, in addition to any sentimental con-
siderations, and besides shutting our mouths
upon the propriety of stronger nations ex
plotting weaker, our seizure of the Philip
pines has greatly rejoiced the English heart
for the practical reason that it has thrown
lish alliance all but indispensable. Miitarily
considered, the Philippines are our heel of
Achilles, the vulnerable point at which any
hostile power will inevitably strike. and
naval power like England Of the greatest
Importance. But such an alliance is no
one-sded affair-for the benefit we get we
must pay the price-and that price is
general cooperation all along the line with
the policies of the English Foreign Office.
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
We are indebted to the Republican party
and to it's Presidential candidate more
than to any other man-that In addition to
its domestic and foreign policies, the United
States finds itself also encountered with
the burdens and exactions OF another which
is neither wholly domestic nor wholly for
eign, but which, for want Of better name,
may be termed colonial IL chiefly con-
Germs the 100000 OF brown people we
recently bought of Spain-or rather pre-
tended to buy, since the ostensible purchase
was farce and W., got the Spanish title to
under duress and was too weak to refuse
to sell. The criminal aggression the Re-
publican party was thus guilty of now re-
turns to plague it--a result to be welcomed
as righteous retribution, II the injurious
consequences could be saddled upon II alone
instead Of being borne, as they must be, by
the whole American people.
Republican jurisdiction OF the course
pursued Ill tne fnlupplleS, however u n
founded, might be entitled to respect il
1t could be regarded as sincere. The truth
is, however, that its pc Icy expends itself
In high sounding professions. In practice,
the relations between this country and the
Philippines are uniformly so shaped as
to conserve the commercial interests which
now possess and control the Republican
party. Industrial conditions in the Philip
pines would be greatly promoted were there
the customary freedom OF trade between
al, .,1o d.
States. The. Philippines are. however,
differentiated and discriminated against
and dealt with almost as IL they were
sort of foreign country.
1t is plain, therefore, that a respects
the material prosperity Of the Philippines,
fare, the policy of the Republican party
falsifies the lofty sentiments II parades
before the world-that it is a policy which
carefully protects our own interests at the
expense of those Of the Filipinos. 1t Is
claimed however, that We are giving them
the precious boon of education-and 1t is
true that an astonished world saw us dump
on the hapless archipelago in almost one
installment about thousand American
teachers 1t is also claimed that by schools,
by courts, by municipal institutions, by
administrative agencies Of various sorts,
We are giving the Filipino lessons of the
science and art OF government and are
fitting them to govern themselves
THE MlSTAhE OF REPUBLICAN RULE.
But these experiments at the American
ization of the Filipinos are conducted at
their cost and not at ours They are con-
Quoted at their cost and to their sorrow
because from the pecunary point of view.
1t is the Philippine revenues which must
bear the expense, and because, from the
point of view Of probable results, only fail
ure and detriment to the true interests of
the Filipinos can reasonably be anticipated.
Unless the teachings OF history are to he
ignored, unless we choose to be wilfully
blind to differences Of race and to the un-
varying course of events when Europeans
and Orientals come in contact, 1t is as hope
less to assimilate the Filipino to the Anglo
Saxon in mind and character az 1t is to
change the color of the Filipino skin. That
the Filipino may rise to higher plane Of
civilization Is not to be doubted, But their
ways are not our ways-they must do 80
in their own way or not at all-and for
us to undertake to impose our ways upon
them is to retard and not accelerate their
progress.
HOW LIBERTY FITS MEN FOR LIBERTY.
The truth is that the Republican party's
Philippine policy has been mistake from
the start even il it be assumed that we
were bound to take the Filipinos under orr
wing and become responsible for their
future welfare and destiny.
The woke Of Snain beinp liftad what