Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-19
Attitude Toward Chinese.

Attitude Toward Chinese.
After describing our governmental atti-
tude toward the Chinese, DR.. Parkhurst
went on:
Consider, also, the easy and self-satisfed
way in which we regard the moving down
OF the savages and semi-savages in the
Philippine Islands when they stand In the
way of the national purpose of which after
eight years of benevolent assimilation we
have just had most startling and heart
rending example in the bombarding to
death of 600 men, women and children col
lected in a crater In the Moro Islands.
The national ambition, the financial am
bltlon, being what 1t is, We are not here to
discuss the question as to whether the
slaughter of 600 Moros was or was not
military necessity. But there are two
things to be said about the jublant con-
graduation sent by the chief executive to
Gen. Wood. The first is in reference to the
designation of the performance as a bril-
hont feat of arms
"Basing our estimate on the reports rem
dered by Gen. Wood, it was no more
brilliant feat of arms than smoking bees
out of hive or rats out of a nest.
But far sadder feature of the execu-
tive communication to Gen. Wood is that 1t
contains not one word of sympathy one
note of tender distress. in view of the In
discriminate slaughter perpetrated in
honor of the American flag
Not Expression of Roosevelt the Man
Now, we have been taught to believe,
and we like to believe, that the President
has a great heart. And SO I prefer to
think of that cablegram. composed as 1t
was In the presence practically, of man
gled men. torn women, armless and head
less children. l prefer to think Of 1t not as
being the expression of the man Roosevelt,
but of the President Roosevelt, in whom Of
flc1ally the heartlessness and the greed of
nOrp2pnpTntp Y
represented. l want to find a way out for
Roosevelt for the performance on the Jolo
Island has CHASTITY look, and the cable
gram matches it.
with the exception of the maintenance
in the south OF negro slavery, there has
been, I should say, nothing sadder in our
history than the national attitude In which
we today stand toward the little brown
people of the Philippine Islands.
Secretary Taft said to a friend of mine
a few days ago-and this friend repeated
the remark to me-'The passage of the
Philippine tariff bill will be a test OF
American sincerity And you know what
the situation is in that respect. The nation
paid for the Philippines in dollars, and they
arc still contemplated by the nation as
merchandise.
Our Life Dominated by Money.
Everything in our national life then at
least tends to center around money Ma
tional politics is shaped by II, national
ethics are determined by it. And as sim
gle means toward national regeneration we
who are Christians must make our infiu-
ence felt more largely in the selection for
positions Of high trust Of men who have
the grace to contemplate great questions OF
policy from other than the mercantile
standpoint.
ITO go no further. you know how the
state of New York is represented in the
national Senate; there Is no use In confin-
T.. -laA L.,
of. The regeneration of nation involves
the putting into places of great national
trust men to whom there is some sweet
ness in the world besides sugar, other pro-
ductjons IN the garden OF the Lord besides
tobacco, and other administrative princi-
pies in Gods government besides tariff"