The Irish standard., 1907-09-28
A Strong Change Of Sentiment Against Our
Philippine Policy is Disclosed by
Newspaper Poll.
Out Of 138 Members of Congress Who Elk.
pressed an Opinion, III are Ready to
Get Rid of the Islands.

We compel them to admit our exrorts,
free of duty. and we cannot 20 on,
levying duties upon their exports to,
us. So in our own industrial inlerests;
we should get rid of them. Now Mark;
Hanna and other advisers of presi.
dent Mckinley tried to represent the
acquisition of the islands as a sor, oA
necessary appendix to the Protec. i've
Tariff. and many Americans we,e an
thoughtless as to he taken in by this
pretense. The object Of the Protective
policy is to secure the maximum Of aa.,
tional industrial life throuehor- this
world. It's champions always have de-
nounced the efforts Of stronger na.,ons
t" prey upon the weaker, in trade no
less than in politics. Free Trade ix
the political equivalent of imperialism.
and employs what Burke calls "tha
tyrannous power Of Capital" just as
Imperialism employs the tyrnnnous
power Of rified cannon. We have noth-
ing to ask Of the Filipinos, but such
commercial exchanges as they shall
find not inconsistent with their own in-
dustrial development; and we lave
nothing to offer them but just such ex-
changes as will not interfere with o1rs.
Mcssrs Mckinley and Hanna ev;.
IDENTIFY thought there was what DR.,
Johnson called the possibility OF
wealth beyond the dreams of avarce"
in the annexation of the islandr Be-
fore our fleet sailed from Hong KonE
for Manila. anxious inquiries were
made from Washington about the re-
sources Of the Philippines. and the
answers received did much to encour-
age the occupation of the islands.
Those answers have proved altoSoth her
deIusve. Any ono who will read Mr..
LAndor's careful record of his travels ;
through the islands about two years
for richer country to enrich itself by
looting. The people need all there Is,
and they are not like our Indians, few
in number and utterly backward In all !.
the elements Of Industry. They are a. /;
pretty dense people. and while there
arc great differences among them. ,
they are mostly industrious and pos-
sessed of practical intelligence enough
to deal with the possibilities of their .
tr,, frolr
ercan official. travelling in Northern ,
Iuzon, says. "These people have ter
raced the mountains in some instances
a thousand feet high. and every bit Of
land is under cultivation. do not
believe there is anything in the world |
that can equal the manner in which |
they have made their country produc-
tive. The terraces in Japan are pyg-
mics compared with it. The earth and /
stone were brought for miles, and the /.
terraces are as solid and substantial !
as it they We're part Of the mountain /
itself. Some of them are seventy o. |
a hundred feet high, and remain UNI
ulSluIDcu tillouSIl all SOIlS OF WedCHSr
and landslides." We are not wanted; |
there is not room for US! and there is .
little or nothing for us to carry of.
TO secure this barren prize VIZ have
spent thousands of American lives, ::
ruined myriads of American youths :
in point Of character, and wasted
Tho Herald says-$4o0,oO 900. 600 OF Am. 4
erican money, besides injecting an
element of insncerity and immortality
into our national life, and lowering
ourselves in the judgment of that part ;
of mankind. whose good opinion we
should most desire. We have lost the
place to which the War for the Union
raised US, as the country which, be- !
lieved in the right of man to self
government. and come down to crouch
among the thieves and plunderers. who ,
call themselves "the Great Powers
There ID IN Ulster saying about going