The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-29
'rNEUTRALIZATION.' -

It Is enough 10 make q patriotic,
country loving and flag-respecting
American S blood boil in his veins to
see the pusilIanimous moves that are
made by some Of our members of Con-
gress, We have from time TO bime had
proposals to "ueutralize the Pauama
canal. TO ncutralizc' Cuba, and now
we have proposal by Representative
Adolph j. SABBATH of Chicago 90 'ncu-
tralize' The Philippines. The latter
indeed, has been heard of before, as
others have been, and always to the
contempt and annoyance of patriotic
Americans. To Judge from efforts OF
this kind, these ncutraliMng sneaks
would he glad TO have Uncle Sam fastcn
n placard on his back and exhibit II
to all the nations with the legend
inscribed upon il, ''Please don I kick
me
The United States has the Panama
canal, and intends TO use it and pro-
tect it, The United States freed Cuba
and is resolved that no other nation
shall ever take possession of that island
again The United States has the Phil
ippines, and does not ask any power
on earth either to help take care Of
that archipelago or to please let 1t
alone. Uncle Sam will deal with the
Philippines in his own way and in his
own good time. If il pleases him to
turn the Filipinos loose TO shift for
themselves, that will he his own con
cern. And it will be the business of
the Filipinos themselves to look out for
the naturalization of the islands, If any
naturalization is needed. So far as we
are concerned, as long as we hold those
islands. and as long as we have the
direction and sovereignty there, we
will take care to maintain that SOW
ereignty. without appealing to any
other nation to help US. and without
regard to what any other nation may
think about IL.
All such weak and contemplate pro
posals are an insult TO the power and
majesty of the nation and the flag.
II is pitiful to see an American indulge
in such wretched tlmidity as all this
sort of thing presupposes. The United
States might just as well ask to have
the Pacific coast neutrallzed' for
fear of an attack upon 1t by Japan,
as to ask to have the Philippines neu-
tralized as long as we are IN sover'
eighty and in control therein.
Fortunately these neutralizing pro-
posals never get very far; but even
so far as they get they are enough to
stir the ire of any loyal, patriotic citl-
zen, and to make him indulge IN such
denunciations of the authors OF such
proposals as ought to make them cnnSe
even more than they do when they Of
fer their wretched proposals for the
naturalization of that which the united
States has in possession and intends
to deal with without any regard tG
the hopes. fears, interests. or desires
of any other nation upon earth Inc
calling upon other nations to neutral
ize here and there implies an obllga-
tion on our part TO concede to those
nations some interest or voice IN the
control of the regions which 1T is pro
posed to neutralize; otherwise, those
nations would look upon these neutral
izing proposals with precisely the same
contempt that every fuIl-blooded Amer
lean citizen is sure 10 do. Let us have
no more of these contemplate proposals
of naturalization. What the United
States has it can manage and can keep
if it so desires, and is sure to control
in its own way as long as 1t holds
possession; and that ought TO be the
end of the whole matter.