Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-03
WE ARE RESOLVED.

A MERICANS are a "resolute" peo-
~ Pile Whenever a half-dozen Of
them get together and have a few
spare moments they proceed to Or
ganize and "resolute" on something. 1t
might be about the moons Of Jupiter
and a resolution to the effect that
there were too many. Or the resolu-
tions might take the form of protest
against the rings of Saturn having too
much political pull with the ring con-
centered planet. It might be on hun
dred other things, but whatever 1t hap
pened to be, 1t would be a lead pipe
clnch that 1t was something that was
none of their business, and that they
did not know a blamed thing about.
The dispatches Saturday tell Of lot
Of globe-trotters with a plethora of
money and a paucity of brains, that
landed in San Francisco on that day
ioll LhO ohip IlllL udu DlOublJ JlCHl
across the Pacific, and incidentally
permitted them to get q few hours
glimpse Of the Philippines or rather Of
Manila, OF course, having seen the
Islands, they knew all about them and
about tho magnificent success the
Americans, the cream of creation and
salt Of the universe, had achieved in
governing them. With this profound
knowledge, absorbed on the ground,
they to the number Of $50, gathered
very appropriately on the poop deck
Of the big liner, elected a president
and secretary and proceeded to re
solve" OF course, 1t did not go on the
minutes of the meeting that they were
firmly convinced they knew all about
it, but they felt that they did just the
same; and that individually and col
lectively they were big with infoma-
ton that 1t was high time to give birth.
A set of resolutions was at once pre-
pared and passed with celerlty and
uanlmlty that even a patent medicine
advertisement would hesitate TO claim.
They whereased q few whereases of
their own peculiar style to the effect
that the Philippines belong to our
great and glorious country; that our
flag was up there, and should never
come down that what Uncle Sam gets
out of the grab bag he hangs onto, and
should; that they had seen the islands
which most of the world had not, and
hence felt compelled to enlighten the
American people with the resolution
that the Philippines were self-sustain.
Ing, didn't cost us anything, and that
1t would be real mean" to abandon
them, They resolved some other
things but like the above hardly worth
mentioning,
or course, the fact that the Phil
ippines have cost us much more than
the Panama canal; that the local gov
crnmcrt there has squandered money
like water, and is now squanderlng it;
that money sent for the relief Of the
poor little brown folks was used, so q
congressman charges, q million dollars
Of IT, to build railroad to the Cover.
nor-Goncral's palace and that this road
which accommodates no one but the
governor and n few henchmen, costs
thousand dollars n day to operate;
that according TO this same congress
man, 1913 bureaus have been created
private secretary appointed to the gov.
ornor ut $4,000 q year salary and the
poor devils OF natives driven to rebel.
lion are benoyolontly Nssimilatod with
the aid Of cavalry 8abers and Krag.
Jorgcnsens as the dispatches say more
than one hundred Of them were last
week. or course those wherascr3 and
rcsolyor5 knew nothing at all Of these
things, or anything else, and that Il
why they had to get the resolutions
of their Rtomnchs.