The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1922-04-22
y CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL.wSt

IN The people of the United States
n&ught to feel indebted to Lord
1Northcliffe for his interview print
fAd IN the New York World and
amer papers opposing Philippine in
1t reveals for once the
8Aeal British attitude and real British
rooney In regard to nations and peo-
os les. struggling for liberty. Stripped
~ last of the hypocrisy and SNUG
SRfetense with which British states
vk ZEN are accustomed to discuss this
I1stsNude and this policy. we can un-
ssefSand now their plain bald terms.
-sghe NOMINATING idea of Great Bril-
la1n is monarchicll, mperialistic,
sNploitattve and autocratic. 1t has
$een SO in history. Lord \orthcliffe
teVeals 1t to us absolutely unchanged
The British attitude is that God
as delivered the world to the An
10 Saxon to exploit and plumber,
'ovetn and maltreat for it's own
--rof}t and pleasure. All other peo-
les> in the world are inferior, no
thTr peoples have or can have any
glhts that the Anglo Saxon is bound
respect We can behold in his ut
RANGES his favorite picture Of the
n,glo Saxon going out to subjugate
I'd rule the inferior races backed
i+th rifles enough to blow holes in
~ inferior brother that may chance
object.
1t is exactly and squarely on this
inciple that Great Britain has
Gverned or mis-governed India,
Hng Kong, Fiji. Wei-hai-wei and
Try other spot on earth where
II flag. has been hoisted over men
another color. On that principle
a purposes to continue to govern
I it is plainly the beliefof Lord
'rthcliffe that since the Wash
ton conference the government
the United States is enlisted to
pport and further these ideas.
Che, simple fact is that there is
such thing as race any where
--- this world with an exclusive mo-
oily of the gifts of democratic
government. Democracy IS not
matter of race: it is the universal
I'd eternal principle as true in one
art o fthe world as in another.
1t is no more correct to say that
cd designed some Of the people of
Re earth to be fit for liberty and
go hers TO be unfit for it. than it
sed to be to say that he sen the
ajorEty of people into the world
be }SlaVes and others booted and
)urre6l to ride the rest. Lord North
life lis intellectual heir and des-
,ndaht of those that used to hold
lis doctrine and appears to have
ade VERY little progress from their
oti bns dominant in the Dark Ages.
In pursuance Of his medieval
IN, ceptions of society he tells us
lat the FilipinOs are unfit to gov
ny themselves, and then that in
le'} period Of five years in which
leiy have been doing it they have
Oily refrigerated. l challenge both
49, these statements.
I know more about the Philip
mes and the t'ilipinos than Lord
orthcliffe does. and I assert that
le Filipino government Of the Phil
pine islands In the last five years
Ear from being failure or dis
err is a conspicuous and convinc-
example Of government ability
/ success. In support of that state
mt I refer to the statistics.
If any one can show me from the
1rds made in these five years that
any important or significant as
t Of. government, whether in the
troll Of public finances, education.
bile safety. health. the security
Il progress OF commerce or de-
opment in agriculture there is
trent one indication of lack of
Jpn the part Of the F'ilipinos
rm the functions of gov
I shall be greatly obliged.
skexamineu the work Of the
IN apartments, as they are
MIL from day to day in the
---emE islands and I have not yet
No to find, even from the tes-
GTC the most virulent enemies
eBine independence. one fact
B-Etgure that indicates incapa-
-tgoyern.
Del with these astounding err
Lord Northcliffe is his easy
'mfortable assertion that only
essence or Americans keep the
os from cutting one anOther's
s. OF all the bosh that is
ed in behalf of the imperial
1licy this is certainly the most
ferrous. All the American
in the islands when l was
eswould not be of the slightest
40 prevent this throat cutting
Sc were any desire for it.
nil Northcliffe probably is un
tfGthat order in the Philippine
lie is and has been for year:
teiined by native officers and i
1. Efficiently maintained that the
:atene Stands are among the
Land quietest regions on earth
'erhd property are very much
lie II these islands than they are