New Ulm review., 1922-06-21
RUSSELL'S ANSWER TO
BRITISH PROPAGANDA
BY Charles Edward Russell

The people OF the United States
ought to feel indebted to Lord North
lcliffe for his interview printed in the
New York World and other papers Of
March II opposing Philippine inde-
dependence. It reveals for once the
real British attitude and real British
policy. in regard to nations and peoples
struggling for liberty. Stripped at last
Of the hypocrisy and Snug pretense
with which British statesmen are accus-
toned to discuss this attitude and this
policy, we can understand now their
plain bald terms. Tie dominating idea
Of Great Britain is inonarchial, i'm
perialistic, exploitativeS and autocrs-
tic. 1t has been so in history. Lord
Northcliffe reveals it to us absolutely
unchanged.
The British attitude is that God has
delivered the world to the Anglo Saxon
to exploit and plunder, govern and NAL
treat for it's own. profit and pleasure.
ALI other. peoples in the world are in
ferior, no other peoples have or can
have any rights that the Anglo Saxon
is bound to respect. We can behold
in his. utterances his favorite picture
Of the Anglo Saxon, going out to sub
jugateland rule the inferior races backed
with rifles enough to blow holes in any
inferior brother that may chance to
object. s
5aIt is. exactly and squarely on this
principle that Great Britain has gov
erned or mis-go governed India, Hong
Kong, FIJI, Wei-hai-wei and every other
spot on earth where her flag has been
,hoisted over men Of another color.
On that principle she purposes to con-
tinue to govern and it is plainly the
belief of Lord Northclife that since
the Washington conference the Gov
eminent of the United States is en-
listed to support and further these
ideas.
The simple fact is that there is no
such thing as race anywhere in this
world with an exclusive monopoly of
the gifts of democractic self govern
ment. Democracy is not matter Of
race; it is the universal and eternal
principle as true in one part Of the
world as in another. IS
1t is more correct to say that God
designed some of the people of the
earth to be fit for liberty and others to
be unfit for it, than it used to be to
say that he sent the majority of people
into the world to be slaves and Others
booted and spurred to ride the rest.
Lord Northclife is intellectual heir and
descendant Of those that used to hold
this doctrine and appears to have made
very little progress from their notions
dominant in the Dark Ages.
In pursuance to his mediaeval con-
ceptions Of society he tells us that the
Hlipinos are unfit to govern themselves,
and more than that in the period Of five
years in which they have been doing
it they have sadly retrograded. chal-
slenge both iof these statements.
I know more about the, Philippines
,and tile Filipinos than Lord Northcliffe
does, and ! assert that the Filipino
Government Of the Philippine ISLANDS
Jin the last five years so far from being
q failure OF. a disaster is conspicuous
and convincing example Of govern
mental ability and success. In sup
port Of that statement I refer to the
statistics.
Lord tNorthclife is probably una
ware that order in the PHILIPPINE Is
lands is and Has been for years main
tanned by native officers and it is SO
efficiently maintained that the Philip
pine Islands are among the safest and
quiete5t regions on earth. Life and
property are very much safer in these
islands TIM they are ii the average
city Of the United States.