The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-06
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" Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things. sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes hippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

f0undiy, sometimes hippantly, Il
sometimes recklessly. ..........
England has been a great colonizer
because England has never been very
much given to sentimentalizing about
such things, being, however, very
practical about them.
The United States has been very
sentimental and not very practical.
For some veiled reason the United
States doesn't know how to run "pos-
sessions and makes very sorry
muddle of every attempt.
England's present troubles in India
disprove nothing. The curtain is not
yet down on that show.
We have our Philippines, and sell
dom has nation muddled more with
a colonial people than this nation has
muddled in those far-off islands.
What the outcome will be nobody
knows
To point out another difference be-
tween the methods of the English and
of our Uncle Sam, the English have
had colonies for the sake of British
business. We have taken them an
nouncing great enterprise in free
dom, and we shaye kept them for the
benefit of our politicians.
The fate of the Filipino will be
settled, ultimately, in accord with
what some dominant political party
believes will most help to win the
next election.
Garet Garrett, who used to be the
unorthodox editor of the very ortho-
lox New York Tribune, and who now
writes amazing magazine pieces, has
been letting some cats out of the
Philippine bag, and whoever reads
what he says and still thinks the
United States is colonially wise is in
deed queer bird.
Today the Philippines are run by
the Filipinos and the Americans keer
their blooming mouths shut, for fear
of offending the sensitiveness of 8
conglomerate badly bitten by shadow
of past inferiority. Americans beal
the possibility, but do not shape
the course, congress having gracious
| ly, if ignominiously, abdicated.
Much blah and blather has bee,
spilled about the Filipino. Man,
years have gone and many politicians
have learned expediency since tn,
days when the soldiers sang, damn
damn, damn the Filipino"
Labor has no interest? Pray, VIII.
not?
Labor, first of all, has a prime in
terest in every ethical question il
America, and in. every question o
national policy. Secondly, it has di
rect interest in the economic phase O
this particular question.
It's discussion is fair game for any
one. 1t is as fair in these poor pre-
cincts as in the often muddled halls O
congress, where white sheep turn t.
black sometimes overnight.
Never yet has political platform
made candid, sound statement abou
the Philippines, or the Filipinos. TIL
trickery of words has befuddled an
led to confusion worse confounded. =
: Meanwhile, the Filipino walks owe
) the American, the Filipino produc
enters the United States duty free
American capitalists and capitalist
of other nations benefitting alon
with the Filipino, the American wag
Garner paying the bill, as usual.
It's one more verse in the grea
, Comedy Of Errors, one more phase i
the enormous human tragedy, on
more ludicrous outburst in the prime
? val humor of the misconduct of pon
I derous governmental machinery.
: Porto Rico?' But little better
: Cuba, where we have a queer suze
rainty? A sink of inquity, cesspoc
: of scandal.
; Out of our altruism we so .ofte
make fools of ourselves, though i
: some cases altruism, by sheer weigh
], of volume, triumphs in the end
: It's triumph would be more frequen
: were it not that politicians must hav
votes, and they think they know hoy
to get them.
The politician is probably the great
!, est menace to political freedom an
/ national decency.