Show T AN ANTI EXPANSION ANTI EXPANSION REVIVAL I r. r t I Two years ago when Edward Atkinson and d the the th Boton ton Filipino junta were denouncing th the Government Government Government Govern Govern- Govern Govern- ment for attempting to coerce their idol the 1 T gal r Washington as they termed Aguinaldo and endeavoring endeavoring endeavoring en en- to rescue escue the Philippine islanders from F barbarism the American people with rare exceptions exceptions exceptions were filled with indignation and the denouncers ers were freely characterized as traitors who were giving aid and comfort to the enemy Anti Anti expansionism I became remarkably unfashionable in those days and after the decisive victory of the expansion expansion s sion on administration of Mr l McKinley in l 1900 OO hid its d head to toa a considerable extent t But the J juit uit dt was not dead it only crawled into its hole an and awaited a fresh opportunity That opportunity has come with the discussion in Congress of the Philippine Philippine Philippine Philip Philip- pine tariff bill bilI and a spectacular ular outburst st in the Senate in connection with the rec recent rit New York Yorki i speech of President Schurman of Cornell University J I sit sity in which he declared it the duty o of the Uni United ed edt t States to teach the Filipinos the ways of virtue and peace and then as soon as possible give them their independence As Mr Schurman churman was head of the first Philippine commission and therefore presumably presumably pre pre- enlightened in regard to the conditions of ofHie Hie ie e archipelago his utterances on the subject naturally nato nat nat- o l rally have been accorded more importance than t. t those ose of less experienced people would be If they J 1 e been ill timed unwarranted or Cr mischievous mischievous- J as asin in this case they were were they they deserve ea a hi kind kd d andI and I c degree of attention which they wo would d' d not attract coming from another source remarks the occasion As Mr Schurman's on mentioned were well calculated to encourage the Filipino rebels to prolonged resistance to our authority authority authority au au- au- au Gen Lloyd Lloy Wheaton who wilo for two years or more has been daily risking his his' life for his flag and country felt called upon to criticize them with T i ai but by bv no means undue severity He vu w wis is quoted as having said that such language if uttered uttered uttered ut ut- ut- ut in Manila l would land the in jail and so 80 it would under the insular sedition law Unquestionably s the General thought that as a responsible agent of the Government in its business of suppressing suppressing suppressing sup sup- pressing rebellion he had a right to complain o of things certain to interfere with his work and that tha of his comrades and to consign an um unnecessary number of them to the bloody graves grayes to which ou our long range philanthropists are piously careful never neve to expose themselves on any account But General Genera Generali i Wheaton's strictures which a vast Tast majority of hi his countrymen consider justifiable an and proper have raised a storm about bout his head and in no less a place than the than the United States Senate f Just why the expansionists anti-expansionists in that distinguished distinguished distin distin- body should consider that criticism of Dr Di 1 Schurman is to be re regarded as involving criticism I of themselves it would h b be hard to say but that i is isI I their attitude On the record however it is sufficiently sufficiently suf gut plain that Wheaton's pointed observations observation I had no reference to United States Senators but simply imply to the Cornell pedagogue who if he were as gifted with common sense as he is with academic ideas ideas deas of more or 01 less use to the world would be bc in inetter better etter business than that of indirectly encouraging the he bob bolo men of Luzon and Samar to eviscerate our soldiers in the thc hope thereby of wearying the Gov- Gov into permitting them to establish a pleasant pleasant pleasant pleas pleas- ant reign of anarchy throughout the Philippine archipelago without let or 01 hindrance on the part of the he United States So the expansionists anti in the Senate would have lave President Roosevelt reprimand and humiliate General Wheaton beaton but he lie is in no danger of accommodating ac ac- ac then In the first place we have not the he remotest doubt that he lie agrees with the views expressed by the thc brave officer who is under fire from the he rear at home as well as from the in his front and approves of his conduct in the premises In n the second place we can hardly conceive of n President who in present circumstances would care careo to o fly in the face of practically a universal public opinion Since our splendid volunteer army came back ack from the islands the American America people have had lad a chance to learn what Filipinos are and the extent to which they can be trusted to govern gO themselves or to refrain from cutting one ne another's throats when they have not a common foe to fight Here lere in Utah our out brave boys of the famous battery have spread the truth among the people The like likes is s the fact in other and nearly all other parts of the he Union No we do not thing that any American officer ever will be e disciplined for d denouncing 1 the fulminations of anti expansionists ti who seek spek to obain obtain ob- ob tam ain tain their end by promoting rebellion against the Republic |