Show I HAS IT FLOPPED AGAIN In support of Chairman Hannas conquest claims con-quest policy Imperialists make five 1 That the present war is wagedbe cause of that bloodless night attack at Manila 2 That we bought the Philippines from Saain and propose to keep them on that account 3 That the flag cannot be taken down where once it has been raised 4 That we owe it to the Filipinos to preserve order among them no matter what may be the cost to this country in men and money 5 That we are under obligations to those people to govern them whether they want us to do so or not The first excuse for forcible expansion expan-sion indicate a Knirih of revcnep and Is unworthy of the American people I and government Since President McKinley Mc-Kinley treated a far more treacherous and deadly attack a wholesale massacre massa-cre of American seamen a a lamentable lament-able Incident and wanted to leave the matter to Spains see of fairness for settlement we cannot believe that he is seriously prosecuting a war of revenge re-venge upon the natives of a southern Pacific archipelago The second claim that we bought the Filipinos for 20000000 and that therefore there-fore we are expending money at the rate of 180000000 a year to keep them is mercenary on its face but shows p bargaining ability of which the ats of this government have no right to led proud I isnt good business to pay for real estate that cant be delivered deliv-ered and which at best amounts to little tore than ah option on a most I unsatisfactory conQuest Smart meni do not buy jawsuits and wise governments govern-ments do not buy ward J I the second claim is valid the third Is made ridiculous for what we buy we may sell or give away and the tak I ing down of the flag is the simplest I thing in the world Besides the American Amer-ican flag has been taken down from many f fortress that American soldiers have stormed and American < essels have reduced Nor was the action attended I at-tended with the slightest dishonor And now we come to the philanthropic philan-thropic phase of the question This Is the trump card of imperialists They insist that it is our duty to control these 8000000 of heterogeneous people divided a they are into sixty tribes or more and scattered over 1400 islands They declare that we are honor bound to extend the protecting influence of the stars and stripes over the various institutions of the Mohammedans Pagans Pa-gans and other fanatics who dwell among those distant isles of the Orient They assert that we have to include those Tagals and Visayas and Sulus and Morros and Negritos in our government I gov-ernment for their good and our gain Whatabsurdity Who are these south sea islanders that we should waste our I time and money upon them Who r they that the president of this republic I re-public who oyght tqhave enough here i at home 1oengage his talents and attention I at-tention should sit up nights devising ways and means to govern 4them at the expense of the American taxpayer Who are these natives of a tropical clime that we should send armies halfway half-way around the world to beat them into submission ind quell their weekly insurrections Who are they that the imperial press should waste its sympathy sympa-thy upon them Are they desirable citizens Are they desirable subjects even iflthe imperialistic imperial-istic idea of having subjects in a free republic shall prevail Do we want them Do we want to add to our population pop-ulation 8000000 of human being s thickly huddled together and so faraway far-away that we cant even get their lands Do we want to hold against their will a people or a conglomeration of warring humanity who know nothing noth-ing of our institutions and whose highest high-est aim is to keep up a perpetual revolution revo-lution Are such peoples suited to our form of government Let our morning contemporary answer Editorially speaking through a fictitious ficti-tious person i says I compared those wretches with our own inspired fathers who laid the foundations foun-dations of our republic and with their lives defended thel work gloriously until the holy structure was complete W1U I that ever get forgiveness for a sacrilege SAnd S like thatAnd And it goes on to say that these people peo-ple are unfit to take part in a government govern-ment based on the consent of the governed gov-erned that although able to read and write they are destitute of every emotion emo-tion of patriotism or honor or self ton patrotsr respect respect for law or common gratitude I says further that they are constitutional thieves and destitute desti-tute utterly of that combination of attributes at-tributes Which men understand by the term character that they are trifling scoundrels Whose idea of liberty is absolute ab-solute license and whose idea of honor would not restrain them from selling thehonor of their own sisters for a pittance tance Waxing warm under the Inspiration in-spiration of the tropical theme it says that they are halfdevils and half monkeys wretches who do not respect re-spect their own mothers degenerate representatives of degenerate races who personally and collectively have no anore natural regard for order or respect for law than so many chimpanzees chimpan-zees zeIn In Gods name if they are as bad as this we dont want them under anv circumstances What in the world would we do with 8000000 of people like that We cant make citizensof them we dontwant subjects of this kind we cant oCUP their rice fields and hemp patches for the islands are already m r densely populated than is the Mississippi Mis-sissippi valley They why should any American want to enter another hemisphere I hemis-phere to try assimilation with people i who answer our neighbors description I is enough to sicken every imperialist in the country I is the strongest argument ar-gument we have hearti against Philippine Philip-pine retention For goodness sake let us kill as many of the wretches as we can they are evidently past redemption redemp-tion It Is < too bad AVA have begun on the highest type and the most advanced advanc-ed people on the archipelago but we I dare say they all need it From our neighbors estimate none of them are fit to inhabit the wicked Orient to say nothing of this glorious republic Then letas burn slay and stampede the anl malsfi vhlp the survivors into subrmsj sionv if nothing else will bring order and withdraw from the monkey cage r with all due dignity and dispatch According Ac-cording to the local organ of Imperial C L ism I this is an awful mess There is no inducement to remain there an hour after Aguinaldo salutes the flag and acknowledges defeat And still in the humble opinion of The Herald we ought to establish a temporary protectorate protec-torate over the islands until some local dictator gets the government well in hal Te army should not J > bT wjth drawn uhtiL this isvdone |