| Show ROOSEVEL TS NEXT EXT N JOB European newspapers have taken up the discussion of ot an occupation for tor the present incumbent of the White House when his term shall shaU have expired and the discussion Is Interesting if only as exposing the attitude of the English and continental mind when it crimes to consideration of ot American subjects Even the staid old London Times talks about it as a a matter of grave Import Importance importance Importance ance the of Paris an announces announces announces that Roosevelt will become an editor to direct Republican policies and the tha London Spectator proposes to put him in charge of the Philippines It thinks Roosevelt Is the man to govern and civilize the Islands and debates the proposal in this fashion It is obvious that in the present cir circumstances circumstances circumstances when there is talk of transferring the American navy to the Pacific and when the tl dangers to the th peace of the world are recognizable there the proposal to sell the Philip Philippines Philippines Philippines pines could not be seriously s enter entertained entertained entertained To whom would they be sold Not to Japan If It strategic reasons did not forbid that religious reasons certainly certainly certainly would And in every other case an objection could be ba discovered red We Ve would even go so 50 far tar as to say that a civilized power which has deliberately undertaken the governance of ot an in hi inferior tenor people has no right to sell the country Into the possession of others We foresee that the question cannot become acute for some time But If it the expenditure on the Philippines con continues continues continues too high to be tolerated after all why should not our fortunate ex experience experience experience in Egypt be Imitated Why should not a proconsul be chosen to guide and Inspire the reconstruction of the Philippines and with it create a anew anew anew new pride and efficiency In the colonial civil service Why should not Mr Roosevelt be asked Undertake to that vastly Important and honorable task In a little more than a year he will be befree befree free tree In two years he will be rested and have a heart for any fate tate With General Leonard Wood as his lieuten lieutenant lieutenant lieutenant ant what might he not accomplish Could he devote his powers to a work of at wider Import At all events till some solution as heroic as that had been attempted we as ardent well wishers of America should not recon reconcile reconcile reconcile cile ourselves to the sale of the Philip Philippines Philippines Philippines pines It is very thoughtful of ot the friends across the sea to settle these little mat matters matters matters for ifor the American people but this Philippine proposal has so many ob objections objections objections it ought to be scotched before It gets any further What would Roosevelt do in l a country where only a few f w a very few tew could understand or orbe orbe orbe be induced to listen to his speeches Of or what use the homilies on race suicide to toa toa toa a heathen people If it anything need needmore needmore needmore more morals and fewer children Where almost any citizen Is apt to run amuck at the first full moon or the next neap tide why introduce such a D factor of ot excitement as the Strenuous Would Mould jt it be bo safe sato to subject tbd I i destinies of millions to such emotions as have torn the American people for forthe forthe forthe the last eighteen months every time the chief executive has h s threatened to an announce announce announce a new policy or discuss publicly the throbbing questions of ot the day Theodore for tOr proconsul In the Philip Philippines Philippines pines Not much If It we have to have havea a proconsul let it be some one with the calm judicial temperament te of the oyster the conversational reticence of the clam and the of ot a tramp who Is invited to go to work If It the president concludes to mold thought for tor the Republican party as an editor he will be welcomed by the guild which will strive to keep him Interest Interested ed The occupation would be almost as exciting as bear hunting and it would eventually convince him that his opinions opinions ions I ons are not half halt as Important as his party followers make mak him believe belleve |
