Salt Lake Herald | 1901-02-13 | Page 7 | A Reply to Lopez

A REPLY TO LOPEZ LOPEZI j f READING THE STATEMENT of ot St to LoeZa Lonez s local contempo contemporary O AFTER is In kind enough to tt inform the public what it It would do in the case ce e eh had h d the public only the good tense sense to entrust the reins of government to the hands of the editor This Chin fa f f what he would reply to tObe je Filipino We dont ore care re to punish you but if I f you ou will w I come Olne into camp amp anti and II behave ve yourselves it jt wilt will be all aU ll right In the meantime we will order mote more school r houses for yow yOU children We Ve will ill build some ome hotter better roads We will get your our people into tutu communication by transportation tran with the t e markets of If the coast A will win push P n and just Ju t as fast as you show ea m to t o take part in th tJ the we wt will give gie it to tu you and uc we will willIt willId It kt Id t y yuu yu u decide b by yoU oteR attN awhile what you want rant ant n the Use meantime time k long as you yot meet arms in your hands hand we will kill kUl you wherever w can find you y and If lf you arf ar too persistent we w will m sett you yeu bek t to oKI I Spain or to Japan or to M some me country cou rr that would be glad to kiU klU you and nd d deep T Keep you until uril you got t enough enouch j E This is Ie probably the moet honest avowal of the principles of t h benevolent len assimilation that has yet been made This Thi organ of or lann fe IS to Ire be con congratulated for f r its lis frankness It is till i not every e ry American who wao care cue to hut himself himself on n tonI as believing C that tha t one people has ha the right to buy and and sell another the purchaser to t have bave havethe tile the inalienable right rI ht of killing off ott tT all aU the human chattels that happened haJ to object to the transaction tr n It to Ie true that her was a a time ti when in ft some mom om of our states tate traffic In human beings was U permitted but it lid did not include the th right ight to slaughter unruly s It is that the Hanna Hanm governments ideas coincide with those Of that paper but Mr 1 Ir r McKinley has the good gond taste to avow only tho thosa eon con eon in the part of the offer namely a willingness Bs to swap a few d ol houses oads in return for the t he surrender of liberty If f old k H Henry nry and other ether ther y leaders only had known kown the thc value t u o of s hool hoJo houses hous and roads road there theFt t ha have haye e teen Leen any sill silly amy mouthing mo about b bt mg in given gin n eIthe liberty or duth dath That l benevolent old a George Geore r III I LI II would doubtless have hae been willing to push let the colonists colts take part in government as fa faq u a as t la is his hilt opinion they were re fit for it It IL ILand and when the attained to a prope proper degree of docility to his notions notion have let lpt thAn dt ife 1 b by their own votes what w hat they wanted Viewed in the light lightS t S of ot these modem theories does not our once glorious lorIus revolution bam beD a Jt aery i very ery silly and pigheaded performance