Show L ill 11 inn GIVE THEM T TO JAPAN Jr jg is i indeed deed singular that while und under r the theof of peace with Spain the Philippine islands mulli nu h part and parcel of our territory as New Xe or as a's essentially part of our domain t tty ty y and nil Guernsey are of British Corsica of rJ or iS r iI ia of vItalia Italian possession so many deans should come forward with called so-called so called solons so- so ons lons pi Pt the Philippine question The only ques pies JD n to tOe e solved in that archipelago is how best est estI I extend the dominion and authority of American and d law over o every portion of its people and It is not surprising that a country of ich and such variety of population semi- semi ba s for centuries misgoverned and constant- constant Yf tate of insurrection more or less wide- wide should be reluctant to accept a new form rm I al ment of whose beneficence it l knew new noth noth- h against which many of its local leaders I g nd religious strongly urged it The won won- Pat atthe the anti-American anti feeling I hadn't proved e a and p that all aU classes of t the e het heterogeneous drY h t e I population of the islands did not simultaneously offer resistance to the establishment of our dominion over them The civil and military representatives of America in the Philippines have haye been almost without without without with with- out an exception men of extraordinary prudence and firmness just humane farseeing cautious and firn determined to apply American principles to tome toof toone one me of the most complex and u promising unpromising situations that civilization has ever had to encounter Governor Governor Gov Gov- Taft t has in particular shown himself eminently eminent eminent- I ly possessed of that instinct of government that I mastery of conflicting elements that leadership of men of diverse and contradictory characters as aswell aswell as well as purposes in a word that completeness of executive equipment char characteristic of the well trained educated American which has overcome obstacle after obstacle and has recently achieved its greatest triumph in the removal of the friars from front the islands too long harassed by their oppressors oppressors sors sOts and a afflicted b by their peculation and perversity There is really no Philippine difficulty now confronting confronting confront confront- ing us We have applied American principles to the former Spanish American colony of Porto Rico and it is now rejoicing in prosperity We Ye have now remove removed almost all obstacles to the fullest application of these same b beneficent n principles s to the Philippines and they ther too must flourish under the reign of law order equality and liberty Yet we have so well informed a gentleman as General A. A AS A S. S Burt of San Francisco saying of the Philippines Philippines Philippines Philip Philip- pines Turn them over to the Japanese Let them pay on the installment plan for a consideration sa say of Our Government does not need the money a lump sum and by making snaking a proposition tion of that kind we can dictate as to coaling stations stations sta sta- and mal make e such reserves as are tho thought to be best for trade interests An Au arrangement of that kind can be e effected that will give the United States as broad a road into the markets of the Orient as asif asif asif if she retained the islands besides we will be making making mak mal ing strong allies of two nations that will represent our interests on that side of the globe without the the necessity of the presence of a a. l large rge army at an enormous cost We dont don't believe that a single Congressional district in the United States co could ld be carried on such a platform Any party adopting such a policy of reaction retrogression repudiation and disintegration in a national contest contest contest con con- test were certain to invoke defeat more overwhelming overwhelm overwhelm- ing that ever er visited by an indignant American citizenship citizenship citizenship citi citi- upon pusillanimity This Republic like every nation that humanity has bas ever held in respect respect respect re re- re- re like every government go that has ever conferred benefits upon a race or upon the world at large must expand Expansion has been our history since Jamestown and Plymouth h Rock since Saratoga and Yorktown since Gettysburg and Appomattox and it will be our policy and our practice till Cuba is absorbed Canada annexed and this whole Amen Ameri American can continent is is in name as well as in fact dominated dominated domi domi- by one mighty invincible im Republic controlling the commerce of the world maintaining peace everywhere everywhere everywhere every every- where spreading enlightenment and diffusing happiness happiness hap hap- to every race every clime and continent upon the face of the earth |