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Show MR. CARNEGIE AND HIS $20,000,000. c Some turgid antl-lmperlallst of the Eist now bobs up again to recall that when this Goteinment, under the treaty of Paris, paid to Spain twenty million dollars In consideration of about that value of Improvements which her Oot eminent had made In the Philippines, Philip-pines, the proposition was receltcd with considerable merriment. Mr. Andrew An-drew Carnegie offered to put up twenty million himself In" order that the rill-plnos rill-plnos might hnte their Independence, nnd this gentleman now wonders whethet the giver ot all good libraries would not now- renew this offer, nnd whether It would not he n good way for us to scuttle out ot the archipelago Ho suggests and seriously, too that the matter of quitting far-ot'f Hastern shores would he easy. Just haul hc flag down, he pays, In effect, nnd get out of the various provinces, one hy one. ns fast as the, local brown men had shown thnt they could manage things for themseltrs It Is n little strange thnt there should he left In this louiltry a single person who would seriously propose that any section ot the l'lliplnos should be left to their own dctlces In forming new goternments They simply could not do It. It Is likely to be years, or possibly pos-sibly decades befoie Ihey can do It, and surely they neter can do It without with-out the stioug nnd unremitting support sup-port of n, great Ooternment llko our own Suppose It should be known to tho world that wo meant to haul the Hag down In a single protlnco of tho Philippines Suppose it were known to the Oeiman Ooternment, for Illustration, Illustra-tion, that the Philippine provinces, one by one, would be fair game to any of the gieit powers Hint might happen to come nlong nnd seize them as vacated Not only should we lose Irretrievably one of the legltlmite lesults of the war with Spain, but the poor Filipinos would be Infinitely worse otf than now, nml they would come finally, not undei un-dei the protecting aegis of a (lot eminent em-inent friendly and loyal to the limit of glting the lites of her Sons for them, hut anatchy and finally a complete subjugation by some monnichlenl The trouble with the avenge Anti-Imreilallst Anti-Imreilallst who still Ins sense ind (hue are a, few Mill left who have their senses is that he Is totally unible to comprehend the real situation In thn Philippines Thla iloubtleaa Is why he Is so icndy lo suggest Impossible alternatives alter-natives Any one of them, If he cnul 1 only acquaint himself with tho facts would do exactly as (he administrations administra-tions of President McKlnley nnd President Presi-dent ftoosetclt have done except possibly pos-sibly thnt they would make more mis-takes mis-takes In the elolng As for ndrow Cnrneglo, while It h noi Kim lous to criticise the public epir-It epir-It or the vanity, whichever It Is that linpelc him lo give libraries to such towns ss will necept thorn, we recall distinctly, nnd do not hesitate to repent the fact, that It was he who was openly charged, not only with supporting support-ing at Washington the Heachernus pretensions pre-tensions Of Agonclllf., the Philippine en-toy, en-toy, hut of seeking to make through out the columns of certain memenniy publication, a propiigandi that should win over to the policy of scuttle and tteaaon some of our Ameilcnn e linens Vain dream and vain attempt' u was then, If not when enjoying the special advantages of hlgn protective duties In the Iron and .) schedule thn( Mr. Catneglo fan, . ,,,.. . comprehend the Kenlus pf ,8 u,0p,,.,, countiy |