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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1906)
"r- ntWTfV 'JTi OCTOBMR W im The Commoner. "qjTW" ?' n - ora.1 roied with LaFoUetta. The bill wu Improved by democrats. It would have been better If all the dem ocratic amendments had been car ried and all of those, also, offered by JLaFolIette and for which democrats voted. And then they say, "You must stand by Roosevelt and elect republi cans to office." If you want to stand by the presi dent, I will tell you the best way to stand by the president. It is to elect democrats to office to back him up and not republicans. Why, the presi dent has done pretty well, consider ing his environment remarkably well for a republican but he would have done better if you hadn't hung so many republican mill-stones around his neck and had so many republi can bushwackers at work all the time. If you want to stand by him, give him democrats in the senato and house and they will say to him, "Mr. President, you can go ahead with con fidence, now. ,We will be behind you. You go as far as you will go as fast as you can and wo will be with you." They will say, "Mr. President, if, at any time, you get weakkneed or faint hearted and start to back, back, we are right behind you and we won't let you back." It is better to encourage him and push him forward than to send republicans down there to harass and annoy him. Now, my friends, I want to speak for a moment on another question. We tried six years ago to get the coun try to take an American position on the question of imperialism. We pointed out the evils of a colonial policy and ,we warned you that your republican leaders Intended colonial Ism. They wouldn't tell what they in tended. They said they couldn't talk to people who had guns in their hands They said let the,. Filioinos lay down their arms and we will talk to them, and the Filipinos laid down tbir arms and then what did these republicans say? They said there was nothing to talk about! They wouldn't talk to them when in rebellion and when they ceased to rebel, they said everything wns set tled and there was nothing to discuss! They criticised us for discussing im perialism When war was in progress. Two years ago when there was pro found peace Governor Wright then acting governor over there wrote a letter to President Roosevelt and the president circulated it as a campaign document and Governor Wright said that the discussion of the rights of the Filipinos in this country was mak ing their task harder over fhere. We Couldn't discuss the question when they had war for fear that it would continue the war and we couldn't dis cuss it when they had no war for fear they would start a war! We haven't found a time when the republicans were willing to discuss imperialism. Well, my friends, since I last visited you, I have had a chance to see the Filipinos. Now I defend from obser vation all that I defended from the ory. I said then they had the riht to govern themselves to shane the'r own destiny. I now tell you that they aro able to govern themselves and shape their own destiny. If you tell me that less than 10 per cent of them are educated, I reply that less than 10 per cent of the Japanese are per mitted to vote under their suffrage laws, and yet a government resting upon a- vote of less than one-tenth op the male population of Japan has as tonished the world! And everv vear finds more educated people in the Pliil lppine Islands. Tn Manila there wore one thousand students above the bachelor's, degree studying law, medicine and encrineer ing, and they prepared a memorial and "presented it to me while I was there. They had more than fifty printed pages and every nage a pro test against American rule and not aa argument printed on nay page that would not have been accepted by any republican in this country a year be fore we began oar experiment in im perialism. Every year more are educated. One teacher told me that in his district they had 150 per cent of tho people of school age In school. One hundred and fifty per cent! Why, wo do well if we get 96 per cent of tho people of school age in school. Over thero so many of tho parents went with their children that thoy had more than 50 per cent more than the school age. I Was told by another teacher of an incident He told me a Filipino boy was working for an English lady and she liked him so much that when he stopped to go to school she tried to persuade him, to stay at work. She was paying him 20 pesos per month and she offered to double it to 40 pesos per month a tempting offer But the boy told her he loved knowl edge more than money and would go to school. Yet thoy tell you they must send a carpet-bag government over thero and hold it in place by a standing army be cause they aro not capable of govern ing themselves! They used to think there was going to bo money in this experiment and when they thought there was money in it they thought the hand of God was in it. But my observation is that these people see tho hand of God in a thing only when they see a dollar in tho hand. When they found there was no money in it they probably found God didn't mean it, after all. Nine-tenths of the repub licans will tell you today that after while the Philippines, oX course, will have independence. I heard speeches there by American officials and every speech contained language that could not be honestly construed except as a promise of independence, and yet this experiment in colonialism has cost us something like $500,000,000! Why, wlh that sum we could build the Panama canal . and not tax the American people another dollar! With that sum we could reclaim the arid lands of the west on which homes could be built for more American cit izens than will go to tho Philippine Islands to live in a thousand years! $500,000,000! We could build a rail road from New York to San Francis co 'that would do more to regulate railroad rates than all the railroad rate bills you can pass In a hundred years! $500,000,000! You could build good roads, Improve water-ways, and deepen harbors how much you could do with $500,000,000! But we have wasted It trying to follow at the tail end of the European processions. India is held up for us as a model in the Philippines. Yes, and the memory of those half-starved people walking like shadows through their native land still remains with me. England's policy In India a model? England taxes the Indian people about $100,000,000 a year to support an array that India does not want! Why is tho army there? Some say to keep the Indians In subjection; some say to keep Russia from steal ing India. Upon those people of In dia, whose average Income is $10 per vear is this burden placed, and the government that does it spends $8, 000,000 a year on education! One hnndied and fifty years of English rule and less than ten million spent in giving them something in return. Our contention is that if you will take away from the trust magnates the means by which the world has bpen taxed for their benefit Kt you with draw the special privileges and favors that republicans have 'given to them and make them act and live upon their merits, no man will accumulate enough money In a lifetime by honest effort to make his fortune a menace to society. 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