They yearn fcr a release despite all
our efforts to better their physical
condition. We may be able to bring
them many blessings, but we cannot
make them Anglo-Saxons or fill their
breasts with contentment. They have
yearnings that are as natural as were
those of this country in the days of
1776.
Besides, what right have we to in
dulge in colonies, when in 1776, we
fought to get rid of colonial subjec
tion ourselves? As the New York
Herald says, “The sooner the Unit-\
ed States goes out of business as a
colonial power the better for every
body concerned.”
The nomby-pambyists who say we
cannot sell the Philippines forget
that we bought the islands from
Spain, paying $20,000,000 for them.
What we had a right to buy for a
price we certainly have a moral as
well as a legal right to sell for a
price. Placeholders in the Philip
pines may say otherwise, but the
mainland people are pretty solidly,
it is pla.n, in favor of a sale of the
Philippines at an early day. There
would be more than one bidder if
the islands were offered for sale.
England wants them, and so does
Germany, and so dees Japan. Even
Holland and France might be
come bidders. Let the islands be of
fered to the country that will treat
them best —to the country that best
understands their population.—The
Age-Herald.
WHEN? WHEN?
“It is idle to ask me not to prose
cute criminals, rich or poor,” said
Mr. Roosevelt in his Provincetown
speech. Then why this endless talk
ing? The way to prosecute is to
prosecute.
What single rich criminal has ISfr.
