Private Smith-"So George III. said of the colonists.'

Colonel Handy-"A Filipino once said to me: "The American people say they have a great and free government and wish to extend that freedom to us. But do they offer us the kind of government they enjoy? All your territory, except Hawaii, has been annexed with a distinct declaration that the people should be admitted to the privileges of statehood. Your organized territories have always had legislatures for local government, courts where the writ of habeas corpus could be readily invoked against the action of a governor, or any other official, and under general laws made with the advice of the territorial delegate in congress. To us you offer a governor-general who will ap point an advisory council and will appoint judges, whose opinions he is not bound to respect and whom he can remove at pleasure. You will tax us without representation and will quarter troops among us without our consent. What grievances did your ances tors have against King George which not now propose to inflict upon us?

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Col. Handy: "I will quote a better sentiment. 'My country: may she be ever right, but right or wrong, my country: when right may she stay right, when wrong may she get right.'"

propose to give us a form of government under which no American has ever lived or would ever live.' The Filipino added with great emphasis: 'You propose to give us a form of government against which we have fought for three hundred years and against which we will fight for three hundred years more if necessary, and every true American must honor us in his heart for that determination.' The Filipino's statement was unanswerable."

Captain Bevans-" God pity the day when I will not defend my country against a Filipino. I stand by the famous toast of Decatur: My country; may she be ever right, but right or wrong, my country.'

Private Smith-"Captain, you are again confounding the president with the country. "I can quote a more patriotic sentiment. than that of Decatur. It is this: My country; may she be ever right; when right remain right; when wrong get right.'

"We have another parallel in the history of our independence. George III., Lord North, and the Tories were the imperialists of England. McKinley, Long and Davis are

copies of them in new binding. The Tories were the men who shouted against pulling down the flag, prated about national honor, and were shooting Americans in the name of God and for the purpose of 'restoring to them the blessings of law and liberty.'

"Pitt, Burke, Fox and their followers championed the rights of man, declared that national honor could be maintained only by doing justly, and that the flag should be hauled down wherever it had been raised unjustly. Pitt said in one of his great speeches:

'The Americans, irritated by repeated injury, and stripped of their inborn rights and dearest privileges, have resisted and entered into associations for the preservation of their liberties.'

"See how well Pitt gives conditions of to-day

'Had the early situation of the people of Boston been attended to, things would not have come to this. But the infant complaints of Boston were literally treated like the capricious squalls of a child, who, it was said, did not know whether it was aggrieved or not.'

"How like the Filipinos were treated after Manila had surrendered! But let me quote Pitt a little farther-

'What has government done? They have sent an armed force, consisting of 17,000 men, to dragoon the Bostonians into what is called their duty. * * * And we are told in the language of menace, that, if 17,000 men won't do, 50,000 shall.'

"Substitute Filipinos for Bostonians and you have the story of to-day as accurately as it can be written.

"But Pitt said more

'If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I would never lay down my arms—never, never, never!'

"God pity the American who does not feel as Pitt felt!

"But Pitt said more

'But, my lords, who is the man that, in addition to the disgrace and mischiefs of the war, has dared to authorize and associate to our arms the tomahawk and scalping-knife of the savage?'

"We might substitute the Mohammedans, the slave-holding and polygamous Sulus for