AT THE PHILIPPINES ALL QUESTIONS RELATING TO THE PHILIPPINES SAN FRANCISCO By MARION LEONIDAS FRANKLIN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO. STOR DS ·458 * Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1899, BY THE FRANKLIN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING Co., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 3 T 'HE American people must finally determine the Philippine policy of the United States. Thus far what has been done in the Philippines is without their authority. They will do justice when they know the truth. This book is published as a contribution to a discussion that must continue until the question of right is determined in harmony with those principles of liberty and self-government, which have so long made America distinctive among the nations. The war of "criminal aggression," now in progress in the Philippines, is but an incident of a blundering course which threatens to destroy the character of American institutions. Whether the war ends sooner or later is not material. The real firing line is at home. Here must be determined whether we shall hold the advanced ground won through so many sacrifices, or relapse into militar ism. The author desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to Mr. Edwin Burritt Smith, of the Chicago bar, who has kindly read the proofs and made many valuable suggestions. MARION LEONIDAS. OCTOBER, 1899. FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 'No man is good enough to govern another man without that other man's consent." "Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands, everywhere. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves, and under a just God cannot long retain it.” й "It was in the oath I took that I would, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States. * * * Nor was it my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using that power. * * * I did understand * * * that my oath imposed upon me the duty of preserving, to the best of my ability, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which the constituton was the organic law." یا "He (Menendez) knew, he said, nothing of greater moment to his majesty than the conquest and settlement of Florida. The climate was healthful and the soil fertile, and, worldly advantages aside, it was peopled by a race sunk in the thickest shades of infidelity. 'Such grief,' he pursued, seizes me, when I behold this multitude of wretched Indians, that I should choose the conquest and settling of Florida above all commands, offices, and dignities which your majesty might bestow.'”—PARKMAN'S WORKS, VOL. I, P. 99. "I am here to plant the gospel. If you [French heretics] will give up your arms and banners and place yourselves at my mercy, you may do so, and I will act toward you as God shall give me grace. Do as you will, for other than this you can have neither truce nor friendship with me."-PARKMAN'S WORKS, VOL. 1, P. 139. May the Lord deliver us from all cant. May the Lord, whatever else He do or forbear, teach us to look facts honestly in the face, and to beware (with a kind of shudder) of smearing them all over with our despicable and damnable palaver."-THOMAS CARLYLE. The late M. Guizot once asked me how long I thought our republic would endure? I replied: 'So long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant,' and he assented."-LowELL. 5 |