Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1905 — The Philippine Problem. [ARTICLE]

The Philippine Problem.

The Cedar Rapids (la.) Republican (Rep.) suggests one solution of the Philippine problem: "If Japan Is willing to pay the price, why not let her have the Philippine Islands? Why does the United States want to go across the oceans to engage in the unappreciative task of trying to do something decent for semisavages ?” The Commoner amends this: “Why not recognize the Inalienable rights of the people of the Philippines and turn the government over to them? Has our nation so forgotten its traditions and its principles as to regard human beings as proper objects of bargalu and sale?”