Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1905 — Smacks of Imperialism. [ARTICLE]

Smacks of Imperialism.

Quoting the phrase, “happy dispatch," as applied to General Wood's particular line of benevolent assimilation of Filipinos, the Commoner says: “This tone of levity In speaking of human life Is quite characteristic of Imperialism, and the more people talk of the ‘happy dispatch’ of subjects the cheaper will life become In the United States. Our methods have failed in the Philippines because we have tried to give to the methods of monarchy the sanction of a republic.”