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Instability and flux are. manifest

throughout the Old World. Why

should an American administration'

thi, of aggravating the situation

there by turning loose another

"backward people," likely to become

a charge on the association of na-!

tions which is now trying to restore

peace and order? Mr. Wilson went

into Hayti and the Dominican Re?

public and deprived those two na?

tions, at least temporarily, of sov?

ereignty. What reason could he find

for setting the Philippines, adrift af

this juncture, when everywhere else

he has been seeking to bring unde?

veloped peoples under the a-gis of

superior mandataries?

Are the Filipinos superior in cult- j

ure to the Armenians or the Syri?

ans? Or to the Ukrainians or the

Lithuanians? Yet the President is

opposed to granting these maturer

peoples full independence.

If is a harder and more exacting

world to live ?n than it \i^i<\ to be for

weak, drifting and undisciplined na?

tions. Were ,-i Philippine republic to

be set up, bow long would it last?i

Domestic disorder would had to for?

eign complications and foreign inter?

vention. A new derelict would need

a new guardian, and no guardian

would be more inevitable, in the

world'? view, than the foolish parent.

I who turned the irresponsible minor

j loose. We should only get back to

where wc started.

Our right in the Philippines is in

disputable and will not be relin

j quished. Our duty to the Filipinos

also remains. We cannot escape it

by patting them on the back and

sending them out, unequipped and

i unsuspecting, into disordered and

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

New-York tribune. (1920). New York [N.Y.], 1920-12-03. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1920-12-03/ed-1/?sp=12

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New-York tribune, 1920-12-03.