forces. The dominant class in the islands will ease its conscience because the victims will be poor, ignoant and weak. When innocent men can be shot down on the public highway as they were in Lattimer, Pa., and Virden, Ill., men of our own flesh and blood, men who help to make this homogeneous nation great, because they dare ask for more humane conditions at the hands of the moneyed class of our country, how much more difficult will it be to arouse any sympathy, and secure relief for the poor semi-savages in the Philippines, much less indignation at any crime against their inherent and natural rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? WHAT CHAPTER XI. POLICY THE UNITED STATES BY CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. HIS VIEWS IN A LETTER TO HON. CARL SCHURZ. My Dear Mr. Schurz: Boston, December 21, 1898. In a recent letter you kindly suggest that I submit to you a sketch of what I think should be said in an address such as it is proposed should now be put forth by the Anti-Imperialist League to the people of the United States. I I last evening read a paper before the Lexington Historical Society, in which I discussed the question of extra-territorial expansion from the historical point of view. There is one aspect, and, to my mind, the all-important aspect of the question, which, in addressing an historical society, was not germane. refer to the question of a practical policy to be pursued by us, as a nation, under existing conditions. That Spain has abandoned all claim of sovereignty over the Philippine Islands admits of no question. Whether the United States has accepted the sovereignty thus abandoned is still an open question; but this I do not regard as material. Nevertheless, we are confronted by a fact; and, whenever we criticise the policy up to this time pursued, we are met with an inquiry as to what we have to propose in place of it. We are invited to stop finding fault with others, and to suggest some feasible alternative policy ourselves. To this we must, therefore, in fairness, address our |