The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

criminal aggression.”
Codes of morality can not change, because
morals are themselves fixed and unchangeable. But
the United States simply abandoned “her code of
morality,” and is now engaged in “criminal
aggression.” For it is just as much a matter of
criminal aggression to attempt the “forcible
annexation” of the Philippines, as it would have
been to attempt the forcible annexation of Cuba. In
principle there can not possibly be any difference
between the two cases. And when the president of
the United States announces that he can not ask the
consent of the Filipinos to allow him to govern
them, he virtually proclaims a war of
extermination. And when the commanding general
of the American army in the Philippines demands
unconditional surrender, and nothing but that, he
also proclaims a war of extermination. But the
Filipinos are fighting simply for their freedom;
hence this war is one of extermination against
freedom. Well has Professor Sumner said:--
“The question of imperialism, then, is the
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