The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-08
A PLEDGE TO THE FLAG
Three Big Mass Meetings Held
in Chicago.
In DEFENSE OF M'KlNLEY
Policy in the Philippines Endorsed in
Vigorous Resolutions-A Duty
the United States Owes
TO Civilization.


TO voice approval OF the policy of the
administration with reference to the
Philippines and to protest against the
sentiments expressed last Sunday at
the "anti-expansion meeting in Cen
trail Music hall. To-day's meetings
were held in the Auditorium, Central
Music hall and the First Methodist
church. In spite of the Indictment
weather the aggregate of attendance
was probably 10000.
The presiding officers of the three
meetings were Judge Oliver S. Horton,
ex-Judge John Barton Payne and
Thomas B. Bryan. At the Auditorium,
as at the other two gatherings, every
mention of President Mckinley or
Dewey brought forth thunders of APP
plause.
The speakers at the Auditorium meet
ing were William Dudley Foulke of
Indiana, Bishop Samuel Fallows, Con-
gresham ]. P. Dolliver of Iowa, ex-
Congressman George f. Adams, Judge
Richard futile and Rev. DR.. P. S.
Henson. Most of these also spoke at
the other meetings.
Judge Q. H. Horton, the chairman of
the general committee, in calling the
Auditorium meeting to order, said in
part:
I'VE are not here to consider expan-
sion. But, in the language of the call
for this meeting, it is a gathering of
those who are in favor of sustaining
the government of the United States
\ in its efforts to restore public order in
the Philippines and requiring the ODE
dience of all the inha bitants thereof
to the authority of the United States
Nothing more than this is the president
Z trying to do, and yet he is being abused
and villified therefor.
Every man has a right to his con-
victions upon public questions, but no
man ought to publicly utter sentiments
which tend to humiliate or discourage
the country's defenders in the field or
to lesson his country's influence in the
family of nations"
The following resolutions We're read
and unanimously adopted at all of the
meetings:
"First-We recognize that condition
of war prevails in the Philippines be-
tween the government of the United
States and certain men who are in
insurrection against the law and the
United States. We believe that such
condition of insurrection has arisen
from course of events which, when
once instituted has moved in irresist-
ible sequences to the present situation
that this course of events began with
the barbarities practiced by the Span
ish government toward the inhabitants
of the island of Cuba. The barbarities
were continued by the Spanish author
tiles in spite of our proteStations and
entreaties through a series of years
for an amelioration of these conditions
and finally eliminated in the destruc-
nf nvtr tha IDi, Y,
the harbor of Havana. Every step
which followed has been an inevitable
sequence of the preceding events-war
between the two nations, the success
Of American arms and the conse-
quenees which attach to the conquest
sequences were the occupation of the
Philippines by the American naval and
military forces and the substitution
during the remainder of the war of a
sovereignty of the conqueror for that
of the conquered In the Philippines
with the exception of a single year
Spanish sovereignty has been complete
since the 18th century. Spain collect
ed the taxes. held the Notifications
appropriated all the civil offices; Span
ish viceroys, Spanish judges, Spanish
courts administered the laws which
We're proclaimed by the Spanish gov
eminent and enforced by the Spanish
army and navy. The sudden destruc-
ton of this sovereignty compelled the
substitution of the sovereignty of the
conqueror. No other government in
the archipelago was competent to re-
ceive the auShority surrendered by
Spain. Our government had to accept
and assume the responsibility of the
situation and execute the liabilities
The only alternative was to surrender
the islands to anarchy or to foreign
and selfish Intervention. Neither
course was compatible with duty OF
with the dictates of humanity There
fore. after the conquest in the harbol
of Manila it was incumbent on oul
government to protect life and prop,
erty throughout the archipelago
I'VE recognize and declare the facts
to be that from the 18th day of August
1898, until the 4th day of February, 1899
peace prevailed in Manila under tbs
protection of American arms; that or
the day last named an insurgent force
assailed our army in it's Notifications
and of the ehcampments under cover
IS of darkness, and by this act of aggrcs
sion inaugurated hostilities the first re
suit of which was intended to be whole
sale massacre and the destruction o
property within the city.
I'VE recite with sorrow the fact tina
the chief encouragement extended t.
the insurgents had been from some 0
our misguided fellow citizens, and t
them must be ascribed much of tn
bIsodshed and ruin which has followed
I'VE further declare that the govern
ment of the United States has sough
in every honorable way to secure ces
sation of hostilities, as evidenced by tn
appointment of a commission fully au
therized to treat with the insurgents
and ITO offer them peace and amnesty
and by the action of our military an
naval authorities, who have at all time
been ready to protect those who woul
surrender their arms and cease thei
warfare against the government of tn
United States.
I'VE point to the fact that these ei
forts of peace have been contumacious
iy rejected by the insurgents until
became manifest even to them, tina
they We're waging a hopeless war.
..Seeond-We declare our belief in tn
high honor and just action of our arm
nd navy n the philinnipeS We he