The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-09
HOhR ON THE PHILIPPINES.
CONTINUES HIS DENUNCIATIONs on
THE WAR THERE.
Article In the Independent. but
Offers No suxxestions - to what

NEW YORK. Nov. s-senatnr George
r. tioar. % Massachusetts, has contrib
utet an article on "our Duty TO the Phil
ippines" TO the Independent which vii
APPEAR tomorrow He begins WITH 2 r.
View OF the Circumstances lSa3iUg Up %
the var with Spain u which re says.
Il think IT might have been averTed ana
that Cuba could have been liberated ~
peaceabie means If the counsri Il Grant
public nen in the senate had members!
tGa; hey were part OF The diplomatic
power o1 this country ard tha; Il was IN
becoming in them 70 indulge bitter and
singing invectives against Spain. whether
such .nvecrives were jus ar unjust But
l DO no. FEEL Inclined 20 tudge these utter
ahces severely s9metfins a. burke said
must BE- pardon-d 70 the spirI; Of liberty.
ard those utterances, though in my u x
nent unfortunate. cam" from brave, hu-
mare and nberty-loving souls
Continuing, the senator says that down
TO January ] 1s9a the American people
and the Republican party were committed
20 the doctrine that just g9vefnmen n rests
upon the consent OF the governed and that
every people have the right to dissolve
al VIII the political connection tha' binds
IL 10 another people In dealing With Gu
ba. says the writer, We acted upon those
principles. but the treaty = peace dis
closed a different purpose as - ne Pa.lip-
pines the 4Dila t&EliS Wtli1u were AtilAti
nearer independence when the treaty Z
peace was signed than ever had been The
people OF Cuba.
Their leader" writes Senator Hoar,
had been brought over To the Islands IN
United States ship by he United States
authorities and vas IN arms at the head
Of his forces with our fun concurrence and
cooperation. II the statements attributed
To a high Official IN one OF our depart
ments. who is sometimes called on 70 sit
to-
actually made their leader had been Of
fered by President Mckinley the high Of
~ of colonel IN the regnllr army Of the
United States. an offer which in Itself IS
against him. They had framed pro
V.sioual constitution. model OF rs kind.
and established a dictatorship like that
established by Bolivar In South America
military condition should make II possible.
Looking hack. can any sane man doubt
the wisaom Of those who desired 70 amend
the treaty and 10 deal with The Philippine
Islands ola with Cuba. 10 compel
Spaln 70 renounce her sovereignty: - keep
III all foreign nations and 10 aid the
islanders in establishing their own govern
ment according to their own desires?'
The senator refers 20 the epithet ''trai-
tor and other harsh words applied %
those who voted against the peace treaty.
and asks:
When the president said that torcibls
annexation. according to our American
code o. morals. would be criminal aggres-
sion was he a copnerhead? Was he dis
loyal q the flag; was not he Il Republican,
Was there even an utterarce 50 calculated
10 give courage 10 Agu'rnlio and his peo-
pie az thar"
AS % our future attitude toward the
Philippine. Senator Hear writes:
The time has come to make up your
minds. II you are to declare that you 10
not mean 10 suhjuCate them or 10 enslave
them. that You Will at toward them IN he
prfncipla and spirit II YOUR own Declara-
81 I'm an hour The refusal - make this
declaration IN he beginning brought on
this war and your refusal now to declare
yourselves = what is alone responsible
for rs continuance.
Now Wa have got to settle the question.
which he president has repeatedly d.
whether We viii complete th- suhierttOn
~ the Filiplnos whether We will under
take - govern them rs subjects az serf~,
or whether we viii AID them - become
a seifEoveruius nation. etther re re-
rihllc as they seem 70 desire. or "a
limited monarchy ike japan. or whether
monarchy after TIE fashion in with
are maintaining in power today the sultan
az Su'u. with his slaves and his harem
Senator Hear then writes that this great
question has been discussed with .ntoier-
ance and with an appeal 20 low motives
and . cheap pe sst0rs rarely naralfesS1 IN
political history \ notable exception. he
saws * Gov Roosevelt whose la'e al
dress IN wtnch Re maintains that express
siar ia The way - peace was Thought
cul ard able argument worthy e serious
consideration"
IN conclusion the senator says.
TIE American people nc brave ana
fl>t PEOPLE who male ne immortal teola-
ration and who maintained Wiz ife aOt
fortune their sacred honor who esta'e-
lfsHei car wonderful constitution % whose
Monroe doctrirs Is t11,e the freed n ot -
American continent from ths RI Gre r i~
q Car, Horn have not changed their
character or their principles ~ he win
f9tng - an eve under the temptation -
any base motive or advantage - under re
excitement - war They are subject.
doubtless a. I'll masses = men sre sub
fert however Intelligent Or however up
right - great waves - passion.
Put .h-i- b~r sec ri though s. 80 -
f~,tS-et TER Deliberate action VII -
Wis. art tus,. Th~ great passions -
Nt-h thcv arr stirred ana ~ winch thar
Judgment = rp~ rloI3e3 a~e generous.
rafsla 4~F humane Reason VIII Resume
80 r'EhtT'Il swav art ~" Ereat republic
viH remain republic stiI'