The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1899-02-18
sIcKLY sENr1MENrALIsM.

ne Country Will SOOA AOS0 All
patience with the siclxly sentimental |
Ism which Hoar, Hale and others are
inflicting on the United States senate.
These utterances verge upon treason.
Nothing like them has been heard
since copperhead senators and con-
gressmen were voicing in the early
COS their sympathy for the southern
confederacy.
In the senate, Tuesday, Senator
Hale protested against the admins
tration's policy of sending reinforce
ments to the Philippines. He said
we now had 10000 men there, and
1000 more and the battleship Oregon
on the way.
This is astounding criticism, be-
cause it is entirely plain that if our
forces had not been strengthened
Manila would have been captured by
the wild hordes of Aguinaldo, our
troops driven into the sea or taken
prisoners, and such anarchy would
now be under full sway as would
have brought upon the United States
the contempt and ridIcule of civili-
zation.
"And yet" declared Senator Hale,
"we are told that we are traitors and
held up to ridicule in the newspapers
because we want to give those people
chance at least to show that they
are friendly and can set up a govern
ment of their own. Instead we kill
them, not by scores, not by hundreds,
but by thousands. More Filipinos
have been killed by the guns of our
army and navy than were patriots
killed in any six battles of the revol-
utionary war. 1t has become a gigan-
tic event. The slaughter of people
in no way equal to US, meeting us
with bows and arrows, and crawling
into jungles by hundreds, there to
die, has stupefied the American mind.
No one has said that our mission of
commerce and of the gospel was to
be preceded by the slaughter of thous-
ands of persons"
Such torrents of senatorial rhetoric
may sweep from their feet persons
who are ruled by mere sentiment,
but they have no weight with think
ing minds. The truth is, the United
States has given those people chance
to show they are friendly. In the
clash of great war, Manila came in
to our temporary possession, and we
were under solemn obligation to pro-
tect that large city against the violent
disorders which surely would have
followed the entrance of savage
armies armed with bows and ar
rows" While our army and navy
were gallantly meeting this stern OBJ
LEGATION 10 civilization, and while the
American people and congress werc
debating our permanent policy re-
specting the Philippine islands, the
savage soldiers under Aguinaldc.
mistaking our patient torbearance for
fear and weakness, provoked the
pending conflict. The situation then
became matter of self preservation.
Our soldiers had to shoot or be shot
capture Filipinos or be captured.
Senator Hale apparently regrets that
the losses lie with the enemy rather
than with our forces. He and Sena-
tor Hoar are gushing over with sick
iy sentimental sympathy for Aguin-
aldo, at time when that willy enemy
Is employing every resource to effect
the destruction of our army.
This sickly rant finds no responsive
echo ont here in the states which
have sent the pick of their young
manhood to defend the flag and ad-
vance the great cause of civilization
There is grief on our western plains
and there are bleeding hearts in many
home of the mountains, but never