The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-11-01
in FAVOR OF
RETAINING THE
PHILIPPINES.
United States Senator Lodges Speech
at the Banquet Of the Young
Mems Club, OF Massachusetts.
HIS REASONS ARE TWO-TOLD.
One Affects the interests Of the
United States, the Other Our
Duty as a Nation.

Republican party in Massachusetts
during the present campaign were
made tonight through the medium of
the annual dinner of the Republican
Club in Massachusetts hail. The speak
ers were Governor Roosevelt, of New
York; Senator Lodge. OF Massachu-
sets; Governor wolcott ana Lieutenant
Governor W. Murray Crane and
Speaker John L. Bates.
United States Senator Lodge spoke in
part as follows:
"The only government and the only
! sovereignty in the Philippines were
those OF Spain. and they have trans
ferred to US. Rightfully and righteous
ly In the Philippines, as q consequence
OF Dewey's great victory in Manila
bay, we have been attacked there by
insurgent natives OF the island, under
chiefs who would now be negotiating In
the exile ut Hong Kong unhonOred and
unsung had 1t not been for the Ameri-
can fleet and the American army. These
insurgents, Just before the ratification
OF the treaty OF peace, attacked our
troops, wantonly and without provoca-
tlon, and that was the way the war be-
us the blacklist ingratitHde, and there
is no proof whatever that they repre-
sent even the Tagal minority OF the
people of one island. Their leader Is q
Belf-seeking adventurer, who has made
himself dictator and created for his
own purposes whatever shadow OF gov
ernmert they have. l believe in re.
taIning the Philippine Islands, and
have always believed in that policy.
They should be retained as a posses
sion of the United States not incor-
pornted in our body politics nor brought
within our tarltf. We can trust our
selves to govern them well and to gain
the entire assent OF the governed. be-
lIeve that we should first put down dis
order and restore peace. and that then
we should give to those islands the
best government. possible. which know
we Hre entirely capable OF doing. J
believe that our first and immediate
duty. to which all others arG subordl
nate, ls to push this war with all tho
energy and resources we can command
to promp: and successful conclusion
and | therefore shall sustain With my
utmost effort the administration Of
President Mckinley. which Is charged
with that duty. in all measures for the
accomplishment Of its difficult task
"Aiy reasons for this position are Of
two kinds. One affecting the INTEREST,"
OF the United States. the other our duty
as a nation; but although they spring
from different sources, both reasons
are Intimately related.
"The struggle OF this age Of ours iF
in the conflict OF economic forces. The
great nations of the earth are compel
ing In desperate struggle for the
worlds trade, and in that competition
II we would have our farms profitable
and our labor highly paid and fully en-
plOyed, we must not be left behind. Our
trade with China has been growing
rapidly. But within n few years we
have seen Russia closing in upon the
Chinese empire, II she succeeds we
shalt not only be excluded from those
markets. but we shall stand face to
face with power controlling an extent
of territory and mass Of population
the like of which the world has never
seen. In the presence Of such n colossis
OF despOtism and military socialism the
welfare Of every free people Is in dan
ger. Long before any one dreamed
that we should ever know the Philip
pines excep: by name, some Of US III
Washington had foreseen this peril
looming up on the horizon. and had
realized thnt sooner or later the United
States In mere self-defense would bc
obliged to take an interest In the Chi,
nese question, and to insist that we
would not be shut out from those mar
kets Suddenly came the Spanish war,
Dewey's fleet was at Manilh and we
were the masters Of the Philippines. We
were hn eastern power. We held the
crossroads Of the Pacific at Hawaii.
and we had our foothold on the island
OF LuZOn. The master OF Manila can
make terms with every power in the
east and those vast markets must be
held open In the interests of our indus
try and our commerce. OF our farmers
and our working men, to the free COM
petition of mankind, u contest in which
the genius OF American enterprise
need fear no rival There Is another
side to this question, the side OF duty
and OF honor. We were brought TO the
Philippines by the fortune OF war. /
can conceive Of differences OF opinion
as to the wisdom OF our keeping them.
l can understand differences Of opinion
as TO the methods OF governing and ad !!
mlnisteTlng to them, but I cannot ur.-
deTstand when our soldiers are in the
fleld, face to face with an enemy. that
there should be any party, or any or
Ranizntion OF men In this country.
y
dlers Of the United States in the Phil
ipplnes, where they have the right to be
by the laws OF nations, by the laws OF
this country, and by the laws Of sound
morals, are fighting with the public en-
emies OF the United States. Under
those circumstances see but one
course. do not know how others mhy
vote, but ! vote with the army TINT
wears the uniform and carries the flag
OF my country. When the enemy has
yielded and the war Is over, we can
discuss other matters OF government
and administration. We took from
Spain the sovereignty Of those Islands:
we alone stand between those Islands
and utter anarchy. or their conquest by
Russln or Germany. ! am opposed to
turning those islands over te anarchy.
"The proposition that we should all
low the first self chosen dictator who
came along TO establish n government.
and that we should agree to stand out
Side and do nothing but protect him
and fight any other nation that he
chooses to pick n quarrel with, IL too
absurd to require reftitntion. II we are
to have responsibility we win have the
To turning those islands over to any
other nation, believe that we can
give 10 those people larger measure
Of pence and happiness, OF freedom and
prosperity than any other nation IN
tho world, for believe in the capacity
and in tho honesty and the good faith
OF tho American people. " we fail In q
national duty, II we retreat before al
armed enemy, we weaken and we iniure
the national glory and the faith that
Reea with II. We cnn gubdue this In