Evening star., 1899-02-06

| to abandon his policy of armed resistance
| and to cooperate with the representatives
| of the United States in establishing sta
BILE and efficient government in which he
could have counted on a position of honor
and usefulness. And this would have been
| much more feasible had the treaty with
Spain been promptly ratified and no room
| for misconception left to the status of
| our representatives in the Philippines.
Since that has been refused by the oppo-
nents of the treaty. the best and the only
policy now is to do at once all that can be
| done to repair the mischief. The treaty. so
| far as the action of the Senate goes, should
| be confirmed today.
| From the New York Sun Gnd.).
The conspiracy In the Senate to prevent
the peaceful settlement of the war has pro-
duced the bloody consequences in the Phil
| ippines which might reasonably have been
expected from iu.
Even il they were not Intentionally and
deliberately provoked with the connivance
of the German band of obstructionistS with
| leaders of the Filipinos plotting against
the military authority of the United States.
the combination to delay the ratification of
| the treaty of peace has persisted in its
criminal undertaking with the full knowl-
edge that it was making almost inevitable
| the sacrifice of American soldiers in the
Philippines.
| That the bloody conflict was provoked by
Aguinaldo in pursuance of carefully-laid
scheme is made evident by the dispatches
| from Manila elsewhere published in this
paper. The Philippine part of the conspira-
cy against the peace of the United States
was carried out in harmony with the simul-
| taneous efforts of the plotters at the Wash
ington end.
Aguinaldo, German, Jones and Hoar are
now revealed clearly and Enthusiastically as
allies and fellow conspirators against the
peace and prosperity of this country, The
scheme was to revive the horrors OF war,
to provoke troublesome foreign complica-
| tions and to aggravate the task of the
| President in the Philippines. But, thank
| God! our brave soldiers and sailors at Ma
| nila have quickly quelled the revolt so in
famously provoked. They have given their
blood for the country those treacherous
senators were plotting to betray.
Today the Senate of the United States
must vindicate that heroic sef-sacrifice or
sink into the abyss of the contempt of
mankind and the loathing of all Ameri
cans. Nor will it be enough to ratify the
treaty of peace by bare two-thirds ma
jority, and thus assure our status in the
Philippines beyond the possibility of mad
attack. 1t must be a unanimous vote.
Every senator who dares to oppose the
treaty Will go down TO infamy as a traitor,
as the deliberate ally and instigator of his
country's armed enemies.
From the Baltimore Herald (indJ.
The outlook in the Philippines is unde-
niably critical. and 1t is to be hoped that,
| in his efforts to maintain the national
honor, President Mckinley will have the
patriotic support of the majority in both
houses of Congress. The time has come
when the people and their lawmakers should
stand together. After the right of the
United States to hold the Philippines has
| been firmly established. the question Of ac-
cording just government to the Fflipinos
will be duly considered.
From the New York Tribune (rep).
1t has been a most surprising feature of
this case that minority of senators per
sst in asserting their right to determine
whether war shall cease which it required
only the action of a majority Of both
houses and the assent of the President to
begin. Certainly the government of the
United States has not heretofore been
placed in a position SO little to its credit
before the world, and the senators who take
that attitude cannot offer for it any eX-
cuse or explanation excepting that they are
hostile to the rule of the majority and mean
to defeat it if they can. The nation has
gained honor for itself within the last year,
but do these senators imagine they are
gaining honor for its form of government
or for themselves? 1t may be doubted
whether senatorial powers which are so
absurdly abused can long be upheld by
nation which does not care to be made
ridiculous and well knows that no power to
prolong a war indefinitely, against the
wishes of majority of the people and of the
executive, would ever have been conferred
upon a minority had it been imagined that
| il could be used in such a fashion.
From the New York Herald Qnd.
For this lamentable bloodshed the OBJ
structionists who have been Zeaiously
striving TO defeat the peace treaty must be
held responsible before the bar of rAmeri-
can sentiment. The sad list of dead and
| wounded is but the natural consequence of
that needless, unpatriotic mischievous anti
Philippine agitation which put the United
States in a halting position, animated
Aguinaldo and the insurgents with deviltry,
and finally emboldened them to a mad
attack on our troops.
No sensible person doubts that if de-
cisive instead of a vacillating course had
been taken from the start that if Agui-
| naldo and his misguided followers had been
made to understand that the signing of
the Paris treaty meant unquestionable
American supremacy and the stern asser-
ton of American authority over the Philip
pines, there would have been no insurgent
nonsense, no insurrection to put down, no
bloodshed to lament.
AS the Herald has all along urged, and
as the sequel row proves, the un-American
sentimentalsts who have been seeking to
defeat the treaty signed to settle the Phil
ippine question, end the war and restore
peace have been serving simply as the
allies of the plotting Aguinaldo and the
aiderS and abettorS of armed resistance TO
the authority of the United States. If that
is not moral treason what is it? If the
agitators who have thus brought this
Malayan war against the United States
and the sacrifice of our soldiers at Manila
are not public enemies, what are they?
In the light of the news that now stirs
the nation the immediate ratification of the
treaty is u solemn patriotic national duty
and any senator who plots to defeat it
must be branded a traitor. Every vote
against the treaty will be vote for Agui-
naldo a vote for Malayan insurrection, a
vote for more bloodshed in the Philippines
1t will be a vote against Dewey, Otis and
our soldiers, vote against the flag, a vote
against the country.
Nacillation is cowardce. Delay is danger
Gus. Obstruction is treason.
From th2 Philadelphia Inquirer (rep).
We trust that Senator Hoar of Massachu-
setts Senator Hale of Maine and those
democrats who have fought the treaty
with Spain are satisfied with their work.
There has been bloodshed at Manila, and
the nation will hold them responsible for it.
From the Baltimore American (repD
1t is safe to say that had no encourage
ment been given to this semi-organized mob
by American statesmen the whole fabric
of a hostile government in the Philippines
would have long since disappeared like a
dream. The ugly feature of the affair is
that the opposition has given no practical
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