Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-25
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| dtoIS. NOW. Georoe w ash
ington fought with his sword
for eight long and bloody years
to establish the right of people to
govern themselves and in his farewell
address he counselled his countrymen
to live on terms of amity with all ma
tions and to enter into entangling alli-
ances with none.
Abraham Lincoln's whole political
life was a contention for the rights of
men and it was his kindly hand which
penned the immortal emancipation
proclamation that struck the shackles
from the limbs of millions of bondsmen.
One would think, sir, that the gentle
man who was just then engaged in the
prosecution of a bloody war against
poor and
DEFENSELESS PEOPLE
in the Orient, engaged in the unsavory
task of Outstanding them with the
sword and civilizing them at the mouth
Of cannon, would naturally have felt
some little embarrassment as he gazed
upon these portraits and read the sig
nifcant inscription below. Possibly
His Excellency did not see them. He
may have turned his back upon them
Declaration of independence. Be this
as it may, sir, the President does not
appear to have been at all abashed by
the incongruous circumstance, but he
arose from his seat and there, within
| the shadow of the monument of Bunk
er HILL where Warren fell fighting
of Faneuil hall, where time and again
the true sons of the old Bay State sent
forth to the country their message of
! freedom, he delivered perhaps the most
remarkable, certainly the most disin-
genious address that ever fell from the
lips of an American President. This
sidered apart from its platitudes and
OstentatiCus profession of virtue with
which it was interlarded, was nothing
more nor less than a carefully devised
and studfCus misstatement of the is
sues between the Chief Executive and
those of his own party who are OPP
posed to his wretched policy in the
Philippines. 1t was an effort to befog
the subject, and to mislead the public
| Judgment. We are told, sir, that this
address was received with enthusiastic
applause by those who heard it, but
we who read it in cold print in the
light Of the
INDISPENSABLE TRAGEDY
now being enacted near the shores of
Asia involuntarily think of that crea-
ton of Charles Dickens who was ac-
customed to roll his eyes piously to
heaven and eXclaim with great osten-
tation to those about him, My friends,
let us be moral and who was the
father OF two daughters, one of whom
he named Charity and the other
Mercy.
occasion, if not in so many words, at
least in effect, that he had never en-
tertained any policy with respect to
the Philippines up to the time the
treaty Of peace was ratified; but that
ne had simply held them as commander
in chief, the question as to their dis
position and control to be determined
thereafter by Congress.
"If the Chief Executive really feels
as he declared at the banquet that he
did that the disposition of the Philip
pines is matter to be determined by
Congress, why does he not call a spec
ial session of Congress to settle the
matter at once and then keep his hands
off? Heaven knows there is need of
action. If he is sincere why did he
permit his supporters in the Senate to
vote down the other day the Bacon
! resolution which distinctly declared
that the United States entertained no
intention of permanently holding these
islands. Why did he insist that the
McEnery resolution should be passed;
resolution which is fraud, a delu-
sion and a snare, a shameful evasion,
which, like Christmas tree, has some
! thing upon it for everybody. That
resolution is intended simply to quiet
the conscience of the American people;
to lull all opposition to sleep while the
President goes ahead waging
RELENTLESS AND MERCILESS
war against the Filipinos and laying
deep and secure the foundations fer
a permanent American colony.
Mr. Chairman, am determined that
the President shall neither befog the
issue between himself and those of the
Republican party who oppose his Phil
ippine policy nor mislead the public
judgment, nor shirk the responsibility
for the gross official plumbers which
! he has committed in connection with
this great problem. I insist that the
whole policy is not simply an error,
but that it is crime and that the
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