The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-14
STARTLING CHANGES.

Our morning contemporary changed
front on the Philippine question about
the same time it concluded to abandon
the silver fight. In fact, it suddenly
became convinced that it had always
been wrong on every public question
and that Mark Hanna had made no
mistakes.
It says now that Bryan is a growler,
and that the goldbug press is correct
in its estimate of his abilities and pat
riotism A year ago it denounced as
educated idiots" and accomplished
lars every goldbug who ventured
such insinuations against the great sill
yer leader.
1t ridicules his idea of treating the
Filipinos as the Cubans were treated,
and justifies the president in promising
independence to one people while ignor-
ing the other. 1t says:
The situation is not the same in the
Philippines as il was in Cuba. The con-
gress of the United States passed reso-
hutton in deciding upon war with Spain
that the Cubans should be given self
government lust as soon as they were
capable of organizing and maintaining 1t.
They had been struggling sixty years for
L
made a struggle for Independence. They
had simply struggled for reforms, such
reforms as TO stop physical mutilation,
the selling for debt into slavery the tor
broken and a lot of other horrible cru
elites such as Spain through long prac-
tice hes been able TO execute
1t hasn't been three months since the
Tribune repeated its assertion of last
year that 1.-THE Ffipines were lighting in
a cause infinitely higher than did Wash
ington or Hamilton" There is no cause
higher than a struggle for independence
such as our forefathers of revolutionary
days were engaged in. If Aguinaldo's
cause was Infinitely higher" as the
Tribune declares, it must have been be-
cause his people had been engaged in
it for a longer period. But our neigh
Dor went farther.
Before it changed its mind on so
many national questions. before it be-
came convinced of the infallibility of ST.
Mark Hanna, while it was reading
Dewey's reports when it was too en-
thusiastie to be partisan, it reviewed
what it called 1.-The valiant work of the
Philippine patriots" and said:
sThese Philippine islanders are made
or good stuff: to charge across a river
in the face of a typhoon, and with
knives only, rout the enemy from their
Notifications, is nervy work. Men who
can do that are entitled to respect"
Referring to the Filipinos as patriots
The Tribune said again that they had
earned their independence, for which
they had struggled so many years. and
IL insisted that we should make them
free. Ii pointed out the fact that Spain
had offered q reward for the head OF
Aguinaldo and that the Spaniards
should be driven from the islands for
the security of The insurgents. This
war for humanity must not end in
massacre of those who helped us in the
war" it said.
Again commenting editorially upon
the proves Of Aguinaldo and his fol-
lowers. their intelligence and courage,
it made this comparison:
"That Philippine chap (Aguinaldo)
seems TO be a war-lord indeed; he is
having il pretty much his own way with
the Spaniards in the outskirts of Ma
Mia. and is making much better fight.
frora all accounts, than are the Cuban
insurgents
Our neighbor condemned the red tape
and incompetency of the war depart
ment that withheld from Admiral
Dewey the land forces he needed TO
make the work Of his fleet substantial,
and called attention to Inc fact that
the. FSlipinos had again and again dem
onstrafed heir right to Independence by