The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
SOME PARTISAN VIEWS.

I
We have heard so much about these
men and newspapers who sympathize
with Aguinaldo, give aid and comfort
to the.enemy, and criticize the policy
of conquest for partisan purposes that
little introduction of them to the
public and a brief excerpt from their
reasonable utterances may be appre-
| ciated by the people of Utah.
Here is the Chicago Times-Heral6,
for example. 1t is not only a radical
Republican newspaper, but a close
friend of McKinleys administration, as
well. 1t sickens at the carnage in the
Philippines at last and turns from the
prospect with this advice to the presi-
dent:
Pacifcation looking 10 independence
not subJugation preparatory to anneXa-
tlon, should now be the American policy
IN the Philippines. Such scenes of
slaughter as attended the repulSe of the
| Eliipinos on our lines last Saturday and
Sunday send a shudder of horror and pity
through the land. History may tell us
mat civilization and progress have al
ways advanced through such charnel
scenes TO the salvation of savages and
for the good mankind. But the peo-
pie or the United States have neither
the blood-thirst nor the hamburger that
VIII tolerate a war of conquest whose
battleheldS are shambles and whose VIC
tories are butcheries. There is no glory
In routing an army of undisciplined semi
saVages, whose ranks are recruited from
AgorroteS bowmen half-naked boys and
women masquerading as soldiers. The
slaughter at Manila WIS necessary. but
1t was not glorious. The entire American
nation justifies the conduct of its army
at Manila because only by crushing. re-
pulse of the Filipinos could our position
be made secure. II will also sustain anv
steps that may be necessary to make
Manila invulnerabIe to like assaults in
the future. But the conscience of the
American people will not tolerate the
quest.
The Baltimore American is another
administration organ that realizes how
repugnant militarism and Imperialism
are to the American mind 1t says:
1t is futile to hope for Republican sue
cess next year If the voters of the coun-
try every morning are to be confronted
with stories of battles and of loss of life
through disease and on the firing line
The pride of army is not developed to
sucn an extent in this country. and the
sentiment OF the nation will not stand
Tor IT. With peace all things are possi-
pie; with a continuation of present con-
dltlonS nothing.
The Pittsburg Dispatch is a much
more consistent advocate of Republi-
canism than any newspaper in Utah,
with the possible except of the Provo
Enquirer but this is what it says of
the campaign in the Philippines:
Considering that there is now a rever-
sion TO the declaration of last winter.
That the subject must be left to the wis
dom OF congress, il is worth while to
wait and see whether that wisdom will
be satisfied with nothing less than the
waste of thousands of lives and hum
OredS OF millions of money in pushing a
war OF determination. If the administra-
ton earnestly seeks a method of settle
ment II VIII certainly save the lives of
soldiers and permit them to recuperate
whlIe the efforts at pacification are going
on mat is one course that is open and
II IL Is adopted in good faith il will com
mand the support of the intelligent Amer
lean people. The alternative to this is
the sending of anywhere from 25 coo 10
lz9,VO more Americans TO fight tilipinos
and to be attacked by the climate: 10
spend from $l00 000, 00J to S200OG0OOO per !
year IN me war Of subjugation. and TO
enSthen the list of lives already sacrificed /
Tor the cause of conquest. Those who in /
SlSt on that course will have to bear the !
responsibility for all its results. They /
nave enough responsibility for what tha !
war has aleady cost; but that in the fu |
ture Will be an addition that no wise man |
will seek.
The Boston Advertiser is another
'ock-ribbed advocate of Republicanism. |
It comments upon the pet excuse of ex-
as follows:
The theory that war is being waged in
ne Philippines merely to suppress dis
urbance and TO restore and preserve
'rder is no longer tenable. However dis
agreeable the acknowledgment may be. /
ne grim and CHASTITY truth confronts US
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ected to American domination only by /
military conquest which will require !
nightly army and the indefinite but enor-
nous expenditure of American blood and
reaSure.
Even if we capture Aguinaldo and
urn his sympathizers at the stake it
will not end our troubles in the Philip
ines The Omaha Bee says:
Our task in the Philippines Will not
nd with the suppression of the insur-
ection in Luzon. The inhabitants of
ominal allegiance to the sovereignty of
pain. are TO be brought under our
ule. From part of these there will un-
oubtedly be resistance, but if we shall
emonstrate in our treatment of the ma
ives of Luzon our friendly intentions it
lill probably be less difficult to secure
bedience from the people of the other
arts of the archipelago. There can be no
oubt as to the wisdom and importance
I a conciliatory policy toward the Fill
mos.
That these opinions are from Re !
ublican moulders of thought and from
ersonal admirers of Mckinley does
OF alter the classification of copper /
eads and traitors in the least. No
IAN has a right to get disguised with
lie politicians in power any more. If .
man says he is tired of this endless {
nd senseless slaughter. this prolonged !
zposure and continued sacrifice of {
IT fighting men. off goes his head if ,
nperialists have their way about it,
nd yet it is a fact that more than I
llf of the leading Republican news c
lpers in the United States are crying !
1t against the presidents war in the :
hilippines- a
The Atchison Globe inveighs against :
10 church bell as a nuisance, and says {