The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28
TO sHIRk IS coWARDLy
DR.. Washington GLADDEN. on
the Philippines.
NO REPUBLIC TO RECOGNIZE.

What Authority He Possesses by Force
and Trickerv and Not by the Consent
of His Trib'-OnIv Rep esents About
One Eighth of the F,Ipinos
DR.. Washington Gla1den of Column
bUs is widely known as one of the
most scholarly and eminent men in the
Congregational church, No mans
judgment is more revered in Columbus
than his and nobody can charge him
with misstating facts for any partisan
purpose. In, an able lecture. Sunday,
Sept. 8, upon the Philippine question
DR.. GLADDEN. presented the following
cogent facts as the result Of his thor
ough study of tie subject:
1T must also be remembered that
the revolutionary government of Aguin-
aldo does not pretendto 10 represent more
than small minority Df the raople in
the Philippines. Out CT a population
of 100000 or 100000 of people, not
more than 100000 have in any way
signified their adherence to aim The
insurrection is nearly if net wholly
confined to the tribe of Tagals.
There has been no government in
the Philippines which had the faintest
resemblance to a republic. There has
been military dictatorship which un-
dertook to assemble a congress; one
out of thirty tribes was supposed to be
represented in this congress- Nine
tenths of the people had no represents
n
Its patriotism by choosing as its pre-
siding officer man who was known to
all of them to have sought in the
most shameless manner to sell them
out to the Spaniards. After wrangling
for two months, this delectable body
burst into fragments, leavig nothing
but bad odor
Where is this Philippine republic
that our government is crushing? 1t
has no capital, no constitution, no civil
institutions, no seat except in the sad
die of Aguinaldo.
Il do not wish to speak contemptu-
ously of Aguinaldo. 1t is evident that
he possesses some good qualities, and
that he is skillful partisan leader.
He has managed to hold together the
tribe to which he belongs in a pretty
stout resistance to our military forces.
Doubtless he has wrought upon the
superstitious fears of the natives by
making them believe that the Ameri-
crushing them; and he has kept alive
their hopes by assuring them that a
revolution here at home was about to
occur. by which our army would be re
called. That he thinks himself able
to set up good government and to
hold all these tribes together in unity
am willing TO believe. But his civil
experiment, SO far as it has been tried,
certainly warrants us in doubling his
ability to do any such thing and justi-
f1es us in refusing to turn over to him
the government of these islands. And
when the refusal to turn over the gov
ernment of these islands to military
dictator is denounced as the betrayal
of a people struggling for freedom, 1
am moved to ask whether there is not
more heat than light in such obiurga-
tions."
In closing DR.. GLADDEN. said:
"The Philippine islands present to
the people of this country stupendous
task. OF its seriousness, it's magnitude
was we'll convinced before l began to
study the question, but it looms larger
and more portentous as draw nearer
to it. But it is on our hands and we
must work it out. To shirk it is cow
ardly; to sit down in encouragement
before it is pusillanimous; to refuse to
bear our part in it S dshonorable; to
by gnorant and carping
criticism, those who are doing their
best to solve it, is unpatriotic.
"The question is one which we have
no right to drag down into the mire
of partisanship. 1t is not merely the
present administration that will have
the Philippine question to deal with;
1t will be on the hands of great many
future administrations; 1t will be the
most delicate and the most difficult
business with which they will have to
deal, and they will need from the whole
people fair consideration and generous
treatment"