The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-17

war could have been avoided if the adj
ministration at washington had seen
fit to treat with Aguinaldo The fact is
though, that Agoncillo was treated
with such scorn and contempt as to in
wife hostilities.
After the Spaniards surrendered The
American people should have simply
said: We are here now to protect you
people from any foreign power. You
go ahead and organize your local gov
eminent and well see that you are pro-
tected. Such a course would have won
1 for us their esteem and gotten for us
more commercial advantages than we
! have now.
That course would have been an OBJ
j ject lesson to the entire civilized world
1t would have been more in line with
the general policy of the American gov
eminent from the time of its founda-
! ton up to the present.
! Judge Norrell-I am anti-expansion
IN every fibre OF my life. ] do not want
this country TO adopt colonial policy.
don't believe we ought to annex
any country SO far from home. Still
we should not withdraw our troops at
the present time. We ought to make a
broad. pacific statement to the Filipinos
and give them about the same form
of government as Cuba
Powers Sizes It Up.
Judge o. w. Powers-From Mr. Bry-
ans public and private utterances, 1
take it that he does not propose the
Withdrawal of our armies from the
Philippines until order is restored there.
He does not propose that such action
be taken until a stable government has
been established, a government that
can preserve order and peace.
Then he proposes to give the Fill
pinos the option of being annexed to
the United States or remaining out. He
proposes further that American SUI
premacy and American enterprise shall
be maintained. In all of that 1 agree
with him. In other words, 1 endorse
his statement as made on the day of
the conference.
On that occasion he said very brief
ly and pointed9y that he favored, first,
the restoration of order; second. the
establishment of a stable government;
third. the retention by this country of
naval and coaling stations and the es-
tablishment of a protectorate.
Judge Andrew Howat-I have not
studied the question sufficiently to
form a definite opinion upon it. We
are constantly learning new facts about
the Filipinos, and our knowledge is con-
stantly increasing. l have not learned
enough about them to say how they
DC S5ON6InGu VI MIl1S VIC S1lOulh
do. In fact, I have changed my opin-
ion concerning our policy once or twice
within the past two months.
Judge Dickson's views.
Judge Dickson-I believe that the
government is charged with the duty
of suppressing the insurrection in the
Philippines and restoring order and
peace; that. having done so, it should
establish a form of government as
closely analogous to that which pre-
walls under our territorial system as
existing conditions there will permit.
Henderson Opposed to Conquest.
Judge H. P. Henderson, am opposed
to acquiring any territory by conquest
as a colonial possession. 1 don't be-
lieve our form of government is adapted
to the acquisition of possessions simply
for the purpose of governing them. l
believe in permitting other people to
join this country if they desire it, and
it is desirable OH the part of the United
States to receive them as citizens. We
are undoubtedly charged with the duty
of restoring order in the Philippines,
but l don't believe we got a clear title
to the islands and to the people by our
purchase from Spain, and we never can
get a good title without the consent of
the people of the Philippine islands. We
never ought tG receive those islands as
a part of this country until our own
people consent to receive them.
Benjamin t. Lloyd, chairman Demo-
cratic county committee believe the
same assurance given the Cubans
should be given to the Filipinos. This
should have been done long ago. If
such assurance had been given Aguin-
aldo and his associates when they We're
called into conference, there would have
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those islands now is to trade liberty
for Mammon.
Bishop Whitney's View.
Bishop Whitney, have always be-
lieved that our nation had an evangelic
mission-a mission of worldwide scope
and significance, but have never under
stood that that mission was to be pros
ecuted with bayonets and cannon balls.
Rather that it was to be accomplished
by the far-reaching effect of good ex-
ample, by deeds of justice and right
eousness, and if circumstances placed
us in direct contact with peoples whom
il was our duty to uplift, that we
should do this by the wise and pacific
application of those pure principles
upon which our government is found
ed. chief among which is the basic doc
trine that governments derive their
governed"
We have no right to govern any peo-
pie against their will, unless our gov
eminent is imperiled by them, and it
becomes our plain duty TO intervene in
their affairs. We have no right to force
American principles upon the FilipinoS
If a majority of them want our sway
extended over them, it should not be
and cannot be in the power of any fac
ton among them to prevent; but if
majority of them do not want it, it
ought not to be enforced upon them.
IF it be true, as Admiral Dewey is
reputed to have said, that the Filipinos
are more capable of self-government
than the Cubans, and it can be ascer-
tanned that a majority of them desire
an Independent government, a mon
archy or anything else, then they
should have it, but they should reim-
burse the United States for what it has
cost to acquire the islands from Spain.
The cost of subduing Aguinaldo is quite
another matter; it should not be borne
by those islanders Gf there be any who
are not in sympathy with him and his
cause. If these are Mr. Bryants views.
as a matter of course 1 agree with
him."
Bryan's Policy Correct.
Frank B. Stephens-I think that Mr..
Bryan's policy in regard to the Philip
pines is the correct one. We should at
once announce unequivocally that the
Filipinos will be permitted to organize