The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-10

easier to increase than It is to cut
down, and. once established, there
will be many Interested in keeping UP
a great standing army" 1t will be
remembered that before the session
ended congress and president both
came around to General Henderson's
way of thinking.
ON the subject of the Philippines.
General Henderson was equally con.
servative, but not hostile either to the
president or TO his party. Speaking
in the house prior to the ratification
o: the treaty Of peace, he said: "The
president, from start to finish, has
wisely, calmly, patriotically, bravely
carried the Mighty problems Of the
country in his great heart and greater
brain--not FOR political party, but for
his country and his countrymen. When
at war with Spain it was the duty of
the commander-in-chief to attack the
enemy where he could hit and hurt.
He struck him In the Philippines, and
the echo Of the blow will ring through
coming ages. That blow found the
Filpinos struggling uselessly and vain
ly with Spain. which had held sover-
eighty there for centuries. This coun-
try striking that blow and taking the
great city and the great bay-had it
not at once thereby responsibilities and
duties? Until that treaty is ratified
the president must hold by arms what
we have taken until the sovereignty of
Spain is legally removed. What may
be in the brain of the president If the
treaty is ratified, know not. For one,
it is enough for me to know what my
duty is. l interrogate myself. and
say that while / can not tell yet what
my duty may be Ofor don't know what
the real conditions are there or what
those people want or need), frankly
say to this house and to my country
that l have the gravest d jubts of the
wisdom of this country taking the Phil
ippine islands to govern them as Unit
ed States territory. I have grave
doubts of that question. Eliminating
every moral question, and looking at
it from the standpoint of Il member
Of this American family, who must
weigh the expenses and the RESPONSE
bilities that he is about 20 assume--if
your ask me would I force a govern
! mcnt upon the F>lipinos against their
will, l answer, no. That is my judg-
! ment But when the time comes to
settle that question Git is not here now
l must know what my duty TO my
country is, and l can not tell that with
out knowing the condition of the Fill
pinos and what they need and what
| they want"
We have in these words the sum of
| the next speakers alleged offending.
Is criticism just? Is the spirit of eau
| tion and calm deliberaton, the spirit
| of reserve until in possession of all the
| facts, one unbecoming in man in the
shadow Of the great Office of speaker
| of congress-the office that in power
| and responsibility is hardly second to
| the presidency itself? General Hen
| derson has not been hurried by sur
| face waves Of sentiment, but he has
! moved with the broad current of sober
| f"'''N 'iiiii'it' III Nii' Ni'Nh NoPi ~ :
! and emotionalism, but he will not OBJ
struct the real will of the people.
An interesting innovation in police
work has been instituted in northern
Indiana, where twenty-siX cities and
| towns have leagued together for the
purpose of cooperating in the detec-
tion of criminals and in the suppression
of crime. The mayors and chiefs of
police of these municipalities have