The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-12
FILIPINOs AND FREEDOM.
What Gen. Weyler Would BE Saying
Now If He Were Talking.


Now If He Were Talking.
The New York Evening Post of wednes-
Gay has pleasant quarter of an hour
WIN the 1mperialists by putting a speech
on the situation in the Philippines in the
mouth OF Gen. Weyfer. The Post says:
On the'j subject of Aguinaldo's appeal
~ Tue powers to bring influence to bear
a. Washhgton for the purpose of ending
tne unjust war which is devastating the
ccultry, we are fortunate in being able
10 Jay before sour readers a speech to be
qG u no IN the Spanish senate today.
sdte telepath1c wire, and is the sub
stance OF the remarks to be made by that
q1stlngulshed senator and general, Don
Naler1ano Weyler. He VIII say:
take the floor (pido la palabra), Mr.
President toq call the attention of the
senate and the government to the re-
quest OF the Filipino republic for recog-
milton by the European powers Grave
queStlonsc OF International law and conf
ty are involved in this matter, upon
when Whlch 1t might be thought that 1, a
tence to speak But your senOrias will
not forget that during my administra-
ton OF the island of Cuba these same
questions We're fully discussed in the
senate of the United States. 1t was my
DUTY to take cogniZance of what was said
by the able jurists in the American SEN
ate. The The, swords of the, insurgents
could Well despise, but who would not
IrenbIe before the tongue of Frye, d
Lodge, q Morgan? A mere child myself
IN all these niceties of international law,
L sat at the feet of the Gam aliels in the
senate at Washington, and it is from
them L learned the great principles reg
ulatlng the attitude of one nation to-
wards the colonies of another, and deter
mining the recognition of Instruction
airy forces Simply using the word Fill
plnoS where the learned American Sena-
Tors sag Cubans, l Will snow your Sc
nor1as that it IS our duty, as it is that
or all the European powers, to interfere
in the name of humanity and liberty to
put an end to the cruel war in the Phil
ippines.
''One of The dicta of the illustrious
Lodge, Mr.. President, was that there was
something unnatural and abhOrrent in
the arbitrary control or an island, con-
tanning 1,500, 000 people, by a country 5000
miles away. What shall We say, then,
of sending troops to subdue S,0OO,O0O peo-
gued by the enlightened Morgan that
recognition of the Cuban insurgents was
due them because they were supreme
in large part of the island. What did
it matter. he demanded, if Spain held
the capital and all the SeapOrts? The
Cubans held the mountains and swamps
in the interior, a larger area, all told,
than that controlled by the Spaniards.
and were therefore entitled to be known
as the masters of the island. This is
an overwhelming (conrundente) argu.
ment for the immediate recognition OF
the Filipinos. They rule a rar larger
part of LuIon than the rebels did of
Cuba. On the fve-foot map Of the Phil
ippinoG, all the territory in the control
of the Americans can be covered by a
childS hand. IF we heed the appear or
the F'ilpinos, We shall simply, therefore,
be executing the principles taught us by
distinguished Americans.
THE prolonged and bloody nature of
the war in the Philippines. Mr.. Presi-
dent is another reason for interference
by neutral powers, Gen. Gus, pre eil:
rection have proved as illusory as those
used to issue in Havana. The F1llplnos
are fighting more stubbornly than the
them except by eXterminating them.
Many American soldiers say that the ma
tives will have to be killed off. But when
| said the same thing of Cuban rebels,
the American public cried out on 'Weyler
the butcher and senators clamored for
American interference to prevent the eX-
termination of men who could not con-
quer, but would not submit Is IL not
time for us, and for all civilized powers,
to say to President Mckinley, as he said
to Spain: In the name of humanity, this
war must stop?
Point after point in the American
argument for recognizing Cuban bel
ligerency might be pressed, Mr.. Pres1-
dent as conclusive reasons for our grant
ing belIigerent rights to the FiIipinos.
The latter have a larger army than the
Cubans ever had. They have a fully or
gained congress, composed OF 100 men,
who, writes one American observer,
would compare in behavior, manner,
dress, and education with the average
men Of the better classes of other Asiatic
nations AS for their fitness to govern
themselves, we have the testimony of the
victorious Dewey and the American Gen.
| King, that they are far superior to the
Cubans in that particular. An American
correspondent wrote of Aguinaldo's, gov
eminent that he has made life and prop
erty safe, made brigandage and
honor safer in Luzon than it has been for
thirty years. There is thus a far strong
er and more promising republic in the
Philippines than there ever was in Cuba.
| The American publicists who taught us
| that it was right to recognize the one Will
be the last to complain II we recognize
the other.
! Spain, your senorias, has especial rea-
! son for moving in this matter. Several
| thousand Spanish prisoners are In the
! hands of the Filipinos-not only soldiers,
| but civilians, many women and children.
| Their sufferings wiring our hearts The
| United States Undertook by the treaty OF
| Paris to secure their liberty, but has not
| been able to do so Our country oItef req
| Americans would not allow 1t. Agunaldo
now proposes to release the captiyes II we
will recognize his government. HOW long
| would the Americans nave hesltaIed II
| the case had been as fragrant IN CUBA!
| They say of he Filipinos, as we said OF
| the Cuban rebels, that they are bandits
| and SaYages But let me read what a
| Frenchman NJ Jean Hess, says of the
| Filipinos, after being long with their
| army. He is an impartial witness, and ne
writes in the Figaro: 1T is surely a
marvellous thing, the resistance of these
| peasants, led into battle by generals of
twenty years, only yesterday in college
! beardless boys. young lawyers and doc
| tors. These Filipinos are not the saVages,
! the stupid brutes. that they are said to
| be in America. They are polite and de-
voted and courageous to an extraordinary
| degree If the Cubans deserved rescue
| from destruction, do not these young
! heroes?
But it may be said. Mr.. President: that
| for Spain to interfere would give oftense
| to the United States, and might lead to
| war. All your senOrias, let me tell you
! what | have learned from reading the de-
bates in the United States senate. In the
| speeches in that body it was clearly laid
! down, by it's most influential members,
| that for America to recognize Cuban bel
| ligerency would really be an act OF great
| friendship towards Spain; that Spantards
| could not possibly resent it. Boldly com
| mending their own chalice to their lips:
! let us then take the action IN behalf OF
! the Filipinos that the United States, for
| less provOca ton. took in behaf OF the
! Cubans, and welcome this noble people,
| struggling against foreign oppressors TOR
| their liberty, to the rights and privileges
| of an Independent nation. He dlcho.
Dancing mt Wildwood.