The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-06
FORAKER SNEERS.
Little Glory In the Contest With the
Filipinos Who Struggle For Liberty.

Cincinnati. July 6.-At the unwilling
of tablets at Fort Thomas in memory
of Col. Henry c. Egbert and the dead
of the Sixth United States infantry.
which he formerly commanded, United
States Senator Joseph Foraker de-
clared war upon the Mckinley admins
tration. Recent attacks printed by Ed
itor Kohlsaat of the Chicago Times
Herald aided in causing the Ohio sena-
tor to break relations with the pres1-
dent.
Senator Foraker said, in sneering ref
erence to the haste with which Col Egg
bert was hustled to his death:
Even before his wound healed Col.
Egbert, although deservedly promoted
to be a, brigadier general of the United
States volunteers, was ordered to re-
port for duty in the far away Philip
pines as colonel and commander of the
Twenty United States infantry.
He was not in proper physical condition
to go, but his uncOnquerable spirit and
sOldierly pride We're stronger than his
sense of duty to himself and without
hesitation he started for that new field,
where, almost as soon as he arrived, he
fell in battle at the head Of his COM
mand.
There Is something miserably incon-
gruOus in the fact that he should have
survived his wound from the Spaniards
at Santiago, received while fighting for
the liberty and independence of the Gu
bans. only to be hurried around the
globe, there to receive a mortal stroke
from the poor Filipinos, who at least
imagine that they are fighting for their
liberty and independence.
He Obeyed orders and fell; and, as it
was with him. so it is with all these
dead. They lived and died true soldiers,
and we honor ourselves in hOnOring
them.
I'VE are here, however, to honor them
not alone for their physical courage
that quality is not EXCEPTIONAL; it has
been common to all nations. Even the
F1ipinos seem not afraid to go to battle
and death, although all the odds are
against them.
What more pathetic and at the same
time more magnificent than the sight
recently witnessed at Manila, when the
half civilized and more than half naked
insurgents of AguinaIdO, armed with
only bows and arrows and long spears,
understood to stand before the Krag-
Jorgensen rifles and the thrteen-inch
guns of civilization and benevolent
assimilationr
Referring to our policy toward Cuba,
Senator Foraker said:
'Our pledge must be kept by the
prompt establishment and prompt rec
ignition of an independent government
for the republic Of Cuba, after which,
and not before, with honor, consider the
question Of annexation"
In referring to the destruction OF the
Maine Senator Foraker said:
This disaster closed all quibbling
QUavering hesitation and uncertainty on
the part Of the national government"
His speech is accepted as a defiance
Of the Neutrality-suspicious. wing of the
party in Ohio who are fighting for re-
election to the senate. The local feel
ing upon the national boycott Of the
Sixth regiment and the refusal to pro-
mote Col. Cochran and Col. Egbert is
very keen.
Loud cheering greeted Foraker's criti-
cisms of the administration, especially
the passage relating to Col. Egbert's
wounded and untitled condition when
ordered off to the PhiliDpines-