The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25
SCATH|AG PHILIPPE.
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mate tribunal which has so often in
our national history vindicated those
who have fearlessly stood for the right
in public affairs-the sober second
thought of the great American peo-
ole?
And is his excellency quite sure that
he properly gagged the condition of
the public mind on the subject of Phil
ippine annexation? Is ne absolutely
certain that one swallow really makes
a whole summer? 1t would really seem
so. for in this Home Market address he
exultingly declared that the annexation
treaty had passed the senate by over
two-thirds, and was sanctioned by the
judgment of nine-tenths of his coun-
trymen. How that treaty finally got
its two-thirds majority in the senate
the tremendous pressure necessary to
secure it there-where its fate hung
doubtful and trembling in the balance
until the very latest moment, and was
then only saved by the votes of sena-
tors who had most of them spoken
against it, no man knows better than
Mr.. Mckinley Adulation mas indeed
sOrely blinded the chief executive TO
the truth. If he imagines that even the
majority of his cOuntryn;en approve of
this permanent holding in the orient.
Let him not pin his faith too securely
to the sordid interests which clamor so
loudly in his hearing. If he will hut
quiet the noisy throng which surrounds
him long enough to put his ear to the
ground and listen. he will distinguish
the Dremonitions of the coming storm:
he will hear the steady tread. not of
the 10000 men who he demands for a
crusade against liberty. but of q Eighty
army Of free people who are beginning
to move in defense Of their cherished
traditions and their violated homer.
MKINLEY'S PLEA.
I'VE have been told further that the
president yielded up his first-blush i'm
pressions at the Importantly of Ad-
miral Dewey, who urged that the Phil
ippines should be retained. Mr.. Chair
man, the chief executive cannot screen
himself behind the gold lace of the hero
Of Manila. No one can honor more pro-
foundly than / do the officers of our
regular army and navy, but their pre-
objections are naturally for arms. They
have imbibed. of course, the prejudiceS
and the preferences of their calling.
We cannot blame them for desiring to
magnify the size and Importance of the
army and navy, for advocating expan-
sion and the taking on of a colonial
policy.
Again, we have been assured that
the demand of our peace commission
ers at Paris to hold the Philippines is
what induced the president to yield.
So far as one of the commissioners is
concerned, we know that this is false.
But even If this statement were true,
the constitutional power to negotiate a
treaty was his, not the commissioners.
They were simply his instruments, ap-
pointed to carry out his will. No. Mr..
Chairman, this plea, like all the others,
will not avail. The truth is that these
commissioners got their inspiration and
their instructions from the White
House. Those instructions once
changed. the action of the commission
ers would have been different The
wrong was with the chief executive.
He and he alone is responsible.
OWNED BY CAPITALISTS.
''Mr. Chairman, in my humble opin-
ion the reason for the change in the
presidential policy was his concession
to the selfish capitalists of the coun-
try, his surrender to their demands.
These are the gentlemen who furnished
the money for his nomination and cleo
ton, and who, 1 doubt not, have
pledged him a denomination and re-
election. These are the gentlemen who
are already Selling upon valuable fran
chises in China, in connection with the
English syndicate with member of
parliament from Wales at its head
These are the gentlemens whom Lord
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