The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-25
FLAYED AGAIN.
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NOOncAu0e0 from FIRST PaEe.)
stance, but he arose from his seat and
there, within the shadow of the monument
of Bunker Hill, where Warren fell, fighting
for liberty, and within a stones throw of
true sons of the old Bay State have sent
forth to the country their messages Of free
dom, he delivered perhaps the most remark
able, certainly the most disingenuous ad-
dress that ever fell from the Inns of an
American President.
This address. Invested of it's verbiage,
considered apart from the platitudes and
the o~stentatiOus profession of virtue with
which it is interlarded, was nothing more
nor less than a carefully devised and studi-
GUS misstatement of the issue between the
chief executive and those of his own party
who are opposed to his Wretched policy in
the Philippines. 1t was an effort to befog
the subject and to mislead the public judg-
ment. We are told, sir, that this address
was received with enthusiastic applause by
those who heard it, but we who read it in
cold print, in the light of the indefensible
tragedy now being enacted near the shores
of Asia, involuntaTily think of that crea-
ton of Charles Dickens who was accus-
toned to roll his eyes piously to heaven and
eXclaim with great oStentation to those
about him, My friends, let us be moral
and who was the father of two daughters,
one of whom he named Charity and the
other Mercy.
MKINLEY'S SINCERITY DOUBTED.
His Excellency declared on this occa-
sion, If not in so many words at least In ef-
feet, that he had never entertained any
policy with respect to the Philippines up to
the time the treaty of peace was ratified,
but that he had simply held them as COM
mander-in-chief the questions as to their
disposition and control to be determined
thereafter by Congress. If the chief ex-
ecutive really feels as he declared at the
banquet that he did-that the disposition of
the Philippines is a matter to be determined
by Congress-why does he not call a special
session of Congress to settle the matter at
once and then keep his hands off. Heaven
knows there is need of action. If he Is sin
cere, why did he permit his supporters in
the Senate TO vote down., the other day, the
Bacon resolution, which distinctly declared
that the United States entertained no In
tentiOn of permanently holding these islands?
Why did he insist that the McEner resolu-
ton should be passed, a resolution which Is
a fraud, a delusion, a snare, a shameful
evasion. which, like a Christmas tree, has
something upon it for everybody. That resO-
luton is intended simply 10 quiet the con-
science Of the American people, TO lull all
opposition to sleep while the President goes
ahead waging relentless ana merciless war
against the Philippines and laying deep and
secure the foundations for a permanent
American colony.
Mr.. Chairman, ! am determined that the
President shall neither befog the issue be-
tween himself and those of the Republican
party who oppose his Philippine policy. nor
responsibility for the gross official blunders
which he has committed IN connection with
this great problem ] insist that the whole
policy is not simply an error. but that il is
a crime, and that the chief executive Of
this Nation Is the one who has precipitated
upon us the embarrasEments and the difh-
culues by which we are now confronted. /
insist that he did not simply hold the Phil
ippines as commander-in-chief. leaving the
question OF the disposition and control of
them to Congress, but that he formulated