The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-26
WHITELAW REDS VIEWS
HE SAYS FILIPINos MUST BE SUB
DUED LIKE RIOTERS.
United States bound to Restore Peace
in the IS1ands-Warm Tribut to
President Mckinley.

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-Nearly $50 mem
hers and guests of the Ohio Society sat
down to a banquet in the grand banquet
hall of the Waldorf-Astoria tonight. Presi-
dent NJ. J. Southland presided and with him
at the guests table sat Major General Wes-
ley Merritt, Hon. Whitelaw Reid, Governor
A. S. Bushnell, of Ohio; Senator Gray, of
Delaware; William r. Harper, d. D., presi-
dent Of the University of Chicago; General
Stewart L. Woodford, Hon. ]. E. Campbell,
General w. Swaine and others. After Pres
ident Southard's address of welcome had
been delivered the most important address of
the evening was that made by Hon. White
law Reid. After abiding in complimentary
terms to his fellow peace commissioners. he
said:
1T is now for me to speak of another
figure necessarily missing tonight, though
often with you heretofore at these meetings
the members of the Ohio society, who sent
us to Paris. A great and shining record
already speaks. for him. He win be ever
known in history as the President who freed
America from the Spanish blight, who real
lied the aspiration of our earlier statesmen,
cherished by the leaders of either party
through three-quarters of a century for
planting the flag both on Cuba and on the
Sandwich islands; more than this. as the
President who has carried that flag half way
round the world and opened the road for the
trade of the Nation to follow it. All this
came from simply doing his duty, from
day to day, as that duty was forced upon
him. No other man in the United States
held back from war as he did.
Never again will any nation imagine that
it can trespass indefinitely against the Unit
ed States with impunity. Never again VIII
-, 49, r; oo7~ xyar shin RIM Greater risks in q.
peaceful harbor than in battle. The world
will never again be in doubt whether, when
driven to war, we will END 1t IN a gush OF
sentimentality or a shiver or unmanly APP
prehension over untried responsibilities, by
fleeing from our plain duty, and at the same
time giving up what we are entitled TO, pc
fore we have even taken an opportunity lo
Does protection protect? is an old ques-
ton that used to be thrown in our faces
though l believe even the questioners finally
made up their minds that it cid. Does peace
pacify? is the question of the hour. wen, as
to our great antagonist, HISTORIC, courageous
Spain, there seems ground to hope and pc
lieve and be glad that 1T does-not mercy
1 ThenI as TO- To- Porto Rico there is no doubt Of
peace; and as to Cuba, very little, although
It would be too much to hope that twelve
years of civil war could be followed Dy aD-
solute calm, without disorders.
LAS to other possessions in the fartner
East, we may as we'll recognize at once tnas
we are dealing now with. the same sort OF
clever barbarians as In the earlier Jays OF
the Republic, when, on another ocean not
less distant, we were compelled to encounter
the Algerian pirates. Now, however, 4 war
we made has broken down the only authority
that existed to protect the Of the
world in one of it's greatest eastern thor
oughfares, and to preserve the lives and
property Of people Of all nations resorting
to those markets. We broke 1t down, and
we cannot, dare not, display the cowardice
and selfshness Of failing to replace 1t. Our
duty is as plain as that of putting down a
riot in Chicago or New York-all the palmer
because we have until recently ourselves
been taking the very course and doing the
very things to encourage the rioters.
Il venture to assert that, first, We must
put down the riot. The lives and property
of German and British merchants must be
at least as safe in Manila as they were UNI
der Spanish rule before we are ready for any
other step whatever. Next, ought we not
every quack doctor among us loose on it
ginning heated partisan discussions as to the
easiest way of solving it? And next we
will probably fare best in the end If we try
to profit somewhat by the experience others
have had in like cases."
Senator Gray, OF Delaware, spoke of the
great intellects of Ohio and said: mo State
could have contributed so much when Ohio
sent that great statesman, William r. Day,
to Paris always calm and dignifed,"
continued Senator Gray, "he has contrib
uted more to the success which we brought
from Paris than any other. There was an
other son of Ohio who contributed to the
success of the treaty. your distinguished fell
low-citizen, Hon. WhitelaW Reid"