The record-union., 1899-05-08
Protest Against Aat-Expansion Meetings
Sentiments.
The Aggregate of Attendance Prob
ably 1O,OOO-Every Mention of
Mckinley and Dewey Brought
Forth Thunders of Applause
Hoar and His Fellows Scored
and Resolutions Sustaining the
Government Adopted.

meetings were held in Chicago to-day
to voice approval of the policy of the
Administration with reference to the
Philippines and to protest against the
sentiments expressed last Sunday at the
"anti-eXpansion meeting in Central
Music Hall To-day's meetings were
held in the Auditorium and Central Mu-
sic Hall In spite of the Indictment
weather the aggregate attendance was
probably 10000.
The presiding officers of the two
and ex-Judge John Barton Payne. At
the Auditorium, as at the other gather
ing, every mention of President Nc
Kinley or Dewey brought forth thun-
ders of applause.
The speakers at the Auditorium were
VIM. Dudley Foulke of Indiana, Bishop
Samuel Fallows, Congressman Jonathan
P. Dolliver of Iowa, ex-Congressman
George E. Adams Judge Richard Tut
tle and Rev. DR.. P. S. Henson Most of
these also spoke at the other meeting.
Judge o. H. Horton, the Chairman of
the General Committee, in calling the
Auditorium meeting to order, said, in
part:
1--WE are not here to consider expan-
sion or anti-expansion. But, in the lam
guage of the call for this meeting, it
is gathering of those who are in ia
vor of sustaining the Government of the
United States in its efforts to restore
public order in the Philippines Islands,
and requiring the obedience of all the
inhabitants thereof to the authority of
the United States Nothing more than
this is the President trying to do and
yet he is being abused and villified
therefor
Every man has right to his convic-
lions upon particular questions, but no
man ought to publicly utter sentiments
which tend to humiliate or discourage
the country's defenders in the field, or
to lessen his country's influence in the
family of nations
The following resolutions were read
and adopted unanimously at both of the
meetings.:
First, we recognize that condition
of war prevails in the Philippine Isl
ands between the Government of the
United States and certain men who are
in instruction against the lawful au-
thority of the United States. We be-
lieve that such condition of instruction
has arisen from course of events
which, when once instituted, has moved
in irresistible sequence to the present
situa tion-that this course of events be-
gan with the barbarities practiced by
the. Spanish Government toward the in
habitants of Cuba. These barbariteS
were continued by the Spanish authori-
ties in spite of our protestations and en-
treaties through al series of years for an
amelioration of these dreadful condi-
tions and finally eliminated in the de-
struction of our war vessel, the Maine
in the harbor of Havana. Every step
which followed has been an inevitable
sequence of the preceding events-war
between the two nations, the success of
the American arms and the conse-
quences which attach to the conquest of
an armed foe. Among these conse-
quences were the occupation of the
Philippine Islands by the American ma
val and military forces and the substi-
tuition during the remainder of the war
of a sovereignty of the conqueror for
that of the conquered. We recognize
and declare the facts to be that from
the 18th day of August, 1898, until the
18th day of February, 1899, peace pre-
vailed in Manila under the protection
of American arms--that on the day last
named an insurgent force assailed our
army in its Notifications and encamp-
ments under the cover of darkness-and
by this act of aggression inaugurated
hostilities, the first result of which was
intended to be wholesale. massacre and
the destruction Of property within the
city.
I'VE recite with sorrow the fact that
the chief encouragement extended to
the insurgents has been from some of
our misguided fellow citizens. and to
them must be ascribed much of the
bloodshed and ruin which has fol-
lowed
We further declare that the Govern
ment of the United States has sought in
every honorable way to secure cessa-
ton of hostilities, as evidenced by the
appointment of a commission. fully au-
thorized to treat with the insurgents
and to offer them peace and amnesty.
and by the action of our military and
naval authorities, who have at all
times been ready to protect those who
would surrender their arms and cease
their warfare against the Government
of the United States
1--WE point to the fact that these eff
forts of peace have been contuma ciously
by the insurgents until it be-
came manifest even to them that they
were waging a hopeless war
'Second-We declare our belief in the
high honor and just action of our army
and navy in the Philippine Islands. We
believe that our Government has taken
every step that it should take to secure
peace and order. We believe that the
representing the Govern
ment has highly and fully discharged
its duty in the premises. We consider
it our part to share the burdens of our
Government rather than to embarrass
its efforts and thus prolong the conflict
of arms.
"Third-We know that at this very
hour our soldiers in arms are face to
face with an armed foe, and until the
close of hostilities we know only our
country, its army and its executive. We
pledge to them while our flag shall be
in battle our unfaltering support.
'F'ourth-We. as Americans. take