The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-08

uoplelt pektet III ten years, Rlu now
80, and I thank Pe-rurna fur the way I
feelto-day.n
For free book address Or. Hartman.
Columbus, Ohio. -
Philippines. 1t is In connection with
the Philippines that Mr.. Bryan has
chiefly harped upon the Consent iof
the governed theory. As a matter OF
fact We cannot too clearly keep In mind
that the success of the iAguinaldIan re-
bells would mean not liberty for all FIJI
iplnos, but liberty for q certain blood
thirsty. section to Cypress q great ma
jority OF their fellow countrymen. I'm
der Spanish rule the Filipinos were
treated with intolerable cruelty. The
AguinaldIan leaders have. wherever
their power has extended, continued q
system almost as bad. The chief VIC
tins OF this system have been not the
Americans, but their fellow Filipinos:
for their hatred and cruelty have been
exhibited chiefly at the cost OF their
fellow countrymen who have had the
good sense and genuine patriotism to
realize that the true interests OF the is
lands lay In the American government.
So far as / am aware not one compe-
tent witness who has actually known
the facts believes the Filpinos capable
Of self-government at present, or be-
lieyes that such an effort would result
In anything butya horrible confusion Of
tyranny and anarchy. Judge Taft,
President Schurman, Professor Worces-
ter, Bishop, Potter, and all our army Of
flcers are n unit on this point. The In
situations Of a free republic cannot at a
leap be transplanted into wholly allen
soil among n people who have not the
slightest conception OF liberty and self
government. as we use those words.
You might as we'll try to transplant a
full grown oak into alien soft.
Bloodshed and Misery.
Remember that to surrender the
Philippines now to n little band OF mil
itary usurpers would be to surrender
the Islands to bloodshed and misery.
Our stay in the islands is the condition
precedent Of peace. With US expansion
means, as It, always has meant, peace.
When We took New Mexico 1t meant
that I'VE gave to that Territory peace,
Ind. saved, 1t. from the quarter OF cen
Jury Of bloody fighting which followed
for old Mexico When we expanded
west Of the Mississippi 1t meant that
we put a stop to the tribal warfare
which had endured for ages among
the Sioux. Crow. Cheyenne and Pnwpee
Indians. So now the establishment Of
eur rule in the Philippines means to
give the islands peace. and 1t is the
only chance they have OF getting peace
or OF getting good government To
contract instead OF expand means cruel
Tarr cruel despotism for the islands
which We would abandon. We have n
right to ask the support Of every lover
or peace, OF every believer in peace, for
the righteous policy we have pursued
in the Philippines. No Statesman
worthy Of the name. no patriot or phi
lanthropist who is entitled to a mo-
ments hearing before the bar Of man.
kind will maintain That the principles
OF the declaration Of Independence
means thut no man throughout the
world, no matter what his crimes or his
Is to be excused from the
observance OF law and order II he hap
pens to think that llawlessness and dis
order suit him best.
Lincoln and jefferson.
AS has been shown again and again,
neither Jefferson. the author OF the
declaration OF independence. nor Lin
coin, the man who did the most TO make
the facts Of our national life correspond
with that samc doctrine. ever dreamed
Tor. q moment Of giving It such inter-
probation. Lincoln In one OF his great
speeches at Springfield, June 26, 1857,
mus alluded TO the trainers Of the dec
laratlon OF Independence: They did
not mean to assert tho obvious untruth
that all were then actually enjoying
equality, nor yet that they were about
TO confer such q boon. They meant
simply to declare the right. SO that the
enforcement of 1t might follow as fast
aseircumStnnces would permit. They
meant to set up n standard maxim for
free society which should be familiar to
all and revercd by all; constantly look
ca to, constantly labored for, and even
though never perfectly attained. con-
SANITY approxlmatlng and thereby con-
stantly spreading md deepening its
innuence and augmenting the happi.
ness and value OF life TO all peoples, = ~
Rescued Them From Destruction.
~ received the other day. n letter from
Captain Moftett. of tho First Dnkotn
Volunteers, giving his experience with
the prisoners in Manila prison, when
that city was captured. or the 1900
prisoners, l.100 were released. II mp
peafcd that they had been tortured
and wronged In the most terrible way,
and most OF them had not even been
tried for the crimes they were alleged
TO. have committed. 4 Over half OF them
were probably entirely innocent. / cam
not even enumernte the fortunes habit
unlly used by the SpanIards to these
Filipino prisoners, and when ! reach
such letters ms these OF Captain Moffett,
md such letters M that ahall quote
from the gallant son OF n gallant Con-
federato officer, my blood boils at the
foul slnnders{of the men who dishonor
the name OF AAncrlcn by attacks on our
policy and OUT. soldiers In the Philip,
pines. The simple truth IL that we res
cued those Islands from the hidcous
tyranny OF the Spaninrds and tho an
nrchy or thu corrupt and bloody lHsur-
gent chiefs. We nrc now randy es.
tabllshing n stable government, and
wh9tpvcr we have succeeded In. cstnb-
fishing that government, We have nj
ready given to Tic natives sucii Justice
ndSl'hcrty as neither they nor thrir
fcte!athargS have ever known through
oft the ages, No bluckpr wrong could
'Da Coma than to turn them back to hair
dwh5toricea to work out ,thcfr own dc:
1trGcttoa. n
4 Lured Into Destructive Poaitiono.
mo. man taa5pfofess the doctrines our
political foes prcfers rs regards tho
philippines without being speedily lurcd
Into positions ever more destructive of