Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-07-19

ut. WasntDEtou huu ItHuoin N tiuvs Ju't
as might 60 into n business CO.
operation with q friend without q
written contract, believing him TO be
an honest ronn. But what shall | be.
lieve him to be- IN, after having accepted
the benefit OF my cooperation, he re-
pudiatos all moral obligation on the
ground that, trusting His honesty, /
had neglected TO insist upon a written
sioually by some quibble OF legal
technicality escape the payment OF
Just debt, but he will surely not escape
the contempt Of gentlemen.
While thus using" the Filipinos as
our military alios, the administration
secretly instructed our officers that we
might indeed profit from the effective
corporation OF the Filipinos. but that
no sort Of recognition should be ac-
corded to them which might embarrass
our scheme tn make them our subjects.
And then, when the surrender OF
Manila had been obtained, and we had
sufficient troops 90 the ground I'd make
US matters OF the situation, and we
began negotiations for peace with the
common enemy, and our Filipino o lies
asked 70 be heard in these negotiations
az to the future OF their country, we
slammed the door in their faces as IL
| they had no right to their country ut
ALL And behind their backs We bought
them, as former Secretary Day AYERS,
| from the common enemy bought
them like a drove of sheep. and we got
tho common enemy" = Spain = to
''cedo' to US the sovereignty over the
| Philippines, sovereignty which, as we
we'll know, she had practically lost and
could not deliver, and which, according
to the principle emrhatically affirmed
by ourselves in the Ease Of Cuba, Spain
had forfeited 10 the people Of the
islands. And then, aven before that
peace treaty had been ratified, and
while II was very uncertain whether 1t
would ever be ratified, President Nc
Kinley, without any legal right, by a
bold usurpation of power, ordered
| the army to enforce that spurious
Sovereignty upon the whole archipelago.
And then, when the FiIipinos, our late
allies, asserting their title to freedom
and independence upon the ground of
oui own professed principles, refused to
be sold and bought like a herd Of
cattle, We destroyed by force Of arms
the government they had set up aud
proceeded 10 shoot them down. And
we have continued ever since this KILL
ing business because We covet their
country.
In public speeches / hnve again and
again challenged the Imperialists to
show me In the history Of the world u
single act Of pertidy committed by any
republic more infamous than that
which has been committed by President
MoKinley's administration against our
Filipino allies. have never received
an answer. | now address this chal-
leneo to Senator Foraker personally. ]
respectfully invite him to rnnsack all
his knowledge OF the annals Of man
kind for an act of treachery moro tHse
and infamous, and then to enlighten
the American people with his finding.
1917 The interviewer Of the Herald
asked Senator Foraker this question
"But Mr.. Scburz says that all the
advantages com merclal facilities, foot.
holds for the Asiatic trade, accommo.
dations for our navy, &c, --that have been
obtained in the Philippines might have
been gained without killing Thousands
of Filipinos for the purpose Of subiu.
eating them to our sovereignty. What
OF that?" The Senator answered: II
does not alter the case from the mora
point Of view, nor docs IL alter the
question of duty, that thousands have
been killed. Everybody regrets the loss
OF life, and nobody, know, more thar
the President. But when war Gomez
and Instructions occur these results
must follow. !"
With due respect, he 1t said, this L
no answer at all. An evasion 80 pal
pnble amounts to confession that M
answer Is possible. Indeed, what coult
II lie? Every Intelligent observer O
current affairs knows that, II We hat
treated the Philippine Islanders justl,
by recognizing their right to independ
encs, as we had promised to Recognize,
that of the Cubans, We could have oh
tanned from them for the mere asking
whatever commercial advantages, ant
whatever conling. stations and other ac
oommodations for our navy and what
ever facilities for developing the re
ing and elevatlng influence among thu
desired. We could have had all Of thi
Filipiuos without sacrificing the live
Of Thousands of our own people, an,
wrecking the mental and physica
al
vice in the tropics, without keeping VI
large army 10 the Philippines costinl
our taxpayers scores Of millions year
without making the populations Of thos
, islands. even II we succeed In subju
eating them, our mortal enemies
always eager to kindle a fire in on
| rsnr whenever we get into quarre
, with any other Power, and thus weaken
, ing instead Of strengthening US; witt
: running our moral credit with tn
) world by perrerting our loudly heralde,
war Of liberation and humanity" int
a vulgar land-grabblng game, and b.
scandalously betrsying Our allies With
4 out making our Southern neighbors dis
, trustful of cur purposes, and thu
/ undermining the Monroe Doctrine
/ without throwing overheard the funda
r mental principles Of our republica
government and the high ideals Of GU
, people, as they arc embodied in th
i Declaration of Independence, the Con
, stitution of the United States, and th
teachings Of the greatest mon.
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