The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-25

ASStOASO OFQeT IN the Hlt1ppi1iS
isiaflcS. 1 believe if we had made
promise Of the formation of a stable
government the Filipinos would have
Desh grateful TO Us. / would rather
FISK the influence of one Christian mis-
Slondry upon these people than that OF
an army which goes over there 20
preach the gospel Of force.
History's lessons in Vain.
History has given US lessons in vain
II We can win love in this way. II
you mink we can get favorable trade
py using forcible means, l want TO tell
you that this nation during the last
twenty-five years has gained larger
portions Of trade by peaceful means
lhan any empire has by fOrcible means,
ana while Spain was spending money
N the philippine islands, England was
making the profits on trade without the
ne essity Of sending q soldier there 10
protect ner trade. believe we can DO
more In the extension Of our trade by
Peeceful means than by force.
II any man thinks we are going to
/ SEM people to live in the Philippine is
amos, L want TO tell him that l think
other nations have tried that expert
nleHt and failed. Spain has dominated
the Philippines for 5000 years; yet
! lAere are less than 10000 OF SpaniardS
cut Of 100000 Of people. England has
DOMINATED India for 80 years and there
are only 10000 British out Of 800, GOO
people. If yeu think we are going
! tLere 10 educate them, let me tell you
that after 10 years of domination in In
dla less than per cent Of the total
population. If we go and conquer and
then deny the right of citizenship, We
/ oare not educate them less they shall
read the Declaration Of independence
and mock US for our inconsistency.
(Applause.)
An argument that can be used more
aoVantas eoUsly than the money argu-
ment is the religious argument. A Re-
puDhcan senator said that God had
opened the door of the Philippine is
lands, pushed US IN and shut the door
and the qUea ion that occurred to me
was VINO told him so? Did God tell
aim SO? If so l would like to know
the DAY and hour. Because I think I
can prove that it was somebody e.se's
, voice he heard Did he get the infor-
nation from somebody else? 1 want TO
md out who stands as the spokesman
OF the Almighty
No Right to Use Force.
1 don't think any man has a right
10 defend a war of conquest in the
name OF Jehovah. Heretofore we have
peen using force TO defend the right
ana foTce never created right since the
! weird began and when a man tells me
that war Of conquest is in line with
/ G4Vlne command l tell him that our
| Goa IS an Interchangeable God, the same
today, yesterday and forever. And I
remember that when our fOrefathers
were ramping the SHOWS of Valley
orge lighting against taxation without
representation, they prayed to God for
Su@QaIace and for more than century
we nave met on the Fourth of JulyAand
returned thanks to God for the hep he
gave US
And if he helped our forefathers, it
IS worse than mockeFy to invoke the
ana OF God TO force ourselves upon Q
nelpless people because our gum are
bigger than theirs. But some say
whether ii was right to go in there or
not We are now in and must stay
some say it is duty and destiny Our
/ Destiny is What we make it, We can't
make a thief out of a man unless he
wants to be thief. Circumstances
may determine whether he steals much
or little, but his own volition will de-
! termhne whether he steals at all I be-
lleve the treaty Of peace made with
Spain should have recognized the in
dependence Of the Philippines when It
! recognized the independence of the Gu
bans. and if it had provided for the
Independence Of the F'ilipinos as it pro-
vlded for the independence of the Gu
bans, there never would have been a
drop of blood shed at Manila.
But the treaty might have been rem
/ edied by d resolution, and the Bacon
resolution would have given the Fill
/ lponOA the same promise they did to the
! Cubans. The Filipinos are fighting for
I the right TO govern themselves Is il
any humiliation TO US to recognize their
right TO govern themselves? Are you
going 10 say that we shall first kill
them and then tell them what we would
have done to them if we hadn't killed
them? If we are going to give liberty,
let's give liberty to live men, and let
them enpoy their liberty, and let our
own soldiers live who were sent over
there.
War Could Have Been Closed.
1 believe this war could have been
closed in a day by the declaration of
the nations purpose to give them in
dependence as soon as a stable govern
ment was established. The treaty of
peace was signed on the 10th day Of
December. 1888, and congress did not
adjourn until the 4th Of March, 1889.
! There We're three months, almost,
when the president could have asked
| congress for authority to promise in
dependence, but you say the president
could not ask it until the treaty was
ratified. 1t was ratified on the 4th day
OF February, and congress was in ses-
sion month after that. And then
there was a vacation, and this war
went on. The president might have
called congress together any day and
asked authority, but congress convened
in December.
Our boys were dying in the Philippine
Islands. They were killing Filipinos
who were fighting for the right to gov
ern themselves, but the Republican
party didn't have time to settle the
question 1t had to deal with the gold
question and with the bankers. While
our boys were fighting and dying the
Republican party had no time to settle
the Philippine question, and today the
Republican party hasn't time to settle
the Philippine question, and every man
who votes for the Republican candidate
for congress next April in this state
votes to indorse the policy of the ad-
minisratiOn that has been the cause Of
bringing back a Thousand dead bodies
from Manila.
To endorse the policy which 1t has
carried out means that more of our
dead shall be brought back. 1t means
that this nation shall enter upon a
career of conquest. that it shall base
its authority upon force, and upon
tUrce alone. 1t means that it shall fol-
low the example Of the nations of Eu-
rope. reverse the doctrine of a hundred
years tear down the ideals of our fore
fathers Republicans, do you want
glory? 1 wouldn't trade the glory of
this republic for the glory of all of the
empires that have risen and fallen
since time began. During the closing
years Of the eighteenth century the
doctrine Of liberty and elf-government
was planted on our soil, and during the
nineteenth century this doctrine grew
and expanded
How Liberty Began.