The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14

malGs IN the country. Any neglect 20
do so is a breach CT international law
ana gives to the nation of which The
person is citizen just ground OF COM
plant, and, satisfaction being refused,
for wa:.
And IN case CT mobs and popular
violence, public faith requires that full
satisfaction should be made by the gov
erning power a. cases in which the
government could, by the exercise Of
proper care, have prevented them.
The law as l have stated it is to
be found in all the standard authori-
ties upon international law, from Vat
tel to the present time.
AGuinaIdo and Bryan.
cit would, no doubt, have suited
Aguinaldo TO have carried on the in
ternal government of the islands, in
Guiding the unrestTained collection and
the unrestrained expenditure and APP
preparation of taxes, while the power
and resources of America were en-
ployed in sustaining a navy to protect
him and TO pay the indemnities in
Cured by their ignorance. viciousness
or savaSery at the cost and out Of tax
es collected from the American peo-
pie. By that arrangement Aguinaldo
and his particular Tagalo followers
would have had all the pleasure OF
domination, while the United States
would have had all the responsibility
20 make compensation in damages for
injuries suffered by citizens of other
nations residing in the Philippines, az
well as for the injuries suffered by
law-abidirg Filipinos themselves, by
reason OF mobs, riots, instructions or
any of the multitudinous violence liza
bic to be perpetrated under any affecta-
ton of government which Aguinaldo
and his followers would have set up
there.
Mr.. Bryan has entirely ignored
these obligations and liabilities.
Bryan Becomes Ridiculous,
What do you think about Mr.. Bry-
ans statement that the consent Of
the people should have been procured
G-ct?"
The practice Of the United States
has been to take possession of the ter
ritores which have come under our
jurisdiction in the confidence that we
may secure the consent of their oc-
cupants by extending to them our in
stitutions and the projections of ouT
government.
How would Mr.. Bryan proceed to
obtain the consent or these multifar-
ious tribes, Of different races and or
igins, and speaking so many different
languages, and with so dwarfed and
undeveloped a capacity for political
intelligence?
There are about 100000 members
Of the Visayan tribe upon the island
of Luzon, and about 100000 of the
same tribe upon other islands. They
are hostile to the Tagals. Would Mr..
Bryan indicate 10 which Of these two
tribes the government of these islands
should be surrendered? Shall it be
given to Aguinaldo, who melted the in
surrection, and brought on the blood
shed, or shall it be surrendered to the
Visayans, who are equally intelligent,
equally numerous, almost entirely
friendly toward our government, and
peaceful, or shall it be surrendered to
the Moros, who are almost as numer-
Gus and much more savage and war
like? And when the management and
government of these islands is sur
rendered, and the United States troops
are withdrawn. what tribe will pre-
vail, what government and institutions
will be established, and what will be
the condition of Gscendancy, subordi-
nation or equality of the fifty or more
tribes who are not in rebellion?
Consent of Governed.
"One of the two largest islands of
the Philippines is Mlndanao. 1t is
governed by an accomplished savage
named patto Mandy. He is the head
of the Moros and has unquestioned
powers of life and death. Recently
newspaper man who was visiting the
island expressed a wish TO see him in
the attitude of striking down an one
my, and when he was made to under
stand the wish he had a sword
brought to him, together with one OF
his servants. and was only prevented
by way of exhibiting his martial ca
pacity, from cleaving the skull OF his
subject. by the Intervention of an
American officer. who was present. In
obtaining the consent of this portion
Of the Philippines. would it be the
wish of Mr.. Bryan to have the CON
sent of Datto Mandy, or of the slave
whose skull he was about to split TO-
amusement a few days ago, or do we
understand him to say that now that
the United States has taken these is
lands by conquest and by treaty,
which he himself advised. that the op
portunity of ameliorating suffering, re
lieving the helpless from the brutal,
and establishing the institutions o.
civilization and Christianity among
these people. should be abandoned and
thrown away. while Datto Mandy and
his like sacrifice the lives of their de-