The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-10


it 100 O00 or 10000 men; that, at any cost,
| we will establish peace and govern the is
! lands will do more to end the war than
/ the soldiers themselves But the report
1 that we even discuss the withdrawal of a
! single lsolder at the present time. and
that we even debate the possibility Of not
! administering government throughout the
! archipelago ourselves, will be misuuder-
! stood and mlsrepresented. and will blow
| into a flame once more the fires our sol
! diers' blood has almost quenched
..The Blood of Our Soldiers"
Mr. President reluctantly and only from
a sense of duty, am | forced to say that
! American opposition to the war has been
the chief factor in prolonglng it. Had
! Aguinaldo not understood that in America,
| even in the American Congress even here
! in the Senate, he and his cause were sup
| ported; had he not known that IL was pro-
| claimed on the stump and in the press
of a faction in the United States, that
| every shot his misguided followers fired
| into the breasts of American soldiers was
! like the Volleys fired by WashingtOns men
| against the soldiers of King George his
| insurrection would have dissolved before
| il entirely crystallized. The utterance Of
| American opponents of the war are read
| to the ignorant soldiers of Aguinaldo, ami
| repeated in exaggerated form among the
common people. Arms and ammunition
f>S.Nra shipped from Asiatic ports to the
| flllDlUOS ny WItlNitS CldtlllAliS <AiliNl AZ
| citizenship; and these acts of infamy were
| coupled by the Malays with American as
| saultS on our government at home. The
1 Filipinos do not understand free speech,
and therefore our tolerance of American
assaults on the American President ana
! the American government means to them
| that our President is in the minority or he
| would not permit what appears TO them
| such reasonable criticism. It is believed
and stated in Luzon, Panay aud Cebu.
/ that the Filipnos have only to fight, har-
rass, retreat, break up into small parties,
| if necessary as they are do
| ing now, but by any means
| hold out until the next presidential
election, and our forces viii be Withdrawn.
| All this has aided the enemy more than
| climate arms and battle. Senators, l
| have heard these reports myself; l have
| talked with the people; I have seen our
manged boys in the hospital and field; 1
have stood on the firing line and be-
| held dead soldiers, their faces turned
to the pitess Southern sky; and in sor-
row, rather than anger, l. say 90 those
whose voices in America have cheered
those misguided natives on TO shoot our
| soldiers down, that the blood of those
dead and wounded boys of ours is on their
! hands; and the flood of all the years can
never wash that stain away. In sorrow,
| rather than anger, ! say these words. for
I earnestly believe that our brothers knew
not what they did
Incapable of Self Governments.
But, Senators, 1t would be better TO
abandon this combined garden and Gibral- |
| tar of the Pacific, and count our blood
| and treasure already spent a prof liable !
| loss, than to apply any academic arrange- |
| ment of self-goVernment to these children |
! They are not capable of self-governtnent |
| How could they be? They are not of a
! self-governing race. They are Orentals, |
| Malays, instructed by Spaniards in the
| latter's worst estate. They know nothing |
of practical government, except as they
! have witnessed the weak, corrupt, cruel
and capricious rule of Spain What magic
will any one employ to dissolve in their
| minds and characters those Impressions
! of governors and governed which three
| centuries of msrule has created? Whatl
| alchemy will change the Oriental quality |
of their blood and set the self-governng
| currents of the American pouring through
! their Malay veins? How shall they, in
| the twinkling of an eye, be exalted to the
| nights of self-governing peoples, which re
| quired thousand years for us to reach
Anelo-Saxon though we are? '''''"" .'''
Let men 6eN;st:, how thew employ the
term "self-government" 1t is a saS.fesYi
| term 1t is the watchword at the door
| of the inner temple of liberty; for liberty
| does not always mean self-goVernment
| Self-sovernment is a method of liberty
| the highest simplest, best-and it is ac-
| CURED only after centuries of study and
| struggle and experiment and instruction,
| and all the elements of the progress of
| man. Self-government is no base and
| common thing. to be bestowed on the
| merely audacious. 1t is the degree which
| crowns the graduate of liberty, not the
| name of Hbertys infant class, who have
| not yet mastered the alphabet of freedom.
| Savage blood; Oriental blood Malay blood
| Spanish eXample-are these the elements
| of self-government?
We must act on che situationt as it ex-
| isis, not we would wish il. l have
| talked with hundreds of these people, get
! ting their views as to the practical work
| ings of self-goVernment. The great ma
| jority simply do not understand any par
| ticipation in any government whatever.
| The most enlightened among them declare
| that self-government will succeed because
| the employers of labor will compel their
employees to>vote as their employers wills,
and that his viii insur intelligent voting.
7 I was assured that we could depend upon
| good men always being in Office because
| the officials who constitute the govern
| ment viii nominate their successors,
| choose those among the people who will
| do the voting and determine how and
| where elections viii be held. The most
| ardent advocate of self-government that ]
met was anxious that l should know chat
| such a government would he tranquil be-
| cause as he said, if anyone criticised it,
| the government would shoOt the offender.
| A few of them have a sort of verbal under
standing of the democratic theory, but
the above are the examples of the ideas
of the practical workings of self-govern
ment entertained by the aristocracy, the
rich planters and traders, and heavy en-
ployers of labor, the men who would run
the government.
People Are INDECENT.
Example for decades will be necessary
to instruct them in American ideas and |
methods of administration. Example, ex- |
ample; always example, this alone will !
teach them. As a race, their general abil- |
ity is poor. Educators. both men and |
women TO whom / have talked i'm Cebu |
and Luzon, were unanimous Ia the opinion |
that in all solid and useful education they |
are, as people, DUH and stupid. In SNOWY |
things, like carving and painting, or en- |
broidery, or music. they have apparent |
aptitude, but even this is superficial and |