The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-10

New York? From San Francisco, Of
course. But If San Francisco were closer
10 anna 5aaa And MeM Manila is IS nerer .e on
kong than Havana is to Washington.
And vet American statesmen plan to sur
render this commercial throne OF the
Orient where Providence and our SOL
diers lives have placed u.s. When his
tory comes to write the story OF that sug-
gested treason to American supremacy
and therefore to the spread Of American
civilization, let her in mercy write that
those who so proposed were merely blind,
and nothing more.
CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE.
1t will be hard for Americans who have
not studied them to understand the peo-
pie. They are barbarous race, modified
by three centuries h Of G4n6aGs n Tl1h tb sof dG
Sea Malay, put through a process of
three hundred years of superstition in re-
hgion, dishonesty in dealing, disorder in
and corruption In government. 1T is bare
ly possible that one thousand men in<all
the archipelago are capable or self H-gov-
ernment in the Anglo-Saxon sense. My,
own belief is that there are not one hun
dred men among them who comprehend
what Angle-Saxon self-governnent even
means; and there are over 6.O0O,goO people
to be governed. / know many clever and
highly educated men among them, but
there are only three commanding intel.
lects and haracters-Arellano, Mabin1
and Aguinaldo Arellano, the chief jus,
tice of our supreme court, is a profound
lawyer, and a brave and incorruptible
man. Mabini is the highest type of sub
tety and the most constructing mnd thar
clever popular leader, able, brave, re-
sourceflil, cunning, ambitious. unscrupu-
lous and masterful; He is full Of d., de,
the confidence Of the masses. He is
natural dictator His ideas of govern
ment are absolute orders. implicit obedi-
ence or immediate death. He understands
the character Of his countrymen; He is
Malay Sylla; not a Filipino Washington
TO HOLD IT FAST.
Here then, senators, is the situation.
Two years ago there was no land in all
the world which we could occupy. for any
purpose Our commerce was daily. turn
ing toward the Orient. and geography
and trade developments made necessary
our commercial empire over the Pacific.
And in that ocean we had no CONNER
have one of the three great ocean
possessions of the globe, located at the
most commanding commercial, naval and
in hail of India shoulder to shoulder with
China, richer in it's own resources than
any equal body Of land on the entire
GLOBE and pe9pedh BY Which ey ayD
we abandon 1t? That man little knows
the common people of the republic, lit
tie understands the instincts of our race,
who thinks we will not hold it fast, and
hold 1t forever. Administering just gov
ernment by simplest method. We may
trick up devices to shift our burden and
US l,-ro nothing but delay We may tangle
conditions by applying academic arrange
ments of self-government to crude sit-
uation; their failure will drive US to our
The friendly methods of peace have
been thoroughly tried only to make
peace more difficult The Oriental does
Every sSs rye effort st.'G Of the commission which
did its work at Manila SO earnestly. and
which, with American or Europeans,
would have so brilliantly succeeded, only
delayed the peace it attempted to hasten.
There is not now. and never was, any pos
sible course but ceaseless operations in
the field and loyal support of the war
at home.
BLOOD OF OUR SOLDIERS.
Mr.. President, reluctantly and only
from sense of duty. am forced to say
that American opposition to the war has
been the chief factor in prolonging 1t.
Had Aguinaldo not understood tnat IN
even here in the senate, he and his cause
were supported: had he not known that
1t was proclaimed on the stump ana IN
the press of a faction In the United
States, that every shot his misguided
followers fired into the breasts. of Amer
lean soldiers was like the volleys fired
dfers of King George. his insurrection
would have dissolved before it entirely
crystallized. The utterances of American
onponents of the war are read to the
ignorant soldiers of Aguinaldo. and re-
peated in exaggerated form among the
Common people Arms and ammunition
were shipped from Asiatic ports to the
Filipinos by wretches claiming American
citizenship; and these acts of infamy
were coupled by the Malays with Amer
lean assaults on our government at home.
The Filipinos do not understand free
speech and therefore, our tolerance or
American assaults on the American pres
ident and 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 and Cebu. that the Filipinos
have only to fight, harass, retreat, break
IN into small parties, If necessary, as
they are doing now, but by any means
hold out until the next presidential cleo
tion. and our forces will be withdrawn.
All this has aided the enemy more than
climate. arms and battle. Senators. l
have heard these reports myself; have
talked with the people; | have seen our
mangled boys in the hospital and field; 1
have stood on the firing line and beheld
our dead soldiers. their faces turned to
the pitiless Southern sky; and. in ,sor-
row rather than anger. l say to those
whose voices In America have chcered
those misguided natives on to shoot cur
soldiers down. that the blood of those
dead and wounded boys OF ours IS on thelr
ro,,tsuuod on Eourfh PaEe,