The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-01-19

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they don't understand the just and pure
| administration OF law through courEs.
] How should theyp The whole secret of
your success will be to adopt some def
mite pan, stick TO it, govern justly and
| firmly, be patient, don't expect everything
IN day ana very gradually and wisely
INTRODUCES them into the government. But
all will fail If you send any but pure In
corruptible men here
Pablo M jla. pureEilipino, rich, able,
honest ana moderate. He was stab bed
to death III Cebu and this is why
withhold che names of the others:
L do not think anyone could ask for q
better climate than this 1t is much bet
ter than Hong Kong. The resources of
this islani nave n ,t begun 70 he devel-
| oped. Que coal is worry good-much bet
ter than Japan coal. There is copper too
on this island not yet worked. L am
sorry to say that very few of our popula-
ton are capable of selfgovernment OF
course, the wealthy and educated GLASSES
are entirely competent to run the govern
| ment L do not expect nor desire any gov
eminent except one founded and directed
by America. oh, yes! to such extent as
| the ballot may be given, thero Is noIdoubt
that we of the upper class can contr OIL L
| employ 100 men now-in good times more.
| All THESE would vote as l say.
1--WE Will I:Old 1t Fast and Hold 1t
Forever"
Here then, senator's, 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
turning toward the Orient; and geog-
| raphy and trade developments made
necessary our commercial empire over
the Pacific. And in that ocean we had
no commercial, naval or military base.
Today we have one of the three great
! ocean possessions OF the globe, located
at the most commanding commercial,
naval and military point in the eastern
seas. within hale of India, shoulder to
shoulder with China, richer in its own
resources than any equal body of land
on the entire globe and peopled by q
race which civilization demands shall
be improved. Shall we abandon it?
| That man little knows the common
| people OF the republic, little under
| stand the instincts Of our race who
thinks we will not hold it fast and hold
| it forever, administering just govern.
ment by simplest methods We may
| trick up devices to shift our burden and
| lessen our opportunity; they will avail
| US nothing but delay. We may tangle
conditions by applying academic ar.
| rangements of selfgovernment to q
crude situation; their failure will drive
US to our duty in the end.
Military Situation.
The military situation, past, present
! and prospective, is no reason for aban-
| donment. Our campaign has been as
| perfect as possible with the force
at hand. We have been delayed
| first. by failure to comprehend the
| immensely of our acquisition and, Sec
ond, by insufficient force and. third. by
| our efforts for peace. In February,
after the treaty of peace, Otis had only
| 3,722 officers and men whom he had q
! legal right to order into battle. The
| terms of enlistment of the rest of his
troops had expired and they fought vol
| unfairly aud not on legal military com.
| pulsion. Those who complain do so in
| ignorance of the real situation. We
| attempted a great task with insufficient
means; we became impatient that it
was not finished before it could fairly
be commenced; and pray we may not
| add to that other element Of disaster,
pausing in the work before it is
thoroughly and forever done. That is
| the gravest mistake we could possibly
| make and that is the only danger before
US. Our Indian wars would have been
I! shortened, the lives of soldiers and set
benefited, had we made continuous and
decisive war; and any other kind of
war is criminal because ineffective.
We acted towards the Indians as
though we feared them, loved them,
! hated them---a mingling of foolish sem
| timent, inaccurate thought and para
lytic purpose. Let us now be instructed
by our own experience.
This war is like all other wars. 1t
needs to be finished before it is stopped.
am prepared to vote either to
make our work thorough or even now
| to abandon it, A lasting peace can be
secured only by overwhelming forces in
ceaseless action until universal and alb
| solutely final defeat is inflicted on the
enemy. To halt before every armed
| force, every guerilla band opposing US
is dispersed or exterminated, will pro-
| long hostilities and leave alive the seeds
| of perpetual instruction. Even then
we should not treat. To treat at all is
to admit that we are wrong. And any
quiet so secured will be deluslve and
| feeting. And false peace will betray
us; a sham truce will curse us. It is
not to serve the purpose of the hour, it
| is not to salve present situation that
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the tranquility Of the archipelago for
ever. 1t is for an orderly government
for the Filipinos for all the future 1t
is to give this problem to postsrity
solved and settled, not vexed and in.
! volved. 1t is to establish the supremacy
of the American republic over the Pa
ciflo and throughout the East till the
end of time
The Blood of Our Soldiers.
Mr. President, reluctantly and only
from sense Of duty am l forced to say
that American opposition to the war
has been the chief factor in prolonging
it. Had Aguinaldo not understood that
| in America, even in the American con :
| gress, even here in the senate, he and
his cause were supported; had he not
known that it was proclaimed on the
| stump and in the press of a faction in
the United States, that every shot his
misguided followers fire1 into the
breasts of American soldiers was like
the voleys fred by Washington's men
| against the soldiers of King George, his
instruction would have dissolved be-
| fore it entirely crystalized. The utter
ances of American opponents of the