The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-07

amended because there were not votes
enough, and IL any Republican tells you
that that treaty could have been amended
IN the Senate want you 10 remember that
when the Bacon resolution come before the
Senate IL met with a tie vote and the vote
OF the Republican Vice President defeated
It. l did all could 10 get the Bacon res
oution passed, and what Republican VIII
say that L could have got the treaty
amended when 1 could not get the resoiu-
ton passed that promised independence 10
the Fiiipinos? lGreat applause.l
1T was much easier TO promise independ-
ence to the Filipinos after the war had been
closed than it would have been TO secure
an amendment TO the treaty which would
have had TO be ratified by Spain. l chal-
lenge any Republican to say that | could
have secured an amendment 10 the treaty
when / was not able 10 secure the passage
or the Bacon resolution Therefore we were
compelled 70 either accept the treaty or re-
,ect II. What did a rejection of the treaty
mean? 1t meant one of two things. either
the President would have to call the new
Senate together, which was Overwhelmingly
Republican, as soon as the new Senate was
sworn, and then secure ratification from
the new Senate or else he would have had
tc appoint new commission TO make a
new treaty If it had been rejected
III on the fourth day of February the
President had called the new Senate to-
gether on the fourth day of March and had
the treaty ratified by the new Senate then
the delay would have done no good. But
suppose he appointed commission TO make
a new treaty, who could tell what complica-
ton might arise while the new treaty was
being made? IL those who opposed i'm
perialism had rejected the treaty, they
would have become responsible for all that
might have happened before the new treaty
could have been ratified. We had seen the
Republican party win I'm the campaign OF
1893 by holding out to the people the plea
that the Nation might be discredited while
IL dealt with foreign nation, and If new
commission had been sent abroad il would
have prolonged the contest, and it might
have carried ii into a presidential cam
paign, then there would have been no ques-
tion before the people upon which their
Judgment could have been taken When
you accepted the treaty it ended the war
and believed then and still believe that
this Nation, acting alone, could do by it
self everything that it could have forced
upon Spain. 1 favored the ratification of
the treaty, not because it was good, but
because it was easier to correct its mis-
takes by legislation than by diplomacy.
Lincoln, in appealing to the South, said
Can aliens make treaties easier than
friends can make laws? Was it easier TO
make the treaty with Spain give inde-
pendence to the Filipinos than it was to
give them independence by act of our own
people? L preferred TO let the American
people give independence to the Filipino
rather than ask an unfriendly people TO
do so.
THOSE WICKED REPUBLICANS.
Whenever you hear Republican say
that I am responsible for the ratification
of the treaty 1 want you to listen and see
If he adds that / also favored a resolu-
ton promising independence to the Fill
pinos, and you will listen in vain. The
Republican who charges me with helping
TO ratify that treaty is not honest enough
to tell you at the same time that / favored
resolution that would have prevented
bioodshed in the Philippine islands and
make them our friends instead of our enc
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