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Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. HoARl,
hut T hive to do it to round out my
thoughts. The Senator from Indiana,
after giving US the outline OF the plan OF
government for these islands, sald:
Such a government will have Its effect upon
us here i'm America, too. Model aulnlnlslril-
ton there will be an example created oy our
selves for model administration here; and our
own example Is the only one Americans ever
heed. II Is not true that charity begins at
home SeltishncesS begins there; put cnarlty
begins abroad and ends i'll its full glory IN tiic
home 1t is not true that perfect government
must be achieved at home before administer
ing 1t abroad; its exercise abroad IS sugges.
ton, an example, and stlinulus 10 Ior t.lG ness
government at home. 1t Is as II we projected
ourselves upon n living screen ana Dehcld our
selves at work.
The government we set up, this despo,,
item nronned by bayonetS, is to be school
in which Americans will learn now 10
govern so we'll they will be brought back
TO improve on our own Doasted scl1-goV-
ernment. W.
urged as follows:
Cast thy bread upon the waters, anu aiter
many DAYS II shall return unto you.
With what measure ye mete, IL snail DE
meted to you again.
We are going to measure out good gov,
ernment or this kind Of government, ana
we are to receive it back to US after many
days. l have heard somewhere that the
devil can quote Scripture for his purpose,
and, Mr. President, even can quote Scrip,
ture for my purpose. Laughter. AND
verify, verify, I say unto you, SENATOR
from midland, "that ye can not gather
grapes from thorns nor figs from thistles,.
and if We mete out despotism and bayonet
rule to those unfortunate people, that rule
will come back to you again as sure as
there is God in heaven who watches over
the destinies of peoples. The despoHsm OF
rule by the bayonet can not come to ,us
through any foreign foe. We are, too
strong for any nationEfor any COMBINE
We read In history that the Roman
Empire travelled this path OF glory and
universal control over the nations OF the
world; that the liberties OF the people
disappeared at the center and the empire
r0tted at the core. We read that the
Roman cohorts and legions which were
sent to maintain Roman authority In
Germany, in Dalmatia, in Asia Minor, in
Spain, in Gaul, in England, in Africa, in
Egypt, occasionally returned ana got
auction to the highest bidder so as to have
money with which to crafty their lusts.
"Old age, sickness, death, and hell" are
believed by some men to be the destiny OF
everybody except themselves. History
and historical illustration and the lessons
which may be obtained by reading careful
ly the course OF other nations are not for
our Republic. This one has O charmed
life; it can not 60 that way. So gentlemen
seem to think.
Mr.. President, what have we got right
now? We have men, liberty-loving and
free-born American citizens, under the
throttle of the Army Of the United States
in Idaho, and any other State in this Union
is liable at any moment to undergo the
same experience. Our danger lies IN famil-
iarizing our citizens to uphold q despotc
and military governmental in those Islands,
the inevitable consequence OF which ls q
large standing army with which to 90 1t;
and that large standing army Will anord
the means and the temptation 10 use IL lior
similar purpose here when some future
Caesar comes along and our rottenness and
corruption will have gone far enough to
make us look on quietly in one part, OF the
country while the other is being despoti-
cally governed by military rule.
That has been the history OF every re-
public Of the past. Men Of the North, you
| have never lived under carpetbag gov
ernment, propped by bayonets, as / have,
and seen negro militia march by your door
threatening the lives Of your wives and
children. You do not know what it is to
have bayonet rule. God forbid you ever
should. But are we going TO have any
peace in the Philippines? Is the conquest
! of those islands going to be perfect? There
is some talk that now they will hang these
scattered bands If they catch any Of them,
those guerrillas, and it is said that they
are mere robbers.
Why, Mr.. President, during, the Revolu-
tionary war, when Great Britian's armies
overran the entire State OF South Carolina
| from the mountains to the sea; when there
was not foot Of territory that was not oc-
eupied by British troops and all the wings
| had to hide in the woods or to cross over
| into North Carolina or into Georgia; when
Marion, the Swamp Fox" and Sumter, the
| "Gamecock," and the other men who
| fought and continued to fight we're hiding
out and making their little expeditions
against the redcoats with 80, 40, or 100
men, they were guerrillas. They were
like these Tagals.
thing Of our own history that is noble and
ennobling in order to carry out this dam
nable programme? The Tagals having
once tasted of the fruit OF the tree OF
knowledge, having had taste OF liberty
and freedom from Spanish rule is my deli
milton Of Tagal liberty-having, as say,
had that taste, are they going to quietly
subside and become the simple, cowardly,
peaceful, submissive creatures that they
were before? >.
All history teaches US to the contrary.
Bruce and Wallace in Scotland, Tell in
Switzerland, William of Orange in Holland,
Kosciusko in Poland, the only one who
failed, and last but not least-no, possibly
the greatest of them all-Oom Paul Kruger
and his little band of Dutch in South Africa
give the lie to the proposition. that these
men will quietly submit and become the
abject slaves even Of the great United
States. They do not want our liberty.
They want their own liberty, worse than
ours though it may be. And remembering
that the death of, :Leonidas and his 800
spartans inspired the Greeks with such
courage that although the struggle seem
ed hopeless and very few Of the Grecian
confederetes were willing even to dare
make the fight, the Athenians, with the
few auxiiaries inspired byshis deathless
example, fought the battle Of Marathon
and drove the Persian .hordes, twenty
times their number, back to Asia. t,.
Nobody expects the Tagals to drive us
out. They do not know the hopelessness
Of attempting, to get their. freedom. No
brave people ever did calculate as to
whether they would win or not, and no
brave people ever will.
, Right here Iwant to say that the blood
Of the American soldiers Is as dear to me
as anybody. I pity, from the bottom OF
my soul, the officers and men Of the Ameri-
can Army who are out there doing this
dirty work because they have to obey or
ders. But love to believe, and do be-
lieve, with Byron that ....' '..,' ~
Freedoms battle once begun, &c..
.Beq queathed by bleeding sire to son,
Tho baff1ed oft is ever won. . ..t
Mr.. President, as one who loves liberty
true greatness lies in .clinging to the
ideals Of our fathers, protest against the
continuance Of this unhOlY war. Let us be