The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-23
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extensively from official documents in
maintaining his declaration.
Our action has no parallel IN the
history Of all the world from the be-
ginning of time down to the present
moment" said Mr.. Turner. Il venture
70 say that there is not one American
voter in a hundred who would not have
repudsated the pretensiOns of the adj
ministration as peridiOus and dishonOr-
able if called on. with full knowledge Of
the facts. to sanction them in the be-
ginning and before the present war
began
Mr. Turner contFOveTted the presi-
dents statement that the islands were
ours by every title of law and equity,
because the Filipin0s had assumed that
sovereignty by the cSd-g1ven right OF
revolution. If the United States mad
any rights at all in the Philippines they
were gained purely by purchase ana
could not, in his opinion, be fixed IN
law by the treaty of Paris, because the
Filipinos were not a party TO that
treaty.
Speech Of Beveridge.
Referring to the speech Of Mr.. Bever-
idge as a rhapsody, Mr.. Turner said II
lacked the majestic harmony which can
be evoked only when the nobler cnoruS
are struck He maintained that the
Filipinos knew that the function OF a
government was to preserve life ana
liberty and property, and believed tney
were abundantiy able TO maintain such
a government
ALREADY our Philippine experiences
are beginning to have the boomerang
effect predicted by the senator from
Indiana" said Mr.. Turner. There Is a
primitive people in South Africa
mere handful, pieUs and simple, brave
and heroic. but careless of the great
wealth lying under their lands, indiner-
ent TO its civiiiziug influences and as
posed to live their own simple lives IN
their own simple way. They are the
last link that connects US with one OK
the great heroic eDOcns in the world
history.
"A great nation, having racial ten
denotes similar to cur own, has seen the
present depl0rab.e condition of AFFAIRS
among this South African people, ana
has determined to improve and clVl4lze
them IN the same way we are -m9soF-
ing and civilizing the simple but brave
Fuipinos. They are not succeeding 50
well, unfortunately, in their self-lm-
posed tasL- as we are.
Heroic Afrikanders.
1.-The Afrikanders are proving them
selves 70 De " 0Itny ems of nerolc s-rvs.
They are making heroic fight, ana
one which has become the wonder ana
admiration of mankind throughout the
world. Because of what We, in COM
mon with mankind. owe to their blood,
because they are bTavely fighting
ruthless invader Of their homes ana
hresddea, because they are fighting Tor
/ the liberty to govern Themselves ana
their AFFAIRS in their own way, because
when they go down another repuDnc
viii have persisted, they undoubtedly
carry with them in their struggle the
/ profound sympathy OF the American
/ people.
In other days our sympathy would
have been expressed through govern
/ mental channels. But now the ghost
/ of liberty murdered il TIE Philippines
] stands in the way. We cannot even
/ preserve a decent neutrality between
( this heroic people and their ASSISTANTS
II is yet permitted to us, however, as
! individuals TO avert our eyes ana, as
/ these noble men 90 down to death and
/ oblivion. to say to them, as 1 do now
/ Thou lost survivors Of heroic age
! hail and farewell
Would Debauch Citizenship.
Mr.. Turner. after a brief legal and
! constitutional argument bearing upon
! the status Of the United States in the
] Philippines, made the point that annex
alton of the Philippines would deDauch
/ The citizenship of the country.
The Fihpinos," he said, will have
all the privileges of citizens Of the
/ United States to themselves and their
products. This viii be to pauperlze the
/ labor of the country, to pit the 10,005OJO
/ undergrad and undeTfed FlllplnoS
I against the mechanic, the artisan ana
/ the Iaboring man Of this land
Mr.. Turner, in conclusion, said that
/ everybody knew declaration by con-
| gress Of its purpose to confer seif-goV-
/ eminent on the FilipinCs would stop
the war instantly, and elOquently ursed
the adoption of such a declaration
IF we now give them justice, we VIII
have done more for their mental, moral
and political regeneration and Tor an
their kindred races than we could do
in a hundred years Of political cCmmu-
MON and association
Mr.. Turner was accorded unusual al
tentfon throughout his speech.