Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-09

ton In government. II Is barely pos
slble that one thousand men in all the
archipelago are capable OF self-soF-
eminent In the Ango-SaXon sense
Ny own belief Is that there are not
one hundred men among them who
comprehend what Anglo-SaXon SELF
government even means: and there are
over 100000 people to be governed
| know many clever and highly edu-
Gated men among them, but there are
only three commanding intellects and
characters-Arellano Mablni and
Aguinaldo, Arellani, the chief justice
OF our supreme court, Is a profound
lawyer, and a brave and incOrruptible
man. MabIni Is the highest type OF
subtlety and the most constructive
mind that race has yet produced.
Agulnaldo is clever popular leader,
able, brave, resourceful, cunning, am
bilious, INSCRIPTIONS and masterful. He
Is fun Of decision, initiative and au-
thority, and had the confidence OF the
masses He Is a natural dictator. His
ideas Of government are absolute or
ders, implicit obedience or immediate
death. He understands the character
Of his countrymen. He Is Malay Syl-
la not a Filipino Washington.
These conclusions were forced upon
me By observing the people In all
and by conversations with foreign
merchants, priests, mestizos. pure
Filipinos, and every variety Of mind,
character and opinion from San Fer
nando in Luzon, on down through the
entire archipelago TO the Interior of
Sulu."
Regarding the prolongation Of the war
he said
"Mr. President, reluctantly and only
from a sense Of duty. am forced to
say that American opposition to the
war has been the chief factor in pro-
longing It. Had Agulnaldo not under
stood that In America, even In the
American Congress- even here In the
Senate. he and his cause Were support
ed; had he not known that II was pro-
claimed on the stump and in the press
OF a faction In the United States, that
every shot his misguided followers fired
into The breasts Of American soldiers
was like the volleys fired by Washing
tons men against the soldiers Of King
George, his instruction would have dis
solved before IL entirely crystallized."
Then followed a discussion of the
forms Of government best suited 10 the
Fillpinos, the constitutional power Of
the United States, the history Of the
war. and the duty of Americans. the
Senator closing with the declaration:
Mr.. President and Senators: Adopt
the resolution offered that peace may
quickly come and that we may begin
our saving, regenerating and uplifting
work. Adopt Il, and this bloodshed
VIII cease when these deluded children
or our Islands learn that this II The final
action Of the representatives OF the
American people In Congress assem-
bled. Reject II, and the world. HE
tory and the American people will look
where TO forever fix the awful RESPONSE
billy for the consequence that will
surely follow such failure 10 do our
manifest duty. How dare We delay
when our soldiers blood Is howlng?"
Mr.. Hoar followed Mr.. Beveridge
and addressed himself to the Indiana
senator with great earnestness. II
would be base thing, he said, for this
country 10 strike down the young re-
public in the Philippines
Mr.. Hoar said he could prove from
Otis and Dewey that there was n Fill
Pine government Otis in all communi-
cations said that the people OF the Phil
ippines desired TO establish their inde-
pendence. Mr.. Hoar said Agulnaldo
was brought over and placed at the
head Of $4,000 people, who desired in
dependence, and who were furnished
arms by the United States govern
ment.