Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-02

ment is trying to rob them. He de-
them as a people Of intelli-
gcncc, and capacity Tor self govern
ment. He says that they were in
duccd to assist the Americans in ex-
pelling Spaniards from the islands by
the express promise that they were to
be permitted to set up q government
OF their own, and that when we had
obtained of them the assistance that
we needed, we basely betrayed them.
He states that no one, whether the
I'ilipinOs or the American soldiers,
expected that the United States in
tended to retain more than a cOa!inS
station on the islands. which would
have been cheerfully granted by the
EilipinOs. He states further that it
was not the intention OF the govern
mcnt to keep the islands until the
wealth of this group became known,
and that &,hcn this fact did become
known it changed the entire policy Of
the government. He accuses the
president and his advisors OF ingrati-
tude. hypocrisy, and an utter disre-
gard OF the rights and liberties OF mil
lions Of human being when weighed
in the balance against the selfish in
terests of Il few American capitalists.
In yesterdays Herald appeared an
account OF a political meeting at Dun
dee, Walsh county, and from that &C
count the following paragraph con-
corning the statements made by Col.
Treumann is quoted:
Still Mr.. Hildreth was impressed
bv what he learned in Manila, for just
before the North Dakota troops SET
sail for home, in Il conversation win
Col. Treumann in Manila he stated that
no did NOT see what any fair minded
man, who was ~conversant with the
fatcs. could find to criticise in the
philippine policy of the national ad-
m~iuistration. and that he, thouSh a
democrat, felt that he must give the
policy his hearty support. This was
not a chance remark, capable OF MS
construction, as it was Il part OF a quite
extended conversation, Liuet. Hildreth
maintaining the same o. throughout
and Col. Treumann expressing gratl1l-
cation that his fellow soldier, a dem
ocrat of long standing. should be 50
profoundly impressed with the cor
RICHNESS of President Mchlnley's pol
icv that he could cast aside all feeling
of party difference and support a pol
lev in whose favor he certainly could
not have been prejudiced.'
Col. Treumann is known throughout
the state. So is Lieut.. Hildreth.
There is a direct conflict in their testl-
mony. The Herald leaves it for the
people to say which of the two is or
rect.
Sergeant Phil Shortt, of Devils Lake.,
is another returned Philippine volun-
tee, who has at various times dis
cussed the same question, and he does
noi arrive at Mr.. Hildreth's conclu-
sion. Major Frame is another demo-
crat who does not think that it is any
6iscredit to his democracy to uphold
the administration in its Philippine
nolicy-a policy which he believes 10
he the only correct and practicable
enc.
Is it not a little humiliating to the
ron who are asked to send MI. Hill
dyeta to congress-, and who share his
views on strictly political questions
that their candidate, after a years ser
vice in Luzon in which he had an OPP
norsunity to view from a safe distance
t,, heroic actions of his fellow SOL
diers, should return to his own land
to 20 about the country d~iscredltlng
the cause for which our soldiers
fought. should revile the administra-
ton for following a course which he
a. one time warmly commended, and
should for the sake of obtaining a little
polisical preferment swallow the words
which he himself uttered little more
than a year ago?