The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-30

governing by brute force. burning their
towns; shooting down their men and their
authority, That is the thing, my friends
that is alarming the great men whose
names l mentioned bit ago.
We'll now, who are these people? Who
are the Fil1pinos. anyhow? What have
they done to establish independence?
What has been our relations with them?
What are our, legal rights there, or our
ing this step? Who has urged us on?
And what does 1t involve? Well, now.
we nn 10 !, that several years ago the Fill
en- to throw off the yoke of Spain That
rebellion became SO formidable that In
the year 1897 think it was. or In the
fall OF 1886, Spain made terms with the
leaders of them and agreed to change
the whole form of acknowledged to
install large list of specific. reforms
agreed to give them representatives in
the Spanish cortez, changing their char
acters from subjects to citizens; but. as
part of the agreement or treaty it in
sisted that some thirty of the leaders
them was Aguinaldo. And it agreed to
deposit in China some 100000 to make
good some estates that they had destroy
ed belonging to these men. They with
drew from the island, some thirty of
them, in accordance with that treaty;
but the moment they were gone Spain
refused to carry out the treaty. Spain
refused to institute the reform. Then
they used this money to purchase arms
for the purpose of renewing the rebellion.
MONEY SPENT FOR ARMS.
We have seen 1t charged in some of
the administration papers that Aguinaldo
had betrayed his people for Spanish sill
yer. Well, now, it happens that we have
had consuls at Manila for several years,
and in the ports of China, and we have
had various officers over there who have
patches to the state department describ-
ing the conditions and what took place
over there A bunch of those letters were
sent to the senate number of years ago
and are now known as Senate Document
NO. 62. 1t throws a world of light on all
Of those subjects. And our consuls write
to the department that that money was
not used by Aguinaldo nor by the officers,
but that 1t was spent in purchasing arms
with which to renew the struggle for lib
erty after Spain had refused to carry out
and dispatches show that in the spring of
1898, two months before we began hoStili-
ties against Spain with regard to Cuba.
there was rebellion again being waged
letters and dispatches show that Admiral
Dewey and our officers came there after
wards and co-operated with the Filipinos
and treated them as allies and helped
a government in 1898 modelled like ours,
with. all the machinery of government
and they show that those Filipinos main
tanned an army Of about 80, 600 men, and
from the Spaniards, took about 10000
Spanish prisoners and finally made n5ye them
islands. excepting Manila, where our,
troops We're, where we had little terri
tory about fifteen miles square. The
Philippine army and government made
themselves masters in the summer and
fall of 1898 of the whole archipelago, gov
erned it in a quiet and orderly manner.
That is what the dispatches sent by our
officers to the department at Washing
ton show. But 1t has since developed
that when Admiral Dewey sank the fleet
the first of May the administration at
Washington was inclined to have him
come away at once. He had crushed the
Spanish fleet. and 1t was thought best to
have him come away.
WHERE ENGLAND CAME IN.
And then it was thought best to keep
one harbor for the benefit of our ship
ping, and they consulted Admiral Dewey
as to which was the best harbor, and he
advised the keeping Of Manila harbor;
and then they consulted him again with
reference to keeping one island and he
recommended that they keep LuZon; but
it seems now that about that time the
German government was anxious to get
the Philippine islands. The German en-
peror offered to buy them of Spain. Eng
land heard of it. England did not want
to have Germany for a neighbor down
there in the south seas England felt
that she had been able to dictate the
policy of our government. that through
able to control American statesmen and
policies and that If she could not have
the islands herself she would rather see
us have them, because she believed she
could dictate and control our policy there;
so the British minister waited on the
president and urged him to keep all of
the islands, and to institute a colonial
system, to go into the business Of having
colonies and governing them the way the
nations of Europe were governing them.
Do you remember for while there the
,;x,;- toll he try
in big head lines that England was so
friendly to US that she insisted that we
must keep all of those islands. She was
so generous and so friendly and so much
interested in our welfare that her min
lister had had session after session with
our president and insisted that We must
keep the islands. And it also now seems
that about that time regularly organ
lied raid was made on the president by
the syndicates of the East and especially
by the syndicates that are controlled by
British capital, so that, according to the
statement of some of the Republican SEN
ators, no president was ever so badgered
and wrestled with as was President Nc
Kinley by these syndicates who insisted
them as colonies. Then the president
yielded to these opportunities. Changed
his idea about it and concluded to follow
the advice of the British minister and
embark upon this colonial policy. Then
Secretary Day wrote to our consuls in
China highly reprimanding them for
holding out the idea to the Philippine
people that they were going to be indie
pendent.
SNUBBED THE FILIPINOS.
That fall the peace commission met in
Paris. The Philippine people sent rep
reSentative there, but he was Snubbed by
our people. The administration at Wash
ington would not even allow him to have
hearing Then the Philippine govern
ment asked Washington for a declaration
of policy, asked repeatedly and repeatedly
whether we were going to treat them as
we had agreed to treat Cuba. Let me
read the resolution congress adopted
when we declared war in regard to Cuba.
On April is, 1898, when congress declared
war against Spain it adopted this resolu-
ton:
Resolution number four. That the
United States hereby disclaims any dis
position or intention to exercise Sover-
eighty jurisdiction or control over said
island, except for the pacification thereof
and asserts its determination when that is
accomplished to leave the government and
control of the island to its people" There
you we took high ground. There we
announced to the world that we are not
embarking on war of conquest, but for
humanity We were going to release
these people from oppression, and as soon
as order was restored, then were going 10
leave the island to the government of its
people That is what we declared.
Now the Philippine people apply to Nc
Kinley and want to know whether they
are going to be treated in the same way;
that is all they wanted to know; but the
president evaded their answer, talked
about the blessings of civilizatio and so
on but always evaded an answer to the
question as to what their status would be.
The treaty at Paris was signed on the
10th of December, but it was not ratified
until the 9Th of February following Feb
ruary, 1899; and 1t could convey no rights
until "a titled 1t was not ratified by the
Spanish cortez until after that, but our
senate ratified it on the 9Th of February.
MORE EXPANSION.
Now. on the 21st of December six weeks
hpf fore. fba treaty was ratified or GOULD