Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1900-01-17

purposes OF the hour, il is not to salve
present situation that peace should
be established. Ii is for the tranquil
ity of the archipelago forever II is
for an orderly government for the Fill
ipinos fer all the future. Ii is to give
this problem TO posterity solved and
settled, not veNed mad involved. 1t is
TO establish the supremacy of the
American republic over the Pacific
and throughout the east till the end
of time.
1t has been charged that our con-
duct of the war has been cruel. Seua-
tors, il has been the reverse. l have
been in our hospitals and seen the
Filipino wounded as carefully. ten
DERBY cared for as our own. Within
our lines >hey may plough and SOW
and reap and go about the affairs of
peace with absolute liberty. And yet
all this kindness was misunderstood
or rather not understood. Senate
must remember that we are not deal
ing with Americans or Europeans.
We are dealing with Orientals. We
are dealing Will Malays instructed in
Spanish methods. iney mistake kind
ness for weakness; forbearance for
fear 1t could not be otherwise unless
YOU could erase hundreds OF years of
savagery, other hundreds of years of
Orientalism and still other hundreds
of years of Spanish character and
custom.
"The Blood of Our Soldiers"
: Mr.. President, reluctantly and only
from sense of duty. am | forced to
say that American opposition TO the
war has been the chief factor in pro-
/ longing it. Had Aguinaldo not un-
derstood that in America, even in the
American congress-, even here in the
senate, he and his cause were support
cd; had he not known that il was
proclaimed on the stump and i'm the
press of a faction in the United States.
that every shot that his misguided fol-
lowers fired into the breasts of Ameri-
can soldiers was like the vollcys fired
/ by Washington's men against the sol
diers of King George, his instruction
would have dissolved before il entirely
crystallized. The utterances of Amer
lean opponents of the war are read
to the ignorant soldiers of Aguin-
aldo, and repeated in exaggerated
form among the common people
| Arms and ammunition were shipped
| from Asiatic ports to the Fill.
/ pinos by wretches claiming American
citizenship; and these acts of infamy
were coupled by the Malays with
American assaults on our government
at home. The Filipinos do not under
stand free speech, and therefore our
( tolerance of American assaults on the
American president and the American
| government, means to them that our
president is in the minority or he
/ would not permit what appears TO
! them such reasonable criticism
FiiipinOs Are Incapable of seIf-Gov-
eminent.
But, senator's, il would be better to
abandon this combined garden and
Gibraltar of the Pacific, and count our
blood and treasure already spent a
/ profitable loss, than to apply any AGA
demic arrangement of self-government
to these children. They are not ca
pable of self-government. How could
they be? They are not of self-gov-
erning race. They are Orientals. Ma
lays, instructed by Spaniards in the
! lattcr's worst estate. They know
nothing of practical government ex.
cept as they have Witnessed the weak
corrupt. cruel and .capricious rule OF
| Spain. What magic will any one EN-
/ ploy 10 dissolve in their minds and
characters those Impressions of gov
ernors and governed which three cen
turtles of misrule has created?
No Competition with Our Labor.
| Example for decades will be ncces-
/ sary to instruct them in American
! ideas and methods Of admins: ration.
Example, example; always example;
/ this alone will teach them. AS n race,
/ their general ability is poor. Educa-
tors. both men and women. to whom ]
/ have talked in Cebu and Luzon, were
unanimous in the opinion that in all
sond and useful education they are
as people, dull and stupid. In snowy
things. like carving and painting, or
embroidery. or music. they have ap-
parent aptitude. but even this is su.
periicial and never thorough. They
have facility Of speech, too. The three
best educators on the island at diff
fcrent times, made 10 me the same
comparison, that the common peo-
pie, in their stupidity. are like their
caribou bulls. They are not even good
agriculturalsts. Their waste of cane
is ineXcusablc. Their destruction of
hemp fibre is childish. They are in
curablY indolcnt. They have no con
tinuity or thoroughness Of industry.
They Will quit work without notice
and amuse themselves until the money
'hcy have earned is spent. They are
like children playing at mems work.
No one need fear their competition
with our luDor. No reward could
beguiic. no force compel. these chill
dr"n Of Incidence 10 leave their tri-
ling lives for the fierce and fcrvid
industry Of high-wrought America.
The very reverse is the fact. One
great problem is the necessary
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