The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-06
WHEELING DAILY INTEIIIGENCER WEDNESDAY, JUNE6 1900

independence OF the cubans would have
been the height Of folly.
Yet some senators say Mr.. President.
that we must give up the Philippines to
Agulnaldo and his followers and let
them do as they win, reckoning them MS
1T to establish government and promote
peace and order throughout the archi-
pelago. What stupendous follyl What
height OF blindness! Is It possible that
they have studied the acts ana doings
of these marauders? Are they converts
ant with their conduct at the taking Of
Manllu? II so, they must know that It
took all the efforts Of the American
army to restrain these outlaws from
sacking and lOoting the city. and in
stead of aiding our soldiers to carry the
city, they retarded them seriously in
their operations. Their sole idea Of war
seems to be the enrlching Of themselves
at the cost OF the vauquisheI.
Character Of Insurgents.
After citing Professor worcester's es-
innate Of the character OF the t4lipinos
ana the outrages Asuihaiuo 5 troops 1lu
committed. Mr. Scott continued:
Now MT PRESIDENT are such people
the ones to whom inc dest'nIss ana nap
plness OF lO'OOO'OOO OF human beings
should be entrustedT admit 'ha'
those who 80 condend arc inherently
constituted from myself In addition 70
such lawless acts as those depicted py
Professor Worcester II we turn the IS
LANDS over to these insurfeotionists' we
VIII see internal STRIFE drench inc arch-
ipelago with blood Three Instinct
races exist In the isianaS' divided INTO
numerous tribes all opposed to each
other. AgninaIdo ana ms followers hre
OF the Ma!ayan race ana almost entire
~ OF the Tagalos trlps' which numbers
about q million ana u mar OF people,
while the V!sayas Of me same race
number more than two millions ana u
half. From all the evidences obtainaple'
1t seems that these tribes are deadly
enemies ana the authority OF Dictator
Agulnnldo and his followers would De
resisted to the last degree. It Is hard
to see why men VIII continue TO demand
the surrender OF these Islands with such
conditions only too plainly apparent
This. Mr.. President, Is but a orlet
summary OF our duty to the Islanders
but In larger and more comprehensive
sense, obligations, international IN
character, arise, that we ought not TO
escape II we could, and eould7no II we
would. The moment that Dewey's VIC
tory at Manila was announced, 1t was
known that Spanish dominion and au-
thorlty in that part OF Its territory was
virtually at an end, and other nations
had the right to look to us for the as
sumption OF governmental control OF
the Islands. II these duties and re-
sponslbIlltIes did not then arise, cer-
tainly they did thereafter when Spain
formally ceded to us this territory. To
say that we should not have gone there,
that we have no right there now, that
1t Is contrary to the fundamental prin-
clplps Of this government. is to beg the
whole question. We did go there, and
we We're there as the result of the de-
claratIon OF war against the power that
then owned the Islands, and we went
there because we believed It to be
point where we could successfully meet
the enemy. The result has proved tho
wisdom Of the course taken, And now
having succeeded, II cannot be that we
are under no obligations to any one by
reason OF the position in which we find
ourselves. 1t is true that we have the
right arbitrarily to laaye-to abandon
the territory-and give up all that we
have acquired, and, In fact, apologize
for what we have done. But who would
advocate such n policy? Is there any
one who sincerely believes that this is
the proper thing to do? 1t would make
our country the laughing stock Of the
world and do more to discount the pres
tge that we have won by our u;agnih-
cent victories on land and sea than any
thing else that has ever happened or
can happen, The serious consequences
which might arise from Il contest
among other nations, whose envIous
eyes are upon the islands, alike to the
archipelago and the countries involved,
canot be foreseen,
Is It the duty OF America to remain
Isolated on the western hemisphere anu