The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-01-12
SENATOR BEYERIDGE TALKS
ABOUT THE PHILIPPINES.
Much Advertised Indiana Man Makes Long Address in the
Senate From the Standpoint of
Administration Lackey.

unanimous opinions of natives and
priests. And the mineral wealth is but
q small fraction of the agricultural
wealth Of these islands.
| If we are willing to go to war rather |
than let England have a few feet of
| frozen Alaska, which affords no mar |
| ket and commands none, what should |
we not do rather than let England, |
| Germany, Russia or Japan have all the
Philippines? And no man on the spot
can fail to see that this would be their
fate If we retire.
| CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE;
AGUINALDO.
It will be heard from Americans who
have not studied them to understand
the people. They are a barbarous race,
modified by three centuries of contact
with decadent race. The Filipino is
the South sea Malay, put through a
process of three hundred years of su-
perstition in religion, dishonesty in
dealing, disorder in habits of industry
and cruelty caprice and corruption in
government 1t is barely possible that
one thousand men in all the archipelago
are capable of government in the
Anglo-Sa sense. My 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 peo-
pie to be governed. 1 know many
clever and highly educated men among
them, but there are only three COM
manding intellects and characters
Arelano, Mabini and Aguinaldo. Arel-
lani, the chief justice OF our supreme
court, is a profound lawyer and
brave and incorruptible man. Mabini
is the highest type of subtlety and the
most constructive mind that race has
; yet produced. Aguinaldo is a clever
popular leader, able, brave, resourceful,
cunning, ambitious, unscrupulous and
masterful. He is full of deception, ini-
tiative and authority, and had the con-
fidence Of the masses. He is natural
dictator. His ideas of government are
absolute orders, implicit obedience or
, immediate death. He understands the
. . character of his countrymen. He is a
Malay sylla; not Filipino Washing
, ton.
"HE WILL HOLD 1T FAST AND
HOLD 1T FOREVER"
Here then, senators, is the situation.
Two years ago there was no land in all
the world which we could occupy for
: any purpose. Our commerce was daily
turning toward the Orient, and geogra-
u hhy and trade developments made ne
cessary our commercial empire over the
Pacific. And in that ocean we had no
. commercial, naval or military base.
= Today we have one of the three great
ocean possessions of the globe, located
:, at the most commanding commercial,
naval and military points in the eastern
= seas, within hail Of India, shoulder to
shoulder with China, richer in it's own
= resources than any equal body of land
- on the entire globe, and peopled by a
= race which civilization demands shall
be improved. Shall we abandon it?
=, That man little knows the common peo-
- pie of the republic, little understands
the instincts of our race, who thinks
we will not hold it fast, and hold it
:, forever, administering just govern
g ment by simple methods. We may trick
:. - up devices to shift our burden and les
- sen our opportunity; they will avail us
~ nothing but delay. We may tangle
~ conditions by applying academic ar
:, rangements of self government to a
, crude situation; their failure will drive
us to our duty in the end.
% MILITARY SITUATION-OTIS DE-
,: TENDED.
IS The military situation, past, present
1t donment. Our campaign has been as
e, perfect as possible with the force al
s hand. We have been delayed, first, by
:; failure to comprehend the immensity
3 of our acquisition, and, second, by in
s sufficient force; and, third, by oui
is efforts for peace. In February, after
g the treaty of peace, Otis had only 3,72:
IN officers and men whom he had a lega
is right to order into battle. The terms OF
al enlistment of the rest of his troops
Sc had expired and they fought voluntarily
I'd and not on legal military compulsion
er Those who complain do so in ignorance
Ig of the real situation. We attempted 6
is great task with insufficient means; W.
lie became impatient that it was not finish
al ed before it could be fairly commenced
l. and pray we may not add that othel
n element of disaster, pauslng in the worl
n before it is thoroughly and forever done
4 That is the greatest mistake we coult
w possibly make, and that is the only dan
I'd ger before us. Our Indian wars woult
r. have been shortened, the lives IF sol
diers and settlers saved, and the In
e dams themselves benefited. had w,
made continuous and decisive war; ant
a, any other kind of war is criminal he
DR. cause ineffective. We acted towards tn,
e, Indians as though we feared them. low
n ed them, hated them-a mingling o.
I foolish sentiment, inaccurate though
Id and paralytic purpose. Let US now b,
" instructed by our own experience.
Id TRUE MILITARY POLICY.
Of This war is like all our wars. 1
he needs to be finished before it is stopped
Id l am prepared to vote either to make
"a our work thorough or even now t
Id abandon it. A lasting peace can be Sc
e, cured only by overwhelming forces il
20 ceaseless action until universal ami all
e, solutely final defeat Is Inflicted on thu
Is enemy.
ye 1t has been charged that our conduc
n or the war has been cruel. Senators, il
la has been the reverse. have been In ou
hospitals and seen the Filipino wounded
D. as carefully, tenderly cared for as on