The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-02

So aooan,ing and profting from their
| service, frankly to tell them as any h on
man would have done. that tney "ei
mistaken in their belief? On no. our gov
eminent did not honestly tell them ~
- loft them in their confiding belief ana
occented from them what advantage II
could get.
CHEATING AND KILLING THEN.
y YOU want proof?' asks MI.
ccburz in his direct way. n Wltiiou'
waiting for an answer he gives IL III
abundant quantity and most coh>lho-
mo quality. Then he asks;
And that is the attitude in which Tres
ident Mckinley has placed this great re-
nnhlic. Are you Americans PROUD OF your
country? Here stands the poor Flllpino
before you able to say to you: You nave
cheated me-" And you must cast GOWN
vour proud eyes, for you cannot answer
Nav, This is one of the things the freSl-
dents imperialistic policy has done win
US.
But the poor Filipino may say some
ching more. He may say: In order to
carry through your cheat you are now
slaughtering u.s." And again we cannot
answer Nay. am aware that the Presl-
dent in his letter of acceptance, trying 10
| Wv a ing
that the Filipinos began the Nighttime
lamb ferociously assailing the lion. Every
hodv knows that the first shot was nreu
nv an American soldier, killing a Filipino
who crossed the line on territory WHICH
ought not to have been occupied ny ~
Americans, and that General OTIS olhclai-
Nv reported: The engagement was Wv
strictly defensive on the part OF the III
surgents, and of vigorous attack Dy our
forces" This is one of the things ,Whlch
the President also forgot.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
But the first shot is not the mann
Question. Mr.. Schurz contends that
the main question is one OF respon-
sibiIity. and he declares that President
Mckinley is responsible for the con-
ditior of things that has "made that
bloody conflict inevitable" Referring
10 the charge of Mckinley that the
Filipinos did not wait for the action
Of Congress ratifying he treaty be-
fore attacking the American army, he
asks:
Who was it that really "did not wait for
the action of Congress?" WHO was 1T
that took the decisive step before the
treaty was ratified by the Senator Not
the Filipinos. but President Mckinley
himself; for it was he who six weeks pc
fore the ratification of the treaty by the
Senate, without the slightest legal au-
thority and by a barefaced usurpation of
power, issued that order which was a de-
claration of war and a direct provocation
of hostilities and thus precipitated that
abOminable conflict.
DOESN'T TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH.
Then the speaker proceeds to give
an example of McKinley's good faith.
In his letter of acceptance he pre-
tends to give his countrymcn a truth
full, candid and complete account OF
what has happened. But, says Mr..
Schurz, "of that fateful order he
quotes only one paragraph, full Of as
of his sweet n benevolent
intentions as to the welfare OF the
islanders; but there he stops
He does not tell his confiding country
men that in other paragraphs he assum-
ed, in pursuance of the treaty concluded,
full sovereignty over the whole Philippine
archipelago whether the inhabitants liked
it or not, and that 1.-The actual occupation
and administration of the entire group Of
the Philippine Islands became Immediate
ly necessary, and the military government
heretofore maintained by the United
States in the city, harbor and bay Of Ma
Mia, is to be extended with all possible
dispatch to the whole of the coded terri
tory"
A BAREFACED USURPATION.
Mr.. Schurz then takes up the eN-
cuses given by Mckinley for his per-
fidity and answers them. Quoting
the Presidents words: 1--WE must
either hold the Philippine islands OF
turn them back to Spain," Mr..
SchurZ
In the first place, the order was issued
six weeks before the treaty Of peace was
contirmed-that is six weeks before the
United States acquired even a technical
title Of sovereignty over the islands. The
assumption of that sovereignty by the
President Of his own motion and the or
der to the army to enforce it constituted
therefore one of the clearest, most bare
faced usurpations of power that can be
imagined-a usurpation of power strik-
ing SO fagrantly at the very foundation
of constitutional government that, if it
passes into a ruling precedent, we may
we'll tremble for the safety of our free
institutions. There were times when a
President daring to do such a thing would
hardly have escaped impeachment.
In the second place. that order was
such an insult to the Filipino people, our
late allies. so direct q provOCatiOn of
immediate violent trouble, that General
Otis, fearful of it's effect. found himself
compelled to assume a most extra Ordl-
nary responsibility for a military officer
the responsibility of suppressing a proc
lamatiOn Of his chief, and Of substituting
one of his own. But in spite of the Gen
erals precautions, the Presidents order,
his direct declaration of war against the
Filipinos standing for freedom and indie
pendence, did become public, and soon the
| bloody conflict was on. And now Mr.. Nc
Kinley blandly tells his countrynen that
the disturbance was all owing to the pes
tilent Filipinos fercely assailing a most
benevolent and considerate ruler.
UNPARALLELED PERFIDY.
In pursuance of his order our army IN
der President McKinley's direction pro-
cceded to destroy in blood a we'll ordered
native government, to carry deSolatiOn
into peaceful and orderly communities
recognizing and obcyinS that government,
and to kill by the thousands innocent peo-