The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-08-04

sNSA " hSai ANuiial biauAoAus W.
became responsible for everything he
has done. He is our ally, aud we are
bound to protect him"
Senator Frye forgot to ask the tur-
ther question: "What kind Of 8 ma
ton in the eyes OF the world would
We appear if after having accepted and
prohted from the aid Of our Filipino
allies We turned round to purchase
the sovereignty over them from the
common enemy, and thus 10 transfer
those people who had believed that
in fighting side by side with this re-
public they were lighting for their
freedom and independence like herd
of cattle from one foreign rule to an
Other?"
And just that Is what We have done
That the Filiipinos before 'co-operat-
ing with US as allies against the
common enemy did not insist upon
STIMULATING with ns 10 black and white
the conditions OF the cooperation, bui
e%ontidingly trusted our honor and good
faith as republicans of the school OF
Washington and Lincoln is true, Just
rs might 60 into a business co-opera-
ton with q hiend without a written
contract, believing him To be an honest
man. But what shall | believe him to
be If, after having accepted the benefit
OF my eo'oPersiloO, he regulates all
moral obligation on the ground that,
trusting his honesty, l had neglected
to insist upon a written contract? Such
a person may occasionally, by some
quibble Of legal technically escape
the payment of a just debt, but be will
surely not escape the contempt Of gen.
tlemen.
"While thus ''using' the Filipinos As
our military allies, the Administration
secretly instructed our officers that
we might indeed profit from the effect.
i've cooperation Of the Flipinos, but
that no sort Of recognition should be
accorded to them which might EN-.
barrass our scheme to make them our
subjects. And then, when the surren.
der Of Manila had been obtained, and
we had sufficient troops on the ground
TO make us masters of the situation,
and we began negotiations for peace
with the common enemy, and our Fill
Pine allies asked to be heard in these
negotiations as TO the future of our
country, we slammed the door In Their
faces as if they had no right TO their
country at all. And behind their back:
we bought them, as former Secret airy
Davis AYERS, from the common enc.
my" bought them like drove o.
sheep, and we got the common enc.
my"-Spain-to "cede" to US the soy.
ereignty over the Philippines, a sover.
eighty which, as we well know, she
had practically lost, and could not de.
liver, and which, according to the
principle emphatlcally affirmed by our
selves in the case Of Cuba, Spain had
forfeited to the people Of the islands,
And then, even before that peace
treaty had been ratified, and while It
was very uncertain whether it would
ever be ratified, President Mckinley,
without any legal right, by q bold
usurpation Of power. ordered the army
to enforce that spurious sovereignty
upon the whole archipelago. And
then, when the Filipinos, our late al.
lies, asserting their title to freedom
and independence upon the ground Of
our own protested principles, refused
to be sold and bought like a herd Of
cattle, we destroyed by force of arms
the government they had set up and
proceeded TO shoot them down. And
we have continued ever since this kill.
ing business because we coyet their
country.
In public speeches | kaye again and
again challenged the Im~perialists to
show me In the history Of the world a
single act Of peridy committed by any
republic more infamous than that
which has been committed by PresL
dent Mchinley's administration against
our Filipino allies. have never re.
celved any answer. now address this
challenge to Senator Foraker personal.
ly. respectfully invite him to ran.
sack all his knowledge Of the annals Of
mankind for an act Of treachery more
base and Infamous and then to elighten
the American people with his finding.
o. The interviewer Of the Herald
asked Senator Foraker this question:
"But Mr.. schurz says ali the advan.
tages-commerclal facilities, footholds
for the Aslatic trade, accommodations
for our navy, etc.--that have been OBJ.
tanned in the Philippines night have
been gained without killing thousands
Of Filipinos for the purpose of subju.
eating them to u sovereignty. What
Of that?" The Senator asked: at
does not alter the case from the
moral point Of view, nor does 1t alter
the question Of duty, that thousands
have been killed. Everybody regrets
the loss Of life, and nobody, 1 know,
more than the President. But when
war comes and instructions occur,
these results must follow |
With due respect, be It said, this Is !
no answer at all. An evasion so pal.
pable amounts TO a confession that 20 Z
is possible, Indeed, what l
could ii be7 Every intelligent obsery. l
Of current affairs knows that, II we
had treated the Philippine Islaudes
justly by recognizing their right to In. !
dependence, as we have promis od to
recognize that Of the Cubans, we could !,
have obtained from them for the mere :
whatever commercial adyan. :
and whatever coaling stations :
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