The Irish standard., 1900-09-22
the real facts, and why does not the

the real facts, and why does not the
president state them?
The so-called instruction of the Fill
ipinos occurred on Feb. 4, 1899. In
stead of an outbreak of an Apache
chief, with so or 100 followers, Aguin.
aldo. as commander-in-ch of the
forces Of the Filipino republic, had an
army of over 10000 men according to
General Merritt, well armed. mostly
with guns and cannon turned over to
him by Admiral Dewey.
Murat Halstead, who had the conf.
dence of the administration, went tc
the Philippines in government vessel
to write Il history of the islands. and
he says that on the day of the (Apa.
chez outbreak, the 4th of February
1899. the Filipino army then investn.
Manila consisted of over 10000 men
with Il large and effective reserve. On
that day. the >tth of February. 1885,,
the f'ilipinos had Il republican form OF
government, modelled after our own
and one which had been in active
operation for more than five months,
fully organized in all it's departments;
its courts and it's municipal govern.
ments in full operation; it's people
peaceful and acquiescing There was
not gun or hand raised against the
new republic from one end of the ar
chipelagO to the other.
This Filipino army had been invest
ing Manila since early in June 1t had
driven the Spanish army, $4,000 men,
into the city and was besieging the
city. 1t had captured and then held
MS prisoners of war 1900 Spanish SOL
dfers. This outbreak of an army of
over 10000 men of an organized gov
eminent controlling 100000 people
fighting for their liberty and against
being "benevolently assimilated," as
Mckinley had nearly two months be-
fore declared to be the intention of
the United States-is what Roosevelt
and Mckinley and the Republican ora
tors declare was like the outbreak or
Instruction of an Apache CHIEF in
one of our western territories.
With G5,OOO American soldiers on the
islands, the sacrifice of thousands of
their lives, an expenditure of over
SoOOO00,OOO and IL war of over one
and half years, we find this insurrec-
ton still raging and the United States
in control of so much of the territory
as is in the range of the guns of it's
army and navy, except that by treaty
Will, the sultan of the Sulu islands
our sovereignty is acknowledged in
consideration of our recognizing and
protecting slavery and polygamy
therein and the payment to the sultan
of $4,000 per annum. President Nc.
kinlcy drove Il Yankee bargain with
him, as the Spaniards had to pay him
81 800 for his recognition of Spanish
sovereignty, with like protection for
the slavery and polygamy.
The second ground of defense put
forth by the president is that he did
not seize the islands, but that "provi-
dencc and the fortune of war threw
them into our lap" and that we could
not shirk the duty and responsibility
| so cast upon us, but were forced
against our will to take and hold
them: that our duty to humanity for
babe their being turned back to the
tender mercies of SPAIN.
Judge Tuley shows that providence
did not throw the islands into McI<in
ley's lap, and quotes from Murat Hal
stead. the military historian, the writ
ten conditions sent to the Paris peace
commissioners by Mckinley on Oct
30. 1893. in which he said that Spain
! must cede to the United States abso
! lutte sovereignty over the whole of the
island of Luzon. "Why doesn't Nc
kinley give this dispatch among othe s
Chat lie quotes as having been given
to the peace commissioners asks the
Judge. The dispatch was dated thirty
days after the commissioners assem-
hled ut Paris and ninaty-scven day:
before the American troops first fired
! on the Filipinos. In view of McKin
ley's instructions, says Judge Tuley
what becomes Of the cant that 'provi
denre threw the islands into our lap, =
and of the hypocrisy that our duty tt
civilization and to the inhabitants for
hid their return to the control o.
Spain?"
The article by Judge Tulcy. dcalin.
with the Philippine problem, ought tc
be published as a campaign uoc,lmen,
and widely distributed. 1t appeared
| in full in last Sundays Chicago Chron
icle.
A PRELATE IN POLITICS.
| In last S,,n1ov's ic.un ~ tl,., NJ;,,,,<,