The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-09-21


person Is citizen just ground OF com
plant and, satisfaction being refused,
for war. .
And in case of mobs and popular
violence, public faith requires that full
satisfaction should be made by the gov
erning power in cases in which the
government could, by the exercise OF
proper care, have prevented them
THE law as | have stated it is to
be found in all the standard authori-
ties upon international law, from Vat
tel to the present time.
Aguinaldo and Bryan.
1T would, no doubt, have suited
Aguinaldo to have carried on the in
ternal government of the Islands, in
Guiding the unrestrained collection and
the unrestrained expenditure and APP
preparation of taxes, while the power
and resources of America were en-
ployed in sustaining navy to protect
him and to pay the indemnities in
Cured by their ignorance, viciousness
or savagery at the cost and out of tax
es collected from the American peo-
pie. BY that arrangement Aguinaldo
and his particular Tagalo followers
would have had all the pleasure of
domination, while the United States
would have had all the responsibility
to make compensation in damages for
injuries suffered by citizens of other
nations residing in the Philippines, as
we'll as for the injuries suffered by
law-abiding Filipinos themselves, by
reason of mobs, riots, instructions or
any of the multitudinous violence liza
bile to be perpetrated under any affecta-
ton of government which Aguinaldo
and his followers would have set up
there.
"Mr Bryan has entirely ignored
these obligations and liabilities"
Bryan Becomes Ridiculous,
what do you think about Mr.. Bry-
ans statement that the consent of
the people should have been procured
first?"
lie pIdCllCt VI Tic OhltCu DtdtCo
has been to take possession of the ter
ritories which have come under our
jurisdiction in the confidence that we
may secure the consent of their oc-
cupants by extending to them our in
situations and the projections of our
government.
How would Mr.. Bryan proceed to
obtain the consent of these multifar-
ious tribes, of different races and Or
igins, and speaking so many different
languages and with so dwarfed and
undeveloped a capacity for political
There are about 100000 members
of the Visayan tribe upon the island
of Luzon, and about 100000 of the
same tribe upon other islands. They
are hostile to the Tagals. Would Mr..
Bryan indicate to which of these two
tribes the government of these islands
should be surrendered? Shall it be
given to Aguinaldo, who melted the in
and brought on the blood
shed, or shall it be surrendered to the
Visayans, who are equally intelligent,
numerous, almost entirely
friendly toward our government, and
or shall it be surrendered to
the Moros, who are almost as numer-
Gus and much more savage and war
like? And when the management and
government of these islands is sur
rendered, and the United States troops
are withdrawn. what tribe will pre-
vail, what government and institutions
will be established, and what will be
the condition of ascendancy, subordi-
nation or equality of the fifty or more
tribes who are not in rebellion?
Consent of Governed.
Zone of the two largest islands of
the Philippines is Mindanao. 1t is
governed by an accomplished savage
named Datto Mandy. He is the head
of the Moros and has unquestioned
powers of life and death. Recently a
man who was visiting the
island expressed wish to see him in
the attitude of striking down an enc
N.Y. and when he was made to under
stand the wish he had sword
brought to him, together with one CT
his servants. and was only prevented
by way of exhibiting his martial Ca
pacity, from cleaving the skull of his
subject, by the intervention of an
American officer. who was present. In
the consent of this portion
Of the Philippines. would it be the
wish of Mr.. Bryan to have the con-
sent of Datto Mandy. or of the slave
whose skull he was about to split for
amusement a few days ago, or do we
understand him to say that now that
the United States has taken these is
ands by conquest and by treaty, |
which he himself advised. that the OPP
Dortunity of ameliorating suffering, re-
ieving the helpless from the brutal,
and establishing the institutions of
civilization and Christianity among |
.hese people, should be abandoned and |
thrown away. while Datto Mandy and
MS like sacrifice the lives of their de-
pendent subjects at their will.