The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-10-04

city and our forces with increased vi
gor- They planned to burn, sack and
loot the city. and to strike down and
slaughter every living human being in
IL, except their own people; and two
brutal. though abortive. attempts were
made to carry out the barbarous and
dem oniac plan
If we study the records and proceed
ings Of their so-calIed government it
IS apparent that it is nothing but a
pure relationships mere military
oIigarchy of AguinaIdo and his chiefs
Gall Chinese Mestizos)-with no basis
of choice or consent among the masses
1t exists and is tolerated such as it
is, through fear and ignorance. Ig-
norance of the Americans their char
acter and system of government; and
fear Of Aguinaldo. his junta and armed
followers Is it not plain to any I'M
biased mind, after studying the record
OF ASuina1dO and his junta ever since
the insuTTection of 1896 that it is as
much our moral duty to relieve the
Filipino people from the incubus and
tyranny of this military o1igarchy as
of Spanish rule? 1t would be a greater
misfortune and greater calamity to
hand the Filipino people over to the
mereles OF such a government than to
have left them In the hands of the
Spaniards- Is it not our moral as
well as our legal duty to suppress first
OF all, this instruction, started under
such false pretenses, with such treaeh-
cry and under such auspices and lead
ership as this Tagal rebellion in Luz
ION?
Bryan Endorsed AdminIstration.
We acquired the islands fairly by
conquest, ratified and confirmed by a
treaty. which had the Endorsement Of
Mr. Bryan. He was at Washin gton on
the eve of its ratification and urged his
party to join in ratifying the treaty.
The Instruction of 1898 would never
have had inception nor f1ourished
but for the fact that our flag was in
the islands, and permitted Aguinaldo
and his chiefs to land.
Coming into the islands under our
flag, orr protection. and our assist
ance, as they did, Aguina1do and his
chiefs had no more legal moral
right to set up a claim or title hostile
to the United States than a tenant
coming into possession by the permits
sion of his landlord, has the right to
question or set up a hostile title to the
latter We acquired, by conquest and
treaty, as complete a title to the Phil
ippine islands to Porto Rico, and we
have taken more steps to obtain
the consent of the Porto Ricans than
of the Filipinos- The government we
have esta b1ished for the Porto Ricans
is a government we have given them
and not government they have given
themselves
Merely a TasaI Affair.
According to the most conservative
data, the Philippine group embrace an
area Of about 10000 square miles and
a population of 1000 900. Luzon has a
little more than one-third of this area
and little less than one-haIf of this
population. There are three different
races and over eighty different tribes.
of various degrees of civilization in
the Most n a heI
to the Ma1ayan race; less than one-half
million belong to the other two races.
The principal tribe is the Visayas, oc-
cupy1ng the Nisaya group of islands,
situate between Luzon on the north
and Mlndanao on the south The Wis
ayas occupy an area of % 900 square
miles. number about $500, 900 and are
as civilized and intelligent as the Ia
gals The next tribe, in numbers is
the Tagals, who occupy Luzon, and
number 1864 ,OO0-about one-ha1f of
the population of this island
The Instruction is a Tagal insur-
rection. and the insurrectionary gov
eminent is a TagaI government The
other tribes and the people of the other
islands had no voice and were not rep
resented in the formation or manage
ment Of this government The Tagal
government of Aguina1do in Luzon
originated in and rests wholly upon
military force. and has not. even in
LuzOn, to say nothing about the many
other important islands, come into ex-
istence or continued by the free choice
or voluntary consent of the people
sought TO be governed. Its scope and
authority is limited to the territory oc-
cupied by its armed bands and detach-
mentS in Luzon- The consent of the
governed is neither asked. sought nor
expected The great mass of the peo-
pie are as helpless and where within
reach of the Taga1 government under
as abjest subjugation under Aguinal-
dos military oligarchy as they ever
were under the Spaniards in the years
that are past
Bryan Would Haul Down Old Glory.
1t is to such an instruction and to
such a government that adversa-
ries would have US lay down our arms
and surrender our control and author
ity- It is this Instruction and this
government that we should have en-
couraged and set ND a permanent
esta blishment and have made our
selves the protectors Of It is to this
government Aeilina1do'S that