Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-09-20

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was used by others forty years ago Do
yoa know who the ''conscn of the gov
ernedr doctrine was invoked by then, ii
II was Jefferson Davis. j am not speak
ing hyperboIicaly.. Jefferson Davis made
a great point. We had no right to
send down those euIblenis of imperialism
the Grand Arrny-to flog the Souther-
ners without their consent. Iciaim they
hid a night 20 do IL though there were
people at the North, too. who said they
had the right 10 govern themselves as
they wished. even their wishes 10 hold
free men a. slaves did break mp the Union
Our Democratic friends would rather the
consent of the governed doctrine had
not been twisted into such a meaning as
that. but that is the doctrine the North
fought for and the doctrine they acted
upon.
Gentlemen, that is all we are doing now.
You talk of liberty in the Philippines;
certainly. Liberty can come there in just
one way and that is under the American
Flag (cheers and applausc9
If you should no~ give TO AglinaIdo
and his fellow Tngais the supremacy OF
those islands you would he turning the
whole black population over TO the most
cruel and corrupt tyrany. A tyranny of
u~nprincipied half-breeds-Chinese half
casts. The practices in some of the islands
and the methods of corruption introduced
would have disgusted Tweed naughterg
They have behaved throughout toward
the friendly natives-toward the natives
who have bees friendly TO us-with a
cruelty unknown here even I'm the widest
days OF Ind ian warfare ON the plains. T
received a few days ago a letter from a
former soldier of mine, now an officer in
the Philippines. He Is a southerner and a
Democrat, the son of an ex-confederate
soldier. He said that if he were home he
should have TO vote the Republican ticket
because he was an American first aud a
Democrat second lcheers and applause)
He wrote me il was impossible almost
TO believe when seen or even TO paint the
cruelties with which the insurgents be.
haved, less toward the whites thar 10 the
friendly natives-the natives who have
been friendly 20 our people. But mind
You there has been plenty of cruelty to
the whites also. One Of Aguinaldo's
cabinet ministers. before the attack upon
Manila, published a written and signed
proclamation, stating that every man,
woman and child the words were every
American man. woman and child" in
Manila was TO be put to death. They
were to be put TO death without reference
to their condition or age. These are some
of the atrocities that eye witnesses men.
toned. stripped and laid ON hot Goals, legs
and arms broken with bars of iron,
stretched and drawn with mules. etc. And
men there say that the leaders of the
L IL ..~f a. -. n. 80.
main strength by the aiding and aobett-
ing our opponents have given them here
in the United States cheers and cries of
that's sou
Now 1 ask that you show this nation is
true to it's flag; that we show ourselves
loyal to the principles of the men who
fought in the great Civil war; that we are
true to ourselves; that we keep faith with
the friendly Islanders under our protec-
ton and THAT we say to the world. where
our flag has bees hoisted I'm honor it shall
not be pulled down in dishonor.
After the applause had subsidized, X. w.
Parliman introduced
SENATOR KNUTE NELSON,
of Minnesota, who said:
i see my friends that you are in the in
cipient stages of miiitarism. These khaki
uniforms here look suspicious. Qaughter)
You want to be ON your guard or they will
steal away your liberty. Qaughter)
You want to be on -FOUR guard against
these boys and against this flag,or maybe
by and by. you will lose your liberty.
More laughter and cheers.1
1 am very glad to be in your midst. Like
yourselves, / have grown mp on the front
Ter and have enjoyed the vicissitudes and
hardships of the frontier life. / am glad
that / was able TO assist in Congress, to
the extent that 1 did, i'm securing the pass
age of the free homestead bill, althouphU
claim no particular credit for that meas
ure. Do You know that the credit for get.
ting it passed was due a good deal to your
own Representatives, Mr.. Burke, who
secured its passage through the House of
Representatives. Because in the main.
there was very serious opposition to it
there, while we never had very serious
opposition in the Senate. We only had
reaiiyi opposition from one Democratic
Senator, and that was the Senator from
Connecticut, Mr.. Plat. But they were
very contentious. Senator Psatt had
occasion TO go to New England, and before
he went he told me that he was going, and
told me how many days he was to be gone.
He told me he would like to have me
postpone the nCtion on the free homes
bill till he cot back, but he said, if / didn't
he couldn't help himself. Qaughter1 But
my friends, as | said, the serious OPPOSE
ton was in the House. During the last
session of Congress the worst opposition
wehad came from an unknown and un.
expected quarter. Several years ago
Congress granted fifteen thousand dollars
a year, which was afterwards increased
to twenty-five Thousand dollars, to the
agricultural colleges. The colleges kent
increasing, and received IN annual con-
tribution of five thousand dollar rs from
the sale of the public land. These collie
yes were all opposed and were terribly
frightened at the free homestead bin.
because they were afraid they would lo-e
their money. They came before Com
gress and made their fight. In the Las.
session of Congress the members OF the
House OF Representatives had learned
something and they took these colleges in
the boat so that they felt perfectly easy
and the result was the passage of the bin.
] don't claim any particular credit for shr