Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-10-23
SENATOR QUARLES.

dent to declare war, They pestered,
urged and begged him to declare war;
they went in large bodies to the white
house and threatened him if he would
not delare war, and finally they bull
dOzed him into declaring war against
Spain. As result of the war we were
obliged to buy the Philippine islands,
| we have them, our title is perfect.
wish / had the abstract to that title
here, / could prove to you that it is a
perfect title. And now that blood
thirsty savage, Againaldo, is trying to
thke our property from us. What
would he do if we lett him have it?
Why those blood thirsty savages-
eighty-four tribes of them--are only
waiting for an opportunity to cut each
others throats.
Now, fellow citizens, if you want to
have panics and hard times again you
have only to vote for Bryan, but if yon
want the present prosperity and full
dinner pail to continue why al you
have to do is to What Mr.
Quarles here recommended is too OBJ
scene for publication, and, as said before,
his audience was very largely COM
posed of women and children.)
We will not make much comment
upon Mr. Quarles' speech. A few
things will be merely suggested:
/. Mr.. Quarles' vivid and almost
pathetic description of the bulldozing
that the president sustained from con-
gress, before he was finally brought
to the point of declaring war against
Spain, must have sounded strange to
many of the school children who heard
him and who, having studied the con-
stitution, know that the president can
not declare war; thatT congress alone
can do that
?. If "Aguinaldo and his bloodthirs-
ty savages" are waiting for an oppor
tunity to cut each others throats, will
they ever have better one than they
have had during the last two years?
Yet during that time they have been
governing the islands so orderly, and
so well that no complaint has come to
the public press of any case of inius-
tice, cruelty or oppression. They have
had the undisturbed possession and
government of nine tenths of the total
area of the islands for two years. They
could have "cut each others throats,"
but they, instead, have instituted peace
full and just government And how
does it happen that these "bloodthirsty
savages' have treated their prisoners
of war very humanely? And how does
it happen that "Aguinaldo, tfat blood
thirsty savage" was chosen as presi-
DEM If the Philippine republic oy men
whom Murat Halstead describes il his
Story of the Philippines as SCHOLAR
ly men?" The fact is that the senator
is either very ignorant of what he ought
to know well or was very dishonest
with his audience.
3. In view of the giaring mis-state-
ments just mentioned Mr.. Quarles
ought not to be surprised if his audi
ence should expect him to be equally
wide of the mark in many other things
he said about the democratic party,
and MIR. Bryan, and which he claimed to
have some documents for, but excused
himself from producing them, saying,
you will have to take my word for it."
A. Mr. Quarles would be more eff
kfective speaker if he could control his
temper, forget a large part of his pres
ent vocabulary, substitute something
better in its place, be more of gentle
man and less of clown.