The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-01
SAVAGES AnO TAoALo6S.

Then why did Lincoln enlist 70 fight
the Blackhawk Indians? Surely they
were as capable of governing themselves
! as the Malays of LuzOn.-TribUne.
Let us introduce a few administra-
tion witnesses on this point.
Before doing So however. it may be
as we'll TO add that the "Blackhawk
Indians" as our contemporary calls
the Sacs, having been crazed by liquor
furnished them by the advance agents
of superior civilization. were on the
warpath trying TO recover lands which
had been obtained from intoxicated
chiefs Of the Sacs and Foxes, and the
white settlers, Lincoln among them,
were defending their homes and lives
from attack.
But Senator Beveridge tells US there
are many refined and educated men
among the Tagalogs''; President
Schurman says that he was surprised
at the evidences Of culture and refine
ment in the abandoned homes Of the
natives: Professor Worcester says
that there arc native statesmen. dip
IOmats. professional men and business
men back of Aguinaldo, who is but a
figurehead of the Instruction Ad-
miral Dewey, in his official report on
file in the navy department, declares
that the Filipinos are far more capa-
bic of self-government than the Gu
bans are" yet we declared through
congress two years ago that the peo-
pie of Cuba were then and ought to be
free and independent; Diplomat John
Barrett. at present lecturing in favor
Of imperialism in the principal cities
of the United states. admits in an ar
ticle published in the North American
Review. that the government set up
nv AguiualdO would coInpare in intel
iigence, department ard effectiveness
with that Of many a civilized country;
and only last Sunday our imperialistic
contemporary printed an article pre-
pared by the American superintendent
of public instruction at Manila, who
says: "The Luzon native is not at all
savage. He appreciates civilization
and highly prizes good education. He
now wants his boy and his girl to know
English and obtsin a coed common
schDol training. The people have racial
faults that :nterfere, he worst being a
sluggish indifference to most things Of
true value. This is most noticeable in
the .cocheros and other laborers of lit
tie refinement and education. But il
is a very encouraging fact that the n@-
tive schoolmaster seems to have lost
this. He is bright. faithful, patient,
s- A
these people need is to be led Alright
They viii follow. Give them schools
and plenty Of them. Wake them up to
a higher sense of duty and Of proper
living"
Now will some imperialist rise and
recite a few passages from Lincoln or
my other contenporaneous writer or
speaker to show that there were edu-
Gated and refined people amone the
sacs and Foxes. that they lived in
houses. cultivated fields, made cloth.
painted pictures. wrote poetry, sup
ported Christian churches, tried to set
ND a government modelled on the plan
Of leading Ioyers, numbered fair
proportion Of lawyers doctors and
tradesmen in their tribes. and sent
their young men 20 European universe
ties to he educated, as Senator Bever-
idge. in his appeal to avarice, admit
ted had been done with scores Of Ia
gal leaders in the feld2
This is ali evidence submitted by the
administration. Not a witness has
been identified with the cause OF anti
conquest; on the contrary. they all be-
lieNe, as Senator Depew said IN his
great speech of Tuesday last, that I'VE
own the Filipinos by right OF conquest
and purchase
But we are under obligations 70 gov
ern these people, men tell US, because