New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-10


n9t even o then exhausted civil fOmmission
mat and eminent college professors and also Cen
eral Otis. and Admiral Dewey These men ex-
met with the Malays ready evasion. the spanard's
or Was bT o to as no b
Filipino people OF our good intentions and benefcent
of Manila in a way that would have honored the
Senate Of the United States; the brown faces Of
treated natives accustomed to blows, with kindest
consideration; the agents Of AgunalGo told tales
OF our pusillanimty to the ignorant rural masses.
This remarkable man sent so-called commissions,
His commissions were composed of generals in uni
when they appeared in Manila our Representatives,
of peace talked to them, argued with them, en-
Importance President schurman rode with
armed in tRe reyerenee for their broher who
were thus honored and distinguished. Then the
returned to their iord and the sole effect of these
thousand natives in Manila think that the only
way to win the respect Of the American Republic
VIGOROUS MEASURES NEEDED.
No Senator'S the friendly methods of peace have
difcuit The Oriental does n not understand our
mission which did its work in Manila SO earnestly
have so brilliantly succeeded only delayed the
peace it attempted to hasten. There is not now
operations in the field and loyal support of the
lean soldiers have crossed the Pacific that if
| necessary, the American Congress win make It
men that at any cost we will establish peace and
govern the islands, win do to end the war
than the soldiers themselves. But the report that
we even discuss the withdrawal Of single soldier
at the present time, and that we even debate the
possibility of not administering government
understood and nisrepresented and will blow into
fame once more the fires our soldiers blood has
Mr.. President. reluctantly, and only from sense
of duty, am l forced to say that American oppos-
ton to the war has been the ch1ef FACTOR IN pro
Had Agunaldo not understood that n America,
even in the American Congress. even here in the
Senate, he and his cause were, supported had ne
and in the press of faction in the United States
the breasts of American soldiers was like the vol
leys fired by Washngt9n's men against the sol
dissolved before It entirely crystallized:
are read to the ignorant soldiers Of AguinaIdo and
repeated in exaggerated form among the common mon
Asiatic ports to the Fiipinos by wretches claiming
were coupled by the Maays With American as
saults on our Government at home.
HOW THE ENEMY IS AIDED
The. Fflipinos do not understand free speech, and
the American President and the American Govern
minority, or he would not permit what appears to
them such reasonable criticism 1t IS believed and
have only fight, harrass, retreat, break up into
small parties if necessary as they are doing now,
Dental election and forces will be withdrawn.
arms and battle SENATOR have heard these re-
ports myself; I have talked with the, people;
have seen our mangled boys in the hos
pit9al and field: have stood on the firing line
to the pitiess southern sky; and in sorrow rather
than anger. say to those whose voices in America
our soldiers down that the blood of those dead
the ood of all The Years f ours rsn IS @n fba u
away, In sorrow rather than anger say these
knew not what they did.
But, Senators, it would be better to abandon this
combined garden and Gibraltar of the Pacific,
count our blood and treasure already spent a profit
capable of self-government How could they be?
They are not of sef-governing race. They are
Orieatals Malays instructed by Spaniards in the
latter's worst estate. They know nothing Of prac-
teal government except as they have witnessed the
weak, corrupt, cruel and capricous rule of Spain.
what magic VIII any one employ 70 dissolve IN
their minds and characters those impressions OF
governors and governed which three centuries of
the Oriental quality Of their blood and set the self
governing currents Of the American pouring
twinkling of an eye be exalted to the heights of
years for to reach Anglo-Saxon though we are?
sELF-GOvERNMENT NOT FOR THEM.
Let men beware how they employ the term self
government" 1t is sacred term. 1t is the watch
word at the door of the inner temple of liberty; for
Sef-government is method of Hberty-the highest,
simplest best-and it is acquired only after cen,
instruction and all the elements of the progress of
thing to be bestowed the merely audacious. 1t
is the degree which crowns the graduate Of liberty
not the name Of lbertys infant class VINO nave
not vet mastered the alphabet of freedom. Savage
Oriental blood, Malay
ampe-are these the elements of self-government?
We the situation as II exists, not as
these people getting their views the practical
workings of self-government. The great majority
simply do not understand any participation IN any
government whatever. Inc most enlgiIeHeu
among them declare that self-goYernment VIII sue
ceed because the employers of labor will compel
their employees vote their employer wills, and
that this will insure intelligent voting was as
sured that we could depend upon good men always
being in office, because the officials who constitute
the Government will nominate their successors,
choose those among the people VINO VIII 40 tnS
voting and determine how and where elections Will
he held The most ardent advocate Of self-govern-
that I met was anxious that sh0u ia KNOW
that such government WoGo pc tb GveTDnoent
| would shoot the offender. A rev OF theIn nave ID
sort of verbal understanding OIL Ine tt 49, i
of the practical workings OF sef-goVernInehI enter
tanned by the aristocraey the rcn PahreaS Gho
! traders and heavy employers OF lApor-tle men WI"
| would the Government
TEACHING BY EXAMPLE
Example for decades will be necessary to in
strllct them in American ideas and methods of ad-
mnistratlon EXa b b 9na1S rsce tbeir GEN
eral ability is poor. Educators. both men and WON
were unanimous in the opinion that in all solid and
J useful education they are as a people, dull ana
! ing or embroidery, or music. they have apparent
aptitude, but even this Is superficial and never
three best educators the island at different
times made to me the same comparison, that the
| common people, in their stupidity are like their
caribou bulls. They are not even GOOD agrlc1ItuT-
! lists. Their waste of cane Is lneXcusaole. Their
| curabIy indolent. They have continuity or thor
I oughness of Industry. They will quit work without
| notice and amuse themselves until the money they
have earned is spent They are IKE chlldreh play
| ing al mems work No one need fear their COM
! no force compel these children of Incidence to
leave their trihng lives for the fierce and ferVd
| The very reverse is the fact. One great problem
is the necessary labor to develop these islands, to