The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-14

that 1t could not have been ratified in
the senate but for their assistance.
The senate which ratified the treaty
and the congress which added its
sanction 10y a large appropriations
comprised senator's aud representa-
tives of the people of all parties.
Would our opponents surrender to
the insurgents. abandon our sover-
eighty or cede it to them ? If that be
not their purpose, then it should be
promptly disclaimed, for only evil
can result from the hopes raised by
our opponents in the minds of the
Filipinos, that with their success at
the polls in November there will be
a withdrawal of our army and of
American sovereignty over the archi-
pelago: the complete independence of
the Tagalog people recognized and
the powers of government over all the
other peoples of the archipelago con-
ferred upon the Tagalog leaders.
BLooDsHED DUE TO BRYAN1sM.
The effect of belief in the minds
of the insurgents that this will be
done has already prolonged the re-
bellion and increases the necessity
for the continuance of large army.
1t is now delaying full peace in the
archipelago and the establishment of
civil governments. and has influenced
many of the insurgents against ac-
cepting the liberal terms of amnesty
offered 10y General Macarthur under
my direction. But for these false
hopes. a considerable reduction could
have been had in our military estab-
lishment in the Philippines, and the
realization of stable governmen
would be already at hand.
The American people are asked by
our opponents to yield the sovereignty
Of the United States in the Philippines
to small fraction Of the population,
a single tribe out of eighty or more
inhabiting the archipelago, a fraction
which wantonly attacked the Ameri- !
can troops in Manila while in rightfnl
possession under the protocol with !
Spain, awaiting the ratification of !
the treaty of peace by the senate and !
which has since been in active. open |
rebellion against the United States. |
We are asked to transfer our soyer- |
eighty to a small minority in the |
islands without consulting the ma
iority and to abandon the largest por-
ton Of the population. which has been |
loyal to Us, 10 the cruelties of the |
guerrilla in,urgent bands. More |
than this, we are asked TO protect this |
minority in establishing government |
and to this end represS all opposition |
of the majority. We are required to |
set up "a stable government in the in
terest of those who have assailed our |
sovereignty and fired upon our sol
diers, and then maintain it at any
cost or sacrifice against its enemies !
within and against those having am !
bilious designs from without.
REAL MILITARISM.
This would require an army and !
navy far lo,gar than i now min
tanned i'm the pbirfn,ine. and sim
more i'm excess of what will he necc,- |
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