Willmar tribune., 1900-10-20

ing not only morally but actually lost
it; and we performed this amazing act
of treacherous Standardization in or.
der to make our late allies our sub.
liects because we coveted their land.
Thus we deliberately turned our
loudly yaunted war of liberation and
humanity into shameless war of con.
4nest, which, to adopt President Nc.
Kipley's own phrase, was>u in the
extreme sense an ;*actsof ''criminA ag.
gression''-for there was no elemen'
of crjminality lacking. We did moi
stop with the diplomatic betrayal.
Weeks before that featy with Spain
acquired any eoleefof legal force by
the assent. Of the fsepate,, President
Mckinley issued al order to our army
the notorious ':;benevolept assimila'
tion notwithstanding that our sove-
reignty overthe Philippines did actu.
ally exist, and directing the army to
enforce it all over The archipelago-as
iiaaerant usurpati9h OF power as was
ever cOmmitted!1t
That order was Of 50 inhamm atory
a character, so clear 8 declaration OF
war, against the FiIipiqos demanding
freedom and independence, that Gen:
eral~ Otis, foreseei1g with alarm the
CONSEQUENCES that i Would bring on
tried to suppress IL, But through 2
subordinate it, boeeame known to the
! Filipinos, ana t6SsB!y t6SB!y Understood it as it
was-a declaration of war against
them. Then the conflict wantonly pro-
voked by the president7s order came.
We destroyedcby force the government
the Filipinos had set hp-a very re-
spectacle governmlent, as all compe-
teutwitnesses testify-d far better gov,
! ernment than the in nsufgent Cubans
ever had. A''l -.
We carried death: f:l and desolatiop
| into the towns and villages of our late
allies. We killed many, many thou
+, sands of them, and stil go on killing
them at the rate of 1000 to $500 a
month for no otheF, reason than that,
as we call it, they retpse to submit to
our sovereignty; hutc!as it may in
truth be called, fGr NO other reason
than that our formers. allies object to
being sold and bought like a herd OF
! cattle, and that they still demand that
liberty and independence to which, by
the principle we ourselves had affirmed
in the case of Cubasthey are right
fully entitled. 4,.-
Some time ago in a. public speech l
challenged the defenders of our ad-
ministration to point out in the whole
history of the world q single act OF
per6dy ever committed by any repub-
lican government moreinfam Gus than
that which has thus been committed by
our government against our Filipino
allies. That challenge has remained
unanswered to this day: I now renew
it. I call upon them ,all-from the
highest to the lowest-members of the
cabinet, and senators and representa-:
tives who tell us that the honor and
best interests of the conptry demand
us to approve and spstains uch things:
and the bishops to whom; the moral
aspects, Of the case should be of conse!
quence; and the laymen who listen to
1them--I call upon them all to show me
lin all the annals Of mankind a similar
instance Of more knavish ,trea cherry,
Let them answer me il they CAP. And
them tell me what the respons Utilities
are growing from such conduct, y )
Is there any doubt about :theafactss:
They are history. There has indeed
been some quibbling as to whethee The
Filipinos were really our falliessr=T Tb a,
:he government did not give them, ;tthe
title Of aites. is true enough But die
1--WE not use their services as those; ot
allies 50. long as their services were. a
any advantage to us? Did we mo-
practically treat them as allies during
that time, even to the extent of recog:
niz,ng them as entitled to the charge
of prisoners taken from; the common
enemy by the aid 81 our arms? Ant
did not our using them as our allies
and our pro6ting by their. services al
our allies, impose upon us the mora
obligation to respect them as. Gy!
alli,s? An unscrnpulous pettifoege1
may dispute that, Tut a man of homo
will not. Let The; + iim;perialists ar
swer.
There has alsot; lt;'b been some quibbiinI
as to our having promised Them inds
pendence: That VI, aid not in foirimia, ],
official declaraaltfoon promise them inde
pendence is true enough: But did vi
not, while We We we're Using them a i
allies, and pro6ting from their = serv srS
ices as allies, know that they be1ie,vvea'
that they were, fighting for their5* ~, t;is1
Independents, and that they would IS IS
have fought. 81 81 the Re same e side with III
against the common % on SO enemy if they ih3ae i3t
believed ntherwise? And did we a,'t ev;el .g;:
dnrino that tnasIsc;1S Hnnoass{1,u +asi1@ +t;t,s