The age-herald., 1901-01-29
TONNES SPEECH
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 ~-~~@----------~-~-~~~ for the convenient development of some se- cret policy with which he had come fresh freighted from Washington"
 If there was doubt of the prearrange- ment of the plan it was banished, in MT To~ne's opinion, by the President himself. The third article of the protocol with Spain reads:
 s'The United States will occupy and hold the city, bay and harbor of Manila pending the conclusion of a treaty of peace, which shall conclude the control, disposition and government of the Philippines
 Yet, despite that definite provision, the President the Senator urged issued on De- cember 21, 1898, his famous benevolent as- simiation proclamation"
 '"Thus," he continued, ''the dilemma is this: Either that article of the protocol does not mean what it says or the President Of the United States, causing the issuance of a proclamation to which l have referred, broke the plighted faith of this govern ment It is not agreeable to me to use this language, but I devoutly believe that the Republic Is at the gravest crisis Of its h1s- tory, and l feel that a necessary prelimi- nary to it's getting safely out is to cause the people to realize how 1t came to get in
 MT Tewne said of the Presidents procla- nation that "among the roses of its soft rhetoric of love, its fair speech about our coming not as invaders or conquerors, but as friends of the mild sway of justice, and of benevolent assimila tion,' the all ready justly awakened distrust of the Fill pions clearly beheld the unsheathed and glittering steel of despotism."
 Let it be Open.
 ''If we are bent on slaughter" said he, '1et 1t be in open guise. If we lust for these peoples lands, let us not glove our enterprise with false and insincere pre-
 l>o1A rato hn Der flag of internal piracy and then close in upon our feeble victim to the cry Of loot and glory
 MT. Towne maintained that the United States was under obligation of circum- stances, If not indeed of actual promise to grant independence to the Filipnos that Among nations the former was quite as binding as the latter
 Senator Towne then argued at length i'll support of his contention that the Filipinos were perfectly capable of governing them selves, pointing out that eighty per r~cent of the population of Luzon can read and write and holding that the government es- tabilshed by Aguinaldo was strong, sym metrical and progressive even in the diff ficult and disturbing conditions which sur rounded it. He declared that the Filipino statesmen would creditably meet almost any emergency of administration in even the most advanced government and would have dignifed and ornamented the early struggles TOT Hatiouahly oi any pcopie known to history. There Is excellent req son to believe that even at this day the existing Filipino government. low in estate and higratefy t> tome extent as to loca- ton exercises . wide anA respected ahthori- ty in the Philippine islands and ie ebeyed quite generally by the Ncal authorities iA the interior.
 Flilpinos Still Resist.
 There is not the slightest ground for be- lieving that an appreciable ifnprsssioA ha9 been made upon the determination Of tho