Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1902-05-02
SENATOR CARMACK ROASTS
FUNSTON

An extended speech occupied the
attention of the Senate Friday. Mr.
Carmack, of Tennessee, one of the
minority members of the Philippines
Commission, spoke in opposition to
the Philippine Government bill now
pending. His address attracted to
the chamber not only many Senators.
but a considerable number of his
former colleagues in the House. He
sharply criticised the President.
de quoted from Mr.. Roosevelt
charges that "treasonable" talk had
melted the Filipinos to insurrection,
and said that we must not Judge the
President in his moments of oratori-
Cal ferocity, or when the frenzy of
battle was in his blood. The presi-
dent was not vindictiye, but simply
strenuous" and resembled in his
habits of speech a certain Tenues-
scans horse, of which it was said
that running away was his natural
gait. Mr.. Roosevelt had habitually
spoken of the Filipiuos as "sayages"
and "barbarlans" and ''ApacEes,"
and these denupciations had been
scattered broadcast throughout the
Island to inflame the people againt
the United States. The effect of the
Presidents language had been to
harden and intensity Filipino oppo-
sition to American rule.
THE "JAYHAwKER BRIGADIER."
Some of our military heroes had
been guilty of a like ofense. lie re-
ferred to a recent speech of Gen eral
Funston, whom he described as the
"jayhawker brigadier from the wind
swept plains, the mightiest Samson
that ever welded the jawboue of an
ass as a weapon of war;" Mr.. Car
mack said death has cheated Fun
ston of some illustrious victims, like
ex-senator Sherman and ex- President
Harrison, but there was still enough
to keep him busy. Papers had quoted
Funston as saying that the President
entirely approved his gallows speech,
aud wanted him to accept an invita-
ton from the junior Senator from
massachusetts, to 60 to Boston and
talk to the people there about hang
ing the senior Senator from Massa-
chusetts, but the plain truth was
that Funston could not hang any
body. Funston should go back to
the Philippines-to land where
there was plenty of hemp and no
Constitution.
eff men are to be hanged without
regard to law for speaking words
calculated to incite insurrection," he
said, "the first neck to feel the strang.
ling clutch of the soaped rope should
be the heroic gullet of Funston"
Ever since he had been in the Phil
ippines he had been pouring forth
TRADES of indiscriminate insult
against the whole people, and had
out-rageously insulted the very men
upon whom the Commission was
relying for aid in pacifying the
country. He also had it on the very
highest authority that speech made
y VIZ eOShaeVl AiOul 1uQldEa MT.
Beveridge) had been circulated broad
cast through the country, with an
exceedingly pernicious effect upon
the natives.
PITIFuL EVASION.
The dominant idea of the bill now
before the Senate, said he, was to ex-
ploit the Philippines. The whole
bill was pitiful evasion of plain
duty. We had right to demand,
and the Filipinos have q right to
demand, that the administration shall
at least define its policy in the Phil
ippines.
Upon what fact did they base
their belief in the purity of carpet
bag government" lie spoke of "the
horrors of the carpet-bag govern
ment IN the South" and said that
the Republicans give no heed to the
cry Of an oppressed and plundered
people, though they were their own
people, of their own blood.