The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-06-07

TO dark abuses. ss,Ss@ ,@I~tN
II behooves us to keep vigilant watch to
prevent these abuses and to punish those who
commit them but if because of them we Sainch
from finishing the task on which we have
entered, we show ourselves crayens and weak
llngs unworthy of the sires from whose loins
we spr rang - Ihere We're abuses and to spare
IN the Civil war. Your false friends then
called Grant a"butcher'' and spoke of you
VINO are listening to me as nnercenaries as
=, Lliicoin hirellngs Your open foes-as in
the resolution passed by the Confederate con-
gress in October, 1s62-accused you, at great
length, and with much particularly, of :'.con-
temptuous disregard Of the usages of civilized
war;; of subjecting women and children to
Punishment, Imprisonment and death:'' of
murder" Of ''rapine,''f of "outrages on
women of .lawless cruelty" of ''perpe-
trating atrocities which would be disgraceful
70 savages;' and Abraham Lincoln was singled
out for especial attack because of his spirit
II harbarous ferocity." Verify. these men who
enus 1ouIly sIanoered you nave their heirs to-
q Gay, IN those who traduce our armies in the
Philippines who fix their eyes on 1ndividnaI
deeds of wrong so keenly that at last thew he:
come pllnd to the great work Of = r.
Peace and Freedom
that has already been Accumulated peace
and rreedom-are there two better objects for
Whlch soldier can fight? Well, these are
precisely the objects for which our soldiers
are lighting in the Philippines When there
IS talk OF the cruelties committed in the Phil
appnnes, remember always that by far the
greater proportion of these cruelties have been
committed by the insurgents against their own
people-as we'll as against our soldiers-and
that not only the surest but the only effectual
way OF stopping them is by the progress of
the American arms. The victories of the
American army have been the really effective
means M OF putting stop to cruelty in the
r tnll'pplnes: Wherever these victories have
neen complete-and such is now the case
throughout the greater part of the islands-all
crueltles have ceased and the native is secure
IN MS me, his liberty and his pursuit of hap
Nhnra I'M
tnere is always chance for cruelty to show
itself. -- 49,. -. -
Our soldiers conquer; and what is the object
for which they conquer? To establish a mill
tary government? No. The laws we are en-
.deaVor1ng to enact for the government of the
Philippines to increase the power and do
main of the civil at the expense of the mill
tary authorities, and to render even more diff
hcult than in the past the chance Of oppres-
SION. Inc military! power Is used to secure
peace, IN order that it may itself be supplanted
by the civil government. The progress of the
American arms means the abolition Of cruelty,
order under the civil government Other ma
lions have conquered to create irresponsible
military rule. We conquer to bring just and
responsible civil government to the conquered
But our armies do more than bring peace
90 more than bring order. They bring free
DOM RemeEnber always that the independence
OF tribe FOR a community may and often
does, have nothing whatever to do with the
freedom of the individual in that tribe or com
munlty. There are now in Asia and Africa
scores Of despotic monarchies, each of which
is independent. and in no of which is there
the slightest vestige of freedom for the in
dividual man. Scant indeed is the gain to
mankind from the Independence" of a blood
stained .tyrant who rules over abjeet and bru-
mainly which follows the steady though slow
introduction Of the orderly liberty the law
abiding freedom of the individual, which is the
only sure foundation upon which national in
he h1,f1
philippines the insurrection has been definitely
and finally put down, there the individual Fill
plno already enjoys such freedom, such per-
soma hoerty under our rule, as he could
never even dream Of under the rule of an
independent Agunaldian oligarchy The
slowly learned and 1~.E, H. ---
Difficult Art of Self-Government,
an art which our people have taught them
not be grasped in d day by a people just
emerging from conditions OF life which our an
cestors left behind them in the dim years be-
fore history dawned. We believe that we can
rapidly teach the people of the Philippine
islands not only how to enjoy but how to
make good use Of their freedom: and with their
growing knowledge their growth in self-gove-n-
ment shall keep steady pace. When they have
thus shown their capacity for real freedom by
their power of self-goverament. then. and not
tn then, Will it be possible to decide whether
they are to exist independently of Us or be knit
70 US py. ties of common friendship and in
terest. When that day will come it is not in
i human an wisdom Wis now to foretel All that we
can say with certainty is that it would be put
BACK an immeasurable distance If we should
yleld to the counsels of unmanly weakness and
turn loose the islands. to our victorious
trayed friends and shed the blood Of the most
humane the most enlightened the most peace
h tul me wlsest and the best of their own
oer-for these are the classes who have al
ready learned 70 welcome our rule =.
NOT, while fully acknowledging our duties tc
ooners, ne 2 we forget cur duty to our own
if0 t.
us as the Atlantic; as we grow in powe. and
prosperity so our interests will grow in tina,
Ia, West which is the irnmemorial East
\ ne SHADOW Of our destiny has already reached
70 the shores of Asia The might of our people
ALREADY looms large against the world horizon
ana M 1t WI loom ever larger as the year go by
NO statesman has a right to neglect the inter
ests or our people in the Pacific: interest
when are important to all our people, bu.
Whlch are OF most importance, to those Of our
people who have built populous and thriving
STATES on the western slope Of our continent
This should no more be party question
than the war for the Union should have been
party question At this moment the man in
highest office in the Philippine islands is the
vice governor, Gen. Luke Wright of Ten
n nesss who calamity wore the gray in the
civil war and who is now working hand in
hand with the head of our army in the Philip-
pines, Adna Chaffee. who in the Civil war gal
, iantly wore the blue, Those two, and the men
under them, from the North and from the
south, IN civil life and in military life, as
| ,eachers' as administrators, as soldiers, are
-I'oiAi6 hiisHluy lot us VINO live at home.
Here and there black sheep are to be founi
among them: but taken as whole they repre-
sent as nigh a standard of public service as
THIS country has ever seen. They are doing a
great work for civilization, a great work for
the honor and the interest of this nation, and
ABOVE all for the welfare of the inhabitants Of
the Phlllppine islands All honor to them and
shame, thrice shame, to us If we fail to uphold
their hands! ~ IS ~ ~
The applause accorded the president as
ne concluded was long and continuous,
and as ne took his seat some one in the
crowd cried out
Three chrees for our brave PRESIDENT
wnereupon a mighty shout went UP from
the threats Of the thousands who had