The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-26
FUNSTON IS
 EXCORIATED  MT. Carmack Attacks the
 Kansas General. SAYS HE SHOULD HANC'
"Jayhawker Brigadier from
 the Wind-Swept Plains"
Senator from Tennessee Fiercely De- nounces the Philippine Govern ment Bill Now Pending-Yes-
 terday With the House.

occupied the entire attention of the Senate today. Mir. McCumber (N. D) discuss ed his bill to prevent the msbrandins and misrepresentation of food products which enter into interstate commerce Mr. Carmack (Tenn.) one of the minority members of the Philippine Committee spoke in opposition to the Philippine gov ernment 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 criticized the President not only for the policy he is pursuing in the Philip pines, but for utterances which the Sena- tor declared tended to fan the flame of instruction. He also denounced General Funston, whom he characterized as the "jayhawker brigadier from tine wind swept plains-the mightiest Samson that ever yielded the jaw-bone of an ass as a weapon of war"
 Aspect of Imperialism.
 Mir. Carmack said that this bill. like the Philippines tariff bill simply presented one aspect of imperialism. It was not a question only of framing just laws for | the FiIipinos but a question: of right to make any laws whatever for that people "The claim of the Republicans" said he, 'is that they had burned enough towns. wasted enough country and killed enough people to make good their right | The land is ours because we have streWn | it with the ashes of it's homes ana drenched it with the blood of its people Opponents of this policy denied that we | had derived any just powers Of govern ment from the subjugation Of the gov erned, and that was the real issue or | this dabate. In former deba1e ne saio' Mir. Spooner had charged that the minority had prostituted the question to partisan purposes and that Mir. Bryan had seized upon it to force an issue with the administration. Unfortunately Tor this argument the fact was that Mr. Bryan had declared his position upon the question long before anybody knew what the policy of the administration would be. At that time the public utterances | of Mckinley and Bryan were in exact accord and if the administration had not reversed its policy there would have been no difference between them.
 The Democrats in the Senate, he insist | ed had tried to remove the question from party politics. It was now claimed that | the civil authority of the United States was supreme throughout the Philippines and if was treason for Democrat to l express opinion.
 He cited the public utterances of Presi- dent Mckinley and Mir. Roosevelt and the speeches of Republican Senators ana
 quoted from the Republican campaign book to show that a general policy of colonialism and conquest was advocated | as Republican doctrine.
 | A Lunatic's Delusion.
 | oThe idea that you can transform the | character of a race by teaching them to read" said he, lis the widest. craziest' | the most fantastic dream that ever mt l ted through a lunatic's brain. | He quoted utterances from Mir. Roose-
 welt charging that Unreasonable utter ances had melted the Filipinos to insur- | rection" and said that we must not Judse
 the President In his moment of oratorical
 ferocity or when the frenzy of battle WAS | in his blood. | .,rhe President was not vindicative but
 simnIv 'strenuous' and rescmbled in his | ha hits of speech a certain Tennesseean
 horse of which It was said that running
 away was his natural gait. MT. Roosevelt
 had habitually spoken of the F1liplnos
 as savages' and 'barbarians and
 .Anaches' and these denunciatons had 1 bepn scattered broadcast throughont the | islands to inflame the people against tne
 I-nitcd states. The effect of the Presi
 dents language had been to haroeh ano
 intensity Filipino opposition to Amerl'
 can rule. Some of our military heroes had been guilty of a like offense
 Jaw Bone of an Ass
 | He referred to a recent speech or Gen eraI Funston. whom he described as the
 "Javhawker hrigadier from the Wlno Swept Plains, the mighttest Samson 'ha' ever yielded the jaw bone ot an ASS a' l a weapon Of war 1 Mir CarmacK said death had cheated | Funston of some illustrious victims lkt
 ex x-Senator Sherman and eN-fresiaeii' l Harrison. but there were still enough tt kccn him busy Papers had quoted Fun | stor as saving that the President en- | +irnly approved his recent speech anC
 wanted him to accept an invitation ron the iunior Senator from Massachusetts l to 20 to Boston and tell the people there | about hanging the senior Senator ron | Massachusetts but the plain truth Wa' | that Funston could not hang anybody.
 ..L,nston should go back to the Phil l innines to the land where there was { , plenty of hemp and no execution.
 Then Hang Funston.
 "If men are to be hanged without re l gard to law for speaking words calcu' lated to incite insurrection. said he th'
 first neck to feel the strangling clutter
 of the rope should be the heroic guhe' | of Funston ,,,.-
 Ever since he had been in the Philip hines he had been pouring forth tirades
 of indiscriminate insult against the whole
 people and had outrageously insulted the very men upon whom the committee was
 relying for aid in pacifying the country
 He also had it on the very hghesI au
 thority that d speech made by the Stha
 tor from Indiana (Mr Beveridgc) had
 bcen circulated broadcast throughout the
 country with an exceedingly perniciou'
 of,ect upon the natives. The dominant
 idea of the bill now before fhe Senate
 said he. was to exploit the Philippines
 Ii was proposed to take q wholesale gran
 of franchise and concessions and to dis
 pose of the peoples lands 10 foreign syn
 dtc4tes and corporations without givini
 the people themselves any choice in th'