The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-01

Inc CIVIL WdE. whose duty Is 10 create
a spirit Of fraternity throughout our
land. should waive its bitter memories.
and in his imagination conceive traduc-
ers in order to silence criticism OF his
indefensible Philippine policy. II Is
hard to believe that such speeches will
strengthen him in any section OF the
country, but probably he thought SO,
and I admit his right to look out for his
political future. such speeches are not
made for hat section Of the country
where ii is safe to rely upon offices to
gather the entire strength OF his party.
n boil sections may be Of use to him
hereafter. He failed to specify a single
instance OF SANDER or traduction OF our
army in the Philippines. A man of
straw he made and attacked with SIREN
uous vigor. To lei straits are the de-
tenders of colonialism driven"
Mr.. Kitchin embodied in his speech
letters and official reports as to the
conduct Of affairs in the Philippines.
Among them was Colonel Woodruf's
report on the trial of General Smith as
follows:
The accused desires to simplify this
case as much as possible. and admits
that he was commanding general OF the
sixth separate brigade, division OF the
Philippines; that Major Waller was one
Of his subordinate officers, commanding
a Subterritorial district, and that he did
give him personal instructions relating
to hostiles under arms in the field, and
he did instruct him not to burden him.
self with prisoners, of which General
Smith already had so many that the
efficiency of his command was impaired,
and tell him that he wanted him to kill
and burn in the interior and hostile
country; and did further instruct him
that the interior of Samar must be
made a bowling Wilderness; and did
further instruct him that he wanted all
persons killed who were capable of
bearing arms and were actively engag-
ed in hostilities, and that he did desig-
nate the age limit at 10 years, as boys
of that age were actively engaged in
hostilities against the United States
authorities n were equally dangerous
as an enemy as those Of more mature
age"
The record then shows that the judge
advocate asked this question:
Does the accused admit that as his
statesment?"
ct do" was the response of General
Smith.
During the evening session of. the
same day Mr.. Pou spoke on the subject
of trusts. He was accorded strict at
IGI1llOH dlu was Ioulidly oPoieoo%N az
the conclusion of his speech.
Mr.. Pou became very sarcastic when
he alluded to the presidents
efforts to suppress the beef trust. He
declared that there was no genuine ef-
fort made by him to suppress this or
any other trust; that "a republican
president cannot fight a trust in the
very nature of things';that 1.-The repub-
livan party cannot fight the trusts be-
cause the republican party 'G the trusts
and the trusts are the republican party.
For the republican party to night the
trusts would simply be the trusts fight
ing themselves. They would simply he
committing suicide" He declared that
the only result of the Sherman act has
been to prevent ,H5 from entering
into agreements to strike for higher
wages. Mr.. Pou closes with these
words:
mo, Mr.. Chairman, the trusts have
nothing to fear from this administra-
ton. The beef trust will not be sup
pressed. The suit which the president
ordered will not terminate until after
the November election. When it comes
to = hearing some defec- will be found
in the law which will save b trust
from destruction. The suit will be kept
pending until after the ides OF NoVem-
Der, and then it will lie cr il will dis
appear from the docket in some way
and the beef trust will still be found
doing business at the old stand"