The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-06-06

like cargoes have passed through before,
maniacs and broken in mental health as the
result Of service in the Philippine islands.
MI President, every one of these
maniacs, every one of the many like
freights of horror that come back to us
from the Philippine islands was once an
American boy, the delight of some Amsri-
can home, fairer and nobler in his young
promise, as we like to think, than any
other the round world over. All, Mr.. Pres
ident, it was not 81, co. GO that we paid as
the price of sovereignty. II was the souls
OF these boys of ours that entered into the
cost.
Cenaure for Funston.
'I do not wish to dwell at length on the
circumstances which attended the capture
of Aguinaldo. But as they have been elaB-
orately defended in this body, ard it is said
that the officer who captured him had a
good record before, and especially as he has
been decorated by promotion by the ad
vice and consent of the senate, cannot let
1t pass in silence.
az understand the facts to be that that
officer disguised the men under his COM
mand in the dress of Filipino soldiers;
wrote, or caused to be written, a forged let
ter to Aguinaldo, purporting to come from
one Of his officers, stating that he was about
to bring him some prisoners he had cap
tured. and in that way got access to Aguin-
ardo's headquarters. AS he approached he
sent message to Aguinaldo that he and his
friends were hungry; accepted the food at
his hands, and when in his presence threw
down and seized him; shot some of the SOL
Giers who were about Aguinaido and
brought him back prisoner into our lines.
That is the transaction which Is so highly
applauded in imperialistic quarters.
81 do not believe that the senate knew
what it was doing when 1t consented to Gen.
Funston promotion.
Mr.. President, we have two guides for
the conduct of military officers in such cir
cumstances. They apply not only to this
act of Gen. Funston, but they apply to most
of the conduct of our military officers of
which complaint has been made. One of
these is instructions for the government of
pared by DR.. Francis Lieber and promul-
gated by order of Abraham Lincoln.
1.-The other is the convention at The
Hague, agreed upon by the representatives
of this government with the others on the
18th day of July, 1899, and ratified by the
senate on the 18th of March, 1902.
Infamy of Funston's Act.
$50, Mr.. President, the act of Gen. Fun
ston-not Gen. Funston himself If he acted
under orders of his superior-but the act of
Gen. Funston is stamped with indelible in
fanny by Abraham Lincoln's articles of war,
to which the secretary of war appeals, and
the concurrent action of "a nations and the
unanimous action of the senate this winter.
Mr.. President, in this attempt to force
your sovereignty by this process of benev-
Olent assimilation we nave Deen brought 10
the unexampled dishonor of disregarding
our own rules for the conduct of armies In
the field and to disregard the rules to which
our national faith has just been pledged to
substantially all the civilized powers ofthe
earth.
But this act of Gen. Funston's, ap-
proved by his superior officer, was in viola
ton rot only of the laws of war, but of that
law of hospitality which governs alike
everywhere the civilized Christian or pagan
wherever the light of chivalry has pene-
trated. He went to Aguinaldo under the
pretense that he was ahungered, and
Aguinaldo fed him. Was not that an act
of perfidy? II violated, the holy rite of hos
pitality, which even the oriental nations
hold sacred.
The Water Cure.
p 'Mr. President, the story of what has been
told by other senators. have no inclination
that not a twentieth part of it has yet been
told. get letters in large numbers from Of
ficers, of the friends of officers, who repeat
cruelties. And yet the officer, or the Of
tiers to me send them under strict injunc-
tion of secrecy. Other senators tell me they
have like experience. These brave Off
GERS, who would go to the lannon's mouth
for honor, who never fiinchlin battle, finch
before what they deem the certain ruin of
their prospects in life if they give the evil
dence which they think would be distaste-
full to their superiors. 1 do not undertake
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