The Irish standard., 1902-05-31
the hearts of that people by force the
.Gve CT liberty which God PUT there
For Ee that wcrlleth Ii 9Th and wise,
Nor pauSeth in His plan,
Will take the sun out Of the skies
Ere freedom out of man.

! Nor pauseth in His plan.
Will take the sun out Of the skies
Ere freedom out of man.
This war. if you call it war, has
gone on for tllri e years. 1t will 70 CD
in some form for 3OD years unless this
policy be abandon Il. You will I'M
! 1ouhtcdly have times of peace and
quiet. or pretended submission. You
Will buy men with titles, Or office. or
salaries. You Will intimi,late cow
ards. You will get pretended and
fawning submission. The land will
smile and smile and seem ut peace.
Int the volcano will b. thee. The
lava will break out again. You can
never settle this thing until YOU settle
il right.
Il believe the American army, eff
Gers and soldiers to he made IN of rs
lrhve and humane men in general MS
ever lived. They have done what has
always hcen dore. and. until human
nature shall Change, always will he
gore i'll all like conditions. The chi f
guilt is on the heads of those who GRO
&ied the conditions.
you will never get officers or sol.
'icrs in the stln'ling army. as a rule,
20 give testno Y which they thlnk will
l." disayrccable to their sureriGs or
10 the war department.
II have letters in large numbers
myself. l believe every Sc at.r i'm this
body who is expected 10 do ANYTHING
[" inquire into these at: ocities has had
abundant letters to the effe which |
state. The same evil Of which we ar,
al. conscious. which leads men in pub
nc life to be unwilling TO incur un-
popularity or the diSplc of their
constituents by frankly ute iny and
acting upon tier opinions. applies with
lundredfolh more force when You
summon soldier CT IN officer to tell
factS which will bear he,vi'y or the
Il have had letters shown ne by
members OF this body who V uched
personally for the absolute t ustworthi-
NtsS of the writes, who ,'etli I'd the
fnrrorS OF the water torture aud other
Kindred atrocities. Which 10 Induce
ment would lead them to make public.
'i'hc private soldier who has ended
is term of service or who cXnrc.s t,
end it and return to lr.vat4 life is
Under less restraint. Hut when he tell,
his story he is met by tie s atcmput
OF an officer. in some eases, that it is
well known that private $ Id crs are in
the habit Of drawing the long bow to
use the phrase of some general whose
Lame has been brought mo this dis
clSSiOn.
I'm other words these gen rails are
so ical us of the llonor of Tie army,
and their own. that they cont.e their
jealousy to tie Lon T. of thu officers,
and expect you to reject these things
on the assertion that tie s,di is
l!"bitual liar. and then they rcproach
the men who complain with b ing in
different to the honor of the army.
WAS it ever u,cild Lel,re that a
civilized, humane and Christian nL.i.n
made war upon Il people ami refus d
to tell them what they wanted vi
them! You refuse to tell tesA De. Die
this year Or next year or perhaps i'll
twenty years whether you mean in the
end TO deprive them of Their indepen-
d"nce or no. You say y.u want them
to submit. 10 submit to what? To
mere military force? But FIR what
purpose or what end is that III litary
force to be eXcrtcd? You &c lie 10
tell them. Not only you decline to
say what you want of them, except
bare and abject surrender, but YOU will
not even let them tell you what they
ask Of you.
THE statement has been made that
many Filipinos favor your cause. But
what is your cause? What is your
cause that they favor? DO you mean
that Il majority of the Filipino people
favor your killing them? Certainly
not. DO YOU mean that Il majority of
tie Filipino people. CT that amy one
rlan in the Philippine Islands, accord
Ing to the evidence of Governor Taft
himself. favors anything that YOU are
willing to do?
"The evidence is that some cf them
favor their admission as an American
state and others favor Il so G. nment
OF their own under our p. election
Others would like to come in $ Il terri
tory under our constitution. But is
there any evidence that orc human be-
ing there is ready to submit to your
government without any ri%ll's unde:
our constitution. or without any pres
poet of coming in rs an American
state? Or is there any evidence that
any single American citizen, in the sen
ste or out of it. is willing that we
should do anything that single Fill
Pine is ready to consent to:
II have no doubt they will take thu
oath Of allegiance. Undoubtedly they
will go through Tie form of submission.
lIutlOuhtrillv Won hnvp fore, Iunumh