The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-06-26
A Champion Of Freedom.
Continued from Ist paae)

clad height
These hardships ill.sustalned, these
dangers past,
The rowing Spanish bands are reach.
ed at last,
Charged, and dispersed like foam;
but as flight
OF scattered quails by signs do re.
unite,
So these-and, heard of once again,
are chased
With combination of long-practiced
| art
And newly kindled hope; but they
are fed,
Gone are they, viewless as the buried
dead;
Where now? Their sword is at the
foemans heartl
And thus from year to year his walk
they thwart,
And hang like dreams around his
guilty bed
a
civilized, humane, and Christian ma
ton made war upon people and re-
fused to tell them what they wanted
of them?
You refuse to tell these people this
year or next year or perhaps for
twenty years, whether you mean in
the end 10 deprive them of their indie
pendence or no. You say you want
them to submit. To submit to what?
To mere military force? But for
what purpose or what end is military
force to be exerted? You decline to
say what you want of them. Not only
you decline to say what you want of
them, except bare and abject surren-
der, but you will not even let them
tell you what they ask of you.
The Senator from Ohio (Mr. Forak-
err says it Is asserted with show
of reason that a majority of the people
favor our cause. General Macarthur
denies this statement, and says they
were almost unit for Aguinaldo.
Mr.. DENLY and Mr.. Schurman, two of
the three commissioners of the first
Filipino Commission, deny the state
ment. General Bell, in his letter of
December 10, 1901, says, "a MAORI
ty of the inhabitants of his province
have persistently continued their op.
position during the entire period of
three years al that the men pho ac-
cept local Office from the governor and
take the oath of allegiance do 1t sole
ly for the purpose of improving their
opportunity for resistance" That
statement is concurred in by every
Department commander there. Ger
tainly Major Gardeners apparently
temperate and fair statement-about
which we are to have no opportunity
to examine him until Congress ad-
journs-does NOT say any such thing
as that suggested by the Senator
from Ohio.
But what is your cause? What is
your cause that they favor? Do you
mean that a majority of the Filipino
people favor your killing them? Ger
tainly not. Do you mean that a ma
jority Of the Filipino people or that
any one man in the Philippine Is
lands, according to the evidence of
N ms I'M
that you are willing to do?
The evidence Ia that some of them
favor their admission as an American
State and others favor government
of their own under you'd protection.
Others would like to come in as
Territory under our Constitution But
is there any evidence that one human
being there is ready to submit to your
government without any right under
our Constitution, or without any pros.
pect of coming In as an American
State, Or, is there any evidence that
any single American citizen, in the
Senate or out of 1t, Is willing that
we should do anything that a single
Filipino is ready to consent to?
I have no doubt they will take the
oath of allegiance Undoubtedly they
will go through the form of submis.
sion. Undoubtedly you have force
enough to make the whole region a
bowling wilderness II you think fit.
Undoubtedly you can put up form !