Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-31
ARMY CRITICS ANSWERED.
Ceremonies at Arlington Partake of
 National Character.


 sailor dead.
 President Roosevelt rode to Arlington in his carriage, escorted by General District of Columbia national guard on horseback. The services there began with the firing of salute by the Fourth battery, United States field ar tillery.
 The procession, consisting of mem bers of the Grand Army of the Repub- lie, Sons of Veterans and Spanish War Veterans, Women's Relief Corps, La dies of the G. A. R., League of Loyal Women, Ladies' Auxiliary to Union Veteran legion and Union Veterans un- nion headed by the Marine band, marched first to the tomb of the un- known dead, where the work of deco rating was performed by a special com-> mittee The different committees then separated and proceeded with the dec oration of other graves. Appropriate selections were rendered by the Marine band during this ceremony, and when it was concluded the procession again formed and marched to the pavilion, where the services were held.
 After the sounding of assembly by the bugler there was an introductory dirge by the Marine band, followed by the singing of Nearer, My God, to Thee" The department chaplain deliv- cred the invocation, and Dr. Thomas Calver read memorial ode. The pro- gramme included recital of Lincoln'S Gettysburg address by Colonel Edwin B. Hay, followed by vocal selections. President Roosevelt then delivered an oration, which was followed by the singing of the "Holy City, and an ad- dress by Commander in Chief Torrance of the G. A. k.
 President Roosevelt began his ad- dress with a tribute to the men who | fought for the Union. He continued: Just at this moment the army of the United States, led by men who served to completion a small but peculiarly try | ing and difficult war in which is involved uTanh of civilization over forces which stand for the black chaos of savagery and barbarisn The task has not been as diff ficult or as important as yours; but, oh, my. comrades, the men in the uniform of the United States who have for the last three years patiently and uncomplainingly championed the American cause in the Philippine Islands are your younger broth selves not unworthy of you, and they are entitled to the support of ali men who are
 These younger comrades of yours have l fought under terrible difficulties and have cruel and very treacherous enemy. Under l the strain of these provocations deeply deplore to say that some among them counsel and commit in retaliation acts of cruelty. The. fact that for every guilty act committed by one of our troops a hun l dred acts of far greater atrocity have 1 been committed by the hostile natives l upon our troops or upon the peaceable and law abiding natives who are friendly l to us cannot be held to excuse any 1 wrongdoer on our side, Determined and 1 ing made to find out every instance of barbarity on the part of our troops to l possible even stronger measures than have already been taken to m minimize % e, or 1 From time to time there occur in our our people lynchings carried on under l circumstances of inhuman cruelty and barbarity. a cruelty infinitely worse than l any that has ever been committed by our 1 troops in the Philippines; worse to the victims and far more brutalizing to those
 The men who fail to condemn these lynchings and yet clamor about what has guilty of neglecting the beam in their own l eye while taunting their brother about l the mote in his. Understand me, these 1 to stop cruelty in the Philippines. Every l effort is being made and will be made to minimize the chances or cruelty occur
 But keep in mind that these cruelties in l the Philippines have been wholly excep- tional and have been shamelessIy exag- gerated We deeply and bitterly regret that any such eruelties 1e ,f snouid,have been 1 ter under what provocation, by American troops, but they afford far less justifica- 1 ton for a general condemnation of our l army than these lynchings afford for the l condemnation of the communities in which Iszli to condemn the deed, and it is well l also to refrain from including both guilty and innocent in the same sweeping con-
 The victories of the American army have been the really effective means of putting Wherever these victories have been com plete, and. such is now the case through l cruelties have ceased, and the native is secure in his life. h:g liberty and his pur- still smolders there is always chance for cruelty to show itself.
 object for which they conquer? To estab- j fish a military government? No. The laws we are now endoeayTorri!n1g T,r to enact for I increase the power and domain of the civil i at the expense of the military authorities and to render even more difficult than in the past the chance of oppression. The | military power is used to secure peace in fpeeF fhe ciV taa' government Q @ The progress of | the American arms means the abolition of 1 cruelty the bringing of peace and the rule of law and order under the civil govern 1 ment. Other nations have conquered to create irresponsible. military rule; We conquer to bring just and responsible civil
 government to the conQuered.
 l The slowly learned and difficult art of
 self government an art which our people
 have taught themselves by the labor of g
 thousand years, cannot be graSped in 2
 day by people only Just emerging from
 conditions of life which our ancestors Jeff
 behind them in the dim years before his
 tory dawned. We believe that we car
 Islands not only how to enjoy but how tc l make good use of their freedom, and witt
 their growing Knowledge their growth il
 self government shall keep steady pace. 1 When they have thus shown their ca. sl pacity for real freedom by their power ot
 will 1t be possible to decide whether they
 are to exist independently of us or be knit
 to us by ties of common friendship anC
 interest. When that day will come it is
 not in human wisdom now to foretell.
 This should no more be 9 party ques.
 ton than the war for the Union shoule
 have been a party question. At this mo.
 ment the man in highest office in the
 Philippine Islands is the vice governor
 General Luke Wright of Tennessee, who
 gallantly wore the gray in the. civil. wal
 and who is now working hand in hand
 with the head of our army in the Philip.
 pines, Adna Chaffee, who in the civi
 and the men under them from the north
 and from the south in civil life and in
 military life, as teachers, as administra-
 tors as soldiers, are laboring nightly for
 us who live at home. Here and there
 black sheep are to be found among them