The age-herald., 1902-05-02
Feeling Against Philippine Policy
 Daily Growing More Bitter.

williams, 'fhe chief danger from it is not the butchery of the weak race, bad as that Is, but the temptation to tyranny that reacts upon the strong race. It is the brutalizing effect upon our soldiery, our own people, that must follow from waging savage warfare with partially savage people. And for that very reason war by great, strong, civilized, white na- tions against weak. impotent, uncivilized, half savage, colored peoples ought to be avoided wherever possible. Wherever you have such a system there will exist a Smith, under that name or some other, to issue brutal orders and to perpetrate crime, and there will exist a Funston, under that name or some other. to justi- fly 1t Avoid the real evil-wars of con- quest against alien and inferior peoples weaker than you. The gentleman from Pennsylvania was right when he said there can be no justification for a civil ized man with heart and conscience for an order to lay waste an entire coun- try and make 1t a bowling wilderness and to kill everybody, including children
 
 that in a war of that character, where the very worst passions of humanity are necessarily excited, where people do not treat one another with that courtesy and chivalry that two civilized nations treat one another, such orders and crimes and brutes are necessary consequence"
 
 Little Funston having found in MT. Curtis valiant defender, 1t is net sur prisine therefore that-evcn Speaker Hen derson should discover a brave cham pion with foolhardiness enough to fling his soiled glove in the face of a people resentful against the one-man power which rules the House of Representa- lives.
 The speakers's man is the Hon. Will Ham Shattuc of Ohio, to whom the speaker very thoughtfully and consider ately gave the chairmanship of a commit tee which ought to be one of the most important in the House, namely, the committee on immigration and natural ization. According to the rule of custom. MT. Shattuc ought not to havo been given craftsmanship, for the excellent reason that this is but his third term in Congress.
 It is quite natural that Mir Shattuc should be grateful for such unusual honor and patronage, and so he comes forth as the champion of his master and tries to make reply to MT. Cushmans now fam ous oratorical onslaught upon the legis- lat1ve firm of Henderson, Payne and Dalzell, proprietors of the will of the House.
 MT. shattuc maintains that 1t is a grave wrong and gross injustice to MT. Cush- man or any other member to criticize the speaker, for "the speaker represents the whole country and has the entire burden of Congress to bear, and yet cannot de- fend himself upon the floor"
 That is truly pitful plea for so mighty a man.
 MT. Cushman-they call him "Franlxr- is as to age boy amongst Congressman. He will be five and thirty on the Sth of this May; but he has the supreme ad- vantage of being an Iowa man by birth. He boasts that he never held office "elective or appointive," until he was elected to the last Congress. Surprising as it may seem, he does not state that he was born on farm" but he makes up for that deficiency by informing us that he worked for time as a common la borer or section hand on a railroad; at the age of 16 he removed to Wyoming where he remained for five years, work ing as cowboy on a ranch, in lumber camp, teaching school and studying law" That was a good foundation for the ad- mirable character MT. Cushman possesses and unless the deluge of praise he is now swimming in spells him he will achieve enviable distinction. In appearance he is strong, good-looklng young man.
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.