The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-25
after FUNSTON.
Senator COrmack Bitterly At
tacks the Kansan
In a Speech on the Philippine
Government Bill.
OUGHT TO BE HANGED.
He Says If Anybody is to Suffer
Death
WifhOuf Warrant OF law FINN
OUGHT TO BE HANGED
Without Warrant of Law Fun
stOn Should Be First.

Washington. April 25.-In the senate
today Mr. McCumber IN. d, chairman
of the committee on manufactures,
spoke on the bill ito prevent the adul-
teration, misbranding and imitation of
food, beverages, candies, drugs and
condiments in the District of Columbia
and the territories and for regulating in
terstate commerce therein.
The object of his address, he said, was
to convince the senate of the very great
Importance of the subject to the Ameri-
can people.
At , O'Clock the Philippine bill was
taken up and Mr.. Carmack (Tenn.)
spoke against it.
Mr.. Carmack said that his bill. like
the Philippine tariff BILL simply pre-
sented one aspect of Imperialism. 1t was
not question only of framing just laws
for the Filipinos, but question of
right to make any laws whatever for
that people.
The claim of the Republicans" said
he. is that they had burned enough
towns, wasted enough country and kill
ed enough people to make good their
right. The land is ours because we
have strewn it with the ashes of its
homes and drenched it with the blood Of
its people"
Opponents Of this policy denied that
we had derived any just power OF gov
ernment from the subjugation of the
SONGIIlSO4 anu Ludl was the ESei ISSUE u
this debate. In the former debate, he
said, Mr.. Spooner had charged that the
minority had prostituted the question of
partisan purposes and that Mr. Bryan
had seized upon 1t to force an issue
with the administration Unfortunately
for this argument the fact was that
Mr.. Bryan had declared his position
upon this question long before anybody
knew what the policy of the admins
tratiOn would be- At that time the pub
lie utterances of Mckinley and Bryan
were in exact accord and if the admins
tration had not reversed its policy there
would have been no difference between
them. The Democrats in the senate, he
insisted, had tried to remove the ques-
ton from the party politics. It was now
claimed that the civil authority OF the
United States was supreme throughout
the Phili~nfneS and it was treason for
a Democrat to express an opinion. He
cited the public utterances of President
Mckinley and Mr.. Roosevelt and the
speeches of Republican senators, and
quoted from the Republican campaign
book to show that general policy Of
cOlonialism and conquest was advocated
as Republican doctrine.
The idea that you can transform the
character of a race by teaching them to
read said he, is the widest, craziest,
the most fantastic dream that every
fitted through a lunatic'S brain"
He quoted utterances from Mr.
Roosevelt charging that "treaSonable"
utterances had melted the Filipinos to
judge the president in his moments of
oratorical ferocity or when frenzy Of
battle was in his blood. The president
was not Vindictiye but simply ''stren-
uOus," and resembled in his habits of
speech a certain "Tennesseean" horse,
of which it was said that running away
was its natural gait. Mr. Roosevelt
had habitually spoken of the FiliDinOS
"Apaches, and these denunciations had
been scattered broadcast through
out the islands to infame the people
against the United States. The effect
of the presidents language had been to
harden and intensity Filipino opposi-
ton to American rule.
Some Of our military heroes have
been guilty of a like Offense'' He re-
ferred to q. late speech of General Fun
stOn, Whom he described as the jay
hawker brigadier from the wind-swept
plains, the mightiest Samson that ever
welded the jaWbone Of an ass as a
weapon of war; Mr.. Carmack said
death had cheated Funston of some
iliustriOus victims, like former Senator
Sherman and former President Harri-
son, but there were still enough to keep
him busy Papers had quoted Funston
as saying the president entirely ap-
proved his gallows speech, and wanted
him to accept an invitation of the junior
senator from Massa achusetts and go to
Boston and talk to the people there
about hanging the senior senator from
Massachusetts, but the plain truth was
that Funston could not hang anybody
Funston should go back to the Philip
plnes-to the land where there was
plenty of hemp and no constitution
II men are to be hanged without re-
gard to law for speaking words calcu
lated to incite insurrection," he said
the first neck to feel the strangIing
clutch Of the soaped rope should be the
heroic gullet of Funston" Ever since
he had been in the Philippines he had
been pouring forth TRADES of indiscrini-
mate insult against the whole people and
had outrageously insulted the very men
upon whom the commission was relying
for aid in pacifying the country He
also had it on the very highest authority
that a speech made by the senator from
Indiana (Mr- Beveridge) had been cir
culated broadcast throughout the coun-
try with an exceedingly pernicious ef-
feet upon the natives.
The dominant idea of the bill now be-
fore the senate. said he. was to .eSDloit
the Philippines. It was proposed to
make a wholesale grant of franchises
and concessions and to dispose of the
peoples lands to foreign syndicates ana
corporations without giving the people
themselves any voice in the business.
The whole bill was a Ditiful evasion of
a plain duty. We had a right to de-
mand and the Filipinos have right to
demand that the administration shall
at least define its policy in the Philip
pines.
ed, did they base their belief in the purity
Of carpetbag government He spoke of
the south and said the Republicans
gave no heed to the cry Of an oppressed
ana plundered people. though they We're
lnelr own people OF their own blood he
declared that from the very first outbreak
there had been a conspiracy to suppress
the truth and TO whitewash every outrage
IN the Philippines.
In conclusion he said that he had not
been Influenced in this matter by any low
desire for party advantage. He only