The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-05-02
Sibley's Hot Speech.

OF Pennsylvania, said he had been
an eXpansionist and defended the
policy in the Philippines. Duty and
honor, he said, justified our position
there. The commercial welfare of
the nation demanded that we should
control that archipelago, which
stands as the gateway to the orien-
tai world. He then continued:
"When I have ht ard the state
ments made that we were cruel in
the conduct of that war, I have.
thought perhaps the partisan was
speaking. But when have read
as l have within the past forty-eight
hours, that general wearing the
uniform of the army of the United
States-one who stands under the
shadow of our flag-issues orders
not to conciliate province, but to
leave it a bowling wilderness aud to
kill all above 10 years of age, then
it appears to me that humanity
must have marched backward for
eighteen enturies, and that Herod
again appears. I have read of Tim
our the Tartar; I have read of Achll-
les; I have read of the Saracen
soourge, but ! thank God that since
the tragic scene on Calvary it has
taken eighteen centuries to produce
a Smith. I have read of the water
cure. I believe that it was exag-
gerated. Can any man whose blood
pounds in his pulses, any man who
has read his bible, or any man who
has been reared at the knee of a
Christian women, justify the perpe-
tration of such cruelties upon an
other man who wears the guise and
image of his creator?
And yet we, hear this man at
tempting to justify acts by which
men are pumped SO full Of water as
to nearly drown them and then
brought back to life by humping
them over the stomach with butts of
muskets. That is not civilization;
that is not Outstanding the world!
I am thankful that these are spora-
die cases. Against that, as man
who belongs, I hope, not alone to
the republican ranks, but to the
the whole brotherhood of man, the
wide world arond, I want the mem
bers of this house, on this side of the
chamber and that to voice their
protest against all such measures.
(Applause.)
A friend of mine said a few min
utes ago, ooh, I know you had bet
ter wait and hear his Defense" I
hope the president of this United
tate s will have the courage. upon
what the man admits, to discharge
him dishonarbly from the service
that he has disgraced. (Applause.)
He admits that he issued the order
to leave the province a bowling
waste and a wilderness, and to kill
all above ten years of age, The limo
cent with the guilty. That man
never ought to be permitted to stay
in the service of the United States
until the sun goes down. He is a
disgrace, not alone to the party, but
to every man who ever wore the
uniform Of the United States, and
he is a blot and a disgrace to our
present civilization. Wait and
hear what his justification may be!
That man does not live who can
justify such orders. (Applause.)
! care,not how adroitly his law
ers may frame their plea or how sub
tie be their reasoning, the fact ad-
mitted by his own mouth that he
issued such orders is sufficient for
the hope that there is the courage
and the patriotism and the humanity
and the Christianity at the other
end OF the avenue that will not let
him wear the federal uniform
twenty.four hours hence.
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