The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-07-11
OWL Government for the Philippines.
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try were left to themselves, except
that two of the French provinces
which had formerly belonged to Ger.
many, those of Alsace and Lorraine,
were by the treaty reannexed to and
became part of Germany, the inhabi-
tants of those provinces being given
all the rights and privileges that are
granted to every other German sub
ject
AS to the war between our own
country and Spain, when we met their
ships upon the sea and sunk them,
when our armies clashed at Santiago
and we defeated them, when the Span
ish flag was hauled down. the war was
over. 1t had been a fight between the
armies; it had not been a fight be-
tween peoples, nor fight by our army
against the people of Spain. When
that war ended the Spanish soldiers
were sent back to their homes at
American expense
The civil war, while it was an in
tercine war, was not a war of con-
quest; but at all times it was a war
for the maintenance of the Union, and
though 1t was long and bitter strug-
gle, when at last at Appomattox Gen
eral Lee surrendered his sword TO Cen
eral Grant General Lee and the South
ern army and the Southern people
knew that there was no subiugation
to follow, for the seeded States would
be restored to their orbits as Ameri-
can STAGES, with all the rights of the
other States, each and all of them
covered by the protecting aegis of the
Constitution. So, Mr., President, there
was no guerrilla war; there was no in
vasion of towns and cities; the torch
of the incendiary was not applied;
there was no torturing; both sides
laid down their arms, and the soldiers
of both armies returned to the voca-
lions of peace. 1t had been a war
between armies. and not war of the
North against the people of the South,
nor war of one people against an
other n
But our war in the Philippines is
war by an army against people.
When the Filipino army was defeated
and scattered that did not and could
not end the war, because the mission
of our army was to subjugate the peo-
pie and not alone destroy the armed
forces of the Philippine government.
So the Philippine people were pur
sued to their homes, to the converts,
and to their churches, into their fields,
and into their mountains, and those
who did not recognize our sovereignty
and take the oath of allegiance and,
as commanded by the orders of Bell
and other American officers. go to the
front and by active work against their
families, their friends, their neighbors,
and their townspeople show that they
were thoroughly loyal to the United
States were treated as enemies.
We know now, Mr.. President what
war of that kind means. 1t means
pursuit and slaughter in the impact
fed provinces, and it means jails in
the pacifed provinces under the pro-
visions of the so-called sedition laws.
| was reading in a newspaper the 9TH
er day that one of the judges of the
court of first instance was Fastening
to the place where his court was to
be. held because there were 500 PEG,
pie to be tried there for violations of
the infamous sedition laws. And SO
we have the sheriff and the jailer moy-
ing through the pacified provinces ar,
resting every man who dares to lisp
his aspiration for the independence
of his native land, and we have armed
forces moving through the unpacifled
provinces with fire and sword making
the people want peace and want it
badly"
Mr.. President, people battered In.
to peace, people shot and burned in.
to peace, are not loyal subjects, and
never will be loyal citizens. They may
profess peace, but fire of hate Is
forever smoldering. They may profess
love, but IL is false love. A people
who have acquired from the United
States in its better days an ideal of
government, an ideal that embraces