Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-08

stands under the shadow of our flag, is
sues orders. not to conciliate province
but to leave it bowling wilderness and
to kill all above ten years of age, then it
seems to me that humanity must have
marched backward for eighteen centuries
and that Herod again appears.
I have read of Timour, the Tartar;
have read of Attila, 1 have read of the
Saracen scourge, but I thank God that
since the tragic scene on Calvary it has
taken eighteen centuries to produce a
Smith. have read of the water cure.' l
believe that was exaggerated. Can any
man whose blood bounds in his pulses,
any man who has read his Bible or who
has been reared at the knee of a Chris
tian woman, justify the preparation of
such cruelties upon another man who
wears the guise and the image of his
Creator? And yet we hear this man at
tempting to justify acts by which men are
pumped so full of water aG nearly to
drown them and then brought back to life
by humping them over the stomach with
the butts of muskets. That is not civ
ilization; that is not Christianizing the
world. am thankful that these are
sporadic cases.
All Should Join In Protest.
They will never pacify any race of hu-
man beings on this earth by first drown
with the butt of a musket, and against
that, as member upon this side of the
chamber, against that as a man who be-
longs, hope, not alone to the Republican
ranks, but to the whole brotherhood of
man the wide world round, 1 want the
members of this house on this side of the
chamber and that to voice their protest.
A friend of mine said a few minutes
ago, "Oh, you had better wait and hear
his defense!" I hope the president of the
United States will have the courage, upon
what the man admits, to discharge him
dishonorably from the service that he has
disgraced. 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 innocent 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 disgrace
not alone to the party, but to every man
who ever wore the uniform of the United
States, and he is 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.
There is no justification. I care not how
adroitly his lawyers may frame their plea
or how subtle be their reasoning The
fact admitted by his own mouth that he
issued such orders is sufficient for the
hope that there are the courage and the
patriotism and the humanity and the
Christianity at the other end of the ave-
nue. that will not let him wear the fed
eral uniform twenty-four hours hence.
Certainly that was straight from the
shoulder and does great credit to both
the head and the heart of Joseph C,
Sibley No doubt there are thousands
Of other decent Republicans who are
thinking what Sibley had the courage
and manliness to say. OF course the
organ grinders will jump him, but he
can stand it. He voiced the idea of all
decent people of all parties. Since the
delivery of his speech he has beer
flooded with commendatory letters
from all parts of the country. Right
thinking Americans do not propose that
we shall be known throughout the
world as bloody butchers, to which low
and unenviable position such soldiers
God save the mark!-as Genera
Smith would reduce us. What pity
what calamity, what a burning
shame that we ever undertook to con
quer and hold the Philippines! They
will be a milestone about our necks un
in the insane course upon which we
have entered, this Philippine business
will bankrupt us financially and, what
is worse, ruin our good name, which
King Solomon declared is more to be
desired than great riches.
That Mr.. Sibley does not stand alone
among Republicans in his present atti
tude of antagonism to this Herodlike
business in the Philippines is demon
strated by the fact that the Philadel
phia North American, a stanch Repub
lican paper, owned and conducted by
John Wanamaker's son, denounces an6
cartoons General Wilson as another
General Weyler, which is perhaps the
severest denunciation that could be ap
piled to any soldier. Weyler has beer
a name at which the world held its
nose, even if it did not grow pale, ever
since his brutalities in Cuba.
A Splendid Texan.
The house will in January lose one
of it's ablest and most lovable members
in the person of Judge Samuel Willis
Tucker Lanham of Texas, but our loss
is Judge Lanham's gain, for he quits
the house to become governor of the
empire state Of Texas, a vast honor
within itself, but what augments II
manifold in Judge Lanham's case Is
that he is to be nominated without op-
position, thing that rarely comes to
any man in this world, and since states
were first instituted among men nc
commonwealth ever had a more amia-
BILE, more modest, more honest or a
more honorable chief magistrate. He
was a Confederate soldier in his youth
has been a successful lawyer since the
close Of the civil war and has served
sixteen years in the house with great
usefulness and distinction. A stanch
partisan in politics, he has the friend
ship of every man in the house without
reference to politics. His extreme mod
esty is shown by the fact that his auto
biography in the Congressional Direct
ory occupies only six lines and half
while some others with not quarter
Of his career consume nearly a page
each in setting out the events of their
lives. Judge Lanham is only ffty-six
years old, and if he is elected and re-
elected governor, as is the rule in Tex
as, he will close his gubernatorial ca
reer when in his sixty-frst year and
retire to the shades of private life with
his own self respect intact, followed by
the love of all who know him. Texas
is a magnificent commonwealth, and
Lanham will make magnificent gov
ernor.
Congressional Pet Names.
The rules of the house provide, and
properly SO, that when one member re-
fers to another member in a speech on
the floor of the house he shall use this
formula: 'sThe gentleman from So-and-
SO (AIr. So-and-so)." That rule is de-
signed to preserve the decorum of the
house and to prevent angry talk, per.
haps pugilistic encounters. But it is
much easier to make rule than to en-
force it. The character and manners
Of some men invite familiarity, and
the names by which they are addressed
in the free intercourse of social life
cling to them in the house. For in
stance, nine times out Of ten when
members wish to refer to Hon. Charles
Henry Grosvenor of Ohio they say
General Grosvenor" instead of .'the
gentleman from Ohio (Nfr. Grosvenor).' =