New-York tribune., 1902-06-09
DEFENDS CONDUCT OF ARMY.
GENERAL, HORATIO c. KING SPEAKS 10
THE ARMY AND NAVY UNION
IN BROOKLYN.

Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. was filled last hlsh'
with members of the Army and Navy O1'iol VIZ sl
the annual memorial services IN memory Vi t
heroic dead of the army and navy were heid
The Rev Willard P. Harmon, assistant pastoi u
plvmo1,th Church presided. The Rev. r. G. Bowen
cbapIatn of the War Veterans and Sons Associa-
tion read the Scripture and Edward + 1rihies
CHAPLAIN delivered the prayer. Dudley BUCK was
organist and patriotic hymns were sung by the
congregation. General Horatio C. KING was the
only speaker. His address was on Ihe American
Volunteer" He said in part:
The true safeguard of the American Republic
peepe 5es ln m e8gaged in peaceful ayoeaons eight mill
ions. if necessary Of able boded men Feaoy be at
a9oFes s, their EorkshoPs their ploughs and their Their
beoas to to en fRem IN and Which they rule
aecompshsd by the gre great the
obscures extent one other great real fr result @ of
Hmericah volunteer and gave notice to the whole
world that the strength of great nation lies not
In In ts the 6f fss @ people,
daah to and hold love Country
with love of God. The volunteer Of i776 suffered
!ne T6e @ of in the foul
Se @ aa the
tramp tramp OF the two MILLION d TN men b-oa eenoe@ o4
kings and emperors; it startled from apathetlc re-
pose the oppressed and downtrodden of the earth,
out the clarion cry of Liberty! Liberty! Liberty
nigh m a1d that " the God % of Justice regns
At this point I L will be permitted to
ment accorded the American volunteer now in the
Philippines 3y I IN of the G some o. sae Pe9pe n
of this we know is purely for political effect, which
utter Ignorance of the rules and usages of war
IS the result OF & hysterla war ea9nof 1s
with lavender water We have the high authority
which will bring speedy peace is the truest kind
In the great war: the policy Of conciliation was
pursued in the vain hope of enticng our erring
ing crops and private property In the enemys
country We're carefully guarded when M our own men men
by the South evidence of weakness. and the
waT g n At gh h5 PGdd ad
to see and feel war in its most terrible aspects.
with mourning The lex taglionis ,,t.1IL retaaon in
fare was universally adopted. The innocent were
made suffer for the guilty and so long armed
co1ng 6owng waste For ali this and for the
% ff Of Tassed snd by at h 5
ing copperheads in the rear who were too cowardly
dc Ge o oP of
which they believed to be right and were willing
their convictions
of Ra a so
ders by the treacherous Fiipinos, who. while re-
fgrned on their benefactors Buried them alive to
hs e fe6 f them them ve snd
them to death piecemeal. which eclipses the sen.
sympathy Of these traducers of their own brethren
is for these f1ends human shape, bloodthirstE
boyhood. half unrelenting and in
fernal-and not fer their countrynnen.
Is il surprising that in army Of fifty thousand
men, who see know of these atrocities, there
may have been some sporadic instances of like
retaliation? Il is in all armies of all nations.
II is true that Filipino boys Of twelve have been
killed in action. but the boy of that in that
tropical country is mature the boy of seven
teen in the Civil War. and if found in arms must
paw the penalty of his audacty The effort "a
fiken the condition of the reconcentrados in the
Philippines with that of the ,Cubans has sgnally
failed; for in the latter case they were herded and
starved while Filipnos are fed and fatteneo
at the hands OF the nation whose authority they
resist
This is not political question, and the party
which undertakes 70 make IL SO will merit and re-
ceive a crushing rebuke. History repeats itself
and In the language of another: mo party ever
threw itself across the path of its country's great
ness and lived TO tell the tale. and no party ever
can or will ought
We witness the strange anomaly OF officers OF
large experience and highest character court mar.
tailed for obeytng orders. and men Inundated
whose lives give the lie to the charges against
them. The magnificent repuke administered by
President Roosevelt Memorial Day In his mas
terIy address the veterans at Arlington has
been ratified by laundering amen from the peo-
pie All honor to him and all praise 10 Secretary
OF War Roo. for their manly assumption Of re-
sponsibility for General Order Ne, 100. which but
ernbodtes the rules of war laid down in the great
conflict by the Immortal Lincoln. and let the SIP