The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-05-16
TELLING THE TRUTH.
Republican Administration Making
Facts Regarding Philippines
known to the People.

Democratic critics of the aGminis-
tration cannot complain that they
have in any way been hindered in
their search forfacts to support their
Philippine policy. Having first COM
mitted themselves to the theory that
all the Filipinos are enlightened pa
| triots, whose noble aspirations the
administration has brutally tharted,
| it then occurred to them that they
ought to have some facts to Justify
this theory.
They have been permitted to rake
| the nation with a fine-tooth comb.
They have heard tales of discharged
soldierswith personal grievances, and
of sentimental tourists whose delicate
nerves could not endure the strug-
gle of civilization against barbarism
| in some cases the nations agents in
the Philippines have been provoked
| beyond endurance by it's treacherous
and bloodthirsty foes, and have met
| their savagery with savagery. They
| have also discovered that on the
whole never in world history has
the irrepressible conflict between
Quoted with greater patience and hui
mainly on the part of the forces of
civilization than by our army in the
Philippines.
The critics of their own country,
| the faultfnders with their kinsmen,
| hol 1ov In mi 10
| Chicago Inter-Ocean. They have pre-
sented their evidence, and argued
upon it to the jury with every pos
sible device of misrepresentation
and appeal to prejudice. The Incl
dental abuses that they have trum-
peted so loudly the administration
had moved to correct before their
correction was even formally asked.
If any American officer has over
stepped the limits set upon warfare
even against the most savage and
implacable foes, he will be punished.
The facts will be ascertained and
the United States, as it ever has, will
90 Justice alike to it's own sons and
| to barbarians who know not the
uledllluS OIL tlle WOfu.
The democratic assault upon the
army has been useful in disclosing
the character of the people with
whom it has to deal in the Philip
pines. 1t has proved that while a
very few Filipinos may be called civ
ilized, and that great numbers are
simply barbarians, probably the ma
jority are in that transition stage
where men are most difficult to deal
with Having some of the mental
traits of civilized men, their morals
are still those of the barbarian, and
under pressure of any struggle they
constantly tend to relapse into saw
agery. They have as yet taken from
civilization little but it's weapons,
mental and physical, and have for it
no moral attachment.
Yet these are the people whom the
democratic senator's still insist
ought to be given absolute indepen-
dence, and whom this nation should
leave to their own devices by scut-
ling out of the Philippines. The alb
surdity of such a conclusion from
such facts is evident to the feeblest
intelligence. The American people
will never accept that conclusion.
They will never confess that they
are weaker than their sires. They
will no more yield to savagery and
barbarism in the Philippines than
their fathers yielded to them on this
continent.
The administration was not afraid
Of the truth about the Philippines,
because it's leaders understood that,
with all allowance for individual err
Tor, the American peoples acts i'll
the Philippines must be right be-
cause their desires are right. And
the truth has justified the admins
tration's confidence in itself, in the
army. and in the people of which the
army is part. The democratic
critics have been given all the rope
they demanded, and are now hang
ing themselves. There will be no
scuttling from the Philippines, be-
cause we are rightfully there, and
our deeds as a whole have been
righteous.
American Soldiers Mnligned.