The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-04-30
The HORRIBLE WAR upon
The FILIpINOs.
Speech Applauded by Democrats
and Met With Evidences of
Approval from the Repub-
Iicans.


Iicans.
Washington, April 28.-Representa-
tive Sibley, of Pennsylvania, created
something of a sensation in the house
today during the general debate on
the agricultural appropriation bill by
severely denouncing Gen. Jacob H.
Smith for the orders he issued in the
Samar campaign. Mr.. Sibley's speech
was enthusiastically applauded by the
Democrats and was received with some
evidences of approval on the Republi-
can side. The speech was considered
the more remarkable in that it came
from Republican who left the Demo
cratic party on the issues raised by the
Spanish war and who has since been
an ardent supporter of expansion.
Mr.. Williams, Democrat of Mississip-
pi, endorsed what Mr.. Sibley had said.
Mr.. Sibley said he had been an ex-
pansionist and defended the policy Of
the administration in the acquisition
of the Philippines; that duty and
honor justified our position there 4;
that the commercial welfare of the
nation demanded that we should con-
troll that archipelago, which stands as
the gateway to the oriental world.
GA BRUTE IN UNIFORM.
He then continued:
Therefore, when / am compelled
to read utterances contained in mill
tary orders that make the blood of
men run cold, when I have heard the
statements made that we were cruel
in the conduct of that war, I have
thought perhaps the partisan was
speaking. But when / have read, as
I have within the past 4S hours, that
a 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 pro-
vince, but to leave it a bowling will
derness and to kill all above 10 years
of age, then it seems to me that
humanity must have marched back
ward for 18 centuries and that Herod
again appears. l have read of Timour,
the Tartar. have read Of Achilles,
I have read OF the Saracen, scourage
but thank God that since the tragic
scene on Calvary, it has taken Is CEN
lures to produce Smith. have read
of the water cure. I believe that was
exaggerated. Can any man whose
blood pounds in his pulses, any man
who had read his Bible or who has
been reared at the knee of a Christian
woman, justify the perpetration of
such craelties upon another man who
wears the guise and the image of his
Creator?
And yet, we hear this man attempt
ing to justify acts by which men are
pumped so full Of water to nearly
drown them and then brought back to
life by humping them over the
stomach with the butts Of muskets.
That is not civilization, that is not
Outstanding the world. am thank
full that these are sporadic cases.
WILL NEVER PACIFY.
"They will never pacify any race of
human beings on this earth by first
drowning them and then bringing
them to life with the butt of mus
ket; and against that, as a member
upon this side Of the chamber, against
that, as man who belongs, / hope.
not alone to the Republican ranks but
to the whole brotherhood of man the
wide world round, I want the mem
bers of this house on this side of the
chamber and on that, to voice their
protest, and against all such measures.
1Applause. A friend of mine said
a few minutes ago. 'Oh, YOU had bet
ter 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 dishon-
orably from the service that he had
disgraced. (Applause.9
EQUALS KING HEROD.
"He admits that he issued the order
to leave the province a bowling waste
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 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 disgrace to our present clvlliza-
tion. Wait and hear what his justif-
cation may be. That man does not
live who can justify such orders. (Ap-
plause. There is no justification. l
care not how adroitly his lawyers may
frame their plea or how subtle be
their reasoning. The fact admitted
bv his own mouth that he issued such
orders is sufficient for the hope that
there is the courage and the patriot
ism and the humanity and the Chris
tianity at the other end of the avenue
that will not let him wear the federal
uniform "a hoursShence.
Mr.. Williams of Mississippi heartily
endorsed Mr.. Sibley's onslaught ssupon
Gen. Smith whom he described as a
brute in uniform. -
"But am little afraid" he con-
tinued, "that he does not strike the
evil in the right quarter. It is the
system which should be struck at not
the man whom consciously carries out
the spirit Of the system. Wherever
there is war of conquest against a
weak and inferior colored people deeds
of brutality naturally occur. The