The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-29


comes in hostile contact with an in
ferior, there is always something more
than battles resulting. The conCcit,
superciliousness. and insolence of the
superior race beget conduct on both
sides forbidden by the rules Of civilized
war fare. The representatives Of France,
Germany, England, Japan and the United
States were in China only few months;
but wholesale lOoting, arson, murder and
torture had already begun when the
armies were called home none too soon.
Hostility between the white races of the
North and the darker races of the
tropics and the Orient always results in
the barbarization of the whites.
1.-THE numerous cases and ingenious
methods of torture of which our soldiers
in the Philippines have bean guilty
might well stagger the credulity of the
country, if such abundant confederation
were not at hand. Hardly any atrocity
that has ever been perpetrated by the
American Indians in their most serocious
mood is lacking in the officials reports
from Manila
In reference to Roosevelt's Memorial
Day speech, our eloquent representative
said:
In the face of hundreds of pages of
proof that these atrocities have been and
are ~being committed by Am crican SOL
diers, the President of the United States
selecting Memorial Day for his speech
with shocking Appropriateness, affirm
ed that the fact really is that our war;
fare in the Philippines has been carried
On with singular humanity He said
further, there have been some cruelties
'but'-they must be exposed, 'but'-inhu-
manities should not be INDUCED in ty
American troops, 'but-tortures are not
justifiable, but yes, the President
of the United States summoned to his
aid fourteen, butts in these paragraphs
OF his speech. and he employed them
solely for the purpose of extenuating
and excusing the crimes he condemned.
In this remarkable Memorial address,
the President finds the occasion a proper
one for stirring up anew sectional AMI
mosities. recalling that Grant was some-
times called butcher and the Union
army designated as 'Lincoln's hrelings.
II ne had added all the opprobrious
epithets which some of the Union men
bestowed upon the Confederate President
and army, he would have succeeded in
aolng all that could be done on an oc-
casion of amity and good feeling to
kindle anew sectional hostility and hate
II the party that elected him Vice. Presi
dent thinks his utterances on Memorial
Day we'll timed and discreet, the objects
OF his spleen will probably be able to
survive it,
In fixing the blame for the atrocities
IN the Philippines upon the administra
ton which adopted the policy of subiuga-
ton and sent any army to deprive free
people OF their liberties, Mr.. Small mar
shailed up past history to show that
sucn scheme of raDacity made neces-
sary ali the excuses OF barbarian war;
fare
FINALLY. in concluding, Mr. Small came
TO the practical side of the question
winch ne treated in the following mas
sterful way:
now are we going to make this orien
tai enterprise pay if we persist in ito
IL mas cost the lives of 10000 Ameri
cans and at least 100000 Filipinos. How
much mas 1T cost in money? We do not
know. The administration refuses to tell
anybody the money cost The estimated
cost runs from $500, 900 to $1,000. OOO.-
Ooo. Let us split the difference and call
It $780, 900, including the insular ex-
penses of this sfscal year What would
this vast sum, disbursed only for evil.
have done for Americans If it had been
expended upon our own soil?
What would it have done for re-
ligion'
1T would have created a new church
in every town of America.
What would II have dono Gov o5,a,
ton?
cit would have built $4,000 school
house in every town.
What would it have done for the
comfort of farmers?
ut would have bought a new moving
machine for every hay-grower and a new
sewing machine for every farmers wife
in America.
tural progress?
1T would have irrigated the great
central West, constructing retaining
reservoirs at the head of every river.
sending water in spacious aqueducts
through the thirst valleys and CARRYING
luxuriance to half million new-made
farms.
What would it have done for COM
merce?
1t would have constructed the Panama
Canal for vessels of the largest size.
would have enlarged the Erie Canal to
carry ocean greyhounds to Chicago. and
would have begun and finished a ship
canal connecting Lake Michigan with the
Mississippi River, and constructed an in
land water way from Boston to Beau
fort Inlet, N. C.
What would this vast sum, diverted
from rhe Philippine Islands, where it has
been worse than wasted, have done for
travel?
1T would have built a superb kppian
way hundred feet wide. as smooth and
hard as crystal, from Boston to San
Francisco, with lateral branches to Mon
treal and Florida, to Manitoba and Texas.
what profits are in sight from our
Quixotic venture?
'We are beaten today by all the other
nations in trade with the Philippines.
We have sown there the seeds of mex
tinguishable hatred.
How are we going to trade with a
country which we have depopulated and
impoverished?
ST our trade with the Philippine Is
lands last year had returned to us a
profit of fifty per cent il would take a