Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-31


tendance in three years marks the
progress being made in Amercanzine
the island, for there is nothing that Sc
tends to that end as the American
school house and the American teach
er.
In the Philippines we were not SO
generously welcomed. An insurrection
against us broke out before our title
was perfected by treaty The treaty
With Spain was ratified by democratic
and republican votes and the title of
Spain passed to the United States. No
republican president would order
American soldiers TO retreat before the
onslaught of the seni-civilzed and
treacherous foes that We're in arms
against us in the islands, and the war
went on amidst difficulties greater in
many respects than ever confronted
1 American soldiers. except perchance in
some of the Indian wars. Faced by foes
that buried captives alive and mutilat-
ed the living and the dead, our brave
men went on some times fighting with
odds against them. as much as eighty
TO one, to final and complete victory.
| Our democratic friends. not satisfied
with siding with the enemies of their
I
denounce the administration of the war
rs cruel an inhuman. Every time some
American soldier who. after looking up
I on the inutilated remains of some of his
comrades. became too severe with the
4 wretches who had been guilty of such
outrage the incident was taken up and
magnifetl to the discredit of the Amer
lean army. but no reference was made
~,
ed if it did not excuse the act. The re-
publican party has no sympathy with
cruelty. and the republican administers
ton has made every effort where there
was a semblance of truth behind such
charges to bring the guilty to justice.
Not refusing TO humiliate in his old age
that brave and heroic soldier of two
wars Gen. Jacob H. Smith, when it
appeared that under great provocation
he had gone to too great length. But
the republican party will not counte-
nance indiscriminate attacks upon the
soldiers of the republic, who for four
years have been nobly fighting our bat
ties against brutal and savage foes on
the other side of the world, beneath
scorching tropic sun. When 1t became
manifest that the American people
would not tolerate the Democratic as
sault upon the American army our
democratic friends FASTENED to say that
they We're not attacking the army, but
individual acts of cruelty. unfortu-
nately, on the "a TIL day of January last,
and before our democratic friends
found that it was specific acts of cruel
ty they We're attacking and not the
army, an appropriation bill was pend
ing in the house of representatives
which provided "for the proper shelter
and protection of officers and enlisted
men of the army of the United States
lawfully on duty in the Philippine ISL
ands. to be expended in the discretion
of the president. S500,000;" and when
the vote was taken sixteen democrats |
voted against it and thirty-four We're
paired against 1t. OF course, our DEM |
ocratic friends are not opposed to the |
army. but nine tenths of their chosen |
representatives in the lower house of |
congress would compel the officers and /
enlisted men to be exposed to the
weather during the rainy season in the
tropics, rather than appropriate one
dollar to put shelter over their heads.
Thank God not one republican voted
against that appropriation. With this
fight in the rear constantly going on
the army CALAMITY overcame every OBJ
stacle and on the Fourth of July the
president was enabled to issue his
IroclamationS declaring peace reigned
turnout the Philippines With all but the
Moros, granting amnesty
for past political otfenseS and supplant-
ing the military with civil govern
ment. The army. which at one time
to 10000 men, has, been or
Gered reduced to $4,000, and the work
of pacification is now substantially
complete. Almost the last act of con-
gress was the passage of bill to es-
tablish a civil government in the Phil
ippines. That act carries to the people
of those islands the great guarantees
of American liberty, and in ages yet to
come will be looked upon by the people
of those distant islands with something
of reverence with which the people of
the northwest looked to the celebrated
ordinance of 1857. We have provided for
a local legislative body chosen by the
people. Even in the midst of war we
have established public schools every
where. In 1898 there We're 1921 pupils
in all the public schools of the
islands; today there are 100000 pupils
so enrolled, with 1900 teachers, consc-
engaged in their instruction,
and this is a sample of the manner in
which we are trampling upon and OPP
PRESSING these people. We have, as
best we knew, discharged the duties in
upon us and have left to those
who come after us the settlement of
heir own problems If the people OF
these islands ever become civilized and
capable of Independent self-government
md then desire it, for one would be in
favor of giving it to them, but l am
that when these people have !
struggled up with our assistance until /;
hey are fit for independence they will [
De as unwilling to surrender their rela- {
ions to the United States as Iowa
would be. / know nothing as to what
he future has in store, but l believe
hat our flag has been put up in the
and that it will stay put"
Kat it will never come down so long as
his republic "one and indivisible," ,
shall be reclioned among the nations of
he earth.
When the war with Spain broke out it
vas necessary to impose additional :
axes upon the people, but it was UNI /,
ierstood that they would be repealed .
when the necessity for them arising ou; !,
If the wah had passed. At the second .
second session of the FiftysiXth con ,
sress we repealed S40,000,000 of these =
axes and at the session just closed re- =
oealed the balance, or s77.000,G00 more, Z