Evening journal., 1902-04-29
.SIBLEY WANTS
SMITH DISMISSED
Declares General Is a Dis
grace to Civilization
SENSATION In THE HOUSE
Pennsylvania COngreSSman'S Criticism
Of Torture Of RiIipinOS Meets
With General Approval
SENSATION IN THE HOUSE

Washington, April 9.-Representa-
tive Sibley, of Pennsylvania. created
something of a sensation in the house
yesterday during the general debate
on the agricultural appropriation bill
by denouncing General 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 Re-
publican side. The speech was con
sidered the more remarkable in that
it came from a Republican, who left
the Democratic party on the issues
raised by the Spanish war, and who
since has been an ardent expansionist
Mr.. Sibley said: when l have
heard the statements made that we
/ have thought perhaps the partisan
was speaking. But when have read,
as I have within the past 4S hours,
that 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 a
province. but to leave il a bowling will
derness and tc kill all above 10 years
OF age, then 1t seems to me that hu-
manity must have marched backward
for Is centuries, and that Herod again
appears. l have read of Timour, the
Tartar; have read of Achilles, |
have read of the Saracen scourge, but
l thank God that since the tragic
scene on Calvary 1t has taken IS cen
turies to produce a Smith.
Il have read of the water cure. /
believe that was exaggerated. Can
any man whose blood flows in his
pulses, any man who has read his
Bible or has been reared at the knee
of a Christian woman, justify the per
petration OF such cruelties upon an
other man who wears the guise and
the image Of his Creator? And yet we
hear this man attempting to justify
acts by which men are pumped so full
of water nearly to drown them and
then brought back to life by humping
them over the stomach with the butts
of muskets. That is not civilization; I;
that is not Christianizing the world.
Against that, as a man who be-
longs, I hope, not alone to the Repub-
lican ranks, but to the whole brother
hood OF man, the wide world round,
want the members OF this house, on
this side of the chamber and that, TO
voice their protest against all such
measures. (Applause.) hope the
president of the United States will
have the courage, upon what the man
admits, to discharge him dishOnorably
from the service that he has disgraced.
(Applause.} He admits that he issued
the order to leave the province a
bowling waste and a wilderness, and
to kill all above 10 years of age, the
innocent with the guilty. That man
never ought to be permitted to stay
in the service of the United States un-
til the sun goes down. He is a dis
grace, not alone to the party, but to
every man who ever wore the uniform
of the United States. and he is a blot
and a disgrace TO our present civiliza.
tion. Wait and hear what his justih.
cation may be- That man does not
live who can justify such orders.
care not how adroitly his lawyers may
frame their plea or how subtle be
their reasoning, the fact admitted by
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 Fadaral
uniform "a hours hence"