The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-05-07
4 GOOD SPEECH.
Sibley, a Republican Rcasts General
Jacob Smith and Says He Is
a BRUTE IN UNIFORM.
HIS Speech Applauded by Demo-
Gratis and Met With Eviden-
ces Of Approval from
the Republicans.
the Republicans.

the Republicans.
Representative Sibley Of Pennsyiva-'
MA created something of a sensation
in the house Wednesday during the
general debate on the agricultural bill
Say severely denouncing Gen. Jacob II.
Smith for the orders he issued in the
Sanar campaign. Mr.. Sibley'S speech
was enthusiastically applauded by the
! Democrats and was received with some
feyidences Of approval on the Republl-
can side. The speech Was considered
| the more remarkable in that it came
from a 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 MiSslssl ppl,
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 hon
or justified our position there: that
the commercial welfare OF the nation
! demanded that We should control that
archipelago, which stands as the gate
way to the oriental world.
"A BRUTE IN UNIFORM"
He then continued:
Therefore. when I am compelled
| to raud utteranceS contained IN MILL
tary orders that make the blood OF men
run cold, when I have heard the state
ments made that we were cruel in the
conduct Of that war, l have thought
perhaps the partisan was speaking.
But when have read, as have With
in the past is hours, that a general
! wearing the uniform Of the army OF
! the United States, one who standS
under the shadow of our dag, issues
orders, not to conciliate a province,
but to leave it a bowling wilderness
and to kill all above 10 years ct age,
then it seems to me that humanity
nEst have marched backward for IS
centuries and that Herod again ap-
pears. I have read OF Iimour, the
Tartar. have read uf Achilles, /
haue read of the Saracen scourge, but
| I thank God that since tie tragic scene
on Calvary, it has taken IS centuries
to produce Smith, l have read OF
the water cure. l believe that was
exaggeorated. Can any man whose
blood pounds in his pulses, any man
who had read his Bible or who has
been reared at the knee os a Christian
woman, justify the perpetual ion OF
such cruelties upon another man VINO
wears the guise and the image OF his
Creator? And get, we hear this man
attempting 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 mus
kets. That is not civilization that is
not Outstanding the world. l am
thankful that these are sporadic
cases.
WILL NEVER PACTFY.
.'They will never pacify any race OF
naman beings on this earth by hrst
drowning them and then bringing
them to life with the butt OF mus
ket: and against that, as a member
uoon this side of the chamber, against
! that. as a 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
I 90 ~
( chamber snd on,that, to voice their
protest, and against all such meas
ured. (ApEGause.) A friend OF mine
said a few ;1nGautes ago, oh, you had
; better wait anG hear his defence l
hope the presidesst, of the United States
will have the courage, upon what the
man admits, to discharge him dlshon-
orably from the service that he had
disgraced. (Applause.S
EQUALS KING gss0D.
He admits that he issued the order
to leave the province a hoTllng waste
and TO kill all above ten years Of age,
the ianocent with the guilty That
man never ought to be permitted 10
stay in the service of the United SS2SeS
until the sun goes down. He IS a dis
grace net alone to the party, but TO
every n7aa who ever wore the uniform
Of the United States, and he is a blot
and disgrace TO our present civilization.
( Wait and hear what his Justification
may be. That man does not live who
can Justify svd1 orders. (Applause.) }
! There is no justification. l care not
how adroitly his &awyers may frame
! their plea OF how slstle be their rea-
soning. The fact aarhitted by his own
mouth that he issueS such orders is
|! sufficient for the hops that there IS
4 the courage aud patriotism and the
I humanity aad the christianity at the
! other end of the avenue that Will not
4 let him wear the federal uniform y
hours hence
! Mr.. Williams Of Mississippi heartily
I endorsed Mr. Sibley'S Onslaught upon
I Gen. Smith whom he described as i
! "brute in uniform"
4 But am little afraid. he con-
! tinued, ''taat he does not strike the
1 evil in the right quarter. 1t Is the
1 system which should be struck at not
! the man who consciously carries out
I! the spirit Of the system. Wherever
there is war of conquest against a
/ weak and inferior colored people deeds
i Of brutality naturally occur. The
!; chief danger is not the injury to the
!; weak race, but that the temptation 10
! tyranny will react upon the strong
Il race and make bruteS OF its SoldlerS.
i For that reason such wars should be
! avoidea. agree with the gentleman
! from Pennsylvania that there can be
\ no iustifcatiou for civilized man to
4 issue an order to lay waste WnoIe
\ country and Kill everybody, including
children over ten years OF age"