The Irish standard., 1902-05-31
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10 Aguinaldo that you would respect
their title to independence, and that all
you desired was order and to fulfill
the treaty and protect your friends, you
would have disarmed that people in q
moment. l believe there never has
been time since when like dpclar;,-
ton made by this chamber alone, but
certainly made by this chamber and
tile president, would not have ended
this conflict and prevented all these
horrors
'This debate for the last three years
has contained many auGacities. On,
thing. however, no senator has been
audacious enough to affirm, and that
is that if he were Il Filipino. as he is
an American, he would not do exactly,
saving ouly acts of cruelty, rs the
filipino has done.
"What you have been fighting for
ali this time as your right, if you OK
pect to enact this bill into law and t.
carry it out in practice, is to substitute
q constitution of your making fer one
OF their making; to have a dcpeldeIcy
which is what you want, instead Of q
republic. which is what they want; to
have fitness for the elective franchise
determined by an authority which has
its source 10000 miles away, instead
of with the people at home. and to
deny them Independence, even il they
are fit for ii. SO long us you please,
without regard TO Their desire
ut is only the benefit If the people
of the Philippine Islands in saving
them from anarchy or foreign nations.
i'll establishing schools for them, that
yindicatcS what you have done so far.
What you have done so far has been
to get some few thousand children
actually at school in the whole Philip
pine dominion. To get this result. you
have certainly slain many times that
number of parents.
what your fathers said wien they
founded the republic, the declarations
Of the great leaders of every genera
ton, cur century of glorious history,
were appealed to in vain. Their les
SONS fell upon the ears of men dazzled
by military glory and dclir.ous With
the lust of conquest. l will not repeat
them now. My desire today is simply
to call attention to the practical work
ing of the two doctrnes-the doctrine
Of buying sovereignty or conqucrng it
ration of Independence. For tie In t
thee years you have put one of diem
in force in Cuba and the other in the
Philippine Islands. ask you TO think
sobery which method on the whole
you like better. | ask Y II to compare
tile cost of war with the cost of peace,
OF justice With that of injustice the
cost of empire with the cost of rypub
lican liberty, the cost of the way OF
America and the way OF Eur pc OF
the doctrine of the Declaration of IN
dependence With the doctrine of th8
holy alliance. You have tried both, |
hope. to your hearts content.
when we ratified the tr,nty of
Paris we mmittrd our elves to one
experiment in Cuba and another in the
Philippine Islands. Here the two doc
trincs are brought into sharp antagon-
ism.
"You have given both doctrines Il
three years trial. Three years is
sometimes IL very long time and some
times Il very short time in human af
fairs. believe tie whole life cf the
Savior. after lie first made His divine
mission known. lasted but three years.
Three years have wrought mighty
change in Cuba, and it has wruuyht Il
rightly change in the Philippine Is
lands. We have had plenty Of time to
try both experiments.
Now what las each cCSt YOU and
what has each protitcd YOU? In stat
ing this account of pro,it and loss
li9rdly know Which 10 take up first,
principles and honor or material inter
ests-l should have known very well
which to take up first down to thrca
years agn-what you call the sentiment
tai. the ideal. the historical on thu
right side of the colvmn the cost or
tho profit in honOr or Shame ana
IN character and in principle and moral
Influence. in true national glory; or the
practical side. the cost in money and
gain, in life and health. in wasted
labor, in diminished rational strength
getting.
IL should naturally begin where our
fathers used to begin. But somehow
the things get SO incXtricably blended
that we cannot keep them separated
This world is so made that you cannot
Keep honesty, and sound policy, aud
freedom, and material property, AMI
good government, and the consent OF
the governed apart.
'NIen who undertake 20 make money
fy cheating pay for it 10y failure in
business. If you try to contribute
order by military dcspotism you suffer
for it by revolution and by barharity
in warfare. If a strong p2opl, tries to
govern Il weak one against its will the