Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-06-24

revolution and by barbafitN IN war. Il
against its viii, the home goyernmeannts
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to deprive even . savage or baroerlan
OF his just rights you can never 40 II
without becoming n savage or parpaT.
ian yourself.
What Imperialism Has Cost
Gentlemen talk about sentimentalities,
about idcalsm. You also my. imperial,
istio friends, have had your ideals and
your Sentmcntalities. What has been
the practical statesmanship which comes
from your ideals and your sentimentali-
ties?
You have wasted six hundred millions
of treasue,, You have sacrificed nearly
ten thousand American lives-the flower
Of our youth You have devastated prov
inces. You have slain uncounted thou-
sands of the people You desire to benefit
You have established reeoncentration
camps. Your generals are coming homo
from their harvest, bringing their
eheaves with them in<the shape of other
thousands of sick and wounded and in.
sane to drag out miserable lives. wrecked
You make the American flag in the
eyes OF, numerous people the emblem
the burning of human dwellings, and Of
the horror Of the water torture.
suit of your practical statesmanship. We
have sold out the right, the old Amerl-
can right, to speak out the sympathy
which Is in our hearts for people who are
face of the earth Has there. eyer been
contest between power. and the spir-
It of liberty, before that now going on !, IN IN
held their peace because they thought
! they We're under an obligation to. the ma
| ton in the wrong for not interfering with
| us? l have heard that 1t turned out that
! we had no great reason for gratitude OF
| that kind.
Must BE Settled Right.
paper a terrible story ss Of the passage
through omaha OF a carload Of maniacs
one of The many like freights of horror
that come back to us from the Philippine
Islands, was once an American boy, the
| delight of some American home, faireI
and nobler in his young promise, as we
like to think, than any other the round
no 2ooo5 S th ms me psa as ss;
price of sovereignty. 1t was the souls o.
these boys of ours that entered Into tht
cost. :. ~
on for three rts Years. 1t willSgo on in som,
| form for three hundred years. unless this
edly hays times Of peace and 9niet o,
men with titles, or Offices, or salaries
| The land VIII smile and smile and seem
at peace. But the volcano will be there
| can never settle this thing until you
settle ii right.
i do not wish to dwell at length on the
ture5of Aguinaldo. / think we are boupt
in justice to Gen. Funston to take tn,
declaration, of Gen. Macarthur that B.
icer did. If that be true. we have NJ
| right to hold the subordinate RESPONSE
BILE, however odious the act If 1t turr
out that still higher authority has ap-
| proved the act, then it becomes still more
| emphatically our duty to point out Its
| enormity.
| Funston's an Act of lnfamy.
l extract from the Instructions fer thu
Government of Armies in the Field tn
following pal,agTapns;;; a., 90, ~ h.
faith, of infamy. OF tiendishness to de
ceiye the enemy by flags Of protection
THE use OF the enemy's national stan
dard, flag, or other emblem of nationalit
for the purpose OF deceiving. the enem,
in battle Is an act of perfidy."
Is not the uniform an emblem Of ma
tionality? If it be an act of perfidy-
the use Of that emblem Of f., nntio y
less an. act of perfidy to use It to ,stea
upon him and deceive him when he 1
not in battle and is in his own quarters
Funston.not Gen. funston himself. if h
acted under orders OF his superior-bu
the act of Gen. Funston Is stamped wilt
indelibe infamy by Abraham Llnooln'
articles of war, TO which the Secretary 9
War appeals, and the concurrent actio
of twenty -four great nations. and tn
unanimous action OF the Senate this win
| ter.
Mr. President, the story of what he
been called the water torture has beer
in part, told by other Senators. ca
not help believing that not O twentiet
part of it has yet been told. / get letter
! in large numbers from officers or tn
friends of officers, who repeat what the
; tell me, all testifying to these crueltie
And yet the officer, or the officers friend
send them under a strict Injunction, {
secrecy. Other Senators tell me the
have a like experience. These brave Of
ficers, who would 90 to the cannon
mouth for honor who never finch In bat
tile, finch before what they deem I'll
certain ruin of their prospects In III
II ,hey a s!Es the evidence which the
periors.
Responsibility at the Head
Mr. President, it is said that these hoa
| rorS, which never would have come to tn
public knowledge had not the Senate OF
| dered this invest igation, were unlinow
to our authorities at home. l hope an
believe they We're unknown to the Wa
Department. 1 know they were unknow
Were unknown to President Mcktnle.
But l cannot think that the recent dec
| laration of that honorable gentleman, til
| Secretary of War, made on a memorial
| occasion that the war on our part he
been conducted with unexampled human