The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-06-06
FOR PHILIPPINES.
Senator Hoar Arraigns Administra-
toms Policy as Wicked.
Declares War Was Forced ON Peace
able Islanders-COntrasts Treat
ment of Cuba with That of Luz
zon-Censures Funston.

| arraigned the administrations policy
in the Philippines, denouncing 1T as
| the most foolish and wicked of chap
| tiers in American history. Address
ing the president pro tenn. of the
| senate, Senator Hoar said:
| Mr. President: have something to say,
which 1 will say as briefly and as COM
| pactly as 1 may, upon the pending Dill we
| have to deal with a territory 1nUO miles
| away, 100 miles in extent, containing TO-
10000 people. majority OF the senate
| think that people are under the American
| flag and lawfully subject to our authority
/ We are not at war with them or with any
| body The country is in condition OF pro-
found peace as we'll as of unexampled pros
| perity.
THE Filipinos have a right to call 1t war.
| They claim to be people and to be fighting
| for their rights as people. Inc senator
| from Ohio (Mr. Foraker) admits that there
| is people there, although he says they are
not one people, but there are several: But
we cannot be al war under the constitution
| without an act of congress 80
1--WE are not at war. We made peace with
| Spain on the 4th day of FEBRUARY, lsSs.
Congress has never declared war with the
| people of the Philippine islands. The pres
| ident has never asserted nor usurped the
| power to do it. We are only doing on large
scale exactly what we have done at nome
| within few years past, when the military
| out to suppress riot and tumult or IaWless
assembly, too strong for the local author
tiles. You have the same right to admins
ter the water torture or to hang men py the
thumbs to extort confession in one case as
in the other. You have the same right to
do it in Cleveland or Pittsburg or at Colo
RADIO Springs as you have to do 1t WITHIN the
Philippine islands.
The senator from Ohio, in his very bril-
liant and forcible speech, which l hearo
with delight and instruction, said that we
were bound to restore order in the Ph1llp-
pine islands, and we cannot leave them tlll
that should be done. He said we were bound
to keep the faith we pledged to Spain in the
treaty, and that we were bound, before we
left, to see that secured. He said we
were bound, especially, to look out
for the safety of the Filipinos who had
been our friends, and that we could not, in
honor, depart until that should be MADE
secure.
War Is for Sovereignty.
"All that, Mr.. President, is true. So far
as know no man has doubted it. But these
things are not what we are fighting for; not
ore of them. There never was a time -When,
If we had declared that we onlNwere there
to keep faith with Spain, and that We only
were there to restore order, that we were
only there to that no friend OF ours
should suffer at the hands of any enemy OF
ours, that the war would not nave enoeQ IN
that moment.
You are fighting for sovereignty. You
are fighting for the principle of eternal do
minion over that people, and that is the
only question in issue in the conflict. we
said in the case of Cuba that she mad
right to be free and independent So we
only demanded in the treaty that Spain
should hereafter let her alone. If you had
done to Cuba as you have done to the Phil
ippine islands, which had exactly the same
right, you would be at this momel in Cuba
just where Spain was when she excited the
indignation of the civilized world and we
compelled her to let go. And If you had
dore in the Philippines as you did in Cuba
you would be to-day or would soon be in
those islands as you are in Cuba
But you made a totally different declara-
ton about the Philippine islands. You un-
dertook in the treaty to acquire sovereignty
over her for yourself, which that people de-
MED. You declared not only in the treaty
but in many public utterances in this cham
Der and elsewhere that you had right to
buy sovereignty with money or to treat it
as the spoils of war the booty of battle.
The moment you made that declaration the
Filipino people gave you notice that they
treated it a declaration of war So your
generals reported. and so Aguinaldo ex-
pressly declared. So you deliberately made
up the issue for fight for dominion on one
side and a fight for liberty on the other.
Then when you had ratified the treaty
you voted down the resolution in the senate
known as the Bacon resolution, declaring
the right of that people to independence, |
and you passed the McEnery resolution
which declared that you meant to dispose
of those islands should be for the inter-
est of the United States That was the
origin Of the war, if it be war. That is what |
the war is all about. If It be war.
Fixes Responsibility.
''Now, Mr.. President when you deter
mined to resort to force for that purpose
you took upon yourself every natural con-
sequence of that condition. The natural re- |
suit of a conflict of arms between people |
coming out of subsection and highly CIV |
iliZed people-one weak and the other |
strong, with all the powers and resources |
of civilization-is inevitably, as everybody |
knows, that there will be cruelty on one side |
and retaliation by cruelty on the other. |
You knew 1t even before 1t happened, as |
we'll as you know it now that it has hap |
pened, and the responsibility is yours.
1--WE cannot get rid of this one fact, we |
cannot escape it, and we cannot finch from |
it. You chose war instead of peace. You |
chose force instead of Cancellation, with full |
notice that everything that has happened |
your decision. Had you made a declaration |
to Aguinaldo that you would respect their
title to independence, and that all you de- |
sired was to fulfill the treaty and protect |
your friends, you would have disarmed that |
people in a moment. believe there never
has been a time since when like declara-
ton made by this chamber alone, but GER
tainly made by this chamber and the other
house, with the approval of the president,
would not have ended this conflict and pre-
vented all these horrors.
Instead of that. gentlemen talked of the |
wealth of the Philippine islands and about /
the advantage to our trade. They sought to
dazzle our eyes with nuggets of other mems
gold. Senators declared in the senate cham
Der and on the hastings that the flag never
shall be hauled down In the Philippine is
lands, and those of you who think other
wise keep silent and enter no disclaimer.
The senator from Ohio says our policy has
not been in the dark, but 1t has been a |
policy published to the world. Has it? Has
1t !? want to ask, what was it which created
the war. which keeps it up and which Gre
ated and keeps up the hatred and will make
war break out again and again for CEN
turtles to come unless human nature be