The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-26
CARMAC WAS WARM
p,DIcULED PRESIDENTS PHILIP
PINE CREATIONS.
A HOT ROAST FOR FUNSTON.
prRPosE OF BILL is TO EXPLOIT
PHILIPPINES.

Must Not Judge President in His
Moments of OratoricaI FerOcity.
He Is Not Vindictive, But Simply
Strenuous-Mr. Carmack's DeScrip-
tion of Funston a Marvel of Scath-
ing Sarcasm-He shows That the
Administration Trades Have Been
Circulated in Philippines to
Arouse Natives.
Washington, April 25.-Two extended
ereeches occupied the attention of the
Senate to-day during its entire session.
Mr. McCumber of North Dakota dis
cussed a bill introduced by him to
nrevent the misbranding and misrep-
resentation of food products which en-
ter into interstate commerce. The in
tent of the Trainer of the measure was
10 prevent, so far as possible, these
impositions upon the public.
Mr.. Carmack of Tennessee, one of the
minority members of the Philippines
Committee, spoke in opposition to the
Philippine government bill now pend
ing. His address attracted to the
chamber not only many senators, but a
considerable number of his former
colleagues in the House. He sharply
criticised the President. He quoted
from Roosevelt's charges that treason
able talk had melted the Fi1ipinos to
Instruction" and said that we must
not judge the President in his mo-
ments of oratorical ferocity or when
the frenzy of battle was in his blood.
The President was not indicative, but
simply Strenuous and resembled in
his habits of speech a certain Tennes-
seean's horse, of which it was said that
running away was his natural gait.
Mr.. Roosevelt had habitually spoken
of the Filipinos as ''savages" and bar
barians" and "Apaches," and these de-
nunclations had been scattered broad
cast throughout the islands to in
flame the people against the United
States. The effect of the Presidents
language had been to harden and in
tensify Filipino opposition to Ameri-
can rule.
Hot Roast for Funston.
Some OF our military heroes had
been guilty of a like offense. He re-
ferred to a recent speech of Gen.
Funston, whom he described as the
'Jayhawker brigadier from the wind
swept plains, the mightiest Samson
that ever welded the jawbone of an
ass as a weapon of war"
Mr.. Carmack said death had cheated
Funston of some illustrious victims
like ex-senator Sherman and EXPIRES
ident Harrison, but there were still
enough to keep him busy. Papers had
quoted Funston as saying that the
President entirely approved his gallows
speech and wanted him to accept an
invitation from the junior sem
ator from Massachusetts to go to
Boston and talk to the people there
about hanging the senior senator from
Massachusetts, but the plain truth was
that Funston couldn't hang anybody.
Funston should go back to the Philip
pines-to a land where there was plen-
ty of hemp and no constitution.
IF men are to be hanged without re-
gard to law for speaking words cal
culated to incite insurrection," Senator
Carmack said, "the first neck to feel
the strangling clutch of the soaped
rope should be the heroic gullet of
Funston" Ever since he had been in
the Philippines he had been pouring
forth TRADES of indiscriminate insult
against the whole people and had out
rageously insulted the very men upon
whom the commission was relying for
aid in pacifying the country. He also
had it on the very highest authority
that a speech made by the senator
from Indiana (Beveridge) had been cir
culated broadcast throughout the coun-
try with an exceedingly pernicious eff
tect upon the natives.
TO Exploit the Philippines.
The dominant idea of the bill now
before the Senate was to exploit the
Philippines. The whole bill was pitt
full evasion of plain duty. We had a
right to demand and the Filipinos have
a right to demand that the administra-
ton shall at last define it's policy in the
Philippines.
Upon that fact or experience" ne
asked, did they base their belief in
the purity of carpetbag government"
He spoke of the horrors of carpetbag
government in the South, and said that
the Republicans gave no heed to the
cry of an oppressed and plundered
American people. though they were
their own people, of their own blood.