Sunday Washington globe., 1902-05-11
The senate philippine Debates.

The Senate Philippine Debates
What strikes us in the comments of the
so-called independent press is the depreca-
tory tone and text of its remarks applied
to Southern Senators who, like Tillman,
speak warmly and pointedly on questions
affecting the honor of their constituents
and states while no such reproof, regret or
depreciation are applied to Northern Sena-
tors and their Southern colleagues (of the
McComas type) Of the Republican persua.
sion. We are asked to accept as statesman.
like utterances, the blatherskiungs, bait
ings. bloody shirt lingo, and undisguised
abuse of Southern Senators and Southern
CONSTITUENCIES by such men as Lodge, Nc
Comas Burton, Clapp, ct a. We are not
even supposed to be disgusted at the de-
Tense of the Philippine atrocities by these
Republican Senators who cite as sufficient
viudication and excuse the treatment of the
black man in the Southern states as a citi-
zen and peerl
Why is this thus, might be inelegantly
put" TO stay put" until answered logi-
cally by these so-called Independent
editors who never omit to deductively find
an impartial % verdict against Tillman ef a.
The analogy between the treatment of the
negro in the South and the Filipino on his
native heath bears about the same relation
to truth that fancy does to fact. The negro
Of the South is enjoying life. liberty and
the pursuit Of happiness; the Filipino is
being butchered, hunted like wild beasts,
tortured, his women rayished aud his coun-
try made bowling wilderness, not in
isolated cases or in squads Of tens or hun
dreds, but by provinces and the whole peo-
pie without regard to age or SEX per
Smiths order to Waller. The negro Of the
South is employed, fed, housed and edu-
Gated by the white man, who first settled in
and developed the country, and to whom
the country belongs by right of discovery,
settlement and development.
The white man Of the South is not en-
gagged with a torch in one hand and a sword
in the other devastating Staying and burn
ing but the white man Of the North-is
It is the administration and not the soldier
who is committing the atrocities in the
Philippines which has shocked the civilized
world Waller, Smith and Bell are but the
uniformed tools and Secretary Root officially
states that they have only carried out rule
100 signed by Abraham I.incolnl
This assurdly outrageous assertion of the
Secretary Of War is on a plane with the
eulogies pronounced upon our hireling
sOldiery in the Philippines and identifying
them as peers with the patriotic volunteers
who shot tn death the rebellion of the slave
holders
The worlds history establishes the one
patent fact that hireling armies are inyari
ably cruel and ferocious, witness the act
of the Hessians in the Revolution, soldier
can be cruel and courageous. This also hai
been demonstrated, hence the valor 81
eulogized in the Philippines by Northern
Senators does not disprOve the cruelty an'
barbarous torture inflicted on the Filipino
their women and their children Enric'
Ferri, Professor in the Royal University a
Rome, scientific authority on crimina
anthaopology and leader Of the SOciahs
party in the Italian Chamber of Deputies
in writing of the social utilization o
crime !" says on this head Of soldier cruelty
1T is also notorious that many soldier
(even the brayest Of them) are simply al
normal individuals, unfit for any method
ical and useful work, whose moral an
social sense is feebly developed, 50 Haf 10
Them cyueifY is often iasepaya5ie Gyo'
c0uTage."
This precisely describes the conduct q
the soldiers, Smith, Bell, Waller, ef al. i
the Philippines. And this point (the crue
ties and tortures) having been establishe
is tia defense to cite the exceptional case
Of racial outrages in the South, or in tn
North for that matter
Is this the high order Of statesuanshi
Republican Senators offer in defense Of Il
military in the Phiippiues-to screen an
Justify the uniformed malefactors,
asa Democrat we would rejoice at ii
prospect Of going before the American PEI
gle with this Republican position Of 1Hsi
6laf1n but that humanity prompts us