The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-29
REPUBLICAN GUNS
TURNED ON SMITH
A Passionate DenunCiation
Rings in the House.
SIBLEY Is HORRlFlE0
The Order to Make Samar a Howling
Wilde rness.
SIBLEY is HORRIFIED
NO MAN LIVES WHO CAN JUSTIFY THIS
Williams of Mississippi Reminds Sibley That
He Should Strike at the System Which
Allows Smith to Garry Out
Such Barbarities.
(Ry the Associated Press.)

w Aplll Ao.-IetpLcoeHldtiNe
Sibley, Pa), created some ething of
sensation in the House today during the
general debate on the Agricultural APP
preparation Bill by severely denouncing
General Jacob H. Smith for the orders
he issued in the Samar campaign. Mr..
Sibley's speech was enthusiastically ap-
plauded by the Democrats and was re-
ceived with some evidence of approval
on the Republican side. The speech
was considered the most remarkable in
that it came from a Republican, who left
the Democratic party on the issue rails
ed by the Spanish War and who has
since been an ardent supporter of ex-
pansion. Mr. Williams, Democrats,
(Miss.), endorsed what MIR. Sibley had
said.
Mr. Sibley, CRepuhlican, Pa) said
he had been an expansionist and defend
ed the policy of the administration in
the acquisition of the Philippines, that
duty and honor justified our position
there; that the commercial welfare of
the nation demanded that we should
as the gateway TO the Oriental world.
He then continued:
Therefore, when I am compelled to
read utterances contained in military
orders that make the blood of man run
cold when / have heard the statements
made that we We're cruel in the conduct
of that war, 1 have thoughth perhaps,
the partisan was speaking. But when
l have read. as 1 have within the past
fortyeight hours, that a general wear
irg the uniform of the army of the
United States who stands under the
shadow of our flag, issue orders. not to
cCnciljate province. but to leave it 4
bowling wilderness and to kill all above
ten years of age, then it seems to me
that humanity must have marched back
ward for eighteen centuries and that
Hercd again appears. ] have read of
IimOur, the Tartar. l have read OF
Achilles, / have read of the Saracen
sccurage, but L thank God that since
the tragic scene on Calvary, it has taken
eighteen centuries to produce a Smith.
l have read of the water cure l be-
lieve that was exaggerated. Can any
man whose blood pounds in mis- pulses,
any man who has read his Bible. or who
has been reared at the knee of a Chris
tian woman, justify the perpetuation of
such cruelties upon another man who
wears the guise and the image of MS
Creator? And yet, we hear this man
attempting to justify acts by which the
men are pumped so full of water to
nearly drown them and then brought
back to life by humping them, over the
stomach with the butts of musketts
That is not civilization, that the not
ChristianiZing the world. / am thankful
that these are sporadic cases.
They viii never pasify any race of
human beings on this earth by first
drowning them and then bringing them
to life with the butt of ynusket: and
against that, as member upon this side
of the chamber, against that as man
who belongs, hope not alone, to the Re-
publican ranks, but to the whole broth
erhood of man the wide world round. T
wan the members of this House on this
side of the chamber and that, to voice
their protest, and against all such meas
ures. (Applause.) A friend of mine
said a few minutes ago: oh, you had
better wait and hear his Defense [
hope the President of the United States
will have the courage upon what the
man admits, to discharge him dshonor-
ably from the service that he has dis
graced. (Applause) He admits that he
issued the order to leave the province
bowling waste and wilderness, and to
kill all above ten years of age. the in
nocent with the guilty. That mannever
ought to be permitted to stay in the
service of the United States until The
sun goes down. He goes down in dis
grace not alone to the party, but to
every man who ever wore the uniform
of the United States, and he is a blot
and a disgrace to our present civiiza-
tion. Wait and hear what his justifi-
cation may be. That man does not live
who can justify such orders. (Applause)
There is 70 juStifica tion. | care not how
adroitly his lawyers may frame their
plea or how subtle their reasoning The
fact admitted by his own mouth that he
is sued such orders is sufficient for the
hope that there is the courage and the
patriotism and the humanity and the
Christianity at the other end of the ave.
nue. that will not let him wear the Fed
eral uniform twenty-four hours hence
Mr.. Williams iMiss.), heartily IN