The Tucson citizen., 1902-05-30
R00S6V6LT'S MEMORIAL ADDRESS,

rule Of war but have made OF these
violations their only method of carry
ing on the war. We would have been
justified by Abraham Lincon's rules
Of war in infinitely greater severity
than has been shown. The fact really
is that our war in the PHILIPPINES has
been carried on with singular human
| ity. For every act of cruelty by our
men there have been innumerable acts
OF forbearance, magnanimity and gen
erous kindness. These are the quail
tiles which have characterized the war
as "A whole. The cruelties have been
wholly exec. .tioltl on our pai-.
The guilty are to be punished, but
In furnishing them. let those who sit
at ease at home. who walk delicately
and live In the soft places of the earth.
| remember also to do them common
! justice. Let not the effortless and un-
/ tempted rail overmuch at strong men
who with blood and sweat face years
I of toll and days aud nights of agony,
and at need lay down their lives In re-
mote tropic jungles TO bring the light
/ OF civilization into the worlds dark
1 places. The warfare that has extend
ed the boundaries Of civilization at the
expense of barbarism and savagery
has been for centuries one of the most
potent factors In the progress OF hu-
manity Yet from its very pature 1t
has always and everywhere been liable
to dark abuses
1t behooyes us TO keep a vigilant
watch To prevent these abuses and 10
punish those who commit them but
If because OF them we finch from fin
ishing the task on which we have en-
tered we show ourselves crayens and
weaklings, unworthy of the sires from
whose loins we sprang There were
abuses and to spare in the civil war.
Your false friends then called Grant
a butcher" and spoke Of you who are
listening to me as mercenaries. as
foes as In the resolution passed by
the Confederate congress in October.
1859. accused you. at great length, and
with much particularly. OF "contemp-
tuous disregard of the usages OF civil
ized war" of subjecting women and
children 10 'banishment, imprlson"
ment. and death" Of murder Of
''rapine' of "outrages on women Of
'lawless cruelty" OF 'perpetratlng
atrocities which would be disgracefui
| To savages,' and Abraham Lincoln
was singled out for especial attack be-
cause of his spirit of barbarous ts@
roeiiy" Verify. these men who thus
fouliy slandered you have their heirs
to-day in those who traduce our arps~.
les inthe Philippines, who fix their eyes
on individual wrong so keenly that at
last they become blind 10 the great
work of peace and freedom that has
already been accomplished.
! Peace and freedom-~are there tao
better objects for which soldier can
| fight? Well, these are precisely the
/ objects for which our soldiers are
| hghting In the PHILIPPINES. When there
lis talk OF the cruelties committed in
tho PHILIPPINES. remember always that
by far the greater proportion OF these
crueltles have been committed By the
f! insurgents against their own people
as well as against our soldlers~-and
that not only the surest but the only
eifectuai way OF stopping them Is by
| he progress OF the American arms.
! The victories OF the American Ar
my have been the really effective
means of putting stop to cruelty In
the PHILIPPINES. Wherever these vic
/ tories have been complete-and such
is now the case throughout the great
er part of the islands~-ail cruelties
have ceased and the native Is secure
in his life. his liberty and his pursuit
lof happjness. Where the insurrectiou
still shoulders there Is always
chance for cruelty to show itself.
Our soldiers conquer; and what is
the the object for which they conquer
To establish a military government
No. The laws we are now endeavor-
Ing to enact for the government of the
Philippines are to increase the power
and domain of the civil at the expense
of the military authorities and to rem
der even more difficult than In the
past the chance of oppression, The
military power Is used to secure peace
in order that 1t may itself be sup
planted by the civil government. The
progress of the American arms means
the abolition of cruelty. the bringing
of peace, and the rule OF law and order
under the civil government. Other
nations have conquered to create n
responsible military rule, We conquer
Ito bring just and responsible civil
government to the conquered
But our armies do more than bring
peace do more than bring order, They
bring freedom. Remember always
that the independence of a tribe or
community may. and often does, have
nothing whatever to do with the free
dom OF the individual in that tribe or
community. There are now in Asia
and Africa scores CT despotic mon
! archies, each of which is Independent,
and in no one of which is there the
| slightest vestige of freedom for the in
diyidual man. Scant indeed Is the
. gain to mankind from the "indepen-
dence" of a blood-stained tyrant who
rules over abject and brutalized slaves.
: But great is the gain to humanity
which follows the steadythough slow
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