The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-20
HONORS IN MEMPHIS.
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excuse for such cruelties, nor can we
admit its Justification that they were
retaliatory in kind. Every effort has
been made to detect and punish the
Wrongdoers and the wrongdoing itself
mas been completely stopped. But
these nisdeeds were exceptional, and
their occurrence in no wise alters the
fact that the American army in the
Philippines showed as a whole not only
splendid soldierly qualities but a hieh
order of humanity in dealing with
their foes. A hundred thousand of our
troops went to the Philippines. Among
them were some who offended against
the right Well, are we altogether inn
maculate at home? / think not. l ask
for no special consideration TO be
shown our friends and kinsmen, our
sons and brothers, who during three
years so well upheld the national honor
in the Philippines. l ask merely that
we do the same equal justice to the
soldier who went abroad and faced
death and lived hard as we show to
his fellow who stayed at home and
lived easily and in comfort; and If we
show that equal justice we will doff
our hats to the man who has put the
whole country under obligations by the
victory he helped to win in the Philip
pines.
.
Philippine Policy.
There is no question as to our not
having gone far enough and fast
enough i'm granting self-government
to the Filipinos the only possible dan
ger has been lest we should go faster
and farther than was in the interest
of the Filipinos themselves. Each Fill
ipino at the present day is guaran-
teed his life, his liberty and the
chance to pursue happiness as he
wishes, so long as he does not harm
his fellows, in a way which the ISL
ands have never known before during
all their recorded history There are
bands OF ladrones, of brigands, still
in existence. Now and then they may
show sporadic increase. This will be
due occasionally to disaffection with
some of the /things\ that our govern
ment does which are best--for ex-
ample, the effort to quarantine against
the plague and to enforce necessary
sanitary precautions, gently and tact
fully though il was made, produced
violent hostility among some of the
more ignorant natives. Again. a dis
ease like the cattle plague may cause
in some given province such want that
part of the inhabitants revert TO
their ancient habit of brigandage, But
the islands have never been as or
DERBY, as peaceful. or as prosperous
as now; and in no other Oriental coun-
try. whether ruled by Asatics or Eu-
ropeans, is there anything approaching
to the amount of individual liberty and
of government which our rule has
brought to the Filipinos. The nation
owes great debt to the people through
whom this splendid work OF ciyiliza-
ton has been achieved, and, there
fore on behalf of the nation / have
come here tonight to thank In your
presence your fellow-townsman, be-
cause he has helped us materially to
add new page to the honor roll of
American history. Gen. Wright. I
greet you, thank you, and 1 wish YOU
we'll"
At midnight the President and party
left for Washington over the South
ern Railway. Col. l.. S. Brown of the
| Southern Railway was in charge of
the train. No stops will be made on
the way The train will reach Wash
| ington at o'clock Friday Y,,or,,t,,r.