The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-06-07

progress Of hulna nifty Yet from its yer ~ nae
ture IT has always and everywhere been liza bile
to dark abuses. IL IS -HeIefo
1t ehooves us to keen . vio;la,+ ,,,.+,,s -
preVentNthese abuses and to punish those who
colnIEll them; but II because of them we finch
from nnlsh1ng the task on which we have
stltefel, we snow ourselves crayens and wca k
lings,5 unworthy of the sires from whose 1oins
we sssprang There were abuses and to spare
N the Civil war Your false friends then
called Grant sbutcher,,. and smoke Of Won
who are listening to me. as mercenaries as
Llncoln's hirelings:" Your open foes-as i'm
the resolution passed by the Confederate con-
gress IN October, 1s62-aecused you, at great
length, and with much particularly. of ::con
temptuous disregard Of the usages OF civilized
war. Of subjecting women and children to
.panlshmeut imprisonment and DEATH -. of
murder. OF ''rapine, of .outrages on
women" of 'lawless cruelty of ..perpe-
rating atrocities which would be disgraceful
| 70 sayases; and Abraham Lincoln was singled
out lot especial attack because OF his spirit
| y barbarous ferocity." Verify. these men who
| enus roui1y slanoereo you nave their heirs TO-
DAY IN those who traduce our armies in the
5hlappines' who fix their eyes on individual
deeds OF wrong 50 keenly that at last they be.
come pIlnd to the great work of
| 49, Feace and Freedom.
that has already been acconplished Pea 90
ana Ireedon-are there two better objects for
which soldier can fight? Well these are
are fighting in the Philippines When there
is TAX OF the cruelties committed in the Phil
lppines,;s remember, always that by far the
sreater proportion Of these cruelties have been
COMMITTED py the insurgents against their own
people-as well as against our soldiers-and
that not only the surest but the only efrectual
way OF stopping them is by the progress OF
Inc american arms. The victories Of the
american army have been the really effective
/ means OF putting a stop to cruelty in the
Ihlllppnes. Wherever these victories have
peen eomplete-and such is now the case
throughout the greater part of the islands-all
crueltles nave ceased, and the native is secure
IN his life. his liberty and his pursuit of hap
pihess, Where the instruction still smolders
itself. -. - = =. oE
Tor which they conquer? To establish mill
tary government? NO The laws we are en-
aeavoring to enact for the government of the
philippines are to increase the mower and do
main of the civil at the expense of the mill
tary authorities. and to render even more diff
ncult than in the past the, chance of oppres-
SION. Inc military power is used to secure
peace In order that 1t may itself be supplanted
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
oraer under the civil government Other ma
lions have conquered to create irresponsible
military rule, We conquer to bring just and
responsible civil government to the CONQUERED
But our armies do more than bring peace
90 more than bring order. They bring free
oom Remember always that the Independence
OF tribe sbr a community may and often
does have nothing whatever to do with the
freedom of the individual in that tribe or COM
munity. There are now in Asia and Africa
scores of despotic monarchies, each of which
Is Independent, and in no one of which is there
the slightest vestige of freedom for the in
d1vidual. man. Scant indeed is the gain to
mankind from the independence of a blood
stained tyrant who rules over abjeet and bru-
tal1zed slaves But great is the gain to hui
mainly which follows the steady though slow
introduction of the orderly liberty the law
abiding freedom of the Individual which is the
only sure foundation upon which national in
dependence can be built Wherever in the
philippines the Instruction has been definitely
and finally put down, there the individual Fill
plno already enjoys such freedom, such per-
sonal liberty, under our rule, as he could
never dream Of under the rule Of an
independent Aguinaldian olisarchy The
slowly learned and -. ~. ~ = ~ -
Difficult Art of Self-Goyernment.
an art which our people have taught them
selves by the labor OF thousand years, can
not be CRASHED in d day by people Just
emerging from conditions OF life which our an
cestors left behind them in the dim years be-
fore history dawned. We believe that we can
rapidly, teach the people of the Philippine
islands not only how to enjoy but how to
make good use Of their freedom; and with their
growing knowledge their growth in self-gove-n-
rnent shall keep steady pace When they have
thus shown their capacity for real freedom by
their power of self-government then. and not
tn then, VIII it be possible to decide whether
they are to exist independently of US or be knit
to us by ties of common friendship and in
terest. When that day will come 1t is not in
human wisdom now to foretell. All that we
Sa1 say with certainty is that it would be put
pack an Measurable distance If we Should
yleld 10 the counsels of unmanly weakness and
Turn loose the islands. to victorious
1oes butcher with revolving cruelty our he
trayed friends. and shed the blood of the most
humane, the most enlightened, the most peace
tal, the wisest and the best of their own num-
per-1or these are the classes who have al
ready learned TO welcome our rule 49,
Nor, while fully acknowledging our duties to
DINERS need we forget cur duty to our own
country: The Pacific seaboard is as much to
us as the Atlantic; as we grow in powe- and
prosperity so our interests will grow in that
EARNEST West which is the imrnemorial East
\ ne shadoW of our destiny has already reached
to the shores of Asia. The might of our people
already looms large against the world horizon:
ah a II VII loom ever larger as the year go by
NO statesman has right to neglect the inter
ests Of our people in the Pacific: interests
when when are important to all our people hut
which are of most Importance to those Of our
people who have built populous and thrivine
states on the western slope OF our continent
a. us should no more be party question
a party question: At this moment the man in
highest office in the Philippine islands is the
wee governor, Cen Luke Wright of Ten
nessee who CALAMITY wore the gray in the
Civil war and who is now working hand in
hand with the head of our army in the Philip
pines Adna Chaffee, who in the civ:l war gal
tunder them, from the North and from the
South. In civil life and In military life. as
,esacnefs' as administrators, soldiers are
1anoring nightly for us who live at home.
here and there black sheep are to be foun1
among them: but taken as a whole they repre-
sent as high a standard of public service as
TINS country has ever SEEN. They are doing a
great work for civilization, a great work for
me honor and the interest of this nation, and
az al for the welfare Of the inhabitants Of
me Phiiippine islands. All honor to them; and
shame, thrice shame, to us If we fail to uphold
their hands! s77.71% - :
. The applause accorded the president as
ne concluded was long and continuous,
and as ne took his seat some one in the
crowd cried out:
Three chrees for our brave president p,
wnereupon a mighty shout went Up from
the threats Of the thousands who had