Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-28
HANGFUNSTON
CARMACK
SAYS
~IF ANYBODY Is TO BE HANGED
IN THE PHILIPPINES WITH
OUT TRIAL THEN LET FUN
ST0N BE HANGED

SION BE HANGED"
WASHINGTON. D. C. April Ex-senator
Carmack spoke today on the Philippine
situation. His speech was a merry denun-
citation OF the administrators policy.
Mr.. carmack said that this bin. like the
Philippines tariff bill simply presented
one aspect OF imperialism 1t was not.
question only OF framing just laws for the
Fuipinos but a question OF right 10 make
any laws whatever for that people.
The claim OF the Republicans said he,
lis that they had burned enough towns,
wasted enough country and killed enough
people 70 make good their right The land
fs ours because we have strewn IL with
the ashes OF its homes and drenched IL
with the blood OF its people
Opponents OF this policy denied that We
had derived any just powers OF govern
ment from the subjugation OF the govern
ed and that was the real issue OF this
debate IN a former debate, he said. Mr..
suooner had charged that the minority
had prostituted the question 10 partisan
purposes and that Mr.. Bryan had seized
rpon II 20 force an issue with the admin
istration. Unfortunately for this argu-
ment the fact was that Mr.. Bryan had
declared his position upon this question
long before anybody knew what the policy
or the administration would be- At that
tine the public utterances OF Mckinley
and Bryan were in exact accord and IL
the administration had not reversed its
policy there would have been no differ
enoe between them
The Democrats in the senate. he insist
ed had tried to remove the question from
party politics. II was now claimed that
the civil authority OF the United States
was supreme throughout the Philippines
and IL was treason for Democrat 70 ex-
press an opinion
He cited the public utterances OF Pres
fdent Mckinley and Mr.. Roosevelt and the
speeches Of Republican senators and quo
ted from the Republican campaign book
20 show that a general policy OF colo
nialism and conquest was advocated as
Republican doctrine.
A Lunatie's DeIuslon.
The idea that you can transform the
character OF a race by teaching them to
read" said he. lis the widest. craziest.
the most fantastic dream that ever fit
ted through q lunatic's brain"
He quoted utterances from Mr.. Roose-
welt charging that 'Treasonable utter
nnces had melted the Fnipinos 20 insur-
rection" and said that we must not judge
the president In his moments OF oratorical
ferocity or when the frenzy Of battle was
n his blood.
The president was not vindicative' but
simply strenuous and resembled IN his
Na1ALe OF eNEECn q certain AeuueS&edn3
horse OF which Il was said that running
away was his natural gait. Mr.. Roosevelt
had habitually spoken OF the Filipinos as
'savages' and 'barbarians' and 'Apaches'
and these denunciations had been scat
tered broadcast throughout the islands TO
tnname the people against the United
States The effect OF the presidents Ian
guage had been 10 harden and intensity
= Filipino opposition 70 American rule.
Some OF our military heroes had been gull
" OF a like offense.'
He referred 70 a recent speech OF Gem
erai Funston. whom he described as the
-Jayhavker brigadier from the Wind
Swapt Plains. the mightiest Samson that
ever welded the Jaw bone OF an ass as a
weapon Of war"
Mr.. Carmack said death had cheated
Funston OF some nlustrious victims like
ex-senator Sherman and ex-President
Harrison. but there were sim enough 70
keep him busy. Papers had quoted
Funston as saying that the president en-
tirely approved his recent speech and
wanted him TO accept an invitation from
the junior senator from Massachusetts, to
80 20 Boston and tell the people there
about hanging the senior from Massachu-
sets but the plain truth was that FNlns-
ton could not hang anybody.
Funston should go back 70 the Phil
ippines. 70 the land where there was q
plenty OF hemp and no execution.
Then Hang Funston.
IF men are to be hanged without re-
gard TO law for speaking words ealcula-
ted TO incite Instruction" said he 1.-THE
first neck 20 feel the strangllng clutch OF
the rope should be the heroic gullet OF
Funston"
Ever since he had been in the Philfp-
pines he had been pouring forth TRADES OF
indiscriminate insult against the whole
people and had Outrageously insulted the
very men upon whom the committee was
relying for aid in pacifying the country.
He also had Il on the very highest au-
thority that a speech made BY the sena-
tor from Indiana. Cfr. Beveridge) had
been circulated broadcast throughout the
country with an exceedingly pernicious
effect upon the natives. The dominant
idea OF the bill now before the senate
said he. was 10 exploit the Philippines.
II was proposed 10 take a wholesale grant
OF franchises and concessions and to dis
pose OF the peoples lands 20 foreign syn
dicates and corporations without giving
the people themselves any choice in the
business. The whole bill was a pitiful
evasion OF a plain duty.
We have a right 10 demand and the
Filipincs have right 20 demand that the
administration shall at last define its pol
icy In the Philippines.
Upon what fact or experience" he
asked. did they base their belief In the
purity OF carpet bag government
He spoke OF the horrors OF carpet bag
government In the south" and said that
the Republicans gave no heed 20 the
cry OF an oppressed and plundered people
though they were their own people OF
their own blood"
He declared that from the very first
outbreak there had been a conspiracy 20
suppress the truth and whitewash every
outrage In the Philippines.
In conclusion he said he had wnF hanu
Influenced in this matter by any low de-
sire for party advancement He only
wished 70 see the country recalled from
the bloody doctrines OF bloody men and
return 20 the peaceful paths by which
she had assembled in safety and security
20 glory and power.