Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-30
TARIFF AND THE TRUSTS
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scholars III the schools and there are
NOW $1,000. The doubling of school at
tendance in three years marks the
progress being made in Americanizing
/ the island, for there is nothing that so
tends to that end as the American
school house and the American teach
en-
In the Philippines we We're not so
/ generously welcomed. An instruction
against us broke out before our title
was perfected by treaty The treaty
with Spain WAS ratified by democratic
ana republican votes and the title of
/ Spain passed to he United States. No
/ republican president would order
/ American soldiers to retreat before the
onslaught of the semi civiliZed and
+ trcacherous foes that were in arms
AGAINST us in the islands. and the war
went on amidst difficulties greater in
! many respects than ever confronted
i American soldiers, except perchance in
some of the Indian wars. Faced by foes
| that buried captves alive and mutilat-
ed the living and the dead, our brave
men went on some times fighting with
odds against them. as much as eighty
to one, to final and complete victory.
| Our democratic friends. not satisfied
| With siding With the enemies of their
country in this struggle, commenced to
/ denounce the administration of the war
as cruel an inhuman. Every time some
/ American soldier who. after looking up
/ on the mutiated remains of some of his
/ comrades, became too severe with the
/ wretches who had been guilty of such
/ outrage the incident was taken up and
magnified to the discredit of the Amer
lean army, but no reference was made
to the brutal provocation that mitigate
ed it it did not excuse the act. The re-
| publican party has no sympathy with
cruelty, and the republican administra-
tion has made every effort where there
was a semblance of truth behind such
charges to bring the guilty to Justice
Sot refusing to humliate in his old age
that brave and heroic soldier of two
wars. Gen. Jacob III. Smith. when it
jappeared that under great provocation
he had gone to too great length. But
the republican party will not counte-
nance indiscriminate attacks upon the
soldiers of the republic. who for four
years have been nobly fighting our bat
ties against brutal and savage foes on
| the other side of the world, beneath a
scorching tropic sun When 1t became
manifest that the American people
would not tolerate the democratic as
saut upon the American army our
democratic friends FASTENED to say that
they We're not attacking the army, but
individual acts of cruelty. Unfortu-
nately, on the oath day of January last,
and before our democratic friends
found that it WAS specific acts of cruel
~ they were attacking and not the
army. an appropriation bill was pend
ing in the house of representatives
which provided for the proper shelter
and protection of officers and enlisted
men of the army of the United States
lawfully on duty in the Philippine ISL
ands. to be expended in the discretion
of the president. $500,0o0:" and when
the vote was taken sixteen democrats
voted against it and thirty-four We're
paired against it. OF course, our DEM
ocratic friends are not opposed to the
army. but nine -tenths of their chosen |
representatives in the lower house of
congress would compel the officers and |
enlisted men to be exposed to the |
weather during the rainy season in the |
tropics. rather than appropriate one
dollar to put shelter over their heads.
Thank God not one republican voted I
against that appropriation. With this
fight in the rear constantly going on +
the army gallantly overcame every OBJ
stacle and on the Fourth of July the
president was enabled to issue his
Eroclanations declaring peace reigned
thruout the Philippines with all but the
Mohammedan Moros, granting amnesty
Tor past political oifenses and supplant-
ing the military with civil govern
ment. The army. which at one time
amounted to 10000 men, has been or
c;ered reduced to $4,000, and the work
OF pacifcation is now substantially
complete. Almost the last act of con-
gress was the passage of bill to es-
tablish Z, civil government in the Phil
ippines. That act carries to the people I
of those islands the great guarantees
of American liberty. and in ages yet to
come will be looked upon by the people
OF those distant islands with something
OF reverence with which the people of
the northwest looked to the celebrated T
ordinance of 1857. We have provided for
Il local Legislative body chosen by the
people. Even in the midst of war we
have established public schools every
where. In 1898 there We're 1921 pupils
enrolled in all the public schools of the
islands, today there are 100000 pupils
SO enrolled with 1900 teachers. consci-
entiously engaged in their instruction.,
and this is a sample of the manner in
which we are trampling upon and OPP
pressing these people. We have, as
best we knew. discharged the duties in
cumbent upon us and have left to those
who come after us the settlement of
their own problems. If the people OF
these islands ever become civilized and
of independent self government
and then desire it, l for one would be in
favor of giving it to them, but l am
struggled up with our assistance until
they are fit for independence they will
be as unwilling to surrender their rela-
tons to the United States as Iowa
would be. ! know nothing as to what
the future has in store. but l believe
that our flag has been put UP in the
Philippines and that it will stay put:
that it will never come down so long as
this republic. "one and ndvisible."
shall be reckoned among the nations of
the earth.
When the war with Spain broke out ii
was necessary to impose additional
taxes upon the people, but it WAS un-
derstood that they would be repealed
when the necessity for them arising out
OF the wah had passed. At the second
second session of the l'ifty-siNth con