The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-06-06
THE COMMERCIAL
FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1902.
CARMACK ARRAIGNS
THE ADMINISTRATION.

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bate for opposition to Philippine
B civil government bill was impress
sively delivered. He displayed
new reach of versatility in a re
serve power for compact, forcefu
argument, and this, based upon al
array of admitted facts, constitut
ed terrific arrangement Of the ad
ministration's policy in the Phil
ipPines.
Upon the facts he appealed tt
the arbitrament of the great tribu
nal of the people for Gods law OF
right and justice yet to prevail.
He alluded to the speech by Sena-
tor Morgan, supporting the bill,
and his criticism of his fellow
Democrats.
1.-The senator tells u.s." he said,
"that the Filipinos are not fight
ing for liberty, but that they are
the savage tools of wicked con
! spirators. This is the time worn
and time honored plea of despot-
ism. 1t is and always has been
the excuse fer conquest and tyran-
ny and robbery and murder the
wide world over"
He did not think the senator
from Alabama had contributed
anything to the pacihcation of the
island by his contemptuous char
acterization of the whole people
as savages, nor that he had con
tributed anything in the way of a
Just and accurate statement of the
situation.
The senator from Alabama had
said that the Filipinos were not
fighting for liberty, when the tes-
timony of the supporters of the
administration was that the whole
people were enthusiastic for indie
pendence. Gen. Chaffee had
spoken of their intense opposition
to American rule. Their own tes-
timony was that they preferred
death to the kind of government
sought to be established by the
bill.
Speaking of Morgan's assertion
that the army was more represent
ative of the people than Congress,
Carmack said:
eff that be true, this Congress
should abdlcate its functions and
delegate to the military arm of the
government the right to enact its
laws. | do not know of any more
dangerous doctrine in free re-
public than that promulgated by
the senator from Alabama that we
are to look to the army and not
Congress to find true representa-
ton of the people"
The Tennessee senator contend
ed that the evident purpose of the
party in power was to drift the
country upon policy of colonial
empire, although the leaders re-
Trained from any authoritative de-
claration. The people were to be
deceived or confused until after
the policy had been SO firmly fas-
tened upon the government that it
could not shake itself free. Greed
for territory would be followed by
an Unsuitable appetite.
The ratification of the Paris
treaty did not commit the United
States to bloody and destructive
war upon the FiIipinos.
He denied Spooner's contention
that Aguinaldo was determined up
on war with the United States at
all hazards, whether annexation
was attempted or not. The de-
claration of war was in the Presi-
dents proclamation of sovereignty
before the ratification of the
treaty.
He showed conclusively that the
alliance with the Filipino forces
was deliberately entered into by i
the American leaders and troops,
with the impression the latter
sought to have created that they
were there to help the people
achieve their independence. Not
one single word had gone from