The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27
CARMACK is SEVERE
HE MAKES STARTLING REvELA-
TIoNs IN PHILIPPINES.
THOUSANDS HAVE PERISHED.
FEARFUL RESULTS OF MILITARY
MISGOVERNMENT.

He shows Up the Horrors which
Have Already Been Perpetrated
and Forecasts the Future of the
Philippines Under Carpetbag Gov
ernment-rhe Truth systematl-
caIly Concealed From the Begin
} ming, He Said-Now Known That
100000 Perished in a Single Prov
ince of 100000 Inhabitants.
Washington, April 26.-Mr. Carmack
of Tennessee, in the Senate to-day COM
pleted the speech on the Philippine
government bill which he began yes
terday. He continued his exceedingly
caustic criticism of the administration
policy. and the ultimate end to which
it would lead, concluding by express
ing the hope that the administration
would turn from the bloody gospel OF
the strenuous life to the paths of peace
He read Prof. Schurman's criticism
of the bill to show that Prof. Schur-
man believed that the Philippine gov
eminent should be administered for
the Filipinos. BY the terms Of the
pending bill, he said, the islands were
for the Filipinos as the pasture was
for the sheep-they lived and browsed
there in order to raise wool for others
to wear and mutton for others to eat.
IF the carpetbag government you
propose to establish in the Philippines"
he said, lis not a thousand times bet
ter than that which you established in
your own country after the Civil War,
Lord God have mercy upon the people
of those islands,"
Mr.. Carmack referred to the cabled
reports from Manila that Gen. Smith
had acknowledged he had given orders
to make Samar a bowling wilderness
and to kill all over 10 as horrible be-
yond the description of words. The
programme, he said, was to practice
unheard of barbarities in the slaughter
of the inhabitants and to have the
torch complete the work of slaughter.
When the land is without a home
and the country without people, the
word 'pacifed will be written upon the
tombstone of the province of Samari"
One Hundred Thousand Perished.
From the very outbreak of hostilities
in the Philippines, he declared, there
had been a systematic concealment of
the truth which was now coming out.
1t was now known, he said, that 100,
600 people had persisted in a single
province containing 100000 inhabitants,
and yet the people of the United States
knew nothing of it until recently. The
civil government established by this
bill, he predicted, would result in ever
recurring insrrection to be put down
by our blood and treasure. What for?
In order that a few rapscallions and
carpetbaggers might have unlimited,
license to thieve and plumber.
In the course of his remarks, he
called attention to a report that an
American corporation, which proposed
to raise rubber trees in Mindanao, had
arranged with the dattos for slave Ia
Dor and he had read an amendment
he proposed to offer prohibiting the
grant of any franchise to persons or
corporations which proposed to employ
slave labor. He asked Senator Lodge
If the amendment would be agreeable
to him.
Il cannot speak for the committee"
replied MIR. Lodge. FOR myself it
is perfectly agreeable to me-"
The Republican Policy.
He also gave notice of another
amendment he would offer to prohibit
the entry of the Philippines as states
in the union and asked for Senator
Lodge opinion, out the latter Oec1lneu
to reply categorically, saying he would
answer in his own time, in his own
way. But Mr.. Dolliver of Iowa asked
Mr.. Carngack to define his own posi-
ton, having first inveighed against
holding the islands in perpetual des-
potism and now being solicitous lest
they be admitted as states
Senator Carmack responded that his
own position was clear. While the
carpetbaggers and Adventures were
plundering and getting control of the
islands. the government provided in
this bill would be just what they
wanted. When they had everything
they wanted, they would clamor for
American markets and American state
hood.