Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-05-30
ROOSEVELT ON
MEMORIAL DAY.

MEMUhihL UHI
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gled out for especial attack because
Of his spirit OF barbarous ferocity.'
/ Verify these men who thus foully
slandered you have their heirs today In
| those who traduce our armies In the
| Philippines, who fix their eyes on iD-
diVidua deeds Of wrong 80 keenly that
at last they become blind 10 the great
work Of peace and freedom that has
already been accomplished,
PEACE AND FREEDOM.
Peace and freedom~-are there two
better objects for which soldier can
fight? We'll, these are precisely the OBJ
iects for which our soldiers are fighting
in the Philippines When there Is talk
Of the cruetes committed In the Philip
pines, remember alawys that by far
the greater proportion Of these cruel
ties have been committed by the In
argents against their own people--as
well as against our soldiers-and that
not only the surest but the only effectu-
ress OF the American arms The vic
tories Of the American army have been
the really effective means of putting a
stop 70 cruelty in the Philippines.
Wherever these victories have been
complete-and such is now the case
throughout the greater part OF the ISL
ands--aii cruelties have ceased and the
native is secure in his life, his liberty,
and his pursuit OF happiness. Where
the instruction still smolders there IL
always chance for cruelty to show
itself.
WHY OUR SOLDIERS CONQUER.
Our soldiers conquer; and what is
the object for which they conquer? To
establish a military government? No.
The laws we are now endeavoring to
enact for the government OF the Philip
pines arc to Increase the power and do
main OF the civil at the expense OF the
military authorities, and to render even
more difficult than In the past the
chance OF oppression The military
power lg 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 order under the civil
government, Other nations have con-
quered 10 create irresponsible military
rule We conquer to bring Just and
responsible civil government TO the
conquered.
OUR ARMIES BRING FREEDOM.
Duf ou, oxr,taa 10 ,.onra tha~ k.t..,.
peace, do more than bring order. They
bring freedom. Remember always that
the Independence OF a tribe or
community may, and often
does, have nothing whatever to
do with the freedom OF the
Individual In that tribe or community.
There are now in Asia and Africa
scores of despotlc monarchles, each Of
which is independent, and In no one
OF which Ia there the slightest vestige
of freedom for the Individual man.
Scant indeed Is the gain to mankind
from the independence" OF the blood.
stained. tyrant who rules over abject
and brutallzed slaves. But great Is the
gain to humanity which follows the
steady though slow introduction Of the
orderly liberty, the law-abldlng free
dom Of the Individual, which Is the
only sure fouAaatlon upon which ma
tlonal Independence can be built.
Wherever in the Philippines the insur-
rectlon has been definitely and finally
put down. there the Individual Filipino
already enjoys such freedom, such per-
sonal liberty, under our rule, as he
could never even dream Of under the
rule Of an independent" Agulnaidian
ART OF SELF-GOVERNMENT.
The slowly-learned and difficult art Of |
government, an art which our peo- |
pie have taught themselves by the Ia |
Dor Of o thousand years. cannot b. |
in a day by a people only just |
from conditions of life which |
our ancestors left behind them in the |
dim years before history dawned. We |
believe that we can rapidly teach the |
people of the Philippine Islands not on
~ how to enjoy but how to make good |
use of their freedom; and with their
growing knowledge their growth In
shall keep steady pace.
When they have thus shown their
capacity for real freedom by their pow
,r Of self government, t/n, and rot
ill then will Il be possible to decide
whether they are TO exist independent
y Of us or be knit to us by ties Of COM
non friendship and interest. When
hat day viii come II Is not In human
wisdom now 10 foretell, All that we
AN say with certainty Is that II would
De put back an Unreasonable distance
( we should yield to the counsels OF
lnmanly weakness and turn loose the
Stands, to see our victorious foes
butcher with revolving cruelty our be-
rayed friends, and shed the blood OF
he most humane, the most enlightened.
he most peaceful, the wisest and the
,est Of their own number-for these are
he classes who have already learned
o welcome our rule.
DUTY TO OUR COUNTRY.
Nor while fully acknowledging our
luties TO others, nUd we forget our
Iuty to our own country The Pacific |
Is as much to us as the At
antic; as we grow in power and pros
ierity so our interests will grow In
hat farthest west which is the i'm
east The shadow Of our
lestny has already reached to the
hores Of Asia, The might Of our peo-
,le already looms large against the
world horizon; and II will loom ever
arger as the years so by, No states
nan has q right to neglect the inter-
SITS Of our people in the Pacific; in
erests which are important 10 all our
,eople but which are Of most mpor-
anCe TO those of our people who have
,uilt populous and thriving states on
he western slope Of our continent.
BE NO PARTY QUESTION.
This should no more be a party Ques-
ion than the war for the Union should
ave been a party question. At this
moment the man in highest Office in
he Philippine Islands is the vice gov
rnor Gen. Luke Wright OF Tennessee
tho calamity wore the gray In the civil
var and who Is now working hand in
and with the head Of our army in the
Adna Chaffee, who in the
ivil war calamity wore the blue. Those
wo, and the men under them. from
he north and from the south, in civil
lie and In military life, as teachers,
9 administrators, as soldiers, are Ia
orlng nightly for us who live al
ONE. Here and there black sheep are
0 be found among them; but taken as
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