Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-06-07
No FLNCH|NG FROM DUTY
President Says Filipinos Must Show
Capacity for Self Government
Before It Is Granted.
SYNOPSIS OF ADDRESS AT ARLINGTON
VIII Not Turn Over the Islands and
Friendly Natives to the MerciIess
Enemy-Stands by the American
Army and Says 1t Must Be Up
held

Washington, May 31.-President
Roosevelt spoke for the new policies
of the government of the United
States at Arlington yesterday. While
the occasion was the annual tribute
of love to the soldier dead at the ma
tional cemetery, extraordinary inter
est was shown in the presidents
speech owing to the fact that it was
current report in the capital he would
touch on subjects close to the ma
TONS heart.
Stands by the Army.
In this no one was disappointed,
for the president spoke gravely and
deeply on topics now agitating con-
gress and the country, and which
have everything to do with the future
conduct of national affairs. His in
troductory remarks were almost
wholly confined to the careers of
Grant and Lincoln. From them he
passed to an eloquent defense of the
course of the army in the Philip
pines, a condemnation of lynching, an
exposition of the rules of warfare.
a declaration of the government that
all guilty offending army officials
would be punished, and renewed
pledge to the Philippine people that
when they showed themselves worthy
of self-government the United States
would be willing to grant it to them.
Reply to HOar.
When the president referred to the
"'counsels of unmanly weakness" IN
connection with the Philippine situa-
ton it seemed to many direct chal-
1enge to the speech of Senator Hoar
delivered few days ago. The infer
<ence was drawn, apparently with
reason, that the president had chosen
the occasion to declare definitely his
Philippine policy and to reply to the
critics of the government. He said:
.'Our soldiers conquer. And what IS the
object for which they conquer? To estab-
Iish military government? No. The laws
we are now endeavoring to enact for the
government of the Philippines are to in
crease the power and domain of the civil
at the expense of the military authorities,
and to render even more difficult than In
the past the chance Of oppression. Great
IS the gain to humanity which follows the
steady though slow introduction Of the or
derly liberty, the law abiding freedom Of
the 1nQ1V1Qual, winch IS the only sure IOuH-
.Gation upon which national independence
can be built
Not a Party Question.
The president carefully analysed
from his point of view the state of
mind and the present position of the
Filipino and what American civil rule
would bring to him in the way Of
blessings of civilization. He said of
the course of the army in the orient:
'This should more be a party question
than the war for the union should have been
party question. At TINS moment the man
in highest office in the Philippine islands is
the vice governor, Gen. Luke Wright, of
Tennessee, who CALAMITY wore the gray in
the civil war and who is now working hand
In hand with the head of our army in the
Philippines, Adna Chafee, who in the civil
war CALAMITY wore the blue. Those two,
and the men under them, from the north
and from the south, in civil Life and in mill
tary life, as. teachers, as administrators,
soldiers, are laboring nightly for us who
live at home They are doing a great work
for civilization, great work for the honor
and the interest of this nation, and above
ALL for the welfare Of the inha bitants of the
Philippine islands All honor to them; and
shame, thrice shame, to us if we fail to up
hold their hands,