The age-herald., 1902-05-06
SENATOR LODGE MAKES ELOQUENT
 DEFENSE OF ARMY IN PHILIPPINES
INDEX TO TODAY'S PAPER
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down by the administration.
 Queen Wilhelp1ina was still alive yes terday morning.
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 As result of the recent declines in the stock market several stock brokers are forced to the wall.
 General Chaffee sends large list of cas- ualties as result of recent battle with the Moros.
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 Attorneys for railroads answer the bill which seeks to set aside the northwest ern merger.
 General state news.
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 Republicans in the Senate seek to have the Cuban reciprocity fight made a party issue.
 Editorial comment.
 Gossip heard in local hotels.
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 Woman swindler beats Hotel Hillman and passes worthless check on Chalfoux & Co.
 Church leaders plan to take census of Birmingham.
 Ministers protest against work being done on Woodward building Sunday. Carpenters and builders no nearer set clement Of strike.
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 Social news of Birmingham.
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 Local and coreign markets.
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 Baseball and general sporting news.
 
 the American communities which gave them birth. They were not saints-they were not devils The atrocities which had been committed in isolated instances and which all regretted had grown out Of warfare. MT. Lodge quoted from the records many instances of atrocities com mitted by the Filipino insurgents on the American troops. Our troops had been driven into streams and while drowning had been shot Still other had been buried alive Reading from statistics furnished by the authorities in the Philippines he showed that 442 natives had been assault ed and mutilated because they sympa- thized with the Am ericans. Sixty-seven municipal officers friendly to the Ameri- cans had been assassinated and forty had been assaulted and mutilated. He closed his speech, saying:
 We are told that we had,no friends among the Filipinos. Apparently the in- surgents thought there were enough friends to make up that awful roll of as- sassination I have heard torrents of sympathy for the insurgents against the flag and the authority of the United States but not one word of sympathy for the Filipinos, men of the same race who are friendly to us and who asked only to live in peace beneath the Ameri- can flag. Their lives were as dear to them as these Filipinos who were aiding the insurgents and they were our friends. There are more of them there and I sav that whatever else may be true or false, if we get out of those islands and leave these friendly Filipinos to fates like. we are unworthy of the name of a great na- tion.'
 MT Lodge declared that he did not wish to defend cruelty but said he was shocked beyond measure at the attacks made upon the army. He added:
 Walters Hard Fight.
 When we condemn Waller for shooting treacherous guides when we think of that little band of his that struggled through the wilderness of Sanar where no Spaniard had ever gone and came out on the other side delrious with suffern ys so that he was reported when he first reached Manila to be out of his mind. let us remember the circumstances ere
 
 hundred posts scattered all over those lsl- ands, little squads of fifteen or twenty men under the command very often. of a sergeant or 8 young lieutenant. there among people apparently friendly. The first thing this boy in command or the sergeant knows is that one of his rlen has been nssassinated in the night. ''Ah, MT. Pres dent, these are the things that have hardened their hearts IL. Iz-l A1,1N ,ta cry among them There is but one trsti- rnony as to th. ir treatment of Tn" frieni- ly natives. Soldiers and officers alike treated them as we should expect Amer1- cans to treat people of that kind-gener- ously and humanely. l do not wish to be put in the position of defender Of cruel ties. If I m 1st make my choice then l am for the friendly natives, the friends or America against the men in arms against her, and I am for the American army against the insurgents.
 "The scheme has been to raise this cry of cruelty in the Philippines in order to make it react upon ihe party Tn D 'Wef. The Am erican army ought not to be SUD- iect to experiments like that It ought not to be made the footstool of politics. and what it does or does not, it ought not to be used to iaise up or rull down any political party.
 When justice is done when the guilty have been punished for proved offenses; when the whole story has been made up, I believe that after all that has been said and all the denuncia tions that have been heaped upon our troops and our officers have fallen into silence we shall find that in the history of the country the record of that army gleaming with victories from Trenton to Manila will shine brightly in the annals of the re- public when these who villify 1t are but noteless blots on a remembered name"
 Warmly Congratulated.
 When Mr. Lodge had concluded his speech he was warmly congratulated by many of his colleagues; twice in the course of his speech the gallaries burst into spontaneous applause.
 The conference report on the omnibus claims bill was agreed to without com ment.
 MT. Rawlns then made brief reply to MT. Lodge. He disclamed any effort by his criticism to besmirch the American army. The responsibility for the condi- tions in the Philippines and for the at- rocties in the Philippines, did not. he said, rest upon the army. He exonerated General Chaffee and all other American officers from responsibility for the re- suits of tn administrators policy in the islands. Th4F and the men under them, he declared, were the victims of that policy. The responsibility for the policy being pursued, he asserted, lay at the door of the Senator from Massachusetts (Ndr. Lodge) and at the oor of the Sena-