The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-05-02
EQUAL TO OLD HEROD.

llCan congressman llolil 0hi'J
vania. created something of SEN
sation in the House Monday when
he denounced Gen. Smith and his
brutal campaign on Samar. The
speech was roundly applauded
from the Democratic side and even
the Republicans could not refrain
from applauding his severe az
fragment of Jake the Burner"
In the course of his remarks, Mr..
Sibley said:
"When l am compelled to read utter
ances contained in military orders
that make the blood of men run cold,
when | have heard the statements
made that we were cruel in the con-
duct of that war, l have thought per-
haps the partisan was speaking. But
when | have read, as | have within
the past forty-eight hours, that gen.
eral wearing the uniform OF the army
of the United States, one who STANDS
under the shadow of our flag, issues
orders, not to conciliate a province,
but to leave it a bowling wilderness
and to kill all above ten years OF age,
then it seems to me that humanity
must have marched backward for
eighteen centuries, aud that Herod
again appears. l have read of Timour,
the Tartar. | have read Of Achilles.
| have read of the Saracen scourge, but
| thank God that since the tragic
scene on Calvary, it has taken eighteen
centuries to produce Smith.
81 have read of the water cure. L
believe that was exaggerated. Can
any man whose blood pounds in his
pulses. any man who has read his BIZ
bic or who has been reared at the knee
of Christian woman, Justify the per-
petration of such cruelties upon an
other man who wears the guise and
the image of his Creator? And yet
we hear this man attempting to jUsti-
fly acts by which men are pumped so
full of water to nearly drown them
and then brought back to life by
humping them over the stomach with
the butts of muskets. That is not
civilization, that is not Christianizing
the world. / am thankful that these
are sparodIc cases.
"They will never pacify any race of
human beings on this earth by first
drowning them and then bringing
them to life with the butt of mus
ket; and against that, as member
upon this side of the chamber, against
that as man, who belongs, l hope,
not alone to the Republican ranks,
but to the whole brotherhood of man
the wide world round. | want the
members of this House on this side OF
the chamber and on that, to voice
their protest, and against all such
measures. (Applause.)
"a friend of mine said few min
utes ago, ooh, you had better wait and
hear his defense / hope the Presi-
dent of the United states will have
the courage, upon what the man adj
mits, to discharge him dishonorably
from the service that he has disgraced
(Applause.)
HE admits that he issued the order
to leave the province a bowling waste
and wilderness, and to kill all above
10 years of age, the innocent with the
guilty. That man never ought to be
permitted to stay in the service of the
United States until the sun goes
down. He is a disgrace not alone tC
the party, but to every man who ever
wore the uniform of the United States
and he is a blot and a disgrace to oul
present civilization. Wait and heal
what his justification may be. Thai
man does not live who can Justify
such orders. lApplause.) There is nC
Justification. | care not how adroitly
his lawyers may frame their plea o.
how subtle be their reasoning. Th'
fact admitted by his own mouth tina
| he issued such orders is sufficient fo
the hope that there is the courage anC
the patriotism and the humanity ant
the Christianity at the other end o
the avenue that viii not let him wea
the federal uniform twenty-four hour
hence"
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