The Lafayette gazette., 1902-05-03
THE AMER/CAN We VI ER.

Many centuries of Spain's
colonial policy produced a Wey-
ler, but the United States gov
has been in the colonial
business only three years and it
has already startled the world
with the cruelties of Smith who
is bold enough to confess that he
has ordered the American sol /
diers to kill and burn and make
of the island of Samar a bowling
wilderness. Smith is one of the
men sent to the Philippines to
teach the Filipinos how to enjoy
the blessings of good govern
ment, and because the foolish
natives refuse to accept him as
their savior he has decided that
the best way to fulfill his mission
is to kill them and burn their
homes. Those who believe in
imperialism and think it is the
duty of this country to subju-
gate the people of the Philip
pines should not be shocked at
the cruel methods employed by
Smith, who has simply under
taken to end this war of eXter-
mination as soon as possible.
The barbarOus order of Smith,
the application of the water
cure'' and the infamous utter
ances of Funston, seem to have
caused a revulsiOn of sentiment
even among the imperialists and
unless there is a change in the
policy of the administration it is
believed that the people will
) register a decisive protest
} against the whole thing at the
November election. During the
past few days severe arraign-
ments of the Philippine war
were delivered in both houses of
Congress. Among the speakers
who condemned the inhuman
order of Smith is Congressman
Sibley, of Pennsylvania, a prom
; inent member on the Repu bli-
, can side. The Pennsylvania
said:
when I have heard the states
, ments made that we are cruel in
the conduct of that war, l have
thought perhaps the partisan
was speaking. But when 1 have
read. as have within the past
forty-eight hours, that a Gen
: eral wearing the uniform of the
r army of the United States, one
who stands under the shadow of
our flag, issues orders, not to
cOnciliate province, but to
: leave it bowling wilderness and
to kill all above ten years OF age,
, then it seems to me that human
ity must have marched back
ward for eighteen centuries and
I that Herod again appears. l
2 have read of Timor, the Tartar.
:, I have read of Achilles, 1 have
, read of the Saracen scOurge, but
I thank God that since the tragic
scene on Calvary, it has taken
eighteen centuries to produce q
= Smith. 1 have read of the water
! cure I believed that was exag
: gerated.
''Can any man whose blood
pounds in his pulses, any man
2 who has read his Bible, or who
) has been reared at the knee of a
! Christian woman, justify the
perpetration of such cruelties
upon another man who wears
} the guise and the image Of his
7 Creator? And yet we hear this
t man attempts to justify acts by
, which men are pumped SO full OF
water as to nearly drown them
and then brought back to life by
humping them oyer the stomach
1 with the butts of muSketS.
5 ''That is not civilization, that
, is not Christianizing the world.
I am thankful that these are
sporadic cases. Against that
: as d man who belongs, L hope,
: not alone to the Republican
, ranks, but to the whole brother
, hood of man, the wide world
= around, I want the members OF
this House on this side of the
1 cham Der and that, to voice their
protest against all such meas
: ures. (Applause.) I hope the
, president of the United States
8 will have the courage, upon what
L the man admits, to discharge
him dishonorably from the ser
: vice that he has disgraced. ZAP
: plause)
stHo admits that he iSSned the