The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-20
BOSTON MEETINGS
OF INDIGNATION
Suppression Of Truth Con
corning the Philippines
Is Denounced.

BOSTON, Mass, March 19.-TWo
meetings of citizens were held in Fan
euiI hall today ito protest against the
suppression of truth about the Philip
pines and praying for further official
inquiry into conditions there" The
men active in preparing for the meet
ings have been prominent in the New
England Anti-imperialistic league. Col.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson presid-
ed at the first meeting
Charles S. Hamlin declared that the
meeting had been called for no parti-
san purpose, but was merely a gath
ering of the people of Massachusetts
to consider and take action upon a
vital question of government.
"a great issue is before u.s." he
said, whether government officials are
the servants or masters. Terrible
charges have been brought against GER
tain officers, charges of cruelty, almost
unparalleled in history. A petition has
been filed, signed by college professors
throughout the country asking for an
investigation. This petition had been
cOntemptuously ignored.
Charges were made that prisoners
of war were murdered after the battle
of Caloocan. Gen. Otis sent the charge
to the judge advocate. recommending
court-martial proceedings; the judge
advocates reply was unfavorable and
this reply has been forwarded to the
adjutant general of the army by Gen.
Otis, with the statement that he doubt
ed the wisdom of a court-martial and
no action has ever been taken by the
war department.
IF anyone, however, raises his voice
in protest he Is branded as an assail-
ant of the honor of the army l have
talked with officers concerning these
charges, and believe that the feeling
Is almost unanimous that the honor of
the army demands the fullest inves-
tigation, and the prompt acquittal or
condemnation of the officers charged
with crime. The action of the present
administration and the senate commit
tee in refusing to probe these charges
to the bottom is but another mode of
expressing the belief that these charges
of crime are not few scattered cases,
but pervade the whole army"
The other speakers of the afternoon
included Herbert Welsh, of Philadel-
phia, who told the story of the death
of Father Augustine in the Philippines,
and Lieut.. Hall, of Col. Funston's KAN
sas regiment, who cast discredit upon
swimming across a river under fire, by
stating that, to his knowledge, the
colonel could not swim. Moorfield
Storey presided at the evening meeting,
at which addresses We're made by Win
slow Warren, Herbert Welsh, Rev
Charles G. Ames and Charles P. Cod
man, while letters of regret were read
from Archbishop Ireland, President
Schurman, of Cornell university; Carl
Schurz and Albert E. Pillsbury.
Resolutions We're adopted declaring
that the people Of the United States
need and have the right to all the in
formation possible concerning condi-
lions in the Philippines that the peo-
pie of those islands have the right
to be heard through their representa-
tives on all of the questions affecting
their welfare; protesting against the
course of Senator Lodge, as chairman
of the senate committee of affairs in
the Philippines, 'in preventing a full
investigation of matters referred to
that commission" in refusing to allow
witnesses to testify whose evidence is
important, and in every way striving
to conceal the truth from the people
of the United States also affirming that
lit is our duty to give the Philippine
islands the independence we are proud
to have given Cuba"