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V-THE PHILIPPINE BILL.
The Philippine question occupied
some of the senate's attention on Tues
day, April 22, when Senator Rawlins
of Utah opened the debate against the
ponding Philippine bill. Senator
Rawlins denounced tho bill as an un
warranted Imposition on tho Filipinos,
declaring that it would establish ono
of tho foulest oligarchies in tho his
tory of tho world. Ho maintained that
tho Philippine commission was given
too great power by the bill and as
serted that under its provisions the
islands would be exploited for private
gain. While he was speaking two
offorts were made to maintain a quo
rum, tho second resulting in a lively
tilt among several senators, Mr. Scott
of West Virginia intimating that argu
ment could not influence any senator.
"Wo seem to have arrived at that
point in our history," said Mr. Rawl
ins in beginning his speech, "where
thero aro those who affect to believe
that it is sedition to think and trea
son to talk. 'For God's sake let us
keep silent until the war is over,' ex
plains a poripatetic hero and graduate
from the Philippines, who wants to
make free speech treason, and to cart
us away to the gallows although he
might give tho senator from Massa
chusetts tho benefit of clergy on ac
count of his sympathy for a 'super
heated conscience,' all, if wo aro to be
lieve him, with the approval of tho
United States. Congress no longer has
to declaro war. An Otis or a Chaffee
aro prepared to attend to this any day
in the week.
"A few days ago a message came
to tho United States that Malvar, the
last of the insurrectos, had surrend
ered. The next day it was announced
that General Chaffee had declared a
new war and had dispatched an army
to wage it against two millions or
people in the island of Mindanao. But
mum is to bo the word so long as there
is any disturbance anywhere within
our borders or in anyone of the more
than a thousand islands beyond tho
seas.
"There are facts which cry out for
utterance. There are ten millions of
suffering people across the water, si
lent, unheard, but whose very souls
cry out against wrongs cruel, un
speakable beyond the pen of mortal
language to describe. There are more
than seventy millions on this side of
the water wanting to know the truth,
heretofore stifled and suppressed.
"This bill strikes its roots into and
derives its support from that excres
cence upon tho army appropriation bill
of 1901, known as the Spooner amend
ment. All property rights in the isl
ands and the fate of their inhabitants
aro turned over to the control and dis
position of tho commission, without
any qualification of importance."
On April 24 the Philippine govern
ment bill was again taken up in the
senate, and Senator Rawlins of Utah
continued his speech in opposition to
the measure.
CARMACK'S SPEECH.
On April 25 Senator Carmack of Ten
nessee delivered a speech in the sen
ate in opposition to the Philippine
bill. The Associated press report, con
corning Mr. Carmack's speech, Is aB
follows: Mr. Carmack said that this
bill, like the Philippine tariff bill,
simply presented one aspect of imper
ialism. It was not a question onlv of
framing just laws for tho Philippines,
but a question of right to make any
laws whater for that people. "The
claim of the republicans," ho said, "is
that, they had burned enough towns,
wasted enough country and killed
enough people to make good their
right. The land is ours because we
have strewn it with the ashe3 of its
homos and drenched it with the blood
of its people." Opponents, of this pol
icy denied that we had derived. any
just powers of government from tho
subjugation of tho governed, and that
was tho real issue of this debate. In
the former debate, he said, Mr. Spoon
er had charged that the minority had
prostituted tho question to partisan
purposes and that Mr. Bryan had
seized upon it to force an issue with
the administration. Unfortunately for
this argument the fact was that Mr.
Bryan had declared his position upon,
this question long before anybody
knew what tho policy of the admin
istration would be. At that time the
nuhlin uttoranflGfl of McKinlav and
Bryan wero in exact accord and if the
administration had n.ot reversed its
policy thero would have been no dif
ference between them. Tho democrats
in tho senate, he insisted, had tried
to remove the question from party pol
itics. It was now claimed that the
civil authority of the United States
was supreme throughout the Philip
pines and it was treason for a demo
crat to express an opinion. He cited
the public utterances of President Mc
Klnley and Mr. Roosevelt, and the
speeches of republican senators and
quoted from the republican campaign
book to show that a general policy of
colonialism and conquest was advo
cated, as republican doctrine. "Tho
idea that you can transform the char
acter of a race by teaching them 10
read," said he, "is the wildest, craziest,
tho most fantastic dream that ever
flitted through a lunatic's brain." He
quoted utterances from Mr. Roosevelt
charging that "treasonable" utterances
had incited the Filipinos to insurrec
tion and said that we must not judge
tho president in his moment of ora
torical ferocity or when the ferocity of
battle was in his blood. The presi
dent was not vindictive, but simply
"strenuous," and resembled in his
habits of speech a certain Tennessee
horse that struck its natural gait only
when running away. Mr. Roosevelt
had habitually spoken of the Filipinos
as "savages," and "barbarians," and
"Apaches," and these denunciations
had been scattered broadcast through
out the islands to inflame the people
against the United States. The ef
fect of tho president's language had
been to harden and intensify Filipino
opposition to American rule. Some of
our military heroes had been guilty
c: a like offense. He referred to a
recent speech of General Funston.
whom he described as the "jayhawker
Mgadier from the wind-swept plains,
the mightiest Samson that ever will
wield the jawbone of an ass as a
weapon of war." Mr. Carmack said
death had cheated Funston of some
illustrious victims like former Sena
tor Sherman and former President
Harrison, but there were still enough
to 'keep him busy. Papers had quoted
Funston as saying that the president
entirely approved his gallows speech
and wanted him to accept an invita
tion from the junior senator from
Massachusetts to go to Boston and
talk to the people there about hang
ing the senior senator from Massa
chusetts, but the plain truth was that
Funston could nor. imno- nnvn
Funston should go back to the Philip
pinesto the land where there was
plenty of hemp. "If men are to be
hanged, without regard to law for
speaking words calculated to incite
insurrection," said he, "the first neck
to feel the strangling clutch of the
soaped rope should be the Tierolc gul
let of Funston." Ever since he had
returned from the Philippines he had
been pouring forth tirades of indis
criminate insult against the whole peo
ple and had outrageously insulted the
very men upon whom the commission
was relying for aid in pacifying the
country.
sixth regiment, U. S. V., have sent to
Senator Lodge a statement of instances
of the application of tho "water cure",
in tho Philippines that cam under
their observation. Bertrand was clerk
of Company D and regimental clerk ,
at headquarters while the regiment
was stationed at Panay. Labelle says,"
that while at Anilano three natives,
were taken by Company D men into a
Catholic church and given tho water
cure Ono of the natives refused to
tell where insurgents were secreted.
After he had been given the water euro
he was blindfolded and one of the sol
diers fired his gun near the man's
head. The instant the gun was fired
another member of tho squad hit tho
native with a stone, and he was told
that he had been shot. The nativo
then told the United States soldiers
where they could find the guns. La
belle gives the names of the officers
and privates who participated in ad
ministering the punishment. Labelle
further says that in the summer of
1900, while the United States forces
were about three miles from Estancia,
Company D captured three natives and.
gave them the water cure. After the
men had been filled with water, blood
came from their eyes and ears. Ber
trand has furnished Senator Lodge
with particulars of the alleged disap
pearance and killing of Father Aug
ustin, a Catholic priest at Polo. Ho
says it was reported the father knew
where insurgent gold was buried. The
men from Company D captured him in
December, 1900, and dressed him in a
uniform of the United States artillery.
He was then taken to Banato and kept
in a well. He refused to tell where
the gold was buried, and on the night
of December 9 he was taken to a house
formerly occupied by the presidente of
the village. Upon his arrival there
Bertrand says the water cure' was
given him by the "water cure squad."
CL.e men proceeded to get nearly all
the water out of him, but he did not
revive. The men became frightened
and a surgeon was sent for. His ser
vices proved unsuccessful, and, Ber
trand says, the priest died. Some of
the men were sworn to secrecy and
the body was buried in a plot of land
used by the troops as a baseball
ground. Bertrand says a non-commissioned
officer was seen with the
priest's watch and chain, and when a
commanding officer learned this theyjr
were turned over to him. Bertrand?'
gives the names of the men taking; '
part and also refers to several offi
cers. According to Labelle, when
Company D was out on a "hike," whilo
stationed at Dungas in July, 1900, the
men were ordered to burn everything
and see that no grown person es
caped. This, Labelle says, the men
proceeded to do. Labelle and Ber
trand say that while at Dungas tho
soldiers came to a hut, where a na
tive woman had just given birth to a
child, the husband was made a pris
oner and the woman and child wero
dragged out on to the ground, the na
tive shack was burned, but Labelle
and Bertrand do not know what had
become of the woman and child.
BRUTALITIES.
An associated Press dispatch from
Lynn, Mass., under date of April 23d
says: "Two Lynn men, William La
belle and Albert W. Bertrand, former
ly privates in Conipahy D, Twenty-
How Mr. Mack Stands.
Editor Bryan of The Commoner sug
gests the name of Norman E. Mack,
editor of the Buffalo Times, as candi
date for the democratic nomination
for governor of New York state. Tf
the matter was left to Mr. Mack's
newspaper friends, he would be unani-
Ely XT elected.-The Newspaper
Maker, New York.
Milan (Mo.) Standard: What do
you republican farmers of this county,
who are trying to get enough money
LaJ yT 15.tepeat ana taxes an'(1
keep your families from starving, think
Xini Party in congress voting a
pntn -.7.7 " wun a. mere pres-,
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