Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 44, Number 40, Jasper, Dubois County, 6 June 1902 — Page 3

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MAP OF SOUTH AFRICA. SKowing the Extent of Territory Added to the English Empire by the Peace of Pretoria.

left, however, in comnim l of tht Lajrmith ' ot meeting the gui tilU ttr to which the

Kor NmriM a t it only mraui Uft them to roatinuc the 'fislc W'i le large minium ol Battfi were jr ren.irring to the hnglin tuthnritte there were et is tki BtM MMh iutief-;! MM inntlerat Ie We:, Itothu, Sti-v::. iX-Urny,

Schill Buiger m4 oti.er, And MM I "I tr.em

IM a uttuient Mlowing tucntilrthem

relief espetiiti n. An ! Alter three tAilura MMtMdtd ' g ..: purpoas Oft Uli i 1, MOO N I 'ii'ii liiilier wi meeting wnh Hw fet !..r.g ehe Tiigelt, ieu. Metimeb waa Making Lot little :! any advanre tcuarii tue relief of Kimberly. He was opposed by lea. r.nje. He utfert-d a eriou reverie at Magertfontein, on lJecemt-r 12, and waa totmi to fill hack to the M- lder river with a loaa uf about 1,000 out of H.OOO he had engaged. In tbii battle the Gordon Highlander loat nearly 700 ohVeri and mm in a vail attempt to carry the Doer ponti n. On J ember 10 (im. fJa. acre attempted a iurf'iie on the Boer tlMM at Stromberg,

in the nonh of ( ape Colony, but failed

HB 1 1 1

alter tuan

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5)

t'l defy either cap

ture or aaaiiiilatioa. All through the ear 1901 they forced aa n Kngland a (ntlict that kept a kteady lietnand for freih troops and war munition pouring into the war aflat at London, a demand that

England peeme.l m jm

Oen, Wh t.

Towa ai Jar.

uarv 10. !!. The

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. a

i Qn. Rt HMik-Hurirmr

were made priwnere ng nan ar.ie to " by the Boata. meet, harly in the year it wa eatimated Such waa virtuallv i t'lat there Vara not more than 14,uou Boer the condition of ' 'n 'he held, but thee afforded tha Britiaa force 1 oceajpatia for all the vat Kngliih army, when lien. Robert fct'" rould aot eaptlUW of diapaTM ar. ! Gaa. Kitchen- ff,,t'y the Wily leader or thtit bands, cr hia chief of itaff '',t fehr troui(ht with it uch incident landed at t ape ''P,ur'' of Mod dcrfoa tain by the

n- rri on n nru.ii .., ir.ri c- u:iy aiitr iiitii 30,000 freah troop left Kngland to reinforce the army in South Africa On April 10 tlie Kngliih heart vu maiie glad by the t:i mg of peace aegotiatioai by en. Bot:ia, but they ajaoifllted t-i nothing, and the wr.r went on with varying uccesa on either aide.

Tne heay lo-e heemecl to fall to the Eagliak-, for the rcaton, probablfi tha they were t'..e only one ot two ooataad ing fovcaa la a poi tion ti nifTcra heavy lo. flpaf commandoes were occasionally captured or diaparaad, but they were of email number and the inci dent wn noon for

new -mmarider in chief left Bullt-r to retrieve in fallen fortunes in Natal and took ptnOMÜ command of the reinforced army ojirrat.ng aR.uti--. ien i -nj . i iie Lilony. Thearrival'.: l: -bi-rt. .' marked a turning pom: in the war. On January "21 Gen. Warren t k Spion Kop, though it ii later abandoned and Buliei'a army again retreated acro the Tugla. By February 14 Kobert had pushed hia army acroaa the borders of the Orange Free State, and the following day Gen. French relieved Kimberly. On February 27 Oen. CnMaJt surrendered wit a 4,000 men at 1'aardeberg, and by March 13 the unchecked Kcgliah advance had captuted and occupied Bl- cmioatem, the Orange Free State capital. If ami '-n March '7. 1W. that the Boera suffered the aenoua loss of Gen. Jonbett.wlio - a .a. a a. I J .

Oiea at rreior.a. ''"" , gottea. Other Boer victories of the U lost onecf their rno.t ski. led leaders, a man : Mn.M , piMM.r'. ..,. .,

LLHSut 'flail ''13 H

Gen, Mflthuen.

of the ArtttsljÄorr iü)ar

A Chronicle ol the Stirring Events in South Africa During the Past Three and r Half Years.

t

Oen. Dowet.

Gen. Roberts.

I ice year and one-half there has raged m S.iuth Africa a war, the cauc of wfai h Si ir e-

ly one pet - in ten could i n t elligently ti.c- J'.v.C oo.!i t !j has the cause been IW .1! .wci up in the tin of conti et. F.ven thoe directly responMble for the atnajgla; t beat who were most ml mi.it ely emnetted with the diplomacy or shall we MtJT rather . deplorable lack ot diplomacy that im

sWedittery pre ceded it, could scarcely give .-o for the wat t at would be SeeeptaMt to rotii side. The writer doca not pretend to be able todeci I er n aeries h causes that might be of- : ted withrnit fear of being accused of paril tv: he. like m ill ion o: other readers of

rent history, as it i iceeeded day after

in the aewspapara of every civilized I, ig fam.li.ir with the claim made by I i - !i, but out of these claims he does i iatend to even attempt to unravel the ri il caaet tf armed c atUet between the P in and Boer in South Africa. When t i,.i a healed the wounds of the present . . . . .

-tie ci xe siuaeiu .. -!..ry. h!eed a th an ability to . beneath the i e of things, may i . b'.e to otter a sei - of rca- n- tiiat . bs fa i eptabte to a p wterity through v v ems will not ran t e heated blood .tl t. That time i- n now. t ac glory in the

: . u c, even

j j '

Oen. J H.Utrt.

' ig 'i I end may not be jut to our lik .- :. i:j;',i that we go back through morel IB three years of tic war's hielt I n ill some of the battle, the dart Bt and bravery, the skilled hip tt leaders n both aides that - marked this conflict, now closed, a

: :ic memorable struggles of the past "' of a icntury and more. I real opening f the war may be said I i been October BWB. at winch time I 1' - - lent Kiuger sent to England the per.iciuand that that nation return tory answer to the demands of the Afrinat republic on or liefore 5 k p, m . October 11, and that failure W would be regarded as a formal irat on of war. These demands in- j 'd ;.e .ii know I. dgement of tne comI ' - - vi i gnty of the South African rel ! aa an international power, and the

withdrawal ot ail British trappt near its border. All South Africa knfw and t he World kne w that Kngland would not accept i:ch terms tnd prepaied for war, and the prep.'.rationa of the Boee troone for attack b. g in inimediately. Military expeditions from the TrantTtal, and others from their allv. the

" rige Prat State, crostrd the undefended bi rr of Knglish territory, prepared to i k and dectaiet blows if possible England could prepare for the conti tl I ' It. rrs were by no means unprepared 1 a cenfliet. The heavy revenue der Of I bt government for I number of Tr previously had been jodictously ex I' I : r defense, and they had stored " 1 Preterit uns that were far su anything that Kngland could uae ' foi a considerable time after

I of hostilities. Their army was lit t wholly of volunteers, but r" 1 ilantnttt who were well train-d - ling methods of their own, methods England knew but little, and was 1 J I ,r! sred to meet. . ! strength of Kngland in South 'ri nag at that time some 23.000 seen ef

all blanche, of whom v n.o 19000 comprised the f-uct- t (Jen. S.r Qeergt White in Natal, and the others were scattered in small commands at different potato in ('at Cosoajr, the garrisona extending aa tar north as Mifeking which Col., afterward Gen., Bailcn Bowel was defending with a force of 1 ,300 men. Gen, Petras Jaeoatsi Joulert, the hero of Maj'iba Hill and vice president of the South African republic, was selected aa commandei in chief of the allied armies of the Tiaasenal and tha Orange Free State, and at once took personal command of the tro ;s that invaded Natal and shut Oen. White ui ;n Ladjrosnith.

In les than J4 hours after the actual begin n.ng of the war as dated from the expiration fiom the time allowed in the Boer ultimat

um, the Brit ish were piaceil at a disadvantage from which they number of w eeks and did not recover for a without the loss of a large number of nu n and munitions of war. The number of troops with which Oen. .Toubert had accomplished thucjupe will nrohsb.lv not lie

nown soon. In j South Africa it was generally estimated that the two republics had been able to place in the field an army tf from 33.000 to ! 90,000 men, though Dr. Leyd. thcdip'.-.mit ic agent of the Transvaal in Europe. I claimed that they had not lea than 100,000 ' men iinder arms. T.ie tu--, battle of the war was fought at i Gli seat. Natal, Orteber 2, 1890, when the I Beert were defeated and their position

captured by Oen. Winsens renn Symons, !

ho paid lor his victory w.tn nis own in, and tiie loa of some 43 men killed and 200 , wounded aids was followed the following

day with a battle at Klaaadslaagte .in whic.i On. French commanded the English troops and tien. Kock the Boera. The BotTS were

defeated with a loss of 100 killed and 300

prisoners, among the k illed ling tien. Kock. The British loaa was 42 killed. But brilliant a were these Knglish victories they had but little result other than opening a means tf retreat to Ladjretnita, where (Jen. White's entire force was rapidly concentrated.

Qen. Buller. Xih the mobllir

whoae judgement every officer and private of the Boer army trusted in.pl leitly, and who, had he lived, would undoubttmily have done mucn toward bringing about, if not a different terns hut t te the conflict, t much mora dearly bought victory for Kr., n

could such a ttimg have been possible. Alter tie cipture and occupation of Bloemtontein Oen. Boberts mv.ved hisain.y toward Pret I i at a rapid pace. Occasional Buer . tori S were reported, su. :i as that at Sauna s post on Maren 3" when Col. Br -ada.. ...-' force were badly routed witn a b of seven gi:r.. a:i 1 the disister a .t r tv I J V. :

at i;e.!.lersuurg tne lousw uay. " rSei.reyoverGen.M i. J - t. A Rjati L r m t V rnotia t .

reoanca im ' -' i thuen ..n March H

but in tae main tr.c lirilisn were succr--.ui and the war eflet at landon and the Knglish people be,;an to feel that the war wa about Over. Tney could not at that time see atktther two years and more of fighting

before the in

on May 2.; the alnu.-t c. nj;-te le-:n.c.ion

of the Seventh Yeomanry by Delarry on lias L"9; the capture of MO Victorisa SifltS on June 12, and the loss by Col. Benson ot 23 officers and 250 men on November 1. During tins time. boweTtT, tien Kitchener had not been :die. 1I tt:n had been pushing the Beer forces almost constantly; he bad been rapidly extending the line o! block houses that marked the psmaneet Knglish advance, and w büe the record of the year showed some brilliant coupes on the part of the Boer gsMtfalt they were of the

kind that could result in no laating benefit t the Boer caue, other than the inspiring of freh vigor and hope to tne contestants.

The vi t iff ot lien.

this year w i - ; Bernred on April 1 1 by pi get overtures, and is supposed to have had a

considerable inthi-

Gen. DelariY-

.. . i -

,tn m or. on!, it t e l.eace Term i iieieu

On April 5 Oen. Methuen retrieved apart t j . England. It was one of the most bnl l A 1 a. : Sk ssaisJ .m ' . T w a . . s .

oi tnt laurel lie nan iosi in in ;iant j4,e, t tle war. ami it ittuu noiti part of the struggle by the capture of a con- )ng more lt ,i,oweti t3e London government siderable Boer force ,n4t tne war mgin e ahssoot indefinite!

at Boshof. This was j proiocge(1 ( lhe .fr fetwet in the t.elJ followed on April 9 jj 0ot be induced to accept teim of by a Boer defeat at JK.a(.e an,j that thev woul.f not accept tht W'epener. another on ,frm cf - unconditional surrender."

Ai.ri. 11 at r.r:

Abram. another a: Be wets dorp on Aprd 20. again at W'indsorton on May S and at the town of Mat king on May 13 tn Miy 20. the wel come news w as cabled to Kngland that the

sieate of Mafekina had beeu raised. For

more than 200 days Col. Baden i'o well's lit

tie fore? had defended tne

Oan Badn-Powell.

U HidllT A PATTERSON.

OOM PAUL KRUG ER. Jsmstblns of III l ife and Work in

Soiilli Strien. President Kmcr. he wiio ligured more prominently in tae early part of lhu war that Kngland declare is now over than any othir one man, is a product of the hardy conditions that surrounded pioneer life on

the BoatO Africa! veldt. He seems to have

leen born a leader of men. I nlike the

e- had defended the p.ace against m,j,,ritv 0 the 'lran-vaal and Free Slate

heavy odd, and the whole p puiation na-i nurgii. r, w ho are of Holland aneestry, lie : suffered temble BTTfatioauV, but they had of (;erinan deaceat, bis ancestor em; held out until the long anpeeted relief had i Rrating froni the Potsdam district of Oer

many te S -uth Atrua in 1719. Mom nss vas beta in Coleaburg, Cape Colony. October 10, 1999. At tne age . ten year be migrated with hi parent from the place af bis inrt.i to the then unknown inter. r. In this new COBB try hia militan

reachesi them, and the whole garrison were crowned with the a-ictor'a laurela by heroloving Kngland. On Mi) 24 the Bu iii troops ander Robert ciov.f i the Vaal river, and on the V-h marched into the golden town of Johannes

burg, w.-.ere tr.ey received a warm weh ome je i,egan ot the age of IS, when he served from the Bttlaaderw, who bad expeited to J ln ti,e war with the Zulu a a lield c ornet witness the destruction of their prcpertjr be- hn tj,e Dutch army. In 1849 he took l i fore they should be allowed to fall into the piaCe beide his father in the conflict with

f '

Gn.

;'.ha.

i'i Kitchener.

ing of .en. White's foree at I-adysmith practically the whole af th Britin force in South Africa wa besieged in three places, and Kngland realired that the subjugation of the burgher meant more than a holiday Beredt of her tr-ops. The home governm. nt b-pn n . tied ate prepsrations for the

sending of Isrge reiniorcemein. .n t fU rr Bellet was assigned to chief COronUBd. He undertook tne chef of Ladysmith and asigned to Oen. lxrd Met linen the t k of raising the siege at Kimberly. Additional levies of ireefe to the sum ber e.f 16 OuO were poured into Durban. Natal and w ith these Gen. Buller ottempted the' relief of UdpMUb, the garrison nl B-bieb I Uce was being hard pressed by the Boers ho were determined to force a tur reo er bei -re assists i - enM e,,me to the hlaieaedt wo It was on IVcemlr 15 that

Oaej Bnller begsn the advance which ended temporarily tl the disaster to British arms at the Tugels river, ia which the British lost 2 men killed. 607 rounded and 348

Buning This battle, ,hr ft fougV by Buller il 8 It Af"' r4( reiulted in the less of Ml reputstion

as a strategist ana Tl , BDOeintsnent of Urd Robert, to succeed

Own. Btevn-

hand of the Eagtssh.

Ob the same day that Iord I'.. tiertser.tered Johar.nesl erg he isaed the proclamation that made an Kngl.sh crow n - doi of tf.e Orang Free State. Four days later he was in tie Boer tap.tal at Pretoria, and now, tl.ougnt England, the

war must pe diiy end. Gen. Roberts had now carried the amr into tne vei v he-.rt of the enemy's country, and, with the exception of a number of raida into Cape Colony by the Bof-s, it has remained there. But t ie war STts no: over. England's risirg hu7hat British vicioriee were tempered by news of British defeata. Roberts ,n:shed active opera ti r.s acs.-ist t ho enemy in tne astern Tr in seaal, and on September 2".eight days after President Kroeger had entered P-rtugueseierrr.cty. - rreorted to ...n i n the capturing and di;er!.ion of the remnant of the Rur army in that aection of the republic. True the enemy wa

scattered, but the were neither killed nor captured, and t.-ien

! -.ti t..e ' -gi.- r

rilla warfare that continttcd down to the day pesce waa declared, ar.d which bt 'ugLt many defeats t !J heavy loa et to British arms, even tbtnsjb it has tri ataeily rsoalted ib a British victory that place all ef South African ter ritory under tue Eng lish croWB.

On September 1 !en. Robert hsd issned a nroclamation annexing the Transvaal to

1 the B-iti:i at the battle of Booniplaats.

When trie British advance- made liirther occupation of this territory objectionable to the Boers he became one of the leaders of the "trekker" srbe moved to the Trani-vaal a -.in try. Bf baked riset in military ran's, until he wa tiimander in

Uta. Duller waa

I

M

Geo. l-ranch.

h. Iiritnh domains He continuea in mi

Hint command until November 30. 1800, when he turned over the commsnd to Gen. Kitchener and prerared to eturn to Kng land. He in scan e'v have realized the task he was leaving to the fearless officer whose laurels had been won on the battlefield of Egypt, and no. as chief of staff hsd done so much toward the sueeca so far attained by English arms in the South African con WUk His trs.nm was of the kind that

gve hire a succial fitness set the work i

Memorial Day Addresiby President Roosevelt at Arlington Cemetery.

ARMY'S MISSION IN THE PHILIPPINES.

99 lila There Have ll.-rn Home hut-.. w hieh 99veef i:nrt u II. In u Majdht rn-et, the ork Has Me en Done, In I lie Main, earn goa ly mi stosssaaately, tVaabinftoa, Kay H-Follnwlf is the full teal uf President Uh.im-vrlt'a Memoria 1 d.-iv uliln-, il-livcr-d ot tbc txerclses in Arlington eensetnryi The I'reslil.-nt'a Aililreis.

Is a stood ru..t.iin for our country to

It

PRIS DLNI KRUQER. e .ef cf the Boer army in the conflicts with

tne savage native, a position which be retained entsl 1S77. srben England annexed tne country to t ape Colony. During v -it tor .nd.-pendenee, winch virtual!) U-gin and ended at Ifajtilia Hill, he served as vice prcsideut of the tri urn virato whiel governed the country. In 1K1 tie was elected to the presidency of the republic, and was thine reelected, holding the position so long a his land which he hod helped to build remained an independent nation, though for the yast tare years he has been forced to reside in Eurote, hia advamed age precluding tiie pos-ibiiity of hia taking any part in the active military campaign In his younger days he waa great hunter, and during the loBf trekking trip from Cape Oil oaf to the Tnrmvaal be i. credited with having killed no !e than 2ÖO lions

Orssgs Free Stale I'minlsllal. Tne srea of the Orange Free Mate is 48, 3lrt, and lb BOpalatioa i given at 77,716 wmte- to,.Mi males and :t7,u.) fesnakt. Of this to' a! M.'.M'i - I in in the Free State and SLIM in ape I o'ony, ln addi tion to tne tsruites insre ore ;20,7f7 natives.

by Abraham I.lncola when you, my hearers. w re rtxhtlna for the union. Thoao rules provide, ot course, for the Just severity noceoaary In war. Th most Jb Btructive of all forms of weakness would be t show win tn aas wlu-re stcriineao 1 de-nianiii-.l by Iron ne.-.l Hut nil cruelty if forbidden, and uii barahneeo beyond wii.it i calked t.-i by neeil Our e-iemtea ln tha Ptttllppit-.e hava not m r- ly violated oTery ruts of war. but have mmle of thaSW violation their only method of CM i li.it on tha oral Wo would have been Justified ty Abraham Lincoln's ruloo el war In infinitely greater severity than Tiaa bettt nhoaii. The fact really is that our warfare In th I! ilipplnes has heen curried on wiiii slngulai hum mity. Por overi ant .: oittelt) by our men then- have lie.-.i Innuatarablo nets of torbaaram -. miuiiniii and Ri-neroiis klrolioss. Th-e are tha qualities whi.h have character

l.-d th.- w.ir aa a whole. The crueitlea have iee-n wholly exceptional, on our ..nt The fiullty to He I'unlalissa. The Kiillty are to t..- puui.-liuet; but in punl thine them, let th-.- who sit hi eaa ,- i m who vs.iik deliberately und live in the safe placet of the earth, remember Bjlta lo do lliem common Justice. l-t not I . um tl. ss inei the urn - rn led rail ovc-o-li at strong nu n who wiiii Mood and iwi ii t ics .. .its of toil and days ami i.itjiiis in agony, mid ut aeed bay down their lives in remote tropic lunartt t.rltnr the Unlit of civilisation Into the world's dark placoe. The warf.n- tint has extended the eeundartee of civiiizttOB et tha expense of horharlam und Bavuniis 1.. Deen tor c-cniurleo one of th.- iii.-t potent f.ictor.s in ihe rogrcsa of iuirii.ir.it v. let from its very natura it w .. -titd svorywh re been liable to elark ;i . - It behoove ti to ko-p a vigilant watch to prevent these abuses luoi io puni-ii V I Ci iiniriit th. rn . hut if liecause ..i ih, in iv. . Illnch from linlaliini: the

stand ii.-ad I tusk on which we have entered, we show

ourselves cravens unn .-.iriius;.

we

prang. There wc-e nimses anu in i-imm in the civ 1 1 v,.(t. V.o.r f.ilso llleiuls then called i runt a "lint, her'' and sixike ol you who are listening to rue us mercenaries, as "L.incoln'o hireling. Your open I' ' s us 111 the resolution passed ley the- confederate congress In October, bci ised von. nt great length, und with iniicii particularity, of "con tempt ous dlsri ;ard of the usages ol clviltned war, oi subjecting women and children to "banishment, Im prssonmeat. and death;" of ''murder, ol "rapine.'' of "outrages on women." of "lawless cruelty," of "perpetratlng atrocities which wuid be disojraceful to aa vages i" and Abraham Lincoln w:is singled out for especial attack bee us., of his "spirit of barbarous ferOCtty. VoTllv, the-i- men who thun fetulty slandered .u hose th. ir heirs to-day in those who traduce our armies In Ihn I'hlllpplnes. who tlx their eye OB IndJvMual deeds ot wrong so keenly that at ' it they In. oine blind to tht gre.it work of p. a. Mil l freedom that has already been aceompllahed. Iss-e slid Freedom. Peace ami freedom era there two better objects for vliich ii soldier can light? Weil, these are precisely ih- objects for Which our soldk-rs are lighting In the I'hlllppines. Winn there Is talk of the crueltb s commuted In the Pnlllpplnes, remember slw .i - that by tar the greater proportion uf the.- cruelttee have anna commitied by tin Insurgents against their own p.ople -us well as against our soldiersand that not only the surest but the on I v effectii.il way of slopping tln-m Is by the progress of the American arms. Tin- victories ol I'u- American army have be. n lb" really effective means of putting a P p to cruelty In ihe Philippine. Vt heraver th. s.- victories have been complete und such Is HOW the . ;.e throughout th greater part of the islands -nil cruelties hi..- ceased, and the native is s-cute In bis life, his liberty, and the pursuit of happiness W'htro the insurrection till smolders there is alwaya a chance for cruelty to Show Itself. our soldiers conquer; nnl what la the ol lect for which tin y conojuerf To establish a military government? No The laws We are now e in b a vorlng to onset for

I the government of the Philippines arc to . Increase the p was and domain of the clvI il at the expense of the military authorItles, and tor. nder even more difficult than ' in th-- Bsvst the chance nf oppression. The military power is uoed to secure pence. ' In ordei thai it may lt.. f bo supplanteil , by the chit government. The progress of . the Aini i Ii in arms means the abolition of

crueltv, tin- bringing of peace, and the rats Bt law and order under the civil government. Other nations have coimuere.l to . re. ile Irresponsible military rule, tee colt. pier to bring lust arid n porislble civil government t" tnt contjuerao Keoilts of Our I niiiiuesta. But our armies do more than bring j . ice, il" more than bring order. They briiit freedom Iti-nn-mber always that the Independence ol a tribe or a community rii.i and Often does, have nothing whatevi r te do with tht freedom of iheln dividual in that tribe or community. There are now In Asia and Africa SCOTM ..t despotic monarchies, each ot which is

Independent, arm in ro one ot wincri is there id- slightest vestige ot freedom for the Individual man Bean I indeed ia the gain to mankind from the 'independence I of a blond-stained tviant who rules over

ibject and in -it iitsed slaves, nut great is the gntn to humanity which follows the steady though slow Introduction of the orderly liberty, the law-abiding freedom of the Individual, which Is the only sure foundation upon whl-h national Independence an I"- built Wherever 111 the Philippine the Insurrection has been definitely ami finally put down, there the Individ

ual l-ilipbio iiiieniv enjoys sinii freedom.

such personal liberty, under mir rule, as to- could never dreim ef under the rule of nn "Independent" Aguiualdian oligarchy. The Art of i lf i.iarrnmenL The slowly-learned and difficult art of self-government, an art which our iwople have tanglit thuBSSOlVQO by ihe labor of a thousand jenrs, can lad " grasped in a by B people only .nisi emerging from Iltloiis of life which our ancestors left I.. Kind them In the dim years before hlstery dawned. We believe that wt can rapidly tench 'he eople of Ihe Philippine lolonde not only how to njoy bUl how to make good use of their freedom, and with ih.-lr growing knowledge their growth In - elf j;nv ernmoTit shall keep steady puce. When they have thus shown their capo it v f'-r real tree. lorn by tloir power of self-government, then, and not till then, will It tie possible to deckle whether they an- to exist Independently of us or be knit to us ly lies of common friendship and Interest. When thai day win conn- it Is not In human wisdom now in foretell. All that WO can ay with certainty Is that It would be put back an Imrneasureiihle distance f we should yield to the counsel of unmanly weakness and turn loose the Inlands, to sec our victorious foes butcher with revolting cruelty our bctrayed friends, and shed Ihe blood of the most bum. in. , the most enlightened, the most peaceful, the wisest and the liest of

their own niimner mr tnese nre ins

classes who have already Parried to welcome our rule. Our llntv t Our Own.

Nor. while fully acknowledging our du

ties to others, need rorget our duty jn mir own country. The Pacific seaboard Is as much to us as th- Atlantic, us we grow tn power and prosperttj so mir inprists will prow In that farthest west which ts the lmrri. morl.il east. The shadow of our destine has already reached to th- shor-s Of As) ' The might of our people already loom hue- against the WOrld-hortton; an.lit will loom ever larger as the years i;o b No statesman lis a

right to neglect the interests or our pea tile In the Pa. lie . Intersts which nr.- im

portant t all our people, but which are of most Importance lo those of mir peop WttO have built populous and thriving states on the w.-stern slope of our continent. Not a Partr Onestlnn. This should no more be a party Quests, ,n thin the war for Hie union should have been i party question At this moment the man In highest office In th Philippine Islands Is the vice-governor, lien l.nkc WriL-ht of T. -tine-see, who gallantly wore lhe gray In the ctvtj war and who I in.w working hand In hand with the h.n.i f our army m the Philippine Adna Phaffee, who in the civil war gallnntlv won- the blue Those two, and the men unibr tlum, from th- north and front the south, in euii life nmi In military life, as teachers, ns administrator, ns soldiers, lire laboring mightily for Bf who lhe at home. lb-re and there binrk sheep are to be found among them; Put taken BS n whole they represent as bli-h Standard ot public service as thll eoiinlrv has even se. ri. They are doing

it great work for civilisation, a great work

Honor anil rrn- mien -i m inn

nation nnd above nil for ihe welfare or the Inhabitants of the Philippine Island.

Ik mem, anu sname, wirioe us If WS full to uphold tha

cert iln solemn hull. lays In coinm-ni-

orstlon of our ajreateat nun and of the or .t crls-s In our history. There should le- but few such holidays. To In - reatt their Battneer is tt tatssapsn thssa. Washington and blnc-oln the man who

H.l most in found the union, and the man

Wl i did moot t-1 pre - .-rvo It

IKloUliiets O' i p Ul. HU, Ol.ie. FSBSsa- of . , , , , ,,.,, W ilOSO loillS men. and have by common consent won B,irrtll,. There we e i. buses and to s

the rlglit to this pre-eminence. Among the holidays which coostseiortte the turntag points In Aniule.ui history, Tlstllktglltng liaaa slsnltlea Btse peculiarly Its own. On July I wo oi -brate the birth of tho nation; on this day. tbt Jth of May, we ca.l to mind the deaths of those who died tbut the nation Might itvo. who wagered all that life holds dear for the great prize ot death In battle, who pottred out Ueir tloml like water In order that the mighty national structure raised by the far-seeing patriotism of Washington. Franklin. Marshall. Hamilton, ami t he-

other great leader of the Kevolutlon, gtreut trainers of the constitution, should not crumble Into oieanlngtesa ruins. foe wiioin i sddrees to-day sad your Cotnr.n.es who wore the bluo bSsMe you ln the iktIIous years during which strong, sad, patient UncolB bOT the crushing load of national leadership, pwrforsaesl the one feat the fallun to s-rfonn which would bavo nn aiit deatructkMI to everyttiirg v.hich makes tin- name America a Hvmhol of hope among the nations of mankind You did th-- greatest ami most necessary tusk which bus ever fallen to the lot of any nen on th'.s western hemisphere Nearly three ceiiturl.-s have pa--. .1 si, hp the waters of our coasts w . re- III st furrowed by the keels Of the men whose children's children w.-ie to inherit Ibis fair land. Over a - nt iry i.nd a half of colonial growth followed tha -et ilenient ; ind aow lor ovatT t ce-nluiy and a ijuart-r Wt have b-ri a nation. The Itul National Task. During our .'our geneutons ot r. lion'.l life w- lUIVO had (0 do liMiiy UUtka, .niei M.ime of them f far rw U.titilSt input IBCOi hut the only really vital task was the one you did. the i.iek if n.iw-i lite m mi There- weire ot n r (ils?i Pi vv NSC I have K-ine wrong v n 1 1 have nein; di.sns.cr. but this was li i - en-Is in BMctl to have gore wring v.oii d c i-i.-atit nit merely disaster but armildUul in. Foe failure at u'iy oth.- pn.it at. ti . niillt could

have been made; b.it h i l yu i railed n tite iron days the loss would have been If reparable, the defeat lrretrkvsble Upon your success depended all the future of the people on this continent, and much oi the future of mankind us a whole. You left us a rculnted country. You left ua tho right of brotherh i vvitti ihe men In gray, who with such courage, und son h eiet e-tiiiii for what they deemed the right, fought against you. Hut y.u left us much more even than y-uir achievement, for you lett uo the memory of how It was achieved. You. who mad.- good by your valor and patriotism the statesmanship of Lincoln und tin- .sol.lier-.liip of Grant, have set as the standards for our efforts In tin; future both the way you did I our w ork In war arid tht w ay In which when the- war was over von turned Hgaln to the work of peace. In war and In poetW alike your example will stand as tint wls -t of b s-"iis to us and our children and our children -. children. Another unit DtatWatl Task. Just at this B0 petit the urmy of the t'nlted States, led by men who served Htnoiia yon In the gn at war. Is carrying to completion a sssail but peculiarly Irving ami dlltloult war In which I involved not only the honor of the Itasc but the triumph of civilization over forces which stand for the black chaos of savagery and barbarism. The task tin not I n as difficult or a Important as yours, but. oh, my comrades, tho men in the uniform of the flitted Slates, who have for the last three years pat bntly and uncomplainingly championed the American cause ln the Philippine Islands, are your younger

brothers, your sons. They have shown themselves not unworthy of you. and th sr.- entitled lo tin- support of all

men who are proud of what you did Th.-.-.- younarer comrades of yours have fought under terrible difficulties and havreceived terrible provocation from a very cruel and very treacherous enemy. I'nder the strain of these provocations I deeply deplore to say that some among them

bavl so far forit.itt.-n themselves as to

counsel and commit. In retaliation, nets of cruelty. The fact that for every sruilty act committed ly one of our troops B hundred nets of f;.r tre.Her ntro.itv have been committed by the hostile natives upon our troops, or upon the peaceable and law-abiding natives who are friendly to us, can not be held to excuse any wrongdoer on our side Deter mined and unswerving effort must be made, and la being made, to find out every Instance eif barbarity on the part of our troops, to punish those guilty of tt. and to take. If possible, even stronger m-asures than have B ready been taken to minimize or prevent the occurrence of all such Instances in the future. Crueltv Practiced at Home. From tlnis to UBM tln-ro OCCBT In mir country, to the deep ind lasting shame eif our people. lynchPlK carried on Badet circumstances of Inhuman cruelty ainl barbarity a cruelty infinitely worse than nny that has e ver lieen committed by our troops In the I'hlllpplnes, troroo to the vPtims. and far more brntnllxiriK to i guilU of p The men who fall to condemn these lynching, and ! clamor

about what has been done In the Philippines, are Indeed guilty nf negloctli g tne beam In th'-lr own eye while taunting their bi other about the mote- In his li.derotand nie. These lynching afford ua no excuse for failure to stop cruelty in the Philippines. Every effort i being made, and will be made, to minimize the etSBBCet of cruelty m i utrlng. Rut keep in mind that these crueitl-s In the Philippine hivve been wholly exceptional, and bavo to-.-n ohameleeety exaggerated Wa deeply and bitterly regret that any auch cruelties should have teen committed, no matter how mrely, no matter unib-r what provocation, by American

troops Itut they afford far less justification for ft general condemn itkw of our army than t'o se synchlugs afforil for the condemnation of the communities In whiitt they have taken place. In . ich ISM It Is well to condemn the deed, nnd it la well diso to refrain from Including both guilty nnd Irinoc.iit In the same nweeplng condemnation ISon't Condemn All Ker the Few. ln every community there are people who commit acts of well-Btatti Inconceivable horror and ha sen a, If we fix our syst only upon these Individuals and upon tli-lr a. ts. ai .1 If we fotg.-t the far more numerous cltlaent of upright and honest lift mil blp d ourselves t. tln-lr counties de da .a wl'idom and Justice and philanthropy! I' I easy enough to condemn the community There i boI a city in this Und Which are could not thus condemn II We tlxed our cm purely upon Its poire record and refused look at what ii had accomplished foi rjs -m and iuottet and charity Yet this Is exiutly the attitude which has b.-en liken by too many m.-n Ith refer. -nci to mir army In the Philip

pine; nnd It Is an uttlru.b- both ab-aid for tin

and ruelly i-njusi. The- rules warfare wtilch have been

promulgated lo the war department and All honor accented as the liisls of conduct by our nriiirtis, to

troops ln the ibid are las rules laid down h.uidnl

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