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GOVERNMENT BY SWORD It Is Denounced by an Ameri can and Humanitarian. CARMACK FLAY3 IMPERIALISM. The Conrie of the Adiulni.tratlon In the Philippine. la Absolutely In defensible—Auawer to the Charite That the lleiuocrtHa Are Trying to Make Politieal Capital. The following excerpts are made from a speech of Senator Carmack of Tennessee on the bill to provide a civil government for the I'biUppiue Islands: Mr. President, we have under con sideration a bill which is a confessed departure from the principles and tra ditions of our own country, a bill which deals in the most drastic fash ion with the lives and liberties of 10,- 000,000 people, a bill w hich enacts des potisrn iuto law and as surely enacts hatred and war and bloodshed and des olation. Yet, sir, a majority of the senators upon the other’side of the chamber are ready to vote for it with out debate, without asking a single question, without having read a single line of its contents, without knowing or caring to know the meaning of a single provision that it contains. When the Philippine tariff bill was under debate, 1 said the question was not simply whether you had property selected the subjects and properly ad justed the rates of taxation. The ques tion was, “What right have you to im pose any taxes whatever upon tne peo ple of the Philippine Islands?” The question now is not simply and alone whether you have framed just laws for the government of the people, but what right aave you to frame laws and devise a system of government for an alien and unwilling people? Your answei is that we have won that right with the sword and bayonet. You SP.y that we have burned enough towns, we have wasted enough coun try, we have butchered enough people, to make good our right to tax and gov ern; that the land is ours because we havezstrewed it with the ashes of its homes and drenched it with the blood of its people. What wolf ever had a better right to eat bis mutton in peace than we have to possess and enjoy the Philippine Islands? That, stripped of all rags of rhetoric, is your answer, and we meet it with a simple denial that you have derived any just powers of government from the subjugation of the governed. That, sir, is the issue in this debate, as it will be, I trust, of every debate where the purpose is asserted upon this door to govern a people by right of the sword. The distinguished senator from Wis consin [Mr. Spooner] iu bis brilliant apology for the course of his party seemed to charge that we were moving in pursuance of some hellish design, that we were actuated by pure sin and devilishness in presenting our view as to what should be the course and pol icy of this government in dealing with the Philippine Islands. He said that we had prostituted this question to base and wicked partisan puri>oses, Mr. President, when one looks over the list of great and honored Repub licans who have opposed themselves With al! their zeal and energy to the policy of this and the preceding admin istration and when lie sees that it in cludes every survivor of those who bore a conspicuous part in the forma tion and foundation of the Republican party it ought to occur to him that there Is something more in this oppo sition than Democratic wickedness and depravity; that there is some thing more in it than treason to the republic. The senator from Wisconsin said that Mr. Bryan had seized upon this ques tion in order to force an issue with the administration. Unfortunately for that senator, the facts of history are against him. it is well known that for a long time the administration was in serious doubt and perplexity as to whether or not it should demand a cession of the Philippine Islands. It was known that many leading Republicans. Including members of the president’s own cabi net, were opposed to that policy. Every public utterance of Mr. McKinley him self had Indicated a contrary Intention. Now, sir, long before the treaty of neace was negotiated, long before the administration bad resolved Its own doubts and perplexities, long before a single man in the United States knew or could possibly have known what would be the policy of the administra tion, before tbe administration itself knew. Mr. Bryan had openly declared against the annexation of the Philip pine Islands or the annexation, by force or otherwise, of distant territory or of territory inhabited by a people who could not be assimilated with our own. At that time the public utterances of Mr. McKinley nnd tbe public utter- Dangerous If Neglected. Burns, cuts and other wo unds often fail to heal properly if neglected and become troublesome sores. De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve prevents such con sequences. Even when delay has ag gravated the injury DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve effects a cure. “I had a running sore on my leg 30 years,” says H. C. Hartly, Yankeetown, Ind. “After using many remed ies I tried De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve. A few boxes healed the sore.’’ Curesail skin diseases. Piles yield to it at once. Be ware of counterfeits. City Drugstore, Jacksonville, and I)r. J. Hinkle, Cen tral Point. ances of Mr. Bryan upon this question were in absolute and exact accord. They both believed and had declared that tbe forcible annexation of a coun try without tbe consent of its people would be a crime, and If tbe adminis tration had adhered to that noble senti ment as faithfully as Mr Bryan ad hered to ft there would have been no is sue. no conflict of opinion between them. Mr Br.vnn did not seek to make, and be did not majte. an issue with the nduiinistrst!t>n. It was not until the administration hud alcunloued the posl- t’on which they had occupied in com mon that he found himself in conflict with its vfewa. The only basis for the charge that Mr. Bry an seized upondhis question for un issue rests upon the fact, and u|ion that fact alone, that lie refused to abandon ills own declared convictions simply because a Republic an administration bad reversed its own. But. Mr. President, we are told that we must wait until we can educate tbe Filipino people and instruct them in the art of self government. But bow much time do you propose to consume in your ridiculous experiment? What is the course in, your politieal kindergar ten? llow many ages of spelling and parsing, how many centuries of wres tling with the parts of speech, before your pedagogue statesmanship Will have done its perfect work? The pres ident of the United. States says it is a long and painful task; he says that it has taken our race, starting far in ad vance of the Filipinos, a thousand years to master the lesson of self gov ernment. and the implication is that it will take tbe Filipinos a great deal longer than that. We are not to hold them permanently. We want to exper iment with them for only a thousand years or so. The president of the United States is a large minded, broad visioned man. lie comprehends endless cycles in the sweep of his glance. A thousand years in his sight are but as yesterday when it is passed, and the duration of a geo logical epoch is like waiting for a car. To a man of such serene and composed and restful temper an eon or two more or less Is a matter of small conse quence. But unfortunately there are some people who have hearkened to the doctrine of the strenuous life and to whom ten centuries seem a long time to wait. Mr. President, we ought to have some better argument than that given in the president's misreading and mininterpretation of history before we consent to do so. The truth is that the experience of our race is the strongest argument in all history against the very experi ment we are now attempting in the Philippine Islands. Tbe truth is that long before our Teutonic ancestors bad reached the stage of culture now pos sessed by every Christian Filipino com munity they were a free, democratic, self governing people. The truth is that all this vast superstructure of free gov ernment under which we live was but reared upon tbe foundations laid by our rude forefathers in the German wilder ness before their recorded history be gins. The idea that you are going to trans form the character of a whole people simply by teaching them to read in English “This is a horse" or to parse “The bird flies swiftly,” that you are going to give them practical instruc tion in American institutions by setting up a carpetbag government for them to look at and pay taxes to, the idea that you will teach them to govern themselves by making them bear the burdens of a foreign government, is the wildest, tbe craziest, the most fantastic dream that ever flitted through a luna tic’s brain. You might as well suppose that a horse can learn to think by bear ing a philosopher upon bls back. We have had some very moving elo quence with respect to the great work we are dqjng by conferring upon the people there tbe blessings of education. One would imagine to bear some of the s[>eecbes made on this floor that we are doing all this at our own expense; that we are performing some act of heroic and supreme self sacrifice. As a matter of fact we are simply levying a tax of $2.000.000 per annum upon the Filipi nos themselves in order that we may pay high salaries to American school teachers and provide profitable con tracts for American book publishers.- When we are asked, sir. to give you time, a thousand years or so. in which to elevate tbe character of the people and teach them the lesson of self gov ernment. we say tbe course you are now pursuing will not elevate, it will degrade the character of the people and will utterly unfit them for self govern ment. Tbe mistakes, tbe errors, the blunders, you ar<» making at this very moment are not questions *o be consid ered ten centuries hence. They demand the present consideration of the Amer ican people. And because we will not be silent while you go on In your blun dering and criminal career, making wreck of your own constitution and tbe liberties of a people who have never offended you except by asking you to let them alone, we are to be held up to execration and charged with responsi bility for every drop of blood that has been shed in the Philippine islands. You may rail at the Democratic par ty, but you can not rail the bloo«f a^ota from off your own history. The respon sibility for every drop of blood that has been shed in the Philippine Islands Is with you, and It will remain with you though you wash your criminal bands in the bowl of Pontius Pilate forever. Treason and traitor! A senator on the other side of tbe chamber imagines that be can hear soldiers in the Philip pines singing: Tell tbe traitors all around you Their cruel word* we know. I cannot imagine any soldier singing any such song. I can only imagine a lot of Republican demagogues singing It, and I am sorry that one of them has sung it on the floor of the senate. So far ns 1 am concerned 1 have nev er permitted myself to be disturbed by this cry of treason. We have got used to it down in my part of tbe country. There is hardly a man of distinction in my section of the United States who has not at some time or other been de nounced as a public traitor by some public thief. Men have been denounced as traitors because they opposed the protective tariff. They have been de nounced as traitors because they op posed extravagant pension legislation. So long as men have tbe courage to oppose wrong and denounce it there will be knaves to raise the cry of trea son and fools to repeat the cry. TALKED ON TARIFF. Robert G. Smith Tells how He Became a Democrat. “Tariff reform and why 1 became a Democrat” was the text of a talk given by Robert G. Smith, the Demo cratic nominee for representative of Josephine county, at theoperahou.se Tuesday. Mr. Smith's appearance had not been advertised,consequently there were not many present; but a portion of those on hand made up in enthusiasm what they lacked in numbers. No matter what bis principles may be, Mr. Smith is certainly a good talker. He claimed the tariff question made him a Democrat. He believed that tbe Republicans had been right on the money question, but that they were all wrong on the tariff question; and, in view of such belief, he had ex ercised iiis right as an American citizen to change his politics. He said he changed at a time when the Republican majority was the largest, so that he could not be accused of turn ing for the purpose of hunting office. Mr. Smith said the present gigantic trusts were the outcome of a high- protective tariff. He illustrated bow a man cannot wear or eat anything that is not made by the trusts. Be cause of tbe High tariff in the hrst place, and thecombinatlons of capital in the second place, the price of everything we consumed, he claimed, was higher than in any other country He said free trade was tbe only remedy for the trusts, and that we could afford it, for America was able to compete with any country in the world. He said the working people of tbe United States were being bled by the great trust octopus. He said such a thing as the beef trust would cause a revolution in almost any other country but America. Mr. Smith seemed very much in earnest about what be said, and made an im pression upon a part of his hearers. i When asked if there was any truth in the statement that he had offered to pay $20,000,000 for the Philippines, provided he was authorized to announce to the Filipinos that their independ ence would lx? acknowledged ultimately by the United States, Andrew Carnegie replied; “Yes; and I meant it.” People living along the lines of the Southern Pacific will rejoice to hear that the passenger fare is to be reduced to three cents per mile. Under its new policy this road has given several sub stantial concessions as showing itself anxious to develop the ter ritory tributary to its system. —--------------------- Thousands oi whom sur vived the recent eruptions, are fleeing from the Island of Mar tinique, fearing another out break. Mount Pele is in an active state, belching out fire and smoke, and this,accompanied by underground rumblings and re verberating detonations, have thrown the entire population in to a state of wild terror, causing them to flee as rapidly as they can obtain transportation. MEDFORD SQUIBS. Sam Tryer win in Medford a few days ago. Supt. Dally was in Medford Friday. He is visiting schools. Mrs. L. A. Lucus Is at Grant's Pass visiting her husband. Dr. G. B. Cole of Central Point was among our recent visitors. Under Sheriff McCarthy was a Medford visitor Thursday. Capt. Nash has returned from a trip to his Josephine county mine. E. DeRoboam of Pooh Bah and his wife were in Medford Friday. Emmett Barksdull was among the politicians in Ashland Friday. Dr. and Mrs. C. R. Ray of Gold Hill were among our visitors Friday. -7 ■J a A gold medal for the best apple exhibit at the Charleston fair has been awarded to 8. L. Benneot. He has received a card from Col. Doscli, announe ing that fact aud stating that the gold medal will be sent Immediately. The exhibit of apples which captured the prize over competitor» from every part of the North American continent was of the Spllzenburg, New ton Pippin and Oregon Spy varieties. The latter Is a new variety, a seed ling grafted by Mr. Bennett from a Iprout grown on tbe farm of J. Scott.J.II. Stewartnays he thinks it is across between a Winesap and a Northern Spy. However that might te it 1» not like either, except that It. lias the delicate flavoring of both varieties. It is variegated in color, similar to the skin of a rattlesnake; but the color Is ho delicately blended as to give it a rich appear ance. It attracted great attention al the fair, and crowds of people wanted to handle the apple» to see if they were real and not m ule of wax. The variety promises to outrival even the famous Medford apples, wlilcti have a reputation on two continents. E. J. DeHart got back yesterday LORD PAUCKFOTK DEAD. from a short trip to Portland. W ashington , I). C., May 28.—Lord Pauneefote, the venerable Carl Narregan has returned from a British Ambassador, died this morning at 5:30. He passed away professional trip to Grant's Pass. Mrs. Ernest Elliott of Portland is quietly, surrounded only by immediate friends. Congress will visiting her mother, Mrs. J. Tressler. pass resolutions of sympathy and President Roosevelt is preparing Mrs. R. W. Gray visited friends liv ft message of sympathy for the British government. 1 he body will ing in Jacksonville Thursday and Fri be sent home to England for burial, but before leaving it will lie day. honored by services including the leading men of the nation. Miss Dollie Rose of Phoenix was the guest of Miss Lila Sackett during the , M ore rivers of fire . week. F ort D e F rance , Mav 28.—The inhabitants continue to flee A. R. Hubbs, Deuel & Co.'s clevor salesman. spent Sunday afternoon iu from the island of Martinique, although the vomiting fires of Mt. Jacksonville. Pelee arc growing less in force. Over 40,000 people have fled the Fred Luy, Jr., and his family visited island in the last few days,find as many more would have gone but relatives iiving In Jacksonville the for the lack of transportation facilities. Many of the business forepart of the week. E. C. Welch was in Jacksonville, places in Fort De France have been closed, the owners leaving so Thursday, in the interest of the Mod- suddenly as to take nothing with them put what they could carry. ford Furniture Co. On the east side of the Island are a large numlx.*r of ]x.*ople includ H. E. Boyden is being visited by Mr. ing women and children imprisoned between streams of red-hot and Mrs. R. S. Maple of Sheffield, 111., lava. When the mountain resumed ojierations anothercrater was who are old triends. formed, which is overflowed with lava,the seething mass boiling L. H. Faucett, who is in Southern California for the benefit of his health, down the mountain sides into river of fire, scorching and burning feels much improved. everything in their path and surrounding the unfortunate in J. D. Heard has gone to San Fran habitants. A number of jx?ople [terished. It was feared the H‘- cisco again. Ho is putting up a maining survivors would |x-rish from starvation,even if they escap smelter at Chloride, A. T. ed the lava, but since the mountain is subsiding hojx's arc enter Geo. E. Neuber of Jacksonville and Relief parties have been formed J. C. Hall of Gold Hili sjient a few tained for their immediate rescue hours in Medford Thursday. and as soon as the lava cools sufficiently it will be bridged so Philip Ritter of Linn county, a that the imprisoned ones can cross to places of safety. brother of Mrs. M. Bellinger, has been The French Ministry is reconsidering the evacution of the Island here lately, visiting his relatives. although many continue to leave. A. C. Hubbard has gone to Klamath county, to sell machinery, in which he is an adept. He is accompanied by his wife. T. Gilchrist, who has been promi nent in the mining history of Montana, is visiting H. B. Nye. He may locate here. H. M. Coss of the COSS PIANO HOUSE has just N. H. Spencer and his family have arrived from Portland, where he made his final arrangc- become residents of Cottonwood, Calif. exclusive We wish them success in their new 3 > ments with the Filer’s Piano House for the agency for the foliowing pianos and organs: home. Mrs. E. M. Lumsden is visiting at Portland and Tacoma. She will go East soon,accompanied by her brother, F. W. Hutchison. I G. W. Donnell, of Grant's Pass, the S. P. roadinaster, and his wife were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Shearer one day this week. H. Mann, candidate for joint repre sentative, ¡»canvassing Douglas county. His opponent, J. M. Hansbrough, is « doing likewise in Jackson county. For the following Counties: — C. H. Pierce has gone to San Fran I cisco, to receive treatment for his leg, which was hurt a number of months Ì ago. He has been joined by his wife. Miss Ella Hanley, who has I>een visit ing in Medford, a few days ago left for For lowest prices and best of terms, see If. M. COSS Alaska, to spend the summer. She before buying. His motto is small profits , quick was met at Seattle by hei brother Ed. sales , perfect SATISFACTION and QUALITY unsurpassed, Mrs. Alice Rosenbaum of Wolf creek passed through Medford Friday, eti route to California. Her health has improved considerably since her trip. Mrs. A. T. Drisko and Miss Myrtle Head office, MEDFORD, OREGON. Nicholson, who represented Olive Correspondence Solicited. lodge in the Rebekah state conven tion, returned from Newport yester day. Mrs. J. Barneburg has returned from a visit to Grant's Pass. She re ports that the health of her sister, Miss Mae Kellogg, is considerably im proved. i W. I. Vawter, I. A. Webb and H. G. Nicholson, who represented the local A T I T But if you are going East wrilS lodge in the meeting of the grand lodge of Odd Fellows held at Newport, got us for our rates and let us tell vo® back-today. about the service and accommU Wilbur Jones, Democratic candidate dations oflered by the for county assessor, was in Ashland ? Thursday, accompanying his aunt, Mrs. D. K. Jones of Lake county, that far on her return home. through TOURIST CARS via th L. Hlineman of Siskiyou county, Cal., tbe well-known stockman, is among us ILLINOIS CENTRAL from PACIFIC) again. He has bought more than a COAST to CHICAGO and CINCINNATI. thousand head of cattle in Southern Oregon during the past year. Don’t fail to write us about your trip, as we are J. H. Ray, who represents a syndi in a position to give you some valuable informa cate of London capitalists, is at Waldo, tion and assistance. 5319 miles of track, over Josephine county, accompanied by P. which is operated some of the M. Williams, an experienced miner, who will take charge of the company’s interests t here. T. P. VanOrsdal, wjio Is a horti culturist living near Topeka, Kan., For particulars regarding freight or passenger and a nephew of A. Pottenger, has rates call on or address been visiting in Moaford, accompanied by his newly made wife. They have J. C. LINDSEY, - B. H. TRUMBULL, resumed their journey homeward. READ THIS CAREFULLY. I Weber, Vose & Sons, Whe’lock, Schumann, Stuyvesant, Victoria, Sherwood & Sons PIANOS. THE BUSDETT ORGAN. Josephine oackaon, K laniath and the Lower one-half of Lake. DON’T FORET THE PLACE. DON’T GUESS Illinois Central R. R Strikes are agitating commer cial circles in different parts of the United States. These are the outcome of dissatisfaction and in a good many cases of downright injustice. These la bor disturbances always become more violent just previous to a presidential campaign. It is a wheel within a wheel. The wealth of a good many capital ists depends upon liberal laws, and they need the services of politicians to enact these laws. T. F. & P. A. Com’l Agt. The politicians, for their part, Miss Lottie Prachtof Ashland, who 142 Third St., Portland, Oregon. must get the vote of the work has visited in Medford often, and Alva Wilkins, a railroad man, were married ingmen, for with the working last Monday. They are spending classes lies the balance of power. their honeymoon in California, at To put it in slang parlance, the tended by the best wishes of numerous They will reside at Duns workingmen “have got onto the friends. muir. curves” of the politicians, and Dr.C. W.Keene,a prominent physician, are playing with them at their and brother of Dr. Keene of this city, own game. 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