Show SCATHING PHILIPPIC LAUNCHfD MKINLfY Republican Congressman Lays Bare the Infamous J Record of the Administration Administraton 1 I McKinley a Pecksniffian Hypocrite Who I Owned By Cap italists Alger Purchased His Cabinet Position 1 Washington Feb 24During the c oral debate upon the army appropriation appropria-tion bill in the house today Mr Johnson John-son Rep Ind whot a fortnight ag made several notable speeches violently violent-ly attacking the policy of the adminl tratlon during the consideration of the army reorganization bill returned to the assault and delivered against the president and some of his advisers the most scathing philippic heard ire the house for months He sneered at the president and the influences which he alleged controlled him impugned his motives questioned his sincerity and likened him to Dickens most contemn ble character charged his secretary ot war with incompetency and predicted that the president would in the end be engulfed by adverse public sent meat Although his utterances were I far more sensational than those in his former speeches and dazed some of his I auditors by the impetuosity with which they were delivered the speech did not raise about him the storm of his former speeches Mr LandiB one of his Republican colleagues col-leagues from Indiana briefly stated the t-he house that Mr Johnsons colleagues lad repudiated him and the two m hers had a wordy duel Later in the day Mr Marsh Rep Ills replied to some of Mr Johnsons strictures but the Republican leaders had evidently decided to Ignore the attacks of the Indianan In-dianan and no general reply was made to his speech today The army appropriation bill today was lost sight of in the general discus ion of the policy of the government reJ alive to the Philippines and severa notable speeches were made especially that of Mr Settle Dem Ky General debate on the bill closed today and tomorrow to-morrow the bill will be taken up for amendment under the five > minute rule MR JOHNSONS REMARKS When Mr Johnson arose for his remarks re-marks he at once attracted the atten tion of the house A few evening ag he began the Homo Market club of Boston gave 3 banquet at which the presidantwasthaprlncipajjpiesLFiurp he newspaper accounts of the affair fT was an exceedingly elaborate one The secretary of war was in attendance endance he whom the Boston populace popu-lace had hissed upon the streets a few hours before ere they turned to greet with rapturous applause the chief who had bestowed upon him his official I character We ca hardly blame them I though for this Mr Chairman for they were only following the precedent set I them by some of the leading Republl can newspapers of the country which for months past have been fiercely attacking at-tacking the secretary and have lacked the courage to lay their ax to the root I of the evil and censure the gentleman who to reward him for his political ervices and disbursements in the campaign paign of 1S96 appointed him to his pre nt position and has maintained him there ever since notwithstanding his ncompetency and against the right eous complaints that have been made against him The secretary of the navy also graced the occarjon with his presence I I and so far forgot his usual courtesy so fa belled his New England training and associations a to repeat the stale and untruthful charge that those who opposed the ratification of the Infamous I treaty of Paris with Spain were responsible respon-sible for the bloodshed that occurred In the Philippines When the chief magistrate had ceas ed speaking another member of his ofcia family the gentleman who presides pre-sides over the postofflce department arose In his place and proceeded to loa his chief down with an eulogy so fulsome ful-some and extravagant so absolutely given over to hyperbole that no individual Indi-vidual not wholly eaten up with vanity van-ity could possibly have endured it without with-out nausea and disgust MKINLEY AS A LIBERATOR The newspapers further inform us that among the other decorations there were suspended over the entrance to the banquet hall three portraits one of Washington one of Lincoln and one of the president himself and that beneath be-neath this the word Liberators Now George Washington fought with his sword for eight long and bloody years to establish the right of a people to govern themselves and in his farewell address he counselled his countrymen to live on terms of amity with all nations na-tions and to enter Into entangling alliances ances with none Abraham Lincolns whole political life was a contention for the rights of man and it was his kindly hand which penned the immortal emancipation proclamation that struck the shackles from the limbs of millions of bondsmen bonds-men One would think sir that the gentleman who was just then engaged In the prosecution of a bloody war against a poor and defenseless people in the Orient engaged in the unsavory task of Christianizing them with the sword and civilizing them at the mouths of cannon would naturally have felt some little embarrassment as he gazed upon these portraits and read the significant Inscription below Possibly his excellency did not see them He may have turned his back upon them just as he has turned his back upoo the declaration of independence A DISINGENUOUS ADDRESS Be this as it may sir the president does not appear to have been at all abashed by this incongruous circumstance circum-stance but he arose from his seat and there within the shadow of the monument monu-ment of Bunker Hill where Warren fell fighting for liberty and within a stones throw of Faneull Hall where time and again the true sons of the old Bay state have sent forth to the country coun-try their messages of freedom he delivered de-livered perhaps the most remarkable certainly the most disingenuous address ad-dress that ever fell from the lips of a American president This address divested di-vested of its verbiage considered apart from its platitudes and the ostentatious profession of virtue with which it was Interlarded was nothing more or less than a carefully devised and studious misstatement of the Issue between the chief executive and those of his own party who are opposed to his wretched policy in the Philippines I was an I effort to befog the subject and to mis i lea the public judgment We arc told sir that t this address enthusiastic applause was by received those with who 1 I heard i but we who read it tn cold print il the light of the indefensible tragedy now being enacted near the shores of Asia involuntarily nea tle sia jDoluntai think of j that creation of Charles Dickens who was to accustomEd and exclaim to roll his with eves piously tentaton to those about him great 03 I friends let My frends tJet us b moral and who was the father of two Daughters daughten one of whom he named Charity and the other Mercy His excellency declared upon this occasion upn if not in occaion s many words at least in effect that he had never enter tamed Phn any policy with Aspect to the Philippines up to the time the treaty ot peace was ratified but that he had simply held them as commanderin chef the question as to their Queton disposi after ties and by control congress tO be determined there j MKJNLEYS SINCERITY I the chief executive really feels he declared cxeutc rel a M at the banquet that he did that the ie disposition dispositon of the Phillpipnes is 3 matter to be Phipipnes con gross why does not he can a special sesion of cong to settle the mat ter at once and then keep his hands off Heaven knows there is need of action If he is sixicere sincre why did M permit his SUIporer In the senate to vote down other day the Bacon resolution which distinctly declared Iluton r the United States tht te Unied entertained no Intention of intenton permanently holding these islands hOlding the islans Why did he rSS t insist that the MsEnery resolution should be passed a resolS tlon n which is ton a fraud a delusion and a snare a shameful evasion which like a Christmas tree itChristmas tre has ha something Upon it ° everYbOdy That resolution is intended simply to quiet rsoluton science of the American people to lull au to sleep while the president goes ahead waging relentless go wagng rlentless and merciless war airainst the Filipinos and laying deep and secure the foundations laing permanent American colony Mr Chairman I am determined that detenied the president shall neither befog the neiher bfog issue between isue himself and those of the Republican party who oppose his Phil oppoe hs Phl ippine policy n mislead the public publl judgment nor shirk the responsibility for the gross official blunders which he has committed in connection with this great problem I insist that the whole policy is not simply an error but tha it is a crime and that the chief that e ecutive of this nation is the one who has precipitated upon us > he embar rassments and the difficulties by which we are now confronted I Insist that he did not simply hold the Philippines a commanderinchief commadeinchief leaving tho question of disposition and control of them to congress but that he formu ated and put into execution a affirmative affirm-ative and aggressive policy that Is their permanent annexation to this country and forced it to the senate with all the power and influence which his high office enabled him to employ A FATAL ERROR The presidents first impression was to demand of the people of the Philip pines simply a coaling station a measure meas-ure amply sufficient for all of our legitimate le-gitimate purposes and the evacuation of the island by Spain without compensation compen-sation by the taxpayers of the United States Had he adhered to this however how-ever all would have been well Tht whole Union would have followed him cheerfully and today we would hav been at peace with the Philippine republic re-public our arm and navy which is now waging war against our fonnrr friends and allies would have been dis banded No army bill fo a standing army of 100000 men would have been pending and we could now b getting ready to reduce instead of getting ready to greatly invcrease the burdens of our taxation But the president committed a fatal error He wrote into that treaty the absolute transfer of Spanish soverignty over the Philippines to ourselves and the payment of 20 00000 as a consideration for the era sion Then he issued to the people of the Phllinppines a proclamation In which he informed them that the United States had succeeded to the title of Spain declared that the government ernment and control of their territory belonged to us ordered them to pay their taxes to the military government which he established over them and blandly made known to them that our mission in their midst was one of benevolent evolent assimilation The president drove the treaty through the senate by the unlimited exercise of all those powers and Influences in-fluences which the great office he holds makes possible What then did the chief executive mean by telling those who gathered aroung the banquet board at Boston that up to the ratification of the treaty he had simply held the Philippines as commanderinchief without any pOll of his own leaving the whole matter to b determined afterward by the congress Was he foolish enough to believe that his mere statement would be allowed to pass unchallenged Was be vain enough to suppose that his ipse dixit would conclude the matter mat-ter with the damning proof of Its falsity so near at hand SLAVE OF PUBLIC CLAMOR Mr Chairman why did the president presi-dent change his original intention as to the terms to be incoroorated into the treaty What were the influences that brought the change about I have heard it stated that the applause of the people who greeted him just about at this juncture of public affairs while he was on his tour in the west was the reason for ii Was i then the condition of nubile sentiment rather than the right or wrong of th mater which influenced the presidents mind Does tle chief executive raids raid-s great prerogatives to be so supinely representative that he must needs ab dicte them at every popular wind that blows Does he feel that his high of flee gives him no latitude for thC exercise ex-ercise of Individual judgment and of independent action Did he make no allowance for transient ebullitions of mbllc enthusiasm and excitement overlook his opportunity to save the people from themselves lose sight of all he sacred traditions of the country and fear to make his appeal to that ultl Continued on Pao 7 t c SCATHING PHllPPICI Continued from page 1 mate tribunal which has so often in our national history vindicated those who have fearlessly stood for the right in aublic affairs the sober second thought of the great American peo ste steAnd Is his excellency quite sure that he properly gauged the condition of the public mind on the subject of Phil I ippine annexation Is he absolutely certain that one swallow really makes a whole summer I would really seem so for in this Home Market address he exultingly declared that the annexation treaty had passed the senate by over twothirds and was sanctioned bv the judgment of ninetenths of his countrymen coun-trymen How that treaty finally otis ot-is twothirds majority In the senate I the tremendous pressure ecessary to secure i there where its fate nuns doubtful and trembling in the balance until the very latest moment and was then only saved by the votes of senators sena-tors who had most of them soolien against i no man knows better than Mr McKInley Adulation has Indeed r sorely blinded the chief executive to I the truth If he Imagines that even the I majority of his countryman approve of this permanent holding in the orient rthls I Let him not pin his faith too s < ocuri > lv k to the sordid interests which clamor s if loudly In his hearing I he will hit quiet the noisy throng whih surrounds him long enough to put his ear to the ground and listen he will distinguish the premonitions of the coming storm he will hear the steady tread not of the 100000 men who he demands for a crusade against liberty but of a irIghty army of free people who are beginning to move in defense of their cherished traditions and their violated honor MKINLEYS PLEA We have been told further that the president yielded up his firstblush Impressions Im-pressions at the importunity of Admiral Ad-miral Dewey who urged that the Philippines ippines should be retained Mr Chairman Chair-man the chief executive cannot screen himself behind the gold lace of the hero of Manila No one can honor more profoundly pro-foundly than I do the officers of our regular army and navy but their predilections pre-dilections are naturally for arms They have imbibed of course the prejudices and the preferences of their calling We cannot blame them for desiring to magnify the size and importance of the army and navy for advocating expansion expan-sion and the taking on of a colonial policy Again we have been assured that the demand of our peace commissioners commission-ers at Paris to hold the Philippines is what induced the president to yield So far as one of the commissioners is concerned we know that this Is false But even if this statement were true the constitutional power to negotiate a treaty was his not the commissioners They were simply his Instruments appointed ap-pointed to carry out his will No Mr Chairman this plea like all the others will not avail The truth is that these commissioners got their inspiration and their instructions from the White House Those instructions once changed the action of the commissioners commission-ers would have been different The wrong was with the chief executive He and he alone Is responsible OWNED BY CAPITALISTS Mr Chairman In my humble opinIon opin-Ion the reason for the change in the presidential policy was his concession to the selfish capitalists of the country coun-try his surrender to their demands These a the gentlemen who furnished the money for his nomination and election elec-tion and who I doubt not have pledged him a renomlnatlon and reelection re-election These are the gentlemen who are already seizing upon valuable franchises chises in China in connection with the English syndicate with a member of parliament from Wales at its head These are the gentlemenwhom Lord a l > fc aAbxx i I Beresford has in mind in his cordial i but not wholly disinterested invitation to an allegiance In China with Great Britain Germany and Japan against Russia and France the oldtime enemies ene-mies of his country and the oldtime friends of ours These are the gentlemen gentle-men who are already grasping after special privileges In the Philippines in Cuba and In Porto Rico I was I imagine for their special benefit that the president created his advisory board to the war department composed I of three American citizens their object being to farm out valuable privileges and immunities which should belong to the people of those Islands themselves and in whose disposition they should have a voice If their government is to be free and their rights maintained I have no fault to find with the spirit of I legitimate American commerce My I contention is against the spirit of American greed which cares nothing for the spirit of American liberty And what do these gentlemen propose pose To amass colossal fortunes In the islands by virtue of their franchises and the labor of upon cheap the native population not one dollar of which will ever find Its lodging place in the pockets of the American people To enable them to do this our whole population popu-lation Is to purchase their field of operations op-erations for them in the Philippines for the ransom of J20000000 and is to be taxed intermiably and excessively in the creation and maintenance O a great army and navy which Is to conquer and hold the Filipinos In subjection sub-jection and defend the islands after they have been expensivelr fortified against the assaults of the great European ropean nations with which our new foreign policy will be certain to brine us into frequent contentions FREE TRADE POLICY What else upon the programme of these gentlemen The open door in the Philippines making It totally impossible Im-possible for us ever to discriminate in tariff duties there In favor of the products pro-ducts of the American farm and thp American shop What Is the other sacrifice that is required That the annexation of Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines absolutely abso-lutely sure to come at an early day for they registered It In their vows shall precipitate the sugar tobacco hemp and other cheap products of these islands and Hawaii upon the American market in free and unrestricted competition com-petition with tho agricultural and laboring la-boring elemepts of our country This policy sir would have been free trade In William Jennings Bryan What is It In WHIam McKinley The house had been keyed to a high pitch of excitement during Mr John sons speech but there had been no interruptions in-terruptions Mr Settle Dem Ky followed Mr Johnson with a speech against imner lalism the eloquence of which attracted attract-ed attention Six months ago he said no one could have made him believe he could ever have been brought to vote for a 20000000 Indemnity to Spain Yet the chance of conditions had rendered it Incumbent that he should vote for It just as it was necessary that he should vote for the pending bill The government occupied a certain attitude before the world He would stand by It right or wrong Republican applause ap-plause But his action in support of the government did not mean that he gave his assent to the administrations policy of imperialism He argued that we recognized the Filipinos as belligerents belliger-ents against Spain and were now morally mor-ally estopped from seeking to olace them under our dominion We occunr the cruel heartless position of accenting accent-ing the Islands of those natives and I from the hour of victory leaving them in the lurch We must either turn the Filipinos loose or subjugate them In conclusion he charged that despite de-spite the soft evasions of the administration adminis-tration it was everywhere doing all In Its Dower to familiarize the country with the monstrous fact of Imperialism Imperial-ism ismMr Mr Landis Rep Ind replying to Mr Johnson declared that the latter did not represent the sentiments of his district that he had been repudiated by the people I the gentleman returns to his district he said he will be crucified cruci-fied by public opinion and spat upon with indignation Mr Johnson eaid it mattered not to him whether he were popular He was only concerned as to whether he was rlgjit He referred t Mr Landis a i the diminutive representative of the I great Republican party of the great commonwealth of Indiana Mr Rhea Dem Ky said he was I tired of the vacillating policy of the president II ALGERS COWARDICE In the course of his arraignment of I the president Mr Rhea spoke of Secre tary Alger as a man who if public history be true had been cashiered I from the army for cowardice on the eve of battle That is not true interposed Mr I Spauldintr Rep lch I Oh I do not mean cashiered in the literal sense I mean that he left Ws 1 command without orders and against orders and came here where he was courtmartialed I He was never courtmartialed Then he resigned Thats different replied Mr Spaulding amid great Democratic laughter and applause Mr Marsh Rep Ills a member ot the military committee closed the debate de-bate He evoked much applause on the Republican side in reply to the presidents presi-dents critic by referring to him as the greatest of living Americans and the first In the hearts of his countrymen He declared It was absolutely untrue that any franchises had beep granted in the Philippines Porto Rico or Cuba This closed the general debate The committee rose and at 532 p m the house recessed until S oclock Seventyseven private bills were passed at the night session and at 1030 p m the house adjourned |