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Show SPEAKS FOR BRAVE MEN Senator Lodge Defends the American Army. MAKES REPLY TO RAWLINS Declares That When Justice Is Don tho Record of Boys in IUue, Gleaming Gleam-ing With Victories FromTrtnton to .Mnnlln, Will Shine Brightly ln tho Annnls of tho Kepubllc, While Those Who Vllllfied Them Arc but Nattlesft Blcta on a Kemembertd Nam . WtuhlnRtnn Miy X In Indication nf the AttmlnUtrntlnn .Hc In th Phtllp-rdntu, Phtllp-rdntu, Mr IdR of MiiMthiMtu, chair-man chair-man of the Phlllpplnea lommttUo. tid-dreaeM tid-dreaeM the hintle tod Ijohk Wfort he rHiinn t pek th gdllorle were thronged with people nnd the nttemUme upon the tloor of the brunt ah unueual-ly unueual-ly Uigf. Mm CowIm the l'rtitdent Hlntei, wi .in tnirttrd nthUtnr Mr UhIko' rcxlew of the 111111.0!. in the W-it-ndii nnd of lho utterum s of tho minor lt wiin notnbl) Inti renting nnd fouvful lie upoke Mth de p tMrnentnew and ut time heenme eloquent OMJUCr OP 'IME BIIiL Ono of tho ol.Ject of the 111! he nald. wan to help Ihv dtelomHrnt fit the tul-tindu tul-tindu The opiKtiient of the bill, he Mid lui) clurged that It opened lh wn lo exploiter uMidliilea nnd nriHMtx.Keri lie udh nnrc of the generHt horttUtv nf the Demo'THtlc p..tl to any mm who hus 111 id money or la nuklnir inonej, TK11U1U TO OfKlOlALH. DleruMlnc the tftlmon of On Taft Mr Uis declared he wrm one of the mot randld nnd filr minded men who had made Kret rairlllrea o ko to ih Philippine lie paid n hlsh trlhiile, fllo 10 artliiK Oo Hullt lho attack nf tho intnorlt, liowr, hid not been tonllned to the 1 hlllpplne tominbulon l)mo. rrutlc ftrnatnrn had mule an Attack on tho American nrrnj tiecauso It rharsed crneltlea hid been committed on 1 llll. inns 'lh nrm had been Mctorlona, and In th rhltlpnlnea now meets tho i-nnm nlnin tho I nlon nnny met alter Apponutiox itui.iNH i:Aonrn n:n ArrAins Tho Scnaloi ftom L'tah hid iirosnh ex-npKernted ex-npKernted tho situation In lho Philippine Philip-pine It wnn a pourto of hitter Hgret to him lodKC) that un American of Hi er or enlisted man hnuld ha tortured nn llllplno or that nil order hnd been lMiei, that on It faro emed npvottlnK Hut " aald he, there mtiM Ihj (hime rcu-Bone rcu-Bone for these alleged cruelties xiii;ATMi:sr op hoi ih:hh He then told of three Anirlnn hoI Her who were- raptured h the Klllplnoi '1 hey were atrlpptd naked and told that If Ihoy would erj Ifing llvo lho nilplno republic" repub-lic" they mUnl run tnto th buh a thy were. One of the man utood there naked, ln tho midst of the hoetllo bind, and cried ' Loiir llvo nikjlul 'Xhe KillplnoH tied him to n ireo and the wo, men nnd children storied hhn to death the other two lout hrurt nnd cried "I.ninc llvo .he rillplno npuhlkt' but notwlth-rtandlng notwlth-rtandlng this they were cut to pities with bolos AsNRWUHS ItAWUNfifl IMIAHOUS Mr Iiflge ald it had hern ihared by Mr Itanllns thut Oen Chaffee hnd received re-ceived his education 'In siaKer" In China AKSlntit thnno truel won), ho said, ho cited Oen Chaffee a officii! record rec-ord In the Philippines Oen Chaffee hnd conducted warfare In the moat hmnnno manner poMlble In the circumstance ITo declared that President McKInlej "ono of the moit humane nnd generous nf men, ' had directed lho army to show tho KUlpInoH the greatet klndnen That policy had been carried out in tho miln Prom that pollcj lho ucceor of President Presi-dent MtKlnley had not deviated Within n few dnja ordtrs had gono from tho White House for the investigation of alleged al-leged rrueltlee and to punlvh any found Euiltj nf atrocities. DHKKNDB HOOT AND THD AltMY. Mr lodge mado a warm defence of tha Secretary of War. Towns had been bulbed in this war. as towns had been burned In the course of every war, und whllo such canes were to be deplored, they were Incident of wir ln the speeechea of the minority, he said, women nnd children chil-dren had hem staimhtcred hy myriads, hut then) was no direct lotnrd of any kilting of women or children traceable to American soldiers He paid a, hlch tribute to the American arm) lu the Philippine Phil-ippine all of tho members of which ho pointed nut, under tho army sistem, were olunteer They represented thoroughly thorough-ly te American communities, which gae them birth The atroeittes which had been committed In Isolated Instances, and which all leerctted, had grown out of warfare Mr. Lodge then quoted from the records rec-ords many Instance, of atrocities committed com-mitted by ths nililno innurgents on tho American troop Men hail been captured as prisoners ot war and had their ears cut off, ihtr intestines cut out nnd their bod lea otherwise horribly mutllatnl Others had been tlrUrn Into streams and. while drowning, hid been shot Btllt other had been burled alive ItenUlng from stattitlcs furnlFhtd by tho authorities authori-ties In tho Philippines, he showed Out hundreds of natives had been assiulted and mutilated becitusn they sympathized with the Americans The statistics showed thnt the number of nitlicg thus ireutM agKrcBated M He pointed out thnt slxti-ein slxti-ein municipal officers frlendlj to the A met leans hud been ansa Inn, ted an 1 forty had been assaulted and mutilated JIo cloned his Mceih saying BTANDB DV BOLDIKIIS. I did not arise to defend In the remotest way any cruelties practiced upon helpless help-less prisoners I regard them us bitterly as nnvone can But ns I hue litenrd to this debit? 1 confers I havo f It shoiked beyond rneaauru at tho uttacka made upon the iirini of the VnlUd Hiates Don t let us condone a slnnle proetl offense, of-fense, li it Ht us be just at lenst to our own lt us remember, lulng hem In sheltered homes, far from the sound and trials of war, not only their suffering but their temptations, tried provocations, their trials ItUMKMliUH Tiin CinCCMfirANT'tZS When we condemn Waller for shooting treat herous guides, when we think of that little Wnd of his that struggled through the wilderness of Bamir, wruro nn Hpuu-lird Hpuu-lird had ever gone, nnd carno out on the other side delirious with sufferings, ho that he was reported whin ho rirst reached ManlU to be out of hlo mind let us remember thu clrctimstuncus ere wo condemn li NIC Oi THR nOVB Think nt hose fle or six himdred posts scattered nil oer those lntmds, little squadrons of fifteen or twenty mm under the command er oiien of n sereeant or ft nung Lleutenunt, IMng there umong people oppurenll) frtndl Tho ilrst thing this bo In command or the ser gcani knowr la that ouu of his men has bun nsstisslnated In thn night roil T11K AMRrtKAN AltMY I want to hao Justice to the American arm j I want tho couturs t know when tt lead of cruelties to hotllle Kltlninos, what our men have suffered I nnd endurud 1 don t wish to be nut In the pnsliton of n defender of cruellleB If I must mnke my choice then, 1 am for the friendly natives, na-tives, the friends of America, against those In nrrns against her nnd I um for the American urmy against tho Imur gents AUMY NOT A FOOTSTOOL Tho cc hem has been to ialtf this cry of 1 melt In the Philippines In order to mnk It react upon Ihe parti In power. lho American ann ought not to be auh. jertcd tn attacks like tlint It Is not made to be the footstool of politics, and what It does or does not do ought not to bo ud to raise up or pull down nny po, luteal party Tni!UTR TO THH AIUIY. When justice Is done, when the guilty have been punished for proved offmae, when the whole slorj has been mado up I believe that nfter all that his been sail, and all tho denunciation that hap been heaped on our troops und our offl-ers offl-ers his fallen Into slleme, we shall llnl thut In the history of tho country the record of that urmy gleaming with Morle fiom Trenton to ManlU shall shine brightly In the annals of the republic-; when those who vliufy it are but noteless blots on ft remembered name, BAWLING EXPLAINS. Mr. Bawllns then mado 1 brief reply to Mr Lodge Uo disclaimed any effort by his criticism to besmirch tho American mm W ' m m nrmr Th, rrspnnstbllltv rar tho conrtl. Wlt tv-( M SB tlon In th" I'hlllpplnss ami for thr stro. llJia Tt slsH rill, ll thr I hll ipiiks l 1,1 not, hi- said, utffl t r t ,i.. th ntin ll, rt .1 t-.l (li-n. BUI N ;I !H li rr nn I ill ni. ri.. in nrrh nrs nxral- fifcH,'!'. ' . 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