| Show WHAT MAJOR YOUNG SAYS A reception was tendered in the second ward salt lake to the utah battery boys of that city at the entertainment were present among others major young who was a democratic candidate for supreme judge lu 1895 we mention the poll bics tics of the distinguished battery officer n anticipation of the possible charge that he saw through administration glasses when be stated the following facts after being called upon to address those present the quotation is taken from the salt lake heralds account of the event when dr talmage finished major R W young was introduced and received an ovation that lasted fully five minutes he thanked the citizens of the second ward for their cordlia cord lil welcome to himself and comrades and then clearly defined his position in regard to the war in the philippines it was the general sentiment throughout the entire eighth army corps said major young that the war was justified being brought on by events that one could foresee at the time dewey and merritt captured manila on feb 4 a fall alno was killed while trying to pierce the line of the nebraska regiment they are absolutely incapable at self government being half barbarous and each tribe considers every other one its natural prey it we should recall our forces they would destroy each other in the race for supremacy millions of american and foreign capital would be lost and hundreds of foreign residents would be massacred if they set up a government among ahcin beaves some other dictator would happen along tomorrow and topple it over some time ago the standard in upbraiding a republican for trying to make political capital out of the war bald that the war was not a party war nor the army of the united states a partisan army since then some strange things have come to pass and the latest and most noteworthy is the declaration of the democrats of ohio in convention assembled in which they insist on making the present conflict in the philippines a political issue by devoting most of their platform to the denunciation of the war policy of the administration thus the unavoidable conflict with the is made a national issue and dragged into the domain of politics and republicans public ans are driven to a defense of what they believe to be a highly justifiable struggle to restore peace in the philippine islands especially the island of luzon it Is on these gr ounla that tho standard recedes from mhd position it first took that bhawar was nonpartisan non partisan and should not be mada party capital and that we now quote with approval the ul and namo of politics of major young he declares the native tribes of luzon arc incapable of self government that is it iet to themselves might would be right and anarchy prevail foreigners would be vouchsafed no protection or immunity from the cu oftie hordes of or other natives and the whole archipelago would relapse to the state 0 barbari fc y ism having come without design into possession of the islands the american sense of duty has asserted itself and the through tlc alc chief executive arid his subordinated is endeavoring first to restore peace second to give to the benighted natives a form of government that will aim to lift them from the darkness of their barbaric understanding to the light of true civilization which guarantees equal rights and absolute justice to all major young does his country a great service when he subordinates his bartys advancement to the telling of the whole truth and the upholding of the position of the administration in the philippines |
