CRUELTIES IN PHILIPPINES.
DEFENCE BY PRESIDENT m ROOSEVELT, By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. NEW YORK, May 31. President Roosevelt, in the course of an address at Arlington, said that acts of cruelty had been committed under terrible provocation in tho Philippines. They were wholly exceptional, and had been shamefully exaggerated. They afforded less justification for general condemnation of the At my than the lynching in America unJ:r conditions of cruelty infinitely wore,; afforded for the condemnation of the communities where they occurred. The Philippine campaign had neeii conducted with singular humanity. Americans had been able to rapidly teach the Filipinos the good use of freedom, and with the growing knowledge their growth in self-government was keeping steady pace. When they had proved their capacity for real m-e----(Vm by the power of self-government, it would be possible to decide whether they should exist independently or be knit tc- America by their common friendship and interest.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 431, 2 June 1902, Page 2
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