Speech #570064256

I will read it again. I read yesterday from the speech of the Senator from Massachusetts an exhibit. which is an extract from the report of General Bell. which is found in Part 3 of the Report of the LieutenantGeneral Commanding the Army. 1901. pages 34 and 35. in which General Bell uses this language in his report: I have been in Indian campaigns where it took over 100 soldiers to capture each ::ndian. but the problem here is more difficult on account of the inbred treachery of these people. their great number. and the impossibility of recognizing the actively badfrom the only passively so. If it was deemed advisable to pursue the methods of European nations and armies in suppressing rebol:.ions among the Asiatics. the insurrection could have been easily put down months ago. Even now. although the seeds of rebellion have permeated all classes. such methods would soon put an end to all active insurrection. That implies what I will show directly from the testimony of General "Hughes. that up to that time the rules of civilized warfare had been observed. and that it was suggested that if they could abandon the rules of civilized warfare and adopt the rules European nations had adopted in dealing with Asiatic peoples. the perpetration of these horrible barbarities. these wholesale slaughters and burnings of propertyif they could adopt such methods. then the insurrection could be put down. If it did not mean that it meant nothing. if it did not mean that there should be an abandonment of the rules of civilized warfare and the adoption of the harsh and cruel measures which were condemned by civilized warfare. what did it mean? Mr.