The Springfield Republican
The following articles are separate editorial responses to the Anti-Imperialist League Executive Council meeting. They were both published on page 6.
April 25, 1899
The executive committee of the anti-imperialist league, at a meeting in Boston yesterday, voted that the “anti-imperialist league challenges the publication of the names of persons, committees or societies alleged to have stirred up a mutinous feeling among the troops in the Philippines by correspondence or otherwise, except of those relatives and friends of the volunteers who may have expressed a natural solicitude for men compelled by military conditions to serve in an unpopular and unrighteous war.” Let in the light—all of it. It may as well be recognized at the start by all concerned that the right of opinion and freedom of speech is going to be preserved in this republic. If martyrs are called for in this cause, they will be forthcoming.
It has been suggested that the news from Georgia be prevented from reaching the Filipinos if possible. This is a good suggestion. One cause of the native uprising against the Americans is thought to have been the reminders, served upon the Filipinos by the American newspaper at Manila, of the fate of the American Indians; but if they should learn that our Christian civilization has a way of cutting off the ears and fingers of colored offenders and burning them at the stake, and then dividing up their hearts and livers and bones as precious souvenirs, they might renew their determination to resist our missionary efforts to the bitter end. Let the imperial censorship look alive to this matter.
M. Patrick Cullinane, Liberty and Anti-Imperialism, June 28, 2007.