The Scandal Recedes, May–June 1902

The month of April had seen the atrocities debate move from a relatively obscure political skirmish, involving only the Secretary of War and the members of the Senate Committee on the Philippines, to a front-page scandal that inspired speeches on the floor of the full Senate. The debate continued throughout the month of May, repeating lines of argument from the previous month and adding a few new ones. These new arguments included an accountability politics debate over whether the administration and the senior military leadership in the Philippines were responsible for the water cure and a symbolic debate over how the violence against noncombatants in the Philippines compared to violence in the Civil War and Indian conflicts. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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