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The Commoner.
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Vol. a, No. 18.
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THE WEEKLY PfiESS.
West Duluth (Minn.) X-Itays: The
man who says tUo Filipinos "aro not
propared for self-government just
now," Intends that thoy never shall
bo If ho can prevent it. All human
kind has always boon prepared for
soft-government, but forco and fraud
havo boon used from timo immemorial
to doprivo most of thorn of this nat
ural right. The Amorican nation is at
presont using forco and fraud to de
privo tlio Filipino peoplo of their nat
ural right to political Indcpondonco.
Hastings (Mich.)' Journal u For the
past two years roturning soldiors
havo hinted of cruolty, Incapacity and
violonco. Somo havo told personal
friends all was not right, but thoy
woro only private soldiers, and they
know that thoy could havo no standing
in a court-martial whero "shoulder
straps" woro the accused. The special
acts aro thoso of individuals. The de
fonso of them brings the odium upon
the administration and the party It
ropresents. Tho nation will bo hold
accountable if In its choice of the
next congress it indorses the party
responsible,
Central Christian Advocate: Gbn.
Jacob II. Smith hns finally admitted
that ho did give tho order to kill
"everything over ton" in Samar. This
is such a national disgrace, so deep,
so ineradicable, that our glbry, our
boasted bonovolenco, is forever tar
nished. Tho culprit who havo the
order added to his crimo tho disgrace
of perjury. Wo do not believe that
tho world will judge our nation by
that blood-thirsty order. But wo again
call tho attention of thoso who will
conduct tho court-martial ordered by
the secretary of war to tho fact that
tho British army in South Africa had
tho moral stamina to execute two ofil
cors guilty of a less heinous offense
than that of Qenoral Smith.
Albion (Nob.) Argus: Wo saw a
cartoon in a republican paper a few
days ago that, under all the circum
stances, ought to bring tho blush of
shame to everyone who has the love
of llborty and justice in him. It rep
resented an Amorican soldier, a fino
specimen of manhood, standing by a
Filipino, a miserable, inferior speci
men of humanity, about the worst
looking creature an artist could draw.
We thought tho comparison did not re
flect any crodit on our groat nation.
It those two characters woro Intended
to represent tho comparative status
of tho two nations then wo ought to bo
ashamed to wage war against such
inferiors. When tho war is over and
tho victory won it is nothing to bo
proud of from a military standpoint.
For a superior to strike an inferior Is
always considered a disgrace. If
these peoplo aro as inferior as they
aro pictured then wo ougM to hang
our heads in shame for tho bungling
that has been made. For two years
they havo been holding our forces
level and the war seoms no nearer
over than when it was begun. If our
superior forces can make no better
headway against such a low down,
inferior race, as the picture shows,
then they. had better "go away back
. and sit down." Considering the car
toon from any viow point, it is a dis
grace to tho nation and especially to
tho republican party that' is forcing
the war.
so anxious to bring about harmony
aro actuated by tho scriptural injunc
tion of "doing works moot for re
pentance' And then possibly tho
loyal masses of tho democratic party,
who havo good momories, may not bo
willing to again entrust to tho leaders
of tho domocratic party from '61 to '95,
tho activo management or party affairs
after tho betrayal of '90, and tho ro
mombrances of tho two previous cam
paigns, when tho same gentlemen in
Wall street dictated the nominations
of both parties, and arranged politi
cal shamflghts for the amusement of
tho peoplo, tho money power being vic
torious, whichever candidate won.
We aro of tho opinion that tho gen
tlemen, who prior to 189G condescended
to fill all the important offices and en
joyed tho emoluments, and when tho
masses of tho party took control as
thoy did at Chicago, in '96, bolted the
platform and candidates, or sulked,
and failed to stand by tho majority,
as they insisted should bo .done wnen
thoy woro in the majority, should ex
orclso a littlo modesty, and at least
havo somo small consideration for the
men who were loyal in 1896 and did
their best for party success.
Wo bollevo that tho men who wero
loyal in '96 and 1900 will havo some
thing to say, and without they are con
sulted tho "harmony" will bo of tho
jug and handle order. Let us for a
momont pause and ask, what would bo
thought, If Benedict Arnold had asked
to be plaoed at the head of tho revolu
tionary army and dictate its policy,
after ho had betrayed It. Of course,
Arnold could have shouted: "I am a
loyal minute man," just as politicians
now shout: "I am a democrat," but
tho latter's assortion is just as ridic
ulous as Arnold's would have been.
Don't lot these gentlemen deceive
themselves. Tho masses will not be
fooled by the glib tongues and profes
sions of what theso harmonlzers and
reorganizes will do in tho future, if
again ontrustod with power. The query
is: What aro their records in the
past? By their works shall ye know
them. We have grave doubts, if an
appeal to the stomach and a taffy
coated speech, is all sufficient to On-
able an ambitious politician to enter
the White house. As we view it dis
interestedly, that is about what the
great cry for harmony means In
Greater Now York. Npw Haven
Union.
those good men stopped an infamous
policy as soon as ttfdw learned of its
existence. And all ttlen fools will ac
cept this exculpation of tho men above
Bell and responsible for him. Johns
town Democrat.
A Plea For Right.
Mild is tho air of April,
Gentle tho sky above,
And tho budding and the mating
Call for a song of love;
But tho season of my singing
Has lost its olden spell,
Because of a shame and sorrow
Men close their eyes to tell.
I seo but the tears of women
In. tho rain of tho springtime flood;
I cannot brook the flowers
They only smell of blood.
Lost is tho playground frolic
Its joy and laughter melt
In the moan of children sobbing
From the jungle and from the veldt.
0 ye in the halls of the council;
You may conquer the distant foe,
But still before a higher court
Your needless wars must go.
Too much you ask of silence;
Too fierce the iron heel;
Becauso a statesman blundered
Must every heart be steel?
0 Britain! 0 Columbia!
Too much cf sodden strife!
Back to tho banished gospel
The sacredness of life!
Else shall our ties of language
And law and race and fame
Be naught to the bond that binds us
In ono eternal shame.
Robert Underwood Johnson.
By Their Fruits.
While The Union is ready to grant
general amnesty to all who havo seen
the error of their way, and to freely
forgive them, yet wo are unable to for
get where' the responsibility, lies for
tho present disorganized condition of
the democratic party. -
Perhaps the gentlemen who aro now
A Long Time Learning;
It took Root and Roosevelt a long
timo to find out that they wero not in
sympathy with General Bell's recon
centratlon policy. That policy was
made known to the people by Root
In December last. He gave the news
out to the papers with no word of dis
approval nor was any disapproval
heard from the White house. Yet the
facts stirred the country from center
to circumference, and the national
conscience, apparently dea'd for years,
became suddenly quickened as though
touched with a live coal. Even ad
ministration papers recoiled from
Woylerlsm and a wave of horror swept
across tho union and threatened the
very seat of power. But May still
found Woylorism in vogue. And still
no sign of disapproval of it was given
forth from the great Root and the
warlike Roosevelt. Both were serene.
Neither was shocked by tho frightful
brutalities of reconcentration. And it
was not until Gen. Smith's order to
murder all over ten was made known
to the American people and it became
apparent that political revolution was
to bo the outcomo that Root and
Roosevelt took note of Bell's imita
tion of Butcher Woyler. Then haste
was made to stop concentration and to
break up the camps. And now we
shall hear virtue ascribed to Root and
Roosevelt for their meroiful behavior.
Boll will become their scapoKoat. The
J peoplo will bo asked to beliove that
The Silver Question.
The man who sneers at tho silver
question as having been a "craze" is
much farther from the line of reason
than the most enthusiastic free silver
ito in the country. It was the argu
ment of the free silver men that ihe
country needed more money more
than the- production of gold and the
foreign demand for our products at
that timo was putting into circulation.
In other words, the production of gold
was so limited and the foreign demand
for our products so slight our volume
of money grew small and scarce money
made interest very high and values
very low. The marvelous gold field
discoveries in Alaska and South Afri
ca have increased the prpduction al
most twenty times. It is said that
where the world was mining a dollar's
worth of gold eight years ago it is
now mining nineteen and a half dol
lars' worth. Tho free silver theory
was based on an absolute need for
more money. The more money has
come to us through tremendous in
crease of the production of gold and so
those who are hide bound politically,
or never knew what free silver meant,
are saying it was a craze. It was not
a craze. It was the result of a scarc
ity of coin and if the new finds of rich
gold fields had not been made wo
would have had to use about twenty
times as much silver as now to make
the money market "easy." We needed
more money, the gold fields have fur
nished it, and the necessity of more
silver is, at least for the time, not
pressing. But let the gold mines again
become exhausted and our products
surpass our money volume, and prices
will drop and the need for more silver
will again arise. A money standard
which depends on the mine output of
a single metal is more unstable 'than
one based on two metals. Call it sil
ver craze if they choose, but relief
came through discovery of rich gold
fields and the greatly increased pro7
duction of the coin of which our money
is made, the same result that the re
opening of the silver mines would
have produced. Rochester (Ind.) Sentinel.
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