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The First Fruits of Conquest
Secretary- o War Tat our late
viceroy in the Philippines, is now
swinging around the circle in the va
rious western states, partaking of
banquets and explaining our "manifest
duty" to our Filipino wards. In a
voice husky with emotion and rich
faro, he concedes those islanders may
he equal, to independence some day,
but not before they have been care
fully nourished on Uncle Sam's baby
bottle for at least two generations.
Strange to say, our noted specialist
in Independence disagrees with him
self In fixing a time when the Filipino
child can be trusted to walk alone.
His first estimate, made only a few
weeks ago at a Cincinnati banquet,
named 100 or 150 years as the earliest
safe moment to trust this infant in
dustry on its feet This wabbling
calendar has the one positive merit of
proving to the entire country that not
one of his shifting estimates is worth
the breath that floats it. As a Phil
ippine expert, he is engaged in the
commendable work of tearing down,
at one banquet, the purely arbitrary
edifice he reared at another. The
only effect of this will be to create a
widespread disgust with this whole
tyrannical and un-American business,
just because people in this' country
who don't Blinds being cruel have
strong objections to being treated as
fools;
Those of us who have remained
quietly at home and watched the
trend of events since 1899 are con
vinced, in daily increasing numbers,
that we must abandon this unconsti
tutional venture in the orient for a
much "weightier reason than indepen
dence, for the Filipinos. It must be
clone and done quickly, if wo would
save our own constitutional integ
rity from ruin in the United States.
It is an everlasting truth, as Moorfleld
Storey has declared, that "we cannot
destroy the ideals of this nation; we
cannot insist that the Declaration of
Independence is wrong; we cannot
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govern millions of men outside the
constitution and hope to preserve, in
full strength, that faith In the equal
rights of men, which Is the nation's
soul. Every man who defends these
things has begun to lose his belief."
We know these words are true he
cause our past five years of colonial
conquest in Asia havo given us, here
at home, the outward and visible signs
of an inward political decay. Never,
in all our history, 'have we witnessed
in the same span of time such wide
spread debauchery In our public
morals, such fatal apathy to a wild,
Tartar raid upon vital popular rights.
If we could place the goddess of Amer
ican liberty on the .witness stand,
could she testify' of these five years
in other words than these?
"Since my sons have assailed the
Inalienable rights of man across the
sea, I have seen a combined and suc
cessful assault upon the rights of
American free men at homo. It has
been the tocsin lor an outburst of
race violence w'ithout a parallel; for
duplicating against black men in
America the same barbarities which
my sous ha-e inflicted upon brown
men abroad. Mine eyes have wit
nessed no such orgie of lawless defi
ance of the courts, nd such wholesale
destruction ol human life by mobs.
"I have seen an unprecedented
massing of the forces of wealth In ar
rogant and hostile array, and I have
seen the rights of the great, consum
ing puolic broken and crushed on the
torture wheel of commercial piracy
incorporated under the name of trusts.
I have reen the counting rooms of
these trusts like unto an ogre's den
piled with the bones of rivals choked
by strangulation; littered with the
bleeding fragments of legal justice,
civic courage and legislative honor.
And my people do not rebel.
"I have seen laws plac6d by pro
tected interests into one end of that
automatic hopper known as congress,
and come out at the other end in fin
ished shape to perpetuate a dynasty of
tariff millionaires. And my people do
not rebel.
"I have seen state legislatures
learning the same political machine
stitch operated by the same auto
matic power and working gorgeous
J ipatterns of privilege and franchise
into the rich tapestry pf corporations.
And my people do not rebel.
"I have seen municipal government
all over the land, at the piratical mer
cy of bosses and vealth; public ser
vants the slaves of organized greed,
the ready tools of machine dictation,
while public Tvelfares is crucified be
tween two thieves, the political boss
and the 'business promoter.' And my
people do not rebel.
"I have heard scores of state leg
islators confess from their seats that
they cast their votes in defiance of the
views of their people, at command of
a political ring all civic conscience
deadened and servile at the crack of
a party whip. I have seen 'betrayal
of trust established as the form of
government' over the grave of 'gov
ernment by the people And my sons
do not rebel,
'Tiiave seen our courts of justice
converted into political slot machines.
They turn out corporate decisions
with such mechanical profusion that
'it seems an outrage to subject capital
longer to the annoyance of consulting
the law. And my people do not rebel.
"I have, during the past five years,
seen a lowered standard of all public
morality. It ripens in continuous
fraud, and growing menace to Ameri
can institutions, And my people do
not rebel.
"History is 'the record of tenden
cies, not of events,' A nation too
heartless to respect the liberties of
others, becomes too' supine to defend
itg own. The same sun that rises
over freedom throttled by my people
abroad, will set over freedom betrayed
and wrecked at home. ThiB dirge,
and this only, Is chanted from the
tomb of tho past,
"If theso are the first fruits of col
onial conquest, What think ye, will bo
tho last? Shake off, then, your na
tional torpor! Undo this colossal,
corroding wrong! Freely give, in full
measure, to thoso brown millions be
yond the sea the same liberties yo
claim as inalienable gifts from God.
Get right with your soul! And re
member, In all coming years of na
tional temptation, that Caesar crossed
tho Rubicon, not because he wanted
an empire, but because an empire
wanted hiin."--Columbus Press-Post.
The Skeleton In Armor.
It has long been the desire of the
Women's Educational and Industrial
society of Fall River to commemorate
tho discovery in 1831 of tho skeleton
in armor referred to In Longfollow's
famous poem, and its efforts have at
last been crowned with success. A
bronze tablet twenty-four inches' In
length and twenty Inches In width
has been placed in tho brick building
on Hartwell street which occupies tho
site of the finding of the skeleton.
According to tho story told by Miss
Susan H. Wixon, president of tho so
ciety, Hannah Borden Cook, tho dis
coverer of tho skeleton, was a resi
dent of Fall River. On tho morning
of the discovery she had been bushy
engaged In tho spring housecleaning,
and everything was as clean and
sweet as limewash, paint and hard
work could makes it. Tho powter,
brass and tinware only remained to
be scoured, and 'Hannah wont in
search of clean, white scouring sand
to the "sandbank" -well and favorably
known in olden times to housewives
far and near. The spot was between
Fourth and Fifth streets in thoso
days, but it is now covered by dwell
ing houses and other buildings. Sud
denly, as she scooped tho white, dry
sand, Hannah's hand same in contact
with some hard, dry substance. Hast
ily pushing aside the sand which cov
ered it, she was horrified at seeing a
grinning human skull lying there in
tho warm sunshine, face upward..
Hastening homeward, she told her
husband, William Cook, and with his
friend, John Orswell, he hurried to
the spot,
On being unearthed the object was
found to be the skeleton of a human
being, clothed in "brass armor and
buried in a sitting posture, facing the
east The bones were those of a tall,
large framed man. The knees were
drawn up toward the breast and the
forearms were drawn to the 'shoul
ders. From the head down the figure
was wrapped in a sort of shroud of
woven bark, seven varieties having
boon used In its construction. All of
it,- however, crumbled to dust and
vanished on exposure to the air. The
armor upon the skeleton was made of
fine brass and beside It were six ar
rows of brass; thin, flat and triangular
In shape." These arrows were, in a
sort of quiver of bark, which dropped
to pieces on exposure to the air.
The skeleton was carefully exam--Ined
by local physicians Dr. Wilbur
and Dr. Glazier who came to the con
clusion that It wag that of an Indian,
and that it had lain in the ground one
hundred and -fifty years. The bones
were .gathered up and, with the brass
arrow tips, were placed in a case with
a glass cover and deposited in the
Fall River Athenaeum. There the
skeleton lay in state, an object of in
terest to all beholders, until de
stroyed by the great fire of 1843.
In connection with the identical
spot where the skeleton was found a
tragedy occurred a few years later in
the, life of Hannah Cook, the discov
erer. Her little son, eleven years old,
while playing there lost his life,
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Religion for Th&t Region.
Tho Rev. V. B. Carroll, a prominent
southern clergyman, tolls the follow
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"We were driving out one Sunday
from Docatur, when wo came upon a
negro with a club in his hand and a
freshly killed 'possum on his shoul
der. Wo stopped to examine his prize,
and the colonel said:
" My friend, do you know It Is Suii-'
day?' rA
'"Sartin, boss '
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" 'I are. I'se Jist on my way hom, -
from church.' V,
" 'And 'What sort of religion have V
you got that permits you to go hunt
ing on Sunday?'
"'Religion? Religion?' queried the
man, as ho held the 'possum up with
one hand and scratched his head with
the other. 'Does you 'spect any black
man in Alabama Is gwlne to tie his
self up to any religion dat 'lows a
'possum to walk right across, de road
ahead of him an' git away free? No,
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" 'About ten years, 1 think.'
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