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VOL. XII.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, MAY 9, 1901.
NO. 50;
THEY YOOLDH'T ENLIST
Ta MrKIl7 ria44 That II IW"t
Gr.f ral Mil takfT a farsuice view
of cor-?1;t:or So tie Philippine. While
tii tr djrtn-ni J debating wheth
er t r iuo! it be taf to rr4uce
1:-ml Mar Arthur' forrt. General
Mi h -oo- o :t j'juar !y !n favor
r f a r amy than mas author-
:r4 f cx-f'S-- in a communication
to ih -? ry t : war i-" Holes ttai.
in
of the pr--nt condition of
affair. IUM rr.-n :!! cot r.-' i-
c zt w.!Iir t r xtontxnd of pop- f
u:s. mill lisit C-neral j
M;i p:as. if ad o;,t'- i. ou.a ro fur- I
iir tr.i3 pp-r at .-t fiM to re-
cv :i- eurjUt of r;n awwab, for ;
i.sn -mre. l no; only proposes t
to -a t;, &r.;y :, n 2t.'. but
'W'-",fiil tf AT sr!:U,"ry clxl's i
- "" r.i:?f-J to xu maximum waaout
C-ly. V. L anr.y r-orKaniratioa j
1:11 tie ISiip.no insurants
r- izi full cw'ty. and th!- ;
- ur;i.t : rrii.:.-t for lars- cavalry f
and it-'ur.rry forr- in ih- i?!ands For j
that rn it o-cUM to enlai ge ,
artj.-iry at the rate of only 2) per ;
.. : ar. takus Ce t-ars to bang ;
:r to i: authorized tr-atb. Th.s j
v r,:;.i ;av s cost ly roan afifiu
t-ta
i&&aq --kaif-Jj "anat-i. aou
s. .. a J 1
tL- formation and training ;
arti!lr forcr as in re- ;
Ciid for Los -rvtc-. But th- em- j
rtr.cy in the Philippms demand- j
th- pc..fci of thehe n(t earnings of the 'service, $S,-
" ,;" " Aea mst this.
?arnwiri iot.c ' 1 m-.i..u ( muSil counted the liability of the
i an G-B -ral M!V :de. but un.w- ; FOvernmnt for all of this overvalued
lun .tly ujt-.::on origmatmp with i eoitu wb!ch ,t has paid out to the pub.
:!el:.trntfral.arUie.donoijlic at Ju face value and is in honor
ror: i.vr i th r-;'t hii rarnt hou.d j t)OUn. to maintain at Dar with its
i f . Ou c:rfj
-. ;r. is. hi ta
net. Loev-r. is
.or. It-cruitjns has
rajnrfly as ,'t-taj y
il'rjt r.!;-';tTd. for that r-aion a
r-u s ci the enlikted force may
fii!
il! in vny c-onwni-riily mith tLe no- t
'' th r at lbss I
t
t about CI .000.000 ounces of this bullion
TL. aknt t from the I hi la del phi a j ti1 on hand. It was aU purchased for
N .rtu An.r:r. a r-puUican daily coinag1, lnto 8nVer dollars, but under
r.d 1 the 5rt arkr.owWg.meat for j ,he act of March 12 1S00 the secre.
t',- : any cf the truth of th state- , lary of the treasury was authorized
rr ali lor. mad? by Thf Iniepen- to use it for subsidlary coins as migbt
dr;t mfclch re to the fi-ct that qujre provided that the total
Am.-nraa jo-JtR mn ou,d tot enhst . rtock of the latter ln the COUntry
n tlizS. y 't army of conqu t a should not exceed $100,000,000. The
ar.y rr-at aKr. It is w-il known prCrA;nt Block is about $S7,0O),000.
- nral tas Lad no sym- ; Xh? gold C03ns and the silver dol-
I -.thy w.tfc ;- a-ainistratkm rhcy j lar are a ,ega, tender for all debts. Tbe
r,4 r. r dreamed whfn he toc com- , otbPr siIver coins known as subsidiary
rar r ;T Porto P . -o th- . (0lilg are a ieg1i tender to the alnounc
a r-ioaiil pc-.tcy a contemplated, i of ,10 The Jatter may be had in
T prlaraation h- nu to tbe in- j sums of J2W) or more at any sub-treas-l
- .t2Lt t.a a turnthng block urv ft- - in !A nt hv fmrftw at tn
to tr. administration e-r since. He
I r...f A thr ptilf of that tfland all
t;.,-
nd privil-;- und-r the
that any An.-riran citi-
f oT.t;tutsca
Tr. -ryed. fi'.d tht-n McKtnley ?n-to-riff
! hi policy of "citizens of Por
to Iti-o" ict-A.l ti citir-ns of the
rs.it-d ;at-.
WOX'T TELL THE TRUTH
a ot.txct rrom a oir(r f the Mint J
rf mm Kyc.eui.r I
Mmf Mora
1 IO;
ir is r?rt of an article i
jr- - jubhehd uer tb signature j 5t0 people. The mint at New Orleans
t : -crg 1". Kot brs. director cf the j was established in 1835 and now era
rr.:r.t. it ill i veil to put it in your j ploys about 200 people.
ro Ujck. The facta atout the coin- j "The mint at San Francisco was es
as. the nuaVr of grains in the silver tablisbed in 1S52 and now employs
ar c go d Collar axe rol thins to about 225 people. The total number
!.?. Th1 ;.. :;; would call at-j of people employed in the mint ser-
tr.!; to to fta.-rr-nts. t.h of
hich are calculated to deoive. Mr.
fio--rt ay:
-The ;lrer coin now minted are
th dollar, the half-dollar, quarter-dol
lar a: 1 d.me
; ' --rt Is f".-
All silver coinage at j
L.Ili jn purchased un- !
ter ti e itt of July 14. commonly volved the striking of 101,301,753 pieces
i j: 2- the hr-rrmn act Ttre is i and of subsidiary coins 57,114,270
-lo '--"' oune of this bullies 1 pieces. It may be safely said that the
h It mil pur -haed for j above figures surpass any record be
'ox.f into Ut dollar, but under 1 fore made by any government. The to-t-.e
art cf March 12, : .the sre-' tal number of pieces struck last year
try of the treasury was authorized to j by the royal mint in London and all
uve it far -ldiary coii-t as miht be j its colonial branches was 144,823,124,
r2uJred rroidd that the total stock j and this was unprecedented in the
c f thf litter m the country hou!d not ! history of English coinage operations.
-ifH !:'.. The pteent stock The total number of nieces struck by
i at.'ut I .'- ..'".
1 at ".atT3nt is s-o ord'-d that in
or. res-r- t tt i an aLolute fal&ehood.
There i t'itt a law as he mentions,
but there H one of far renter inaport-
...... . . v w. " - ;
Cf the frt a Of the f'Ul M-ioU i
cf McKtnVy f.r-t congre. after hav- '
rr,ade a catrpain for the sjnsl '
jrokl stands rd. to provide for the
,f ,v ,
but i:::o Hiur' dollars 1
t . :.ary
co. a.
"are etandard money cf the 1
fc:ted ?tate asd not redeemable in i
iiy orhr kind cf mor.er." When to-
ard the tie cf the article. Mr. Hob- !
- ..v. tfc3? there has -jh-s srd S
dunrVth- i over eighteen million !
mer dollar, one would conclude. if
he rl:,-,1 that Mr. Roberts had told
the mrole truth. thM that coir.are nad
t-a ,iv,!;. tj,r authority cf law. '
!t 0I t toiked that Mr. Roberts
S!ide the ;lr coined durins the
lat yemr isto dollar and subsidiary
co.n. But the half-dollars, quarters
and d ::-.- hate had jut as much effect
upon price as if they had been dol
lars. It '.!1 there fore be ? that
McKinley t cor.ed $7-23C.15 more
fiHer dunr the year than was coined
tinder th bentian act. which they
said must te repealed and kept re
rs!ed or ruin and disaster would
weep over the country. There was
n-er to careed two million dollars a
month coined under the Sherman act.
In this letter Mr. Robert ays:
The standard unit of value is the
Roll dollar, which contain 232
rran of fine gold and with the alloy
weih ZZ.i rrain. The standard of
finete cf all gold and silver coin of
the Utitfel Sitatea J paru la 1.000.
The alloy is of copper and is used to
harden the coin and save it from
abrasion.
The gold coins now provided for by
law are the double eagle or $20 piece,
eagle or $10 piece, half-eagle or $5
piece, and the U -eagle or $2.50- piece.
The $1 piece has been discontinued as
too email for commercial use. Most
of our gold coinage has been in dou
ble eagles, the total output of gold
from the foundation of the mint down
to June 30. 1500. having been 52,147,
0SS.113, of which $1.538.826,060' was in
double C3 tries.
"The subsidiary coins are lighter in
proportion to their face value than the
silver dollar. The latter weighs 412V&
train's hnt Ivo half-rlnHans nr four
quarter dollars weigh only 385.8 grains.
.-Xhe jnt ana 5-cent pieces are
called minor coins. The 1-cent piece
consists of &5 per cent copper and 5
r fent n and zInc The 5cent piece
u T5 cent copper and 25 per cent
nickel. The minor coins are a legal
tender to the amount of 25 cents and
are redeem?ble at any subtreasury in
gums of $20. They are delivered in
gtlIn8 of j20 free of express charges,
on rwipt of an equai sum in lawful
money
.-Th; ifcSUe of 8UDsIdiary ati(j minor
coins on g.OVemment account is a
KOurce of ,arRe profit amounting on
mitiOT roins for the year em!ed june
3() rx0 to j 1.704,633.04. or more than
i the total expenditures of the mint ser
virp Th nroflt on KUhsidiarv coinace
vice.
Jast year WM 53 008.428.6S- The total
nf h mint KPrvtco for thp
,ast flscal yMr was $10,641,940.00; the
totai expenditures. $1,703,492.64;; and
however,
standard money.
"The silver coins now minted are
j the dollar, half-dollar, quarter-dollar
j and dune. All silver coinage at pres
ent i from hulHon mirrhasoil nndfr
act of Jujy u 1890 comm0nly
known as the Sherman act. There is
j government's expense upon payment
ot an equal sum of lawrut money. They
; are also redeemable in lawful money
I at any sub-treasury in svms of $20
or over.
"The first mint of the United States
was established at Philadelphia, the
then seat of government, in 1792. The
corner stone of the edifice now occu
pied In Philadelphia was laid in 1829.
A new structure is now approaching
completion in that city, for which $2,-
"''.ihi bas been appropriated, and
its equipment will constitute the
nnest mint in the world. It will be
stitution gives employment to about
vice is about 1,150.
"The coinage of gold during the last
fiscal year was $107,937,110. The coin
age of silver dollars was $18,244,984;
of subsidiary silver, $12,876,849.15, and
of minor coins, $2,243,017.21. The
manufacture of the minor coins in-
the mints cf the United States last
year was 184,373.793."
Will Yisit Our Ccioniss
A congressional delegation will
... ..IZ ni.iii.i. J
"'f a V11 l" U,J '"''""r
ther 0?1'?Z territory of the Lnited
tates f or the purpose of looking into
he,r caHD gathering such in-
formation as will enable them to dis-
cusf lotions relating to the same
with a clear understanding of the facts
ine neai coagrtaa u& acuuu.
The delegation embraces Senators
Bacon pf Georgia Turner of Washing-
ton and Harris of Kansas; Representa-
tlve Burleson of Texas, Dearmond of
Missouri. Gaines of Tennessee Mercer
Nebraska. Smith of Illinois, Mc-
V?fy f !.DDtf and De,nsmore of
Arkansas. k,ach member of congress
j coramea uy becreiary
The party will start from New York
the latter part of June and go to Ma
nila by the Suez canal and return by
way of San Francisco. They will go
on one of the government transports,
but will defray all other expenses.
YcuId'nt Enlist
A notice has been posted in the post
office for several weeks calling for sol
dier to serve in the Philippines, but
m far we have not learned of any of
tha republican patriots who talked so
much about loyalty and patriotism,
and characterized their opponents as
disloyalists, obstructionists, traitors,
etc.. during the campaign last fall, en
listing in the army to help hold up the
tiag in our new possessions across the
Pacific. Seward Independent-Democrat.
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THE IMPERIAL JOURNEY
The Political Effect of MeKinley's Tour
Through th South Somewhat
Disappointing;
Washington, D. C, May 4, 1901.
For the moment Washington drops
into the background as a political cen
ter and interest is centered upon the
gorgeous train bearing the president
and his retinue of attendants from
Washington to the Gulf of Mexico and
from New Orleans to San Francisco.
McKinley is a pretty diplomatic sort
of a politician, but he made one grave
mistake in planning his southern trip.
Perhaps the prime mistake was in in
cluding the south at all in his itiner
ary. He had two main topics upon which
to dwell with suave eloquence and in
imagination he pictured the south,
not only applauding, but with its solid
democracy disintegrating and becom
ing republican and imperialist under
the influence of the new doctrines
which he intended to present.
At least the president thought they
were now, and thereby dug for himself
a pitfall both deep and wide.
He began with -a flowery reference
to the "united south." He kept that
speech working during the first two
days of the trip, "le talked as if a
united south had been accomplished
under his administration hence he
McKinley had a right to pose as the
creator of this great thing.
Senator Carmack voiced the senti
ment of the south when he took occa
sion at a banquet to say a plain truth
or two for the benefit of our mistaken
president.
Senator Carmack pointed out that
there is no objection to the use of the
term "united south." The objection
con.es when President McKinley as
s'tines that he brought about that
result.
The south has been united to the
north in all sincerity as one country
since June, 1865, says Senator Carmack
and if no -opportunity was given to
show its patriotism until the Spanish
war, that was the misfortune of the
south, but did not alter the -fact that
the loyalty and patriotism had been
there for more than a score of years
before President McKinley took the
oath of office.
The rebuke was a sharp one. but it
Wjs ueserved. It voiced the feeling of
the southern people. The president
committed an unpardonable error in
his assumption that he was the apostle
who performed the miracle. It is safe
to say that he has aroused more re
sentment and given more offense dur
ing his southern trip than can be
healed or forgotten in a half dozen
years.
He has given the south an object
lesson in the arrogance which char
acterizes the republican party since it
has attempted to make its whims, and
not the constitution, the policy for the
guidance of the country.
It began in the last campaign when
the administration took to itself the
credit for good crops and prosperity
and gave the people to understand that
it had taken the place of the Creator
in directing the course of riature.
The second topic which the presi
dent thought would be popular was
"expansion," the growth of our trade,
the market for southern cotton, and
all that sort of thing.
Somehow the speech didn't prove
popular. Facts are such stubborn
things. They refuse to yield to rhet
oric. And one pertinent fact is that
the south has not yet realized any
great market for its cotton since we
have been spending millions on forci
ble expansion.
The south wants a market for coarse
cottons, but the trouble with China
last year spoiled that market com
pletely and the Filipinos have never
been subjugated completely enough to
need new clothes, and if they did
would prefer goods of their own manu
facture. So the McKinley sort of ex
pansion has not furnished results
enough to make the commercial speech
popular.
Courtesy dictates a cordial greet
ing to the chief executive of the na
tion when he travels abroad among
his people, but the farther south the
president journeyed the more silent
and chill became his reception. In
New Orleans the silence was positively
sepulchral and was heightened by the
beauty of the city itself in its semi
tropical spring garb.
The administration's policy is any
thing but popular in the south and it
takes something more than fine words
to make a patriotic people forget how
far the McKinley administration has
departed from the basic principles up
on which our government was
founded.
But now the presidential cortege will
be travelling north and westward.
Presumably the prosperity argument
will be received with enthusiasm.
Yet it is well to note that the presi
dent is now sounding a note of warn
ing about the inevitable reaction
which is bound to follow this sort of
prosperity.
He is taking up the democratic ar
gument and suggesting that people
must not expect this kind of prosper
ity to continue. In New York Hanna
is whistling to keep up his courage
and declaring that trust prosperity
will last through this administration
anyway.
Of course it would not matter how
the country suffered if only those who
managed MeKinley's election get the
four years upon which they counted in
order to fleece the country thoroughly.
It could then be left to a democratic
administration to clear up the wreck.
Despite the careful censorship of the
war department it leaks out that army
officers and quartermaster have been
engaged in the most shameless sort of
blackmail in the Philippines. Com
mission merchants supplying the gov
ernment have been levied upon in the
most barefaced way. And what comes
to the surface is only the merest indi
cation of the wholesale rottenness be
neath. The administration, however,
figures that the Filipinos are too far
away for our people to ever know the
actual conditions of affairs. And there
is nothing like a well managed cen
sorship and an occasional imperial
procession through the country to dis
tract attention and keep the people
amused.
Mrs. Cronje Insane
Advices received from St. Helena
state that Mrs. Cronje, wife of the Boer
general, has become mentally unbal
anced, owing to her experience in the
war and her life in .her prison home
at Deadwood. Mrs. Cronje imagines
that she is ex-Empress Eugenie of
France.
Five other Boer prisoners have also
become insane. .
Mrs. Cronje, a typical Boer "hous
frau," is devoted to her husband and
followed him into exile with their
child. The women - of France, in ad
miration of her conduct, raised $6,800
and presented her with a magnificent
heart-shaped locust jeweled and sur
rounded with rays of glory, violets and
roses.
THE IMPERIAL TOUR
Dizzy With the Sight and Fumes of Win
Wild With Extravagance, and Crazy
With Ostentation of Wealth
The tour of the president will in ev
ery way reflect the spirit of his admin
istration and of the country at the
moment.
It is a moment of luxury and craze
for luxury, of extravagance and craze
for extravagance, of ostentation and
craze for ostentation, of wealth and
wealth-worship. The few thousands
constituting the "triumphant classes"
and their intimates and retainers who
live at their fringes and upon their
crumbs are in a high fever of money
madness. They are drunk with the
strong wine of prosperity. The work-a-day
millions small merchants,
farmers, small-salaried men, wage
earners and the like have a share in
the good times which permits, comfort
and saving against lean years and
bony years, but does not permit prodi
gality.. They are infected with the
current frenzy, are being made dizzy
by the sight of and the fumes of the
wine that drips and trickles from the
banquet board and rivulets along the
floor.
In these conditions it is not unnat
ural that the president of the pros-perity-tipsied
republic should tour in
unprecedented, unapproached splendor.
Like his administration, like the com
monplaces of the day's annals, are
these gorgeous moving palaces headed
by the Olympia, surpassing the per
sonal car of any monarch of Europe
or any millionaire of America; this
extensive and brilliant group of offi
cial retainers; these special agents to
clear the way and to collect in advance
luxuries for the presidential table;
these swarming- personal attendants
valets, hair-dressers, ladies' maids,
valets' assistants, a chef with a staff
of cooks.
Nor will it at this moment of mad
ness cause much surprise that his peri
patetic object-lesson in luxury and
prodigality for the edification of the
people of twenty-five states and along
15,000 miles is the gift of a group of
railway magnates. The constitution
(Article I., section 9, paragraph 8) for
bids the president and all othet offi
cials from receiving, "without the con
sent of the congress," any "present,
emolument." But the bar extends only
to presents and emoluments from "any
king, prince or foreign state." And a
railway king or a Pullman prince
would probably not be Included.
It may be natural for Mr. McKinley
to show himself to the people in sucn
Imperial state, thus provided. But is
it wise? Is it in good taste? Is it
well? Is not the republic composed
not entirely of millionaires, but in
part of plain people, influenced by ex
ample and accustomed to look to such
men as their first citizen for example?
Is not this a time when optimism
needs the restraint of prudence, when
loosening moral obligations call for
the salutary contrast of rigid prin
ciple? Would not the first citizen bet
ter use his high position and wide in
fluence to set an example of modera
tion and moral sensitiveness than to
set an example of ostentation and lax
ity? We speak not of "democratic sim
plicity." That phrase excites only de
rision in this hour of exaltation. But
is there not a medium, discernible
even through the rosy mists of pres
ent intoxication, between the old fash
ion and the new? Might not Mr. Mc
Kinley have struck that medium when
showing himself to the people? New
York World.
Should Sing Low
The middle-of-the-road faction in
the populist party who worked last fall
with Clem Deaver and the Omaha Bee
for the defeat of as good a ticket as
the populists have ever nominated in
Nebraska, upon which the democrats
only had but one place, should sing
very low in offering advice as to the
action of the republican opposition In
Nebraska this fall. If there is to be
any change in procedure adopted by
the populist party let the changes be
suggested and carried out by those
who loyally opposed the railroad-re
publican domination in Nebraska dur
ing the last campaign. Holt County
independent, . .
BARTLEY & niLLARD, Brokers and Dealers
(
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The Discriminations of Fate.
The Senator: Yes, Joe, it's true that you endorsed the state warrant, and that I endorsed it, too, and
. cashed it at my bank. Yes, it's true that Attorney-General Smyth prosecuted you for the crime and suc
ceeded in having you sent to the penitentiary for twenty years. But don't get discouraged or disheartened
for a while yet. Never tell the people how the money was divided. Keep "mum" a little longer. He
member that Henry Bolln, the Omaha city treasurer who defaulted for $1Q3,000.00, was pardoned by
Governor Dietrich. Your turn will come soon. If we republicans can carry one more election it will be
safe to grant your pardon. Perhaps, then, the next republican legislature would make you a senator, too.
HORRORS OF CENSORSHIP
Prlrato letters Sent by Mail Arrive at
Washington Giving: Accounts of
Slaughter and Murder
in China
It will dawn bye and bye on some of
those who have gone crazy with the
cry of gold and glory that civilization
cannot exist with a censorship con
trolled by the military. The effects
of it in death and destruction of mil
lions in every part of the world can
not be hidden. There is ground soaked
with human blood in China, the Phil
ippines, South Africa, Cuba, India,
and wherever the drum beats of a de
generate civilization are heard.
The latest mail from China, says a
Washington special, has brought to
the state department new proofs of
the terrible and perhaps irretrievable
conditions which exist under the for
eign military rule in north China, in
volving a situation not heretofore
realized even in Washington, and ut
terly unappreciated in the United Stat
es generally. The character of the in
formation which has now come into
the administration's possession is sum
marized in the following extracts from
a communication written by one of
the most trusted officials, in the ser
vice abroad and mailed from Pekin a
month ago.
"The question of raising the indem
nity, though one of the most serious
for the Chinese government, is not
paramount. All the people who are
likely to know declare that the Chi
nese peasant can stand no greater
burden of tax than in the past, so tha
question resolves itself largely to re
ducing the expense of collection, which
in C ina involves radical reforms. An
other proposition for meeting the in
demnity is to grant lucrative mining
an other concessions to foreigners,
but that involves endless trouble lor
the Chinese who are quick to recognize
the fact.
"If the whole horror of the murder
and pilage done between Tien Tsin
and Pekin comes to be understood in
the United States and Europe the sum
of it is so great as to be compared
with the number of Christians who
have suffered at the hands of the Chi
nese that rightly or wrongly the Chi
nese are likely to be held the injured
party.
"Lancers wantonly impaling little
children by the wayside in the streets
of Pekin are some of the least of the
well authenticated horrors, and to
some foreign soldiers a dead Chinese
Christian is just as satisfactory an
evidence of no quarter as a dead box
er they neither know or care for such
trifling distinctions.
"All the officers, if they could agree,
could not set up an administrative ma
chinery of their own for the empire.
They must restore the power to some
native party, and the quicker they do
it the better for China. The Chinese
estimate 1,000,000 of their people have
lost their lives by violent deaths or
starvation about Pekin and Tien Tsin
since the allies came. Well informed
foreigners long resident here do not
regard the estimate as exaggerated."
The North China News of March 28,
endeavoring to tell why such a situa
tion as the one alleged can exist, says:
"Simply because Chinese civil au
thority has been suppressed, harried,
driven away and nothing substituted
for it. The country between the sea
and Pekin has been devastated and the
people have been killed indiscrimin
ately or driven out of their homes to
become bandits. We should have
thought that one of the first acts of
the foreign administration after Pekin
had been relieved would be to
strengthen the Chinese civil author
ity and make it responsible for the
preservation of order. But what mag
istrate can be expected to remain at
his post and exert himself to put down
opposition to loreigners when at any
moment a foreign lieutenant .with a
in State Warrants.
handful of troops may come to him
and demand a sum of money on pain
of having his town or village burned
down in case of refusal?"
The world was kept in ignorance of
those things when a knowledge of
them would have forced a change in
the policies of governments rkept in
ignorance by a military censorship.
The war in the Philippines was caused
by this same censorship and the death
of one-sixth of . the Filipino people,
according to General Bell, has fol
lowed. If correspondents had not been
interfered with after the battle of Ma
nila, if interviews with the Filipino
leaders had not been forbidden, if the
knowledge of the situation had not
been suppressed, a public opinion in
the United States would have arisen
that would have prevented a war and
the people of those islands would have
been our undying friends and we could
have all their trade as well as their
gratitude. The censorship was the
cause of the bloodshed and horrors
that followed. The correspondents all
met and protested, but McKinley in
sisted on the censorship. "I'll put you
off the island," were the words of Otis,
but they were the outcome of orders
issued by McKinley.
The same thing was repeated in
South Africa. -The people of England
were deceived by a censored press run
in the interest of capital and militar
ism, and now there is not a home in
all England that is not in mourning.
It was the censorship that hid that
awful work, just as In China and the
Philippines. Still the people must
wait for private letters sent by mail
half way around the world for the in
formation that they get. It comes
months after the facts recorded have
occurred. Turn responsible newspa
per men loose in China, the Philippines
and South Africa, in Cuba and Porto
Rico and the world will soon throw
off this horible reign of bloodshed and
cruelty. :
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