12 t3be Conservative *
GLAD DAYS.
Some days bring happiness along ,
Each flying hour is full of song ,
\Vo know not why.
The world wears radiance that's now ,
Far deeper ia the tint of blue
Spread o'or the sky.
The mingled sounds that fill the air
Havu in our mood a happy share ,
And sweet reply
From countless friendly voices sings ;
Some charm ft welcome message brings
From all that's nigh.
Perchance all shining , flitting things
Waft blithesome thoughts before their
wings
That toward us fly.
O days that never como at call I
Tlieir marvels in our pathways fall ,
We know not why.
Wo list , surprised , to trill of bird ,
As if the ear had never heard
So sweet a cry.
The cheer that's told in hum of bees ,
The impulse brought by quickened breeze
Which hastens by ,
Make some days seem of joy a part ,
Till dreams of beauty fill the heart ,
We know not why.
MAUY FRENCH MOKTON.
THE PRESS ON THE CENSORSUH' .
If the president and the war depart
ment should undertake to ignore their
[ the correspondents' ] protest , as a "Wash
ington despatch says is to be the policy
of the administration , it will be acase of
"confession and avoidance. " The Amer
ican people will understand from any
such ostrich-like policy that the admin
istration has no defence ; that it admits
the truth of the charges ; that it ac
knowledges the failure of Otis in his
military campaign , and further acknowl
edges that Otis and the war department
have lied about it to the people , and
have combined to suppress the truth.
If the president has any real friends to
counsel him they should implore him to
take the manly course , get rid of Corbin
and Otis as well as Alger , make use of
the capable generals he has at command-
Generals Miles , Merritt and Brooke and
acknowledge the truth about the Philip
pines. The people will sustain him if
he should trust them ; they will turn
upon and rend him if they should make
up their minds that he is playing them
false , and sacrificing the lives of Ameri
can soldiers to bolster up his political
fortunes. The one thing he cannot af
ford to do is to dismiss as unimportant
the protest of the correspondents at Ma
nila men who have the confidence of
the newspaper fraternity. Philadelphia
Ledger ( Rep. )
The policy of suppression of news , of
slurring over mishaps , and exaggerating
the importance of successes , never pays.
No censorship can keep the truth hid
den long , and when the truth does leak
out finally there is much more irritation
than if the facts had been given fully at
once. Americans want to know , and
have a right to know , all that their sol
diers are doing and suffering in the Phil
ippines. They have to sit in judgment
sooner or later on everything that has
been done in Luzon. No censor should
bo allowed to keep the truth from them
and no military officers should bo al
lowed to gull them with deceptive bulle
tins. Chicago Tribune ( Rep. )
The press censorship maintained at
Manila under the orders of General Otis
has gone beyond the justified limits , by
preventing the sending of despatches to
American newspapers which revealed
the true situation of affairs. The truth
cannot be concealed or suppressed.
Newspaper correspondents who are ex
pected to serve their papers faithfully
will manage in some way to communi
cate the facts to them , and it would
have been better to let the truth be told
in an open way and under proper super
vision. Cleveland Leader ( Rep. )
The government at Washington must
meet this report squarely , and its first
duty is to demand from General Otis a
full statement of the campaign and the
situation in and about Manila , and lay
it honestly before the country. If , how
ever , we are to assume that it is already ,
as it doubtless is , in possession of the
same information which the correspond
ents have given to the American people ,
and if this information is well founded ,
it should lose no time in dealing with
the situation. The censorship should be
raised , General Otis recalled , and Gen
eral Miles or the very best commander
that is available sent immediately to Ma
nila to replace him. All that the Amer
ican people want are the facts and the
truth ; they will sustain the government
in an intelligent , well planned renewal
of the campaign at an early day , but
they will not stand a policy with which
they are systematically deceived by in
competents or fools. Philadelphia Bulle
tin ( Rep. )
The "round robin" clears the air.
Like the famous protest of the American
generals at Santiago against sending our
fever-ridden soldiers into the hills , it
will accomplish its purpose. We are
confident that the rigors of the censor
ship which General Otis has imposed
will be speedily and materially abated ,
and we shall not be at all surprised if it
lead to the removal of that commander
from the position which he has abused.
Boston Herald ( Ind. )
The fact of the matter is that the ad
ministration , with a singularly short
sighted and fatuous zeal , has been en
gaged for months in a deliberate effort
to conceal from the people the facts
concerning one of the most momentous
events into which that people have been
drawn in more than a quarter of a cen
tury. For partisan political purposes ,
William McKinley and his advisers have
been laboriously lying to the whole pop
ulation of the United States ever since
last February. * * * By his dilly
dallying , by his cowardly fear of politi
cal consequences , the president has mur
dered many men upon both sides ; has
weakened our hold upon the archipel
ago , and rendered its future control un
necessarily difficult. A call for 100,000
men four months ago could not have be
gun to do the administration the damage
that the present revelation of its duplic
ity will do , and would have been vastly
less costly to the nation Detroit Tri
bune ( Ind. Rep. )
CONSERVATISMS.
Family pedigree is a rotten crutch for
inability.
The pseudo conservative has no job
o'f his own.
A strong ancestry is a crushing bur
den to the weak.
Monarchy implies a weak people and
a usurping despot.
Americans are no longer a free and
independent people.
Governments were formed by ability
for their own maintenance.
To have to pull along one's ancestry is
like backing a load up hill.
Progress moans to clear the trades of
the needs of respectability.
The dry rot of respectability is the
bulwark of political gangrene.
Ancestry honors not the individual
but the individual his ancestry.
Individualism makes pedigrees valu
able , not pedigree individualism.
True kingship is leadership by natural
selection through popular election.
Respectability and inability are twins
conceived in the womb of ignorance.
Respectability means dry rot without
vitality enough to undergo corruption.
The usurping monarch and the politi
cal boss are tarred with the same brush.
It is better to be a bastard and have
ability than of royal blood and have
none.
He who cannot help maintain the
government has no claims on its suf
frages.
Intellectual disreputables have often
been the corner stones of the temple of
progress.
Socialism is the union of men of self-
maintaining ability for individual pres
ervation.
Respectability hugs the ignorance of
its ancestry to itself in blind self-right
eousness.
The constitution gives men freedom
of speech , but the people are traitors
and deny it.
Respectability survives on mouldy
tradition and waxes corpulent on dead
men's bones.
The sons ha\e festooned the graves
of their fathers with chains as emblems
of their political degeneracy.
