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FRIENDS.
Some friends llko Aocks of birds fly quickly
where
Your bounty spreads before their shining
eyes ,
With gracious speech they compliment your
faro ,
And cheer and warm you with their glad
surprise ;
But when the feast is done , the bough is bare ,
With wings as swiftly fleet , with songs as
rare ,
They preen their plumage gay and fly else
where.
Nay , grieve not , for such friends are useful too ,
Whoso sets forth his store of mind and heart ,
And burns the sacred oil of friendship true ,
For such as these , will learn by sorrow's
smart
To illuck from out the world's wide sea of
men ,
True friends ; nor cast their pearls to swine
that rend.
EMMA SHUMAN.
January , 1899.
That representatives
SLAVKRY ANI >
POLYGAMY. tives of the United
States government -
ment , acting in their official capacity
and assuming to speak for a republic of
free men , have made a treaty or agree
ment or contract or whatover-you-call-
it , in which they have required that the
Mohammedan Sultau of Sulu , who lives
on a part of the territory purchased
from Spain , over which it is claimed
there is undisputed American sovereignty
eignty , shall fly the American flag at
all times , and in return for which the
United States undertakes to guarantee
hat slavery and polygamy shall be
recognized among other things , and both
shall bo protected and sanctioned , and
further that the United States shall pay
stated salaries to the Mohammedan
autocrats charged with local govern
ment all this admits of not a particle
of doubt in the mind of any fair-minded
American.
That the McKinley administration
has waited until the closing week of the
political campaign before making any
statement in relation thereto , and then
evasively denying and apologizing for
the agreement , is convincing proof of
the guilty knowledge of the adminis
tration of this latest most despicable
perversion of the purposes of republican
government in the union of American
states.
The administration has caused to be
asserted [ just before election that the
treaty as published is a forgery. Suffi
cient it is to state that it was sent to the
United States by John T. McCutcheon ,
the correspondent of the Chicago Record ,
whose reputation for truth and veracity
will compare favorably with that of any
member of the administration. Mr.
McOutcheon and Mr. Bass accompanied
the representative of the United States
to the Sulus and were present when the
treaty was negotiated and signed , and
both have reported that the treaty is an
actuality and that it is under and by
virtue of this treaty that peace is uow
maintained in the southern islands of
the Philippine archipelago.
The administration defenders are also
saying that the treaty is not a treaty at
all , but an agreement. No matter what
it is called , it cannot bo amended with
out consent of the Mohammedan
potentate's.
They are also saying that the slavery
legalized is not slavery but a sort of serf
dom iii which the serfs are better off
than they would be if free and compelled
to labor for a living. This sort of
apology for servitude is familiar to those
who fought to death the old slavery in
the United States under the same banner
of freedom which they now protest
should not float over human chattels in
distant islands.
Then again they say , these apologists
for slavery and defenders of polygamy ,
that it is not intended that the arrange
ment shall be permanent , but that as
soon as the United States is able to dose
so the legalized slavery and polygamy
will bo made illegal and forbidden. In
other words , that this is but a sham
treaty which wo have no intention of
observing after we feel strong enough
to defy the Moslems. Is that the ad
ministration idea of honor among
nations ?
Again it is pleaded in excuse by close
advisers of the administration that the
slavery and polygamy legalized will in
time bo ended by "the slower method of
civilization and education. " What a
confession of weakness 1 How different
from the spirit which decreed the end of
slavery in the United States thirty-five
years ago 1 And then , Prof. Schurman
knows , and the administration defenders
know , that there is not on record a case
of genuine conversion to Christianity of
a Mohammedan devotee , much less of
the conversion of a nation of a quarter
million followers of the prophet.
The facts regarding this Sulu agree
ment and its recognition of slavery and
polygamy , and of the responsibility of
the McKiuley administration for the
agreement , have been before the Amer
ican people many weeks , and yet the
campaign managers waited until the last
week of the campaign to put out their
clever but contradictory falsehoods to
vainly endeavor to enlighten the just
indignation of the American people.
Sioux Falls Press , Thursday , November
2 , 1899.
"If the in its
present congress approaching
preaching session does not deal satisfac
torily with this Philippine question on
American lines and in accordance with
American principles , " says the Middle-
Vt. Register . "the American
bury ( ) ( rep. ) ,
can people will see and none more cer
tainly than Vermonters that a congress
is chosen next time which will do so. In
such cases , Vermont will not return to
congress , or send to congress , whether
as representative or senator , any man
who is not opposed to the present policy
of the administration , and in favor of
maintaining at all hazards and at all
times , in their full integrity , the funda
mental American principles of liberty ,
equality , and justice. "
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aldermen , the issue was theMcLeod law
for municipal ownership of street rail
roads. The Detroit Journal ( rep. ) re
ports that "in fourteen of the seventeen
wards the people refused to nominate
men known to be or suspected of being
in favor of the municipal-purchase
deal. " The author of the measure was
overwhelmingly defeated. In two wards
friends of the measure were nominated
because of a divided opposition.
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