The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-05-08
SPAIN AS A MASTER.

wheat and silver.
SPAIN AS A MASTER.
Once in a while we hear the whine
that America is playing the role of
bully in jumping on to Spain, a COM
paratively weak power. These people
forget that Spain for more than two
hundred years has been jumping
with both feet onto the poor,
defenseless Cubans. And now about
the natives of the Philippines.
A vigorous, industrious native of
the Philippine Islands, under the
conditions as they now obtain, and
have obtained for the last fifty years,
can make wages amounting to five
cents a day, and yet from such a ridic-
ulous income the Spanish satraps who
have been sent there exact an annual
payment of $3.50. In case the taxpayer
whether he be a man or woman, be-
comes delinquent, he or she is tied to
a post and whipped. If this treatment
does not produce the money desired,
deportation follows, and the deporta-
ton lasts until the fine is worked out
at the rate of six cents a day, with a
charge for board of five cents a day.
The law if executed necessitates a con-
dition of slavery, nothing more and
nothing less, and this is the condition
under Spanish rule in the Philippines
Anarchy could scarcely be worse for
the inhabitants of the Philippines
on those islands ever since the days of
Philip IL, after whom they were
named.
What thick. thick plate surrounds the
ship whose cause is just.
When was there a battle before with
no tears mixed with victory?
We are bent on godly task. And the
Lord God of Hosts is with US.
The thing above all things. the one
great fact, is that we did not lose a man.
They are all heroes-which is some
thing. Which is greater, they are all live
heroes.
There may be other battles in this war,
and great deeds done, but none in the fu-
ture can approach the deed of Dewey.
We strike for charity. And If ever a
nation had Divine appreciation. this ma
ton received it in the battle of Manila
One ship Of Dewey's feet was protect
ed-that is, covered with Carnegie's
holes?
There is one thought today that Is
louder than all the guns of all the ma
vies Of all the world: CT AM AN AMER
ICAN."
How pleasant for man TO dwell in
obscurity for sixty-one years. and in the
evening grow in single hour to histor-
zeal magnitude.
And ours IS the navy that is under
manned. the navy that is poorly disci-
pinned; the navy that is made UP OF IN
American foreigners.
Spain said we were a nation Of no.
bodies" Dewey was a nobody two weeks
ago. Not 1900 people knew OF his ex-
istence- Today the entire world knows
him.
We have never been licked. and as long
as we are the divine agents against tyr
amy. as long as We are unseldsh and
charitable in this world. we never viii be
licked.
What awful terrifying possibilities
there are in Americans. The man who IS
unknown this week may be running for
president next week. or be q world hero
tomorrow.
Come OF the perch. Emperor William.
The men who won that hattie were not
French. Italian or Spanish; lhey were not
I4aliHs. they were Teu,ons-Saxoaz led
by q Scotch-Irishman-
Those men or the American feet were
the sons % German, o. English. % Swiss.
OF Scandjnavians. as we'll as OF Ameri-
cans TIE ra-,nla who Rru.lafsd them are