The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-17
THE JINGO DEFEATED.

| 5- j i.r :
The Cecil Democrat OF Cecil county
Maryland, contained the following article
| In recent issue:
| AS no one ever raises a voice IN favor OF
the lingo, and II seems to be accepted upon
all hands that he is a very reprehensinie
sort OF a person-ratber a disgrace to his
country than otherwise-and feeling within
my own consciousness that am one. am
going TO describe what a lingo Is, what
actuates him to be lingo, and how ne
thinks and feels In relation TO this ques-
ton of peace and war now agltating the
jcold-bl0oded business purse, and the warm
blooded public heart and conscience, and
VIII evolve 1t all out of my own inner
consciousness
The term lingo" is newspaper rrea-
ton. II will be remembered that the six
and half millions of sef-respecting. un-
purchasable. Intelligent, responsible. fear
less and patriotic white men who voted for
Bryan were all anarchists, regulators.
and advocates OF free riot without any
sense of honor. shame, intelligence or pa
Notwithstanding to the newspapers.
The success which attended the vlllifica-
ton and slanderous abuse of those who did
not agree with the political postulates OF
the hired newspapers of Mark Hanna in
that campaign, has induced them TO in
vent other villifylng epithets to apply to
those who don't agree with Mark Hanna
now. Consequently the term lingo" is
created TO throw contumely upon men of
independent minds, patriotic impulses and
intelligent and conscientious purposes. |
am proud OF the fact that was and am
newspaper anarchist of the Bryan stamp.
am proud of the fact that | am lingo
now. for in both cases these are the means
by which the obsequious tools OF degraded
and corrupt politics indicate and honor
the patriotic and free minded American
citizen.
To be lingo you must first be an Amer
lean. proud of your country. jealous of her |
honor and devoted to her interests You |
must have intelligence to grasp, heart TO |
feel, courage to act and patriotism to in |
spire--then you are lingo.
The lingo knows what he wants and why |
he wants it. He wants the absolute with
drawal OF all Spanish domination from this
Western continent as part OF the penalty
which that nation Is to pay for the
atrocious and wholesale murders, and pitt
less starvation of helpless thousands or
men, women and children at our doors,
mar ort he wanton. cruel and treacherous
destruction of our ship, and the murder of
ner crew, he wants to make it impossible
that these things shall ever be repeated by
mat infamous nation in this Western
hemisphere, and he wants ample redress
Tor the awful crime, insult, and injury per-
peuated upon this nation in Havana har-
Dor And nothing less will suffice him,
and he wants it--not next year, but now.
hn HNn' 4
nave any peace, until all that is due to
his country in satisfaction of its wounded
honor, from Spain. is received. and ample
Justice meted out to them for our torn
anS margled dead who now sleep in dis
noAQNed graves upon soil made desolate
md cNysed by her ri,SA. When the cannon
Of mighty nation shall sound the requiem
'f her murdered children, and her vic
orious Lemons shall hoist the stars and
stripes over. the spot where lies their
Wondering dust, then the lingo will cease
% be lingo, and not until then.
or course the lingo has no sympathy with
he executive head of this Nation. How
'ould he? That individual is only the fig
irative head; the real head is the repre-
Of the interests who purchased
lis election, and who can be found at all
INES in the presidents private Office
Mark Hanna. And Mark Hanna represents
not the people of the country, but the
wealth of the country not its virtue and
'atrlotism, but its venality and corruption;
~ It's generous, courageous, whole souled
eantness, but its selfish, sordid svaricious
9sSSelagsness; not that which ennobles and
N41qfsNA nation. but that which degrades
it. 1t was not a lingo who
SfSMEnSA. from his luxurious banking
}&<NSN York to Mckinley: There i.
QAX&\, What are Zoo lives COM Y
eSsEss&NilSSSsealr values"