The record-union., 1898-06-27
COPPERHEADISM IN CONGRESS.

In SOA~o1tA1oh9.
There is constructive and there is ac-
tual treason. There are open and there
are covert traitors. When it comes to
results there is very little difference be-
tween the classes of treason or of trait
ors. The action of the opponents in
the Senate of Hawaiian annexation is
very little short of traitorous. Of
course these men have rights secured to
them under the rules to filibuster and
by parliamentary tactics prevent an
early vote upon the annexation resOlu-
tion, but the exercise of the privilege at
this time is abhorent to right-thinking
people
Defeat of the resolution by tactical
postponement of a vote until next VIM
ter in such a stress as the country now
finds itself in, is very little short of
treaSon. Postponement would be more
injurious to the Nation than defeat
upon a vote taken now While our
brave sailors and soldiers swelter in the
humid, death dealing, heavy atmos-
phere of Manila, and expose their lives
for the flag of the nation, White, Tur-
ley, Allen and their supporters in Con-
gress wag their loose hinged jaws and
filibuster to delay action, as these
brave men die and the sons of patriotic
mothers scorch beneath the blazing sun
of the Orient while facing storms of
Spanish bullets.
Let fathers and mothers and sisters
and brothers of the best young life of
the land now in arms for their country,
read of the terrible sufferings of their
loved ones who are battling for Ma
tional honor and National right Then
let them turn to the sugar trust gang
on the floor of Congress, when it is
thimble rigging to defeat a measure
fraught very nearly with the import
ance of the whole war.
Fearing the result of a straight vote
on annexation these unfeeling obstruct-
ors, headed by misrepresenting s. NJ.
White of California, are endeavoring to
prove that if we must have a naval
outpost, it is better policy to select
westernmost arctic desert island of the
Aleutian chain, the nearest approach
to which from our base will be over
lines of rail on the main land within
the territory Of a foreign power. They
would thus divert from California all
benefits that should flow from closer
relations with Hawaii.
The debate over this matter in the
Senate on Saturday was by these ad
vocates of hermitisrn, whose zeal for
sugar trust interests could not be
stronger We're they retained as attor
neys Of the sugar combine, was not a
line above the level of the shameful.
But for the protection of the Senatorial
office it would be open to characterize
ton as treacherous to American inter-
ests.
One of the obstructionists boldly pro-
posed postponement Of the whole mat
ter until the next session, though fully
aware that such an act would be hailed
in Madrid as a distinct Spanish vic
tory, and would drive Hawaii from the
allyship with US, that she has voluntar-
lily assumed, and leave our men in the
Bay Of Manila cut off from all hope Of
relief and reinforcement from their
home land
AS Senator Morgan well said it is the
duty Of the Senate to take action, and
now. He welted the conspirators with
the lash of well-applied Indignation and
denunciation, for their unpatriotic con-
duct and cowardly attempts to win by
chicane and petdfogging what they
cannot achieve in the open, as brave
and honestly inspired men. By block
ing the passage of the Hawaiian resolu-
tions these INSTRUCTORS will impede the
progress OF a war some of them hypo-
critically claim they favor. They know
that to delay or defeat the resolution
will leave American interests in the Pa
cif1c at the mercy of the enemy. They
know that without the Hawaiian sta
ton we must abandon the Philippines
and return the natives of that unhappy
archipelago to the merciless rule Of
the Spanish taskmasfer, and the pitt
less monks who have trodden the necks
of that people in the dust by stepping
out of the religious office to become po-
ltical strikers and bosses and Spanish
slave drivers.
That the forum Of the Senate should
again be made the scene of a copper
head obstructing policy, is as shameful
as it is cowardly, and the shame and
the cowardice undisputedly belong to
Stephen NJ White and the filibustering
contingent trailing at his heels.