Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-07-21
qAK'S LETTER
Attitude of Democrats on
War Measures.
A CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.
Baseless Attacks on Democratic
Patriotism.
Is TRUTH ONE OF THE LOST ARTs7

| lS 16Ula ON6 Of lu6 IUo1 AhlGf
Annexation Of the Sandwich Islands Means
Again Grating Slavery on the Republic.
A Blow at Organised Labor-Note of
Warning For the Jingoes-Give the Ha-
waiians a Chance to Express an Opinion.
There is a big lie out somewhere.
| That's as clear as the sur shining in his
meridian glory. Indeed, there are two
lies out.
June 90 the Washington Times pub
lished an editorial sayagely attacking
MI. Bailey of Texas and abusing the
Democratic representatives, accusing
them Of opposing all war measures.
This was as u~nprovoked a lie as has been
printed since Gutenberg invented NOV
able types. That's lie No. /. As a mat
ter of truth, the Democrats have sup
ported every measure necessary to the
prosecution Of the war.
By a curious coincidence, on the same
day General Grosvenor, in his speech
as president of the Ohio Republican
convention, told the same lie.
On the 29th Of June in a speech of
rare power and rich bumor "Private''
John Allen took Grosvenor to task for
his extraordinary caper in the line Of
Ananias and Sapphira.
In reply Grosyenor made the as
founding assertion that a Democratic
congressman wrote The Times editorial
lie and that the congressman had told
him SO. He was repeatedly and vehe-
mently requested to give the name of the
congressman, which he fatty refused to
do. The performance created amazement
and e~ngendered bad blood. But Wash
ington was utterly dumfounded next
morning when The Times denied that
any congressman had written the edi-
torial, intimating that it would pay
Grosvenor a reward to furnish the name.
Therefore it is plain as a pikestaff
that either The Times or Grosvenor lied
as to the authorship Of the editorial
aforesaid. Both could not by any posi-
bility be telling the truth. Which is
guilty time may show, but I shall not
undertake to decide q case Of such deli
cacy and which is SO evenly balanced.
because IL Is OlSen TO U.s.
Continuing my Hawaiian speech, I
said:
We hear a vast deal of ecstatic talk
about these leprous islands failing into
our laps" as if that were a reason for
annexation. Are we such Simple ST.
mons as to accept everything offered us?
Because a hog with the cholera II a
Shoan with Ahn not ~ n hn,-co NTH tho
CHAMBERS or a dog with the rabies is
given to US, by the same token we
should annex him to our animal posses
sions and infect the whole lot with a
loathsome and incurable disease.
We are to take them because, for
sooth, they are given to usl That is the
main argument for annexation, but
eve that is not the truth. Far from it.
By these very resolutions we pay $4,-
600, 600 for a starter. How many mil
lions will finally go the same road I'M
n%iscience alone IA tell. We are paying
down cash on Mr.. Dole's counter for
these volcanic rocks nearly one-third as
much as Thomas Jefferson paid for the
purchase.
No, it is not given to us. And if 1t
were I would still say with the ancient
poet, ''Timeo Danaos ct dona ferentes''
Beware of the Greeks bearing gifts.
Re-establishment OF Human Slavery.
To the Republicans who are shouting
for annexation I commend the fine
Shakespearean dictum, Consistency,
thou art a jewel"
The Republican party claims now
since emancipation has become popular
and since the vote Of our brother in
black controls the elections in several
states-that it waged for four
years a costly and bloody war to extir-
pate African slavery from this country.
In 1861 the claim was that that awful
war wa for the preservation of the
Union. Indeed Abraham Lincoln, the
greatest of all Republicans dead or
alive, so stated in his famous and won
derful letter to Horace Greeley. So be-
hundreds of thousands of brave,
patriotic Democrats helped put down
the rebellion, which could not have
been put down without them. Now,
however, generally, but especially
about election time, the seductive tale
is whispered in the credulous ears of
Afro-Americans that the civil war was
solely to free them and that
nobody did any fighting in the Federal
armies save and except Republicans, all
which is a fable.
But if the civil war was carried on
free the negroes, as is now claimed,
how can Republicans justify themselves
either in the forum of conscience or at
the bar of public opinion for ~annexing
the Sandwich Islands, thereby again
slavery on to the republic? No
man who has any reputation for veraci-
ty will jeopardize it by denying that
cooly slavery does exist in the Sand
Islands today as thoroughly as
African slavery ever did exist in South
Carolina or in Massachusetts up to the
time when it was found to be unproft-
able on that stern and rock bound coast.
Furthermore, men of intelligence know |
that Chinese slavery is more brutal and
more immoral than was African slav- |
cry in its worst estate, even in Massa- |
.husetts. 1t is a matter of common
that Chinese men are sold
into slavery and that Chinese women |
are sold into and especially prepared by |