Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-09-29
Volume 33.
A COMPROMISE WITH D1suoNon.

mchinleS treaty with the Sultan
OF the Sulu Islands, by which he is
given m annuity.an by which polyg-
amy and slavery are permitted in his
dominions ia return for his allegiance
to the United States, is meeting with
the opposition OF tho press OF all
shades OF opinion throughout the
country. According TO the dispatc ches.
our treaty with the Sultan provides
that any slave in The archipelago may
purchase his freedom by paying his
owner $50, and some papers think
that III this way slavery will como to
an end; but the dispatches do not tell
us what facilities the Sulu slaves
havo for obtaining the necessary $40.
Many papers print in connection with
the treaty, the thirteenth amendment
to the Constitution OF the UpIted
States. which rcads as follows:
Neither slavery nor involuntary
serritude, except as punishment
Tor crime, whereof the party shall
have been duly convicted, shall exist
III the United States or any place
subject to their jurisdiction"
Tho Omaha World Herald discuss-
es the treaty under the above caption
rs follows:
Uuder the protecting folds OF the
American flag the slave trade will
flourish in Sulu. The sanctity OF
home and family is violated; the wife
Ia sold from her husband, the child
from its mothers arms. The lash OF
the slave driver falls on the quivering
back OF the covering human chgttel
III Sulu; falls with the sanction OF
Mckinley, under the permission
granted i'll the treaty negotiated by
General Bates, his military reprcsen-
tative. The slaves one recourse ON
the soil shadowed by the Stars abd
Stripes, is to purchase his freedom at
the ma;ket price.
-Polygnmy md concubinage is the
law OF the land in SuIu-- n law ratin-
ed, permitted and indorsed by Presi.
dent McKinley's administration in
the treaty with thcSultan. The sacred
names OF wife and mother are strip.
ped OF every enObling quality and
made synonymous for shame, with the
consent OF the Government at Wnsh.
ington, in the islnnds-Over which the
debauched Sultan OF Sulu admmis.
ters American law, and is paid there.
fore $500 month by the grace OF Mr..
Mckinley.
"Thc American people, through
their representative. have shameless.
ly and wenkly compromised with dis.
honor. Vice and lcchery. wrong do.
ing and crime are lcgalizcd TINT tho
American flag may wave over the
harem OF the Sultan and the slave
pens Of the plantations.
What now will high minded Chris.
tian men and women think, who in
dorsed forcibie annexation that civil.
Zation and Christianity might follow
in tho wake Of tho flag2 What will
ministers OF the gospel oi peace ON
earth, good will to men say to this
all-concIusivc proof that the present
Administration makes war not to civ.
ilize, not to Christinnize, but solely to
possess? What will American citizens
who arc proud Of their hori.ago Of
lofty IDEAS nnd principles OF free.
dom and equality, say to this nbnnd
onment of the teachings Tor which the
blood OF American manhood has flow.
ed in rivers to tho eoR2 What posi-.
BILE excuse can DO offered for the con.
Bumaticn OF this liaieou with Moslem
morale and pirate ctbicsH This is not
n question that will admit OF any talk
of cxpediency. No possible theory Of
cxpodiCncy can explain the necessity
OF virtue embracing vice, Of tho incor.
poration Of n deadly cancer into
haaltly political organization. II
slavery 10 wrong IN America il Is also
wrong III Sulu. II il WIS not permit.
ted beneath the Stars and Bnrs,
neither may IL he permitted under tho
Stars and Stripes. There is no geog.
rnphy IN right md wrong. Tho ethics
OF God are eternal and all.cmbraciugi
70 do or permit cvilundcr tho spec
ions plea that good may follow is tho
criminal sophism Of all ages. From
IL have sprung wars md prosecutions,
tho crimcs aud follits thnt have dark.
cDcd The history OF church ind state.
Az surcly as from good comes good,
SO from evil comca OWL,