The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-19
CONTINUOUS GYRATIoNS.

SON lNOOUS GYRATIONS.
Mark Hanna's local mouthpiece goes
| through a series of horrible contortions
in attempting to defend the policy and
conduct of Alger; Eagan and Mckinley
from a severe but merited arrangement
in the Omaha World-Herald. 1t makes
substantially the following statements:
l. That Spain coded the Philippines 10
me United States for a valuable consider
alton
2. That Spain's title to the archipelago
was good. since she had held undfsputed
possession for 800 years.
3. That the insurgents headed In, i,
cunning half-breed named Aguinaldo. had
merely fought for a few reforms.
T. That Spain had licked the band TO a
IlIllsn anu they had left Luzon promising
never to return"
o. That our squadron found Agufnaldo
a tramp at Hongkong and carried him
back II, 70 Manila, in the hold presumably.
o. mat certain newspapers in the United
STATES esooused the half-breed's cause,
out that 1t is all done for political effect.
For the Information of the World
Herald and the satisfaction of the in
termountain public we shall review
these allegations in the light of the
oracle's own record. Long after Dew
ey's victory, but before the Tribune's
change of front on the silver question,
1t said that Spain had no more right
to the Philippines than she had to re-
tain possession of Cuba and Porto
Rico" Having denied the right of Spain
to own and govern Cuba as the Span
ish government saw fit how can
we admit SPANS right to dispose of
the Philippines? But there was a rev.
imperialistic contemporary. so there
was in Luzon. But there was none in
Porto Rico; yet we disputed Spains
sovereignty there. If Spain had no
right or title we were bound to respect
in Cuba or Porto Rico, what right or
title did she have to sell us in the Phil
ippines? Besides, the main contention
of conquistadors is that we are under
obligations TO the Filipinos to govern
them whether they like it or not, be-
cause, on or before the 18th of August,
last year Spanish rule was destroyed
in the Philippines, and there was no
longer any Spanish authority there
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asserted and reiterated by the Tribune
time and again, even within the past
few months
In the face Of this, however the local
agent of Hannaism examines the alb
stract and pronounces the Spanish title
a good one, we'll worth the valuable
consideration paid for it. After the
war was over, after peace had been de-
clared, the Tribune said: Spain cannot
govern the Philippines; she never
could; She has tried for nearly 400
years and miserably failed" If the
title was all that imperialists
claim it was, why weren't the
goods delivered? Do the American peo-
pie believe in such bargaining? No
business man of ordinary intelligence
will buv lawsuit, and no well con-
Quoted administration will buy a war
But we forget; the Tribune has told
us that the men at the head of this
government are imbeciles and rascals.
Two hundred and sixteen times it re-
peated that assertion last year, and
with one exception the same crowd is
still in control.
1t says now that there was no revo-
luton in progress in the Philippines
when war broke out between this coun,-
try and Spain; that it was merely an
extinct revolt, headed by cunning
half-breed named Aguinaldo, and that
it simply sought a few reforms. This
is an opinion that has come into our
thirty days. 1t was almost three months
after the battle of Manila bay that
the Salt Lake Tribune compared Agui-
naIdo to George Washington, and de-
clared that, when we found them in
Luzon through our naval victory, the
Filipinos were fighting in a cause in
fnitely higher than Washington and
Starlze and Knox and Lee and the 9TH
ers fought in between 1775 and 1881
1t told how 'those poor wretches, on
the island of Luzon" had been fighting
oppression for more than 800 years.
And 1T hasn't been three months since
the Tribune, in its editorial columns,
reaffiuned this declaration and said:
We say they Cthe Filipinos) were fight
ing in a. cause infinitely higher than did
Washington or Hamilton, and explained
that while our fathers fought for political
liberty, the poor wretches in Luzon were
fighting against intolerable expressions
Then it asked: Isn't that correct?
What is wrong about it?" Yesterday it
took another reef in its sails and tried
another tack 1t exclaimed with evil
dent r,r.ide and noorly concealed salts