The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-03
THOUGHTS ON THE SULTAN OF su1u.

While 1t Is true that the smoke of battle Is
not perceptibly clearing in the immediate vicinity Of
our colonies Is compelled to note the more or
less disagreeable fact that the sultan of Suu has
seized upon the center:of the stage
In the eyes Of Mr. Mckinley nothing is too good
for the sultan. He put his clothes in the ad.
mnistration's trunk. Political prejudice and par
tisanship may occasionally sway the president but
he ever has warm side for the great matrimoniast
of far away Sulu The story that the salary Of
$4,000 per annum allowed the sultan by his in
dulgent foster father is the result Of q compromise
the sultan having stood out for $12 O00 undoubted-
~ base canard. There could have been no hagglng
among such friends The sultan has thirty wives
and If they have all got work his encourage need not
necessarily be expensive. AS his suzerainty en-
braces large number Of slaves there must of course
be considerable revenue derived from them and no
little of this income would, naturally be DETECTED
into the capacios pockets Of the sultan Therefore
can be fairly assumed that the coalition between
the slaveholding polygamous sultan Of Suu and our
president leaves the former comparatively well fixed
careful dispassionate review Of the situation,
however, aWakenS one or two unpleasant reflections.
How chances it that the president should adopt the
man of loose, baggy trousers-and morals-the ex.
ponent of the worst form Of slavery and kindred
evils, and turn his back sterny upon Agunaldo who
has, so far, been accused of any gross IT.
IeSuldIitleS OF social conduct and who supposed
to be personally honest and Of staunch patriotism?
Over In Manila there is daily newspaper pub
hshed entitled Freedom. 1t is not journal particu-
lary friendly to the Filipino cause; In short it is Of
the mperiaistic brand, edtorally hot for expansion
and all that sort of thing. else Gen. Otis would
not permit it to be published in Manila. recent
issue Of Freedom, published in August in open
letter to Aguinaldo has this to say:
We carefully weighed all that has been said of
sod @ We have given much
6 y4u e and we bt frank saying that our
were but your errors, and that in intent honest
In another part of the. same issue Freedom goes
out of it's way to admit that Aguinaldo did not sell
out to Spain for 100000 a story that has been con,
tnually harped upon3 by Republican organs in this
country for the past year. Now here are the two
most prominent representatives of Philippine society,"
side by side and open for contrast. The lux
urous uxorious sybailte sunk in soth and Oriental
decadence, combining in his personality all that is
Objectionable to American ethics; the other Of
undoubted devotion to the of independence
for his people, and asking for fair show in the
settlement of the Philippine question. Why should
the president be sweet the sultan and so sore
and Aggie?
1t is true the sultan has not ''revolted" against
the force of American arms but it is equally true
that those have not in hostile manner, been
turned against him, his wives his slaves. Every
thing in his pathway has been made smooth for him.
Things from the United States have come to him in
hacks The gift Of $4,000 per annum is just like
getting money from home. He suffers loss, not
wife the less not slave detached from his estab-
lishment But why such favortism the hand
so much Krag-Jorgensen, dynamite and Otis on
the other? This is passing thought, involun-
tary suggestion; still it is worthy of reflection and
of a kind Of reflection in which seems lost in
of political jungle
If it. is thought that human slavery and poly
gamy be grated this nation through the
agency of the sultan of Sulu, surely there is
trouble ahead for the TRAITORS the "copperheads
and the "aunties" They will be prone to 'kick" at
any such Innovation There are yet living
number Of Grand Army men who inadvertently
dropped an leg in order that human slavery
should no be Sheltered by the American flag
which Mr. Mckinley so vociferousy insists shall
never be hauled down. But either human slavery
the flag must step aside in all possessions"
They cannot exist side by SIDE And when the sui
tan of Suu awakens to the full significance of this
great white truth, will he not be disposed to emit
a like an Asatic typhoOn, or the loness robbed
Of her whelps?