Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-05-06

The special correspondent of the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean wired from Washing
ton on May as follows:
The president and the postmaster
general We're amazed at the assertion of
Edward Atkinson that his sedtous
tracts, printed by the Anti-Imperialist
League, had been reprinted by the SEN
ate and were now public documents.
Their amazement was increased sew
eral fold when they learned that Mr..
Atkinson's statement was true, and
made true by the action of Democratic
senators in the last session of congress,
when they were doing everything possi-
BILE to defeat the ratification of the
peace treaty Under the loose rules of
the senate this dirty and disloyal lit
erature was printed without being read,
on the mere request of senators.
Senator Jones, chairman of the Dem
ocratic national committee secured the
printing of THE Hell of War" and "The
Cost of National Crime" and Senator
Caffery, Of Louisiana, another Demo-
crat, secured the printing of the tract.
Criminal Aggression and by Whom
Committed" Whether or not Senators
Jones and Caffery were looking to the
next national campaign when they Sc
cured the printing of these seditious and
obscene documents remains to be seen.
They can be sent out under the frank
of senators and representatives, though
parts of them would be barred from the
ordinary mails by the laws against OBJ
scene literature, even if they were not
seditious. On account of their obscenity,
as we'll as sedition, the administration
intends to enforce the order against al
lowing the mails to carry Mr.. Atkin
sons filthy tracts.
The post office department states that
instead of only eight copies, which Mr..
Atkinson says is all he sent to Manila,
there are now 10000 Of them on their
way to San Francisco, addressed to SOL
diers in the Philippines. These will not
get beyond the San Francisco post Of
flee.
In Mr.. Atkinson's "The Hell of War
and It's Penalties" he discusses subjects
which can not be treated of in news
paper and uses language which would
bar any newspaper from the United
States mails. And yet he boasts that he
is sending these obscene tracts through
the mails by the tens and hundreds of
thousands
He admits that he is writing on a very
unsavory subject, and using language
which is not commonly spoken aloud in
decent society. And then he proceeds to
discuss the social evil in the filthiest
and most repulsive manner, as one OF
the features of 1.-THE Hell of War" This
he uses as his appeal to mothers to
warn them against allowing their sons
to enter the army.
OF the president, Mr.. Atkinson says:
"Is it not our misfortune to have in the
chair of the president Of the United
States a man of weak and uncertain
purpose, without convictions, and un-
equal to the emergency, who, having de-
elared that an act Of aggression would
be national crime, has trif1ed with the
question" He disposes of the president
and his cabinet in this language: Il
know no men, whose names will go down
among the mothers Of the land. even in
the near future, subject to greater exc
Grafton than the names of the men who
have brought this act of criminal ag-
gression upon the nation"
The president is accused of having
precipitated the hostilities between the
American troops and the natives. Mr..
Atkinson asks: by whom was this at
tack authorized? What induced the
Filipinos to resist the forces Of the Unit
ed States? Who began that fight? AS
yet we have no evidence. Who is re-
sponsible? Aguinaldo says the presi-
dent of the United States is RESPONSE
ble, and think he goes far to prove 1t"
Mr.. Atkinson tries to frighten the
mothers of the soldiers by predicting
the death of all the $4,000 men in the
Ph1ilpplneS Dy disease, anu says tnal IL
the regular army is stationed in the
Philippines and Cuba and kept there six
months there will be no regular army.
He assails the war department and
the officers who led the army in Cuba,
and he accuses Secretary Long, of the
Navy department, of the worst sort of
blasphemy, alleging that Mr.. Long has
drawn comparisons between Mckinley
and Christ.
In the light of these facts the people
can form their own conclusions as to
the motives of Atkinson in circulating
obscene literature, and as to the con-
duct of Democratic senators in causing
Atkinson's filthy and seditious tracts tc
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