Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1899-07-29
Getting Down to Business.

we are now getting down 10 the
true inwardnesS of the Philippine in
surrection. With the money paid to
him by Spain to get out of the is
lands, Aguinaldo now proposes to es-
tablish himself as the dictator of the
islands. Deceiving this government,
as he did that of Spain, he accepted
the assistance of the United States,
only to turn the munitions of war
which were given to him against the
government which made his people
free. With the foothold thus secured
he has overawed the peaceful citizens,
confiscated property and stolen mon
ey, to keep up what he calls repub-
lie, but which is in fact tyranny.
But his bold scheme would have
fallen flat long ago. and ali conflict
would have been avoided, but for the
fire in the rear from the people who
should know better. people who make
Miss Nancy philanthrophy their hob
by, and for some other people who
love their party more than they love
| their country. With the money fore
ed from the better class in the Phil
ippInes- people who, as rule, do not
sympathiZe with his plans -Aguinal-
do has been enabled to send his
agents to this country, and to many
others, and by false representations
of conditions in the Islands, inspire
a spirit of opposition to the govern
ment. And by intimidation and false
representations he has been enabled
to keep his supporters in line. He
tolls thano that Nc IA in1pV
be defeated at the coming election,
and that then the new administra-
tion will recognize the independence
of the Islands, and withdraw the
forces of the United States, provided
they can hold out until that time.
In support of this doctrine the
speeches of Hoar, Bryan and others of
this kind, the pamphlets of Atkinson,
and Foreman'S book are quoted The
truth now comes home to everybody
that American Filipinos are more re-
sponsible for the continued struggle
and loss of life in the Philippines
than is Aguinaldo. If the country
was united, as it ought to have been,
all this might have been avoided.
1t was the fire in the rear that pro-
longed the War of the Rebellion. The
southern people were encouraged to
continue their struggle by belief
that a victory against the administra-
tion would be secured at the next
election. They were deceived, and
the cost of thousand of lives and mil
lions of treasure can be justly attrib-
uted to the false hopes inspired by
the FilipinoS of those days. 1t will
be so in this present time. No more
hopeless cause was ever presented
than that of the adyenturerS, and
sentimentalists, and incOmpetents,
who are now stirring up war against
the flag of the government which pro-
tectS them. Patriotism will win in
America as it has always won- The
flag and the country will be sustained. |
Liberty as we understand it in these
United States-Liberty such as is
guaranteed by the cOnStitutIon-will |
rule in the Philippines as it does in
Massachusetts,, in Texas, in every |
state of the Union And who can say
that the Liberty which our people |
have given to Florida, Louisiana,
New Mexico, Arizona, California and |
Texas will not be better than the rule |
of the Spaniard, or better than the |
liberty which the Tagal dictator |
would give m.-Minneapolis Mes |
senger.