Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-02-02

has been doing some fool talking,
in the newspapers and elsewhere.
Secretary Hay is authority for the
statement that .Agoncillo's name
had never been called at a Cabinet
meeting; and that President Nc
Kinley has never even had his at
tention called to the presence OF
the little Filipino in Washington,
except by the newspapers.
Representative Cousins, of Iowa,
in speech in favor of the Hull
army bill, which will be voted upon
and passed, tomorrow by the
House, paid his respects to those
who have expressed so much fear
of the necessary increase in the
regular army. He said: II have
not lived long enough to learn any
thing in the history of the exploits
of American soldiery or of their
service, to justify that suspicion
which is cast upon the institution
known as the regular army of the
U. S., by the imputation that it
could ever be used as a menace to
the liberties of American citizen
ship. Does the history of valor
and glory in the Revolution prompt
the gentlemen Of the minority and
of the opposition to warn America
against American soldiery? Does
the record of the regulars, led by
Gen. Jackson, at New Orleans, fill
the hearts of the gentlemen with
fear or apprehension for the safety
of our citizens? Does Chepultepec
send warming even into modern
Washington? Did there ever issue
from the lips, now closed in ever
lasting love and fame in that silent
mausoleum by the Hudson, any
word of menace to a future citizen,
any thought save peace, any oracle
save liberty and union? God spare
a grateful country and an admiring
world from any doubt about the
matchless magnanimity of Apo
mattoX. In all the years of toll
and strife and victory that make
the history of our republic great,
the regular army has been its shield
and buckler.'
No speech made on the Philip
pine question has contained more
common sense or a palmer state
ment of the actual situation than
that made by Senator Platt, of New
York, the first he has made during
his present term in the Senate.
His arraignment of the Senators
who are largely responsible for
Aguinaldo's bumptious position
follows: "There are reasons why
the natives of those islands, after
their experience with Spanish mis-
rule, should misunderstood the
presence at Manila of an American
army, but there is no reason why
an American Senator should mis-
understand it, and no justification
of his course in misreprescnting it.
He knows that there is no Ameri-
can in this broad land who wishes
any other fate to any single native
of the Philippine islands than his
free enjoyment of a prosperous life.
He knows that close in the wake
Of American rule, there would
come to the Filipinos a liberty that
they have never known, and far
greater liberty than they could
ever have under the arrogant rule
OF a native Dictator
There has been much talk about
the plain intimation on the floor of
the Senate that Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie was paying regular ad-
vertising rates to get anti-expan-
sion articles, furnished by his
agents, inserted in the agricultural
papers, marked copies of which are
now flooding the mail of Senators.
The disposition of the Senators
appears to be to regard it as joke
on Carnegie, which has helped the
finances of numerous agricultural
editors and had no effect, whatever,
in Washington. Senator Hoar
was at first inclined to defend the
purchase of space in newspapers to
affect public sentiment, but Senator
Chandler compelled him to admit
that the purchase of editorial
opinion was anact involving moral
turpitude.