The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-09-06
Washington Letter.
(From our Regular Correspondent

didate but because they like the man
and think the Ohio democrats honor
ed themselves in bonoring him.
Those who know what is going on
under the surface, in Washington,
are wondering whether Mr.. Mckinley
| is going to be so unwise as tc allow
himself to be used by the little clique
of New York millionaires to IN
crease the value of their property IN
Santo Domingo, by putting his i'm
gers in the revolution now going on
there. They have had power enough
to bring Secretary Hay back to Wash
ineton two weeks earlier than he was
expected, and it is understood to be
at their request that Mr. Mckinley
will return tomorrow, instead of a
week later. They are not asking
much. Only that Mr.. Mckinley will
stop the revolution and declare .. S.
protectorate over Santo Domingo. A
nice mess that would be, with all the
other race troubles we already have
on our hands.
The rush for commissions in the
new volunteer regiments for the Phil
ippines is greater now than it was for
those in the ten regiments recently
organized, but reports from the va
rious recruiting stations show that
enlistments are much slower,so much
slower that the War Department has
notified all the recruiting officers that
they are expected to get more recruits
than they have been getting.
A prominent Boston business man,
who was in Washington this week
said OF the platform that will be adopt
ed by the Massachusetts democratic
State Convention, which will meet
Sept. 2l: "It will reafirm every
plank of the Chicago instrument, will
roast the trusts in stinging English,
deuounce the inhuman massacre of
the liherty-loving Filipinos, and de-
clare that the imperialist policy of
Mckinley, if unchecked, will be the
death knell of the republic" The
same man predicted that Massachu-
sets would send solid Bryan dele
CATION to the National Convention.
In view of the promise made in the
official proclamation of the Philippine
Commission, issued last April, that
Local funds collected for local pur-
poses, shall not be diverted to other
ends" there is ground for the com
plants at Manila, reported by uncen-
sored cablegrams, via Hong Kong,
on account OF the action OF General
Otis in using funds collected as local
taxes for the support of the army.
The country was told that every ef-
fort would be made by tine admins
trstion to obtain the confidence of
the peaceable Filipinos. Taking the
taxes collected for local benefit to
help support an invading army will
strike most persons as a very poor
way to obtain the confidence of the
Filipinos. It was because CT broken
promises that they revolted against
Spain. The Mckinley administration
has repeatedly stated its entire ap-
proval of the acts of General Otis; it
is therefore directly responsible for
this wrongful use of money collected
over there. 1t may have been the
knowledge that a portion OF the e1-
penses of the large army in the Phil
ippines was to be paid with taxes
collected from the natives which
prompted Secretary Gage to say that
neither additional war taxes nor more
bonds would be necessary to meet
the increased expenditures caused by
the increased army. The American
people, as whole, regardless OF iudi-
vidual opinions as to the future Of the
Philippines, will never endorse ma
tional policy that includes deception
and oppression of weaker people.
Such policy will quickly wipe out
Mr.. Mckinley's platitudes about the
Stars and Stripes standing for the
same thing in the Philippines that
they do in this country. The people
of this country would not allow such
imposition upon themselves, nor will
they stand for its being practiced
upon the people of any other country
by the government ofthe .. S. For
tunately the days of reckoning with
the officials of our government are
not so far apart as they are in other
countries.
SD much has been written about
the better class of Cuban's favoring
annexation that most readers have ac-
cepted it as a fact, but a New York
business man who was recently IN
Havanna declares that he hunted in
vain for this alleged annexation senti-
ment among any class of Cubans. He
says that after talking with all classes
of Cubans he became satisfied that
the predominating sentiment towards
the g. S. among them was hatred.
He thinks this is because of differ
ence in race and customs, a differ
ence that is practically permanent.
This gentleman was not prejudiced.
He went to Havana believing in the
existence OF strong annexation SEN
timent and was disappointed because
be could not find it.