Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-10-14
TWELVE PAGES
SATURDAY, OCTOBER Ii. 1899.
RIGHT AND TRUTH WILL SPEAK.

What a. shabby, wretched and ridicu-
or the flag. sanctifies and hallows all
things! Yet that is what We see or hear
daily, from a drunken recruit to a lead
Ing administration Senator, or q leading
administration metropolitan journal.
The censored and manufactured lies
from Manila are infallible truths. to be
accepted by all men, because the stars
and stripes wave over them; piracy,
robbery and murder. as foul as ever
made Sheol hideous. are transformed to
holy and heroic deeds of patriotism, by
the cabaQistic word of war; and every
etrocity is to be approved and ap-
plauded If done by miscreants wearing
our military uniform.
That was and Is, 1t seems, the theory
and practice in France, as illustrated
in the case of Dreyfus. He. although
innocent, was to be sacrificed as q
'scape, :, the French army and its
knayes fools. The ignominy, in
1amy and injustice of II all Mortified all
the civilized world, and the victim of
military pride and fanaticism had TO
withdraw his appeal and demand for
Justice before mercy and pardon could
be extended to him! FIe who would
save the flag from shame, or cleanse it
from deflement. is himself assassinated
lest his revelations of truth should
smirch the Haunting lie! At Rennes and
at Manila the same altar to Moloch is
erected, and men are hidden to bow in
celebration and participation of the
bloody rites. Hear the shouts and cries
of the idolators
NOW Mr. Edward Atkinson and those
who are cooperating with him can soc
tWhat they have done. They are largely
responsible Tor Aguinaldo's continued
resistance 10 American authority. Their
course is unpatriotic and indefensjhln
We have got to restore order in Tho is.
lands, and we cannot shirk orr rn-
sponslo1lity without disgrace and ve,
dhese obstructiOnists continue n 81
courage AGuinaldo in his rcsistonco -
our authority, and they therein ,,.,,o
themselves responsible FOR every An,au
lean soldiers death. It Is a crvinc
shame. iSihs
Il Is
And That Is the censorship with which
American imperial militarism seeks n
silence the free speech and free oninio,
OF those who dare even vet To nlno,
Tor human liberty and independence
and the common rights of man. u-h,cb
this country and people first proclaimed
and maintained against tyranny and its
ruthless powerl Why? 1t seems that tbs
poor victims marked for slaughter by
Mckinley. grasping at every hope, at
fathers did, by citing the fact that thei,
oppressors and destroyers find oppo.
/ nents among their own countrymen
who yet cherish the principles and ira.
ditions Of a free manhood once pro.
fessed by all their blood and breed; and
thus they infiame their hate for thcil
victims and the intercessors for then
by quoting the brave Aguinaldo, whit
discovers that not all Americans are
3apostates to the blood-babtized creed O,
E1776:
lin America" says the patriot Fill
( Dino leader. there is a great party tina
insists ON the government recognizint
I Filipino independence; that party vii
compel tho United States to fulfill tn,
promises made to us in all solemnit,
and good faith, though not put in writ
Ing, Sc
Therefore We must show our graft
gtudeS and hold our position more reso
iiutely than ever. We should pray t.
God that the great Democratic part,
may win the next presidential election
and Imp Ism fall In Its mad attemp
ITO subject slia by force OF arms, Thert
ore some Arnerlc cans In the PhIirpinet