Washington sentinel., 1899-03-11

. Il uldllCI IL AAlG Aah@A
| though chivalrous Toe that face
| you at three hundred yards
] armed only with a bamboo bow
Hold low So shall you see th'
red spot show on the dark skin anC
know that you are doing your duty
as a Christian and as patriot!
It is an i'll wind that blows nc
good. The ratification Of the treaty
OF Paris, the long war that is iol
lowing it and the thousands ol
American deaths that are 20 come
will sweep Mckinley and the Ke-
publican party from power. 1t is
the hope OF the men Of Hanna that
by passage Of the Army bill and
the steady outpouring OF soldiers
to those far tropic lands, the COM
bat can be rushed to an ending, but
it cannot be done. The Army bill
amended (thanks to our able leader
Senator Gorman) has OF course
passed, because it has become
necessary that we butcher or suffer
a fatal loss of prestige, but not i've
hundred thousand trained men at
arms could bring those peoples
into quiescent subjection inside OF
two years. The men who have
voted so glibly Of the ease with
which that mongrel people are to
be owned, are for the most part
men who knew nothing outside OF
their restricted bailiwicks and care
for nothing outside OF the interests
oil the manufacturers who make
the retention OF their seats posi-
BILE.
They do not know, but they will
come to know. that warfare of this
kind degenerates into butchery on
the one hand and a cataclysm OF
death from mortal plaques on the
other. Philippine nature is a
nature that will slay thousands
where the bullet will slay one.
Heat and disease, shoulder to
shoulder. battle for the natives. So
many OF the soldiers OF France died
when Madagascar was invaded
that the Government did not dare
to publish the returns. The time
is coming, it is near at hand, when
censored kilograms from Manila
will hide the names Of our slain.
The war outlined for us meansa
war pushed to slavish quiescence
OF the vanquished, or their eXter-
mination. What it Will cost US in
money, not to speak of life, no man
can say. 1t may be millions; it
may be a billion. Even without
the added expense OF operation in
a distant country, it would not take
long to reach those figures with
standing army Of 100, 900 men, at
an annual outlay OF SI75, ,ooo, 900.
These figures are conservative.
Five weeks ago we were within
hailIng distance of peace with
honor and profit, a I'D avoidance Of
the war tax early in the coming
century. Now no man can see the
end; no man can predict with Ger.
taInty the depth Of the plunge we
will be forced to take. The people
today are groaning under taxes
levied internally to aid the North
in crushing the South. That was
the be0inning of our internal tariff
Twenty FIVE years hence, we may
say with surety, our children will
be stripping themselves to pay the
score charged upon them by the
Senate's recent vote. Before the
first angry shot was fired by our
troops against the Filipino savages
Mr.. Cannon, of Illinois, chairman
Of the House Committee on Ap-
preparations, announced for the
benefit Of his Republican COL
leagues that there must not be an
other provision for the expendi-
ture Of large sums. He stated that
the deficit resulting from the Oner-
ous sectional DinglGy law was al
ready 50 large that we could not
meet our current expenses, and he
added that he saw no hope of re
oealing the war taxes for at least
two years to come. This was be-
lore the savage, imperious demand
Tor the passage Of the army enlarg-
ing bill by the present Congress.
That bill means an additional
OF possibly two hun
dred millions a year and the money
can come only from increased
arbitrary taxation. Americans
who have grown tired OF affixing
stamps to their kilograms in order
to spare the Western Union, may
now prepare to affix two stamps.
Those who growled because COM
oelled to pay the internal revenue
taxation for giant express COM
oanies, may now elevate their