The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-04-28
- s Troubied About the Situation
10 the Philippines.
GLOOMY IN THE SPRINGTIME
y hcH IL shou'j Be Happy art Smiling
VA ,c"s IS Bad-Som-thing Is the
M3-.eE.

80 cP'ih0o c'cN3'AN.NA
,est. 1alus pejor pesslmus- bad,
worse, worst. ] remember that much
Latin. some days we are optimlsts
and loci on the bright side and think
the var is about over and the millen-
ainm will begin with the new century.
Then again the news is bad we are
obliged to be pessimists until it
changes. l am q pessimist right
now, foc everything looks dark and
Gloomy abroad, though tie genial
gprlng sun is shining and everything is
ioyely ct home. What Is all this about
one hundred thousand more men want
ed 20 subduc the Fllipinos and our
-oldiers saying they didn'nt enlist to
fight negroes; and what about the Sa-
means ambushing oar boys and cut
ing their heads of and parading them
through the streets. and what about g
rupture with Germany while our navy
is all engaged over there IN those far
distant islands? If Germany is fight
ing mad, Whist better opportunity does
she want than to turn ner navy loose
upon "a RIGHT now? and how do we
know that Johnny Bull would help as?
And then again there seem to be no
real peace IN Porto Rico, for one Of
,neir ia.a papers says: eve observe
with sorrow tina. tbs United States
troops ere J. mass OF base and shame
less people, u drunken multitude who
daily buffet and maltreat our suffering
people. They rob our servants as
they 60 TO market; they enter our res
t%aurants aad take what they want by
toTce and then break up the crockery;
they rob the pedllers and refuse to
IL sight; they insult Il ONE like
>avGges, and to complain to hoa3quar-
ters Is like barking at the moon. If
.lis is our destiny, would that We
could eink this fair island in the depths
Of tie sea"
Another paper says: oar people
axe daily insulted by these ruiiisns,
md We have not tie patience of Jol
nor the meekness Of the Man Of Cal
ya-y to bear these things without re-
talIGting."
Another paper says: We suffered
Iucn under the Spaniarua, bat on,
aew liaerators are committing greater
oltens- md expressions than dll onl
4orlaer masters, and We cannot sub
nit quietly 70 this new tsrany. New
eT iefnro has here occurred II bouc,
such oU,ra9es as are happening t.-lty.
here Is safety nowhere, aal our IN
dies are NJ al tlules exposed 10 the IN
-alts OF drunken soldiers.
ipw Is that for the American sol
a.yr-tle bravo patriots whom We lauC
III song aa0 story? Nor DO We nav,
to 80 10 Porto Rico to iini them
only : lev DAYS ago a New jerse,
regiment was mustered out at Green
'1iie, :. G., aud Immediately bsgal
their dcyI!ment, and their ~journe,
hoGo Was ~ reign OF terror. \ Eegr,
Wit to RE and wants to know wherei,
tae cosorel troops were worse than tn
whites.
WHAT j. ths matter with this genera
uou. Wine aad black? What is til
matter 8! Pans, and why cant the IN,
raec> work together IN peace? What i
Tie matter At Weathersiord, Conn.
=ad nv won't the white PEE, lc Their
let the negroes bulid u home tor OH
az invalid negroes: Carrie Steele,
so,o.~d -ooi Samaritan, projected
similar nam1 for negro orphans IL !.
ANITA ant the WHIT bade her godspee,
s2a subscribed literally and helpe.
Ter, AMI 1t is doing good WORK thaJ !
commented hy iii our people. Hay
he yauheesforGotteE whstthey iougn
Ter, or pretended to fight rs for
And besides all these things there 81
more fires ana awful casualties an