Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-09-14
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CRAM IT DOWN THEIR THRoATs
About two or three weeks ago there
came through London paper au Inter
view with Dewey In which no made
Jundry statements concerning the
present Philippine war that caused
the patriotic" republican Journals to
declare II all "A beastly lie, that II never
could by any stretch Of possibilities
occur that Dewey should make use OF
any such unreasonable" utterances,
For example, here Is this passage!
II have the question OF the Philippines
moro at heart than any other Amerl
can, because know the Filipin0s init
mate!y and they know am their
friend"
Think of that Dewey, a friend Of
the rebels That's what "ratriotic'
people call treason when II occurs
in u democrat or populiSt. Then again
ne said:
"The Flipinos are capable of gov
ernlng themselves; they nave all quail
lhcations for It,
What rot Here we have been com-
pairing them to "injuns," only to besllot
n order to be civilized, and with no
more claim on their territory than the
"injuns" had here. And then this
ut Is a question OF time, but the
only way to settle the insnrrection and
assure prosperity TO the archipelago Is
to COncede self-gOyernment to the in
habitants. That would be a solution
OF many questions and would satisfy
all, especially the FillpiDos, who be-
lieve themselves worthy Of II and
are So"
II 10 awful Such drivel! Our ar
mics won't succeed In cOwing these
savages. And then here's this, worst
of all:
III have never been In favor of vic.
lence toward the Filipinos"
Then, according to that, all the
blood and butchery and killing that
has been and now Is going on under the
kind guidance and authority Of our be-
loved humane president, Is just what
the populist and democrat copper
heads cay, an unholy war. And then
some more:
"The islands are at this minute
blockaded by a fleet and war reigns In
the interior. This abnormal state of
things should cease"
Treason Treason!
III should like to see autonomy first
conceded and then annexation might
be talked about. should like to see
violence put a stop to-"
The cowardly old copperheadl He
would tear down the flag. He would
order our troops to retreat under FIRE.
Then he closes:
According to my view the conCes-
sion of salt.gOYernment ought to be
the most just and most logical conclu'
siOn.'
Well, it Is not much wonder republic
can papers declared 1t lie, But the
peculiar part Of 1t Is that none Of them
took the trouble to discover whether
Dewey would repudiate 1t, or IL they
did they never told Of it, But the
New York World did, He did not
deny it. The World also took other
methods to discover the truth by send
ing a special representative on the mis-
siou, and with the result that the in
terview is being repeated as true, and
republican papers seem to have re-
signed, Well, what is strange about
1t? Long ago Dewey said the Filpi-
nos were an intelligent people, better
fitted for self.government than the Gu
bans
And now comes an authorized repre-
sentative of Aguinaldo in an article in
the North American Review. and says
If Dewey had been allowed to remain in
charge Of affairs at Manila, this trouble
would not have occurred, but that
when Merritt came over he was
military tyrant who either
did not understand the Filipinos or did
not want to, and straightway started
things on the road to n clash.
1t begins to look very much as IL the
arch copperhead would soon be Dewey.
A special representative Of Aguinaldo
has never yet, to our knowledge, eulo-
gi2ed Bryan
AT LAST after several weeks OF blus-