The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-03
BILL ARP ON A&UINALDo.
He Says tho Filipino Leader Must be
Great Mar to Hold Our Army
Back-Spain Laughs at Selling us
an EleDhant at n Good Price

Back-Spain Laughs at Selling us
an Elephant at n Good Price.
| Aguinaldo Tho name haunts me-.
a man, q leader, q general who has
kept tho army and navy OF the United
States at bay for six months must be
Il patriot and q soldior. Surely some
strong power must be helping him.
Where does he get his supplies, his
guns and munitions OF war? Some
times we hear that he Is fraud,
tyrant, and will soon play out. One
day VIC hcar that our boys have about
whipped him into submission, but the
,, next day he has ambushcd and killed
q lot Of them. Our boys arc discour-
aged and say that they are tired fight
ing q million negroes and want to come
homo. | wonder how many OF them
have died in the ditches and from
tr0Dical diseases and homo sickness
1t seems that these things have to be
kept secret in war, and | reckon that
is right. But it will come out sooner
or later. Tho secretary OF war has at
last been forced to resign because OF
the fearful mortality in Cuba that
came from his political appointments
Of incompetent officers and his beef
jobbcry. Alas for the poor privates.
In time OF war they have no friends.
There Is wide gulf betweou them and
must salute his superior officer and
fccl If he docs not say, am your
dog, sir" 1t Is bad enough In the vol
| untocr service, but worse in tho regu-
lar army. had two grandsons In tho
| Cuban army. Ono WAS o captain and
the other Il private. They were broth
crs, but were not allowed to associate.
The rules and usages OF war forbade
IT. Ono was dog and the other his
master. Shakespeare said that pri-
Yates wore food for powder and were
the cankers OF calm world and long
peace. AS n general rule the regular
army is made up OF tho waits OF mis-
fortune, the vagabonds, the idlers and
the friendlcss. No we'll raised young
man with respectable connections
would think OF becoming private In
the regular army. Enlistment Is
simply mode OF providing for the
surplus population that might other
wise become anarchists and endapger
u that kings and empcrors have found
1T good policy to provoke wars In order
to give the idle and restless class
som ething to do and to keep them out
OF mischief, tThoir monthly pay and
rations and tho prospect OF q pension
In old ago is attraction enough. Pattern
alism 10 the hope Of the paupor, the
communist, the private soldier. Tho
government Is thoir pap, and like
young jaybirds, whom the old ones
come around they open their mouths
wide and say, daddy, drop bug in
here"
per colorcd Filipino, this man Aguin-
aldo, and for the life OF me | cannot
help admiring him. If his people con-
tinue to back him how can we sub.
jugatc them. He can afford to lose
five TO one and then defeat us. Ho is
exactly In General Grants condition
whom nearly the close OF the civil wa :.
Eio said he could give up three to one
and conquer us, for he had the world
take our prisoners places. That is til @
prisoners that we took and cUulucat
feed. They wore mostly foreigners,
who were not lighting for patriotism,
bIt for money, for living. Look at
the names on the hcadstones at Chick
amauGa and Andcrsonville. 1t almost
gives man tho lock jaw to pronounce
them. There were nearly three mil
l:ons OF mon in that army and over two
| millions were foroigners-food for
powdcr-thc cankcrs of a calm world
and IL long pcacc. What did Grant
and Sherman care f>r them? They
enlisted for $40 Il mon, Il and got it and
| took their chances HOnors were
easy. The difference was that our
boys were ali pa,riots and volunteers,
,.nd one TO three WAS n fair fight.
Now ths population Of the Philip
pines is said to be 10, 600, 900. That
would give tnom 900 900 soldiers who
arc at home. Al home defending their
native land and even If our boys should
Kill ~ capture Aguinaldo, another
one wa d rise up aud lead the people.
spain is chuckling over tho 500, 900, 900
we paid for islands that she was tired
Of, and IL looks 10 mo like we have
! hough. nn cicp ant For the life OF
| me can't arouse much interest in this
far of war with l0,O0O,000 negroes. |
| don't care anything aboutit. As Spain
treated the native Cubans, so Is our
government treating the Fllipinos. l
can't SEQ any difference. l wish there
WAS difference. | wish there was
something to provoke my pride when
ever We obtain victory, but really
this does not seem like our war. 1t IL
an administration war-~a Republican
war, Is war that will within few
years cost millions and entail another
pension outrage. There was no neces-
sity for IT and peace might have been
made soon aftor Dewey's victory over
tho Spaniards. Aguinaldo repeatedly
proposed for it. Yes, begged for it,
but our officials wouldont even treat
with him or recognize him and 80
| thousands Of our soldiers have gone to
thcir death and more are called for.
Let them call. Our boys are not going
not ono. If the negroes choose to 60
that's all right. Put negroes to fight
| ing negroes. 1t will be good rid
dance OF the vagabonds who won't
work. This negro problem is still un-
solved and wo Will have to wait on 1t.
I've been perusing another interest-
| ing book, ,"Tho History Of the Mis-
souri Compromise" it is called, but 1t
| Ia far more than that. It Is virtually
political history Of the United States
from 1887 to 1854, when tho Missouri
compromise was repealed. This ro-
peal was fathered by Archibald Dixon,
from kentucky, who succeeded Herry
Clay In tho United States Senate. He
was worry great and influential man,