The sea coast echo., 1899-09-16
EXPRESSES HIS ADMIRATION Foi'
LEADER OF FILIPIN0S.
SAYS EGUINALDO IS A BIG MAN
shows Great Tact in Holding Our army
Back-Spain Laughs Over her
Great Bargain.

Where does he get MS SuPpAAe''
orns and munitions cf war? Some
times we hear that he is a fraud,
q tvrant. and will soon play out. One
dow we hear that our boys have about
whipped him into submission, bat the
next dav he has ambushed and Killed
a lot Of them. Our boys are dlscour-
aged and say that they are tired night
ing a million negroes and want 10
come home. l wonder how many OF
them have died in the bitches ana
from tropical diseases and home sick
ness. 1t seems that these things have
to be kept secret in war, and l reckon
that is right But it will come cut
sooner or later.
The secretary of war has at last
been forced to resign because OF the
fearful mortality in Cuba that came
from his political appointments of IN
competent officers and his beef job
berv. Alas for the poor privates. In
time of war they have no friends
There is a wide gulf between them
and the commissioned Ctticers.
private must salute his superior officer
and feel. if he does not say, Il am
vour dog. sir. 1t is bad enough IN
the volunteer service, but worse IN
the regular army. had two grand
sons in the Cuban army. One was
captain and the other a private. They
were brothers but were not allowed TO
associate. The rules and usages OF
war forbade it. One was dog and
the other his master. Shakespeare
said that privates were food for pow
der and were the cankers Of calm
world and long peace.
As a general rule the regular army
is made up of the waits of misfortune
the vagabands, the idlers and the
friendless. No we'll raised young man
with respectable connections would
think of becoming a private in the reg
ular army. Enlistment is simply n
mode of providing for the surplus pop
uIatiOn that might otherwise become
anarchists and endanger the govern
ment Indeed, history tells us that
kings and emperors have found 1t good
policy to provoke wars in order to give
the idle and restless class something
10 do and to keep them ont Of mischief.
Their monthly pay and rations and the
prospect of a pension III old age Is at
traction enough. Paterualism is the
hope of the pauper, the communist,
| the private soldier The government
is their pap, and, like young jaybirds,
when the old ones come around, they
open their mouths wide and say,
| "Daddv, drop a bug in here.
But | was ruminating about this
copper colored Filipino, this man
Aguinaldo, and for the life of me
cannot help admiring him. If his
! people continue to back him how car
we subjugate them? He can afford to
lose five to one and then defeat us
He is exactly in General Grants con
dition when nearly the close Of oul
civil war. He said he could give Us
three TO one and conquer us, for hC
| had the world to draw from and We
| had nobody TO take our prisoners
| places That is the reason he was Sc
| indifferent to the prisoners that We
| took and couldent feed. They were
mostly foreigners, who were not fight
ing for patriotism, but for money, fol
Il living. Look at the names on the
| headstones at ChiCkamauga and An
| dcrsonville. 1t almost gives a maj
the lockjaw to pronounce them. Thert
were nearly three millions of men il
that army and over two million wer
| foreigners-food for powder-th
cankers of calm world and a long
peace, What did Grant and Sher
man care for them? They enlisted TO
SO a month and got it and took thei
chances. Honors were easy. Tn
difference was that our boys were al
patriots and volunteers, and one t.
three was a fair fight.
Now, the population of the Philip
pines is said to be 10, 10000 Tha
would give them 1000, 900 soldier
who are at home. At home defending
their native land and even If our boy
should kill or capture AguinaIdo, an
other one would rise mp and lead til
people. Spain is chuckling over III
$40, 600, 600 we paid for islands tina
she was tired Of, and it looks to IN
like we have bought an elephant. Fo
the life of me | can't arouse much in
terest in this far off war with 10, 900,
600 negroes. I don't care anythin
about it. As Spain treated the nativ
Cubans, so is our government treatin
the Filipinos. / can't see any differ
ence. [ wish there was a difference
I wish there was something TO pre-
woke my pride whenever we obtain
victory, but really this does not seer
like our war It is an administratio
war-a Republican war, war thl
will within Il few years cost million
and entail another pension outrage
There was no necessity for it and II
excuse for it, and peace might hay
been made soon after Dewey's victor
over the Spaniards. Aguinaldo T,
pCatedly proposed for it. Yes, begge
for it, but our officials wouIdent eve
treat with him or recognize him, an
so thousands Of our soldiers have gOn
to their death and more are called fo7
Let them call. Our boys are not 20
ing-u't one. If the negroes choos
t. go that's all right. Put negroes t
fighting negroes. 1t will be a goo
riddance Of the vagabouds who won
work. This negro problem is still un
solved and we will have to wait on il
I've been perusing another interest
ing book. lie History of The Missouri
Compromise, it is called, but it is ia
more than that. 1t is virtually polit
ical history Of the United States fror
17S7 10 1854, when the Missouri com
premise was repealed. This repen
was fathered by Archibald Dixon, fror
Kentucky, who succeeded Henry Cla
in the United States senate. He wa
a very great and influential man, til
personal friend of Mr.. Clay and Sent
tors Douglass and Daniel Webster
His widow, Mrs. Dixon, still lives