The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-03
ARRAIGNED BY MR.. EARR.
To the Editor of me Herald:

To the Editor of The Herald:
President Mckinley, in behalf of him
self and the people he represents, the
1 moneyed despotism. has in a public man.
ner extended his most grateful and pro-
| found thanks to the Homecoming voiun-
! teers who have been so gloriously fight
| ing the wars of Uncle Sam in the Philip
pines.
The president persuades himself that
| this acknowledgment of the patriotic and
| most excellent service of these American
heroes of the far east at this particular
luncture is >eminently meet and proper,
| from the fact that they have been willing
to brave the terrors and denominations Of
philippine. warfare. when they were no
| tractual. Christian. humanitarian or
| otherwise, to remain in the service and
carry on the White Mans Burden of
| benevolent and tender assimilation of
forcible aggression and determination.
| Their remaining on the fields of battle
under such circumstances, listening TO the
| captivating and thrilling lullabys of the
| enemyS guns, exposed to the ravages of
| disease. sleeping for a hundred nights up
on mattresses of native mud in the I'M
charitable trenches. unSheltered from the
| god of storm, living on wretched- and
| half-eooked rations harassed beyond en-
| durance by desultory attacks by bands of
| native patriots concealed in the jungleS
and suffering all the torments ana excru-
clatlng hell of war, TO the end that the
| advanced stand of the fathers of our
| country for human liberty might be
| abundantly vindicated is to be regarded
as an imperishable tribute to the patriot
| lc and tenacious devotion of the soldiers
! to their country.
| Impartial history will record, when the
| corrupt, disgusting political censorship
| shall have been shorn of its abominable
| reStrictiVeneSS and the avenues of truth
! opened up, that the American volunteers
| almost to man, who enlisted in the war
| with Spain, TO eXterminate Spanish rule
from the west and secure liberty to the
Cubans desired their discharge, when by
the terms of the contract the period of
enlistment had expired. His eXcellency
the chief MAGISTRATE of the moneyed in
tereStS OF the United States. knew. as we
all likewise know, that the detention of
the volunteers in the Philippine war was
cruelty contrary to their wishes. and that
II was not only unlawful to thus detain
them, but it was a criminal, despotic and
tyrannical exercise of authority wholly
lIng1efens4ble and fragrant usurpation of
delegated authority.
An uncensored dispatch has recently ar
rived from the far east disclosing the
sensational fact that a mutiny among
the Illegally detained volunteers was
barely az ertsd, that an op n and del beiate
rebellion againt the military despotism in
the Philippines by the imprisoned volun-
eral Otis promised their release and taken
immediate steps to carry that promise in
troops.
And 50 it doth verify appear that the
president sincere and grateful 90 ac-
acknowledgement of the gratitude of the
people Tor the eAuDerauCe of
volunteer patriotism and devotion. to his
eXcellencys imperialistic and 'benevo-
lent extinction policy was altogether pre-
mature and out of harmony with the ac-
tual nature of the situation. 1t might
have worked most significantly as a mani
festation of political sagacity and shrewd-
ness if the president could have had some
understanding with the '.indiscreet'' VOL
unteers and the bOisterous 90 press cor
respondents, to the end that they would |
observe an attitude of uncom2romising
Thsa of nj
falrS: but such was not in the economy !
OF things to be- and hence the absurd aud !
transparently hypocritical position this |
prince of Imperialism has been placed in.
The saddest feature of this whole sick |
enlng drama of foreign conquest is the |
killing and mutilation of American SOL !
ulerS IN the prosecution of a war in which /
they were under no moral or legal obliga |
ton TO participate but who were com /
PEELED by sheer force of might, against |
their Wills to remain in the trenches |
hgnting the tilipinos, many of whom |
were cut off in the blossom of youth. in |
the Vlgor of robust manhood and joyous |
expectation. TO fill tropical graves. Killing |
OF human beings under such circum- !
stances is nothing short of criminal and 1
the president of the United States, who
Is d1gnited by the appellation of COM
mander in chief of the American army
and who will be renounced in history for.
the magnitude of his misdeeds and The
long train of miseries and sorrows he has
entalled on the race of men, is directly
responsible for the killing of those SOL
diers. since the terms of their enlistment
expired. likewise for the untold sorrow
ihat mas settled down in so many homes
But when We reflect that the retention
OF the volunteers was only a circumstance
in the evolution of the nations manifest
Destiny and therefor under the degrees
Of memorable law. the fact becomes rob-
bed of its censurable elements. enrolled in
the habiliments of chastity, and Mckinley
shades OF his departed victims and the |
loud-tongued patriots, disciples of his
manifest destiny sophism. But the de-
cree has gone forth that we must
Take up the white mans burden
send forth our sturdy sons.
And load them down with whisky
And testaments and guns:
Throw in a few diseases
To spread in tropic climes
For there the healthy niggers
Are quite behind the times
We mustn't forget the factories
on those benighted shores:
they have no cheerful iron mills,
Or eek department stores;
They never work twelve hours a day
And live in strange content
Although they never have to pay
A single cent of rent.
Take up the white mans burden.
And teach the Philippines
WI hat interest and taxes are
And what a mortgage means
Give them electrocution chairs,
And prisons. too, galore,
And If they seem inclined to kick,
Then spill their heather gore
They need our labor question, too, .
And politics and fraud:
We've made dirty mess at home,
Let's make a mess abroad;
And let us ever humbly pray
The Lord of Hosts may deign
TO stir our feeble memories,
Lest we forget the Maine.
Take up the white mans burden,
And those who thus succeed
n civiliZing savage hordes
They owe a debt indeed:
pensions. salaries {
Privilege and right, ,
With outstretched hands we raise to bless.
Grab everything in sight.
fake up the white mans burden,
And II you write in verse;
Tlatter our nations vices :
And strive to make them worse: :
then If with pious word
You ornament each phrase.
n a world of cantng hypocrites