The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-05

Maine II Is doubtful whether there would
have been war with Spain. The admins
tration was opposed TO 1t. The hus:nes:
interests Of the country did not want 1t
The Catholic church. with It's immense
political influence, labored for peace. Put
the explosion in the harbor OF Haya..s
was the knell of Spanish dominion IL tbs
western hemisphere and the Pacific, and
the war that followed was the peoole's
war
With the Philippines It is different. TIE
conscience Of the nation Is not interested
The appeal to patriotism is not strenuous
The field Of operation is far, and the ad-
vantage of victory is dubious. question
able and remote. Fighting Aguinaldo and
his savage hordes is like a contest with
wolves. They assemble and dispense and
reappear unconscious Of defeat and indif-
ferent TO death. The yare reinforced BY
the hostility Of nature. by the fatal ener-
gies of the air infesting where they fly
and poisoning where they repose The
Twentieth Kansas regiment, recruited at
100 has 200 invalids on the way home. 800
more unfit for duty from wounds and dis
ease; but $50 remain on the firing line.
People are beginning TO wonder why we
paid twenty millions to Spain and. If the
North American indians held civilization
at bay in a hand-to-hand fight for two
centuries, when the ten million Filipinos
will be pacified.
Were it not for the humiliation and
ignorance Of retreat and surrender, there
would be an immediate demand for
evacuation. but pride Of race and dreams
~ ND ht,, fo-
passion for empire come in, and the re-
pleted regiments will be filled up, and the
administration supported, even to the
point Of exterminating the insurgents
The man or the party advocating a policy
Of REIMBURSEMENT and submission will go
into history with the Hartford convention
and the Copperheads of the Rebellion.
In clamoring for expansion and Oriental
dominion, Roosevelt appeals to impulses
that are indomitable. He represents the
inevitable. He anticipates the future. He
moves along the line of least resistance.
Above him flames the splendor of the flag,
with its intangible inspiration. the en-
blem of irresistible over, the symbol of
imperishable glory. Roosevelt did not
omit to remind his Kansas audiences that
they, too, had hero-the adventurous and
intrepid Frederick Funston, farm hand,
reporter, explorer, lecturer, soldier of for
tune and, at "a. brigadier general. He
bears the same relation to the Luzon cam
paign as Roosevelt to that in Cuba, and
for similar qualities and exploits. These
two, with Dewey, are thus far the fam
Gus names OF the war. The verdict Of his
tory is yet to be pronounced. Time some
times reverses the Judgment Of contempt
rarieS.
Meanwhile the beneficcnt trusts that
were to cheaper commodities and benefit
consumers have. during the past thirty
days, raised the price of brooms. raisins.
butterine, wall paper, rubber goods. glass
ware. meat, crackers. furniture, wagons,
ploughs. fence wire and other necessaries
from 15 to 100 per cent, and Captain Ooer-
lin NJ Carter, who was convicted more
than a year ago of stealing seventeen
hundred thousand dollars from the gov
eminent and sentenced to fine, imprison-
ment and dismissal. is still wearing the
uniform and drawing the pay of his rank. !
BY July his guilty partners will be pro-
tected by the statute OF Limitation.
JOHN ]. INGALLS,.