New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-11
ANOTHER ONTRAGE.


way the tyrannlcal military spirit of imperialism
Is invading home politics and presuming to tell
free American citizens what they ought to 10
Some time ago General Otis had the audacity
10 say that the Fipnos were encouraged to
fight our soldiers by hopes that the policy or
tho Government would be repudiated by tie
people at home. and the inference was that the
neople at home who were growing eloquent
over the Washington of the Philippines would
save American lives by holding their tongues
and going back to their cook stoves. or course,
ANYBODY who could not see military despotsm
rampant in such dispatch wouldn't know the
Man on Horseback If he came riding down
Broadway with a battery Of artillery TO de-
molish all the newspaper establishments ID
town Naturally. the defenders of the rights OF
Filipnos to shoot down American invaders were
incensed, and have since been firmer than ever
in their devotion TO their Washington, even
when he has turned hims11 into common
brigand and held for ransom prisoners OF
nation with whom he has no quarrel he is
still for them the noble champion OF civ1lza-
ton and constitutional liberty against the
Vaccinations Of Mckinley.
Now again comes Otis with a dispatch that
must make Mr.. Edward Atkinson exude pam
phlets in running streams from his superheated
brow, He cables: Captured letters high in
"surgent authority, exhorting inhabitants TO
'rbold out a little longer: that European rccog-
milton will be granted by August 81, and that
"the present United States Administration VIII
"be overthrown" Now, what could be more
revolutionary than that? An officer OF the
United States Army actually daring publicly to
identify the stability Of the Administration with
the National success in arms. That Is as much
as TO say that the overthrow of the present Ad-
ministration Is the hope Of the Nations enemies.
It may be true but true or false 1t was GER
tanly an interference in our home politics from
the seat of war. All Of the Lafayettes OF the
Philippines between Boston and Springfield and
likewise at "all points on the Fitchburg Line
ought TO arouse themselves and tell a down
trodden people that the sacred right OF CAB
shall not be abridged even II It helps Aguinaldo
to kill every American at Manila No. General
Otis had no business to tell us truth that has
any bearing on our own conduct at nome! tie
should have suppressed It and let his troops be
killed rather than undermine the Constitution!
Otherwise what is his censorship forf
We are not quite sure that the antl-expan-
sionists will not discover that these letters are
Inventions just as they discovered long ago
that the reports about Filipino unreasonable
ness being encouraged by the Senates delay
with the treaty was the fabrication OF unscru-
pulous agents of the Administration. OF course,
the truth Of those reports has since been amply
proyed. and even acknowledged by some Of the
anti-expansionst correspondents. But little
mistake like that does not trouble Lafayette OF
the Philippines. He is as much convinced as ever
that a President or general who does or says any
thing he does not like is a liar, coward or muir
derer and he needs no evidence to reject such
malicious tales about the Filipino Washington
as are contained in this dispatch which we
have quoted 1t is absurd on the face of 1t.
Did our Washington ever urge his followers to
fight on because Edmund Burke was going TO
overthrow Lord North the next month? No, he
and his band of patriots were sufficient to them
selves. So the immortal Aguinaldo, with those
lust powers derived from the consent Of the
governed, pursues his way to the Luzon York
town with calm Indifference to such con-
temptible thing as his Lafayettes In these parts
have told him this Government Is. Certainly
he would not stoop to admit that his victory
was In any way dependent on such creatures.