Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-11-04
THE DEMAG0GUE? +?

| that the war "came TO us not of our
own seeking" and so on in kindred
pious calculations for quantity.
Here again Mr.. President forgot to
say what his former Secretary of
State and his own personal and con-
fidential representative in the Span
ish treaty commission was at the
same moment saying in published
letter, to wit: that our title to the
Philippines rests not at all upon con-
quest, but wholly upon purchase
Mr.. Day also saying that this must
be so because when the treaty was
negotiated we were in possession of
only an inf1nitessimal strip of Philip
pine territory. Mr.. Mckinley then,
should have told his hearers, if he
had desired to tell the whole truth, h,
why, since our title depends solely
upon a treaty purchase, and since
the treaty did not go into effect until
each Of the parties to it had ratified
it, and since Spain did not ratify it
until late in March,-he was claim
ing both title and possession of those
islands as early as December, when
he Illuminated his benevolent as
similation" doctrine. And since it is
thus certain that the islands were
not forced upon us by the fortunes of
war, but were bought for twenty
millions of hard earned dollars, Mr..
President can hardly pose as the
humble instrument of Gods provi-
dence in waging war on the other
side of the globe, and all his pious
talk about 'destiny" and the like
can deceive no man who is not will
ing to be deceived. The fact is, as
Mr.. Days letter proves, we bought
from Spain an option to fight the
Filipinos. and no amount of patron
izing of Providence will shirk off on
the latter the responsibility for the
present war.
Farnsworth, the man who is under
arrest in Chicago for bigamy, admits
having 40 wives. He puts up as a
defense that as our constitution Sc
cures to all citizens the uniform
operation of laws in every part of the
United States, and since the Presi-
dent claims that the Sulu islands are
part of our territory and yet suffers
the Sultan to keep a plurality of
es,-that since this is SO, he,
Farnsworth, ought to go acquit; nor
is it hard to point out the inconsis-
tency of his position. Surely Mr..
Mckinley will not allow s'foreign
pauper labor" in the wife business to
compete with "home industry" in
the same line.
Mr.. President may "shove the
queer on the poor Hadji Mohamad
Womolol Kiram, in the shape of dis
honest Mexican dollars; he may
state half truths to the people from
the rear platform of car. He may
devolve upon Providence the respon-
sibility of an act for the benefits of
which he claims credit for himself;
he ought also to bear in mind Low
ellis verse:
''Ef you take a sword an dror It,
An go stick feller thru,
Guv'ment aint to answer for 1t.
Godll send the bill to you.''
He seems, however, to have been
reading rather, the "Pious Editors
Creed:"
Il du believe watever trash
IL keep the people in blindness
Thet we the Mexicans can thrash
Right into brotherly kindness,
Thet bombshells, grape, an powder N ball |
Air good-will's strongest magnets,
Thet peace, to make it stick at all,
Must be druv in with baynets.
In short, firmly du believe
In Humbug generally,
Fer it's thing thet perceive
To hev a solid vally;
This heth my faithful shepherd ben,
In pasturs sweet heth led me,
An this1l keep the people green
To feed ez they hev fed me-"
In view of these things, from the