Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-03-17
THE AMERIC SOLDIER.

Tie W puDuCAn~ 6OuG nj I'd place lIt
Democrats in the po on Of ques-
Hm,Ilg whether u Filipino soldier
tpr Hi American soldier was right.
IN the course If a hrilliint reply to
1his charge Congressman Lewis ~
'WashiiiRtoh paid the foil wing elo-
9uent Tribute u. the American SOL
der.
Sirs, the riaeue is mott cannot be
Ia Il Fillipin" right or an american
night; no .uch nortify ing contrast
Will be permitted. No man who will
make It can be named statesman"
nor citizen who would en- lure it bear
with honor thu title an american"
-. Slra, let it be known that we hold
'the real issue t.. be, Was it not wrong
10 enforce the payment from the tai
learners and taxpayers vt this nation
Of 5000 5000 for the ownership of 30
distant and diaastroGa a p.ssessiDn as
The PHILLIP Inc Islands? Was it rot
cruel m enforce upon the American
farmer and toiler. alread. broken
with hls burdens. the competition OF
. savage and remorseless race? Was
it not criminal to exact by law and
execute by arms the support 1T n
military empir. viii III must entail
.$20O, 100000 per year upon the en-
numbered free people Of our nation?
Shall not the question be, Where is
the reward for such an undertaking.
Where the justification for such op.
pressive policy? Shall it be fonnd in
the knowledge that man in this
day living ca" exist long enough to
ever nee or feel the slightest return
for hiI exalted sacrifice? That life
to him ID not long enough to ever feel
the burden tighten for one hours
length? Rather shall we not tell the
nation that it 10 by the Orders Of the
masters in power that thons nd - #
our hopeful s0n". our val 'rOu> youth.
u mothers boy, II fathers hope, are to
perish by mysterious plague; to die
in consuming fever, or to r-lurn--if
ever to return the emaciated wreck
OF IA once promising life. Limbs tot
terlnR, CHEEKS sunken and yrllrwei
by disease; eyes jaundiced in their
sockets; 3sicklied Ger with the pale
cast OF derIh." Their frames racking
with ceaseless tOrture-tu expire at
Last in groaD and PRAYER for home
and mother. Tho pitirul clio ,e OF the IT.
lies bright beginning.
Oh, my countrymcn, here is the
issue.
1t is against the law of their neces-
titr; we cry ont the order OF their
death; we oppose the confiscation of
their generation; we fight to the emil
Tho more we weep over their fate,
the more We love and cherish them
M they accept and execute it.
and, rs Il child when soaring sounds
modest,
Clings close and closer to it's mothers
breast,
81 the loud torrent and the canpon,s
roar
But hind him to us more and mora {"
We know where they are; we know
what they are doing; we feel all the,
feel, and shout on: "brave BOYS" IN
their every war shrick and God bless
you to every death throb.
~AlaS!
Nor wife nor children more ehall no
behold,
Nor friends nor sacred home"
Sirs, it is not ours at this hour to
reason upon their course. II il not
Tor our opponents to charge nor lh.
. enemies Of this H,use t. intimate
chat We are not all conecious ~, mr.
duty, We know that while onr s,l.
9 diers' fight their fight ia onr t,obt
Right or wrong their cause ia ~, =
cause. Their commander m chic,
our som mander; his orders our com.