Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-09-12
EpistIe to the FiIipinos.

Joe Wheeler, servant of Uncle Sam
to the tribes that are scattered abroad,
greeting.
My brethren, count 1t all Joy when
ye fall into divers temptations, for
even so did my beloved Dixie, knowing
this, that the trying of your faith
worketh patience But let patience
have her perfect work, that ye may be
perfect and entire, wanting nothing
not even local government of your
own
A double minded man is unstable in
all his ways, even as Agulnaldo. Let
the Filipino of low degree rejoice that
he is exalted and that the naughty
Spanish ruler is made low. For the
sun is no sooner risen with burning
heat than it withereth the grass, and
the flower thereof falleuh, and the
grace of the fashion of 1t perlsheth;
so also shall perish and fade away all
those who rise up against Uncle Sam.
For even so in times past faded the
Confederacy. But whose loolSeth into
the perfect law OF liberty, and con-
tinueth therein, he being not forget
full hearer, but doer of the work, this
man shall be blessed in his deed, and
he shall be granted amnesty, and may
go to congress, or hold commission
in the army and wear the livery of
Uncle Sam, even as I, the humblest
of his servants, now do.
Only them that have the rule over
lutte them. They of America salute
you. Be not carried away with divers
and strange doctrines, for it is a good
thing that the heart be established.
And here have ye no continuing city,
but dwell in tents, yet will Uncle Sam
build fer you one of exceeding great
beauty, and above it shall float the
flag of a nation free, and its standard
shall be of gold. Wherefor lay apart
all filthiness and superfiuity of naugh
tiness, and receive with meekness the
engrafted word. Ye ask and receive
not, because ye ask amlss Behold the
husbandman waiteth for the precious
fruit of the earth, and nath long pa
tience for it, until he receives the early
and natter rain. Be ye also patient.
For where envying and strife is, there
is confusion and every evil work.
From whence come wars and fight
ing among you? Come they not of
your lusts? Ye kill and desire to have
let us have peace, for ye know not
what shall be on the morrow. Ye re-
jolce in your boa9tings, but what is
your life? 1t is even a vapor that ap-
peareth for little time and then van
isheth away. Wherefor, seeing ye are
encompassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses lay aside every
weight and the sin which so easily
doth beset you, and run with patience
the race that is set before us. For the
law hath a shadow of good things to
come.
Ye have followed cunningly devised
fables, for there are false teachers
among you who bring damnable here
I'sies, and shall bring upon themselves
swift destruction. And many have
followed their pernicious ways, by rea-
son of which the way of truth is evil
spoken of. And through covetous-
ness they have with feigned words
made merchandise of you; whose
Judgment now of a long time llnger-
eth not. For if God spared not the
angels that sinned and flooded the old
world, and turned Sodom and Gomor-
lha into ashes, what will He do with
Aguinaldo, who like Balaam the son of
Bosor, loyeth the wages of unright-
eousness? And as Balaam's ass,
speaking with a mans voice, forbade
the madness of the prophet, so may
Gen. Otis hush the Tagal chieftain.
They are as wells without water,
clouds tnat are carried with tempest,
to whom the mist of darkness is re-
served forever. While they promise
liberty they themselves are the ser
wants of corruption; for of whom
man is overcome, of the same is he
brought in bondage.
But perfect love casteth out fear Let
us love one another The Yankees
never run, and again America salutes
you-Bede's Budget.