The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

Mount of olives should be instilled into
the hearts of every people; and every
soIdler buried on Luzon soil has been
a missionary for this higher civilization
throughout the wide, wide world and
ne has done more for it, too, than all
the contribution boxes in Christendom.
Inc demogOgues that infest many or
the hlgh places in our government never
miss an opportunity to play upon hui
man passions. They cry out in a loud
voice against the useless shedding of
American blood in the Orient. What
have we to do with the Philippine arch
lpeIago. Such blatherskite is nauseat-
ing IN the extreme. American blood IS
being shed here; but those of US who
are shedding it and those of US whose
lives are offered living sacrifices upon
the altar of progress, physical and
spiritual, do not murmur
can the mothers who bore the young
MANHOOD OF Yankee land believe their
sons so forgetful of the love of liberty
ana enlightenment that was inculcated
into their beings at their mothers
breasts No. thousand times no.
Can American fathers born of a race of
men who fought, bled and died that hu-
man justice might prevail, regret the
shedding Of their sons life blood in so
glorious cause2 God in heaven, for
bid that any true American should want
to abandon these worse than serfs, be-
cause it costs American blood to lift
them out of the depths into which they
through long centuries, by cruel, unre-
lenting fate
In the years to come, may our child
rem, and our children's children read in
the pages of history of the noble sacri-
noes made by their fathers for free
doms sake. And may all the world
reJolce that liberty on her exalted
throne relgns supreme in every land
beneath the blue canopy of heaven.
Some people pirate of the coming. of
the millennium. The dawn of that age
In
freedom invited, smiles on every nation
of the earth. And peace will stand
aloOf until, at the command of JUS
tlce, serfdom shall fold its tents like
the Arabs, and as silently steal away,
to be lost forever in the vast, bound
less desert Of fOrgetfulness.
Not many years will have past over
our heads until our pupils in the school
OF human progress here in the Philip
pines, viii have attained such a great
amount of knowledge that the world
viii be surprised at our efficiency as
teachers and the natives aptness and
wonderful intelligence. This PARKWAY
land will be rapidly climbing up the
ladder of progress, soon to join In the
onward march of civilization.
Manila will be, within ten years, the
Chicago of the Orient, it will be the
gateway between the old and the new
world, and the Filipino viii be the hap
piest man eXtant, because he is under
the flag that made it so.
I saw in recent issue of a London
paper that some of the bravest and
best soldiers the world has ever
known are now fighting before the reb-
eI trenches in LuZOn-" And then fol-
lowed eloquent eulOgies on many of our
magnificent officers to whom so much
credit is due. That reminds me. Isn't
1t just glorious that our Fred, the
braVeSt, trueSt, nObleSt man who ever
wore the blue, has been made a briga-
der general, in recognition of his most
valuable services. And he deserved
mn InT no TQ17+ 1,o Ia
of Kansas will not forget Fred Funston.
If lie viii accept it, they will give him
a seat in the United States senate, or
the governors chair. He is a wonder
full man, is General Frederick Funston.
Did say he was the braVest noblest,
truest soldier in our army? If not that,
quite: there are none who excel him
IN bravery, nobility and integrity and
the SunfiOwer state owes him much, as
does the nation.
There is another officer who, although
he wears but two bars OF his shoulders,
is deserving of loud praises and other
more substantial evidences of a peoples
appreciation Of patriotic bravery and
excellent soldierly qualities. refer to
| Captain W. H Bishop of NJ company Of
the fighting Twentieth While lead
ing a charge on April 28 he was wound
ed in the leg and removed to the hos
pital in Manila. When l visited him
there he said to me, Indicative of the
character Of the man: Il tell you,
Loot, it's mighty hard to be cooped up
here with this sort of thing, when my
brave boys are out there fighting hard.
want, OH so much to be with them
it's where 1 belong. But he continued
with a sigh of regret and possibly a
twinge Of pain, that Mauser bullet
meTcileSSly made it impossible for me
| to remain at my post of duty. I'm go
! ing back as soon as the doctor viii
| permit me to go"
Captain Bishop is a man in every
sense of the word and brave and true.
! I cannot give him greater compli-
ment than to say that he is a credit to
| the uniform he wears.
DWIGHT 7. T.0nEROTTRPO