Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-09
THE SPIRIT BEHIND III.

salt Lake Tribune. The GROWERS and
obstructionists are having good times
THESE days. With some Of them it is
hereditary. Some are old practitioners.
Ii IS slaughable to see how the democracy
quotes Senator Foraker, tell how brilliant
he is, but the same papers for twenty
years have been saying that he is a fire:
brand and never is satisfied except when
he has a row on hand. Whitelaw Reid is
another, with his Tribune in New York.
He is an old-time kicker. 1t was he who
ran the Tribune in ~. 1t was he who
made the quarrel between Garfield and
Conkling and destroyed, in fact. three
great lives by it. He thinks he ought to
dictate the policy of the present admin
isVation. and as he cannot he has his
gIowls and his sneers, but he is authority
witt all the opposition. They have
damned him for years, but they all love
him now. Senator Henderson is another.
He writes an open letter to the presi-
dent filled with ignorance and insolence.
and some of use remember when his COM
mission as a high federal official in Mis-
souri, was revoked. and he angrily asked
by wire, what for n the answer
came back, For impertinance to the
President of the United States.'' All the
descendants of that crowd who were
Knights of the Golden Circle in Indiana,
those chaps that War-Governor Morton
throttled n choked into decency, are
rampant. Their ~sympathies for the poor
FiliDinos run away with them. Wher-
ever there was a newspaper published in
1872 that changed from it's former self
and tried to elect Greeley president, it is
now to be outraged at the war in the
ph;1irninnS Go fhav 90 CD fhnv h VIZ
been going for thirty years or more. Prof.
ScEurman has told them that everything
was offered the FilipinoS except absolute
independence, and still they rant and
rave, and though they know that Presi-
dent Mckinley has 10 more right to in
sure them independence than any pri-
va1e citizen in the country, they storm at
him as though he were a tyrant who is
trying to steal away the liberties of a
liberty-loving people, and all in the inter-
est of some money syndicates. the exist
ence of which not one of them can tell
anything about, and the evidence of
which no one has ever seen.
The purpose is to influence the cleo
ton this fall preparatory to next year.
The hope is to show democratic gains,
but unless the American people have de-
generated more than we think they have,
they will be disappointed. TIL war dem
ocrats of Indiana used to thank Governor
Morton with tears in their eyes for the
way he handled the allies of the confed-
eracy in that state. We think we shall
hear from them again when the election
comes. because the sense of fairness of
the American people when they UNDER
stand a matter, is what controls. Some
democrats are already saying that their
party is sealing it's defeat for next year
by the attitude taken by members Of it
now, for it is nothing but this: They
are lending aid and comfort to the men
W no are killing our soldiers, and that is
enough for the average American to
know. Below all is the fact which is per-
fectly apparent. that our soldiers We're
not sent to Manila to Oppress anyone but
rather they were sent there to break the
arm of an oppression which had made
life a burden to those people for three
hundred years. and that a few buccan-
neers, who nave no clear idea of liberty
at all, insist that they ought to be allow
ed to establish a rule of ueSDOtism over
the millions of the tribes of those stands
and at the same time to run a rule of
unbridled license on their part, will never
believe that to kill them, so long as they
have arms in their hands and are killing
our soldiers. is any crime, or that to kiln
! them will endanger our own liberty, or
that to kill them will establish a mon
archy in the United States. 1t is a mar
row, insincere ~demagogue wall and the
election will puncture it. The same cry
might. with just as much sense. be raised
against our feeding the people of Porto
Rico, who were left destitute by the hur-
rica ne. 1t might with just as much sense
be raised because our officers in Cuba
arc compelling people there to be decent
and to keep their premises clean as a
preventive of an epidemic. It is some
thing which all those who are crying out
against it urged upon our government.
and the moment the war was on and
there could be no retreat. then they be-
gan their fire in the rear. The people UNI
derstand it. They will begin to fix it on
] ell. elton day, and it will all be completed
by the time they are ready to offer their
plants and to reveal their
when congress meets.