The representative., 1899-11-09
A NEW SLAVERY.
We find the following interesting let
ter in the MINNEAPOLIS Times Of Oct %.

We find the following interesting let
ter In the Minneapolis Times of Oct. 28:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-(From STAFF
Correspondent.)- .)-The sultan of Sulu Ohio
Methodists and Kentucky colored folk were
the subjects OF conversation at the cabinet
meeting today. The Kentucky and Ohio
campaigns have had features ranging from
sOuDrettes to astronomy, but even the most
fantastical political dreamer never thought
the sultan of Sulu, alias Jolo, should ever
De given speaking part on the hustfngs
That is just what has happened His high
ness the sultan does not know it. but he
Is there just the same. That other high
ness. Marcus Aurelius Hanna, he knows it,
Of course the row is about the alleged fourth
paragraph of the treaty with the sultan
According to newspaper authority it is as
follows
The sultan agrees to the preservation
OF existing social conditions on acondi- .
tlon that every person held in bondage
or ownership under grant of the sultan, =
or by individual purchase, shall be en-
titled to his freedom upon the payment
OF $40 (American money! to the crown. D
SO far as reported to the cabinet MEM
Ders there is no objection to the price,. In
the absence of evidence the chief executives s
ministers have right to assume that the
people think $40 is cheap enough for liberty
If 1t must be purchased at all. So far as
can be learned-and it must be admitted
munlcative on the subject-the objection is
that freedom must be purchased at ALL
The tone of the letter is that freedom ought
to be free.
The bitterest complaint is of a Repub-
lcan nature and comes from Kentucky. The
Republican managers in that state say the
Democratic speakers are quoting from the
treaty with deadly effect. The colored Re-
publlcans are in open revolt. They do not
like the idea OF going back to slavery.
The ignorant ones are being told that
it is only a question of time untfrsthe
race question in this country is settled
by putting the poorer classes Of colored
folks back into bondage. OF course this
is ridiculous, but not too ludicrous for
the ignorant cOlored folk of Kentucky
to believe.
The Ohio case is, a little different bur even
more serious. The president is Methcdist
He is on friendly and neighborly terms
with thousands and thousands of /. ..Matho-
dlsts in Ohio. Many of these Simple minded
and plous persons consider it thAfr. privi-
lege to write to the president on all sorts of
subjects. They give him their prayers and
also advice.
AS matter of fact, the president thinks
q great deal of these homely letters. They
tell him what the people are thinking of
him. He can trust their honesty and sin
cerlty. That is more than he can do with
the partisan newspapers. ..,..- ~-
Within the past few days these letters
have taken warlike, indignant and
anti-slavery attitude. They ask him
what he means by giving men the right
to buy and sell human beings
Wlthln a day or so reports have been
coming from the managers for the Nash
campaign committee to the effect that the
sentiment is hurting the ticket
At the cabinet meeting some Of the mem
bers wanted to give cut for publication the
text of the treaty. This was objected to
as being unwise for diplomatic reasons
The objections prevailed. The ministers
did say, however, that the paragraph of the
treaty as published in the first part of this
article is correct.
The explanations do not leave the
matter in more satisfactory condition
so far as the Kentucky colored folks
and Ohio MethOdists are concerned.
The Republican administration has
made great blunder recognizing the
existence of slavery in a part, of the
domains Of this country, in the face of
the amendment to the constitution
which declares that there shall be no
more slavery except as a punishment
for crime in the United States. Liberty
must follow the hoisting of the flag, and
to provide that the slaves of Sulu can
only be free by paying $40 to that dirty
sultan, for the support of his polyga-
nous harem, and to exc out the $3.50 a
month, which this brave nation pays
him for keeping quiet ...s..-
At one blow, by that treaty, they rec
cgnize not only slavery, but polygamy,
as part of the system of the United
States, and then try to deceive the peo-
pie by keeping it secret until after. the
Ohio election at least
Really, the great Republican party.
once led by Abraham Lincoln, now COM
manded by Mark Hanna, has fallen into
dreadful depths of degradation, when it
would resort to such courses, bribing
half-naked savages by pension, recog-
nizing slavery and assisting polygamy.
The Republican party was once the
greatest and noblest party in the world,
but plutocracy has climbed into the
wagon, crowded it's way to the front
seat, taken the reins out of the drivers
hands and is now driving the country
headlong into the pit. I'D
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