Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-04-27
A LONDON OPINION Of Us.
ONE OF THE MOST INFAMOUS WARS OF
MODERN TIMES.
Compares Agunado to Washington and tho
Fillplnos to tho American Forefathers.

There is o passage in the Bible
which s"ys that Jesilurun wuxed fat
and kioked--an indication that over
much prosperity is not good formost
men. Nor is it good for nations, as
the present condition of England and
the United States shows. Two ma
tions moro eaten up by greedy mate
rialism it would be hard to find or to
imagine. The United States have
enjoyed immense prosperity, tho pill
ing up of capital being moro rapid
than has ever been known in the his
tory of mankind. This realized capi-
tai has mostly run into the form of
hugo monopolies, which are said to
amount to about .e8OO,O0C,0OO of our
".v:e and they are growing every
day. The owners of these monopo-
lies are determined to get within the
grasp of their operations every
square yard of storritory they can
secure. 1t is this fact which is really
responsible for one of the most infa-
nous of modern wars-that now
being waged in the Philippines.
Even England in her long blood
stained career has never done any
thing moro outrageous than the
Americans are doing now in the
Philippines. Consider the facts.
The American people have never
declared in favor of the war. No
vote has been taken, no sanction has
been given o the President for the
wicked course he is pursuing. The
Treaty of Paris sold the Filipinos to
the Americans-to the champions of
libcrty-at the rate of two dollars a
head. But what right had Spain to
do this in the case of men who at
the very moment were in successful
revolt against her rule? And what
right had America to make the dam.
nable purchase when she was pre-.
tending to 60 as liberator, when,
as a matter of fact, she was actually
making use of Aguinaldo, the Philip
pine leader, to help her drive tho
Spaniartls out of the islands? As
soon as Spain was out the President
of the United States, without any
sanction or authority, wages war
upon the Filipinos, burns-by the
hands of his soldiers-thcif towns
and kills by thousands a people
against whom no crime can be al
legged, no charge be made, except
that they are doing precisely what
the Americans themselves di6 last
century. If Aguinaldo is rebel
and traitor, then Washington was
the same. If Washington was
noble patriot, then Aguinaldo is the
same. And every Filipino who is
killed by the machine guns of the
American troops is murdered man,
murdered by the nation which pridos
itself on it's devotion to "iiberty."
The connection between this
abominable butchery in the Philip
pines and tho big trusts which are
being organized in America is clear.
The trusts are already the real gov.
erning power in the United States,
they have oustcd for the time the
people from power, and they compel
the President to do their bidding.
Nobody will suspect poor, weak,
good-naturcd MIR. Mckinley of wish
ing to shed blood. But he is the
tool of the trusts, and the trusts
have made up their mind that these
islands arc important to their inter
csts. Important strategically, AID
important as affording q us eful
jumping-off place for the vast poten-
tial trade Of China, Of which the
American trusts hope to secure in
few years the lions share. 1t is the
greed of trade which keeps the ma
tions armed, and which makes wars
in our time. The Americana are in
the Philippines for the money they
think they can mako out Of ii, and
for nothing else whatever. For that
they are numbering people and do
stroying property, for that they arc
destroying the fundamental ideas on
which tho American Republic res:s,
for that they are setting the evil
example of robbery and war to the
nations of Europe. We do not write
in any pharisaical sense, for we have
just been doing the same thing in
the Soudan. But then England is a
hardened offender, while America is
a newcomer in this field of blood.
1t is bad, a very bad, outlook, and
here is worthy Mr.. Stead trying to
make hia continental peace friends
bolicvo that it is the Anglo o-Saxon
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