The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-12


The Mckinley spasums have broken out
In Minneapolis, and some Minneapolitans
have them very bad Even the clergy are
not immune. One of them went out to
a preliminary spasum and offered a res
olution calling a convention, or something
of that sort, to indorse the Mckinley
method of conquering peace in the Phil
ippines; explaining later in some remarks
would "have a tendency to strengthen
the boys Of the Thirteenth The admis-
sion that they need Strengthening is a
rather indiscreet one for even a minister
to make in face of the strenuous asser-
lions made by the imperialist press that
the boys need no strengthening. But
aside from that, the methods used by the
president to establish peace" are hardly
such as should commend them to one who
processes faith in the teachings Of the
Prince of Peace
But the two persons whose spasums
were the seVerest were the late Mr.. Eustis
and one Roberts. Eustis materialized
sufficiently to denounce his fellow Repub-
Hcans. Senator Hoar, Edward Atkinson
and Prof Laughlin, as traitors" while
Roberts came after, a close second, with
the opinion that "every copperhead should
be hanged to the nearest lamp post" 1t
would be difficult, on a diagnosis, to de-
eide which of these two has the worse
case of spasums. The attack Is acute in
each case. When one tries to find, in the
agonized shriekings of this twain, what
they mean by traitors and copperheads,
one can only infer the definition from the
ukase of Roberts that no one should be
allowed to find fault with the government
until peace is declared" If this is the
correct definition, and everyone finding
fault with the administration is to be
swung up on the nearest lamp post, Gen.
Roberts is going to have very big job
when he starts to hanging. There is Miles,
for instance, and a lot of his officers, who
have been finding lots of fault, and it
has taken three investigating commits
sions or committees and courts of inquiry
TO whitewash the affair Then there is
that vast army Of men and women who
have been trouncing Alger, the secretary
of war and hero of the embalmed beef
campaign, who will be transformed into
Robertian ornaments of. lamp posts. Even
one who believes that the unavoidable
consequence of the war is the annexation
of the Philippines. but who believes and
says that the policy of the administra-
Wildman's agreement with Aguinaldo,
has been one continuous blunder, fraught
with needless bloodshed and waste of
treasure, is a copperhead to be incon-
nearest lamp posts. Has Cen Roberts
computed the number of posts he will
need for his job?
Then there was Senator Wilson, some
served as the states attorney general,
who had spasums, though less pronounced,
and who also indiscreetly said that the
boys of the Thirteenth needed the
Strengthening that wordy resolutions
approving the presidents policy" would
give them. The senator knows, from his
own experience, that discharge, obtain
ed from secretary of war, through
the influence of congressman, was to
him and his, and would be to the boys
over there, far more Strengthening than
would be quires of resolutions, however
eloquently phrased, applauding the efforts
Of the president to establish peace" by
killing off Filipinos. Meanwhile people will
continue to express their opinion indiffer-
ent to whether Eustis considers them
traitors or Roberts wants them hanged
or a Minneapolis crowd of imperialists
resolute or not.
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