Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-06-08
"Our Country, Right or WrOng.'

In communication to the Post-lnteli-
gencer, criticising an editorial in that
paper under the above caption, j. NJ.
Carson, who is we'll known to old timers
in this county, gives food for thought to
every free minded lover of the institutions
and traditions OF this nation in the fol-
lowing language. Said the P.-I.:
"The time for deliberation is before war
is under taken the time Tor criticism does
not come until it is closed. When nation
feels itself compelled to resort to aims,
there must be no faltering. When peo-
pie take up the sword in defense OF a
course of action or are provoked to battle
by an enemy, they cannot hope to be sue
cessful unless they inscribe upon their ban
ners, Our Country, Right or Wrong. "
To which Mr.. Carson replied:
"Now, | have very little criticism to
offer to the above sentiment or to the
greater part OF the eloquent Grafton OF our
fellow citizen, Mr.. Hughes, but it has oc-
Cured to me that before war was declared
against Spain there was long AID patient
delberation, and after war was declared
aqainst Spain and until peace was de-
clared, and the war with spain was ended,
there was unauimity all over these
United States such as was never known
in any country on the face OF the earth.
So far as the prosecution OF that war
AGAINST Spain and for the purposes Tor
which that war was declared, there was
scarcely dissenting voice the American
people were practically OF one mind.
Never was an executive so unanimously
upheld in any country as was PRESIDENT
Mckinley, with money, men ana every
thing necessary to prosecute war, SO
long as that war against Spain continued,
bnt has not the war against Spain long
since ended? Has not spain submitted
Has not peace been declared between the
United States and Spain? Have NOT tfe
objects for which we went to war WIN
Spain been accomplished and attained
Has not Spain relinquished all sovereignty
over these islands? Did we not declare 10
the world that it was not war OF agerea,
sion. not war for conquest OF terfltoiH
eli President Mckinley can lawfully
wage war against the filpinos ana suoJu-
gate them after spain has submllteu,
without the authority OF congress, WHY
ran me not. when the Filipnos submit,
then proceed to hunt other nations 70 colI-
oupr? Where is this thing to end ManE
en- ZeDS OF lilIs tOhliiiH
the propriety Of the war in the Philippines
since the declaration OF peace between
the { nited States and Spain, ana 1t WI!
not silence objection or prevent Tree GlS-
cussion of the propriety thereof 10y calling
those who object unpatriotic, Such men
as Senators Hoar, Mason, Cong essmeh
Johnson and thousands OF others never
heretofore were looked upon as IMPAIR
otc, and these, with thousands OF citizens
not adherents of the republican parry
doubt the Justice and prop'iety OF suoJuff
eating the Filipinos, and the propnefy OF
enterin upon this unknown sea oil eNpan.
sion. This inclination to compare: our
present citizens, who doubt TINS poIicy,1o
the copperheads of .S6l-65 is not arsu-
ment and will not silence honest coiVlc'
tons on governmental questions, ana ON!
sho >s want OF real argument 10 suSl"I.,
such a policy. May we not next see al,
effort to subjugate Cuba? Inc scle ,li,i
already has ad vocates, and TIM we Will
have the spectacle of having gone, 20 "ai
with Spain to liberate these peoples anu
then proceeded to subjugate them to our
f fnom IS Is aoveYnment. Respectfully,
W ~ VI j. M. CARSON.