The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-23

IN commenting on an editorial IN the
NEWS on the letter of Judge Baensch
to the Milwaukee Journal that paper
relieves itself of the following:
"The Kenosha NEWS, Rep, wanders
through a half column to avoid men
tioning the fact that Judge Baensch in
his letter opposes making the Philip
pines a part of the United States or Of
taking hold of it as a colony. OF the
letter the NEWS says: we have read
the letter quite carefully and must
confess that we fail to find i'll it's sober,
conservative arguments, the germs OF
a political sensation such as the Jour-
nal seems to anticipate in the scare
head it places above the letter. The
Judges letter did make a sensation in
Milwaukee, as it placed him with the
Germania newspaper, Gov. Scoheld
and many other prominent Republ1-
cans in opposition to the plans Of the
administration as they are understood
in the light Of the Presidents
speeches."
The Journal must have "wandered''
through the said half column blind
folded for the express purpose of not
seeing what was written there. In the
letter NJ Baensch distinctly state
that he is opposed to "annexation."
In its editccia1 on the letter the News
as distinctly stated that she Judge
Baeusch) is opposed to ''andexation.
If there is any relation that it is posi-
BILE for this country to assume to the
Philippines that is not comprehended
in that word the News did not men
ton Mr.. Baensch's opposition to i be-
cause there was nothing in the1etter to
warrant any such statement.
AS to the Journals statement that
the letter places Judge Baensch vim
opposition to the plans of the admins
tration, as they are understood i'll the
1igllt of the Presidents speeches." it
would have come nearer the truth if it
hid said ''the plans of the adninistra
ton, as we of the opposition, Tor party
purposes, are pleased 10 interpret
tnem' In the letter in question
JUDGE Bacnsch says: ''When we calm
ly and dispassionate1y survey the field
to ascertain where we are al, ca we
find any one in authority who has
openly favored anne a ion? Pref
dent Mckinley did not when lie said
that he had no other policy bnt the
peoples policy. The Congress- did
not, but p1a in1y announced contrary
course" This does not sound very
much like opposition 10 the admins
tration's policy. Indeed Judge Baensch
gives EXPIRE sion 10 sentiments that
sound remarkably like those oft quoted
ones from the President himself. In
concluding his letter he says: "Duty
demands and conditions created by
discussion make eXpedient a prompt, |
frank disclaimer of annexation, and an
earnest, honest effort to give these
islands a form of government pat
termed, as near as conditions will per-
NIT, after the best government on the
face of the earth.'
Concerning it's widespread sensation
the Journal naive1Y remarks that the
letter ''did make a sensation in Mil
waukee." Herein the Journal reminds
us of the experience of fat Jack Fa1-
staff when he essayed to rob the Kings
Exchequer, or the story of the boy, and
the forty cats that shrunk to two be-
fore the tale was finished. Now that
the Journal has reduced the "sensa-
tom to Milwaukee, it may, in time,
find that it is confined to the editorial
sanctum Of the Journal itself.