The times., 1899-01-26

they cannot leave the future of the islands
with Congress for fear they will never get
their independence Are they wiser than
the great body of the people and the
majority of the two houses of Congress-
DO they have a monopoly not only of wis
dom but also of republicanism and regard
for the duty which our institutions impose
on the people? The claim, which they
actually make, is insufferable. II is an in
suit to Congress, to the President, and TO
the people. And it is also the rankest sort
of folly that ever score or more of Sem
ators were guilty of 1t is this alone, this
bold denial of the intelligence and honesty
Of everybody except an insincere and in
consistent minority, that has made war
with an outlaw horde almost inevitable.
= Significant Word From Dewey.
We commend to the patriotic element
in the Senate the significant language used
in private letter from Admiral Dewey
to relative who quoted it in the
course of an after dinner speech at
Albany the other night. The hero of
Manila Bay declared that Aguinaldo was
fast losing his strength with the ma
tives and could be disposed of as a
disturbing factor in hurry. We're it not
that he was bolstered up with the false
hope that Congress would refuse to ratify
the Peace Treaty and that in some way
he would personally benefit by the stand
he had taken for Independent recogni-
tion.
In other words. the letter of Admiral
Dewey corroborates evidence. already pub
lie, that the eminent Malay bandit and
confidence man expects. with the aid of
certain conspirators and seditious persons
in Washington. to hold position from
which somebody must buy him of, as
the Spanish authorities did some time ago.
less to get rid of him than to steal most
of the money wrung from the Madrid
| treasury to bribe him.
Aguinaldo evidently has good deal of
confidence in the success of the reasonable
movement against the Treaty and the
country now in operation al the National
Capital. His agents and emissaries for
weeks have been in close touch with
prominent Americans who under any other
government on the face of the earth
would be today in cells and chains if
they had not already disappeared through
trapdoors. And he has some excuse for
thinking that a State which will tolerate
such open and fragrant conspiracy against
its interests, its arms, and its honor, must
do so only because it accepts the conspira-
tors as having sufficient power to defy
and control its policy and action. So our
/ Tagal subject INDUCES the hope that the
Treaty of Paris may be rejected, in which
case he imagines that he will be the ven
dor in the sale of the Philippines TO Ger
many or some other purchaser; or. if the
worst should come, that his attitude of
armed resistance will compel the United
States to establish him in a position of
high command and power. with an hon
! orarium commensurate with his own con-
ceptiOn of his enormous worth.
In all these dreams and aspirations
Aguinaldo is being actively encouraged
and sustained by false Americans and i'm
ported traitors. who are entirely willing
to involve the country in colonial re-
bellions and to be responsible for the blood
of countless American soldiers. If thereby
! they can subserYe the interests of monop-
! olies which are inimical to national expan-
sion for sordld and corrupt reasons.
How long will the American public stand
this open and impudent Haunting OF Sc
dition. privy conspiracy, and rebellion
How much longer is defiant treason to wag
its forked tongue in the very halls of leg
islation? The time has come for the coun-
try to speak and act on this question, and
God knows it is high time for the Presi-
dent to clearly define his policy and in
tentions and to let the people understand
whether he means to be their bold leader
in the path of glory and destiny, or not.
When treason is stalking abroad it is not
time for vacillation or Tearsome inertia
1t is a time for courageous assertion and
adamantine determination
| This to you, President Mckinley,