The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1899-04-08
COST OF IMPERIALISM
WILL BE GREAT.-WfATT THE ADJ
ILLUSTRATIONS MISTAKEN
POLICY IS COSTING.
The FIiIpinos Are Getting Our Troops
Just Where They Want Them.--A
Call for 3s 1000 Volunteers TO go the
philippines LIKELY to be issued by
the President.
ROOM OF THE SEA CoAST ECHO. J
No. i2 Sun Building,
Washington, u. c., April 5, 1899.

: ROOM OF THE SEA CoAsT ECHO
No. i2 sun Building,
: Washington u. C., April 5, lSy8. ,
We have reports each day Of
5 victories in the Philippines, but
5 the news does not give the Admi-
, nistration joy. Each day Aguinal-
do entlces our troops further into
} the jungle. Our losses are enor-
: nous, for very few of the wound
. ed will recover in that climate,
and the mortality from disease
and exposure is carefully suppres-
sed. A stern chase is a long
chase. The Filipinos are get
ting our troop just where they
want them. The kind of victories
we are achieving are just what the
Filipinos want.
| The Administration tries to be
cheerful over the situation, but
it is significant thing that a call
is likely TO be made for $4,000
volunteers to 60 TO the Philip
pines. The call would have been
issued already only there is a
strong doubt whether the volun-
teers will respond.
| Proofs OF "embalmed beef" as
a tropical diet, are not likely tn
fire the patriotic soul with ardor.
A man may be pardoned if he OBJ
jects to being shot down by some
native in ambush or dying of jun
gle fever, merely to prop up a
mistaken policy of Imperialism.
The situation grows more Sc
rious for the Administration every
day. Already mass meetings are
being held in the east to denounce
the present policy of sacrificing
our soldiers in the Philippines;
yet the Administration feels that
it would be undignlfied for our
Commission at Manila to make
overtures to the Filipinos on thh
question of self-government w:te
Aguinaldo hopping about the
country like a flea and joyfully
moving his capital farther into
the1nterior every week, as a bait
to draw our soldiers on. 1t is felt
that we can outline policy.
Aguinaldo is pretty bright saw
age. He is putting the question
Iup to the Imperialists with a
vengeance.
Your uncle Hoar lifts his voice
in an "I-told-you-so" strain that
must be evaporation to his fell
low Republicans. A short extract
1 will give a sample of how he says
it:
| 1.-The blood of the slaughtered
! Filipinos, the blood and wasted
health and life Of our own sol
diers, is upon the heads of those
who have undertaken t. buy /
Enpple in tn market like sheep,
N to trea, hem as lawful prize
and booty of war, to impose
:. government on them witht ut
!, their consent, and to tramplc uu-
der foot not only the people of
the Philippine islands, but the
principles on which the American
5 republic itself rests"
Not so easy to get around that
! arlaignment is it? Meanwhile our
Commission at Manila has its pro-
= clamation nicely type written and
tied with blue ribbons and IS
twaiting for a chance to spring it
: on Agulnaldo.
Congressman Sherman has
decided to retain his seat
! ! IN Congress. That makes him
u still possible candidate
against Reed for the Speak
v ership. 1t simply means that the
o Mckinley boomers are not too
e sure of Reed. even after the Jekyll
8 island love feast and will kcC p
D off the Presidential track and
give them right of way.
q There is a distressing rumor
that the Republican fences are in
very bad shape in New York
State. The Mckinley league-a
State organization is limiting
that it wouldn't mind change of
title-to Roosevelt for Instance.
Senatoa Platt was sent to do some
repairing and ordered to report
results to the Administration
The chances are about 10 to /
that he is grooming Roosevelt.
Roosevelt is doing little in
bis own characteristic way by
having the Legislature decide to
again ''Lexow" New York city, or
in other words investigate Tam
many methods. He he has idea
this will add to bis fame. The at
tack on Tammany needs not wor-
ry Democrats elsewhere, because
until Tammany stands on the
Chicago platform, it Is far grea-
a. ter menace to party success than
D 81 any Republican combination in
r1ss New York. Roosevelt is doing
a seveval things to hurt Mckinley
to chances for denomination and
ls Roosevelt has way of landing
!. what he goes after, though he has
Id never tried for anything quite q
er big presidential nomination. Ht
n ". is really worrying the McKinle,
" " combinationand with good reason
he Think of his Rough Rider RECORD
i'd for instance as compared witt
! the army scandals which compos,
the Administrations stock il
~ trade