The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-02

there have been several such instances
lately-but nothing has been SAID OF
done that can be construed INTO aii
act of treason. The Governor or South
Dakota was hasty and foolish IN ms
demand that the volunteers from ina.
State be sent home at once, but II pc
came evident very soon that ne
did not represent the sentiment OF the
people of the State, while nobody Pc
lieves for an instant that the South
Dakota volunteers could be induced 10
leave the front in the face of an enemy.
The relatives of the soldiers naturally
desire them to return as soon as pos
sible, but let it not be dreamed lnal
mutiny and treason are thought OF as
agencies to secure that result. The
Express is sincere believer in the
legitimate expansion that has been
undertaken by our Government, and in
dorsed by the great majority of the
American people, but it is willing 10
credit the anti-expansionists with the
Intention to be honest and patriotic IN
their views. Our Sacramento contem-
porary is unnecessarily alarmed.
The Record Union" was better ad-
vised as to the facts than the Eek
press" 1t knew precisely what it was
talking about We knew that certain
powerful influences were at work Sc
cretly sowing the seeds of discord ana
revolt among our troops in the Philip
pines. That we construed to be treason
able, as it amounted to giving aid and
comfort to the enemies of the country.
AS out of the anti-expansionist ranks
came the energy of these Influences, we
denounced 1T as copperheadism, pc
cause, however innocent the main BODY
of those differing from the Administra-
ton may be, they associate, counsel
with, and give aid to those concerned IN
reasonable devices. Since the "Ex-
press" has taken us to task the truth
in one direction has come out as it will
in others, and the great leader OF the
anti-expansionists has confessed that
he has been dilligent in sending ftera-
ture into the American ranks in the
Philippines, intended to dispirit the SOL
diers, convince them that they are
fighting for that to which their people
at home are opposed, to induce them
to decline re- enlistment and to with
draw their sympathy and aid from the
Government of the United States
Mr.. Atkinson not only avows this to
be his purpose, but adds that he will
+loof he
he and his coadjutors want to deprive
the Government of the support of the
army, which, being intelligent IS capa-
BILE of forming it's own judgment as to
wise policy, and should be educated, he
says against the idea Of conquerIng the
Tagals, and holding on to the Philip
pines.
So, then, the case is proved. The
Record Union certainly was not
alarmed; it has too much faith in
the national heart to borrow fear
from the work of Mr.. Atkinson and his
anti-expansionist colleagues. But it
was and is indignant. It said them that
the anti-expansonist movement repre-
scented copperheadism- It says now
that it represents also reasonable
element that is striving to give aid and
comfort to the enemy. That it is, in
nony of the enemy that it is in consid-
cradle part successful.
We are by no means denouncing all
expansionists as copperheads. We
are we'll aware that very many wise
and good men, conscientious and true
Americans, are anti-expansionists OPP
posed to the policy of the Government
as represented by Mr.. McKinley's ad-
ministration, and that these really be-
lieve that we are drifting from the
moorings of the fathers into what they
are pleased to denominate imperial
ISM Among many friends we find
people thus honestly holding. But it
is unfortunate for them that Mr.. At
kinson and the extremists of the troop
with which they train, step outside Of
the bounds of free speech and legiti-
mate criticism of public men and af-
fairs, and work treason.
1t is unfortunate for these conscien-
tious men that some of those of their
faith have been and now are giving
aid and comfort to the enemy and thus
have furnished the anti-expansionist
cause with the blackness of treason.
They must accept the situation, and
either cut loose from the Atkinson
school of copperheads or be content to
be classed with it, since without their
disavowal they will there remain.
Their misfortune is that they do not
stand forth and denounce these sedi-
tious and reasonable men, expose their
devices, drive them by Reputation from
their midst, and advise the President
as Commander and Chief, to exercise
the supreme power he possesses to put
the bride of the law upon these men
and stop their reasonable work
That New York Justice, who fined a
wife beaten $50, and then, not deeming
the penalty permitted by the law to be
sufficient, descended from the bench,
took off his coat and thrashed the de-
PENDANT soundly, is to be commended