Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22

the copperheads who denounced the union
army always denounced it in the name
of the new gospel OF peace. Their cry was
Peace" even Peace at any price, ana
It was these apostles of peace, who by
their furious dcnuncation of A Abraham LIN.
coin and of the northern people, and their
frantic invecttves against every, eyer, measure t3ah
ness the dark and gloomy souls that are
always to be found on the outskirts OF
such a movement.
In iS63 the preachers of the doctrine of
cowardIy peace were responsible for the
terrible and bloody outbreak ks in New YORK
city, which we know by the name OF the
draft riots In 1865 these same craven
preachers of peace were responsible Tor the
murder of Abraham Lincoln; Nowadays
their successors, who use their exact IAN
guage in denouncing our conduct IN the
Philippnes have stained their own sous
with the blood of our soldiers and OF their
The other, day Ohio sent to New York
as II preacher of the new dispensation Con-
cessor of Vallandigham IN ms speech IN IN
New York Mr.. Lentz divided his time Pc
tween eulogizing AltgeId, the man VINO
pardoned the anarchist bomb throwers, ahd
eulogizing Aguinaldo, whose success woulu
mean, and could only mean, the slaughter
of American soldiers and the dishonor of
the American flag He likencd Aguinaldo
to Patrick Henry and called him one of
the heroes of the world. He took the no-
sition that Aguinaldo was a hero for kllllng
our soldiers but that If they slew him it
would be murder
AguipnIdo Praises Democrats.
While Mr.. Lentz was thus preaching
treason Aguinaldo was sending over
been published. He had evidently not
heard of Mr.. Lentz,, but he had heard Of
some of the minor heroes of the anti
patriottc-movement, and he praised them
In terms which, If the men were capapie
of one thrill Of American telling ,,%tna W0n,a
won and deserved such Commendatlon from
an enemy of their country. FINALLY, with
n simple sincerity which ,Agunaldo's party
proclamation of the Philippine chief con-
tinucs in many words to state that his
thority of the United States is based on
the triumph of the democratic party. Con-
tinuing, he said:
"rhcrefore we must show our gratitude
and maintain our position more resoutely
than ever. We should pray to God that
the great democratic party may win the
next presidential election and Imperialism
that Is, the American people-fail in its
mad attempt to subiugate us by force of
arms" .r
In other words, Aguinaldo is fighting for
the democratic party and the, democratic
party for him; the arms of his men who
shoot down our soldiers are nerVed by the
aid and encouragement given them by the
anti-eXpansionists of the United States and
he continues the bloody war in the Philip.
pines because he hopes ultimately to wiz
through their assistance No more burning
Indictment of the democratic party under
It's present leaucrSnlp, ana OF tnc pTeuClltTs
of treason who have taken the lead In de-
nouncing the course of the United States
could be framed by any American.
Bear in mind that this arraignment OF
the democracy is unconsciously given by
It's friend, Aguinaldo, the man who a
the, present. stands as the typical repre-
civilization and of the American people anC
as the peculiar protegee of the men who II
arguments of those who in 1861 to 1856
sought to bring us to ruin.
They attack us as imperiallsts. We are
no more imperialists than were the mei
who voted for Lincoln and who bore arms
under Grant and Sherman in 1861. Admirn
Dewey, when he went to Manila bay. di'
not serve the designs of imperialists. III
was merely carrying out the historic polio!
of this nation, the policy which was pur
sued by George Rogers Clarke when b,
conquest he added Indiana and Illinois t.
the union during the revolutionary war
by Sam Houston when he hnd his follower
brought about the admission of Texas b.
Fremont and every other settler, explore
or soldier who helped push our country
b9mnds ?rh westward ,6 to the Pacitc. ,o,roo
Marietta and laid the foundations Of thi
great state of Ohio in what was then a
Indian-haunted wilderness. They were bu
pioneers in the great work of expansio
which has gone on until the present day.
Remember that expansion is not onl
the handmade of greatness, but above all
II Is the hand-mald of peace Great civil
ICED powers are | firmly believe, grown
more and more able to live in permanen
peace with one another, but no civil
lied mower is or ever has been able per
manently to keep peace with savage, baI
barous or semi-barbarous peoples, becaus
these latter are not able to ConduC
themselves as to render peace possible.
Expansion Conquest Tor Peace.
The whole history of our century show
a diminishing tendency to war betwee
civilized powers and shows also that I'll
existence Of savage or barbarous stat
Inevitably means war sooner or late
Every expansion of civilized power Is
conquest for peace. Remember that eve
this great country of ours, as well as n
Euronean countries paid tribute to IN
Moorish pirates as late as 1890 and piraC
in its most nhhorren. form was not abo
ished in the Mediterranean until the FrenC
expanded into Agiers and the Turk wG
driven from Greece. Then peace came
the Mediterranean. What the French hay