Washington sentinel., 1899-05-20
rhe Record of an Admlnlstra.ion

The Record OF an Administration.
What a wretched record has this
Administration Spanish treach-
cry sunk the Maine; Spanish as
sassination sent 400 American sail
ors to choke and smother in the
shiny ooze at the bottom OF Hav-
ana Bay. Sigsbee wired the fact,
and in Longs Office his dispatch
was garbled to save and cloak the
Spaniards from Sigsbee's aceusa-
ton. Hanna laughed and lied and
blackly said it was not the act OF
Spain; but rather the careless ig-
norance ofthe Names own officers
and crew. Such mean parasites
as Depew echoed the Hanna lie.
Mckinley endorsed by his silence
and Long by word OF mouth the
Hanna slander OF the Maine's dead
sailors. Spain's skirts were clear,
they said But the country forced
a war. Mckinley did his best or
worst to carry out the will Of the
bankers holding the Spanish
bonds, and avert hostilities. The
people would not have il so; the
popular blood was up. Turpie OF.
fered his resolution full oI war
teeth, and the powder burning
then begun. Dewey, at Manila,
and Schley, at Santiago, smashed
the Spanish fleets like egg shells.
Our troops swarmed up San Juan
Hill. We conquered east, we con-
quered west; Spain, hamstrung,
impotent, beaten to a gasping,
helpless standstill, gave up. Peace
came. What then7 She, who had
sunk the Maine and lost the fight,
and who should have been grilled
one hundred years ago, was given
Gao, 900. 900. What forp Is there
a statesman who can say3 Again,
by our arms we free Cuba. feat
she herself has failed OF. Then we
pay Cuba $4,000, 900. What for1
Can any statesman saY1 Now we
are wasting blood and treasure
the latter at the rate OF Saoo, ooo,-
600 year-fphting a huddle OF
crazy savages in a iar-of corner
called the Philippines. What tori
Beef, and bone, and horn, and hide,
and tallow; on the hooi, or on the
hook, the whole EOcoed outht isn't
worth 10 per cent. Of the money
cost of thrashing them-not worth
the life Of any OF the good, brave
fellows who have fallen. Such as
Funston is worth forty Philippines.
And all who fell and all who will
fall are Funstonsl or what gen.
eral good is this scrap in the Phil
ippines1 One can see riches in il
for contractors; il puts a rare pro-
fit in the poisonous pocket of the
embalmed beef ombine, but where
do common folk, not harpies oi
Hannaism, come in7 Abner Nc
Kinley has made a fortune; Elkins.
Hanna, "Dick" Kerens, Alger's
friends, the beef gang, and a black
and pirate thousand others, have
cleaned up the war for millions.
But what OF that1 The public is
none the latter. On the painful
other hand, the Congress just
closed has appropriated for this
war and "other things" the unctu-
Gus sum OF SI,s6S,sIs,637. 1t is
good and usual. War comes,
contracts are let, rotten uniforms
fetch double prices, boats are
bought at three hgures. "Em
balmed beef" is purchased and
soldiers poisoned at a proht. AT
the finish, a "board" as rotten as
the beef, Investigates" and exon
crates every man who lied, and
condemns all who told the truth.
1t is all excellent, and the public
in lives and lucre pays the freight.
Also, there is a def-it OF eighty
odd millions. Heigho When
one reflects on the war record Of
this Administration, and then con-
siders the public's patient submis-
sion thereunto, one begins to won
der II American nerve has lost its
way or American intelligence been
mislaid.
EmbAlmed Beef.