The Irish standard., 1899-05-13

say that Mckinley invaded the Philip
pines "by the orders OF Almighty God,
and we won't get out until we get orders
from headquarters. Whether the "head-
quarters" are located in Mark Hanna S
mansion in Cleveland, or in the empy-
rean regions beyond the stars, the Chi
cago preacher did not say; but as the
Almighty ordered the Filipinos to be
moved down in thousands for resisting
Mckinley's criminal aggression" per-
haps the preacher meant that the ad-
ministration is awaiting orders from
heaven to vacate the eastern archipel-
ago. From the familiar manner in which
another preacher opened the imperialis-
tic meeting by invoking aid from heaven
to subdue the Filipinos, one would i'm
agine that the Almighty smiles upon
Macs policy OF benevolent assimila-
ton" This political parson, who spoke
with disdain OF the Declaration OF In
dependence and ranked Mckinley with
Jefferson, related the history of the good
Samaritan as follows:
"A poor wretch was lying by the
roadside that runs between Jcrico and
Jerusalem. He had been beaten and
robbed, was bleeding and bruised and
lying there likely to die. A good Sa-
marian came along. He took him in
hand. He bent tenderly above him. He
bound up his wounds. He gave him a
cordial and He never rested until His
work was done. That good Samaritan
is Uncle Sam, who stumbled upon the
Philippines and was God-guided as he
went, like that good Samaritan. He
went in with Dewey. Not to have gone
in would have been insanity. To sneak
out would have been pusillanimity. The
thunder of Dewey's guns broke the grip
OF Spain upon that race of slaves. What
then? Shall we deliver them over to
Aguinaldo? Pray, who is Aguinado?
1t would be worth while to have his
picture"
Such is the style OF the preacher in
politics who efticiates in fashionable
church in the city OF embalmed beef
Ii we heard from the Filipinos they
would not call Uncle Sam good Sa-
marian, but accuse him of the crimes
charged against the King of England
in the same Declaration OF Independ-
ence which is sneered at by this Chi
cago preacher OF the gospel. The Fill
pinos can truthfully say of VIM. McKin-
ley what the signers OF that immortal
document said of George III in the
following arraignment:
He has plundered our seas, ravaged
our coasts, burnt our towns, and de-
stroyed the lives of our people. He is
at this time transporting large armies
OF men to complete the works of death,
desolation, and tyranny, already begun
with circumstances of cruelty and per-
fdy, scarcely paralleled in the most bar
barous ages, and totally unworthy the
head OF civilized nation"
AS there were noble Englishmen who
sympatflized with the American colon
lists in their struggle for independence
against the. tyranny OF the King and his
supporters. so there are noble Ameri-
cans to-day who cry out against the
conquest and spoliation OF the Filipinos
by Mckinley and his plutocratic ad-
herents. The Filipinos are and of right
ought to be as free as the Cubans.
Dewey declared they were more intelli-
gent and better able than the Cubans to
govern themselves, and he knows more
about them than the "old-fashioned
American whose rigmarole is referred
to in this article
One solitary Catholic priest figured
at the imperialistic meeting held at the
Auditorium in Chicago last Sunday.
He is Rev. Thomas Pope Hodnett, rec
tor OF ST. Malachys church. In let
ter addressed to the Methodist bishop,
Ri. Rev. Samuel Fallows, apologizing
for his absence, he declared that McKin-
ley should be supported Sin his vigorous
measures to put down the insurrection"
in the Philippines. In jingoistic style
he referred to the speakers of the pre-
vious Sunday as being ''like those in the
rebellion who were creating a fire in the
rear while troops we're fighting for
Union an emancipation at the front"
We think Fir. Hodnett has Numbered
in referring in that manner to such emf
nent Americans as Henry Wade Rogers,
Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Prof Laughlin and
Bishop spa!ding. What do his parish
oners think of his utterances?
TUE AnrrypYcrYnD AT npYCANe