The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-29
PUTTING IT STRONG.
Alherica,s Apostacy.

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is among precipices. It has become
treason" to express allegiance to the
principles of the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence. The land resounds with the whoop
OF war and our. throats burn with the red
thirst of the. beast The republic of Wash
ington has become a band of corsairs.
The land Cd Lincoln and Jefferson can
find no higher mission than the hypo-
critical hacking of invalid states and the
crucihxion Of peoples whose only crime
is the love of liberty No sober citizen
fthis country with spark of patriotism
IN his veins can any longer remain silent
Justice IS being assassinated before our
very eyes and the expenses OF the tragedy
are being extravagantly paid for by
money clandestinely flched from our own
pockets. We have actually paid $4,000
COO for the fictitious privilege of attacking
brave and liberty-loving people on the
other side of the world, and we now pur-
pose to spend innumerable millions more
to slaughter them into submission. What
is worse, it is now proposed that this
country go into the scandalous business
Systematically. If the advice of persons
IN authority is followed (persons who de-
serve to be needed when the country goes
mad), we shall have great standing
army and navy for the prompt and sys-
tematlc prosecution at home and abroad
OF the barbarous pursuit of war. If such
stupendous expenditures and such afro
clous proposals are not enough to terrify
the taxpayers of this country they deserve
to be robbed. Any sane-minded lover of
simple justice who can contemplate the
enormities now being perpetrated by this
country on brave and innocent peoples
without feeling his soul shrivel in shame
and his blood hiss with indignation, must
be actuated lass by the promptings of
righteousness and humanity than by the
instincts of the bandit. American guns,
fired by men wearing the blue and with
are shooting down men for contending
which American chivalry bled at Ben
nington and Bunker Hill. We denounce
as "rebels" people who dare to defend
their own shores and freside from for
eign invasion. The stars and stripes have
become the ensign of tyrants and black
flag and menace to struggling republics
America has become stencil in the nos
trlls OF its own citizens. columbia, the
gen. stands before the civilized world
as convicted hypocrite and butcher. We
have no more right to invade the Philip
pines, now that the Spaniard is not there,
than the minions of George III. had to
invade New England in the days of Han
cock and Adams. We are invaders and
buccaneers; nothing else. The imperti-
nent blue coats of Manila are the hated
and felOniouS red coats who camped on
Boston commons and killed citizens of
Massachusetts four generations ago.
Every American soldier who kills citizens
Of that guiltless land performs the work
of a red coat at Bunker Hill Every
sword that pierces the breast of a Fill
pino is the dagger OF an assassin. Every
man who leaves Europe or America to
help those valiant islanders in their strug-
gle for independence is Lafayette And
every Filipino who falls fighting in de-
Tense OF his native soil is hero as noble
as ever faced English regiments on the
sacred sward of Lexington. If was a
Filipino, as L am an American, l would
never lay down my arms as long as an
impious blue coat remained in my coun-
try I would rather die fighting for my
own liberty, and the liberty of my child
rem and leave my bones to moulder hon
orably beneath the arms OF my native
palms than bend my neck beneath the
yoke of any power on earth.
of the antipodes. AS peerless heart
beats in the bosom of that dauntIess
young Malay as ever pulsated in the
breast of the great Virginian. All under
heaven he and his people ask is to be left
alone. And could any people with the
blood OF men in their veins ask less? We
have invaded their country and captured
their cities. We have made ourselves
more odious than the Spaniard. We have
supplanted one tyranny with worse one
We have snubbed their supplications and
commanded them to lick the dust of sub
mission from Our insolent feet. We have
treated them as if they had no right to
the land in which they and their fathers
were born. We have gone $4,000 miles
to commit these Outrages. We have Sc
lected people who have fought for years
against the unrighteous aggression of
Spain-a people whose unshrinking valor
challenges the admiration of every person
capable of approaching courage and no
bility Of purpose-a brave, patient and
magnanimors people, whose only think
able offense is that they are doing that
which every manly American would do
under the same circumstances Think OF
it, shades of Hancock and Adams! A
posterity of burglars! Heroes OF '76,
who sleep in the unsullied sod of New
England battlefelds! Save us from the
needless reputation of the precious prin-
ciples you died to immortalize among the
sons of men!
Cannot something be done to stay our
headlong plunge into degeneracy? Must
these things go on and on, unchallenged
and unrcbuked, until we are lost to all
sense of iniquity? Is our disgrace ire
trievable? Must we stand forever before
the eyes OF an indignant universe as a
herd OF swinish and hypocritical Yam
KEGS? Is there no national conscience
to rise and cry out against the uncon-
scionable thaw of barbarism in Our midst?
Where is the fire of eloquence and verse?
Where is the vchemence of Henry in this
hour of peril? Is American manhood so
fimsy and our American sense of justice
so false that we will allow ourselves to
stand by and witness the perpetration-'
the cold blooded sepent-like preparation
of crimes, which, if perpetrated upon us
would arouse us to fury? Shame on Our
apostasy Shame on a republic that will
offer the fratricidal thrust of the knife
instead of the hand of fellowship to a
struggling sister republic! Shame on the
hypocrites at Washington, who, under
the sanctimonious guse Of virtue, are
turning civilization into the ways OF dark
ness and traitOrOus1v driving our blood