The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
Organization
Department.

dedicated to L. w. Pruss, by Dr., =
B. Fay.)
In this land, whose Christian civili-
zation we are about: to expose to those
"barbarous' Filipinos, Sunday chicken
fight, with full orchestra, attended by
the clergy, happened in the Metropolitan
Theater, of Minneapolis, May IA. 1t
was fully advertised by the capitalistic
press, as a non-partisan gathering of
goodly patriots; object being to support
McKinley's immaculate administration.
OF course it was non-partisan, for both
Republicans and Democrats think alike"
only, their old sham issues having been
worn threadbare, THEY ARE FEEL
ING FOR NEW ONES. l might have
called it an Indian war dance, only the
Bcalps of the helpless Filipinos were not
actually seen dangling at the well round
ed waists of corporation attorneys, par
sons, and the college president, Cyrus
Northrop, who denounced his brother
presidents of Chicago and New England
as "senseless." The professor thus ap-
piled the shelalah of competition on the
heads of his brothers.
The fight was in the Philippines. But
they met in Minneapolis to cheer the
contestants. To my mind the fight lack
ed excitement, because Uncle Sans
rooster is having it all his own way. The
audience must have felt so, too, because,
when interest Jagged, they all called on
Dewey" to get up cheer, or Danz's
sentiment in place of arguments.
The poor people, alas! filled the thea
ter. 1t is not often they get 'compli-
mentaries" to new sensation. Yet,
had they sense enough to vote for their
rights, to stop paying tributes for what
they themselves produce, they might
easily afford the means to buy tickets
Tor first class plays, every week, in that
very theater, where they went on Gods
lay" to applaud windy politicians.
l had intended to say nothing about
mediate and necessary outrages at home,
the settlement of which the PLUTO
Gratis DESIRE TO POSTPONE BY
DISTRACTING ATTENTION TO CUES
TIONS OF WAR. But there may be such
a racket next year about Johnnie get
your gun" that the appeal of reformers
for honesty, justice, righteousness at
home, will be heard like a whisper in a
machine shop.
People are eager for conquest. Give
them conquest. AS we may ultimately
be compelled to apply the point of the
bayOnet to Wall street manipulators, let
us get into practice by drilling in the
Philippines. Compel our enemies to
either give those islands as we'll as us
Populistic government, or still more
completely mix us up with those Euro
pean conditions that will by contrast
give us all the sooner what we seek.
People applaud orators that can fill the
imagination with riches of Ormus and
of Ind" The blue blood" of ancient
Rome kept the people quiet by giving
them bread and circuses. Now, the
people can be hushed by phantom glories
waited on unreal winds from unseen
lands.
After election they will realize that
those lands bring them only competition
with cheap Eastern labor, more sweat
and harder work, while their masters
are going to get out of them new mar
kets and millions of new slaves. So now
is the time Populst orators should ex-
plain how it is possible for the people to
feast on the rich stores of the trusts, to
ride in cars they themselves produce.
People crave "Old Glory and a
screeching eagle. Give them both. But
tear from the folds of our flag the dollar
brand of the pawn shops, and feed real
wealth, not mortgages, to the eagle
Capitalism, forgetting it's holy horror
of every semblance of socialism is itself
about to give the Philippine islands the
worst sort of paternalistic government
AoC Woo CHC SCIy IuIuS Cuc spanish
Jesuits tried on the Indians IN Paraguay
years ago, and failed, although underta-
ken out of religious, not commercial mo-
tives
The people will vote every time for big
Brother Jonathan, swelling with pride
till his pants bust" because he can now
compete with John Bull.
KNOCK that chip. Aguinaldo, from my
shoulder, if you dare! 1 will fight you.
Bravo! European monarchies would
laugh at me, If went home now, and at
tended to my own business. That would
be cowardly. So 1 am going to STAY
here, and TEAR YOUR HEART OUT.
That is Christlike. am going to give
you, you miserable fellow, you, who
don't know how to shoot you, who are
presumptuous enough to wish to rule,
a sample of good old English civiliza-
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