The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-06-09

the country must be protected.
REUNITED DEMOCRACY.
D,tuu ilIink the - -nucrari.: party
will he united in the coruirg contest:'
Yes, | really do. To III mind,
there is no reason why the Demo
cratic party sh, uId be plit. We eau
not hope to win so long rs We are un-
able to present II solid front. But in
the next campaign look for n re
united party, men to bury their differ
ence- aud get together On some com
mon ground aud go out hand in hand
to do battle with the euem"."
OUR SUBJECTS IN PHILIPPINES.
1.-The correspondent called air Cur
mans attention to the cahlegrams
from Manila suggesting the dispatch
of more troops To VI down the re-
bellion.
1T is not surprising to me,n the
Senator said, THAT Otis calls for MOI g
help. When the Administration rtti
fed its peace treaty and brought upon
us obligations and conditions most eX-
traordiuary aud alarming it hargain-
ed for all endless rebellion i'll the
Philippine Islands.
My opinion is that the Filipinos
are as far from being whipped today
| as they were when the insurrec:ion
began. The warfare to whic': they
are used is in no sense civilized Ga
the contrary, ii is n guerrilla liz hi, and
as such may be continued indefinitely.
Wild rowing bands of naked savHges
| who make their abode III tile interior
hills of the island would forever
menace American authority, even if
such were t. be firmly established.
GIVE OTIS MORE TROOPS
Having gone into this troublesome
| dispute, however, there is but one
thing to do-continue the fighting.
All the men and all the money Gees
sary to bring the war to- a close should
be the motto of every true spirited
American. 1t is too late now to with
draw. 1t would be a confession OF
our inability to cope with these bar.
barians and to whip them into sub
| jection-it would be ignominious-f ol
| the American forces to back out Of
the Philippines at this time.
my advice to the Administration
is to give Otis all the men he may
need and to instruct him to force
fighting until some sort of Il solution
of the problem is evlved.
! LAS have said repeatedly in my
public utterance, all this trouble
could have been averted if the peace
| treaty had been amended. We could
have sent our Peace Commissioners
back to meet the Spanish envoys, with
instructions to release the whole oI
the Philippine Islands, save Manila
and sufficient territory contiguous
thereto, for a naval and coaling
station.
"If this had been done we would
not today see this bogus white
elephant. There would be no war il
the Philippines. There would have
been but little loss of human blood
and but small expenditure of public
money"
CAUSE OF PRESENT PROSPERITY.
do you think the Administration
imperialistic policy will be dominant
issue in the coming campaign?'
Yes, believe so-that is to say, tc
a greater or lesser extent. At this
moment no one can foretell with &C
curacy the prime issue of the mex
campaign. The Democratic party
will undoubtedly oppose, as it has al
wovs opposed, militarism. Imperial
ism and militarism are twin issues,
and the one cannot be brought under
The glare of publicity without being
linked with the other.
Just now it is not possible to gel
the public ear of an question outside
of our own immediate borders. The
reason for this Simple enough. To
day our people are enjoying to a
marked extent prosperity which they
have not known for many years. Not
since the Barring failure has there
been as much prosperity in the land
as during the last year.
1.-The war with Spain, which created
a demand for labor in every branch OF
trade, set the mills running on full
time, created market for American
supplies, and gave employment to
| millions of laborers who had been in
| idleness for three or four years; the
remarkable rise in the price of wheat
and other farm products; the millions
of dollars spent by the Government in
preparation for war; the purchase of
every conceivable line of supplies,
guns, ammunition, cannon, food,
clothing, transports, war vessels-all
these things combined to create con-
dition of prosperity.
RETRIBUTIoN Is COMING.
But there is a time for everything.
When this tickle and uncertain pros
perity has passed away; when bust
ness conditions again settle down to
their normal state-as they most GER
tainly will do very soon--when the
prosperity bubble has been pricked,
then the American people will begin
to look about and give serious thought
to the grave questions of today.
"Imperialism and militarism are
issues of such magnitude that it is
difficult for the average mind to COM
prehend them thoroughly. 1t may
be several months--it may be several
years-before the American people
awaken to a realization of the burdens
which have been loaded upon then
But the time will come, as certain as
fate, when the men who are now be-
ing idolized as the creators of pros
perity will be caught in the full sweep
OF an an angry public's wrath"
WAR NEWS.