Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-04-06
THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1899.
ABUSE IS NOT ARGUMENT.

The mighty think tank which is sup.
pos to illume the editorial columns Of
the HERALD, produced this gem lasr
week: 1.-The outrage of compelling the
volunteers who enlisted to fight for the
freedom of Cubans to shoot down the
unoffending inhabitants Of the Philip.
pine islands on the opposite side Of the
earth will be resented by the soldiers
and their friends at the polls" This
sort Vi coplerhead stuff makes person
tired, and We DO not believe represents
Democratic sentiment. The Democrats
we're anxious to force the Republican ad'
Immigration into war, before it Was
read lUuuepr. VI them began to kick
IS soon as the war began. Il is time for
them to shut up. We ask who began
the fight at Manila? Are American sol.
diers to stand still and be sho, by rab.
BILE OF freebooters? "UnoffendinH in.
habitants." Rot and gable. Such
stuff when our boys are struggling vt the
front comes very near being treason.
The above is reproduced to show the
sort OF flabdoodle that is made to do duty
for argument by the Hoquiam Washing.
tonan. In its overweening desire to
side with the powers that be the nm
thinking think tank that, at times, dark.
ems the editorial columns OF the Washing
tonian, produces a string of vituperation
with sort OF There, now answer.that.
if.you can air, ard then goes off for we'll.
earned rest. 1t does not try 10 deny the
truth of the article it abuses that is too
we'll known. The Philippine war is lot
political issue between the democr attic
and republican parties; many eminent
Iaen OF each party are at variance on the
subject, and the Washingtonian knows
it, 1t also knows that no party forced
the administration into the Philippine
war. The democratic minority in con.
gress, voicing the sentiments Of the ma I.
ton, ft reed the administration to put an
end to the Spanish atrocities in Cuba,
and in doing so forced it to solemnly pro-
claim to the word that it was not to be
war for the acquisition of terri tory.
Copperlead and treason! Seems we
have heard that before. During the
campaign those terms we're flung at Hon
Jas. Hamilton Lewis for making charges
against the administration and its EN-.
balmed beet trust, yet only the other day
such good republican authority as the
Hartford Courant, Senator Hs~ley's
paper. had this to say regarding the army
food supply:
General Miles public statements as tc
apart Of the food supplied to our soldiers
in the late war made deep impression
upon the popular mind. 1t is putting
the fact very mildly to say that this i'm
preston wss not effaced by the report O
the so-caled war board, nor by Eagan'
clustering and blackguardy denials. no
by the proceedings at the court-martial
1t seems to be agreed that Gen. Mile
violated army etiquette when he told hi
story about that UNBEATABLE beef to tn,
newspapers. The round-robin at Santi
ago was distinctly unmilitary, for tina
matter, but it saved the lives OF hundreds
Of American soldiers. Day by day tn,
plhlsl,-d abstracts of the evidence giver
be ore the cour: of inquiry have beer
st engineering the popular conviction tina
unfi fooi was issued to the troops las
year, as General Miles alleges, and Gov
ernor Roosevelt's testimony Saturda,
morning has clinched and riveted it
The mind OF the American people is nov
made up on the question OF fact, and an,
effort to change it will be equally fulfil,
and foolish.
The letter from Senator Hoar, on tn,
first page, is prescribed for the Washing
tonian the next time it feels its abusive
attack coming on. The republicanism oil
the senator will not be questioned but
unlike some of the shrieking fawning
newspapers, he finds being a republican
in nowise incompatible v it'll his being
an American.