The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-30

WILL BE HARD TO WHIP
If HIS 100000 People STICK
TO HIM.
If THE NEGROES WANT TO co
TO the Philippines to Fight Negroes Why Let
'em, butthe White People Should
Stay at Home

Aguinaldoi The name hauntS me- \
man, a leader, a general who has kept
the army and navy Of the United States
at bay for six months must be a patriot
and soldier. Surely some strong power
must be helping him. Where does he get
his supplies, his guns and munitions ct
war; Sometimes we hear that he Is q |
fraud. a tyra1lt. and win soon play ont |
One day we hear that our boys have
about whipped him into Submission, bur !
the next day he has amhushed and
killed a lot Of them, Our boys are dis.
couraged and say that they are tired
fighting a million negroes and want g
come home. ! wonder how many 81
them have died in the bitches and from
tropical diseases and home sickness. IL
seems that these things have to be kept
secret in war, and / reckon shat Is right.
But it will come ont sooner on 3ater. Inc
secrefury Of War has at last been forced
to resign because of the fearful llortality
IN Cuba fhat came from his political ap-
pointinents of klrc0mpetent officers and
his beef jobl,ery. Alas for the poor pri
Yates. In time of war they have no
friends. There Is wide gulf between
them aid the commissioned officers. a
private must salute his superior officer
and feel IL he does not say, u ann your
dog, SIR lit il bad enough in the yolun-
teer service, but worse in the regular
army / had two grandsons ia the Cuban
army One was captain and the other
d private. They were brothers, but We're
not allowed to associate. The rules anu
usages Of war forbade Ii. Cine was 4
dog and the other his master. Shakes
peare said that priyates We're food for
powder and were the cankers OF u calm
world and long peace As i general
rule the regular army AZ made mp "a the
waits az misfortune the yagabonds. the
oilers and the friendless. No well raised
young man with respectable connections
would think Of becoming Il private III the
regular army. Enlistment in simply 4
mode OF providing for the surplus nopn
Iation. that might otherwise become anar-
chssts and endanger the government In
deed, history tells MS that kings and
emperors have found III good policy 10
provoke wars in order tn give the idle
and restless class something TO do and TO
keep them out Of mischief. Their monthly
pay and rations and the prospect Of z
pension in old age Ii ATTRACTIONS enough.
Paternalism is the hope of the pauper,
the communist, the private soldier. The
government ii their pap and like young
jaybirds. when the old ones come around
they open their moaths wide and say,
.Daddy, drop d bug in aere."
But T was eliminating about this cop
per colored Filipino, this man Aguinaldo,
aud for the life OF me | cannot help adj
miring him. If his people continue To-.
back him how can we subiugate them!
He can afford 70 lose FIVE to- one and
then defeat rs He is exactly in General
Grants condition when near the close
Of our civil war. He said he could give
rs three to one and conquer us, for he
had the world TO draw from and we had
nobody to take our prisoners places
that Is the reason he was SO Indifferent
to the prisoners that we took and could
mt feed They were mostly foreigners.
who were not fighting for patriotism, but
for money, for a living Look at the
names ON the headstones at Ghickamauga
and Andersonville. 1t almost gives 4 man
the lockjaw to pronounce them. There
were nearly three millions Of men In that
army and over two million were for
eignersr food for powderth e cankers Of
a calm world and a long peace What Of
Grant and Sherman care for them They
took their chances. Hon0rs were easy.
The difference was that our boys were
all patriots and volunteers, and one to
three was a fair fight
Now the population Of the Philippines
is said to be 100000 That would give
them 100000 soldiers who are at home.
At home defending their native land and
even il our boys should Kill or capture
Aguinald0, another one would rise up
and lead the people Spain is chuckling
over the $20000,000 we paid for islands
that she was tired of, and it looks to
me like we have bought an elephant For
the life of me i can't arouse much inter
est in this far off war with 10,000.000 nee
groes- | don't care anything about it.
As Spain treated the native Cubans, so
is our government treating the Filipinos.
can't see any difference. j wish there
was a difference. ] wish there was some
thing to provoke my pride whenever we
obtain a victory, but really this does not
seem like our war. II is an administration
war a republican war, a war that will
within a few years cost millions and en-
tail another pension outrage. There was
no necessity for it and no excuse for il,
and peace might have been made soon
after Dewey's victory over the Spaniards.
Aguinaldo repeatedly proposed for it..
Yes, begged for it, but our officials
wouldn't even treat with him or recog-
nize him and SO thousands of our sol
diers have gone to their death and more
are called for. Let them call Our boys
are not going not one. If the negroes
choose to go that's all right. Put ne
groes to fighting negroes. 1t will be q
good radiance Of the yagabonds who
won't work. This negro problem is still
nnsolved and we will have TO wait on it,.
i have been perusing another interesting
book. 'sThe History Of the Missouri Com
promise" it is called, but it is far more
than that 1t is virtually political his
tory of the United States from 1887 to
1854 when he Missouri compromise WIS
repeal d This repeal was ri hered by
Archibald Dixon, from Kentucky. who