The times., 1899-08-27
sUNDAY. AUGUsT q. ISss.
savaeery According to Garrison.


William Lloyd Garrison does not think
that the armed savagery of the Filipinos
need trouble the American people. That
is something natural, and, since It Is ex-
ercised in the interests Of Boston and Phil
adelphia elements, syndicated to prevent
If they can, the acquisition Of more sugar
producing territory, it is tolerable If not
acceptable What the clique of hypocriti-
cally hysterical creatures of the Atkinson
Hoar. Schurz, and Garrison sort say is a
menace to our institutions. is 1.-The kind OF
savagery represented by Theodore Roose-
Welt
Well, if this be savagery, then true, hon
est, fearless Americanism is altogether
savagery, and that is what the members OF
the Hub treason mill and their few CO.
conspirators in other places. no doubt,
mean. They can have no other idea, il
the cult they preach is fairly represented
In the contemplate utterances of the man
Garrison at the Connecticut meeting of the
Universal Society OF Peace Capons. Among
other things, he said that had William
Mckinley, understanding the needlessness
and iniquity of the war forced upon Spain,
vetoed the declaration OF Congress, and
avowed his purpose OF resigning his high
Office rather than TO prostitute it by sub
seryience to wrong. he would have made
a niche in the worlds Pantheon
We do not need to go further than this
keynote of the anti-expansion song TO dis
cover of what its music is composed Mr..
Mckinley, indeed, might have won a niche
in history though not necessarily in a
pantheon, by doing what William Lloyd
Garrison says he ought to have done.
Judas Iscariot, Benedict Arnold. and others
occupy pedestals OF a certain kind. and We
do not doubt that there are still vacant
places to be filled by the traitors OF the
future. But the President had sense and
manhood enough not TO desire that kind
Of enshrinement- He was even bad and
blind enough to be driven into war which
was one strictly Of humanity and for the
succcr Of the tortured. outraged, butcbered
peasants, women and children of Cuba
The niche which he would have occupied
If he had refused TO submit TO the mandate
OF the people might have been conspicuous,
bet it certainly would have been grieyous-
ly uncomfortable.
Assaults upon the President are to be ex-
pected from such quarters. but 1t is less
easy to understand why Secretary Long
should be pounded over the head for what.
above all men, he tried TO prevent. The
peace advocates. the nti-expansionists,
and the Boston treason millers, are guilty
OF the basest ingratitude in jumping on
Long he fought the Spanish war idea to
the last minute His efforts to make the
Maine 1reachery appear as nothing more
than the explosion Of an internal tallow
candle, perhaps live today in the mys-
terious pull OF the discredited Sampson in
the Navy Department Yet, because Long
reached the limit of safety and exceeded
that Of propriety in bolstering the tottering
cause OF Spain against universal American
indignation, i. G., the savagery represent
ed by Theodore Roosevelt" Garrison de-
nounces him as one who has forever lost
the love and respect Of Massachusetts.
On the same day that this mouth organ
OF the Aguinaldo rebellion in the United
States breathed his venom against Amer
ican patriotism, progress, and destiny.
President Mckinley. in another place, de-
clared: Wherever the flag is raised it
stands not for despotism and oppression,
but for liberty. opportunity. and humanity
And what that flag has done for us We
want it TO do for all peoples and all lands
which by the fortunes Of war have come
under its jurisdiction
To which prophet will the people listen
To him who curses us for breaking the
bloody yoke OF Spain on the necks OF Gu
bans. Porto Ricans. and the islanders O;
the Philippines, or the man who invokes
the blessings of American liberty and
civilization in behalf Of all inhabitants Of
our colonial possessions?