The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28

The other day Ohio sent TO New York a
prophet Il Mr. Bryan's new daspen satioh In
the shavs of Congressman Lcutz, who di.
vidsd his time between fervsnt hopes for
the success Of AGuinaldo, and, therefore, for
the ruin Of the American army In the Phil.
lpplnea ana the armly expressed conviction
that the mantle Of washington and Of Lin
coin had fallen upon the shoulders OF ex.
Governor Altsoid. Truly, Mr.. Bryan's new
dispsnsation begins with queer catalogue
Of saints whsn they csncnize Aguinsldo ~
. hero and Aitgeld a. sage.
The combination 10 entirely appropriate.
Those who would encourage anarchy at .
homo nest naturally strike hands Win the
enemies Of our country abroad. The friend
Of the bomb -throwsr ana his apolosasts are
doing what 10 At and mete when they strike
hands across the seas with those who are
fighting our soldiers in foreign lands.
Fundamentally the causes which they cham
pion are the same. The step from encour-
aging the assassination Of the guardians of
the law at home to the aiding and abetting
Of the shooting Down Of our soldiers abroad
Ii but q short one; and 1t matters little
whether the encouragement be given by the
exercise Of the Rardoning power. BY raving
speeches upon the platform, or by the cir
culatien Of Aiily documents composed by
men too feeble to accomplish the mischief
they design.
No Honor Except Through Victory.
Make no mistakei In the Philippines We
are at war with an enemy who must be put
down. Il IL absolutely impossible t. save
our honor except through victory. and It Ii
equally impossible to win peace, to restore
order In the islands, or to prepare the way
Al% ~. xyff.
tory.
Every argument that our opponents make
now Ii exactly such as II they were logical
they would make on behalf Of the Sioux
IudialS In South Dakota or the Apaches
In New Mexico, and such as they actually
did make at the outbreak Of the civil war.
If we have no moral hight to Interfere In
the Philippines then we hnve no moral right
to iatcrfsre In an Indian reservation. II we
have no eight In Luzon and should leave 1t
to the Tagals then we have NO right in
Alaska and should leave it to the Indians
and Nsouimaux.
Not one argument can be made for the
proposed line Of conduct In the one case
that does net apply with exactly as much
force to the other. People tell You that
the Fflipinos are lighting for independence.
This was exactly what the coppsGheads OF
1861 said Of the Confederates. Here, In
Ohio, VallandiEbam ran on the Issue that
tho war was failure aud that the inde-
pendenes OF the Southern states should be
| Acknowledged.
The feeble Vsllapdi9hams Of today take
| the sape position, and II Ohio Is true to
| thu great memories Of her past, she will
| give the sane answer now that she gave
! then. No man can hesitate In this struggle
and, ever afterward cal, himself q true
| American and a true patriot He must
stand by the faS He must uphold the
honor and the interest Of the nation, ant
| the only way in which he can sta I'D by the
ono and uphold the other Ia to overwheln
the party that asaails both.
Democracy's Greed Of Shame.
Uudyine shame shall be his portion II h,
does not stand with us At this crisis. Their
Is NO man Lying now who has anything bu
| O. feeling of respect for the gallant Con
federates who showed their sincerity In tn,
! appeal to arms and vallantly risked tlei
lives for what they mistakenly thought t.
| be the right; but scant, Indeed, II our sym
patty for their Northern allies who sat a
home and talked treason but never exposed
their bodies to the risk Of paying for thei
words.
The same burden Of shame rests on tn
men who preach the creed Of the wsaklin
and the coward IN their own safe home
now, while our soldiers are fighting valiant
ly IN the tropic Islands Of the Eastern seas
and are bearing forward the dag of OIL
country In q cause that is not only tn
Cause Of America, but the cause Of civiliza
tion and humanity. Ayel and ultimStel
the cause Of the very islanders who are ID
norantly bearing arms against US.
Two facts must Be emphasizedi First
that out Of the present situation, the onl
honorable and humane way Is to put dow
armed resistance In the Philippines and
establish government OF orderly Justice
and, In the second place, that this situatio
inevitably arose su& Of the war and coul
not have been avoided save BY shamefu
conduct on our part. You will meet shor
sighted people who say that Dewey. afte
sinking the Spanish hest, should have sal
ed away from Manila bay. OF course, sue
conduct was impossible.
We Have to Finish What We Begun.
It II nor too much to say that such COZ
duct would have been infamouA Eithe
the Islands would have been left to the
own fate had such q course been followed
In which case series Of bleody massacei
would have taken place and the war b.
tween the spanlards and the Vuipine
would have dragged along its wrstehs
length until SOME outside Interference too
place; or else. what Is far more probable
a. Deweys nset sailed out the deet I
some European power would have sailed II
and we should have had the keen nortli
cation Of seeing the task which we shran
from begun by some nation which did M
. distrust Its own powers, which had tt
courage to dare to be great
, Dewey had to stay and We had to hnIs
the job we had begun. The talk about ii
, Filipinos having practically achieved the
independence 10, Of course, the veriest MOI
| senSe. Agulnaldo, who has turned again
| us, owed his return to the islands to uA
| was our troops and not the Fuiplnes wi
. conquered the Spapiards. and as q cons
| quence, 1t was to US the islands fell, an
| we shall show ourselves not merely wea
| | llngs un6t to take our place among Il
, ; great nations of the world, but traitors
, the cause Of the advancement Of mankir
: II we finch from doing Alright the ia!
, which destiny has iptrusted to our hand.
We have no more right TO leave the Fl
, pinos to butcher one another and sink sio'
ly back into sayagsry than We would ha
/, the right, In an excess Of sentime ntality,
declare the Sioux and Apaches free to exp
all white settlers from the lands they on
: held. The Filipinos offer excslient materi
for the future; with our aid they may
brought up TO the level Of self7governmer
> but at present they cannot stand alone 4
!. any length Of time.
. The Weakling screed Of the Antis.