The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-04-22
MORE TROOPS FOR CONQUEST.

MORE TROOPS FOR CONQUEST.
Maj.-G Lawton, one of the leadn,
subordinates OF Gen. Otis in the islam,
OF Luzon, thoughtlessly or purposel,
told an American correspondent that
will take 100000 troops to ''paciiy" tn
Filipinos. The fact that he has had t.
evacuate Santa Cruz and return to Ma
Mia without garrisoning the captured
territory is sufficient evidence that NOR,
troops are necessary for permanent oc
cupation, if not for war; Such unex
rccted news from the seat Of war ha.
dumbfo,lnded our lingo statesmen il
Washington and thrown them into hys
terlcs. They are beginning TO under
stand the difficulty OF prosecuting wa,
OF invasion against brave people deter.
mined to be free. The volunteer sol
dlers want to come home, as they die
not enlist for conquest and Imperialism
but for liberty and humanity. McKin
ley is i'll sad plight and does not know
what to do. He has no imperial army
and those in whose interest the war is
being waged will not help him in rails
irg one at their own expense. We al
ready hear that "tl1e president does moi
believe the Filipnos should be whipped
| into subsection" He is now trying
through commission, to buy the lead
ers off, and array the natives against one
another. That is the Anglo Saxon way
OF doing things. and the administration
has taken England for model in the
government OF colonies. The London
papers kindly tell the Hanna Nc Kinley
Davis regime that we must not be dis
couraged at the retirement of Lawton,
for English generals have frequently re-
tired in the same way. We must get
rid OF volunteers and equip mighty
army Of regulars i'll order to bear the
white mans burden" for the sake OF
the hybrid races of the Orient. But the
trouble is that we have not the regulars,
and there we are
Judge Lambert Tree, OF Chicago, who
has just got back from England says
we must hold the Philippines ii it takes
100000 soldiers to subdue the rebellious
natives, and he adds that ii the laws
OF civilized nations permitted, Aguinaldo
ought to be hanged or shot. That,
again, is the way in which England gets
rid OF troublesome native leaders, and
England, of course, is highly civilized.
Shafter, the fat man from Michigan,
says one half of the pesky natives ought
to be killed in order to give the other
half American civilization
The evangelical horde is nightly in
terested in the spiritual welfare of the
ignorant converts to "Romanism," and
want to give them pure Christianity at
the point Of the bayonet. OF coure,
they favor whipping them into subjec-
ton. The preachers, however, don't
care to go themselves until the war is
over, for they are men OF peace and
won't handle rifle to shoot the "crit-
tiers" they are anxious to lead into the
Protestant fold. The capitalists won't
so to fight the Filipinos, for they are
organizing syndicates and are too busy.
James ]. Hill OF the Great Northern is
going to Europe to interest foreign cap
italists in running a line of steamers
from the terminus OF his transcontinent-
al railway to the Orient for the benefit
OF the Asiatics. He favors the subjuga-
ton of the Philippines in the interest OF
commerce, but he will furnish the gov
eminent no troops to fight battles in
the tropics.
In any good cause it is quite easy to
raise an army OF million men in this
country of seventy-fve millions, but in
bad cause it is hard for Mckinley to
recruit the number that Lawton says is
necessary for the pacihcation of the Fill
ipinos. The fact is that Mckinley has
inaugurated this war OF conquest on his
own hook for the benefit OF trusts and
corporations, and without any authority
from congress. Now, let the plutocracy
come to his rescue and furnish an i'm
perial army, or let him ask England to
send troops to help him in depriving
the intrepid natives of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness.