The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-31
A DEMOCRATS REPLY.

No one with a thimbleful of brains
will aver that the Louisville Courier
Journal" is Republican sheet. NO
one who knows the man will charge
it's editor, Henry Watterson, with pc
ing other than a Democrat. But he IS
not of the Bryan stripe, so far as the
views of that persistent candidate
about the Philippines and our occupa-
ton of them are concerned.
In the last number of the Courier
Journal that has reached US the eel
torial page is illuminated with the
picture of a Democratic rooster crow
ing over the nomination of a Democrat
for Governor of Kentucky. On the
same page there is a letter from wv. S.
~" evidently an old correspondent of
the "Courier-Journal"
In that letter "W. S. J." asks Mr..
Watterson if simply because Aguinaldo
is not Harvard man, is any reason
why he should not have patriotic blood
in his veins? He is asked if France,
OF imperialism, whether the colonies
would not have produced Aguinaldos?
The letter winds up with the daclara-
ton: There is no use in trying to
frame an apology for the treatment we
are giving the Filipinos under the plea
thai we are their friends TEey do
not believe it, and damned if I do"
Thereupon the veteran Democrat,
Watterson, puts on his war paint and
fepHes. The answer is respectfully
commended to those "W. S. Us" who
are running off after the declaration
that IF Mr.. Bryan We're President the
war in the Philippines would cease
within forty-eight hours" Mr.. Waiter
son says to wv. S. J."-who represents
class-and we give the answer in
full, for to condense would injure it:
The Confectionery can not be
made to join issue with w. S. J. on The
question of patriotism and college
learning.
NOR can it see the relevancy of his
reference to France. France helped us
gain our freedom. 1t is true she did SO
not because she loved us so much as
because she hated England. But she
helped us none the less. We did not
go to the Philippines to help the insur-
gents gain their freedom We went
there in order to strike Spain, with
whom we We're at war; If France had
turned her guns against US such treach-
hny 1.
mercenary Aguinaldos, but by men who
desplsed traitor even more than they
despised tyrant. We have never be-
trayed the Fflipinos. We drove Spain
out of the Philippines and we assumed
the responsibilities which fell to u.s. We
mad made no promises to set Aguinaldo
and his barbarianS in authority over
the European and other elements of the
population there, and we should have
been guilty of barbarism ourselves if
We had done So What we should have
done if the F'ilipinos had been as de-
serving of independence and as capable
OF self government as Washington and
his men were, is altogether another
question, which it is in no respect peril
nent to discuss
Nor will the Courier Journal" graf
ify w. S. j. byS"trying to frame an
apology for the treatment we are giving
the Filipinos under the plea that we are
their real friends" We don't want to
apologize. On the contrary, we want
to give them more of the same treat
ment until they are soundly thrashed.
And we make no pretense to being the
special friends of those of the F'ilipinoS
who are in instruction against US. Ger
tainly we do not claim to be their
friends over the much larger element
of the population which is peaceful, and
Which the insurgents wish to prey upon
and tyrannize over. But we have a
very decided opinion, which W. S. J..
evidently scorns, that American con-
troll of the Philippines would be much
better for them than control by Aguin-
aldo and his SavageS.
However, the CONFECTIONERY is
throwing away space either preaching
to or praying with w. J. s.; for he is
such thorough representative of the
Aunties that there has been hardly a
movement of the American Administra-
ton and the American army and navy
since the beginning of the Spanish war
that has not provoked from him an in
dignant communication informing US
that "damed'' if he wasn't agin it!