Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-02-23


eiair's aceoun; q 8 gentleman not concerned,
who fold Sinclair hat he was in a house that
evening where Is u theTa were drinking. IS
the facetous landlady said, ~''powdering their
hair" for the attack on the castle. Suppose
they had not stopped to powder their HART
Edinburgh castle and town and all Scotland
weie King james The north OF England
rises and marches over Barnet Heath upon
London Wyndham is up In somersstshire,
Paekington in Worcestershlr and Vivian In
Cornwall The elector Of Hanover and his
hideous mistrezses pack up the plate and per
kaps the crown jewels in London, and are of
via HArwich and Helvoetsiuys for dear old
Deutschland. The king-God save him-lsnds
at Dover with tumultuous Ap~plAuse-shonting
mulutudes. roaring cannon, the Duke Of
Marlborough weeping tears Of Joy and all the
bishops kneeliDg in the mud. In q few years
mass Is said in 81. Paul'A mathis and vespeTs
are sung IN York Minister, IND Dr.. Swift Is
turned ont o. his stall and deansry house ct
st. Patriok's to give place to Father Dominic,
from Salamanca All these changes were pos
Eible then. and once % years afterward-aIl
this we might have had but for the pulveris
exigui Jactu, that little toes Of powder for the
hair which the Scotch cOnspirators stopped to
take at the tavern.
Entering n New Career.
There is an idea, common among
men. which Is peculiarly applicable to
the proposed scheme for a~nnexing, &C.
quiring or absorbing the Philippines
and Filipinos, and which has been for
mulated in various modes and with
varying degrees Of elegance and empha-
sis. Il finds form in the Scriptural COM
mand; BE ye not unequally yoked.
St. Paul says: EVIL communications
corrupt good manners" Again we have
it. "You cannot touch pitch without
being defled. The old saw hath Ii,
"Lie down with dogs and get up with
Aeas," while in "Lockaley Hall, " in
finest poetry. Lord Tennyson expresses
the same thought in these words;
Is IL well to wish thee happy-hsvins known
me--to decline
On . range Of lower feelings and q narrower
heart than minef
Yet Il shall DO; thou shalt lower to his level
day by day.
What Is ano within thee growing coarse to
sympaihiEo with clay.
A. the husband h the wife 10; thou art mated
with a clown
And tho grossnoss q his nature viii have
weight 10 drag thee down.
have often wondered within the last
few months whether we can escape the
operation Of the natural law voiced IN
the above quotations, whether We win
pursue TO the end our high career, OF
whether, II we enter upon this scheme
Of boundless expansion and universal
land grabbing. We will not go the way all
nations have gone before us, that is lift
up these inferior races a little and be
pulled down a great deal ourselves
/ take It that our duty to ourselves Is
first duty-our supreme duty. Il
sounds magnificent and philanthropic to
talk about civilizing all the nations Of
the earth, but II cannot be done. The
leopard cannot change his spots himself,
and we cannot change them for him.
No more can we teach certain breeds Of
people TO labor and not TO fight. A
civilized person Is apter to lapse into
barbarism by associating with savages
than the savage is to be civilized Take
q young blanket Indian, give him all
the college education possible. teach him
to wear the gsrb Of civilization, then
let him return to his own people for 10
months, and he win discard the raiment
Of the paleface and resume his blanket
under an impulse too strong to be re-
sisted
Ways Of @ctvfIizing."
We have tried for 800 years to civil
lie the mobile red man, and, after all,
we are forced to reluctantly accept GEN
ersl Sherman's dictum that there Is
no good Indian but a dead Indian. "
Have we any assurance whatever that
our new Malay fellow citizens will
prove any more tractable than the ma
tives Of this country. the natural lords
Of the soili Indeed. II the public prints
are to be believed, that renowned and
rampant expansionist, General William
r. Shafter, recently declared In a church
mark You, in q church-that II he
had his way he would begin by shoot
ing one half the Fliptnos and then civ
ilize the other hall. TIE generals car
mine remark needs a diagram, 90 that
people may know which half he proposes
to erSerminate. VIII he shoot the men
and spare the women. slay the adults
and let the children hyei We read Of
bloodthirsty tyrants who have decimat-
ed conquered peoples, but / am rather
inclined 10 believe that the freshly lau-
relied hero Of Santiago Is, If correctly
reported, the first TO propose TO kin of
one-half the inhabitants of any country.
Hisremark almost equals Caligula's ia
non wish that the Roman people had
only one neck 80 that he could decapi-
tate them all by q single stroke Of his
sword instead Of wearying his imperial
arm by ~beheading his loyal subjects
piecemsaL General Shafter should con-
slider the fate Of Oaligula and remodel
his theory. Has he considered what a
monumental job II would be to shoot
5000. 900 human beingsi Why are
we 10 shoot them at ALT What harm
have they done usf Are they to be
butchered IN cold blood simply because
they refuse TO accept our ready made
blessings Of libertyi And was not a
church, dedicated to the worship Of
Jesus Christ, the Prince Of Peace, q
peculiarly unsuitable place for General
Shafter' ferocious utterance II shafter
Is a fair example Of q Christian soldier
in the closing days Of the nineteenth
century, what becomes Of that song Of
the angela "0n earth peace, good win
10 menf' II the general continues talk
ing N that strain, he is liable 20 20
down in history with Hsrod. Bloody"
JeHreys and "ths Butcher Of Cailo-
den"
am prone to believe that General
shAfter was incorrectly reported. for
such a blood curdling programme Is
with neither sanity nor ordi-
nary humanity. i have seen the general
shaken hands with him twiee.
beard him speak once. and he appeared
to me to Be a. mild q hammered nan as
ever wore a hhoaldsr strap That he
should favor tho crimson horrors Of
these lazy. lotus eating
BY the million Il difficult Of be
LEI Only think Of I'll For 3 century
have stood aghass st the cruelty
Of the French revolution. and the names
. Robezpierre. Danton and Mzrat. the
borss lesch- are universally sxscEatsd
They are By Common consent "dsnssd