Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-03-22
Helen m. Cougar
George.


ton. President Mckinley carries up
on him the blood of ipne cert
thousands and every day adds to the
enormity of his shameful crime.
The most enlightened, liberty
loving and humsne citizsns every
where deplore McKinley's brutal
and murderous disposition, and
regret that we have not a just, hon.
est, pesce-loving president who has
sympathy for every human being
though he may have a dusky skin
and i've across the water. We
quote two of the leading minds of
our nation.
LAFAYETTE, Ind.,-Helen NJ, Cougar
sends the following to Chicago paper:
Permit me to most respectfully enter
my protest to your unfair and fiippant
treatment of Agoncillo the dignifed,
scholarly, patriotic and statesmanlike
representative of the government of the
Philippines. No man, under the trying
circumstances of his visit, could have
conducted himself more consistently or
more statesmanlike than he has done.
No one could have been treated in a more
demagOgish manner more disgracefully
or unjustly than he has been by the
president, William Mckinley. 1t is
enough to make every American hide his
head in shame.
Again your arraignment of the mem
bers of the United States senate who
voted against the ratification of a treaty
that endangers the life of popular govern
ment and violates the spirit of the con-
stitution deserves rebuke. Not upen
these honorable men, but upon the head
of our unworthy president is the blood of
every man who fell before the guns IN the
recent engagement at Manila.
sit is high time that craftsmanship should
take the place of blind party zeal in the
conduct of the press of the country.
Dignity of discussion will be more toler-
able to your readers than flippant COM
ments on the grave situation confronting
this nation under the administration of
the weakest president that eyer endanger-
ed the welfare of this government.
r. spectfully yours for government of
and by the Cubaus, Porto Ricans and
FIlipinOs for Cubans, Porto Ricans and
Filipinos,
"HELEN NJ. COUGAR"
NEW YoRK,-Hsnry George has
sent the following letter to President
Grout of Brooklyn. declining an
invitation to act on a committee to
grange for the Muine memorial
services.
81 have deep sympathy with all who
lost their dear ones on the vessel and
would be glad to subscribe to the limit
of my means toward an assistance fund,
but do not wish to participate in any
public ceremony that shall even remotely
seem to approve the policy of the admin
istratiOn at Washington.
Il believe in liberty-liberty Of the
JeffsrsOnian kind, that would give alb
sOlute freedom of action to the individual
without infringing the rights of others,
and l would at the outset have our
government recognize the right of the
Cubans to be free. whatever complications
might have resulted with Spain as
consequence. But do not believe in the
kind of liberty that President Mckinley
is dealing in.
"The freedom that is given under a
military despOtism must be as rotten as
the horrible meat that was given to our
citizen soldiers in the recent Cuban war.
Men who came to official power by the
use of the most gigantic corruption fund
that was ever seen in politics, who have
since riOted in public expenditure at
Washington, who have added enormously
to the common mans burdens for the
benefit of rings and special interests, and
who have killed more soldiers with bad
food and bad treatm mt than were slain
by Spanish bullets, are not to be implicitly
trusted when it om,s to conferring
liberty uponther peOp.e.''