The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-16
THE INTELLIGENcRR,
AurnI Fnots inr "AuntIes.'

The IntellEenceE ID III ESSSAPs "
Freedom, published at Manila, under
date OF September /. Its leading edl-
torlal bears the above title. Freedom
gives some valuable information for
the Dictator's American supporters
II IS painful, says Freedom, to touch
customs that blush civilization. ana
know that there is no Introduction OF
law. Manila has witnessed mother
seii her own daughter to hestlal
chlnaman, for money consideration
and interposltion could not be made
IN any way to save her. Manila-the
philippines. indeed, are sall under
Spanish law, and the right to dispose
Of flesh and blood is the recognized
right Of parents, and the trafie goes on
without any power Of interruption.
Freedom says that a mother sells
daughter for a life Of Had. % on earth.
and a priestcraft that has departed
from the Mother Church as far as that
Mace is from Heaven. stands ready to
Give her absolution. This is and has
been the custom in LuZon for years
ana ages. No law has ever beea enact
ed to blot out the awful curse. FLIP
mos have come t. think 1t right and
In this is the rub. Departing from the
few who have had some opportunity ID
life. there is no domestic economy. hard
lv n place that can be called home.
absolutely nothing that gives any evil
dence Of civilization. Tables are the
curbstones, markets the maFts of NTH,
and general habits the breeders Of pest
ilential disease.
Freedom continues in this strain.
among other things. saying. This IS
NO overwrought picture, but a stern
and relentless fact, and 1t is written
to awaken the shame of the brilliant
men who advocate continuance of this
awful condition. by preaching relIn-
quishment of the Philippines to moral
and physical death. by giving them in
to the hands of AguInaldo and his rab-
BILE"
Freedom continues with Its horrible
ana pItlfuI recital. and. as 1t pro-
crosses, 1t grows more revolving. The
dead, says the Manila paper. are not
respected IN their tombs-thelr bones
are held subject to rentals-and actual
deeeneracy exists. This awfu! condI-
tIon confronted the United stateS gov
eminent when the time came to COM
slider the treaty of peace, and 1t became
apparent that the government must
take the bun by the horns; that it
would not do to longer blot civilization
by permitting a people Of this kind to
undertake self-government. and that
protectorate control or annexation must
result. With this problem In hand
came the clash OF arms, and with 1t the
shedding of American blood.
when men like William Jennings
Bryan and Editor Pulitzer, who adyo-
cate the living of such conditions they
disgrace civilization, and the mothers
who bore them. This arraigument is
1ust, because 1t carries with it a heart
for the betterment of all mankind.
There are no parallels in the revolu-
ton, no parallels in ancient priestcraft
and wIthshcraft, no logic In blocking
the advance of civilization by the Mon
roe doctrine, and It is the work of dem
agogue or knave who even attempts
to offer them.
"These islands must be saved unto
Themselves. and the God Of Heaven ana
Earth has dedicated the work to the
United States Of America. 1t win take
life and resources, Just as Advancement
Of civilization took them years agone,
but the glory Of the accomplishment
will be ample reward"
This is the situation direct from Ma
MALTA, and in a Manila paper. The
work referred to came to the United
States through the Spanish American
war-a work OF accident, but none the
less God-gIven. Freedom hurls a d.
rect rebuke ut William Jennings Bryan
when 1t says: when a man who
asplres to be President Of a great couE-
try-the greatest republic on the earth
advocates self-government for a peo-
pie conditioned MS described. he evil
dences the disposition of Satan when he
tempted Christ. and like that Divine
Messenger, the people should say; Get
thee behind me. Satan"
What a picture 1t Is that is thus pre-
scented for the inspection Of the Amer
leans who would have our nag desc
cratedl
Au,I.parbarit, Malice,