The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-24

our republic from a liberty preserving
community into afreebooting and plrat-
icai nation"
A lengthy poem" entitled. Column
BIAS Apostasy.' modelled after Kip
llng'S famous production, is in the form
OF a prayer to the Lord for the OVER
throw Of the American army in the
Philippines: This is one of the mlldest
verses Of the appeal:
Thy llghtnlngs from the heavens hurl.
With drenchlng floods and fires TO
curl,
And shrink our forces, land and sea,
That all may know, who dwell In
That right forever shall make
Advance, and wrong forever quake,
TIL beERars at Thy feet we fall.
And bloody legions homeward call,
Smile Us, o Lord, yea, smlte us all,
For we forget, yea, we forget.
Here Is the manner in which the sac
red hymn America" is emasculated by
this sedltious writer:
Our Country. tbs of thee,
Sweet land OF liberty,
OF thee we sing;
Land where our fathers died,
Land Of the Tagal's pride,
From Jungle to seaside,
Let freedom ring.
Our volleys swell the breeze,
Re-echolng from the trees
Sweet freedoms song;
Let tyrants fear and quake,
Who would our dear land take,
Fen tho our hearts they break,
Our fight prolong.
In chapter headed Nemesis" the
author of the pamphlet in arguing that
the Filipino is the hunted slave; Spain
is the slave hunting trader. and Ameri-
ca the purchasing STAKEHOLDER" de-
clares among many other things:
Already the first vial OF wrath de-
sends upon a guilty country. The
world has been called to witness our
bOastful and arrogant nation false to
itself and its God, descending TO the
bArbarItles of ancient Rome We
have become, In the midst OF our boast
ing, a spectacle to the rest of the world
as an apostate nation, descending to u
level little above the cannibal tribes
Of the Dark Continent"
John Browns soul is lugged into this
patriotic production. The opening lines
give the idea. They relate that, John
Browns body lies Wondering In the
grave, Wondering in the land his spirit
strove TO save, but his soul is In Luz
zon" The author. in defending him
self from the charge Of treason, says:
American scoundrelism is no more ac-
ceptable than the seoundrelIsm Of other
peoples"
In massacre of the star spangled
Banner" the great and inspiring song
is twisted to inquire II by Luzon's early
light. the nag we once hailed as the
pledge of redeemlng; whose broad
stripes and bright stars through the
tropical night. revealed that we were
there with bayonets gllstening;" and
"oh. say does the star spangled banner
yet wave, over the land we would steal
and the men we'd enslave?" Further
on there is another corruption Of
America" in which the opening lines
are: MY country, It's of thee, sad land
OF tyranny" &c.
1t is needless to quote more from this
pamphlet. The above examples are
mild: others are unit to read. treason
able. and sacrelIgious. And. yet, the
author near the close, has the monu-
mental nerve to brand the govern
ment's prohibition Of the circulation Of
such literature among our troops and
the Filiplnos as "despotlsm." He
charges that the order is due to the
fact that 1.-THE cause which is sought to be
bolstered up by such hIgh-handed prac-
tees is so rotten and despicable that
even rats would desert 1t like sinking
ship, unless Gagged within it,