Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-06
4 POSS/BLE EXPOSURE.

After the manner of men who whistle
to keep their courage up, there are DEM
ocrats who profess to see a great deal that
is funny in the runor hat the president
has in his possession i~ndisputable facts
that prove that Aguinaldo and his junta
have received direct and positive assist
ance from prominent democratic sources
in this country. and that the rebellion in
the Philippines is chiefly due thereto.
Instead of denying the possibility of such
facts being in the hands of the chief ex-
e%cutive, the eXpositors of the bourbon
faith seem to look upon the use of these
statements in the fortheoming message
to congress as among the possibilities.
And this is why it strikes them Is being
so very funny.
After having given the F%ilipinos every
encouragement possible, in a public way,
no doubt it will crafty democratic vanity
to have their efforts formally acknowl-
edged by the president OF the United
States, with evidence that will leave no
room in the mind of Aguinaldo to fear
that he has been overlooked by his bour-
bon ackers in the United States. 1t is
to be hoped the president will touch upon
such matters in his annual message to
congress. The American people will well
come the official exposure which the
Aguinaldoites in this country have so
conspicuously won.
A most extraordinary condition Of af-
fairs has existed during the past season.
The nation has been engaged in the pros
ecution of a war that was not of its own
choosing-a wal that was foisted upon
it by conditions over r-hich it had no
control. Unforeseen circumstances have
tended to prolong the strife. and the hui
mane conduct Of our nation has had no
appreciate effect toWard subduing the
uncalled for bitterness on the part of the
insurgents. During all tils tine a GER
tain percentage of our people, represent
ed by a great majority Of the democratic
leaders, have done all within their power
to encourage the nemie of the govern
ment. Thy have insisted that a great
wrong was being perpetrated by the
people-a wrong of the same type and
character that led our ~forefathers to take
UP arms in defense of human liberty and
the rights of man!
To the insurgent leaders this sort of
sympathy came as an encouragement
that fired their hearts, nerved their arms,
and stimulated to the utmost the ingenui-
ties of war. Patriotic Americans have
sympathy upon the hopes Of the nemies
of the flag, and no intelligent man has
doubted that Aguinaldo has been induced
to "held the fort through the belief that
the democracy represented the real sem
timents of the American people, and hat
his cause would be recognized and taken
care of just as soon as that party was
able to take hold of the reins Of govern
ment.
There has long been a suspicion that
democratic sympathy for the Filipinos
has not been confined to the pyrotechnic
editorial displays of the democratic
press. Men who feel as the democratic
newspapers profess to feel toward Agui-
naldo do not, as q rule, confine their
sympathy to the beating of tom-tomsa and
the playing of the editorial ~trombones.
Copperheadism did not confine itself to
mouth service during the wal of the re-
bellion, and it is not at all likely that it
has done SO in the present case.
The only argument against the posi-
bility of overt acts in the interest of the
Filipino cause is the difficulty of render
ing Aguinallo a direct service without
getting caught at it. There is a general
belief that the government is in possess
sion of facts not as yet known to the
general public, tending to prove beyond
preadventure that the enemies of the
American flag have received direct en-
couragement and assistance from demo-
cratic sources in this country. If this
be true, it is to be hoped the presidents
message next month will cover the
ground to the fullest extent.
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