Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-12-22
Tne MASON RESOLUTION.

week. We do not know how Vcrmonts
senators voted on the Mason reso-
luton, but is 1t not time that they should
understand that in this great question of
human liberty they must at all times
voice the principles and feelings of their
constituency p
1.-THE st. Louis convention that nomin-
ated President Lckinley adopted with
much show of earnestness, by I'M
animous vote, the following plank of the
platform upon whichs the canvass was
made and the election was won
From the hour Of achieving their own IN
dependence the people of the United States
have regarded with sympathy the struggles
of the other peoples to free themselves from
European domination.
We watch with deep and abiding interest
the heroic battle of the Cuban patriots
against cruelty and oppression. and our best
hopes go out for the full success of their
determined contest for liberty.
afterwards this was quoted in congress
and out as a party pledge, and President
Mckinley was savagely denounced, not
only as a coward but as traitor to the
party, by the jiugoes for preventing as
long as possible the war with Spain,
which it was said we were bound to
inaugurate in order that the Cubans
might see "the full success of their
determined contest for liberty" Last
week Senator Mason of Illinois, para
phrasing this eloquent and true decara-
ton of public sentiment, offered in the
senate, and on Monday supported in
speech, the following resolutions
bp Of achieving thpir
own independence the people of the United
States have regarded with sympathy the
struggles of other peoples to free themselves
from European domination; therefore
Resolved, by the senate of the United
States, that we watch with deep and abiding
interest the heroic battle of the South Afri-
can Repubic against cruelty and oppres
sion, and our best hopes 90 out for the full
success, of their determined contest for
liberty.
THAT this voices the earnest feelings of
nine-tenths of the American people no
one will deny; that there are many
senators who are Ignorant of the feelings
of their constituents on the subject that
! they dare vote against it no one will con-
tend; but majority are capable of
lodging it, and when Mason had finished
his speech, Lodge, who had helped frame
to move that the Mason resolution be
sent to a committee, where it will be
pgeon-holed and strangled.
"rhe reason for this trick is that having
accepted highlands moral support in our
conquest of the Spanish Islands we are
bound to give her ours while she butchers
the Dutch farmers of the Transvaal, and
that she would regard the slightest ex-
preston Of sympathy with her victims
as a breach Of the tacit alliance over
which the statesmen of the two countries
have poured out such torrents of con-
graduation. In every way the Beers are
the superiors of the Cubans or Filipinos
more intelligent, more civilized, more
God fearing, infinitely more capable of
self government, and more deserving of
their liberty. The war upon them has
for its purpose only the seizure of their
possessions and their subiugation and is
as rank piece of criminal aggression as
can be found in the whole history of
highlands dark and bloody career of
conquest.
"MoreOver it is beng prosecuted with
atrocious brutalities which are as revolt
ing as any that Spain ever practiced in
Cuba, whenever success attends the
British army, which is not often. just
now the London papers. which of course
are not discredi!ing the army of their
country without cause, are printing the
details of the battle of ElandslaagtA,
received from special correspondents and
officers engaged in the fight, or, as il
l. tal Hpsnrihsl
sacre. One officer writes in a letter pub
lshcd in The Times as follows
After the enemy were driven out one of oul
squadrons pursued auG got right in among
them in the twilight, ana most excellent pig
sticking en>ued for about ten minutes the
bag being about sixty. One of our men stucl
his lance through two, killing both at one
thrust. Had 1t not been getting Il 3rk We
should nave killed many more.
"A dragon corporal told Chronicle
CORES pOndent:
The Beers fell OF their horses and rolleC
among the rocks, hiding their heads witt
their arms, calling for mercy. calling to b,
shot-anything to escape Il stab from thos'
terrible 'lances throug their backs an(
bowels. But not many escaped We jus
gave them good dig as they lay. Next day
most of the lances were bloody.
"Another lancer trooper writes of tn,
same incident:
We got n charge ut them. They threw M
their arms and fell on their knees for mercy
but we were told not 10 give them any, and
can assure you they got none. We wen
along sticking our lances through them. |
was II terrible thing.
"1'he correspondents agree that scores
of Beers were butchered in this way
after they had surrendered and Will,
they were pleading for mercy. But tn,
American senate dares not whisper
word of disapprOval of this helish work
or express the slightest sympathy 70
the heroic people who are challenging
the admiration of the world by their re
sstance To the domination of a nation
which profits by and applauds it, because
if ii should Sir Chamberlain would TAX,
oflense and the AnglO-SaXon alliance 70
the conquest and civilization of tn,