Arizona republican., 1899-08-23
PHRNIx. AUGUST 2a. 1899.
MORE COPPERHEADISM.

A circular sent out by John J. Val
 entine of Wells Fargo & O., entitled
 Tropical Expansion,' deserves atten-
 ton in that it voices the copperhead
 sentiment of the country. MT. Val
 entine heads his essay with 2 list Of
 the officers and members of the Ant
 Imperialist League" in which list we
 find the name of that distinguished pa
 triot. Grover Cleveland, and of Aguin-
 aldo Atkinson, John G. Carlisle, w.
 Bourke Cochran, Hagen s. Pingree,
 Carl Schurz, John Sherman, Samuel
 Gompers and other politicai has-beens,
 theorists and demagogues. It was the
 "anti-imperialist league it will tte re-
 membered, whose fulminations against
 the government and in favor of Aguin-
 aldo were barred from the Manila
 mails Despite the fact that the
 league was unable to forward all of it's
 unpatriotic literature to the Philip
 pines enough cif it was scattered there
 to make the rs.bels believe that the
 American government was about to be OYe.thrown because of it's war policy, and their activity increased to such extent that hundreds of American lives
 wIere sacrificed. The prime object of the league was 10 create dissensicn in the ranks of the American sc,diers. The whole world knows how this at tempt failed. Nearly if not quite two thousand volunteers in the Philippines re-enlisted when their time expired, thus giving .he Tie to the charge that the rank and file was opposed to the continuance of the war. The anti imperialist league" succeeded only in holding it's chief members up to eter- nal shame, and in causing true Ameri- cans the country over to condemn it for it's craven sl3nd.
 Gdr. John J. Valentine, who fails to have read the public pulse alright, now seeks to convey the idea that the Cau- oasian ''can not thrive, physically, nor perform manual labor Of any kind for any considerable period' in the Phil tppines That may be so, but some Of our sailors, Admiral Dewey among the number, have done pretty well in that climate for years. The English, the
 
 ing of the Spanish, have found llle in the Philippines bearable. We have the evidence of Major Sternberg, | now in the Philippines, that he never saw a finer climate and a former em- ploye of The Republican, now serving ! in the Fourth cavalry, writes that the i climate agrees with him perfectly, and l that the country is exceedingly beauti- i ful. The faIsity of MT Valentines po- siti0n is accentu3ted by his statement ! that "the only impeIialists in all the i American forces now in these islands | are to be found among the temporary | government appo:ntees who see com | ing within their grasp large fs: official | plums.' This statement was issued | July 31, at the very time hundreds Of | soldiers in the Philippines were re- enlisting to fight the Filip.nos. MT. | Valentine, dilating upon the alleged . woes of the F'ilipinos, falls ir'-o the 1 emor of assuming that his countryman are no better informed than they.
 Here is a quc:ation from MT. Va1en- tines brochure which shows very clearly the quality of his American ism:
 '.We lad but just emerged from a period of Industrial and financial crisis and depression during which fifty thousand miles of railrc2d had been in the hands Ct receivers, and twelve hundred banks had failed, when, with out deliberation or reason, we plunged into a war with Spain, followed it up by wild shout for expansion, and preceded to inaugurate a war upon the FfEpincs, 3 people whose only offending Gn-so-far as the United States was concerned) has been that they, like Americans, desire liberty, 10 whom we presented an ultimatum of submission or ruin"
 Here's patriotic fervor for you Hav- ing just recovered from particu- 3arIy hard times the United States ought to have had more sense than to be drawn into 3 struggle with Spain ov=r such trivial matters as tha starving Cubans and the 'bIowing up Of the Maine It should have swallowed Spain's insults and shrugged Us shoulders over the Maine horzor and waEed until it's treasury was in condition to afford the luxury of a war Sentiment should not have besn permitted to cut any figure in the matter whatever. Having entered 5nso a war with Spain pains' should