El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07
Philippine Problem
Shall We Massacre Prosperity?
Written For the HERALD.

Following a long period OF YER
severe Industrial depressioa,-a Gala
nifty which brought the wolf to tn
door of every poor man in the land
joying an unparalleled era of pros
perity which promises to be of man
years duration. Prosperity and plen
ty now brood over the entire country
and the only men involuntarily idl
are the inmates of jsils or prisons
Such is the present industrial cOndi
tion of the country. Now cal
we afford to foreclos,
this priceless boon? Fol
stop this nasty muss in the Philip
pines? Never. Can we afford to turn
prosperity into another calamity fol-
the sake of fne-spun theory
What the workmen want is
practical matters, not pet theories.
What they want is the operation of
mills, mines, and farms,-bresd and
labor, not the mental pabulum OF
mustybrained college men. This is q
practical age.
For the sake of lot of inconsistent
political or social principles-only ap-
plicable to an ideal condition of affairs,
and no more applicable in practice in
the Philippines today than in the North
Pole country, the college professors
playing as usual in the hands of the
free-trade and free-silver democrats,
gravely ask the voters OF this country to
rebuke the administration in it's eff
much needed lesson, and to respect
the American flag. In order to carry
out their pet theories, the Anti
Imperialistic league. -engineer-
ed by Edward Atkinson, that
blantant demagogue and arch-conspir-
ator against the privileges of Amer
lean workmen, that lecherous ad-
vocate of ''Shin-bone SOUP" and
"Herb diet" for poor workmen,-are at
affairs which will close the mines and
mills and cast wave of disaster over
the entire country. That was precise
ly what these fellows did in 1894 when,
by labored theories on the evils of q
"Robber Tariff" and an array of fig
ures showing how unjust was the
"Tax on the workman's din
ner PAIL and similar hap-doodle,
they huggermuggered the voters
with the Cleveland free trade
theories, and brought about the ter
rible disaster from which we are now
happily emerging,-a as from the Slough
of DespOnd. Have the workmen for
gotten that disaster? Have they for
gotten who brought it upon US? Have
they forgotten that the Cleveland Free
Trade propaganda was set up, main
tanned, and made to accomplish its ne
farious work, in New England, and by
the same crowd that is conducting tie |
League? Beware !
Of the New England agitators! Their |!
pathway to perdltion will be thickly |
'trewn with the skulls and bones of |
starved American workmen.
The triumph of the Anti-Imperialist |
League wo6ld massacre our prosperity |
rs speedily as an energetic cyclone |
Kansas or Nebraska.
We must not forget that behind this
League with its alb
urd theories, and illogical principles.
s the Democratic party armed with
Weapon in one hand calculated to des-
roy our protective system, in the
ther with battle-ax to destroy our
urrency system, awaiting an oppor-
unity to rush into the breach
. the Notifications about the
White House at Washington. Free
liver Is in a state of "Innocuous
or suspended animation,
ct. like the bacilli of cholera or yellow
'ver, 1t is germ capable of SPRING
lg into destructive energy under ia
orable conditions. The Democratic
arty is as firmly committed as ever to
lie principles of the Chicago platform: {
lie party in nearly every state will de- I
are in favor of free coinage, yet will
tempt to disguise the real issue be-
nd the the anti-imperialist clamor.
he announcement of Democratic 7
Glory in state and pa-
IN would have the same eff
ct In the stock exchange of the
nd than bull in China store; the
tect would be pulsated quickly ,
roughout the whole Industrial body
the nation. At the present time the
eet anchor OF our prosperity Ia firm
held by q powerful chain called
'nfidence, yet Democratic victory,
inging with 1t the shadow of free
image and reputation, would snap
Is chain and permit the industrial
ip to drift away into dangerous and
known seas. Then property would
me to an end.
We cannot afford to massacre pro-
Gritty for the sake of calling off the r
contest. The Filipinos are u
t fighting for liberty, but against it.
ey have learned from experience,-
e the Indians in this ountry,-that
, American brand of liberty =
ich protects lives and property, q
intains order and promotes peaceful I
lustry, is not to their taste. They j
'fer variety of liberty which will ,
init rapine aud plumber, and Z
,cies of despotism such +
they learned from their =
'estors. The whole opposition to Z
war in the Philippines is based on :
ORANGE of the facts. and utterly ,
se assumptions likewise of eco Z
mic principles. This country is not :
ng to suffer as consequence of that
:, nor ought it to consent to ter Z
1ate that war for the sake of letting :
democrats into power, and thus
ssacre prosperity. This .nation is =
bankrupt. nor is it incapable of or