The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-24
. FUS|ON|sI HARMONY
ssv Rebukes Ex-CongressDan
- ExpansJonfst Principles aAa
4 = N Open Letter breaches ~
ne Horrors Of inperaaiis1.

...,st Dispatch 10 the Post-intelIIgencer
MTMPIA, Nov. I.--The following open
49,, from State Land Commissioner
e.n.rs Bridges TO James Hamilton Lewis
~ further testimony 70 the unity Of
| .--ssyneat prevailing among the leaders
q the fus>cn forces OF Washington on
q. aasstiou OF expansion
"a latter was given out today M the
-, Of the recent in.erviews iii the
s.~a-rn,elligencer, In which Col Lewis
.s.ev.ses his views on the subject The
,.fser Is dated st Olympia. yesterday and
y fellows
nv Dear Colonel: The haste or the
rst Of Tmperiaiists' TO throw down the
cwntlst 10 their fellow fusionists.
ferush the columns Of opposition news
ssptrs. In my opinion. can have but one
eseuIf namely, q struggle a, the pfiTna-
- for the election OF two contending
IIegzttons. 'imperiaiists' and antrim
sWhsn read the purported interviews
nj men with whom ! have been associ-
ga politically and compare ths inter
views with the humanitarian Utterances
a yourseif and other noble men In the
hasis Of congress and the United States
seeate when war was declared against
sxzln on behalf Of the oppressed Cubans.
ghen | sit down by myself and read the
Declaration OF Independence. the original
3P1Sf OF IHUfIfN& ItHtizQn ana luH uSIEE~
snces Of his associates; when I read OF
ihe haunting display in the windows OF
eesffIe's business houses of goods looted
Yum the people Of the Philippine islands.
sfalen from their desacrated churches. IL
raraes 10 me overwhelmingly that this IL
q age OF eommerciaiism, when men. deaf
70 reason. have lost every sentluen. sa-
rrpd To manhood in their greedy, mad
sush for gain
acoIonel while watching your career az
our representative la Washington. many
AZ Us had hoped that we might look to
yeu as our standard bearer on behalf OF
susering humanity. II Is my earnest hope
that cur confidence has not been mis-
pSheed. II it possible that America, the
erandest republic that the world has ever
known through her public men. has con-
eanded 10 establish government. utterly
regardless OF the wishes OF the people 10
b governed IL il not necessary for me
10 suggest to you 10 read the official rec
ards af Washington city. Probably you
~ more conyersant with them than any
ether man In the state. but. II / am cor
rect ar, examination of the records dis
closes the fact that an alliance was en-
tesed into between the Filipinos and the
tinted States, through their representa-
tires.
sAre the tendencies OF this govern
mens becoming monarehical9 On page
two OF today's observation-disclosures / note
that 81 the one hundred and fhirty-first
annual banquet or the New York Cham
hr ef Commerce, President Jersap. al
lsiing 10 the death of the vice president
proposed the toast: TO the Dresiden, OF
me United States followed By toast
% Queen Victoria. TO the orchestral az
Compartment OF God Save the Queen
81 this I'm the face of the Ubiquitous xar
now being carried on by Great Britain
sssinst a handful of Beers.
Where H. our tine-honared neutral
policy What right have We even 10 Inn
NJ sympathy with a monarchy warning
axainst q republic9 To what are we drift
hx- Have your people forgotten the tyr
snny. oppression and long continued en-
nifty of the se1f~styied mother govern
Esntw Would II not have been more fit
tisg IN substitution al that toast, TO drink
to The progress Of ali republics. especially
thas Of France. our old friend In time az
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