The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-27
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HOUSTON, SUNDAY, MAY II, 1900,
THE PRESIDENT MUST SHOW ur.


Do what il will to avoid investigation.
the administration can not avoid exposure
Of the true conditions that obtain In the
Philippines.
So far. the administration has presented
but enc witness He is high enough in
official station to have attracted public
confidence at first. but his testimony has
been so seriously contradicted by the SOL
der Of the line and by the circumstances
of the situation that his reputation for
truth and veracity would necessarily fall
before impeachment.
The country can well understand that
for prudential reasons It is best for the
administration to keep under cover the
Philippine situation but it must now he
clear even to the president and the war
department that conccalment is no Longer
possible aud that General Otis Is The most
widely dlscredited witness ever summoned
In extremity to bolster a losing conten
ton.
While official correspondence and official
reports have been denied the public and
resolutions to investigate side-sraeked
or strangled altogether by partisans OF
the administration in congress, the boys
in camp and trench have been reaching
homo with news that tells the actual con-
dtions prevalent on the islands.
We leave General Otis out OF ell con-
alteration. That is. wo dismiss him be-
cause after two years on the archipelago
he starts home without reducing his army
Notwithstanding his parrot-llke retcra-
tion that the war is over. A general wht
testhes that his war is over while his
staff officers are in the field calling fol
reinf0rcemgnts, and who Is forced to ad
nit that his jurisdiction about his base o
supplies does not extend beyond catlnI
gun range, is not of much consequence
His story is destroyed by conditions
manifest to every man In the country. no
too stupid to know himself to he 81
earth
Little by little the truth Of The Philip
pine situation comes struggling home.
Is a nightmare for the parry which ha
brought It about and a standing mena
to the institutions Of cree government
The public is now beginning TO as
whea will this Philippine arfair end? wha
can our soldiers come home? When vii
the governments get on he profit sid
OF the ledger In this Philippine TRANSACTION
and the taxpaylag public, In some sense
compensated for the burdens il has born
with marvellous complacency, almost t
this hour? when win the erIny be RI
dueed TO a peace basis aud when will tn
war tax be permitted to stop? These ar
the questions that are rolling up frol
every nook and corner OF the countr.
and which are gstherlLg some OF the Gle
ments Of hurricane rs cRlsen Aft,
citizen. without resrect to party anita
ton, joins in the clamos.
The administration can dodge and dis
semb.e, but it can no longer conceal fac
Of the Philippine faSeo with sentiments
slush about the nag or with banque
apeeehes on the glories OF imperialism Z
ON the commercial fruits Of Asiatic con
quest
The American people stand lot
'joliylng' and indulge a censain amour
OF the insanity OF enthusiasm. but whe
the burden Of government begins to gro
TOO heavy and excitement to pass off the
are much inclined to insist on those
authority showing their hands, In tn
practice they usually have their wa,
Mr.. Mckinley can mot escape the rule. Il
must SHOW up"