Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-28

Eighth Congress, and sighed by Thomas
Jefferson, in which act there is recog-
milton of States Of the Union" Ter
ritories of the United States" and
Countries subject to the jurisdiction
OF the United States" and wv. H. r..
assumes for the purposes of his argu-
ment, just as the New York Sun did
in its plea of justification for policy
OF conquest, excuse for large army,
for tremendous expenses burdenlng the
people without the possibility OF re-
equipment, and of bloodshed and hard
ship and suffering inflicted upon the
hest young men of the country to the
number of one hundred thousand, that
the Eighth Congress, when 1t passed
that act, or that Thomas Jefferson,
when he signed it, had in mind or con-
templation. or even imagined in the
widest flight of fancy, that the time
would ever come when the measure
in question would be filed in justifica-
ton for the sort of thing going on to-
day. Such thing was never dream
ed of by the fathers of this country,
the trainers of it's early laws, or those
coming after them for generations, and
no one knows this better than Nv. ii.
R." whose early political training was
in a different school of politics from
that in which he is now receiving tut
ton. The New York Sun of the I'M
known date from which "W. H. R. S"
clipping is taken can be well matched
by a clipping from the same journal OF
two years ago, in which Aguinaido,
now proclaimed a rebel by the he
publican press and Republican speak
ers. was lauded as a patriot and as
the washington of the Philippines,
and his argument is equally well an
swered by the open letter of Senator
George f. Hoar, published in the Bos-
ton Journal, Advertiser, Herald and
Globe. but which is too long to quote
here.
Our present colonial and imperialistic
policy cannot be justified by wv. ii.
r." by the New, York Sun, nor even
By the administration. 1t is undeniably
un-American, does violence to the fun
damental ideas of our government, and
has been in detail and as a whole a
costly blunder, as such recognized by
nineteen men out of every twenty
But the Republicans are committed
to it, and must, perforce, be supported,
through thick and thin, through blood
shed and hardship and suffering, and
disease and death and the expenditure
of scores OF millions wrung from an
unwilling people by an administration
backed and applauded by such men as
"W. H. R. who, blinded by the smoke
OF burning villages and deafened by
the reports of rifles and explosions OF
shells, neither see nor hear that which
is behind the transient glory of the
battlefield, and stop neither to count
the cost nor to reckon of the dangers
Of further and more serious war which
increase in an ever augmented ratio
as we plunge into the affairs of the out
side world and come into contact with
hitherto unknown conditions and ever
conflicting international interests.
"W H. R." may argue until dooms-
day, but neither he nor the few who
think or pretend to think with him,
will ever reconcile the American peo-
pie to the sort of thing President Nc
Kinley has thrust upon us. The best
and closest thinkers in the admins
tration party have protested loudly and
often. many others have remained
silent through motives of party fealty,
while secretly deploring the tendency
of the government and regretting its
acts The great body of the people are
not only not in sympathy with inn
perialism, but are bitterly and openly
opposed to it, and that this is true will
be seen a few weeks hence when they
go to the polls to register their opinion