Washington sentinel., 1900-10-13
By July
Let us pause ano 1st, 1907
Consioer. i~n, ~nen 'n'

Consioer. . w"en '"'
army automatically reduces itsel
to $4,000, unless the coming ses-
sion authorizes the continuance ot
the present system, and we can il
we choose close the account oi
criminal aggression and take
measures to return to the normal
rate of national taxation, five dol
lars per head, we shall then have
expended in round figures $3.50.
600, 900 on the Spanish war, for the
purchase Of bad title to the Phil
IPpine Islands, and in the effort to
subjugate the inhabitants, The
lesser part Of this penalty is to be
charged to the war with Spain, the
larger part is to be charged to the
war BEGUN by William Mckinley
upon the government, army, and
people OF the Philippine Islands,
without authority of Congress, be-
fore the cession OF whatever title
Spain possessed had been accepted
by Congress. The dead and
wounded in this warfare among
our own troops number FIVE thou
sand; how many are disabled by
disease we are not yet permitted
to know. How many thousand
men, women, and children have
been the victims OF benevolent
assimilation" among che people of
the Philippine Islands can only
be guessed-"niggers" are not
counted bV the advocates ofarmed
subiugation.
The area of the Philippine ISL
ands is said to be about $4,000
square miles. Nobody knows ex-
actly how many islands there are
or how big they are, and nobody
cared until Mckinley put our army
into the hot, Shiny, malarious
swamps OF Luzon, under orders to
kill the nIggers. They have killed
a good many, but about 5000 OF
our white men have been killed or
wounded, or sent home to die OF
disease. White men can't work
there more than one year, either in
peace or war: the second year lays
them out. Our army is now in the
second year. Professor Worcester
SAYS that a white man who has
plenty of money, works with his
head and not with his muscles, laws
off during the middle Of the day.
and takes good care of himself,
may possibly keep his health for
two Years--at least that Is what he
said before Mckinley put him on
the peace commission, so called.
What fool business it is to 90
half way round the world in order
to find a little patch OF I33, 900
square miles on which we can
waste S2oo. 900, 900 year in money
at the cost of the tax payers, sac
ri6cing the lives of our soldiers,
draining away our capital, in order
that lot Of jingo promoters Of big
Jobs in railways and such like may
plunder the Philippines under the
pretext OF benevolent assimila-
tion," when we have within the
United States half dozen areas
as big as the Philippines, sparsely
inhabited, not occupied by ne
groes, not tropical, not malarious,
aot nasty-all waiting Tor brains,
industry and capital in order to
develop greater individual wealth
and more general welfare than all
the commerce OF Asia will yield in
a generation.
Somebody asks, "where are
these places1" Well, take No. I.
Take the Piedmont Air Line train
from Washington, get off every
forty or fifty miles all the way
down into Alabama and go up on
the plateaus and into the noun
tains OF the middle South, where
the homespun people still live.
Come back by way of the Cincin-
natl Southern, over the Cumber-
land plateau, go up into the noun
tains on that side, and come back
through West Virginia. Take two
or three weeks about it, and cover