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Washington sentinel., 1900-03-03

ICY. Many who supported Mr..
Mckinley in the last Presidential
election will not DO so again, but,
if he read the signs ofthe times, will
cast their votes for Democracy and
constitutional government in the
coming Presidential election.
The present bill, if it becomes a
law, is the entering wedge to inn
perialism, because it destroys and
overthrows constitutional govern
ment and leads to sbsolusism,
whatever may be its results. 1t is
the beginning of the end to repub-
lican institutions, whatever you
may call the government 1t will
establish. You may retain the
name ot the republic, but you will
have an empire in fact, and there
fore he would protest against its
passage on behalf OF Democracy,
oil constitutional liberty, and IN the
name Of the many thousands OF
German speaking Americans who
love their country and who are un-
willing to indorse imperialism, a
colonial policy, Anglo American
alliance, or the alliance of the
United States with any foreign
country on earth.
Washington sentinel., 1900-03-03

ing tracks on both sides of the stream
We find him last Summer at the Cath.
olic Summer School at Plattsburg, New
York, holding forth, and telling the
people there about the flag, and you
would actually think he was born next
door to the Blarney Stone. Next
week we find him at Asbury Park, New
Jersey, preaching to the Methodists
about piety and patriotism. And the
executing a treaty, offensive and deien.
sive, with the Sultan of Sulu, whereby
he recognizes slavery, polygamy, and the
religion OF Mshomet.
To crown all, we next fnd the Presi-
dent OF the United States going on his
knees to the Pope of Rome, and asking
him to help him out Of the difficulties
which neither his Generals nor
his Peace Commission could do, He
appoints Archbishop Chapelle the Papal
Delegate, and commissions Father Nc.
KInnon, Ostensibly as a chaplain Of the
United States army, but actually asthe
secretary of the PaDal Delegate, and
sends both IN princely style to Manila
to negotiate with the Spanish Arch.
bishop there as to the confirming Of the
Spanish iriars and monks in their pos
session of some twenty or thirty
millions worth OF the best land in
Luzon and the other islands. This is
the first time in the history of the
United States when the President dared
to interfere in a matter OF Church and
State. What right has our Government
to summon or invite the Papal Delegate
to aid or assist us in settling our political
affairs.
l feel keenly on this subj ct, knowing
that there are many gentlemen on this
platform who, if they should speak as l
do, would run the risk OF being called
A P. AS. But l, as Catholic, lest there
should be any mistake, Roman Cath.
Olic, who lived in Ireland until WAS
man big, and understand all about land.
lords, the g!ebe lands, and the Estah.
lished Church; don't want to see my
Church going into the landlord business
with the Fllipinos or any one else under
the protection Of the American Aag.
The student Of history knows we'll that
it was this ownership Of land by the
Church that was one Of the causes of
the bloody revolution in France, and il
enabled King Henry VIII, to succeed in
his so called Reformation in England.
Daniel O'COnnell, my lIustrious coun-
trymen, used to say, ''We take our
religion from Rome but not our politics.
Keep the priests poor and they will be
always the friends of the people"
AS an American citizen, and a sincere
Catholic, want to see every acre Of the
land in Manila and the other Philippine
islands now in possession oi the friars,
monks and other orders confscated or
taken from them, and given to the
Philippine people, to whom they right
fully belong,
The great United States engine has
gotten of the constitutional track. We
want a new driver, and I appeal to my
old time Republican friends to aid the
patriotic lovers OF liberty in securing the
services Of William J. Bryan, or any
other candidate whom the Democrats
may nominate, 10 be placed in charge
OF the machine next November.
Washington sentinel., 1900-03-03
Why We siIl Pay War Taxes.

Because the Republican party
desires to gIYe $50, ,ooo. 900 oil the
peoples money which has been
collected in taxes to the national
banks as premiums on bonds.
Because the Republican party
wants to give So, 0,ooo, 900 a year to
the Hanna Payne subsidy grab
bers.
Because the Republican party
wants to give $4,000, 900 a year Tor
30 years to private cable company
to transmit few Government mes
sages daily to the Philippines.
Because the Republican party
has other schemes.quite as good as
these by which the money Of the
taxpayers may be drained into the
pockets OF the few.
For this reason the Republican
leaders do not propose to declare
that the country is at peace and
war taxes should cease until they
are forced to do so.
In the meantime the life Of each
soldied lost in the Philippines is
worth thousands OF dollars to them
in the furtheranee OF their grabs
and subsidies.
Until pockets OF illimitable
capacity are filed the burden on
the necks OF the people will not be
raised.
Washington sentinel., 1900-03-03
Build War Ships in Navy Yards.

Build War Ships in Navy Yards.
Through the favor Of the Ma
tional Government two or three
great iron and steel industries in
this country are enabled to paw
enormous annual dividends to the
iron masters. Private ship yards
are now building forty eight ves-
sells for the Government at the
estimated cost of S %, ,ooo, 900 more
than If the same vessels were built
by the Government in the national
navy yards, even though the wages
in these yards are from IS to 20
per cent. higher than in the private
establishments
According to those who are &C.
quainted with the capacity of the
navy yards, there are at least three
that are equal to any demand
which may be made upon them.
This fact has been brought to the
attention Of the Government in
petition signed by 6s, 600 navy yard
employees, who would like to build
some Of the war vessels recon-
mended by the Secretary OF the
Navy.
ENGLAND or France are mindful
OF the interest of the dock yards OF
the nation; they keep the dock
yards always full OF work. even if
the private establishments Of the
country be forced 70 remain idle.
England, the greatest naval
power in existence, almost entirely
relies on her dock yards for the
construction Of her ships OF war.
To such a state oil perfection has
the dock yard system OF England
been brought that the Board OF
Admiralty can estimate almost to
a dollar the cost of the heaviest
ship, and to a day as to the time
needed for its construction. She
has demonstrated beyond a doubt
that the cheapest, quickest and
most economic Il place to have her
war ships constructed is in her own
dock yards. What England has
been able to do in this line we can
do, If the proper encouragement be
given
These facts contain lesson that
should not 60 unheeded by the
Government. Atthe present time,
when our national existence is
fairly focused in the acquisition OF
a mighty navy, we should NOT lose
sight Of the methods pursued by
the countries which alreadv pos
sess sea power double or quad
ruple that of the United States.
Washington sentinel., 1900-03-03
".SGlHS PobEH est SN.6yS0EG Lex"

WASHINGTON, D, Feb. I9, 1900.
RditOy Sentinel.
The Republican party-the patron OF
trusts, is very lond Of quoting England
nowaday. More than one-halt Of the
official documents issued over the name
of John Hay have been taken from
English State papers. But there is a
scientific England as We'll as an official
England; and they sometimes differ as
widely as the American masses differ
from the official American Of today.
Now it has occurred 70 me little OF
scientific England may be causucally
applied to the Republican party Of tOoaY.
In view OF the understanding" which
Chamberlain says "exists between the
two countries" official America cannot
object to this. But scientific writer's,
unlike politicians, can always be relied
on for the truth. They are swayed
neither by passion nor bS prejudice.
Engineering, a noted London scientific
journal, has in It's issue Of December,
IS, 1899, a vigorous editorial on the
report ofthe late Industrial Commission.
Washington sentinel., 1900-03-03

Several ot the German papers
have inquired Of the WASHINGTON
SENTINEL why Mr.. Lentz, the lead
ing German-American Congress
man in the House, did not make a
speech against the heavy war tax
on beer the other day when that
question came up.
For their satisfaction we will
say that Congressman Lentz was
by chance unable to be present by
reason OF absence from the city.
He had accepted an invitation ex-
tended to him by Republicans and
Democrats alike, OF Springfield,
ILL.,, to speak in behalf Of Kruger
and liberty. He was paired on
this occasion with Congressman
Southard, OF Ohio.
For the benefit of those papers
and to show them where Mr.. Lentz
stands on this question, we call
attention to an extract from a
speech delivered by him against
the Dingley Tariff bill, April a7th,
1898:
Every honest man who has had time
to look at the bill will agree with me
that in view OF that condition we have
ample time to discuss this and get a
revenue measure thst will not impose
Washington sentinel., 1900-03-03
Are We Apeing ROYAIty9

Do our wealthy people ad ore
titles Of nobility3 For an answer,
witness the number of American
heiresses who have married foreign
titlesl How can their brothers
reach the "high estate" to which
their sisters have ascended7 Dc
you think the brothers will tryi
And hsre's the entering wedge:
We have colonies and so we
must have Governor Generals
"Viceroys" is the name where the
head oil the conquering govern
ment is called Empress or En-
peror. An American lady is the
wife OF the Vl:eroy Of India and
we are to have a Viceroy in the
Philippines, in Porto Rico, and in
Cuba if the plans OF the Imperial
lists do not miscarrY. They may
call them Governor Generals at
the start, but the power is the same
and therefore the obeisance and
flunkeyism will be the same, and
consequently the prerogatives Of
ROYALTY will be accorded them just
as is the case in the court Of India
where Empress Victoria is repre-
sented by Curzon and wite-she
whose name was formerly "Miss
Letter OF Chicago"
An illustration OF the power and
the superior air which is made to
surround the ViceroY Of India is
the prohibition, we are told, ot car
riage driving to all but his royal
highness and consort. But we are
also informed that recently the
vice regents sister. in-law-M Miss
Leiser-has been granted by the
ViceroY the right to drive. and
accordingly she also is a superior
being to all others about the palace
and its surroundings.
We must face the fact that in
this country with its rapidly in
creasing fortunes and marriages
into the titled nobility Of foreign
countries, there is growing tend
eucy in these quarters for the cur
tailment OF the popular vote and
increased legal power on the part
Of the few. That there has been
real increase Of power on the
part OF wealth, few will deny, but
at present this power operates
through the term OF popular gov
ernment. A century ago popular
government was more throttled
than at present, but a climax was
reached and the people, still hav-
ing the ballot, restored popular
government through the use OF it.
The FIRST thing to do today is to
vote down Imperialism and thus
restore the Republic.
Washington sentinel., 1900-03-03

all OF these taxes on the little glass oil
beer that the poor workman drinks or
the pipeful Of tobacco that the laboring
man smokes. Why not put 81 a bottle
on the champagne that the sportiugman
or the millionaire opens and consumes?
Instead Of that you put cents pint.
Why not put revenue stamp on every
purchase OF diamonds and silks? In
England every time a man steps up to
a counter and makes a purchase Of IS
or more the merchant is compelled to
puts revenue stamp on the receipt which
must be given with the purchase. When
a man enters Tiffany's and buys 81, 600
worth OF diamonds, the law should
compel a receipt to be given for the
purchase, with proper revenue stamp
of rs or 80 per cent on the purchase, to
be collected by the merchants them
selves AMI paid yer to the Government.
We want you to join US in making
tax law here which will do equal and
exac: justice; and when you are prepar-
ing this bill let our SIX Democratic
members Of the Ways and Means Com.
AAAth-~ AAlV AuG room 10 see
why you take the tariff off OF coffee.
Last week you proposed to put cents
a pound on Arbuckle's 100000 sacks
which would have put into the Treasury
in thirty days three and a hall million
dollars In a day and a night that prop.
ositlon disappeared. II it had been
100. 900 sacks in the groceries of the land,
and they had sent in kilograms and |
letters, they would have been ignored; |
but 1t was in one trust, and like the |
Sugar trust a year ago, the Coffee trust, |
known as Arbuckle's, has saved three |
and halt millions in a day and night, |
have no doubt that bottle OF cham.
payne was opened on the result ol it,
and if it had been opened month later
they would have had to pay two cents
tax on it. That is the only thing they
would have regretted, that cents tax.
Now they have put a cent on a rs cent
bottle Of patent medicine, 2 cents on a
so cent bottle, 3 cents on a Is cent bottle
and cents on 81 bottle. You can put
a tax on tobacco, on beer, on patent
and you can put It on any
thing that the poor use, but you never
think Of the luxury and the extravaganza
of the rich which ought to stand a tax
IN these times and showther patriotism.
Washington sentinel., 1900-03-03

MALL the history of the Demo-
cratic party. says the Alexandra
Gagette, there never was such a
favorable opportunitYtor that party
TO regain control OF the Govern
ment as is now afforded. The high
tariff, the proposed abolition OF
greenbacks and Treasury notes.
the enormous increase IN the pub
lie debt, the blood and expense Of
unnecessary wars, the entaugling
foreign alliances, the sympathy for
the British in South Africa, and
the fabulous wealth attained by
the plutocrats--all the work OF the
Republicans-certainly should be
sufficient to induce intelligent citi
zens 90 entrust the control oi thei
Government TO other hands.
Washington sentinel., 1900-03-03

THE Indians are almost exter-
minated. The few who remain
have been rendered almost tract
able. This country had nearly
reached a condition when military
camps would not be necessary only
for places for the soldiers to stay.
Now General Shaiter says garri-
sons will be needed in the Philip
pine Islands forever.
Washington sentinel., 1900-03-03

ls Puerto Rico to BE our ireland
The advocates Of the Tariff bill d,
not dare to state the reasons tina
led, or rather drove. them to bring
it in. They pretend that they wers
thinking purely OF revenue ioi
Puerto Rico, and every day they
are given the lie b. the organs o
certain sordid protected interests
which boast that they and theiI
masters forced the committee tc
stand and deliver.
The American people under
stand that now, within the next
few months, is to be formed the
conception which the Puerto
Ricans are to hold Of this nation,
perhaps for centuries to come. We
are to decide now whether that
island is to become happy, loyal,
contented part ofthe United States,
or a sullen, hostile, rebellious Ire
land.
Among all the causes-relig-
ious persecution, landlordism, m is
government and the rest-which
have combined to make IrIshmen
hate England, one OF the most
effective was that policy of trade
restriction, now abolished, but
maintained long enough to crush
Ireland's industries and kindle
fame OF rese eminent that still
shoulders in every Irishman's
heart.
The Irish used to make woollen
goods OF such fine quality that they
were sold all over the civilized
world. To prevent their compe-
tition with English manufacturers
England forbade the expectation
of irish woollens, first to the col
onies and then to foreign countries,
and ended by practically forbid
ding their expectation to England.
Driven out Of this industry, and
with her prosperous woollen oper-
atives reduced to beggary, Ireland
tried the manufacture Of goods of
fax and hemp. But although this
enterprise was entered upon on the
express invitation of England, il
was soon harassed by English re-
strictions. Striped and dyed IRISH
linens were excluded from the
British colonies and prohibitory
duties were laid on their importa-
ton into England. Irish sailcloth
was burdsned with heavy taxes,
and the hempen manufacture was
destroyed.
The Irish made promising be-
ginnings OF shIpbuilding and COM
meTce, but these were suppressed
by the Navigation acts. Even agri-
culture, the sole remaining re-
source Of the country, was not al
lowed to flourish. England ex-
cluded Irish cattle, sheep, pigs,
salt beef, bacon, butter and cheese
from her markets. The result was
that the Irish, cooped up like
besieged garrison, were reduced
to a state Of misery that made
Swift's advice to breed babies for
the market seem to have too much
ghastly reality for satire.
That the Puerto Rico tariff bill
does not go to this extent is due
simply to the fact that the Ameri-
can people would not stand so
much; not at all to any modeTa-
ton Ior humanity on the part OF
the rapaclous interests responsible
Tor It. They would be glad enough
to enforce the absolute extinction
Of any Puerto Rican industries
competing with their own. They
would have no objection to max
ing Puerto Rico our Ireland, and
their bill, as it stands, is a long
step in that direction.
But the American people do not
propose to repeat, at the threshold
oil the twentieth century, the
crimes and blunders OF STAFFORD,
Cromwell, William III. and
George ii. in the seventeenth and
eighteenth.
Washington sentinel., 1900-03-03

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-09

clever and highly educated men among
them, but there are only three COM
handing intellects and characters
Arellano, Mabini and Aglinafdo AreI-
lani, the chief justice Of our supreme
court, is a profound lawyer and a brave
and incorruptible man. Mabini is the
highest type Of subtlety and the most
constructive mind that race has vet
produced. Aguinaldo is clever popu-
lar leader, able, brave, resourceful,
cunning, ambitious, INSCRIPTIONS and
masterful He is full of decision mi
.tiative and authority, and had the con-
hdence of the masses. He is a natural
dictator. His ideas of government are
absolute orders, implicit obedience or
immediate death He understands the
character Of his countrymen. He is a
Malay Syna; not a Filipino Washing
These conclusions were forced upon
me by observing the people in all
walks of life in the different islands,
merchants, priests, mestizos, pure
Fihpinos, and every variety of mind,
character and opinion from San Fer
nando in Luzon, on down through the
entire archipelago to the interior Of
Sulu. These conversations were had in
formally at dinner tables, on journeys,
and the like, and always under cOndi-
tons favorable to entire frankness and
unreserve. Their chief value is that
they are the real opinions of their au-
thors and not prepared and guarded
statements. I will read the senate
salient points from my notes of these
conversations, reserving the names of
the persons interviewed, except that of
Pablo Malta. of Cebu, who was assas-
sinated a week after I met him, and
whose fate I will not risk bringing
down on others. Their names and resi-
dences are here in this book, and will
be gladly given to any senator or to the
senate in executive session.
ISenator Beveridge here read to the
senate extracts from Il great number
of interviews with natives and mer-
chants in each of the islands. These in
terviews are printed following this
speech
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Continued on Seventh Pase.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-09

It will be hard for Americans who
have not studied them to understand
the people. They are a barbarous race
modified by three centuries of contact
the South Sea Malay, put through a
process of three hundred years of su-
perstition in religion. dishonesty in
dealing, disorder in habits of indus
try and cruelty, caprice and corruption
in government. 1t is barely possible
that one thousand men in all the archi-
pelago are capable of self government
in the Anglo-Saxon sense. My own be-
lief is that there are not one hundred
men among them who comprehend
what Anglo-Saxon self-g government
even means; and there are over 5000, 900
people to be governed. I know many
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-09

In all other islands our government
must be simple and strong. It must
be a uniform government Different
forms for different islands will pro-
duce perpetual disturbance, because
the people of each island would think
that the people of the other islands
are more favored than they. In Pa
nay, I heard murmurings that we were
giving Negros an American constitu
ton. This is a human quality found
even in America; and we must never
forget that in dealing with the Filipinos
we deal with children. And so our
government must be simple and strong.
Simple and strong; the meaning of
those two words must be written in
every line of Philippine legislation; re-
allied in every act of Philippine admin
istration. A Philippine office in our de-
partment of state: an American COVER
nor general in Manila, with power to
meet daily emergencies; possibly
an advisory council with no
power except that of dis
cussing measures with the governor
general, which council would be the
germ for future legislatures, a school
in practical government; American
lieutenant governors in each province,
with a like council about him; if pos
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-09

Senators in opposition are estopped
from DENYING our constitutional power
stances may S demand ii For Such u power
is admitted in the case of Florida, Louis
lana a. A5aSka, a99w then is 1t denied lied
ical Interpretation to the constitution?
Do degrees of longitude fix constitutional
ocean diminish constitutional power more
than thousand miles of land? The ocean
does not separate US from the field of
our duty and endeavor-it joins u.s. an
established highway needing no repair,
and landing US at any point desired. The
seas do not separate the Philippine ISL
andS from or from each other. The
seas are highways through the archi-
pelago, which would cost hundreds of
millions of dollars to construct If they
were land instead of water Land may
never, Russia has been centuries in cross
ing Siberian wastes; the Puritans crossed
the Beers must have Travelled by land
they would never have reached the
ocean-they walked on civilizations un-
taxed highway, the welcoming sea- Our
and anchored in California's harbors. be-
fore a single trail had lined the desert
with the whitening bones OF those who
steam unites us: electricity uniteS us; all
the. elements of nature unite US to the
region where duty and interest call US.
There is, in the ocean, no constitutional
argument against the march of the flag.
for the oceans, too, are ours With more
extended coast lines than any nation of
history. with a commerce vaster than
any other people ever dreamed Of and
that Commences as vet only in its begin
nings; with naval traditions equalling
those of England, or of Greece, and the
the air of the ocean in our nostrils and
the blood OF sailor ancestry IN our
nents calling us. The great republic, be-
fore I die, viii be the acknowledged lord
of the worlds high seas. And over them,
the Republic will hold dominion by virtue
of the strength God has given it, for the