Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-28
5sth CONGRESS
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gent cause. At one Of them held in
New York, the Democratic party was
represented as having endorsed AGuin-
aldo'S cause and the insurgents Wcr
appealed to hold on until after the
Presidential election when their allies
in this country would see that tn"
Stars and Stripes We're removed from
the islands.
Parker, n. j., discussed the subject
of the army reorganization at some
length. Sulzer. n. Y, the ranking mi
nority member Of the military affairs
committee next spoke. He consumed
his time in denunciation Of the atti-
tude of the administration toward the
war in South Africa. He called atten-
ton to the fact that all the resolutions
expressing sympathy with the Beers
introduced by himself and others still
slept in the committee rooms.
For that reason" said he. Il desire
to place on record my adherence and
condemnation Of the unjust. the inhu-
man. the predatory. the cruel and bar
barious war the empire of Great Brit
ain is relentlessly Waging in South
Africa to exterminatc the two brave
HUH ltl'ubIlto- Ilt BtbBlN VI lliIS
country take deep ana abiding inter-
est in the life and death struggle be
tween republic and empire now going
on in South Africa. | am not ashamed
to have il known that my sympathy Is
now. always has been aEl always will
b. with the heroic Beers in their mag
nificcnt struggle to maintain their free
dom and their Independence against
the piracy Of the corrupt oligarchy now
controlling the policy of the British
empire. | want to Sc" the Beers main
tain their independence because they
are right ana deserve to he free. In 4
contest between liberty ana monarchy
| want to see liberty win.
"America must do its duty. The
great republic. the beacon light of the
world. in the name of liberty, human
ity and justic" must demand peace,
ana make that demand good until Wc
have the riGht to interfere ana insis;
on peace. We sympathizcl with 10
land. with Hungary. With Greece, with
all the South American republics, with
Armenia, ana with cuba in their stru%-
giles for freedom. Many We helped.
Why, ! ask in tn" name of all that is
just ana honorable. in INC name Of our
! glorious past, should ~" rc-Jsr to rem
| der moral support. our sympathy an
our aid to the patriots of South Africa =,
| Is the great light Of the republic going
| ont Is American sentiment dead?
In my opinion the defeat Of tho Beers
will hc the severcst blow TO republican
| institutions that has been struck in moro
| than 4 century. ana every friend Of lib
erty the world over should revcrcntly
pray that Dom Paul may he successful
! How patriotic citizens of this country
| can SympathizC with Great Britain in
! this cruel war against our Two sister re-
i puhliCS is beyond my comprehension.
| The administration will 10 nothing fuI
| the Beers and seems to he secretly IN
| sympathy with Great britain and render
| ing her all the aid it can. Every liberty
loving citizen of the republic should con
denim these pro-English tendencies of The
i White House. This republic should stan'
! by repubics-not against them. Coo
bless the cmhattlcd farmers Of South
| Africa, is my fcrVcnt prayer, and from
the ashes Of the conflict may there arise
a greater ana srander republic, the glori-
| Gus United States of South Africa
| LentZ. Dem, Ohio, member OF the
| military affairs committee, discussed tn,
evils of mlitariSm. The expenditures fol
! the army had grown. he said, until they
now absorbed onc-tifth Of the gross eX-
penditures OF the government. Jane"
| Russell Lowell, he said. was once asket
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how long the American republic woult
endure. Lowell had replied: 80 long a:
the ideas of the fathers continue domi
nant.
Lentz submitted that the ideas of thu
fathers We're no longer dominant. \ larg,
| standing army was no part of the scheme
| Of the fathers The machinery Of TIL
government now cost the people SO PEI
| capita against 80 cents in the days o
| jefferson. The Monroe doctrine. unde
! which l. republics had been built III
| south OF Us, was no longer to be heit
| sacred.
Turning to the Philippine question. HI
| produced an array of alle ged facts [,
show that the soldiers in the Philippines
had no heart in the war against the in
surgents and desired to return home. II
challenged the President : statement tina
the volunteers had willingly RENAME,
after their terms of enlistment expired
| He read a letter from Assistant Score
tary of War MeiklejOhn in reply to re
quest for the discharge Of soldiers. deny
ing the request and saying that the de
partment was flooded with such applica
tions.
: He also read a letter from a medica
| officer serving in the Philippines. calling
attention to the frequency with whic
inflicted wounds ana suggesting the al
visibility of boards such investigat
! cases of desertion. He also mentione
the reports concerning the alarming FIRE
, quency Of insanity among the soldiers.
Marsh, Rep. ILL.,. replied To Lentz. ii
z spoke with great heat. The speech. h
? said. was characteristic of the gentlema
from Ohio. In the absence of facts