Washington sentinel., 1900-08-11

misguided perSOnS-DSulOSI
and others. Little Americans,
he says, "will get frightened at th'
growth OF the nation and make op-
position. Politicians, in despera'
ton for an issue, will call expan-
sion imperialism. An imperialisI
is a ruler who is not restrained by
any division oi authority or written
constitution. China is ruled that
way. Aguinaldo and
his insurgents proposed imperial.
ism to begin with. The dirk OF the
assassin is chief executor in such
| government, and Againaldo set it
at work. The Kansas City Con-
vention spent most Of its time dis
cussing silver. There was dan
gerously large element in favor Of
honest money. 1t resolved that
imperialism would be the para
mount issue. No doubt it had
Aguinaldo in hand. or, maybe, the
Dowager Empress OF China"
This is a suggestion worthy of
Governor Roosevelt. 1t is flight
beyond anything that Mr. McKin-
leY's running mate, the Republican
candidate for VIce-President of the
United States, has taken. He has
merely said that Democrats "stand
for dishonesty and dishOhor." Mr..
McKinley's Secretary Of Agricul-
ture, sharer OF his Cabinet secrets
and counsels, suggests that the
Kansas City Convention was in
alliance with Aguinaldo and the
Dowager Empress OF China. Why
not say with the b xers at once
and that the murder Of missionar-
les in China and the attack upon
the legations at PekIn were really
insTigated by the Democratic
party1 Truly Mr.. McKinleY's
friends must feel in desperate
straits thus early in the campaign
to resort to such foul abuse. First,
according to Roosevelt, all Demo-
Gratis are dishonest and dishonora-
BILE, and according to Secretary
Wilson they are sympathizers, if
not accomplices, with murderers
and assassins.
Mr.. Wilson is right, however, in
saying that the events OF the last
three years "have added a new
issue for consideration this fall
the great question Of expansion"
ait must be considered, he con
tinues, from several standpoints.
The Christian will conclude that
God in his mercy has given Amer
ica work to do in raising from the
dust poor peoples that have been
i'll used by Spain Tor 400 years."
Unfortunately, just now and for IS
months past, it would seem that
the Christian work in which we
have been engaged is not so much
that OF "raising from the dust as /
laying low in the dust these poor
peoples"
Every weeks official bulletin or
censored" dispatch from Manila
contains record of the number Of
killed by our soldiers,
usually with slight loss to them
selves. A recent dispatch-this
time not from Luzon, but from
Neutrality-suspicious. that, in re-
venge for the killing OF one of our
soldiers By native, neighboring
village was visited by our troops |
and SO OF the inhabitants were
killed-"thIrtv in one house" -
nothing being said as TO the age or
sex OF the poor wretches. The
next day a gunboat was sent to
complete the work Of destruction
and the village, including some
warehouses, was burned. Secre-
tarY Wilson, in has speech, further
said: "These island possessions
Will have all the local seli-govern-
ment of which they are capable. |
They will get the hammer and the
looking glass when it is safe for
the looking glass" There can be |
no doubt, to borrow the humorous
simile, that they are
getting the hammer now.