The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-01-18

inal offense. Do you defy the statute
Or are you crowding the criminal line
| just close enough to escape meritet
| punishment?
When did the Filipinos bother you O.
yours that you should seek by force t,
bring them crawling, trembling at you
imperial feet?
When did they send armed fleets int
the ports of the United States to pros
pect for plumber
Why was Dewey ordered to remain a
Manila after he had destroyed the Span
lsh fleet? Was it because there. wer,
other Spanish forces there that coul(
bother us in driving them out of thu
western hemisphere" the avowed OBJ
Ject of the war with Spain? Evidently
it was to prospect for plumber.
The facts are, you champion the
policy of the gang that has plundered
the great, plain people of this country
for the last IS or 40 years, and are now
seeking distant lands and weaker peo.
pies to plumber.
You cover their purpose and justify
the wholesale slaughter of the Filipinos
by calling them rebels. Since when
were they rebels to the United States
government?
1t is true that Bill Mckinley, by the
approval of his gang, put his hands
down into the pockets of the American
people, without saying "by your leave"
even, and took therefrom $40, OOO. 900
and bought SPANS running chances at
them? Yes, they are Bill Mckinley
boughten Spanish rebels.
Why do you seek to disguise the truth
In the case by insinuating that the Fill
pinos are rebels of this government?
When were they subjects, ETC., or citi-
zens? Please answer
The fact is, they are Bill McKinley's
boughten rebels, bought from Spain by
Bill with the money flitched from the
American people at 81 per head; Bill
agreeing to take them as they rum
You substantiate the charge that
Dewey remained at Manila to prospect
for plumber, by holding up to greed the
vast undeveloped resources of the
islands, and the untold possibilities
awaiting American management. Oh,
no; you are not there for plumber, but
to vindicate the power of the American
flag, to make the Filipinos crawl, in
abject servitude, beneath it's folds to
save their lives. Oh, no; you are not
there for plumber, but to civilize-with
McKinley's modern civilizers shot and
shell! You justify the treatment that
these people received and are now re-
ceiving at the hands of the gang whose
cause you champion, to be backed by a
warrant of manifest destiny when.
where and by whom signed and issued?
How many Filipinos that never, in all
their lives, bothered you or yours, have
your modern civilizers civilized since
your gang commenced their plundering
raids upon them?
Surely, you ought to keep an accurate
account of these bright jewels, and have
them placed in your crown of immortal
glory, each jeweled point dripping with
the red blood of innocents slaughtered
by insatiate greed. The gang whose
policy you champion are traitors of the
Benedict Arnold stripe; they would sell
a weak people, struggling for the right
of self-government, for gold! Yes
paltry gold. Justifying themselves in
their hellish work by setting up the
plea of manifest destiny being inter-
preted, means by orders of God AL
mighty. If anything further was want
ing to show you up as the pronounced
foe of liberty for the great plain peo-
pie, you furnish it in your denouncing
Gov. Lind for indorsing the prayer of
an imported orator." as you sneeringly
call the Reverend Mr. Smith, in your
issue of Dec. O., for praying God to
strengthen the arm that strikes for
liberty whether in the wilds of Africa
or in the jungles of LuZOn. The true
of your denunciation, covered
as you try to with sentimental gush
over the poor soldiers used to push
British expansion in Africa or Ameri-
can expansion in the Philippines, is that
the great, plain people have no right to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
that you and your like are bound to re-
spect.
Remember. that to the brave soldiers
you gush so pitiously over, it was death
by Boer bullet in Africa or Filipino
bullets in Luzon, or starvation at home
If the Rev. Mr.. Smith had prayed to
God to palsy the arm that strikes for
liberty, whether in the wilds of Africa
Dr. in the jungles of Luzon, your paper
would not have been large enough to
contain your shouts of bully"
E. J. WHITE.