The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-23
BAD REPUBLICAN TACTICS.
WASHINGTON Posi-. Rep.l

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Nothing could be more silly and dis
Ingenious than the effort on the part
of Republican orators and organs to
make it appear that the antiimper
ialistic feeling in this country is re-
spOnsible for the activity of the Fill
pinos in LuZon. II is difficult TO follow
this great party, which has such Sc
riOus and valid claims to popular re-
spect and confidence, when it ignores
its legitimate attitude of superiority
and deseends to such disreputable clap
trap. OF course, in every political or
ganization there are always more or
less mOuntebankS and blatherskiteS-
lot of uncomfortable whipDerSnapperS
who do no good and much harm and of
whom the real leaders are invariably
ashamed but why the leaders should,
as in the present instance, permit
themselves to be put in a ridiculous
and false position, we do not and can
not understand
Every intelligent human being in the
country knows that Aguinaldo and his
followers are not fighting because Mr.
Hoar, M. Atkinson. and the rest of
them denOunce and antagOnize our pol
icy in the Philippines. The Filipinos
inaugurafed hostilities when they
found that the United States authori-
ties would not permit them to loot Ma
Mia. They have continued to fight
ever since because we failed to sup
press them 1t is absurd to suppose
that the vOciferation of a few excited
doctrinaires in this country and the
Watery pamphlets Of half dozen Mug
Wump committees are furnishing
AguinaldoiS half-naked bushwhackers
with the sinewS of war. The bottom of
| it all is their supply of modern rifles
and smOkeless powder supplied to
| them by our dear friends in Germany,
and their growing conviction that we
are unable to put down the insurrec-
ton in which they have engaged. Like
US, they have heard the various infat-
| uated DroclamatiOns by Otis to the eff
feot that the war is over and the
rebels finally crushed. Like US, again,
they have laughed those proclamatiOns
to scorn- The only difference between
the Filipino DOpulace and the Ameri-
can public is that the former find de-
/ light and reinsurance in a situation
| which fills the latter with sorrow and
/ with shame.
| Just why the Republican managers
! do not muzzle the miSchievous purvey-
| OrS of the nonsense we refer To- il is
| impossible to conjecture. They make
the party laughing stock They rob
! 1t of its dignity They strengthen the
| Democratic position before the cOun-
| try. The United States is not popu-
lated by half-witted imbeciles, and the
attempt to impress the people with
! these feeble fairy tales will ignomin-
| iously fail. The simple truth of the
matter is that Otis has been a melan-
! choly failure, and although the preSi-
| dent was so informed more than year
ago, this failure has been steadily
! maintained in power and authority un-
til a very recent date. His first utter
an9e after landing on American soil
was to the effect that all the trouble
in the Philippines was at an ,end-sO
brought about by him. of cOurse-and
the record of every day since that has
! Knocked and ridiculed him. The trouble
is not at an end Everybody knows
that it is not. All resent, as a per
Sonal affTOnt, the attempt to impose
upon them this cheap and shabby
| falsehood.
The administration blundered a year
or so ago, by sacrificing to insensate
popular clamor an innocent and loyal
gentleman. Since then 1t has flown to
the opposite extreme and smirched it.
self by covering or condOninG delin-
| quency in high places: Both these poll
cies have been disastrous. as they de-
served to be. Has not the time come
for trying the brave and honest part
manfully cOnfessing to mistakes, stern
ly Furnishing the guilty, and nobly
standing by the righteous and the pure
of heart? Surely it would seem SO.