The age-herald., 1900-03-28
MARSH GROWS VERY VEHEMENT Says Representative Lentz is a Disgrace to the House. RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS WORDS On the Floor and Outside the
 Capitol. MlLITARISM WAS DENOUNCED | MT. Lentz Denies the Presidents States ment That Soldiers Would Not
 Return When Their Term
 ofServioe Expired 
MlLITARlsM WAS DENOUNCED

Washington, March 27-There was some lively debate in the house today during the consideration of the army appropriation bill. It covered a wide range of topics, Porto Rican tariff, the Boer war and the Philippines. The change that the Porto Rdcan tariff bill was the result of deal for raising republican campaign fund was again referred to today by MT. Pierce of Tennessee but MT Hull declared that the anony nous author of the charge would never dare to avow himself and be branded as a falsifier.
 MT. Sulzer of New York made an appeal for the extension of official sympathy to the Boers In their struggle for independ1 ance; and MT. Lentz of Ohio delivered g. sca;hing denunciation of militarism and the war in the Philippines His attack aroused the sentiment and indignation of MT. Marsh of Illinois, who, in bitter excoriation of the Ohio member, declared that the latter's speech was disgrace to the American congress. He declared that he was responsible for what he had said both on and off the floor of tine house. At the beginning of his remarks Mir. Sulzer said the resolution expressing sym pathy with the Boers still slept in the com- mittee rooms.
 For that reason," said he T desire at this time to express and place on record my abhorrence and condemna tion of the unjust, the inhuman, the predatory. the cruel and the barbarous war the empire of Great Britain Is reientlessly Baging In South Africa to destroy and extermnats two brave little repmblics-sisters of our own-and as free and independent. As an American citizen and representative in congress. I am not ashamed to have 1t known that my sympathy is now, always has been and always will be with the he- roic Boers in their magnificent struggle to maintain their freedom and their inde- pendence against the piracy of the corrupt oligarchy now controlling the policy of the British empire.
 America Must Do It's Duty
 America must do its duty. The great republic, the beacon light of the world in the name of liberty, humanity and justice, must demand peace, and make that de- mand good. We have the right to interfere and insist on peace. We have the right to express our sympathy We have the right to aid the Red Cross society. International law gives these rights, and we should exercise them. We sympathized with Po- land, with Hungary, with Greece, with all the South American republics, with Arme- mia and with Cuba in their struggles for freedom. Many we helped. Why, l ask, should we now refuse to render moral sup-. port, our sympathy and our aid to the pa- triots of South Africa? Is the great light of sthe republic going out? Is American sentiment dead?s
 An. glories in the downfall of a sister republic Is in danger. of destruction itself A re- public that refuses sympathy to sister republic. struggling to maintain it's inde- pendence against monarchial aggression, Is unworthy of the name and in danger of monarchy Itself.
 "A republic that will secretly aid mon- archy to destroy republic and blot out its free institutions Is republic rotten to l. the core and will soon fall like 6 decayed trcevon the banks of a, turbulent stream, to be&swept away forever. 4
 "The administration will do nothing for the Boers, and seems to be secretly in sympathy with Great Britain, and render ing her all the aid 1t can. Every Eberty-' loving citizen of the republic should de-. nounce and condemn these pro-Eng1ish tendencies of the White House. This re- public should stand by rcpubiics-not against them. God bless the embattled farmers of South Africa, Is my feryent l. prayer, and from the ashes of the conflict may there arise greater and grander re- public-the glorious United States of South Afrcai"
 Lentz Discussed MiiItarism
 Mir. Lentz. Ohio, member of the military affairs committee, discussed the evils of nilitarism. The expenditures for the army had grown, he said until they now absorb ed one-fifth of the gross expenditures James Russell LoKell, he said, was once asked by GuisQtkthe famous French his- toriaps how Hong the American republic would endure. Lowell had replied.
 ffSe long as the ideas of the fathers con- tipue dominent" ',
 MT Lentz submitted that the ideas of the fathsrs were no longer dominant A large Astt5S1ing army was no part of the scheme of the fathers The machinery of the gov eminent cost the people now SD per capita egalnst 50 cents in the days of Thomas Jef- sferson. The Monroe doctrine, under which seventeen republics had been built up south of.zix was no longer to be held sacred.
 Turning his attention to the Philippine question, he produced an array of alleged facts to show that the soldiers in the Phil- ippines had no heart in the war against the insurgents and desired to return homo. He
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