Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-15

seen IN the school books ofEthe old man
with his white hair flying about his
ears, beating the bass drum, his son
playing the fife, and a mere lad, the
grandson, beating the tenor drum as
they led the advance of the American
army OF liberty during the revolution.
You all know the picture. CA voice:
I'VE do" Applause.) The spirit of rs
in this country is identical with the
| spirit of 1900 in the IransVaal.
! Mr.. Davis launched into a vivid de-
scription of the Boer storming of Spion
Kop, and his audience listened with
! deepest interest as he pictured the few
| hundred farmer soldiers storming the
/ heights held by three thousand English
soldiers 1t was pretty piece OF word
/ painting, and the speakers reward was
a hearty round of applause. In con-
/ Guiding he said: That was chivalryl
That was bravery! That was the love
/ of liberty 1t was the patriotism only
| to be found in republicanism-onl TO
be found in free people. Tia people
who don't appreciate that spirit of
| liberty | am against for all time. ZAP
plause.) Ii it was not for our SYM
! pathy for England the struggle in
| South Africa would be over to-day.
/ speak, knowing what | say.
20 my cOuntrymen. this admins
| tration has more blood~iaid at its door
| than any administration in the whole
| history Of the country. The Spanish
war was a holy war, inauguraJed to
make men free. The South African
war is just the reverse. 1t is war
/ to make men slaves
The speaker here dwelt for some time
| upon the departure Of the volunteers
| for the Spanish war, and made an
effective picture. His eulogy OF the
! troops was a most eloquent one, and
aroused the sympathy OF his audience.
| He said 1T was glorious war. 1t
was a war for the liberty of oppressed
| peoples 1t was to relieve Cuba and
| Porto Rico from the Spanish yoke. Up
! to that time it was glorious But then
avarice and greed entered into the ad-
! ministration, and the trusts took
| charge He dwelt in detail upon the
| effect the trusts had in the admins
| tration Of the Islands, and carried his
audience with him as he detailed the
methods and effects of the govern
mental control Of our insular posses
! sions.
| Suddenly he turned his attention to
| the Philippines. and announced 1t as
| his conviction that the Filipinos were
as capable OF self government as were
| the Cubans, and quoted from Brigadier
F, General Charles King and other au-
| thorities to prove his statement. He
particularly dwelt upon report made
! by General King June %, 1899 address
ed to the Milwaukee Journal, in which
the General said: THE capabilities OF
the Filipinos for self-government can
not be doubted Nine-tenths of the
natives can read and write etc., and
upon this text he based a scathing
criticism of the administration for its
course with respect to the islands.
Particularly effective was he when he
said:
The British would make it appear
that the Boer is not civilized. | found
/ him more civilized than the British.
| (Applause) If the Beers are savages,
we are also, for they are just like us.
/ They also try to make it appear that
the Filipinos are saVages. They are
not"
A little later he said, with dramatic
effect;
The great party Of Abraham Lin
| coin! What has it done? 1t mas added
to our domain ten million Of slaves, at
two dollars apiece. It bought the Phil
! ippine Islands for twenty million dol
lars, and ten million human beings
were thrown in. = | am for lib
erty, and for the people struggling for
! N
were good enough for us to put guns
in their hands to help us whip the
| Spaniards. Our consul at
Hong Kong sent for Aguinaldo and
made terms with him, and got him to
organize his soldiers, and they were
| to march side by side with American
| soldiers, and together they were to
drive the Spaniards from the Islands.
And that is what they did"
| He read a native proclamation and
| the text of a letter from Consul Wild
man, at Hong-Kong, addressed to
! Aguinaldo showing the then intention
| of our government to be friendly with
| the Filipinos and giving no intimation
| of disposition to conquer them, and
| then he said:
I'm trying to force slavery upon
people we are committing a crime,
and the blood is at the door of
this administration. / would not give
one year of the life of an American
| boy for thousand years in the Philip
! pine Islands,
| His tribute to the American volunteer
| soldier was as pretty a thing as has
| lately been heard in this city, and
| aroused the greatest attention on the
! part of his large audience. His per-
Grafton to liberty was thing to be
remembered, and aroused the greatest
| enthusiasm. Mr.. Davis closed his adj
dress about half-past nine o'clock, and
| at once returned to the city He will
leave this morning at 1922 to fulfill
| his other engagements in the State.
1t is worthy of note that last even
| ing early Republicans set the rumor
| afloat that Mr.. Davis would not make
| an address and that the meeting had
been postponed until Friday. This was
| done out of pure cussedness.
| SunnybrOOk Club Mozart Park To-
| day.