The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1900-07-14
Washington, ID. e., News.
'om our Regular Correspondent.


Washington, July 9, 1900.
Imperialism has received a blow
from an unexpected quarter.
When the administration began
to order troops sent from the
Philippines to China, Gen. Mac
Arthur promptly filed protest,
saying that if the troops were ia
ken away from the Philippines,
the Filipino revolt would at once
be renewed. Secretary Root tel
egraphed for Gen. Otis to come to
Washington, at once. He came
and declared that Macarthur was
right, and after two days confer
ence, Sect'y Root announced that
no more troops would be sent from
the Philippines TO China. The
plain meaning of this is that it is
necessary to keep the big army we
now have in the Philippines per-
manently there IN order to main
tain our authority over the Filipi-
nos. That is little more than
the most rabid imperialist bargain
ed for, and is certainly more than
the people of this country will
stand. What possible benefit can
we derive from the Philippines
that will compensate us for the
expense. in money and American
lives that will be necessary to keep
an army of $4,000 soldiers over
there. 1t seems that the world is
about to witness the revival of the
era of the mercenary invading ar
my, which was familiar to Europe
few centuries ago. The other
great civilized governments, in
cluding our own, have hired an ar
my of Japan, to go to China and
fight the Chinese, and after the
Chinese are licked into humble
ness, they are to be made to pay
back the money it will cost to lick
them, with usurious interest. 1t
is not considered honorable for an
individual to hire professional
thugs to obtain vicarious revenge
upon his personal enemies. What
then makes such a thing honor
able on the part of nations?
Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson is the
only man ever nominated for Vice
President who had previously de-
monstrated his fitness for the Off
ce by serving one term therein,
and it can be truthfully said that
no vice president was ever more
popular than he was. True, Mr..
Stevenson didn't have much infiu-
ence with the President under
whom he served, but nobody else
had either. Mr.. Cleveland was
not President to recognize in
fiuence, aad he seemed to maj
specially cf getting at outs With
leaders of the democratic Varty.
But during those four ye1fs Mr..
Stevenson had, and deselFed the
confidence cf the demoess.ts in
Congress, and lost no epporta unity
to push party interests thag he
could with propriety have taken
advantage of. Adlai Stevenson
is whole-souled good fellow, a
good democrat, and in every res
pect a worthy running mate to
Col. Bryan, and Bryan and Ste
venson is ticket to win.
IF getting the other fellow half
scared to death, be good politics,
then the Kansas City Convention
must be credited with good poll
tics, for the republicans are bad
ly frightened lot. They figured
on big democratic fuss at Kan
sas City, but found that instead
of a row, the regular democrats,
those who called themselves gold
democrats in 1896, the silver re-
publicans and the populists are all
enthusiastically supporting Bryan
and Stevenson, and the Kansas
City platform. These elements
working tremendously together
are believed, even by republicans,
to be strong enough to carry the
country.