The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-21


OF government, and the spokesman of the admin
istration, representative of one Of these great
trGsts. is calling upon his fellow capitalists for
contributions to buy another four years license
To fob-another four years life for their inflated
and false prosperity
The government thus controlled has found its
H'tesI expression in schemes of military conquest
imperialism and militarsm are the natural ont
grown OF commercialsm in politics; of the power
VI tue rev over the many, the elevation of money
Sbove manhood
Inc condition is one that the country must
meet ana meet now, and the way to meet it is
by reassertion OF the Democratic idea and the
election OF Democratic president.
No one can question the ability, the earnestness.
the integrity of the Democratic candidates For
the rescue OF all that has made America glorious
IN the past ana that can make her strong in the
future 1t is duty to support their election.
HOodwinLing the People.
one OF the most un-American, un-
Democratic and un-Republican results
OF the Philippine war is the rigid press
censorship which has been established
at Manila from almost the very begin
ming to conceal from the American peo-
pie what was really happening in that
far away and sin cursed land. In these
letters | have frequently called atten-
ton to the fact that the Washington
Post is an independent paper edited
with extraordinary ability, but while it
is independent it has a decided bias for
President Mckinley personally and for
his administration, but even The Post
is disguised with the bold and constant
misrepresentation of what is going on
over there. In a recent issue it con-
tanned the following caustic editorial
on the subject
Is there any reason, either in morals or in DO
litical cXpediency, why the administration should
try to deceive and misead the American people
touching the condition of affairs in the Philip
pines? The effort has been steady and persistent
We have been assured, at stated intervals for the
past - or Is months that hostilities were at an
end; that nothing was left of the so called insur-
rection but few scattered, insignificant bands of
maraudng fugitives; that an overwhelming ma
jorty of the Filipinos loved us and asked only to
be protected from the wicked designs Of the out
laws. We have had touching narratives of the
affection subsistipg between authorities and
the grateful FipInos-pictures of the sweet peace
and mutual devotion prevailing every hand
We have been asked - believe that the whole
country has been pacifed and that the Filipinos
class ask nothing than permission to
dwell in contcntment and prosperity beneath our
parental wing forever But why all this trans
parent, this tresome and futile humbug? 1t
serves purpose, either honest unworthy 1t
fools nobody with intelligence enough to know
his own name, and it wearies and dsgusts all
thoughtful men.
Useless Lies.
Leaving aside every consideration of morality
and good faith and regarding the question from
the very lowest and most sordid point of view,
what profit, however lnean, does the Republican
party expect TO reap2 These repeated assertions
that the Filipinos have been pacifed are notorious
ly false. No believes them They are I'M
ansWera5y contradicted by the official announce
ments from day to day. They promote no useful
or creditabe end Here and there finds
Mugwump dcvotee, like the New York Times,
which, with General MacArthur's report of war
and carnage before its eyes, accepts the Philippine
commissions optimistic bleatings as so much gos
pei truth; but, taking men of information, of
wholesome minds and Independent thought, how
many do we find who believe these childish ro-
mances as against the official assertions of the
army authorities vino are in the midst of things
and know whereof they speak? On the very day,
last week, when the war department gave out the
report of the Taft commission assuring us that
peace and sweetest concord prevailed throughout
the Philippines there came TO us authentic Off
cial statement from the military branch of the
service to the effect that violence, hostility, even
organized warfare, ragged throughout the vicinity
of Manila in action alonein which, by the
way, forces driven back-nlore than 100
men were killed and wounded captured by the
Fiipnos Next day were told by General
Macarthur that the trouble and
more widespread than the press dispatches of the
previous day had indicated. Now, by way of con-
frming previous declarations, the Manila reports
announce a new and more disastrous Incl
dent Again the rebels have appeared upon
the scene--no doubt after affecting and fra
and ha
suit is that so of our soldiers have been
eradcated
What we want to ask is: Does it pay to try to
hoodwnk the American people? Apparently the
administration nurses the fallacy that assurances
of peace in the Philippines will make votes for
next November. We hold on the contrary, that
it would be infinitely better to tell the truth, adj
NIT that we are in dire peril and put it to the pa
triotic feeling of The American people 10 stand
by us in the hour of trial and misfortune. Such a
course would appeal to every manly nature in the
land. The course the government is now pursuing
tends to disgust and ALLEVIATE self respecting men.