Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1900-05-03

out of the farmers or the builder
pockets as much thief az the maj
who would take his watch? HI
cited other Instances Of advanced
prices and asked how long it wuult
be till the farmer awakens and find
that Jesse James has been doing
business by the wholesale. He sale
that the 44T Congressman had no
the character to run down the THE
who takes 81 every time one buys /
keg of nails. There is scarcely al
article sold that Jesse James doe:
not stand by with his fingers in The
buyers pockets. Oh, for a Jefferson
to meet the situation. He WAS al
ways on the side Of the people. HI
would stop this robbery. We neet
Thomas Jefferson to-day.
! On miIitarism he said that $50.
! QUO, 600 had Just Ssen appropriated
for the army, and that next fall {
deficiency bill will come in with
$50, ZOO, 900 more to be appropriated
for it. A few years ago $4,000, 900
was all that was necessary, but said
he, THAT was before the days of the
empire, while we were still a re-
public" With a population observer
and half millious-one-tenth oul
present population-Thomas Jeffer'
son kept up an army sufficient tt
make England respect Us and paid
every government expense with Sl3,'
| 000, 900 a year 81. ~ head for the
| population. Now the appropriation
for the army alone is more than 81 ~.
for every man, woman and child IN
the country and the entire expenses
aggregate $40 a head. We have
started on a new career Of conquest,
| We have IS, 900 men in the Philip
pines and they are calling for more.
| He said he had received letter
from @ man asking him to use his
| influence to bring on another war in
the Philippines because the death
rate now that the war there is said
to be over is SO much greater than it
was while the war was said to be in
progress. Not one Of the men who
has come home from there wants to
go back or says it is a fit place for
white men. Only the trusts will de-
rive any benefit from the islands.
Eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty, said he, and our vigilance
now is staying at home and minding
our own business. The only L" world
power" is that which can conquer
the world by an idea. He said We
did not conquer Spain but that the
Filipinos did and that the great
question for weeks was how to keep
Spaiu from surrendering to them in.
stead Of to us. Instead Of buying
those islands, if we had the money
to spend we should have improved
rivers, built works Of internal i'm
provement etc. JetfersOn's thoughts
were all of ourselves. But now we
are minding the business of others
when we can't even mind our own
business properly. / doubt, said ne,
whether you have even solved the
problem of how to govern Parkers-
burg properly.
AS to Porto Rico, he said that
d" Taxation without representation"
was what we burned the hide Of
George III with. The Porto Ricans
asked TO be allowed to come under
the flag and We have lied to them and
to the world when we deny them four
Congressman on the floor Of the
House. They have Il right there or
the declaration Of Independence and
the constitution are lie. We have
changed the commandment to read
Thou shalt not steal except at the
rate of l. per ceut.' We have
changed Christ's teaching to "GO
thou into all the world and shoot the
gospel into every living creature."
Thomas Jefferson sand An injury
to one Of US should be the concern Of
all Of us'' and we should free all
men, not by guns but by the dyna-
mic force Of an idea. He supposed
the doctrine Of freedom was sanCti-
fed at Appomattox but he sees that
it has now heeu repudialed and we
say to the Porto Rican "if you do
submit we will tax you to DEATH"
to the Filippinos IF you don't sub
nit we will shoot you to death"
Ridiculiug the payment of SO
900, 900 for the Philippines and get
ting only Il war for the money Mr..
Lentz advanced the idea that we
might get up syndicate and buy up
all the wars, securing q monopoly.
We might buy her Transvaal war
from England and buy Ireland for q
coaling station.
He said it was false to say that the
flag can go where the constitution
cannot; the president, the supreme
court, congress are all the creatures
of the constitution and the creature
cannot be greater than the creator.
| If the constitution does not 60 with
the flag, then it becomes q flag Of self
government here and flag of lies
in Porto Ric:.
Speaking Of the assertion that this
nation has been appointed b. Deity
to civilize and ChriStianize the is
lands and that the President is the
Deity's agent, Mr.. Lentz remarked
that he thought Deity is not one bit
closer to the President than he is to
a justice Of the peace. Deity is on
the side Of right at all times. He
was with US at Valley Forge, at Ma
Mia, at Santiago land here Il reference
to the hero of Santiago, Admiral
Schley, brought out most vehement
applause). Now we have been fight
ing the Fillipinos for 4 year and Il
quarter, we have $4,000 men 10 the
islands and Yet we have more killed
and wounded each day now than we
did year ago. Whom is Deity
serving now?
England has 300,0 men and the
guns from her navy fighting the 35,'