El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-31

there would rot be among them come
who we're unworthy to wear the blue.
The armies of the world are always
aI-o the resort of some men of advent.
ure, gam blers, escaping criminals, men
of uncontrolled passion, and men of
dishonest tendency who take advant-
age of the war to rob their living or
lust from the world.
On the other hand steady soldering
weeds out this riffraff of bad men.
After the first excitement of soldering
is over, war requires men OF steady
nerves and purpose and men willing to
sacrifice their am billions and passions
war requires men who follow the flag
because it leads to glory. Drunkards,
thieves and libertines do net make up
successful army. They may hang to
it for awhile but It's stern necessities
disperse them. 1t Ia these men,
hanging on to the body of an army of
strong men until they are shaken off,
who shock the world and make war
even more hellish than it has to be-
But he who says that the mass OF our
soldier boys are of such sort only be-
fouls himself. Such an sspersion is
unclesn, indecent, unpatriotic, IMAM
erican, disloysl. IAN army of murder
ers''-1OO, 600 American citizens, the
pick of the country's young manhood,
the fighting strength of the nation, an
army of murderers, liars, rapists,
thieves,-that is what the Morning
Times, the Bryan organ Of the city of
Ell Paso, tells its outraged readers.
Read the paragraph over again. 1t
says that President Mckinley is the
arch murderer-that he brought on the
war and Is continuing it for political
advantsge-tbat he has deliberately
sacrificed the lives of thousands of our
best men that he might gain little
preferment-that' orders from Wash
ipeton'' started the Filipino
rebellion for the purpose OF in
fuencing the senate by false
reports-and now he ia killing pa
triots." is all a tissue of infamo Gus
lies. They have been proved to be lies
q thousand times. Americas greatest
statesmen, soldiers, admirals, public
men of every sort, have denied these
accusations with ample proof for all
but the deliberately foul and false
minded.
The Times a few days ago printed a
letter covering three quarters of
column, purporting to have been re-
ceived by that rank anti American,
Senator r E Pettigrew of South Dako-
ia, 'from one Of the leading commsn-
ders of the Filipino army, giving addi-
tionsl light on the claims OF the
Filipinos as to the understanding that
was arrived at between them and the
Americans before the opening of hos
Utilities in the Philippines"
1t matters little to the Times that
Admiral Dewey specifcally and DELHI.
erately denied every single count in
the alleged letter. Admiral Dewey de-
olares that the alleged conversation
never took place, nor anything like it.
Every military and naval commander
that has had any part in the Filipino
affair has specifically denied that any
such arrangement was ever made. Con-
sui General Wildman, whom the Fill
pinos allege to be the one that really
gave the fret promises, has not
only denied specifically that he
ever did anything of the kind but
even if he had done so he would have
been acting entirely without author
ity. All the mass of evidence, as
indisputable as any of the indisputable
facts of history, goes to show that the
Americans never made any such
promises as the Bryanites say they
did. Yet the Bryanite papers continue
to put up some Insignificant Filipino
rebel to call america a nation of liars
And especially is it q settled fact of
history that far from "orders from
Washington" having precipitated the
Filipino rebellion in order to influence
the senate, certain anti Americans are
actually guilty of having sntagonized
the treaty In the senate and
fought it up to q point where the
Filipinos were led to believe that they
could gain unlimited license If they
but killed a few American soldiers.
General Lawton is enough authority as
to this, that men in America brought
on the Filipino rebellion, not to aid,
but to EN- barrsss the administration.
1t is time that the people of America
hOuld damn these traducers of tn
nation to political oblivion, until they
can learn at least to respect the decen-
cy and honesty OF the loyal American
citizens. even If they cannot appreciate
themselves what it means to be an