Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-27

Ing the people Of the islands. He de-
clared that they are Christians. and
have been for years; that they have
schools and universities. We have kill
ed 10000 men, women and children, but
no person has ever read the Scriptural
Injunction: Go We, into all the world,
and shoot the gospel into all the Great
ures thereof We offer thirty pieces of
silver to every insurrecto who will be-
tray his cause and his country. Nc
Kinley says the United States pays no
gold for peace. He must have laid
stress on the word gold" 1t seems
that there is a single standard in the
business. but silver this time. not gold.
Judas got
Thirty Pieces of silver
and the standard has not been changed.
NE would not buy the peace of Aguin-
aldo by giving him the independence OF
his people, but we're willing TO buy
the peace of the Sultan OF SuIu, by
paying him $3.50 month, and for what?
he promises no more piracy in his ar
chipelago; he permits US TO hoist our
flag as token of our sovereignty, and
we promise to protect him in the main
tenance Of his customs and institu-
tons He is a Mohammedan, and one
OF his institutions is polygamy We
were so piouS as not to allow Roberts
to have a seat in Congress. lie would
corrupt the morals of Hanna. Yet our
flag protects thirty wives. and the Lord
| knows how many concubines OF the
Sultan of Sulu.
Slavery also exists in those islands.
1t is true that the President wrote that
the agreement must not be understood
, to sanction slavery, but deeds speak
| louder than words. There Is a method
by which slave can get his freedom.
He can purchase it at the usual mar
ket price But it is difficult TO under
stand how slave working for nothing
| day, can lay up enough to buy his
freedom from his master.
The speaker said that when sMckin-
ley took his Office he swore 20 support
the Constitution, but in violation of
his oath of office, slavery is established
in territory subject TO our government.
Lincoln will go down into history as
/ the great liberator of slavery; Nc
Kinley as the restorer of slavery. II
the last Congress had come up to the
full measure OF its duty, 1t would nave
Impeached Mckinley
and degraded him from his high Office.
| We are told that love OF liberty is
! a minor consideration, in comparison
! with the full dinner pail. We are told
I that the human heart pulsating during
! the period OF an average human lie,
would wear away granite column tne
size of an ordinary man. The speaker
said he hoped the heart OF the Ameri-
can people would wear away TO dust
| the granite pillars of despotism.
I'VE must not haul down the nag.
What is the tiag-a piece OF bunting,
of silk? Is it grand because OF IT'S en-
! blazonry, or a token OF jurisdiction,
right or wrong, Heavenly or hellish?
! 1t is a symbol and its glory is what 1t
1 stands for. The stars and stripes when
/ they are made to mean government
without the consent OF the governed,
! is changed to the pirates black nag,
/ with its skull and crossbones. 1t is
| this administration that has hauled
/ down the flag, and trailed. 1t in the
mire of imperialism, from which we
would raise it. Dr.. Sample recited
Bells of Shandon,' and said the bells
! had stirred certain memories. certain
] lutdS III llt duNiOi W.
principles of his soul. The flag stands
/ for certain memories, for certain emo
lions, for certain principles.
/ In answer to the Republican asser-
tion that there is no imperialism, DR..
Sample quoted Senator Sherman and
/ Chauncey Depew, the latter in an in
terview given in 1898.
/ Want to become a world power.
! It's an insult to say we we're not
worlds power until Mckinley made 1t
so. Were we not at Yorktown, when
we made John Bull kneel and acknowl-
edge his discontinue? Were we not
when the republics of South Africa
were formed? Were we not when,
under Cleveland, we said TO Great Brit
ain, you shall not have an inch of
/ Venezuelan territory? BY our example
and inspiration we have been world
power ever since 1876 Would you
issue warrants for inspiring Aguan-
aldo? Then
Arrest Washington,
arrest jefferson and Adams for 1t was
their example that fired the Filipinos
with the love of liberty and national
independence.
I'VE must not haul down the flag
when it is raised as token of SOW