The Farmington times. [volume] (Farmington, Mo.) 1874-1902, 1900-08-02
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every day. Iris does not obscure
the fact that Il has failed to do the
only effective thing that ought to
have lain within its power.
IL ought to have been able TO throw
= big forer into China and rescue our
citizens NJ the nrst intimht.on Of se-
rious danger. II II had done that and
then withdrawn from the country
and sent every ChinAmHn packing
home from these shores Il would have
won the admiration Of the civilized
world.
In such an action the president OF
the United States need not have
wasted time cooperating with foreign
powers and getting entsngled In their
jealous chickering's.
Everybody knows now that the ad'
ministration has deceived the people
about tine rontiiiiUu %! .A= philin-
pines. Its boaStfui alluEion in the
speech accepting the nomination.
about Manila being an advantageous
base Of operations In case of Asiatie
war, has proved boomerang.
Our troops might a. well have been
at home as Ia Manila for all the use
they have been In this crisis. They
were no enfeebled by disease that
they were unht TO fight the Chinese
even II the administration had dsci-
sion enough TO pull them out OF the
Philippines and leave the settlement
of that trouble until some time when
our own citizens were in less dnnger.
The CsAsrr Message.
The administration now claims that
II is pinninR its faith to the alleged
message from Minister Conger, re-
ccived through Chinese sources, stat
ing that our citizens were alive but
sorely bes!cged by the Chinese. The
dispatch was not dated. but the ad-
miniatration claims 10 have supplied
that information from unknown
sources and makes Il July Is.
Even ~ the minister were alive at
that date, u Is difficult 10 see how II
improves the situation for the ad-
ministrRtlon. IL Ia admitted that no
troops will start for Peking until aft.
er August /. and the date of starting
depends on the within of the com.
manders OF the allied forces.
The continental powers do not cred
II the Congcr message In the least.
They believe that the foreign inhab-
itRnts were massRcred early in July
and that this is message which
Conger tried 90 send out but which
the Chinese intercepted. They sent
II later 10 defer the outburst of wrath
at the news of the massacre.
AH Administration Trick.
IL is difficult 10 discuss the Chinese
question intelligently because the sd.
ministrntion Is up TO It's usual trick
Of ccnsoring all dispatches. II gives
out its own version or nothing at all,
ius' ms II sees 1T.
The experience In the Philippine
situation gives good ground TO believe
that subsequently the public will find
that the administration has all along
known facts which IL did not choose
to divulgc.
II iS now said that the imperial
government OF China has asked Me.
Kinley 10 use his good Offices to ex-
tsicHte Il from the difiicult and dan.
gerous position In which II has been
placed by the Boxer uprising.
This looks like the entering wedge
of an attempt TO dikeIaim all reSpon.
sibility for any atrocities which may
have been committed and to so wind
up the administration In net of
diplomacy that nothing will ever be
done either 90 punish outraRes which
have been committed or prevent their
repetition in the future. France per
emptorily declined a similar request
from China Mckinley is drifting
along and viii get In the midst Of
various unpleasant complications.
The $1,000 troops to be sent from this
country will not reach China before
September. They can involve this
country In plenty Of trouble. but II
is difficult 10 discover what good they
can do.
Democrats ea aeeera.
Bryan and the other democratic
leaders have put themselves on rec
ord Us earnestly favoring protection
20 our citizens. but no participation
in any scheme of grabbing territory.
Csacesilag the Facts.
News comes from the Philippines
that 200 of them were killed by our
troops Inst week. II requires the
killing Of large number Of these
alien people In order TO prepare them
for the beauties Of the Mckinley
earpctbag regime.
A report has also escaped the cen
nor that from ave 10 ten of our sol.
diers are dying daily with the tubonic
plague. This is the rainy season and
our troops suffer untold hardahips.
Senator Pettigrew publishes a let
ter which he received from the FL
ipino who conducted negotiations
with Admiral Dewey, in which the
Fiiipinos were promised independence
II they would help Dewey defeat the
Hpaniards on land.
OF course the administration prexs
sneers al this, but IL should ncs do sc,
for tons OF extracts from the Con
gresxional Record are daily being
sent out by the republican campaign
managers. and these statements In
the Record were psipabiy written to
order by officers Of our army In the
Philippines In order to bolster up the
administrAtion's position.
Senator rcttixrew's letter iooks
much more authentic thss the mat
ter which shs republicans ask voters
10 believe Just bccause II has Phil
ippinc postmsrk.
Hspshsssas csssAssness.
kow II h the hussAu Of sdnaatisa
In wasAington whisA b bsing nsi1r
issd for rspubliesn campaign pur-
pases. This bursan has been 6iseov-
erred using ~ government cEsriesl
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