The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-11-06
OLE @essenger,
GATHERED FROM THE NEWS
PAPERS.

MIR. Isaac Lobe Strauss is a strong
man who has done a good deal of i'm
portant writing in this campaign
against imperialism. He lives in Bal
-dmore and is a distinguished lawyer.
He calls bribing a man not to vote a
crime A writer in the Baltimore Sun
states that in that city there lis a
man going arou among the voters
asking at each house how the people
ropos to vote, and if told for Bryan
he tells them they had better look out
or they will lose their places. He says,
when questioned, that he is getting
further information for use in the
CENSUS" He should be in Jail.
1t has been a~scertained that negroes
in Virginia are being colonized in West
Virginia So many have been carried
that contractors have to go into states
south of Virginia to get h hands they
need.
The Baltimore Sun says:
Colonel Winfield Peters, commission
merchant and dealer in fertilizers, who
applied for h benefit of the bank
ruptcy law yesterday, ascribes his f.
nancial troubles as due largely to the
unfair competition of h fertilizer
trust for two years, which operated to
demoratize the business"
Their is a Mckinley club at Johns
Hopkins university. Watch such uni
rersities.
One of Maryland's able democratic
candidates for the United States house
Is R P. Tippett. He is a vigorous
speaker. He calls Mckinley "a trait
Or" denounces his course, says that
under him murder is digniied by the
flag" and says that the amount Of
money that the trusts have given to
elect Mckinley would startIe the world
and elect Bryan if known. He says:
ct denounce the expenditure of a sin
gle dollar in the subjugation of the
Ffhpinos as plundering the public tras-
ury, and again 1 denounce the men
Who are responsible for the grief M
desc ation of our American homes
caused by the killing of so many gal
LIANT men, in 50 unjust and unholy a
war waged against the Filipinos, as
guilty of deliberate murder, dignified
only by h American flag.
~Our country is great and big enough
for millions unborn, and in the name
OF Justice. in the name of the Ameri-
people,, in the name of the God OF
all armies and all nations let not an
other Mfe be sacrificed in this dreadful
business. Let this campaign be one OF
individual conscience and let all men
rise above party and vote to save then
country"
His whole speech is very bold and
ringing. He says Mckinley is respon-
sible for the death of 5000 Americans
in addition. He says that making
war belongs to congress. not to the
president. Have h people declared
war on the F%ilipinos? Has congress-
done so? No. Then who has done it
but the president? Where in history is
there a parallel for such usurpation of
power? Will the American people toll
crate it? By what authority has it
been done? By the president alone
Lit really looks as if Mckinley should
impeached for high crimes and mis-
demeanors.
Italians in Baltimore are coming out
-1OI GILL says lLS SoA-
One Adams &C. F.) in Massachusetts,
asked Schurz to drop Bryan and go
for electing the house that will OPP
pose Imperialism and Mckinley. Mr..
Schurz is nothing of an Adams. He
strongly negatived the foolish PROPOSE
ton. His letter all through is able
and forcefuI as all he writes is, but We
qdeISBIed sIql 6tuo IoJ mooI sFem ueo
that shows up McKinleyism in the
>ctearest possible light. The great Ger
man stateman
"In the same way Mr.. Mckinley, if
reelected, will claim, and n bulk OF
hts adherentS, especially the most
reckless and INSCRIPTIONS of them,
will also claim that his reelection was
a clear, popular Endorsement to go on
in the same direction To that appar-
en- approval and real encouragement,
L, for my part, can never conscientious
Iy contribute. 1 have laboriously and
carefully studied what has happened in
all its details and bearings, and that
study has profoundly convinced me
that the story OF our criminal aggres-
sion upon the Philippines is a story Oh
deceit, false p~retense. brutal treachery
TO friends, unconstitutional assumption
of power, downright betrayal Of the
fundamental principles OF gu demOc-
racy, wanton sacrifice of our soldiers
in a wicked war, cruel slaughter Oh
tens Of thousands Of innocent people
and that of horrible blood-guiltiness
without a parallel in the history of re-
publicS, and that such a policy Is bound
to bring upon this republic evils in
fnitely more dfsgraceful and disastrous
in their effects than anything that has
been predicted as likely to eSu from
MIR. McKinley's defeat"