The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-03-06

u6NOleu 10 our SOu dIlu our T6llBlOu,
almost surpasses belief.
Here and now let us remind the advo-
Gates of an alliance with Great Britain,
that no nation in Europe, except Great
Britain, up to 1898, ever spilled one drop
of American blood, in war; and that in
our great continental struggle for the
life of the republic, from 1861 to 1865, no
nation in Europe except Great Britain
gave material aid to the cause of the
Confederacy.
UP to last July McKinley's authoriz-
ed, unnecessary and unconstitutional
war, had cost this country a trifle over
two hundred and twenty millions dol
lars, or about eighty-five million dollars
more than the entire cost of the seven
years war of the American revolution.
In this estimate. there is no allowance
for pensions. Some $4,000 applications
for pensions have already been filed and
before the end of this year there will be
not less than $4,000 additional pension
claims filed. on account of the war in
the Philippines. It is estimated by
competent authority that over three
thousand of our stalwart young soldiers
have already died in battle or disease on
the island of Luzon alone. A dispatch
from San Francisco last week reports
the arrival there of 544 United States
soldiers, who have been made maniancs
in the terrible climate of the Philippines.
Another vessel brought over 200 soldiers
in collins.
1t is a historical fact that no where
around the world has a self-sustaniing
colony Of white men ever been establish
ed in the tropics. The oratorial ignora-
muses. of this administration, who are
exploiting expansion in the tropical
orient cannot point to one single eX
ample at any point, in the latitude of
the Philippine islands, around the world,
where even a colony of the Anglo Saxon
or celtic races have ever been success
fully established. Think for a single
moment of expansion in the Philippines
that contain a population of sixty to
the square mile, for the United States,
dying in the temperate zone,) with only
% to the square mile.
Up to Mckinley, Andrew Carnegie
was the greatest Republican in private
life in the United States. Up to Nc
Kinley, John Sherman was the greatest
living Republican in Ohio. Up to Nc
Kinley, ex-senator Edmunds, of Ver-
mon, was conceded to be the ablest con-
stitutional lawyer that practiced be-
fore the supreme court. Up to McKin-
ley, Carl Schurz was conceded to be the
ablest German-born statesman in the
Republican party. Up to Mckinley,
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, was
conceded to be the ripest scholar and
most profound student of American
government in the United States senate.
In the great campaign Of 1896, Edward
Atkinson was the recognized expert
authority on fiscal and economic
statistics for the whole continent of
Republican spellbinders and oracles. Up
to Mckinley, nearly two-thirds of all
our great scholars and university pro-
fessors were in the Republican party,
on the humanitarian lines, the rights
of man and the doctrines of Thomas
Jefferson. How does it happen that to-
day every one of the great leaders and
rayed against McKinleyism, radically
opposed to his militarism and solidly op-
posed to his war in the Philippines?
Andrew Carnegie's letter showing
that the Philippines are absolutely
worthless to us as a commercial ven
ture has to this day never been answer
ed. The ornate and wordy Senator
Beveridge, of Indiana, who was put
forward in the senate as the semioficial
mouth organ Of McKinleyism, did not
attempt to answer it. He only INDUCED
in glittering generalities. Only in three
or four products has there been a
prosperous trade in the Philippines
beer and whisky and poker checks and
collins. The beer and whisky have gone
over in great abundance to fill the
soldiers, and the soldiers have come
back in great numbers filling the cof-
fins. This is the only trade outside of
the ambulance and ammunition and
hospital departments of the army that
has followed the flag in the Philippines.
General Otis, commander-in-ch chief of
all the Philippine islands, has announc-
ed officially to the war office in Wash
ington the entire annihilation of the
Filipino army no less than eleven times
during the past fifteen months, and
he has proclaimed no less than three
times the entire suppression Of all in
surrections and the establishment of the
government of the United States. And
yet today, February 20, 19OO read in
press report an official message from
General Otis giving one days casualties
there as killed and 10 wounded.
In that much vaunted charge on
San Juan hill made by that mock hero,
Colonel Roosevelt in his opera bouffe
campaign at Santiago, charge in
which whole barrels of printers ink
were she'd and which went into history
as heroic achievement, and for which
he was made governor of New York,
the official report of General Torrel,
commander of the Spanish forces, as
made to the captain general, Blanco, at
Havana, SHOWS killed and wounded.
In view of the fact that one daily re-
port from the Philippines of the date Of
February 21, 1900, shows more American
soldiers killed by 100 per cent and more
American soldiers wounded by over 100
per cent than the Spanish army lost in
Colonel Roosevelt's famous charge at
San Juan hill may we not piteously ask
in the name Of common humanity,
What makes heroes so cheap in real war
and the blood Of our soldiers so cheap
in the Philippines I'm peace?