The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-23

industry and hold control over all the functions
OF government, and the spokesman Of tbs admin.
lstratlon, a representative Of one of these great
'rcsts. Is calling upon his fellow capitalists for
eontrlputions to buy another four years license
foo.another four years life for their inflated
and false prosperity.
Inc government thus controlled has found its
nttest expression in schemes @. military CONQUEST
iHpeIlsilsm and militarism are the natural out
growth of commercialism in politics; Of the power
u 'ne lie" over the many, the elevation Of money
above manhood.
The condition is one that the country must
meet and meet now, and the way to meet it is
oy a feassertion OF the Democratic idea and the
election of a Democratic president.
no one can question the ability, the earnestness.
the integrity Of the Democratic candidates. For
the rescue OF all that has made America gloriou,
IN the past and that can make her strong in the
'uue IL Is a duty to support their election.
HoOdwfnkinE the People,
ohe or the most un-American, un-
democratic and un-Republican results
OF the Philippine war is the rigid press
censorship which has been established
at Manila from almost the very begin
nihe 10 conceal from the American peo-
PIE what was really happening in that
lar away and sin cursed land. In these
letters ave frequently called atten-
tlon to the fact that the WASHINGTON
Post is an Independent paper edited
with extraordinary ability. but While it
is independent it has q decided bias for
President Mckinley personally and for
his administration, but even The Post
is disguised With the bold and constant
misrepresentation of what is going on
over there. In a recent issue it con-
t9iOp6 tho foIIoyyipp oo,,c+io o5;4o,:o,
on the subject:
Is there any reason, either in morals or in DO
htlcal expediency, why the administration should
try to deceive and mislead the American people
touching the condition Of affairs in the PbiIin-
pines! The effort has been steady and persistent.
We have been assured, at stated intervals for the
past II or 10 months, that h~ostilities were at an
end; that nothing was left of the SO called insur-
rectlon but a few scattered, insignificant bands of
marauding fugitives; that an overwhelming ma
lorlty OF the %Filipinos loved US and asked only to
be protected from the wicked designs of the out
laws. We have had touching narratives of the
affection subsistipg between our authorities and
the grateful Filipinos-picturcs of the sweet peace
and mutual devotion prevailing on every hand.
We have been asked Il believe that the whole
country has been paciftd and that the Filipinos
as a class ask nothing more than permission to
dwell In contentment and prosperity beneath our
parental wing forever. But why all this trans
parent, this tiresome and futile humbug? 1t
serves no purpose, either honest or unworthy. 1t
fools nobody with intelligence enough to know
his own name, and it wearies and disgusts all
thoughtful men.
Useless Lies.
Leaving aside every consideration of morality
and good faith and regarding the question from
the very lowest and most sordid point of view,
what profit, however mean, does the Republican
party expect to reap? These repeated assertions
that the Filipinos have been pacified are notorious
Ivy False Na.o~o liz %Ioo, H1O. ~
answera5ly contradicted by the official announce
ments from day to day. They promote no useful
or creditable end. Here and there one finds a
Mugwump devotee. like the New York Times,
which, with General MacArthur's report of war
and carnage before its eyes, accepts the Philippine
commissions optimistic bleatings as SO much Cos
pei truth; but, taking men of information, Of
wholesome minds and independent thought, how
many do we find who believe these childish ro-
mances as against the official assertions Of the
army authorities, who are in the midst Of things
and know whereof they speak? On the very Gay,
last week, when the war department gave out the
report of the Taft commission assuring US that
peace and sweetest concord prevailed Throughout
the Philippines there came to US an authentic OIL
cial statement from the military branch of the
service to the effect that violence, hostility, even
organized warfare, ragged throughout the vicinity
of Manila. In one action alone-in which, by the
way, our forces were driven back-more than 100
men were killed and wounded or captured by the
Filipinos. Next day we were told by General
Macarthur that the trouble was even worse and
more Widespread than the press dispatches of the
previous dav had indicated. Now, by way Of con-
frming previous declarations, the Manila reports
announce a new and even more disastrous incl
dent. Again the ''Tebels' have appeared upon
the scene-no doubt after an affecting and fra
ternal colloquy with the commission-and the re-
suit is that so or more of our soldiers have been
eradicated.
What we want to ask is: Does it pay to try to
hoodwink the American people? Apparently the
administration nurses the fallacy that assurances
of peace in the Philippines will make votes for
next November. We hold, on the. contrary, that
it would be infinitely better to tell the truth, ad-
nit that we are in dire peril and put it to the pa
triotic feeling of the American people to stand
by US in the hour of trial and misfortune. such q
course would appeal to every manly nature IN the
land. The course the government is now pursuing
tends to disgust and ALLEVIATE self respecting men.