The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05
THE WHITE PINE NEWS.
Thursday, April 5, 1900.
WHO'S RBspoNsIBLE9

I'm speaking of the long-drawn-out
Philippine trouble W. j. Bryan says:
There has not been day since the ae-
ceptance of the treaty that this war
could not have been stopped by the
party In power.
sBut there's the rub. The Republic
can party does not wish the war ended.
Mckinley Is serving his friends by con-
tinuing the war. Fortunes are being
made on swindling army contracts and
part of this money will be contributed
10 the Republican campaign fund this
fall. II the war was ended there would
be no need of a million dollars day
war tax, the greater part OF which goes
into the Golfers of McKinleys friends.
The lives of the 5000 soldiers which
have been sacrificed count as nothing as
long as there is dollar to be made. y
The above item which recently ap-
peared In the editorial column of the
Silver State is disgrace to the paper
of which its editor should be heartily
ashamed. Had such an utterance come
from Herr Most or some other disciple
of the bloody shirt, We would have
passed it with shrug, as an example
OF the reeking fumes that arise from the
caldron ofignorance; but in the columns
of paper which claims to be one OF
the bright lights of Nevada journalism,
IL Is inexcusable and almost criminal,
and we cannot pass it by without a
challenge. The author OF the charge
could not have believed what he wrote.
We defy the Silver State or any other
paper to present single fact to prove
that the war in the Philippines is be-
ing protracted by the Administration
for political purposes.
In regard to Mr.. Bryan's statement
that the war might have been stopped
by the party in power on any day since
the acceptance of the treaty, we grant
it. 1t might have been stopped in the
same way that Grover Cleveland pulled
down the flag in Hawaii, but fortunate
ly for the honor OF the country, Mr..
Bryan was not in a position to pull
down this flag from the place where
Admiral Dewey and his heroic feet had
placed it. If the responsibility for the
lives of American soldiers that have
been sacrificed in the Philippines is to
be laid on the shoulders of any one man,
that man Is Mr.. Bryan. In proof of
this charge we quote the following
statement of Capt. C. H. Culver of the
32nd U. S. Volunteers who has just re-
turned to his home at Milford, Nebras-
ka, on two months furlough. He said
in an interview:
1.-THE insurgent army has been dis
lodged in every locality, and has been
divided into small bands. These bands
have been instructed by Aguinaldo to
hold out in small parties, harass the
Americans and carry on bushwhack
ing warfare until after the fall election
when they expect their friend Bryan to
be elected. Bryan's name is as well
known to them as the name of Aguin-
aldo, because of the publication of ex-
tracts from his speeches in the Tagalo |
language and the free distribution of
them. | believe as soon as the insur-
gents learn that tho present admins
tration is to control affairs they will
yield.
AS further evidence of the same facts,
the writer might offer little incident
which occurred during his trip in the
East. While eating dinner at hotel
in Denver, the conversation at the table
naturally drifted to public events. 81
never realized until to-day" said a
young man opposite the writer, ''what
an effect the speeches OF Bryan are hav-
ing on the war in the Philippines. l
have just received letter from broth
er at Manila who is a Lieutenant in the
American army. He enclosed copy
of a proclamation by Aguinaldo, cap
tured in one of the excursions OF his
regiment into the interior It quoted
one of Mr. Bryan's speeches and called
upon the natives to resist until after
the coming election in the United
States
We ask an unprecedented public to
judge on whose head is the blood OF the
1900 American soldiers whose lives
have been sacrificed in the Philippines.