Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-01

a populiSt. They would have made
the Spaniards tremble had they been
sent to war but they did not get to go.
Another Kansas regiment, however,
under Funston, wrote the name OF Kan
sas on every hilltop and at every ford
in the island of Luzon. An Iowa regi-
ment marched with Kansas and wrote
the name of Iowa side by side with
that of her sister state. Politics were
never mentioned. and there was not
yet any mention of imperialism.
When Did 1t Commence.
and fought it until every hope was ex-
hausted. When the Maine was blown
up in Havana harbor. however, and
commission found that it had been
done by a Spanish bomb, then l voted
to declare war. There were no poll
tics in the war then. There was no
distinction between wealth and power
ty. The millionaires of New York
and the cowboys of the west fought
and died together. When did the i'm
perialism commence?
THE war commenced alright and
progressed alright. And right here
want to pay tribute to General Shat
ter, man who has been villifed as no
other man in the history of the coun-
try has been villifed except Lincoln and
Grant, but as history justified their
acts so it will justify his. With 1900
men he surrounded and captured 49,
900, performing one of the most nota-
Bile events in warfare. Was there any
Imperialism then?
| 1.-THE war was over in ia days. The
Spanish fleet at Santiago was at the
bottom of the sea, as was also the one
at Manila. Was there any imperial
ism up to that point? No one was dis
| appointed in the war except Spain and
Bryan He would have liked it better
probably, had he had a chance to take
| part, and it was not his fault that he
did not have it. He did a better deed
in resigning his office and coming
north when his regiment was ordered
to Cuba than he would have done by
going to Cuba.
How We Got the Islands.
when the protocol was signed ii
was agreed that the United States
should have Porto Rico and that per
manent arrangements on otter matters
should be made by a joint commission
composed of five Americans and five
Spaniards. One Of the United State;
and of course the five Spaniards were
against the acquisition of territory b.
the United States as much as this one
/ commission was an anti-imperialis
But when they investigated the matte
they found that Spain had lost her au
thority in the Philippines. They salt
What shall we do, turn the islands
over to Aguinaldo or shall the Unitet
States assume the responsibilities o
governing them?' The latter cours
was of course decided upon as tn
best one, and this country had left UP
on it's hands 1,400 islands stretchin!
along the Asiatic coast They wer
not sought by Dewey not by Otis, bu
came to us by the fortunes of war. W.
knew nothing about the Philippine
prior to that time, but at the end 0
. the war we found them in our pos
session. No imperialism had az
peared at that time.
Nov, it was agreed by the commits
sion that we should have the Philip
pines and should allow Spain for tel
years the same commercial advant
ages that are to be enjoyed by tn
United States. This was in tn
treaty, and in order to have the treat
ratified there must be two-third
, vote in congress in favor of it. Brya,
] resigned his position in the army an
! came to Washington, where he talke