The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-08-02
Washington correspondence:

Has Done in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Not Subjug atcd.
Washington correspondence:
There will be no special session of
Congress. AT first ii was rather Il puZ-
zle 10 know why Mckinley was so
afraid of his own Congress. but can
yass of the directory showed that so
many of the opulent Republican Con-
gressmen are spending the summer in
Europe that the impecunious Demo
Gratis who stay at home would have Il
majority in the House if an extra SeS-
sion were called now. The administra-
tion has no notion of having 4 hostile
Congress on its hands with an election
approaching. His own Republican Con-
gress made more adverse campaign, ma
terial than Mckinley likes TO contem
plate. A session now with the Demo-
Gratis in control in the House would
emphasize the Issue of Imperialism in
the most startling fashion.
Mckinley hurried to Washington
from Canton at the first report of the
murder of the legations at Pekin, but
now lie has gone back and resumed his
front. porch campaign. Meanwhile
about l5.O00 troops will be sent over to
China TO get into quarrels with the
troops of the continental powers. When
they have been sacrificed Mckinley will
do the baby act Just as he did in the
Philippines matter and beg for more
troops and plead that unlimited blood
and treasure should be wasted because
he drifted along and got into complica-
tions of his own making in the first
place.
The continental powers are quarrel
ing with each other about their.respect
i've spheres of action in China Russia
has the advantage In being on the
ground, and she is not the Iation to
give up an advantage. England. hav-
ing NO white troops to send, is trying to
form an alliance with the United States
and Japan as against the field. On ac-
count of his understanding with Great
Britain. Mckinley is hurrying all the
troops that can be mustered to China
If the Monroe doctrine had not been
relegated to the limbo of oblivion long
ago with the Declaration of Independ-
ence and the Constitution, the Republi-
can party would not now be dragging
this nation into war whose end can
not be foreseen. There is plenty to
excite apprehension. The Chinese have
modern guns and know how to use
them. Despite internal dissensions they
have thousands of soldiers to every
hundred that European nations can fur
nish. The Chinese are fighting for the
preservation of their nation against for
eign aggression.
The usual sOphistries about our in
terests' are being put forth in order TO
furnish an excuse for getting involved
in the international quarrel which is
about to begin. 1t may be well to re-
member that the only trade interests
the United States had were given be-
cause we approached the Chinese as n
peaceful power, having no sympathy
with the imperialist designs Of foreign
powers.
The Chinese trouble has served to
show the exact situation in the Philip
pines. The administration has been
sending out rosecolored reports for the
last six months, stating that the Fill
pinos were subjugated, and that merely
q few .srobber bands" remained to be
hunted down. Now comes General Nc
Arthur's statement that he cannot
spare any of our enormous army in the
Philippines to march on China. and
that he will have to have 100000 men
In order to complete the campaign in
the Philippines.
This gives the lie to the stories
which the administration has been
sending out for campaign purposes.
The Filipinos are no more conquered
than they were eighteen months ago.
They are fighting for independence. If
it had been given them in the first place,
along with protection against foreign
Interference for reasonable ime, there
need have been no war.
1t is noticeable that Roosevelt in his
rampant and warlike speeches negleCts
to state what results have attended ap
piled Imperialism in the Philippines.
The Republicans had the effrontery to
assume that they could choose the cam
paign issue. and they are much cha
grined to find that the people agree
with the Democrats that imperialism
is the paramount issue"
The First Fruit of Imperialism.
Sixteen insane soldiers in Il darkened
emigrant car passed through Council
Bluffs lately. They came from the
Philippines. and We're going as fast as