The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-05-24
D'ARMOND ARRAIGNS
THE ADMINISTRATION.
The Sad and Shameful Tale of
Carpet-Bagging is Being
Repeated.

day Representative Corliss OF MIchi-
gan, read in the house letter al
legged to be from a native Puerto
Rican," which, he asserted, enthusl-
astically Endorsed the action OF con
gress in passing the Puerto Rican
bill
The reading OF the letter furnished
the text for prompt and vigorous
reply from Mr.. DeArmond OF Mis-
souri,. He reviewed the policy Of the
administration in the Philippines and
Puerto Rico, and especially the
scandals in the management OF al
fairs in Cuba. His remarks were re-
ceived with marked approval by the
democrats, and his time was extend
ed until he had spoken thirty min
utes.
He ridiculed the Corlis letter and,
in scathing language, recited the
wild enthusiasm with which the Puer-
to Ricans must be receiving the car
pet-bag government by this admin
istration, especially with the example
of Cuban NAL administration now be-
fore them.
In conclusion Mr. DeArmond drew
striking contrast between the colo
NAL government which the admins
tration is inaugurating and the dem
ocratic American policies OF the ear
lier days of the republic. Said he:
'Why risk everything that we have,
why run not only the serious risk of
FORGETTING and destroying our own
liberties here, but of turning back the
hands upon the dial of time and
bringing the dark ages again as far
as it is possible for you to do? Do
you know that this grand expert
ment here upon this continent, this
grand achievement of the American
republic so far is the inspiration and
the hope of free men the wide world
over? Is it not q dark and sad day
in this great American republic. i'll
this proud capital OF great nation,
when not a voice can be raised Off
cially in sympathy with those who
are striving desperately to maintain
or to achieve independence, and when
recklessly, wildly and indifferently
you march over great principles and
over the constitution as if it were
Yparaly uaSta paparo
The DAYS of the Fathers.
DO you believe that in the heroic
days of the fathers, in the times when
men realized that to have liberty for
themselves, to maintain their own
government and build up their own
institutions, they must respect the
rights of others-do you believe that
in those days there would have been |
hesitancy and timidity and fear |
about expressing sympathy with |
those with whom every man who has
a heart in his bosom that beats true
to liberty does, believe, sympathize
those struggling for independence
to-day?
what official voice can be raised
here in sympathy for the poor, hard
pressed Beers, as the vast power of
the British empire sweeps down upon
them, as the 400 press sorer and
sorer, and harder and harder. upon
the devoted one? How strange it is
that in this mighty republic, in this
closing days of this glorious century,
no official expression can be given of
sympathy for those who strive to
maintain their independence against
the tyrants who would destroy it.
1T is given out and is well known
that the sole purpose and object of
the British empire is to destroy free
government in the Dark Continent,
to destroy the republics built up by
the heroic Beers. Nothing else will
satisfy them. A war of destruction.
a war OF determination against hui
man rights, war against republican
institutions is in progress. and in the
mightisst republic upon the face of
the earth, in the most glorious re {
public in all history, nothing can be
said officially, either because there is
an understanding in secret places
and high places with those in power
in the British Empire which would be
violated by it, or because there is
that trucking TO wealth and power.
III view OF which the rights of human .
lty and the principles upon which
freedom and liberty must rest in all
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