The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-30

would be their scalp-takaFs aias the IN
dams we're TO thc French II cur ante
! Revolutionary walls. --
'.33. You have not forgotten,y nor I, that
to free some million negroes the South was
torn to pieces through all its borG@zs eV-
cry county was a cemetery, there was
blood on every Intel, and Grape upon every
door. After the war was over the party
under whose banner you are now enlisted
dist anchised the white people. gGfe the
freed negroes the franchise SO as to put
them in domination over their former mas
ters, their wives, and their children. and
sent down carpetbaS leaders to see that
the cruel work was effectively done and all
that was left to these people by the war
should be taken away or destroyed. Il
was officially declared, with the concur
renee of Mr.. Mckinley, that every freed
negro was a citizen, entitled to full pro-
lection under the flag and all the rights of
white man under the Constitution in
The Land of the Free and Home OF the
Brave That was civil war, and we will
not fight it over. But, gentlemen of the
Honest League, viii you tell me under
what provision Of our Constitution, law
Of the land, or precedent of our fathers
President Mckinley and your party had a
right after sending cur feet and troops to
Spain, and recognizing them as allies in
the fight TO help US drive the Spaniards
from s5e island and when the freed
Philippines were rejoicing In their liberia
ton 70 make a secret treaty with Spain
against them, to purchase them their
lands, and liberty at 50 a head and then
proceed TO make war upon and destroy
them? Insurgents, are they? Great God.
insurgents against whom
Ancestors Called Insurgents.
"Methinks I have read that our fore
fathers were called insurgents: we now
call them patriots and take off our hats
at the mention of their names Do you
wonder that in my innocence I cannot I'M
derstand why the freed negro should have
been changed in the passing of day and
made a citizen and voter and tatesman
and ruler while Filipinos, who were never
slaves and are no longer Spaniards, but
belong to the United States, have 10 in
terest in the Stars and Stripes, are not
under the protection Of our Constitution,
and have no rights which the descendants
of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and
Grant are bound TO respect, / viii not
battle with phrases, Imperialism, cxpan-
sion, rebels, insurgents. / want TO see our
American soldiers who were sent to the
Philippines protected and sustained and
upheld until their work is done; they only
obey orders, and they must not be neg
lected nor forgotten. The flag is safe in
their hands. and as an old soldier do not
believe l am unpatriotic in Iamenting the
war Of subjugation in which so many are
wasting their lives. In my ignorance l
can find no authority. precedent. or good
reason for such war of aggression.
Il take il from your declaration Of prin
ciples that you either concur with the
President and his party or think that the
destruction of the Filipinos and the ex
penditure of hundreds OF millions in con-
quering q lot of far-away islands we don't
want is a little thing in comparison with
the fuctuation of stocks and bonds. / am
not able 10 bring myself TO that convic-
ton. II does seem to me that even in
this world there are some things more
important than the disputed ratio Of gold
and silver and copper as currency.
- There are some matters you ignore
in your declaration of McKinieyism. What
have you TO say Of Governor Rooseyelt's
views of the virtue and manhood OF the
agriculturists Of this county and district
in comparison with the wild cowboys OF
the plains? Do you think as meanly of our
farmers and mechanics as he does2 Why
not, then, print his views. and distribute
them among our plain people, with the
neauiuS, vote fNOOSSFSlt+ IS0tiS says
his children go to school with negro chill
dren. and he is evidently ia favor Of the
same thing in the South although. l saw
no allusion to that matter in his Music
Hall speech AS I have not seen any pro-
test on your part against such views, am
l in error in supposing he expresses your
sentiments? I suggest you amend your
declaration OF principles in this particular
and that each CT you take q copy home
and read it to your wife and children. Per-
haps your league would sG.1 meet secretly.
but half CT you would be ocked up in your
houses or missed at the polls on election
day.
The New York Sun is the great Nc
Kinley organ OF the North. I commend to
your especial consideration its recent vi
Imperative assault on the memory of Gen.
Robert E. Lee. When the members of your
select league read that patriotic screed
against our dead chieftain, who today has
the civilized world for his Hall of Fame
they have my sympathy. Not one word of
protest comes from your league. nor any
other of its kiEd. How spiteful, farcical
puerile, are the paper balls of Dana's
Sun fired at the fame of Lee. It Is your
duty to reprint that article and scatter it
broadcast IN the South with bold head
line Vote for Mckinley and Roosevelt > >