Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-04-10

Especial Correspondence
Judge Sewell Of Boston was one Of
those stern and learned judges who fell
in with the temporary craze of his time
In the condemnation of witches. In his
diary is found an account of his excur-
sion to the burying ground where" he
says, 81 was entertained with a view Of
and converse with the cofins of dear
Father and Mother Hull Cousin Quin-
cy and six children. 1t was an awful
yet pleasing trial"
The spiritual descendants Of this
judge are credulous of any movement
which looks as if it tended to the con-
fusion Of wicked or foreign looking
people, and even to be entertained with
n mental view of and converse with
coffins filed In the interest of Duty,
Destiny and Dollars and the confu-
sion of foreigners is an awful yet
pleasing trial.
The designers of benevolent assimi-
lation In 1900 faraway islands are the
same class who have imported so much
contract labor, and they are used to
working on race prejudlces and credu-
lity. When their agents have induced
foreign laborers to come here after
steady work and high pay and invest
their savings in homes, when fines and
supplies rise higher than wages until
strikes or lockouts occur, then our
compatriots, the capitalists, being bet
ter dressed, more skillful in the use Of
English, more popular with newspaper
men, nearer to the governor, the MILL
tary or the court, more cunning withal
than employees, they take occasion to
point to the destitution as common
instance of the well known thriftless-
ness and lawlessneSS of workingmen,
especially of outside barbarian work
ingmen, who have no right to come to
this country and be dangerous to her
institutions. The credulous, being thus
honored with the confidence of the law
breaking gnat, would do anything to
aid them against people who look as If
they might break the law.
1t is the same wolf who dons sleeps
clothing only when necessary whose
correspondence with the Paris peace
commissioners is just delivered to con-
gress, except a part which, in the
Judgment of wolves, would be ''inimi-
cal to public interests" The wolves
cool calculation of the consequences of
'criminal aggression Gas one wolf
called it when he had on sleeps cloth
ing is there revealed.
Credulity has been worked during
two years to an extent which one
would have supposed impossible by be-
nevolent assimilators and dissimulators
and has cost the country quarter Of a
billion dollars directly and some 6,000
men in killed and wounded.
AS in times of lockouts, the poorest
people have been compelled by sympa-
thy to contribute to starved families,
while great directors of those assimi-
lations have paid nothing, so now the
directors have declined even to pay the
cost Of the ruin which they are deter
mined shall go on in the islands. BY
methods best known to themselves
they force us to pay.
AS mOnopolists or assimilators reduce
wages by fighting laborers with the
natives Of some country where lower
'"S'S IiNN al EhlllNI Win lllSh-
men, Irish with Italians, Italians with
Asiatics or Africans-until they find la
borers who can't be unionized, so in
their new army bill their Philippine
agents are authorized to employ 10000
of the cruel subjects of the sultan Of
Sulu to fight what late reports of Gen
eral Macarthur confess is n united peo-
pie.
In his speech on the army bill Con-
gresham Mccall of Massachusetts
said: 1--WE have from these two sources,
the direct war bill and the pension ap-
preparations, total of about $260,000,-
600 year, which is vastly greater than
the similar charges of any other nation
and greater even than the combined
military charges of France and Ger
many, who are armed to the teeth
against each other. 1t has been sup
posed that we enjoy immunity from
the warlike burdens which crush Eu-
rope, but the point is already reached
where we have far outstripped every
other nation in the elements of military
cost and where at the speed with
which we are forging ahead it is not
unreasonable to expect that our an
nual outlay will equal that of three or
four Of the greatest powers of Europe
combined. We were practically invul-
nerable from any European attack.
But with 1900 islands 10000 miles
from our capital city and on the other
side of the greatest ocean in the world,
If any nation should see fit to deal us a
blow, all that would be necessary would
be to seize some sand reef in the Asiat-
ic tropics and run up its flag, and then
the honor of this nation would demand
that we eXpend billions Of dollars and
the lives Of tens of thousands Of our
boys in order to again get possession of
that strip of sand. 1t is no more ex-
pansion or growth than is the horrible
cancer which swells the bulk Of the
body and saps its vitality"
Mr.. Mccall also showed that the
checks niriIV drawn Inv camnaionprs mn