The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-07-26
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


MIR. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the admin
istration are mum as CLANS about the
Philippines since the official announce
ment that the Civil Government in four
provinces had been suspended and an
active military campaign began against
the Filipinos. They don't know what to
say about this renewal of the revolt Just
after they had assured the people of this
country that the Filipnos were delighted
with the establishment of civil government
and that everything in the island was
henceforth to be lovely. In fact, the ad
ministration was genuinely surprised at
the renewal of fighting, as it had really
accepted all the rosy Philippine stories it
had caused to be circulated as true. Men
who actually know the islands were not
surprised. They say it is only what may
of the islands; that it is merely repetition
of the experience Of Spain during cen
fury past; that there will always be oppo-
sition to American authority, except in
strong to make it expedient to show it.
The antiSchley gang in the Navy De-
partment overdid their last attack on Adj
miral Schley, and they are now trembling
TO: fear of the result, as Schley's friends
are up in arms and determined to have
the thing fought to finish once for all in
Congress. Mr.. Mckinley has also had a
finger in the pie. 1t was after a warm
telegram from him that Secretary Long
declared his ignorance of the abusive and
BLACKBOARD language toward Admiral
Schley in the third volume of Maclay's
history of the United States Navy, written
by clerk in the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
and announced that lie had ordered the
volume stricken from the use of text books
used at the Naval Academy. But in his
anxiety to stand by the gang, Mr.. Long
showed his own prejudice against A dmiral
Schley, even while expressing his belief
in his bravery and gallantry, by saying
that he had advised his being court mar
tailed for disobedience of orders, but Mr.
Mckinley had refused to order court
martial, and lot more of the rot that
was put in circulation by the anti-Schley
gang at the time they were paving the
way for an excuse to give the command
of the West Indian squadron to Sampson.
If Mr.. Mckinley was like some Presidents,
who might be named there would be an
immediate vacancy in the Cabinet. When
Secretary Long made the positive state
ment that Schley should have been court
martialed, and followed it by saying that
the President refused to order court
martial, he went dangerously close to in
subordination and disrcspect to the Prcsi-
dent.
There must have been doubt in the
mind of the Postmaster General as to the
carrying out of his orders for the enforce
mcnt of the laws relating to second class
mail, since he had the orders followed by
letter to postmastcrs from the Third
Assistant Postmaster General telling them
that their bondsmen would be held re
sponsible for any losses sustained by the
sion to second class mail of any publica
tons by them. This looks a little like a
preparatory step towards shifting respon-
sbilty from the Post Office Department,
where it properly belongs, to the post
master.
Representative William Allen, of Ohio,
more generally known as "Old Bill Alien,
once gave a definition of democracy on
the floor of the House that is good enough
to be pasted in the hat of every democrat,
and is as timely as though it had been
given only yesterday instead of years ago
Said Mr.. Allen: democracy is a senti-
ment not to be appalled,, corrupted or
compromised; it knows no baseness; it
covers before no danger; it Expresses no
weakness 1t is the sole conseryator of
liberty, labor and property. 1t is the scn-
timent of equal rights, of equal obligations
the very spirit of liberty itself invading
the land"
1t doesn't require expert knowledge to
understand the impossibility of a ship that
has been used by the government, which
had every reason for keeping it in good
condition. depreciating in value more than
50 per cent. in about two years. Yet that
is precisely what happened in the case of
the transport Rawlings, for which the
government paid $4,000 at the beginning
of the war with Spain, and which it has
now sold for 100000. No wonder that
Abncr Mckinley and other men, who were
credited with having acted as g"-hctwccn