The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-10-09

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shook chat made ths. aation tremble
hap passed avsy. Editors and preach
efs have had their say and the wheels
oe government still roll ON in, their es-
tabiished way. Not for day was
there any interruption TO commerce or
agriculture. Party and pattisans soft
ensd down and paid regard TO the
time-honored maxim, "De martimus
nil nisDonum" ---say nothing but good
ofshe dead Even the yellow jour
malls stopped their. cartoons and gave
their readers rest. But one extreme
alwayg follows another and 80 ;dolatry
began as soon as the president Was as-
sassinated. He would have been
saintei il ssinting was revived. Now
that he is dead be lie everybody's
president. But time is guod level
err, and history IL 9besinI. sg to be
made. Mr. Mckinley was no demigod
nor wilkhe be written down as q great.
statesman. He was Christian gem
tleman-a better man than his party
but was carried along with it into an
unjust war that will not sbear, the
scrutiny Of time. He had 20 fall into
line with the greed Of commerce, and
the econsequenceis is there are thousands
Of widows and mothers silently mourn
ing FOR husbands and sons killed in
battle OF died in hospitals in, . foreign
land. There is no lamentation over
them.
But as Governor Oates said, what
are no going to do about it.; nothing7
Some preachers say it is the will Of
God end the way to spread the gospel.
don't believe il, and have not much
regard for the preacher who doesJ 1T
takes more faith than have got to
aee the hand Of God in any war for do
minion OF shs acquisition of territory.
For more than hundred years Ireland
has been held in vassalage against her
will. so were the American colonies
held until our fathers rebelled:: Ma
poleon coveted the earth and our gov
ernment coveted Cuba and found a
casus belli in apretence Of feeding her
starving people, but never fed them.
Then our commercial greed crossed
the ocean to the Philippines and
bought themsfor song with ten mil
lion negroes thrown in. England
coveted South Africa and has already
spsnt,millions Of money and rivers of
blood in an effort to shbdue free.peo-
pie and get possession Of their gold
minel ! don't believe that any Of this
is Gods will. Greece and Rome and
Carthage and Napoleon all came to
grief. Offenses uuss needs come, ,,bnt
woe unto those by whom they. come
I don't believe that any war OF ag-
.gTession has the favor Of God, but
sooner OF later the aggreaaor will reap
what he has sown. John Brown was
haeked,hy Henry Ward Beecher and
other preachers who Thought they saw
the will Of God in an uprising es sAzss..
slaves agsinat their masters, no mat
terif,it resulted in murder and arson
and other outrages too horrible to
mention. HaRas :ssassehh :sssassehh saH ,aa anarchist
as Czolgosz, and his infamous scheme
thousand times more horrible; but
last peer they removed his bones to
Connecticut and reinterred them with
honors and q monument. No, / am
still the Same old rebel--ieconstruct.
% !, >-a 7 - :sss.. !; ;;.s s.s
Of any real or lasting he-.ecHaSS 5hss.sTeen
the North and the South.as long as she.
pension grab goes on and gets bigger
every year and We have TO pay a third
Of it for being conquered. If peace.
and love and eharmony preyails why
bleed ua foreysr7 Why take our hard,
earnings 10 support the children and
grandchildren .of union soldiers, one-f
third Of whom were Hessians and hire
linga who were fighting for $40 q month
and rations, with no though OF pa
sriotism? From that imported GLASS,
nodoIbt, sprang these anarchists who
breed disooUd and diaconteat among.
our people. CsolgosS Wan no foreign
or. he vas born in Desrois, went 10
school there, and hie elder brother
was & aoldierIin the union army and he