The Sunday globe., 1901-08-04
COMING FAST.
The Imperial Republic Of the Plu-
tOcratic Trusts.
MILITARY SATRAPS ARREST,
InprlsOu, Torture Abuse, and Curse The
Citizen and Assert Their Superiority Over
The CYIIlan-The Globe S Revelations in The
PHILIPPINES COnubOrated-The Masses Only
Hone Of Salvation from Slavery.

EXCLUSIVE duAbhANN AAANAS s-ANNN
ian clerks in the Philippines in the
service of the Government were of1Sal-
lv ordered. by circulars issued at the
headouarters in Manila, to salute MILL
tary officers in sign of the subIectlon
of the civil to the military power.
There we're some who doubted the gen
uiness Of the letter from the Philip
pines describing the event, and there
were others who made light of it as
being of no special importance. These
latter were, Of course, pap-suckers un-
der the Imperial-Republic, and with
them everything goes.
And herein lies the danger, now
closer than the ordinary cltzen
imagines. OF the subversion OF the re-
nublic. or rather the addition TO lts
political title of the word Imperial
after the manner of the ancient Roman
one under julius Caesar, and after
yards under that of his equally re-
nowned son. Octavius, who overthreW
tbe noble Brutus, and the time-serYer
and Hbertine Marc Antony, thus max
ing himself sole lord of the Roman
world. William Mckinley does not
need 70 assume the title" Of Emperor
He eniovs all the prerogatlVes ana
newer of one. and his soldiers in the
Pbilippines are nowise backward IN
proclaiming that fact, ana the supe,
riority OF the military over the civil
power 49,. ,o.+
The following, received the past
week at the War Department, ana pup
lished only in the anti-Administratlon
newspapers. establishes not only Jhe
truth of The Globes exclusive an
nouncement referred to, but tor the
first time. in a general way, admoh-
ishes the public Of that when Is COM
ing. and insofar as the Philippines are
concerned, has already arrived
Here is the despatch:
"Civiliap employees of the United
States in the Philippines are not al
lowed to organize trade unions, 60 out
anon strikes, or enjoy other privileges
of which American wOrkmen in this
country avail themselves. Twenty
teamsters employed by the Quarter
masters Department in Santa Cruz,
Taguna. have learned this to their sor'
row. according to mail advices which
were received at the War Department
recently.
"The report states that they are in
iail. being fed only on bread and water
and obliged to sleep on a brick Hoor'
part of the time they are denied blan'
kets to lie upon, all because they quit
their Jobs and refuse to work,
con June 18th, seven Of these men
were ordered to break stone They de-
clined to obey on the ground that they
had not been hired for this kind OF
labor. They requested their time, and
said they would work no longer Tor
the Department.
Because of their refusal, two OF
them. it is alleged, were bound hand
and foot and literally thrown into the
guardhouse. After being forced to re-
main immovable for three hours theiI
bonds were finally removed. ThelI
comrades. indignant at the Treatment
accorded their fellow-workmen, refused
TO obey the order to break stone fol
the same reasons, and were given theil
time. When they went to the office OF
Captain Stafford for their pay they
were not only cursed out of the OF
fee to use the language contained II
the statement but placed under ar
rest. A trial by a general court was
denied them and also the advice Of
counsel.
"On the contrary, they were lectureC
by Captain Terrett, of the Eighth In
fantry. The men declare that they
we're told that civilians we're an infe
rior class of men, and that those II
the Philippines were particularly infe
rior: that now they were under the
orders of regulars of the United States
Army and would find that the latter
did business differently from the vol
unteers. 1t is likely that the case VII
be brought to the attention of the Sec
retary of War
The country will soon realize thu
meaning of the increase in our stand
ing army and the substitution OF th'
regular for the volunteer or ciuzel
soldier.
OF course, under a Democratic Ad
ministration, this rutfian and shoulde
strained blackguard, Stafford, woul'
be dismissed the service, but we mis-
our guess if the newspapers do not b.
called upon. in the immediate future
to record his promotion to a highe
rank.
Insensibly the tide of imperialism /
gathering volumn, and reinforced, a
il now is, by an organized militar,
machine. the time is Utmost ripe TO
the last cast of the dice. 1t is thi
crisis which Poultney Bigelow sees
whose views are published elseWher
in this issue, and which thoughtfu
men all over the country regard VIII
trepidation at the outcome. The issu
is being pressed and forced upon tn
people by the COmmerCialism or tn
trusts. monopolists and gigantic mon
eyed corporations, all Of whom wan
the security which an imperialisu
form Of goyernpent gives the priv
legged class against the rights and II
reference Of the masses with the ac
ministration of government
The masses can do nothing to pre-
vent the accomplishment of the in
imperialistic scheme. The masses
since the world commenced, have neve
been able to do anything Of tbemselve
unless led and directed by the homes
intellect of the men of means socia
standing and superior education,
was so in France, in our own revolt
ton, and in all the revolutions and r.
volts of history, If we except Sparta
Gus. the Roman slave, and the end q
his abortive effort was speedy and sar
culinary.
Now, it is the masses who will SUI
fer the greatest loss by the comm
change; il is they who will be do
graded and made hewers Of wood an
drawers of water for their masters
Prudence, selfinterest and interest i
their posterity, leaving out patriotism
and love OF liberty which are suppo'
ed to be inherent in the masses OF tn
people everywhere, imperatively call
upon the American masses to all
themselves with the Democratic part
and elevate IL to power, as the onl
hope of preserving the republic. If