The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-13
A sNARL FROM THE NEWS.

One Fred Houston writes to the Galveston News
from Taylor say that he has quit reading The Post
because it has criticised Of the methods employed
in the army, and he defends the course of General
Smith. VINO issued the order to kill aud burn and
make q bowling wilderness Of Sumar The CORE.
spondents criticism is the silly twaddle that
army worshipers and administration apologists have
been uterng since the revelations of revolving
cruelties in the Philippines.
Every sane man understands that the position Of
The Pest which is the same as the position OF many
of the foremost newspapers and statesmen OF both
parties is not unfriendy to the army, disrespectfu
TO the flag. On the contrary It is protest against
abuses which the real friends of the army and all
right thinking patriots want to see corrected.
The logic of these apologists is the logic of the
French infamy which Dreyfus to Devils island
1t was the logic of Henry VIII who beheaded the
bravest and best statesmen of the Reformation 1t is
the logic Of all tyranny and usurpation like argu.
ment is employed by the trust defenders who insist
that antitrust discussion or legislation must cease
because sit hurts business" 1t is the doctrine of the
Tory and the Bourbon and it would perpeuate for all
time the crimes and the evils of government and com
merce against which democracy is arrayed
But that is by the way.
1t Is waste of time to debate army abuses with
the average army The criticism would have
passed unnotced but for snarling editorial comment
by the News, which employs its overworked party
hoods Of the Mckinley assassination tragedy The
News asserts that the assassin said he was moved TO
kill the president by the cartoons and comments Of
opposition newspapers This is untrue and If the man
who wrote 1t did not know it untrue he Is unfit
for his job The assassin distinctly declared that his
act was in accordance with the teachings of anarch.
ism as expounded by the Goldmans and Mosts He
disclaimed any influence by newspapers This whole
charge was baseless SANDER, originating in the
imagination or in the spleen of newspapers of the
News stripe.
The News cuts sorry figure as the defender of
government and public officials. There has hardly
been an administration in Texas since the State was
organized that the News did not abuse in the ex
tremest fashion Of its dyspeptic nature In the case
OF Governor Ireland the criticism was so rabd that
the advised by his friends to bring suit
for libel and doubtless he had fair case
So intolerant and malignant Is the News toward
public men not of its own independent faith that
not one in Texas has escaped the sneering desgna.
on of politician but all indscrminately written
down as demagogues, deceiyers and downright public
enemies The laws of Texas, like the men Of Texas
have been maligned by the News until reader of that
paper otherwise unadyised would necessarily believe
that the public administration OF Texas is motley
regime Of incompetency and ignorance and blind
hatred of all that is progressive and enlightened
n the matter OF forthcoming and Iibellng the News