Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1902-04-02

near that condition today. where Ia this
land that boasts OF liberty. the proud white
man is reduced to chattel slavery: but alas,
not in tune with Clsy's liberty. viz. 'srhe
law of liberty must be inscribed on the
heart OF every citizen and the word must
become flesh yea. bred and born as our
fathers were, 60 institutions like ours.
brought here in their souls"
Now. therefore, can we think that the
present wage slavery of the white brought
about by the combines Of the money power
which rules out competition and restricts
trade to their prices, will meet with any less
weighty aud destructive overthrow than did
the overthrow of blacks in the sixties which
made nearly million young white men kiss
the dust2
Why are we getting so far away from the
Declaration of independence Is it because
it does not give the right of the strong 60
Cypress the weak or of the classes TO enslave
the masses. or is it retrograde expansion chat
the Republican and Goldo-Cleveland policy,
without principle, seeks?
Yes. they have expended back to King
George, which enables them to take in the
Philippine Islands and do there just what
King George did here over century and
quarter ago. or even worse. See Captain
Aliens report of the rDarch OF his regiment
the Thirty Eighth through Panay. where
he says they carried ON the war in the most
improved fashion. His words: 1--WE were
ordered to burn, 20 Kill and TO destroy and
we went over the territory leaving no houses
standing behind rs. One can ride for twenty
miles at a time in that Island without even
seeing a shack still standing orencountering
a human being and the only way of know
ing that the FilipinoS are still in the locality
Is in the fact that the trails are kept open.
The towns were burned. their caraboas were
slaughtered and everywhere the eye turned
devastation an death met the gaze. The
natives were given the water cure by
hundreds, it being the only means of secur-
ing information necessary to the operation
of our troops. The water cure consists in
strapping native, face upward, 70 the floor
holding open his mouth with gag and
forcing water down his throat until finally
he is forced to disclose the information he
POSSESSES"
We hold the natives by thousands in con
centration camps. we impose taxation with
out representation and maintain salaried Off
Gals over them, number AT a salary rs high
as $4,000 year. Did King George do our
forefathers worse or even as bad2 If SO. we
have no record of it. Think too. the offense
one and the same in both cases-Liberty
and independence. Let our administration
heed the construction Of the Declaration of
Independence by their greatest apostle of
liberty, Abraham Lincoln. who said i'm Feb
ruary, 1861. ''The sentiment i'm the Decar,,-
ton of Independence gave liberty not alone
10 the people of this country, but hope to all
the world for all future time" Alas. alas,
how out of tune, majority Of our law
makers and executives are with that immor-
tai document OF our forefathcrs who have
olazed the path in which we can safely fol
low, but which document our authorities
refuse TO read at public meetings i'm the
Philippines and they deliberately suppress
the news from there Isn't this out Of tune
with Americanism. but, in tune with British
ism? See her holding about $4,000 BOer
people in the concentration pens. most of
whom are women and children, and who
have died there TO the tune of over 200 in
some months, and the English taxpayer is
dancing To the tune of about $4,000 per
day TO carry on the South African war
But English officials say ireland pays 10
the tune of about $50, 100000 year and
starving India about SlOO, 100000. Yes, but
they are getting very tired of that annual
tune, and may justly quit dancing, as they
have been doing for the last three years right
at home in England, where taxes and land
lord oppression became intolerable. and it
was either rebel or leave, and they chose the
latter, and, according To the London Mail,
forms are being deserted by the score ana
hundreds were in a semi-derelict condition"
The empire is evidently out of tune with her
subjects. Nov, see the Americans dancing
to similar tune in the Philippines To the
key of about 100000. OOO annually. Yes see
our concentration camps; see Sectaretary Hay
refuse to apply TO British Ambassador for
DR.. and Mrs. Thomas 10 distribute the Hi
nois relief funds to Boer women and chill
dren in the British concentration camp
Terrible, terrible 10 contemplate is such ret
rOgation of the beacon light of liberty (the
U. ). A. that we are thus engaged and not
able TO have words ring out in our congress
iOnal halls like those expressed over three
quarters of century ago for the Grecians,
by one of the immortal trio, Henry Clay,
some of which we've: Are We so low, so
base, so despicable, that we may not express
our horror, articulate our detestaton of the
most brutal and atrocious war that ever
stained the earth or shocked high heaven
with the ferOcious deeds of a sUldiery 1t
will be soothing TO Greece in her distress,
but. sir, it is principally and for America
herself, for the credit and character of our
common country. that ! hope to see this
resolution of sympathy pass, it is for our
own unsullied name that feel" And tins,
too, before We became that great world
power. But our wisacres of TO day do not
comprehend the great vital principles which
combine 10 constitute Staiwart and world
renowned power as did our fOrefathers and
profound thinkers Of the past. Everett said,
While we act, sir, upon the max m, In
peace prepare for war let us also remember
that the best preparation for war is peace
This swells your numbers: this augments
your means; this knits the sinews of your
strength; this covers you all over with a
panoply of might. And then, if war must
co ne IN just cause no foreign state, no,
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