The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-05-30

pected. in the end. to march through
the breach thus effected in our ranks
TO the booty before them. 1t was not
TO be. The scheme was too big, il
was too wicked, to be concealed.
Gradually the truth began to percolate
through the thick folds of the tents of
Evasion, Suppression and Silence.
The light of a single jet sufficed to
show the lay of the land, and, like a
flash, the Republicans reversed their
policy of inactivity and reserve. They
leaped from their hiding places below
the gunwale; like so many pirates
flying decoy flag at the masthead
whilst keeping out of sight. they
swarmed upon the upper decks; so
that now, discovered for what they
are, nothing is too despicable and
reckless, from smirching Lincoln,
Grant and Sherman to indicating
Smith, and the policy of bloody ex-
| termination.
AS far as the Philippine Archipelago
is concerned, we are to determine
whether we are to set up in perpetuity
a Military Government-for none
other can be maintained herewith
all that this Military Government i'm
plies, or, whether we shall consider
the alternative of less drastic, a less
despotic policy, looking to the preser-
Walton OF our interests and rights in
that remote quarter of the globe, but
by means and measures more conso-
nant with our institutions and tradi-
tions.
We have gained great by our course
in Cuba. Why should we not adopt
similar course in the Philippines9
The law of force is not for us.
Rather the rule of suaslon "Benevo-
lent assimilation" Mckinley called |
it. In short, the question is: Shall
we have Council of peace. admitting |
the Filipinos to share of it-precisely |
as our fathers did, time out of mind with |
respect to the Aborigines-or, shall we
proceed with the policy Of repression,
TO the point of bloody ex-
termination; Decorating the flag
of the Republic-yea, obscuring
every star upon its disc of blue
our free institutions
throughout the modern world and
the memory OF the men
who gave those institutions life
converting the Army into the
merest vehicle of spoliation and op-
preston, the soldier into machine
the whole Military Service to become
the enginery of Carpetbagism and
Scalawaggery as during the days of
Reconstruction; the Constitution no
where; all power, Arbitrary power
all Government the Absolutism of the
Man, or Men, on Horseback at Wash
ington?
In the vocabulary of Republicanism
means the extension ana ,
of the High Protective :
Tariff, the amplification and entrench-
ment of those Trusts which depend ,
upon the High Protective Tariff for
their existence. The issue, therefore. !
ought to be very simple. Shall we, !
having allowed ourselves to be robbed in !
he name of bogus American system ,
work and high wages for the
peratives-tentative subsidy for our +
infant Unsatisfactory throw liberty Y
Itself into the caldron, permi lifting 7
hese mercenary patriots to use the I
Army and Navy TO wcrk their schemes q
If pillage even to the point of fire o
md sword, including lasting National .
Iisgrace, on the other side of the h
vorld2 a
There is no other question and no Il
ther way to put it. The Democratic =
'arty is the friend of the soldier and
he flag the Republican party is the h
nemy of both. The Democratic party a.
would have the Constitution and II
he flag go hand in hand, carrying 81
eace and liberty and happiness into
II lands. The Republican party
vould abolish the Constitution and use
he flag as drop curtain for crime.
he Democratic party would sacrifice
o interest or right which honor and Of
uty may maintain, or ought to main Il
ain. The Republican party, as it is m
rganized and led, would put it's foot II
n every right, and every duty, human az
nd celestial, at the bidding of COR tt
apt and corrupting Commercialism, ia
,eking through Arbitrary power to &C
;tablish over us a race of Mcclellan bt
rinces. without the learning or the
rts of Florence, brutalizing whilst pr
Hing us by the divine right of the b
mighty Dollar in
There are myriads of Republicans cl
no will not follow their party upon
'usade like this. There are myriads nc
Christian men. conservative and en- tn
ghtened Americans, who will pause II
non the brink of proceedings 90 re vo- it,
tionary. They will come to see tn
lat the Democratic party alone stands III
,tween the country and the yawning nc
,yss Democratic leadership must Tn
, nothing, say nothing to drive them ca
lex. Their votes are essential to the
scue OF these gigantic interests ma
rough Democratic Congress and tn
ational Democratic Administration. TO
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