The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-03-13
WHAT THEY SAY
Extracts From Various Sources, indi.
eating Democratic Opinion Regard.
ina Questions of the Dav.

keep hands Off The time is past when
that sort of policy is carried out sim
ply by issuing orders to that effect
Boston Record.
I'VE favor an immediate declaration
OF the nations purpose to give the
Filipinos. first, staple form of gov
ernment; second, independence, and.
third, protection from outside inter-
ference, such as has been given for
nearly a century to the republics of
Central and South America. kansas
City Platform.
The Democrats of New York had an
able and stainless candidate for mayor.
yet he was defeated because he was
held responsible for Tammanys sins
The Republicans of Philadelphia, on
the contrary, stood by and elected
Quay's ticket, composed of his known
tools and satellites, in the face Of such
exposures of official villainy as would
have paralyzed any other community
on earth pretending to be civilized. It
would thus appear that the premium
on rascality in the Republican party
is as great as the discount on it in the
Democratic ty-Indianapols SEN
tinel.
Every American soldier who dies or
gets killed in the Philippine contest
dies a martyr to the greed and avarice
of commercial epublicanism in this
country. The boys in the field are
loyal, true. faithful and patriotic, but
the star chamber proceedings of the
Republican spectators that induced
or rather commanded, the lamented
Mckinley to get this country in it's
present pitiable plight, if examined
into with the calcium light of truth
and righteousness, would blanche the
cheek of every American citizen with
shame. No wonder a national Re-
publican convention would hiss out a
resolution expressing sympathy with
the struggling Boer republic.-Ramsey
Qll.) News-Journal.
A Republican paper points to the
fact that Mr.. Bryan is building house
mot so expensive as the Republican
paper reports, but still good house)
as evidence that he is getting "his
share of Republican prosperity" It
may be interesting for the Republicans
to know that the house is being built
from the proceeds of the First Bat
tle," which was published immedi-
ately after the election of 1896, and be-
fore the Republicans began to boast
of prosperity. Republican policies
have not benefited Mr. Bryan except
in the sense that a physician is in
debted to sickness for his income. Re-
publican policies furnish Mr.. Bryan
texts for editorials and speeches.-Bry-
ans Commoner.
One hundred and twenty-five years
after the Declaration of Independence
was made by the thirteen colonies
against Great Britain and denying the
right of Great Britain to tax the COL
onies without giving them represen-
tation, we find the same colonies, now
a great power, enforcing the same doc
trine upon the Porto Ricans and Phil
ippines as the British government at
tempted to fasten upon the colonies
one hundred and twenty-five years
ago. The taxing without representa-
tion did not succeed then, neither will
1t now. a greater outrage has never
been attempted by the American peo-
pie, and the party which is responsible
for such an outrage will yet have to
answer for 1t to the liberty-loving peo-
pie of this country.-Blossburg Adver-
tiser.
The depths of national infamy are
sounded by the order of General Bell
applying Weyler's policy of reconcen-
tration in all its details to the Fill
pinos Of Batangas province. Nothing
in the history of modern warfare ex-
ceeds the ferocity of General Bells in
structions to American officers to
make the people want peace, and
want it badly" supplemented by spe-
cific orders to regard the insurgents as
outside the pale of civilized warfare"
Four years ago the American people
were in blaze of righteous wrath
against the Spaniards for their fero-
cious treatment of the Cuban insur-
gents, and they are even now stirred to
iHuiShdIioH ny lne reports from tne
British camps in South Africa. That
they tolerate with placid indifference
the imitation of Weylerism by Ameri-
can soldiers in the Philippines is al
most incredible, but it is deplor-
able fact.-North American (Rep.).
Congressman Hill, of Connecticut,
who visited the Philippines last sum-
mer, has poor idea of them as a
'stepping-stone" to the Chinese trade.
He says that foreign nation acquir-
ing the Bahama Islands would be as
wise in thinking 1t had got an entre-
pot to New York and Philadelphia as
we are in imagining that Manila gives
us an entrepot to China. This will be
a sad blow to Senator Beveridge. For
eign trade, In his mind, depends upon
having whole series of stepping
stones across the ocean. His picture
of American goods hop-skip-and-ju jump
ing over the Pacific-one leap to Ha-
wall, another to Guam, thence to Ma
nila, and from there right to Hong
Kong-was a beautiful work of the
imagination, and it seems a pity to