Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-06-19

with his white hair and aged race
and form, his left hand clinging to the
folds of the Stars and Stripes, and his
right heand clenched, denounced the
treatment of the Filipnos. The church
was almost oppressively still at times.
DR.. Putnam said Mt this time:
what insanity was it that seized
Times noblest offspring what was
the fatal draught that made 1t drunk,
that all at once its population, 10, ,000.-
600 strong,so signally prospered and
blessed and so boastful of their ex-
alted wisdom and virtue and of their
pre- eminent love of liberty and human.
ity, should discard their most sacred
traditions and set forth their buccaneer-
ing expeditions to the uttermost ends of
the earth to pounce upon poor and de-
renceless multitudes who had never in.
jured them and scarcely knew them at
all, and whose only fault was that
for successive years they had courage
ously fought and suffered like our own
fathers. and not wholly In vain, to
throw off the yoke of oppression, and,
like them. to be free, and then baving
bought them of their tyrannous, eject.
ed enemy dixie cattle at So head, to
demand by proclamation of sovereign
ty their abject submission and loyalty
to our rule under penalty Of forcible
compulsion; asking, nor receiving, nor
caring for their consent, and then, be-
cause Of their contention for the in.
alienable right to life. liberty and the
pursuit of happiness which we had
claimed and conquered for ourselves,
to rob them of their territory, to drive
them in terror from their peaceful
homes, to burn their houses and viii
lagos, and lay waste their pleasant
places to chase them through the jun
giles and across the rivers and into the
mountains; to mangle and torture and
kill them with barbarities that rival
the horrors of the Spanish inquisition
itself; to betray them and then brand
them as rebels and traitors; strangle
their fair and rising and most promis-
| ing republic in the far-off Orient. and
hold them as our own subjects with all
the limitations and disabilities and
degradations which internal ingenuity
could devise, after having used them
as helpful and trusting allies, till we
had gained the coveted vantage ground
and needed their aid no longer and,
finally, to swarm their rich and fruitful
lands with rapacious office-bolders and
fortune-seekers and parasites who
might grab the franchises and riot in
the rule and plunder and devour the
substance and life blood of the people
anu ihoehihSiN 'hH an thiS TIE DleSS'
ings. Of good government. and of civic
and religious liberty, and of Christian
civilization, as George III called his
cruelties and deviltries toward oul
fathers?
1T is the crime of the ages. In view
of all that we We're and profess to be
you may ransack all history and you
shall find nothing so bad as this. Al
the judgment hour, then shall they
also answer him, saying, Lord. wher
saw we thee anhungered. or athirst, ol
a stranger, or naked, or sick, or II
prison, and did not minister unto thee /.
Then he shall answer them. saying
Verify, | say unto you, inasmuch aS
We did 1t not unto one OF the least OF
these, We did 1t not to me- And these
shall go away into everlasting punish
ment, but the righteous into life eter
nal. Though hand join IN hand the
wicked shall not be unpunished. Goo
Is not mocked, for whatsoever man
soweth, that shall he also reap"