The age-herald., 1902-03-20
Washington Day bXD Day

say bully AoI
 That was the inhuman shout of little Freddie Funston when he was informed the other day that Major Waller of the United States army in the Philippines had murdered in cold blood many de- fenseless Filipinos who were his pris- oners.
 Little Freddie's triumphant shout of slang and brutal bloodthirstiness was made to a Chicago audience of four thousand enthusiastic people''-howling butchers of pigs who applauded the heroic "buly for Waller" for butchering Chris tian human beings who were just as help less as the swine in the stockyards of Chicagol
 At the very moment when this youthful "hero'' swashbuckler from bleeding Kansas, who became first of latter day American heroes by swimming a river some six feet deep and subsequently, as a professional spy, leading traitors, capt ured a patriot, at that very disgraceful moment there was being formed court martial to try bully Waller; and open to that court there seem to be open but two causes the one to sentence Waller to be shot and the other to declare him crazy.
 Aguinaldo, though a patriot, appears a rather contemptible place-seeker, and a vast majority of Am orleans are unable to entertain for him any measure of re- spect. Certainly his course after the so- called war with Spain robbed him of nearly ali American respect. But all things are not fair in war, and millions of our people resent the manner of our governments dealing with the Filipinos No even the most arrant leaders of the Republican party in Congress have dared l to suggest that we shall permanently hold the Filipinos in subjection and tax them without representation as King l George III endeavored to govern the North American colonies, an exercise of despotism that resulted in the creation of the Republic, which is Itself now pursu- ing King Georges tactics of government l in the Philippines. Upon the most trust- worthy authority it is stated in this | place that twenty Republican members 1 of Congress stood ready to join the great | body of Democrats in resisting to the end the first, or tariff, Philippines legisla- l ton in the present House; but it Is alleg- ked that the official Democratic leader on the floor faltered, failed. and agreed to two days limit to the debate on the Phil ippines tariff bill.
 Yet little Freddie Funston, who has been performing the professional hero act in the East and Is now parading in Washington as the "capturer'' of Aguin- aldo, proclaimed as traitors" all Amer jeans whose conscences and common sense of human justice have made them unable to entirely agree with the govern ment's dealings with the Filipinos.
 Every Democrat and Republican in the House who voted against that most iniquitous tariff bill of oppression and outrage and every other American in- cluding some of the most eminent men who ever adorned the public life of our country-all the multitude in opposition to the nations oppression of the Filipinos are, according to little Freddie Funston. traitors
 Lord, Lord how weary the country is of this professional, mouthing, money getting "hero' business!
 Little Freddie Funston. the son of a | swinebutcher of Kansas, and erstwhile | yellow reporter on a dIsreputable news paper, and puffed up with his "hero" self-worship, is making monkey-show of himself around the country, shrieking bully for Waller and placing his monkey y-brand of traitor" upon millions of the best men and women in all Amer | lea.
 The women traitors have by their virtues made themselves fairer targets for Funston's filth than the men; for every national organization of women in this country has petitioned Congress for mercy to the outraged women of the Phil- ippines. Some of these women's petitions as sent to every member of Congress are passionately resentful while others are pitiful in their humble and womanly pleading. One of them offers proof that in one hospital of Manila there are, or were at one time five hundred young Fil- ipino girls i'll with nameless disease, the defenseless victims of the brutality of American soldiers.
 But because good and pure American wives and mothers call attention to such monstrous wrongs they are. in the esti- nntion of little Freddie Funston, | traitors"
 Rut neither do the good women nor the worthy men of America need any defense against the "buily for Waller" courage of .heroes" of the little Freddie Funston class; and this young Kansan upstarts v,,,Ifcation of the best of our people would not in itself be worth noticing did he not be the actual hero of the Repub- lican party government, the pet of Presi- dent and Secretary of War alike, and the rising sun' upon the horizon of cer- tain foolish political element which cheer ed his vulgarity in Chicago and kissed his military boots'' in New York and the East, the yellow journals the while pie turing him In all manner of "heroic' at- titudes, from drinking beer in the Bowery to posing behind stage footlights and be- fore the ever-ready camera.
 According to this hero" Americans who were learned. eminent and proudly patriotic before he was born into the rude