Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-03-07
WHAT THEY SAY
Extracts From Various Sources, lndi-
eating Democratic Opinion Regard
inn Questions of the Dav

eating Democratic Opinion Regard
ing Questions of the Day.
We pay at the rate of about $40 0,000,-
900 a year for the little more than s5,-
100000 year of Philippine trade We
get, while European nations pay moth
ing for the more than 4S,000,000 a
year they get. These figures do their
own talking-English Qnd) Demo-
crat.
Even Republicans who opposed the
free coinage of silver on the grounds
that it would give us too much money
are now willing to concede that by in
creasing the volume of money in the
past five years nearly six hundred
millions dollars, the country is expert
encing much better times. And strange
to say the ffty-cent dollar does not
scare the people.-Boulder (Col.) Rep
resentative.
Colonel James M. Guffey, member of
the national Democratic committee for
Pennsylvania, has no choice among
the several fit and available gentle
men who are recognized as party
leaders, for the nomination of his
party for governor, according to an
esteemed Philadelphia contemporary.
To borrow the exact and appropriate
language of our esteemed contem-
porary, "all Democrats look alike, -
to Colonel Guffey. The meaning OF
that is that Colonel Guffey believes in
the intelligence and integrity of the
people, and that a free people is an
Embossed people.
There are less influential people in
the Democratic party of Pennsylvania
who take a different view of the ques-
ton, however. Every now and then
we hear of a proposed conference in
Washington, or Philadelphia, or this
town, or somewhere else, of alleged
Democratic leaders, for the purpose
of selecting candidate for governor
They feel that the wisdom of the party
is all centered in them and they cast
aside this man and put that one for
ward with as much freedom as if they
owned the party and the voters were
their vassals. 1t would be amusing if
it wasn't serious.
Colonel Guffey's attitude is infinitely
the better and filter. The Democrats
of Pennsylvania will not endure boss
ism. They believe in the liberty of
speech, conscience and action. They
are well informed, both with respect
to measures and men and will select
bnip lot
Colonel Guffey has a right to his pref
erence among the available gentlemen
as every other man has. But the rep
resentatives OF the party of all sec
tions of the state in convention as
sembled will make the nomination.
Colonel Guffey is setting a good ex-
ample.-Harrisbur Star-lndependent.
General Wheaton, an American Off.
Ger who is trying to subjugate people
who ask that we simply attend to our
own business and let them alone says
that men have been imprisoned for
such speeches as the one recently de-
livered by Professor Schurman in
Boston. The professor in this address
took exception to the rigid military
rule that is prevailing in the Philip
pines. This serves Schurman about
right, for no intelligent, high minded
man as he is popularly supposed to be,
should not be guilty of mixing up in
this internal business of trying to fin
ish the dirty job begun by Spain of
butchering the Filipinos in order to
IatYr N,l, ilyN
any other man possessing the in
stncts of true civilization, was at first
opposed to the whole business and did
not hesitate to say so but the big
dose of pap in the shape of a good
job on the Filipino commission was
too great a temptation and he became
a mild apologist for our conduct in
trying to crush out a liberty loving
people. His apologies, however, do not
suit General Wheaton and he tells
what has been done with men for say
ing a word in favor of liberty and in
criticism of wholesale murder. 1t
must be rather humiliating to Schur-
man to have a two-for-fiye military
satrap insinuating that he should be
arrested for disloyal utterances. If he
will now rise to the occasion and wash
his stained hands of the whole mur-
dering business he would sleep more
soundly and earn the heartfelt thanks
of every right-minded American as
well as of the Filipinos who are strug-
Cling for freedom as earnestly AMI de-
servedly as cid our forefathers in l776.
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