The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-17
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M. M. MURDOCH, EDITOR.
-HowLlNe ovER a HowLINe WILDERNESS.


HowLlNe OVER A ROWLING WILDERNESS.
In harmony with the great body of patriotic Demo
Gratis and Of levelhead Republicans Of the country
had been hoping that the Democrats Of the lower house
of Congress would refuse much less reecho the
refractory howl SCI up the by the Timan
tingent But alas we have been doomed disappont-
ment As the sopover had to come, we are not dsap-
pointed however, in its source Missouri Kentucky
are the states whose representatives did the kicking
against the pricks two states neither OF which know
which side to take in the preservation Of the
Union on the one side and for the making chaes Of bet
ter men than the Fpnos On the other We often wonder
what these obstinate survvas of notification think the
soldiers were sent over to the Philippines do anyway?
Is it their idea that the boys blue to be Sunday
school workers and missionaries to heal the wounds
which Dewey the Democratic admiral had inflicted? Or
Dewey having sank the Spanish feet were fifty thousand
men sent over there TO make Aguinaldo emperor Of the
archipelago? Could it have been that these Missouri
Kentucky and South Carolina statesmen estimated the
Christian thing was the officers get firtatons
with the native women the interest Of the moderation
and elevation OF degenerate race while the native Bcos,
Solos Negroes Tagaos and ether Ffpnos engaged
in sabbing our soldiers in the and cutting every
native who refused to play the assassin?
Speaking Of General Smiths supposed order to make
samar hovling wilderness" has Yandiver forgotten
the attempts Of his state to make bowling viii
detness Has he forgotten thai there war in the
land within the memory Of living men, when General
Sherman former teacher southern military school,
left howing wilderness" behind him from Atlanta to
Columbia emphasizing his experience with the declara-
ton that War is heI; that Grant and Lee
made 'howling wilderness" of all that region lying
between the Potomac and rivers? Has Mr..
vandlver forgotten one General Thomas Ewing,
man who wanted to for president on the
Democratic ticket? Does he remember William
Ewing's order No. II, and that in pursuance Of
that order he proceeded to turn southwest Missouri which
held the homes of Quantre"s hordes, into bowling
Wilderness Of chimneys alone left monumental
memories OF dead bodies blocked the streets
Of the incineraed city Lawrence? May not be
sibe that if these two from Missouri Kentucky, who
raised that howl "howng wilderness" in the house
yesterday stand themselves need of the water cure
OF more water and less whiskey?
Seriously gentlemen what did. we send fifty thousand
soldiers the Philippines to do? If it wasn't to
whip them why so many soldiers at such expense?
If it was peaceful commission why not commission
up Of evangests, phanhropsts and the like, in
stead transports warshps and deadly bullets?
If Tlman vandiver Wheeler ct al are not bowling
to hear themselves then majority Of the people Of the
United States fools and the balance brutes the
tlemen named and their followers excepted If the army
IS complete the victory Of Dewey by bringing all
OF the natives all the islands Of the Philippine archi
pelago ander the American flag peaceful citizens then
in the name of common sense and ordinary decency
let bring army. repudate obligations
Spain and to the world abandon the islands and all
their peoples the cuhoat sayages and isurrectonary
aordes which infest them.