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Especial Washington letter.
HE way that President Roose-
a velt sat down on the wrangling,
81 jangling, corrupt factions of the
x southern Republicans is decid-
edly refreshing to honest men
of every political persuasion every
where. The Republican party in the
south is maintained solely for the pur-
| pose of gobbling the federal offices,
and the factions are merely organized
gangs in search of pie. If the presi-
dent doesn't look out, however, he will
not have single southern delegate in
the next national Republican conven-
tion. They want pap, Mr.. President,
land not lectures. No set of wolves
were ever hungrier than they are. and
they would pull down and trample on
all the presidents that ever lived if
they stood betwixt them and the swill
trough. So you had better go little
slow in tongue lashing these famish-
| ing southern patriots or your name
will be Denis SO far as the presidency
is concerned.
| A Fine Delegation.
Alabama will enjoy the distinction
of having in the Fifty-eighth congress
a delegation every man of which has
seen congressional service, some of
them many years of service. They are
all able men, some very able-all Dem
ocrats who stand up to the rack, fod-
der or no fodder, men who are honest,
Industrious. capable and incorruptible
| If all the rest of the Democrats in the
house We're such men as the Alabama
delegation, the Democratic minority
would be on top half the time and
make the Republican majority uncom-
| Portable the other half. From Colonel
John III. Bankhead. dean of the delega-
| ton, to the newest member they are
| clean men, sober men, courageous
men, men who honor their state and
the country. They have old fashioned
ideas about avoiding even the appear
ance of evil. They love truth. and
they stand unwaveringly by the peo-
pie who send them to Washington.
They all ought to be elected by over
whelming majorities.
Queer Pacification.
How long, O Lord, how long? How
often have we been told that 'the
Philippines are pacifed?" General
Otis announced several times two or
three years ago that the war was over.
His successors in office have an
nounced it many, many times. On the
Fourth of July, 1901, civil govern
ments were established in the archi-
pelago, but they were barely estab-
lished before they fell about the ears
of the establishers with a crash that
resounded throughout the world. Then
military rule-government by satraps-
was re-established, and it will have to
be maintained so long as we hold on to
those accursed islands. Governor Taft
was received with hosannas. was he?
Every hosanna was bought in some way
at some price. 1t is absolutely safe to
say that Governor Taft most capable
and excellent man, could not stay in
Manila twenty-four hours were it not
for our soldiers. The war is over is it?
Even the Globe-Democrat. the most in
veterate organ grinder in tine land, is
forced to say, 1.-THE reports of recent
fighting in the Philippines will show
that pacification has not yet been
reached" What. in view of that dec
laration, does the CD. say as to the
rosy reports of General Otis and others
that ''the war is over and peace reigns
in the Philippines" Would to heaven
it were over and that the lives of thou
sands of our brave boys over there
could be saved! The plain, bold, un-
vanished, unpalatable truth is that
when we were idiots enough to pay
$20,000000 for the Philippines we
bought war which will most likely
last us till the judgment day. More's
the pity!
The Washington Post, independent,
which is a good deal Of jingo itself,
in this connection says editorially:
If anything in the way of news from
the Philippines could be expected to Gre
ate great excitement in this country. that
result seems likely to be produced in the
very near future War on the Moros is
sure to be a bloody war. They fight to
the death. believing that heavens door is
wide open for all of the faithful who are
slain in battle and that peculiar favors
and special honors are reserved for such
in the abode of the blessed. Situated as
this republic is, and it is a situation the
responsibility for which is on both par
ties, we are bound to fight the Moros
Here is the way in which the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat puts the case
'sThe latest killing of American sentries
by the Moros was delibera tely intended
to provoke a war General Chaffee will
see that the hostilties rendered necessary
are of the kind that hurts the savages."
The Springfield Republican. looking at
the case from the anti-imperial stand
point puts it thus:
sThe expected campaign against the
Moros which General Chaffee foreshad-
ows will certainly be in line with our
history in the archipelago. No single foot
of it has come under the actual sway of
the United States except by military
force. The subjugation of the Moros is
simply the last stage in war of con-
quest
We sincerely hope this will prove to be
1.-The last stage" and we have no doubt
1t will be the hardest-the most costly in
life and in cash.
AS to Secretary Shaw.
For some reason to this writer un-
known the administration appears to
have put Mr.. Secretary of the Treasury
Leslie NJ. Shaw forward as it's mouth
piece. The governor is Grating general
~ around over the country. The Wash
ington Post. which is q high tariff
shouter, but which knows enough to
go in out of the rain. takes fall out
of the secretary as follows:
Secretary Shaw admits that the tariff
is the parent of undesirable conditions.
Then why not arrange to have the parent
apply the rod occasionally to the incor-
rigible child?
Now. if the gifted and ubiquitous
secretary will answer that query and
the Post will comment honestly and
freely on the answer we will have
what DR.. Horace Greeley, another
great apostle of protection, would call
mighty rich reading" Let the secre-
tary answer and let the Post comment.
On with the dance! The more the mer-
rierI
Hope Deferred.
Surely the isthmian canal building is
another illustration of s.hope deferred I
maketh the heart sick" Those simple |
Simons who are expecting to sail |
through the canal-or, rather, canal |
across the isthmus in year or two |
might as well be disillusionizeG of that |
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