The Irish standard., 1902-05-24
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! Communication Rejected by the
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Judge Lewis r. Larson was refused
insertion by the Minneapolis Times
Inasmuch as the views expressed are
i in accord with those held by the Irish
Standard we gladly publish the re-
d jected communication in it's entirety
In your terse and forceful editorial.
'"The Century's Horror" in yester-
d days Times, you give graceful express
b ton to the feeling of awe and help
lessness of man in THE presence of the
tremendous forces that in the past
u week have caused such less of life
I and destruction of property in the
Lesser Antilles. And although of real
n help in this awful calamity we can
do nothing except to contribute. as the
Times this morning asks it's readers to
contribute, to the Times .Or some SINH
4 lar fund for the alfeyiatiOn of the suf-
), fering Of the surviving inhabitants of
!. those desolated islands. to stop a mo-
ment in the mad race for wealth ana
dominion might have it's Uses And
now that we are a "world power" we
should not limit our gaze to this hemi-
sphere. While matters near by and
of to-day naturally affect us more
4 strongly than those that are far off
and Of yesterday, we ought to try to
maintain our sense of proportion.
Having this in mind, l cannot agree
that the Times is quite accurate in
characterzing the awful catastrophe,
Eat which the world today stands an
( palled as "The Ccntury's Horror"
The Times within the month has
4 published from report of our COVER
Il nor Of a province of L,lzon, which re-
port for months before had been on
n file in the secretary of wars office. a
statement that that province, having
i a year before 100000 inhabitants, had
Eat the time Of the report only 100000
Il people, 100000 having died in the year
from famine and disease following in
the wake of the American armies. 10
me, that loss of life, accompanied, as
was, by the loss of many other lives
8 In the Philippines. both Filipino and
\ American, comes much more nearly
\ to being "rhe Centurys Horror"
OF course, the two calamities have
this in common. They were equally
inevitable. We could not have pre-
4 vented either. And both "having be-
gun must now go on to the bitter end"
We cannot stay their progress. We
EScan aid somewhat to palliate the suf-
\ fering of the survivors in the stricken
B parts of the Antilles, but rs to the
stricken parts of the Philippines, so
u long as the people continue ''rebels"
ssoftening their sufferings is not to be
Il thought Of This. too, the hGrrors have
I'm common. Very few of the lives lost
in either. are those of Anglo-Saxon
English-speaking people. However, l
for one, think the lives Of Filipinos or
French mulattoes should be held as
sacred as those of white Americans.
do not care ut this time to COM
Il ment on the common character of nom
preventability of the two calamities. 1
wish simply to take exception to the
Times implied characterization of
Il their relative magnitude.
LEWIS II. LARSON.
Minneapolis, May -, 1902.
In an interview with reporter of
II the Irish Standard, Judge Larson fur
! ther said:
wished, too, to ridicule the implied
n likening by the Times and other i'm.
perialist Journals of the Philippine
horror to the Antillean horror in their
sgstanding inquiry to TRAITORS" and
saunties," "What can we do about
AS, if in one, us in the other, we
tswere facing San irresistible force of
MATURE"
wished, too, to ridicule that other
Enquiry of the Times and other i'm
perialist Journals, so frequently adj
tls4Fessed to TRAITORS" and "aunties,"
What would you do about it?" by
(which they imply "aunties" never
llaye said what they would do about