The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-06-22
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any of the literati. SO he jumped on
Funston, and he jumped good and
hard. 1t is quite safe to predict that
the next ticket viii not be Teddy and
Freddie" whatever else it may happen
to be.
Sibley Flags Smith.
When the Hon Joseph Crocker Sib-
ley left the Democrats and went over
to the Republicans, he took his human
ity with him. The truth is that while
Sibley is somewhat cratic in politics.
kinder hearted or more generous man
never lived. Hitherto he has gone the
whole hog on expansion in the orient.
but recent atrocities committed by yir-
tue of General Smiths order have dis
gusted Sibley and outraged his ideas
OF right. The other day in the house
he hoped on to General Smith in the
following vigorous fashion:
Therefore when I am compelled to read
utterances contained in military orders
that make the blood of man run cold
when l have heard the statements made
that we were cruel in the conduct of that
war, l have thought perhaps the partisan
was speaking, but when l have read. as
have withia the past forty-efght hours
that general wearing the uniform of
the army of the United States. one who
stands under the shadow of our flag, is
sues orders. not to conciliate a province.
but to leave 1t bowling Wilderness and
to Kill all above ten years of age then it
seems to me that humanity must have
marched backward for eighteen centuries
and that Herod again appears
| have read of Timour the Tartar; ]
have read of Attila, l have read of the
Saracen scourge, but l thank God that
since the tragic scene on Calvary 1t has
taken eighteen centuries to produce a
Smith have read Of the water cure" l
believe that was exaggerated. Can any
man whose blood bounds in his pulses,
any man who has read his Bible or who
has been reared at the knee of a Chris
tan woman. justify the preparation of
such cruelties upon another man WHO
wears the guise and the image of his
Creator? And yet We hear this man at
tempting to justify acts by which men are
pumped SO fun of water ae nearly to
drown them and then brought back TO life
by humping thern over the stomach with
the butts of musl1ets That is not civ
ilization; that is not Chrisrianizing the
world. 1 am thankful that these are
sporadic eases.
All Should Join In Protest.
They VIII never pacify any race Of hu
man beings on this earth by first drown
ing them and then bringing them to life
with the butt of a musket and against
that, as member upon this side of the
chamber. against that as man who be-
longs, l hope, not alone to the Republican
ranks but to the whole brotherhood of
man the wide world round | want the
members of this house on this side of the
chamber and that to voice their protest
A friend OF mine said few minutes
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his defenseP I hope the president Of the
United States will have the courage upon
what the man admits, to discharge him
dishonorably from the service that he has
dlsgraced. He admits that he issued the
order to leave the province a bowling
waste and a wilderness and to kill all
above ten years of age the innocent with
the guilty.
That man never ought to be permitted
to stay in the service Of the United States
until the sun goes down. He is a disgrace
not alone to the party. but to every man
who ever wore the uniform of the United
states. and he is blot and disgrace to
our present civilization. Wait and hear
what his justification may bel That man
does not five who can justify such orders
There is no justification. l care not how
adroitly his lawyers may frame their plea
or how subtle be their reasoning. The
fact admitted by his own mouth that he
Issued such orders is sufficient for the
hope that there are the courage and the
patriotism and the humanity and the
at the other end of the ave
nue. that will not let him wear the fed
eral uniform twenty-four hours hence.
Certainly that was straight from the
shoulder and does great credit to both
The head and the heart of Joseph G.
Sibley. No doubt there are thousands
If other decent Republicans who are
thinking what Sibley had the courage
md manliness to say. OF course the
'rgan grinders will jump him, but he
'an stand it. He voiced the idea of all
iecent people of all parties. Since the
delivery of his speech he has been
iooded with c0mmendatory letters
rom all parts of the country. Right
thinking Americans do not propose that
we shall be known thropg hout the
world as bloody butchers, to which low
md unenviable position sucn soldiers"
God save the mark!-as General
smith would reduce us. What a pity,
what calamity, what burning
shame that we ever undertook to con
luer and hold the Philippines! They
will be Il milestone about our necks I'M
il we get rid Of them. If we keep on
n the insane course upon which we
nave entered, this Philippine business
will bankrupt us financially and, what
s worse, ruin our good name, which
King Solomon declared is more to he
desired thaS great riches.
That Mr.. Sibley does not stand alone
among Republicans in his present atti-
ude Of antagonism to this Herodlike
business in the Philippines is demon
itrated by the fact that the Philadel-
)hia North American, a stanch Repub-
lean paper, owned and conducted by
John Wanamaker's son, denounces and
cartoons General Wilson as another
General Weyler, which is perhaps the
'eyerest denunciation that could be APP.
)lied to any soldier. Weyler has been
/ name at which the world held its
nose, even If it did not grow pale, ever
since his brutalities in Cuba.
Champ Clark.