Arizona republican., 1903-05-16
Herbert Welsh and His Kind.

Among the Associated Press dis
 patches printed in the Republican yes
 terday morning was one of more than
 ordinary interest describing a requisi-
 ton upon the war department by MT.
 Herbert Welsh of Philadelphia for greater publicity of the report of Gen. eral Miles upon the affairs of the Phil ippines, and especially of that part of the report descriptive of the outrages committed upon the natives by the American soldiery.
 MT. Welsh is not widely known to fame. He is said to be a gentleman of respectable antecedents and he is more over the publisher oi City and State" " a weekly paper devoted to the exploit not attempt to confne to retreats set apart for the mentally afflicted.
 MT. Welsh has been for some time en- gagged in propagating illusions concern ing the conduct of military operations in the Philippines and the administra- ton of the army by the war depart
 ment City and State" of week ago invited the passing attention of all per sons interested in noting how each sue ceeding age of human development re- duplicates the phenomena of earlier periods and gives its own demonstra- tion of the fact that there is nothing new under the sun.
 In that issue City and State reiter- ated an earlier demand for tine retire lrent of Secretary Root from the head oi the war department. This reitera- ton was based upon the assertion that MT. Root had sought to bury the Miles report" as a year ago the secretary sought to bury the report of Major Gardener on the terrible condition of the F'ilipinos of Batangas province" MT Welsh, with admirable faith in his own superior Judgment as a critic of his countrymen's motives, saw it to reprint an argument which he remind ed the world he had originally given expression to in letter to the presi- dent last December, laying before him circumstantial evidence of a strong character to show that torture had been extensively used as q policy under our flag in the Philippines to attain a mili- tary end" This letter then propounded the following entertaining syllogism: Either the charge was true or a con spiracy existed to defame the flag, into which army officers of high rank, sub alterns, soldiers. American newspaper editors in Manila and American teach CTS in the Philippines entered. As the latter suppostion was incredible there was really no explanation to give of the situation but the former. Therefore Secretary Root must resign
 This much oi the nonsense is cited merely to draw attention to the truth already hinted at, that each period of of advance in a nations progress, when it necessarily departs from the beaten track and presses forward along un- charted courses, trusting to lohg-tested principles to keep it from going astray, witnesses the protests of those men of little faith, in whose astigmatic eyes all that is bold is dangerous.
 The temptation is great to put down such captious critics as MT. Welsh and those few who agree with hinl-often men of culture and earnest men-as beings to whom every venture which is made fer the sake of having, and ev- cry victory won because men of brav- CT spirits dared to try, and thereby | shamed those who only looked on and | sneered, are Cnly things to be criticised i in terms of envy and malice. But such l d Judgment is unnecessary as well as | unfair. These strange men are not ne cessarily ashamed of their country or men lacking in patriotism as they un- derstand it. They are simply men forced by their peculiar mental con- struction to differ from those who req son normally and who have c fairly | clear conception of the great principles which govern human development.
 They think that because the world differs from them the world must be wrong. Every age has known them and the age balts for moment and listens to them. But ;n the end the listeners take Up their march again and achieve that which the doubters, the men of little faith, also profit by. And so it will be with the anti-imperi- slists of the present day, Their de- scendants will admit in the end that the demand that Secretary Root should
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