The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-02-07
The Voice of
The People

GENTLEMEN. HAVE YOU ALL DONE?
EDITOR Providence News:
Notwithstanding my knowledge that
free traders base their arguments on the
ory and eschew facts, / did not look for
so easy a victory over many oppon-
ents: for thought few would keep up
the fight for the Moloch OF free trade.
in blank despair However, though on
the run. they will be pursued 10 their last
covert Their assaults upon wage work
ers shall not pass unchallanged.
In compliance with certain requests, let
us look at the scandalous course of free
traders regarding the war with Spain.
Don't you recollect how free trade poll
tcians and free trade newspapers blazed.
and howled and yelled, and screeched for
war with Spain; aye and with such fne
frenzy they demanded that war should
commence at once? Why at once? Simply
because free traders knew that Uncle
Sam was unprepared having very little
powder. shells or cartridges for cannon
and rife, and knowing this they hoped
for several severe defeats of our forces
10 aid their d.abolical partisan politics.
Saloons. restaurants and other resorts,
daily and nightly. rang with free trades
charges against our army. that IL was COM
posed OF towards who dared not face the
Spanish soldiers. that Mckinley was a
blank coward, etc. ad nausium. For.
don't you see, reader, that IL our army
and navy were even temporarily forced
to retreat few would be killed and wound
ed except wage earners, and what, pray.
is the value OF a mere bread winner in the
sight OF the average free trader?
But just at the right time the war
opened. and we heard from Dewey; well.
you bet we heard from the hero OF Manila
bay,and there wasn't any uncertain sound
about the news either, aye, one OF the
grandest and most glorious naval VIC
tories since the world began. Then free
traders changed their howl They said
that Dewey had been ordered TO Manila
bay before he was half prepared, and
he had deliberately put his clumsy foot
into trap. and the foolish commander
must leave for San Francisco for sup
plies or tarry and be gobbled up by that
awful. dreadful, terrible and overwhelm-
Ing Spanish fleet, which would soon ap-
pear and play Hail Columby," with the
foolhardy Dewey.
Fooled, however. I'm their attempts to
scare Dewey or move Mckinley. they be-
gan an assault upon General Miles for
not leading his army against Havana I'm
the malarial marshes of Cuba and be-
siegirg the city Then how they rallied
Knocked and slandered General Miles and
the war department for failing TO move
on Havana. Why this Internal free trade
onslaught? The answer is plain. Out of
10000 men encamped against Havana,
5o,0O0 would have died OF yellow and ma
larial fevers, 5000 TO 5000 OF whom
would have been wage workers. If history
records more diabolical plot than this
free trade attempt to kill of the splendid
men In our army I have failed TO read or
hear OF the satanic conspiracy.
But, fortunately. every free trade STRAIT
egem utterly failed. the war was brought
to glorious conclusion with the loss OF
so few lives that Ii has become the mar
vel OF the nineteenth century Neyerthe-
less, the free trade leopards never
changed a spot nor varied the hue OF their
hides They were defeated, but not de-
stroyed and still inwardly breathing out
threatenings and slaughter they began a
new phase OF their hatred OF wage earn
ers. During the war with Spain many OF
the wealthy and aristocratic families con-
tributed thousands OF volunteers for the
army and navy, and the free traders
dared not openly attack the soldierly.
But In the PHILIPPINE guerilla contest our
soldiers were mostly bread winners and
seeing their opportunity, the free trad
ers including so-called anti-imperialists.
began one OF the most shameful assaults
upon our splendid soldiers that ever dis
graced copperheads or tories; aye and
these free trade slanderers and backbiters
have not yet retracted their Internal
charges against our splendid army. Why?
Well. nobody slandered but mere wage
workers, don't cher know? And don't i'm
agine that the old copperhead-tory spirit
Is dead by long shot.
But time and space are limited and
close by asking my half-dozen to a dozen
opponents IL their pond OF theories has
run dry? or course their little mug OF
facts was emptied long ago. but haven't
they q few pet theories, however thin TO
offer including an assortment OF warm
eulogiums on the sanity character OF the
Malay Filipinos? Or have my free trade
opposers seen their errors, especially how
unreliable and devilish the Fetish OF free
trade and the fraud and deceit OF free
trade politicians? Gentlemen. have you
all dones
LIFE LONG WAGE FARMERS ADvo-
CATE.
woonsocket r. L. Feb g. 1903