The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-10-27

Slanders Americans Aboard, with
Statements contradicted by the o.
fetal Records, and Personal Wit
nesses Of the Highest Character.
n he keeps up his public utter
ances, Alton B. Parker will prove to
the people that he is David B. Hilrs
most apt pupil. Take this quotation
from Parker's first regular campaign
talk:
after our utter defeat Of the Span.
iards. the Republican administration
paid to the vain oppr-ssor of the un-
conquered Filipino $40, 100000 for this
uncertain option on this victims
lands, tenements and hereditaments."
Mr. Parker knows that the treaty
providing for the payment of $20,OOO,-
000 not for the islands. but for the
Spanish public property In the Is
lands, was the work of special CON-
mission, in which the Democratic par
ty was represented by Judge George
Gray, then United States senator from
Delaware, and man who might now
be the Democratic nominee for presi.
dent, but for the Belmont and Hill
plotting in Parker's behalf. In at.
tacking that arrangement, Parker at.
tacks Judge Gray. who was party to
1t and approved of 1t. He also
attacks William J. Bryan. by whose
personal advice the Democratic sen.
ators Joined in its ratification, he hav.
| ing taken a special trip to Washing
| ton for that particular purpose. "The
Republican administration" never de-
MED its part in the matter, but 1t Is
| pretty late in the day for Alton B.
Parker to attempt to make this
treaty partisan matter, when 1t was
ratified Feb. 6, 1899. yith the consent
ing votes of 20 opponents Of 'the
| Republican administration"
Mr.. Parker's next sentence in his
Esopus speech of Oct. Is was this:
In the attempt to bolster the option
We have wasted over S650,000,O00
more of the peoples money and sac.
rifced over 100000 lives"
Judge Parker knew better than this
when he made this statement. 1t is
an old story retailed by himself, by
Bryan and Hill and other Democratic
speakers, and fully answered by Taft
and Fairbanks and other Republican
speakers upon the authority OF the
official reports of the government. No
Democratic member of either house
of congress has dared to dispute in
| open debate Secretary Roots official
report that the cost of the Philip
pines, including the $20000,000 paid
to Spain, amounted up to May /, 1902,
to $ls9,0O0,oO0 in all From that time
to the close of the fiscal year just
ended enough more has been added
to bring the total expenditure by the
United States fer the Philippines up
to $l94 100000, '1cluding vast outlays
for permanent in. m.lrovements made by
the general government. Our expense
account in this matter is growing less
because the military force on duty in
the islands is being decreased, and in
respect to all civil expenses the is
land government Is paying its own
way and has been for two years.
For the presidential candidate of
"constitutionalism" to tell an untruth
about his country to the amount of
hundreds of millions of dollars in a
! single breath Is bad enough, but 1t is
| utterly atrocious when he says I'VE
have sacrificed over 100000 lives"
Where has he single fact specific
and authentic to sustain one-tenth OF
this statement? Only 10000 Amer.
lean soldiers in all have ever served
in the Philippines. Their total num-
Der of deaths, and of Filipinos in our
service, from every possible cause,
has been 4,222 men. What makes hp
the rest of the "200.0O0?" Mean
while, the American medical men
have stamped out the plague, reduced
small pox and other contagious al.
seases among the natives to a mini
num- and rendered the Philippines as
healthful as American skill has made
Cuba.
Worse still than even these mis-
statements Is Parker's declaration
about the existing conditions. This
candidate for president of the United
States maligns his own country and
! his countrymen who are in it's service
across the sea, upon the sole author
ity of some anonymous author, whose
: name he dare not give. or at least
has not the manhood to present
Against this unknown could be citet
abundant testimony Of personal OBJ
servation by visitors from other coun
tries, men of worldwide experience
Against 1t, too. could be cited declar
l. ations of distinguished divines OF dit
e ferent denominations with no possible
!. motive except to benefit the native
O and tell the exact truth. The lates
l. such witnesses are DR.. Brent. Pre-
testant Episcopal bishop OF Manila
and the Most Reverend ]. j. Harty
the Roman Catholic archbishop o
Manila. If these men tell the truth
:, What Parker saws Ia as false as IL