New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-31
BAKER ON WAR. EFT CETRA.
The "Anti-Pass" Congressman Talks
on Mann Themes.

snurred on by the fact that it was Memorial
Dav CONGRESSMAN "Anti-Pass'' Baker last night
executed an unexpected and sanguinary attack
upon war at d meeting in honor of the mem
ory Of the Rev. Edward McGlynn. The ag-
grandjsement of empire" the "maladjustment
OF society,"" and finally the unhappy captains
Of industry" were fayed by the Brooklyn states
man. whose descriptions of carnage We're thrill
ing Greeted with the familiar welcome. He
amt got no pass" Congressman Baker began
his frontal attack upon war in this fashion:
To-day all over the Union gatherings are
being held to celebrate the memory OF the dead
who served in the great war contend that
that war. like all others, was unjuf Unable that
the moral act of the greatest of these killers OF
their felIovmen was not equal to the act of
the woman IN East Side tenement WORKING
her hands off 10 educate her children 1hese
acts of herois.n are easy to do with the sun
light of publicity playing on you the man On
the charger wells Now. boys. to h with
them and this one little act gets him bronze
statuette and his widow a 5000 pension
With this summary disposal of past wars
CONGRESSMAN Baker proceeded TO a massacre Oh
the conbatants in the present Eastern war.
I'VE always glorify," he said those who are
conspicuous in war; who are trained not 10 10
their fellowman good. but 10 see how many hu-
man lives they can take. and we have columns
IF rriuted exaltation for the conspicuous kIIleAs
NJ their fellow beings the greatest glory be-
longing 10 the man who kills the most why d
rananese fellow is skillful enough TO hItch
diaholicaI little machine under S1oOo"uo tuS-
sian battleship representing five nlllloh Gays
Of Ia Dor. the dabolical machine gives niue Up
M, and 500 souls go 70 their last reward anu
We eycIairn: BY Jove. nothing is too good TOT
,bA fellow that did that act that destroyed
those reople; 1 wonder if the japanese VIII
make him a quarternlaster general OF an au-
1uiral OF something else big
l,af1iT
CONGRESSMAN Baker next passed to Hoboken,
and described the courage OF the engineer VINO
pulled the car of dynamite from the burning
pier during the recent fire. With tears in his
voice ne lamented;
viii ne get a bronze statuette or will they
make him n vice president of the company!
on no all he'll get is $50 check, perhaps. for
this act which dins the exploits of the men
who go up Santiago Hill Caney Hfu. or
some other place. after fleeing Spaniards. and
their action results in such reward as comes 10
not more than a dozen men in a century
From Hohoken, Congressman Baker digreSsed
10 the Philippines, and described the situation
there killing 10000 Filipinos TO find out
II they are ready for self government
After an extended address in which he Incl
dentally attacked corporations for running cars
with wet seats after a thundershower. Congress-
man Baker closed his address in honor of the
memory Of Father McGlynn by describing the
carnage he was to carry into the midst of the
Peace Conference at Lake MOhOnk to-day.
whittier, he confessed he going in fear and
trepdation lest he should find there apOlogists
for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of hempire."