Show WAR IS DEPLORABLE One of our state exchanges whose editors zeal for war is equaled only by his discretion in keeping out of it Is in the habit of denouncing Democrats Demo-crats who deprecate warfare At the same time it discourses sagely upon the desirability of everlasting and universal univer-sal peace and asserts that the sentiment ment of the American people is in favor Of such an agreement at The Hague We do deprecate war with any people with any land even with foemen worthy of our steel And partIcularly do we regret the necessity of fighting a lot of Oriental Islanders who were deceived by the vascillating policy of a characterless administration In the language of that great Republican and expansionist quoted yesterday The administration should have been candid with the Filipinos they are like children chil-dren and could easily have been governed gov-erned btf kindness But President McKinley in this matter mat-ter as he was in the heef Investigation as he was with Eagan as he has been with Embezzler Carter as lIe is in everything where Hannas schemes ot insolent rapacity and corrupt favoritism favorit-ism are potent made a miserable failure fail-ure an awful blunder Quoting from the same Republican authority Judging Judg-ing from what has happened somebody has blundered The president should state his policy if he has one There is i such a thing a1 beIng too cunniner Of course We deprecate this war fit course we want to see I ended Of course we would like to see the volun teers at home again And why shouldnt I I it be ended Six times the native chief have sued for peace Six times their overtures have been rejected I is time i for the exercise of a little commonsense common-sense on the part of this administration administra-tion These islanders are a very different dif-ferent people from our own They cannot can-not appreciate the charity that js t shot into them They are totally Incapabl of showing gratitude for benign influences influ-ences of civilization that they receive at the muzzle of a gun In their ignorance i ignor-ance and simplicity they must be born with Besides they have never yet found out why President McKinley congratulated the people of Cuba and Porto Rico upon their deliverance from oppression and said never a word in his message concerning the Filipinos who have struggled for more than a century against the tyranny and cruelty of a foreign power And what do the natives of that distant archipelago archi-pelago know about the benevolent JJ position ot this great republic Their experience has made them distrustful r of the white race and what has been done by this administration to reassure them and teach them that American government Is not a rule of tyranny Is it not a fact that ever move from the violation of the pledges made by Consuls Pratt and Wildman to the r1 fo jectlon of the recent overtures peace by Otis acting under the instructions instruc-tions of our Incomparable secretary o war Russell A Alger has had a tendency ten-dency to belie our real and avowed Intentions In-tentions Why shouldnt WP deolore the war To repel hostile invasions war is right war is necessary To preserve the Union war is justified and justifiable And even to so farther and fight the battles of the weak and ignorant for the sake of humanltv in the name of justice war is holy But we deplore th ° policy or lack of policy whichever I was that brought on this war in the Philippines and a proper sense of this responsibility would have induced the administration long ao to make some sort of concessions conces-sions to the natives to end the blood conflict Why shouldnt war be deprecated I has been defined as murder glorified It is the tribunal of might There power and destructiveness rather than right and justice win their cause Let the war be ended Strong nations can afford af-ford to make concessions to the weak I is noble it Is generous to do so All the world is hoping now for an international interna-tional agreement that will lessen the horrors of war stop the invasion of conquest end the barbarous practice of appealing to might on questions of right and bring about In its own good time that millennial day when differences differ-ences between nations and races shall be settled by arbitration and pence the whitewinged angel of eternal progress prog-ress shall encircle the world In her endless flight |