Show T IMPERIAL THIEVERY Intermountain Catholic Previous to the war wa statesmen statesmen and otherwise de delighted delighted lighted in firing fring American audiences with Stories of Spanish cruelty and rapacity with wih tales of plundering and extortionate taxation in which the te Spanish indulged himself to the everlasting ruin rui of the I Cuban Corruption of Spanish officials I was wa a favorite theme in the halls hals of con congress congre gross gress gre as well wel as outside Now It i Is IsI I scarce two years since these the Spanish col colonies onies came under the dominion of the te I United States State and what do we e behold te We have have 70 troops trop In the Philippines I shooting down do men who are ae fighting under tinder the shibboleth of liberty who are looting I ae churches chuche and carrying bloodshed and ad de dc destruction among a a people whose only con contention I is that tat they believe beleve In the Declara Declaration Delara Declaration I tion ton of Independence that all al men are ar created crete equal eual and ad have a a right to life liberty and ad the pursuit of happiness their homes home have haye been boen razed to the ground rae gound the land has become barren for the tillers of or the soil soi have beer been ber driven to the moun tins at the tho point of the American bayo bayonet byo bayonet net Under the guie gif of beneficent as assimilation 3 assimilation I the Philippines are being pre pro prepared prepare pared pare for the exploits exploit of the carpetbag I thief from front the United States Recent history shows that tat neither Spain J nor England nor any other nation naton pos possesses possesses I see thieves and plunderers who can equal the average avera American carpet carpetbagger cret carpetbagger bagger bager We Ve sent them down dow south sout in the reconstruction days they the plundered the southern people they desolated the south southern souther ern em er land and ad not until they had h been re removed removed removed moved and fled fed to the north did the south southern souther era ern er states state show any sign sig of prosperity The southern states were legitimate letmate prey of the carpetbagger from the north whose only idea ide of ot assimilation tion was to steal stel the taxes t which were levied levie in the name nae of civilization a fc Arid And history Is repeating itself Al Already A Already ready rey the stories that tt come from Cuba of the scandalous actions of American citizens are matters maters of deep dep moment and 1 Washington dispatches affirm that the I president and members of oC his cabinet are deeply concerned lest the untimely dis disclosures disclosures disclosures closures of rottenness and corruption in inthe inthe inthe the Cuban postoffice department will wi i work to Mr Ir undoing i Thievery and plunder called cled by the more polite DoUte name 01 ot shortage shortage are rampant in the Cuban postoffice department department The Thereal Therel Thereal real rel amount of money stolen has ha not been I made public and will wf not be Reports Report say sy syI I the amount runs from 0 to 0 I Ithe the latter later sum being more likely to be the th I correct corret one one Thus the te beginning of Amer American Amerlean mer merlean lean ican rule In Cuba Is marked marke by acts at of i plunder by the side of which Spanish thievery pales pale into Insignificance The same thing will wi happen In Hawaii Hawai in Porto Rico in all aU of our new possessions where the political carpetbagger goes i because it is in his very yer blood and nature We Ve suggest two wo l words to the Uie e Demo Democrats Democrats crts at Kansas City as a an addenda to toI I their platform viz vz A Stop thief |