Show i THE CASE OF THE FILIPINOS I A contemporary quotes the Helena llorald as saying I is 1 worth while for the American people lo remember that 50000 Filipinos gave up their lives lighting Spain for their Independence I Il is worth while for Americans lo remember re-member that not one Filipino ever gave up his life lighting Spain for his Indc pcndpncc The utmost that any of them Including Aguinaldo ever asked was that Spain would grant some reforms re-forms against the intolerable oppressions oppres-sions which sho had practiced In time islands She taxed the people to death A man could not pick his own cocoanuts cocoa-nuts without n license which he had to pay for The people were Imprisoned Impris-oned mutilated robbed at every turn Education was practically denied them I and they were for debt sold Into slavery i slav-ery by thousands That was the condition con-dition when the United States went there drove out Spain and guaranteed guaran-teed to every Filipino absolute personal I and religious liberty t the absolute protection I pro-tection of every property right t every I liberty which could under the laws be I extended and the laws were so mild that they produced no more friction I there than they do In the United States A renegade sold his country I out for money got up a rebellion planned the massacre of all the whites In Manila Including our own Utah battery boys for no other purpose except ex-cept a chance to loot the city and to declare himself dictator The Democratic Demo-cratic part in the Unlled Stales has espoused his cause Its organ in this city treats him as a martyr and t hero und the efforts of the United States to establish order and peace there to open the schools to start tho I machinery of government to make I those people fit for selfgovernment as unmitigated tyranny nnd wrong and a crime so great that It is only preliminary I prelimi-nary to stealing from the people of the I United States their liberties I is In I ilnc with tho Now York Herald When tho news came that probably our Minister I Min-ister our missionaries with their families fami-lies their wives and little children were In Imminent danger of massacre In China and the President ordered soldiers there instantly the namesake of Agulnaldos organ In Salt Lake in New York cried out In indignation I asklugwhat business our soldiers had In China The craze of the Domoc racy for the ofhlccs and spoils of the I United States is 59 great that It slOPs rat nothing neither Its own dishonor nor the dishonoring the flag of the country Tho Democracy were in power pow-er most of the time for seventy years They were finally beaten fairly in an I election and they then sprung the Civil war The samo spirit seems to animate the same old crowd now They I would rather plunge this country In war they would rather dishonor tho flag than to be donled the chances for anolher four years in which to swamp the country as they always have when they have been in power |