Show THE IMPERIALISM FRAUD Mr Edward Lennan Johnson an cx Phlllpplne soldier of Soulh Carolina writes an interesting letter to the New York Sun A few of his sentences will bear quoting lie speaks for tho Democratic Demo-cratic party In the Soulh and speaky for time rank and file of the party He refers to them ug that class which suffers most from defeat whether In battle or in polItics und he says I wish to enter 51 protest against this nntllmpeilal i Issue as plain as i can imilio it alter nearly two yeirfl hard study In the Philippines of time conditions and problems of ihlllppinc retention I do It I In time firm conviction that If I and our Democratic loaders persist In currying the next politic1 cnmpnlsn this on Issue wo are doomed to surivr not an ordinary Oo eat but one which may prove to be i the Waterloo of our pirty Further on he says If the Democratic party wants to be treatot1 Io a gonulne South African aur unto let It Insist In Its platform on time Hcceuslon or recession ns you will of j I tho Philippine Islands 1 to thu Tnjralos I I or to any other or to all tho forty Phlllppino tribes and It will get It nt the polls next November > Then as a Democrat he continues to give the highest reasons why he Is opposed to that policy and says 1L Is ono thingto have advocated amid I rnalmalniil the t rights u of Siuto whu I fought for and helped to win our original Independcncp to withdraw from the Union of States and to form It new Ko publlc It I I la quit another thins I to ud vocnlo iho giving of tho very fume rights which were denied our Southern Stale to forty tribes of Malay IndIans ing forty and more dlMConnccted occupy pieces of territory who have done nothing to de Servo those rights who never hud a nep nralu pollllenl exlslenco of their own and whose 2A per cent of trained I Intelligent Is not HiilUcloiu to control tim 07 per cent of Ignorance and hupcnulllon And his letter closes with these I words If hiBlead of having been In my black i I nurses arms during tho war between tho I Slates i had been capable of bearing arms I would have unhesitatingly bomb them In dcfenso of tho principle of se cession Hut iho principle of secession haa been for onco and for all limo settled I I J It If the Civil war taught anything at nil t I inoMt emphatically taught I The Nations new Indisputable I I right Won In Ihe Court Supreme of awful War I I ro koop Intact nnd spread her Sovereignty For thc people of the South to advocate Iho piirrendor of our Philippine territory means om or tho other of two LliliiK chimer lhat We nil not acccpllnpIn pood nth time result of the Civil wat or lhat wo havo learned l nothing from so bitter IL JoifHon It muat Veiloct either upon our 1 patrlollfm or our Intulllponru L41 our childrens children say with prIJo that tholr forefathers did nice balk Iho OHM dlegnt0d aovcrelKtny of their I Slates and cronle a Mncond npubllc tho ionforedau I States of Amrleu whoKO short and RlorlouR hlnlory ouRlu lo milk I very AinorlcnnH heirt bent finUr and I with nor patriotic pulsation no muller npn which Hide his grim mmd mm timer fought Let him feel no HIII < of sham that the diclMlun of the God of batlkH wal Ksilnst I UH or that upon our Inndi foil the hlJr don of set ltllll a dlxpiiUd cnnstltutlomt question which left unHottliMl thn would I have oontlnuil I I to vox hnraMH and 1m I pedu our country until Ilnnlly msth led In ii far bloodier and muro frlqhtful way than m tho war which oven thoso I who hit toil l the South moI t won eompHlid lo rail rIme War of the Oreail Rebellion Let uu thank God thut this war did nol occur i In 1K nut lot not ono of these children I mill t In shame that after our lopt 1 cauHo 1 was burled after tho I principle of soeost I lon was settled again nn sot tied for I those UnlliMl 1 Stale for nil time to come unwlRo leaders souphl to rovlvo U and to 1 throw away the rlchoit and hnst crowded portion of tropical lorrltoryo Southern territory upon tho whol globe contrary ami I believe to iho trill Interest as contrary to thin rue xontlmenl0 of time I i Southern people merely to pain a tempo I rsiry purtfonn political t i advantage |