| Show 1 THE POOR PESSIMISTS I I The capture of Aguinaldo Is a wet blanket on our mugwump growlers I But Ihtycapturo does not hurt so much I as does the fact that he has taken an oath of allegiance to the United States Government He is no longer a brave I chieftain battling for a holy cause he Is Just a common Greaser who after l 1 t two years of sprinting has been rundown I run-down and caught and who In capllv t J l liv admits that ho has never been In a tight and wants now to quit And the Insurrection seems to be crumbling to pieces chief after chief is coming In and the masses of the people are rejoicing Agulnaldo had not even the opportunity to sell out and he sees that his drpam of drawing his brother Ta gals around him and robbing the other tribes has vanished forevpr And the home Tagals are disconsolate Now the people of the Philippines who formerly for-merly were taxed for all and more than they could earn are free a schoolhouse has been provided for their children all the restrictions which made their lives merely the lives oC slaves have been removed their property Is safe when they sell anything the proceeds are ali theirs they are absolutelyfree to do any legitimate thing and over them Is the full protection ot the old flag that came to them as a dawn with a promise of a day altogether cloudless Has all the oppression come to this I Has the awful war of conquest nothing I noth-Ing betier han this to show Is It possible that Instead of tyranny It I was emancipation What will the dismal croakers do nowthe Wlnslows the Atkinsons the Bryans the New York Evening Post and the Snrlnefleld Republican Then It looks too as though enlistments enlist-ments were to stop as though the usurping President was not going to call up that great Imperial army It looks as though expenses were to be reduced and as though nothing would soon be left to growl over except the trusts And then Mr Carnegie seems about to demonstrate that trust money has Its beneficent uses The miserable pessimists which way can they turn for sympathy I |
