Show AGAIN MR VARIAN Mr C S Varlan as the attorney for Arrjiinaldo me more to say In yesterdays yester-days Herald He objects to being called Agulnaldos attorney says It is discourteous and Is probably an Inadvertence Inad-vertence In one who fs usually so careful care-ful to observe the amenities of life Why should not the writer be careful He has had the example of Mr Varlan before him for some years He assures us that we will not llnd him with ¼ everchanging convictions altering my course with the vaccllatlon of the summer sum-mer winds And we are glad to hear he has changed his methods We have known him to change very pronounced convictions In three months He assures as-sures the writer that If I ho has bean I retained by Agulnaldo he will not take a retainer on the other side We have said nothing about retainers The gen I tIemans history is somewhat familiar to some of us and we have known him to volunteer without a retainer when a case was particularly malicious and when the plaintiff in the case had very many of the characteristics of Agul naldo And Inasmuch as he is giving assurances we will give him J one and that Is that we will never behind the cloak of Impersonal Journalism say things of him or others which we know to be untrue and as vile in their untruthfulness un-truthfulness as anything the father of lies ever Invented He says that If the writer has any legitimate arguments in support of his present attitude toward the Philippine Islands which should be considered the great popular debate let him state them If convincing there will be no discredit In yielding to them and recanting re-canting error That sounds fair I but Mr Varlan forgets the InflrmlOes of his own temper one of which Js that no argument advanced by an one whom he does not personally like In favor of a cause to which he Is opposed is ever convincing to him He was never known to be convinced under such circumstances It is not In his nature because his order of mind Is one that makes it impossible for him to be a dispassionate judge when his prejudices or his animosities are in the least aroused But no matter about that He says he offered an official report re-port of BrlgGen Greene U S A to disprove the charge that Agulnaldo a mercenary adventurer who had sold himself to Spain for 400000 in silver A little later ho quotes what we said about the Insurrection of Agulnaldo and his brother cutthroats and he denies de-nies It and demands the proofs Now when it comes to that style of argument argu-ment we deny that Gen Greene stated anything from any source except the word of Aguinaldo himself and we challenge the competency of that proof It is true that Agulnaldo began an insurrection not for Independence not for the freedom of his people but as he saidto compel Spain to Institute certain reforms In the government of the people When he got to be troublesome trou-blesome Spain bought him off He agreed tQ leave theislands forever and had not Admiral Dewey gone therewith there-with a fleet and broken the arm of Spain he would have taken his plunder plun-der and kept away And the proof of his organizing the conspiracy to kill not only all the Americans In the Island I I Isl-and but all the white men women and children we have published from his ownofficial i documents captured lact winter by our soldiers certified to by the officers of the American army who saw them and whloh arc on file now In one of the departments In Washing ton That shows the absolute wickedness wicked-ness of Sir Varlans argument The word of Agulnaldo lo him Is good The word of Admiral DeVey of the mem hers of the commission of the Generals Gener-als In the army count for nothing with him as against the unsupported word I of the man who first betrayed his country coun-try and t1t IJwJJI pIe e1dlng to be the friend of the Americana wan plotting plot-ting with the ofllcers of Spain to overthrow over-throw them Mr Varian copies from The Tribune I or July 16 1SDS wherein we said that I Agulnaldo was engaged In a holy cause A daily paper has to take events as they come along On the 16th oC I July 1S9S Agulnaldo o had not been In 1 Cavite quite two months HP had made representations to Admiral Dewey I I AdmJral Dewey hud supplied him with I arms He was working In accord with the Americans but what for Was It i for the Independence of his bwri doun I try orwaa It to break the power of1 the government that for three hundred years hadmulllated robbed iLnd I andban ished his people Did he Intimate to Admiral Dewey that BO soon OB that feat was accomplished and the Spanish Span-ish power utterly broken ho would organize or-ganize a conspiracy against the United States Not very much With all his mongrel treachery he was pretending to be the Americans friend In their ef forfto redeem the Island from Immemorial Imme-morial slavery and as such we praised him We have not praised him since I the truth of his real nature has been known But the main statement Is correct cor-rect if he was helping the Americans in their operations against Spain then a wrong to him wus a wrong to the Americans and those who perpetrated the wrong ought to have been punished pun-ished by all the power of our Government Govern-ment Ho was then as Admiral Dewey said acting In concert with the American Amer-ican forces In tho statement quoted by Mr Varlan Admiral Dewey saya his relations with Agulnaldo were cordial cor-dial but he was not In his confidence That Is the whole secret of the business busi-ness Agulnaldo pretended to be 1 friendly but he did not give his confidence confi-dence even to Admiral Dewey I And what If Commissioner Bradford did say In the Paris peace commission I commis-sion Wo become responsible for anything any-thing he has done he Is our ally and I we are bound to protect him What does that count when before that treaty was ratified by the Senate he began his deviltries V Returning to the opening of Mr Varluna argument he says It Is not for me to find a reason for his Jour change of conviction on the silver or other questions etc A year and a half ago The Tribune became convinced that the silver question as far as this country was concerned was dead It frankly stated It and gave Its reasons that the arguments which had been appropriate in 3SQC in favor of sliver no longer were tenable Tho changed conditions which we had all sought for had come They did not come In the way we expected but they were here The question ceased to Interest the people of this part of the country The i silver miners themselves had ceased to agitate It What was wanted was more money and an Increase In prices sufficient I suffi-cient to give producers a reasonable reward for their labor and the capital they had Invested All that had been I I accomplished and the arguments which were sound In 1896 would have been I silly to have been repeated Mr Varlan has changed as much as any one If he is supporting Mr Bryan now It Is not I because he Is a silver champion because be-cause he Is too good a lawyer l to read the platforms on which Mr Bryan Is I I running and not understand that silver sil-ver restoration In the spirit of 1S96 is not intended Mr Bryan himself says It is no longer an important Issue and no effort can get him to discuss the silver question He dare not do It because he has revealed himself In his true character the same that he was in 1S92 the same which It was plain he was in 1S96 but he concealed the fact In that year he pretended that sliver was the paramount para-mount issue before which all others faded away In Importance This year he says It Is not an important issue I Great stress Is put upon the fact that he Insisted that there should be a plank In his platform demanding the opening I of the mints to the coinage of silver but he was careful not to make that silver any more a legal tender and for a manifest reason And to get exactly where he stands we have to read a passage from both the platforms he supervised su-pervised The one at Kansas City says Wo ore opposed to this private corporation corpora-tion paper circulating as money but without with-out legaltender qualities and demand tho retirement of the national bank notes as fast as Government paper or sliver certificates cer-tificates can bo substituted for them III the Sioux Falls platform after demanding de-manding the opening of the mints the plank rends And the Immediate increase in the vol umo of silver coins and certificates this created to bo substituted dollar for dollar for tho bank notes issued i by private corporations cor-porations etc Again In another plank It says Wo pledge anew tho Peoples party never to ceaso the agitation until this eighth financial conspiracy Is blotted from tho statute books tho Lincoln greenback restored to tho bonds of tho people and corporation money forever retired That means the Immediate issuance of at least 3000 million dollars In greenbacks green-backs It means the annihilation of the specie basis In tho United States for money It means exactly what the Weaver platform meant In 1S92 and what the people in this country by overwhelming majority repudiated In 187 It means that Mr Bryan has no knowledge of the underlying principles which established money on a precious metal basis regulate prices control commerce and give financial sovereignty sovereign-ty to the nation that Is best equipped In that respect Ho would change the business of this country to a crazy lcln of barter and the use of the money of the country In a lostf substantial way than were the tithing orders of the old times which nromlsed to give a certain cer-tain number of pounds of moat or of bread In other words he would have an absolutely irredeemable currency basing all values on the property of the country and turning business Into absolute ab-solute anarchy and chaos If Mr Varlan think that he supported sup-ported Mr Bryan In good faith In 1S9G and Is supporting him In good faith In 1900 and that the silver Issue Is the same then he Is fearfully mistaken because the change Js as great as from light to darkness Returning once more to the real question ques-tion as he states it whether the principles prin-ciples of this Government organized to maintain the rights of man arc consistent consist-ent with the avowed purposes of the Republican Administration and party that Is simply a matterof opinion In i the cities there are police organizations to guard the lives and property of the decent citizens against thugs In a I larger sense It la I tho Nations duty to i i guard the decent citizens against thic machinations of thugs When on an II errand of mercy when j seeking to undo the wrongs of centuries the American j I army was assaulted Its destruction was I planned by the leaders of a single tribe j of scoundrels and the Government ever I since has been following the exact line of the law In putting down those thugs I It has opened free schools and Chapels To all the people of those Islands that had never under Spanish rule enjoyed a personal right It hat Guaranteed that In all their rights they should be protected I pro-tected l personal religious and 1 properly that each one shalldo any legitimate thing that he l pleases and be protected i i that each one shall worship what God he pleases and In his own way that his children shall be educated and It will bq difficult to make the world be lIevo that that Is a work of tyranny and oppression and It Is altogether ridiculous that we will hear no more of It after the 6th day of next month I The whole cry Is for political advantage advan-tage It is altogether a dishonor a dishonor dis-honor to our Government and our fing It Is making an appeal to the cowardice of the American people and In the name of a holy cause Is trying to surround 11 miserable mongrel cutthroat with tho virtues which pertain to the men that In this country forged out for the people and the world a Government of the people by the people and for the people |