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Show THE COMPANY THEY KEEP. j H Our Democratic friends are a peculiar race. M They voted for the Spanish war and later yoted M to ratify tho treaty with Spain. But then they ! fl changed their tactics. They were awfully sorry M for the men of Cuba, of Porto Rico and especially j of the Philippines. They gave all their aid and comfort to Aguinaldo, with the result that their affected sympathy cost the lives of a good many American soldiers and no end of Tagals. And M finally Aguinaldo took the oath of allegiance and M advised his countrymen to do the same. While , M they were sympathizing with Cuba and doing their ' H utmost to discount the efforts of the government, the island was cleansed of its immemorial filth, i , fl the people were fed and clothed, school houses 'H were provided for the children, hospitals for the fl sick, order was restored and peace established, H and one morning the nation that had done all this J , t S quietly withdrew its agents from the island, to the L fl very profound regret of a great majority of the fl decent portion of the inhabitants, in Porto Rico I fl the same reforms were instituted and the latest U H reports from there show that the people are con- S tented and better off than ever and that they en- ; H Joy as nearly perfect self-government as they fl have the capacity to enjoy. The last reports from, H m j,'i jffl the Philippines are that there is general quiet; u''!' Ik i tlie Jiea( llunters and mostother murderers have h'' i m been suppressd; roads are being opened through f Ji fill; tnG islands, and agriculture is extending and civ- r! P Mai ilization is advancing as swiftly as could be ex- l 'j I. jj pected. The latest grievance of our friends is , 1 L 'SI' tliat Panama a State, has been wrested from the If rl if Colombian union, and that a war is imminent. K; ', ! The truth is, when Panama joined that union, it ('i' , I j reserved the right to draw out at any time it Hkv j I i might please to. It did draw out when Colombia K J jf ; rejected a treaty which it had urged upon the r f I Unitod States. Our government at once recog- H j 1 u ! nized Panama as a sovereign state. Since then R j j all the principal nations of Europe have done the B ill' :i 1 same' p j ! 'pj I Away back in 184G, if we remember correctly, B ! i 1 v our government it was Democratic then agreed B i 1 i to keep order on the Isthmus. It is doing that B ' ' S now Wuero is tne next down-trodden race that B 5 m our friends will weep over? Will it be the col- B I j !r m ored men of the South? Ask Tillman. |