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Show M J WILL NOT WIN. i' . Senator Stewart showed his level head i when he warned the Democrats in the Hit Senate the other day that they were mak- Htf j ing a mistake in trying to create prestige H for their party by denouncing the army. jH ' No doubt there are some bad men in jH . the army, but the ratio of such men is H ', ' not greater than in civil life. Moreover, H ii those men when they enlisted offered H'M their lives, if needs be, in upholding the H , flag. Their mothers live in all the States Hl ; of the Union, the ties of sympathy be- H''i' tween those soldiers and the people at H ' i large are very close, and ' the politician Hi who seeks to make party capital by seek- H)' ing to picture them as murderers and the H i savages of the Philippines as a liberty- H' loving, oppressed race, surely makes a H J mistake. The people will repudiate every H $' such effort. H The men most to blame for the attack H are Senator Rawlins and Senator Patter- Hjij son. Both know what has invariably Hi; happened when the men of the West have Hri gone on Indian raids and have overtaken mJ the enemy. Patterson tried the other day HV' to justify Indian killing, giving Indian H j" attrocities as a reason. But he knows Hf that the barbarians in the Philippines Htt could have taught old Geronimo tricks in HH V cruelty that would have made him sur- H , ift render his chieftain's feathers in admira- H ( tion and awe. The American army has H the admiration of all civilized peoples, H 1 except on the part of a few men in the H Congress of the United States, and the 1'h, few will have a difficult work in creating H! party capital through their denunciations H j of the men to whom the honor of the flag HjiL is committed among the assassins of the HjJ Philippines. |
