Show NO enthusiasm the sacramento bw bee says one of the bees very bright young men meL caustically refers to the trouble in the orient as a filipino rabbit drive and that js is about all there Is to it there is absolutely no enthusiasm over this warfare amour among the people of the united states and why wh y should there be the filipinos fiby are fighting for ho hoax for lands for or country for liberty they may have hare mistaken the charitable and humane purposes of this government ern ment and it may be that they would wo be far better off A even as freemen if they would lay down their arms and allow the united states to untangle the knot at he same time they do not think so and they certainly have a right to their air opinions and the privilege of fighting for their belief 1 there ll 11 is no disguising the fact that there is a great undercurrent 0 sympathy for these filipinos among the people of the united states people who were born bom in li bertys cradle cra dle and nursed at her altar istar and who do not believe that liberty should be the heritage of only illy 6 one race or one people every true american hopes that the warfare in the phili philippines api nes will U soon be stopped and that the fortunate ort people of those islands in mil 11 emerge from the sea of bloodshed to a newer and a better freedom than they have ever before ex experienced 7 meanwhile however the true american does not feel like throwing his hat wildly in m air because a 14 lotof of poor ignorant creatures battling dibi g fo for r what they believe to be their rights i and their liberties are ut t the sword like so many rats m wt a corner efah VI W S state am journal it is true there is a lack of real genuine enthusiasm manifest by the people of this country over the result of the war in the philippine islands it is enough to cause every true american who believes in freedom and liberty to bemoan the day he was bom to observe the hypocrisy which ahia mhd riders of this government have indulged in for the purpose of annihilating and exterminating the poor and unfortunate filipinos under the pretense of securing for them a superior or better form of government for it is impossible to accomplish that result until the federal authorities enforce established the laws of the land to such an extent that its humblest citizen feels secure in the rights which he has been invested with it that cannot be accomplished complis hed then it is the height of folly and nd all buncombe to talk about guaranteeing to the Filipi filipinos noi their civil rights political liberty and freedom it is enough to cause the devit devil to smile and each one of his imps to move up another seat on oa the mour mourners nees bench to listen to such balderdash ther the filipino Fil ilfin may in time be subjugated and ana compelled to wear the yoke of tyranny and oppression bow but when hwi that is finally accomplished we se firmly belie believer veit will be the beginning of the end of our democratic form of government go |