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Show IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE. The President Is very properly enforcing en-forcing silence upon army otllcers on public iUestlons and public men (Jen l'unston wns reprimanded for referring to Senator Hoar as a man with a superheated super-heated conscl"nce. That Is all right; army officers were getting too free with their tongues, nnyvvo). Hut how about the other side the public men so attacked? l'alrness compels com-pels the admission that they threw not only the first brick, but a good mnny bricks. The license of libelous debate In the United States Senate has become a public scandal And now that the army olllcers have been estopped from r-ply. It Is getting worse. Senator Du-liols Du-liols can with Impunity nnd under the cover of privilege! sneer nt len Wheaton as "a charity student " Senator Sen-ator Rawlins can accuse flen. Mac- Arthur of falsehood 111 his explanation of how it came that so much greater numbers of I'lllplnos were slain In battlo than Americans, putting forth a degraded explanation of his own ns mori sntlsfactor.v. He can assail Clen Chaffee nt a "dastnrdly villain, who had brought dishonor upon the American mn nnd the American people. peo-ple. ' This sort of language, under the circumstances, mikes tho Senntor ns one who (to use hli own designation of Presllent Cleveland) lias th" sort of courage that would lead a man to throw stonea fiom tho roof of a house at a crowd In the street. The General must not criticise the Senator, therefore there-fore the Senator will assail the Clenernl with billingsgate, the outgiving of n malicious heart directed b a Iovert -stricken binln. The mind that cannot expiess Itself without the use of such blackguardism is certainly of a low oicier, inc man w none minei it is. lacks both breeding and decency. Hut Senator ltawllna docs not stop at that, ho nrralgns all the ninccrs In the Philippines Philip-pines as lacking In honoi, declaring that they lire all unfit to bo trusted to Investigate In-vestigate tho charges made against a few of their number. Th it Is, he Is nfrald the wild Imaginings nnd exaggerations ex-aggerations of Irresponsible sensation mongers will not bo fastened upon those accused olllcers, ns facts, to brand them as "dastardly Ulalns" Tor Senntor Rawlins no proof Is needed, .he assumes that any monstrous charge against the troops, or against an olllcer. Is true ns soon as it Is made, and he will hear to nothing but that the officer must bo convicted, lie would like to past formal Judgment himself without more ndo, nnd proceeds to do it, so far as his Intelligence can keep pate with his meanness nnc Insolence. We denounce the unfnlrness of this Bumo of words The soldiers nre gagged, they nre ns men bound Shall the Senators ent their spleen upon them, therefore, without redress' What sort of cownrdly work is It that will lend n man to strike nnothcr who stands helpless before him? Uor the very shamo of manhood, Senators should icfrnln, and all who nro really men, will icfraln. It Is dastardly work. |