Show A SAMPLE ARGUMENT it we bought the philippine islands for why not make spain deliver the goods it we did not buy the islands and merely bought the improvements that spain owned on the islands why not make spain deliver the goods it you bought a horse from a man would you pay him cash down and chase another fellow who had taken the horse all over the united in order to secure property that should jiahe been delivered to you you do that unless you were an infernal idiot yet uncle sam la doing worse than that lie la not only wasting his cash but spilling his blood to secure something he haa paid spain for As a matter ot fact uncle sam as represented by tr atlon not only a fool but a dangerous one at that the above Is from a recent edition of living issues and Is a fair sample of the arguments of the so called aalt they are citizens ot the united who wem to have a mania tor opposing everything that h done it the policy they favor were carried out they would immediately oppose it did or did not spain deliver tho JB goods the islands aro there and th e united stoles has them so spain did deliver tho goods she did not take them home again now ns to the horse idea spain turn edthe ed the horse meaning tha islands over to the united states but spain did not guarantee that the critter would not buck or balk if our socialistic friend ever bought a horse did he receive n written guarantee that the animal would remain as a lamb we paid spain twenty millions to sail away from the islands because we felt that as we had gone into tha freedom business we might as well give liberty to the as to the cubans while we were about it especially as the islands had fallen into our possession anyhow but affer delivered the horse to ua it began bucking so we put on a par of spurs and took a good whip and we will soon have the animal tamed so that it will come to appreciate hay and oats and perform its allotted duty instead of chasing around the desert picking up a precarious living the fourth paragraph in the living issues item la the most absurd of the article how is undo sam wasting his cash the animal may easily prove to be worth billions in years to come when it becomes civilized and besides that spain could not guarantee that the cutthroat adventurers ot the island would forever remain docile the islands are there for the united states and it remains but for the united states to clean out the would be dictator and his band of adventurers the same as we cleaned out geronemo Geron and his murderers in arizona does our socialistic friend think the filipinos Pili pinos would be more tree under aguinaldo than under the united states it he does he has a very poor opinion of the government of his native land the above Is from the logan nation if any of the anti expansionists think here are suckers in logan they are if they think they bite in the nations office |