INFLUENCE OF WEALTH AND WAR.
Fighting Those Fighting for Freedom.
A SOLDIER, Custer Henderson, Company H., U. S. V., writes, November 1, from Manila to his parents: “It goes against the grain to fight people ‘who fight for their freedom, all because the wealthy class of Americans see another chance to make more millions. Another thing I wish to tell you. Last October there were brought here from China about 800 of the lowest type of Chinese women, and they are installed in houses, some for officers, some for privates, and each inmate pays a tax of $4 to the military authorities, which includes a license to sell beer and wine; and the worst of it is, these houses are all decorated, inside and out, with the stars and stripes, and at night the streets are a mass of howling, drunken women and American soldiers.” Moreover, these women, probably sold as slaves in their own country, are compelled to go to army physicians for medical inspection. Sodom and Gomorrah were bad, but could not have been worse, and are not charged with hypocrisy.—Woman’s Ensign (W.C.T.U.).