THE SHAME OF IT by INDIGNANT AMERICAN CITIZEN

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 29, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 39.

THE SHAME OF IT.

By INDIGNANT AMERICAN CITIZEN

RELATING to settlement of present war questions in the Philippines and West Indies the papers say: “Neither the queen regent nor the monarchical parties nor the ministers could afford to quarrel with the Vatican, the Spanish prelates, clergy, religious orders, and the Jesuits, by daring to expel the Jesuits and friars from the archipelagoes, as the natives demand. If the re-establishment of Spanish rule in the archipelagoes is not under American control, there will be stern and merciless military reaction there.”

Indeed! And what does this mean? The pictures, the words, and the works of the “insurgent” (patriot) leaders indicate they are men of conscience and wisdom, as well as nerve. If so, they can be trusted more than they seem likely to be by our Rome-steered “great republic,” They no doubt know Rome as the central soul of the tyranny they are bleeding and dying to deliver their country from. And shall our brave boys be used to help beat back the patriots at the vital point of this whole business? Shall they bleed and die, suffer the pangs of heat, thirst, and hunger, of weary marches, and the torture of fevers, and we pay a million dollars a day to stay the just punishment of the chief enemy of America, as well as Cuba and the Philippines? Our noble President and chiefs in the field in the army and navy may need to watch France. One of the greatest men of this country said: “France, infidel at home, gives her whole power to the Jesuits abroad, in China, Armenia, Madagascar, and elsewhere.” Let them see that she and her confederates in our departments at Washington have little say in these matters. They are the hand in the dark also in present missionary troubles in China.

INDIGNANT AMERICAN CITIZEN.