military lights of France.

Let us cut down this upas

tree before it grows; let us destroy this nest of reptiles in their earliest spawning days; else we shall be their helpless victims later.

6. The Peace Commission's Death - Rattle.

The dying gasp and final throat rattle of the brummagem Peace-Commission was heard in September. That satyr was then called down and back to its maker. Schurman had sunk into his maker's pot-house cymbals and advocate. He versioned himself out in Five Articles, and pasted them on the press.

"Fifth-The United States having assumed, by a treaty of peace with Spain, sovereignty over the Archipelago, became responsible for the maintenance of peace and order, the administration of justice, the security of life and property among all the tribes of the archipelago. This is an obligation which intelligent Filipinos, not less than foreign nations expect us to fulfill. Nor will the national honor permit us to turn back. In taking the Philippine Islands, we annexed responsibility. The fact that the responsibility is heavier than most people supposed it would be is no excuse for failure to discharge it. I repeat that the Philippine question is essentially a question of national honor and obligation."

Little boy, you have spoken the oration written for you by your maker well, now say your own.

"I have great confidence in the people of the Philippine Islands," he added, " and much sympathy for their aspirations. A race should be judged by its best products and an educated Filipino of whatever tribe, and each city has its educated men, will bear comparison with an educated man of any race. . . .

"Nevertheless, considering the marked intellectual capacity of the Filipinos and their admirable domestic and personal virtues, imagination cannot easily set the limits

to their progressive achievements under the inspiration of American civilization and, while Amercan sovereignty..."-he here takes up his president's ditty and dies away in the opium fumes of that potentate's Boston Banquet lucubration.

Schurman has done his work, put tombstones at his moral head and feet, and send him back to the silence and darkness of Ithaca, there to turn to dust amid the phosphorous enlightenment of university art and science and literature, and the reveling suitors for decorative promotion.

From his Ithacan sepulcher he speaks through a correspondent of the N. Y. World and sheds upon the continent a noble delineation of the Nefarious American Cur. You are to study the picture and guess who and how many the cur is.

"Your correspondent is able to say on authority that the Schurman Peace Commission offered every possible inducement short of absolute self-government to Aguinaldo and his followers. Aguinaldo was promised as the price for the restoration of peace in the Tagalos tribe a bonus of more than $5000 a year while the Tagalos remained peaceful. He was told that he could choose men from his tribe for the minor municipal offices. The commission went so far as to promise Aguinaldo the moral support of the United States government if such were needed to make his leadership of the Tagalos thoroughly secure. With all these inducements, tempting as they must have been, Aguinaldo, as the recognized head of the insurgent movement, declined to yield. He insisted upon immediate self-government, and as his insistence was so firm as to make an agreement impossible, the American commissioners ceased negotiations.”—Ass'd Press, Sept. 16, '99.

The American curs offered Aguinaldo anything except everything if he would sell out-absolute independence being the everything he has fought for. They could not

buy him with gold. Our smirched pups strove like the Devil with Jesus to make him sell out for earth and power and cash, and he would not. Who was the higher, the more moral, the more civilized—Aguinaldo, or Devil Schurman-Denby-Otis-McKinley. Put away all contempt for Aguinaldo after that, and turn it upon the Administration cess-shop. As an amendment to the propositon that the U. S. shall govern the Tagals for upliftment and civilization I move that the Tagals assume Sovereignty over America to teach, civilize, christianize and uplift us from the wallow of bribing and larceny. Apropos of Aguinaldo's rejection of McWashington's bribe, the Administration Daily Drooler says:

The recall of these commissioners by the President indicates that he is determined to cease attempting to deal with the Tagalo rebels in any other way than by the strong arm of the military power, until they have been brought to a realizing sense of their position, relative to that of the United States, in the government of the islands. The efforts at conciliation have not met with much success. Our purposes have been misunderstood, our generous offers have been spurned, our confidence has been met with distrust, and in innumerable ways it has been made apparent that the Tagal rebels, in their present frame of mind, are to be reached only by the argument of force. Such being the situation, it is well that the Peace Commissioners have been withdrawn, and that fresh troops and munitions of war are going forward to the Philippines. If we must, as it seems, employ the "mailed fist" in the solution of this problem, we should do the work so thoroughly that it will not be necessary to do it a second time. seems necessary to whip the rebels into submission, since they will not listen to reason. Perhaps after their resistance has been broken down all along the line, they will be ready to accept the generous terms offered by the United States, which now, in their blindness and bigotry, they refuse.

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Yes, after Aguinaldo and all their good and honest men are killed by the U. S. some leader patterned on American mud will accept the generous terms of $5000 a year offered by the United States! These Filipino ducks do not understand about civilization yet; they are so blind and bigoted that they refuse bribes. American blood and billingsgate will teach them that civilization can't be carried on a day on that principle. But death and American hell now and American heaven later will show

them not to spurn our generous offers. Aguinaldo, haven't you learned yet that there is not a place in all the Universe for an honest man?

3. Generals and Statesmen Common Thieves.

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The world is learning a lesson in these days out of which the future will be shaped. It is that the majority of Statesmen and Generals are just mere common thieves, just ordinary jail-dodging pickpockets. The thieves of France, her men of muck, her Generals, convicted Dreyfus; France is prostrate in a brothel of thieves. Oh well, France is Latin, we are Anglo-Saxon. We'll look at England then, jewel of the deep, and deep jewel. land proclaims sovereignty over the South African Boers. It is a plan to steal South African wealth for British exploitation, nothing else. There are fabulously rich mines there, Cecil Rhodes and other English cut-throats want English Government supremacy so that they may squeeze these mines dry as a lemon, without Boer check. Therefore the British government orders the Boers to come down or be fought. What is this? Why, England is another France, prostrate in a brothel of thieves. English rulers and French Generals are sparks from the same bloody blade. All their ruling is for cash in pocket. The fellows live in mire, they are accursed blood-stained assassins, Salisbury, Chamberlain, Mercier, Roget, Jouaust, Queen Victoria, du Paty de Clam, an accursed crew of bloodthirsty murderers-for cold cash. Their motive is jewels and gold, power to loot and rob.

It will not be thought that Elwell Otis-Bottom and his aids, and the Washington Anti-Filipino Statesmen, are likewise mere Latin-English sneak-thieves. But truth is, most of them are just this stamp of vermin, Statesmen Lice fastened and fatting in the Filipino hair, General Chigres fast to the Filipino flesh, their louse-food-stolen

gold. Who tells this? The soldiers who fought under command of these lice. They are now citizens once more, released from the cowering fear of the court-martial bullet. The things they swear may make lice wish. they had wings to fly to the protection of the French army or the British cowboy Cabinet dagger-girt and boots full of six-shooters. Our steal-dollar generals are not only smirched, but painted black all over and dyed black to the core of their sordid livers and sponging hearts. These are the men-shall we call them men or crack-tills? by whom we shall be ruled under imperialism.

A THIRD ROUND ROBIN.

The First Colorado Regiment, returned, is composed of genuine patriots, who are taking steps to save this country from standing army rats and officer lice. The Denver Evening Post of September 14 published a statement signed by twenty-four of these privates and "many others," in which the following declarations are made:

The history of the Colorado regiment, from start to finish, is a record of robbery and neglect. The conduct of a majority of the officers has been such that to have worn the straps in the regiment is cousidered a discredit by fully 75 per cent. of the enlisted men. Upon the arrival of the regiment in San Francisco on the outward journey, the first two meals consisted of raw tomatoes and pork. Had it not been for the boundless generosity of the people of San Francisco, the regiment would have suffered from hunger then, as it did on the ocean. In the very beginning the rations were insufficient.

On board the transport China was installed a man named Tarsney (a former adjutant general of Colorado) as a free passenger, with a stock of goods for sale as "sutler." The ship had hardly cleared the bay of San Francisco when the stuff known as canned beef was dished out to us. This mess of semi-putrid and sickening offal, together with hard tack, constituted the bulk of our rations from San Francisco to Manila. A day or two of this and the men were forced to purchase from Tarsney his goods at enormously increased prices. Their little stock of cash was extorted from them in this way.

The Red Cross Society put on board the China and donated to the soldiers a large amount of goods. General Hale placed himself on record in a San Francisco paper to the effect that the enlisted men each had received his proportion of these goods. Every private in the regiment knows that such was not the case. These Red Cross goods, made most necessary to the men by the shortage and vile char