the North American Indian, the barong for the scalping-knife, and go on with the story. All know how Dato Mundi was hired by the President's agents to attack the Christian Filipinos.

"Lord Suffolk justified the hiring of sav ages, saying:

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It is perfectly allowable to use all the means which God and nature have put in our hands.'

"You see that God has been ever made the excuse for crime.

"In reply to Suffolk, Pitt said:

'What ideas of God and nature that noble lord may entertain, I know not; but I know such detestable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity.'

"Senator Hoar could not have said it better when discussing the Philippine policy of the administration.

"Edmund Burke, during the revolution, also encountered in England the same spirit that to-day demands the forcible annexation of the Philippines on the ground of national dignity. Speaking of the right to rule the colonies Burke said:

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"They tell you, sir, that your dignity is tied to it. I know not how it happens, but this dignity of yours is a terrible incumbrance to you; for it has of late been ever at war with your interest, your equity and every idea of your policy.'

Just as the Tories in England, during the revolution of the colonies, the imperialists of America now say that 'our dignity' forces us to fight the Filipinos until they submit whether we are in the right or the wrong.

"Charles James Fox said of the prosecu

tion of the war in the colonies:

"The war of the Americans is a war of passion; it is of such nature as to be supported by the most powerful virtues--love of liberty and of country; and at the same time by those passions in the human heart which give courage, strength and perseverance to man--the spirit of revenge for the injuries you have done them; of retaliation for the hardships you have inflicted on them; and of opposition to the unjust power you have exercized over them.'

Colonel Handy--"Pitt, Burke, and Fox were the anti-imperialists of their day, who believed that the flag of England should be saved from an unjust wa~ They were de

REVISING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Platt of Connecticut: Mack, make it say, "All just powers of government are derived from the consent of some of the governed. Hanna: Strike out, "All men are created equal.

Elkins: Strike out the whole thing. It's always conflicting with our interests.>

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nounced as the enemies of their country and charged with sympathy for Washington and the colonists. The calm, inflexible judgment of a century has been passed upon them. George III., Lord North, and their imperialist associates are classed as tyrants and blunderers; Pitt, Burke, and Fox are written down as the true patriots and the wise statesmen who would have saved the flag of their country from disgrace."

Private Smith:-" And McKinley, Hanna, Davis, and Frye can no more change the verdict of the world, as to the wisdom and patriotism of Pitt, Burke, and Fox, than they can change what history has written of Washington, Hancock, Adams, Franklin, and Jefferson. The effort to vindicate George III. and Lord North comes too late to be effective. The step between fame and infamy is a short one and McKinley will never gain fame by attempting to revise the declaration of independence."

Captain Bevans (wrathfully)-"I should like to know how the President is attempting to 'revise' the declaration of independence. Such charges are outrageous."

Private Smith-"The declaration of inde. pendence says 'All just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed.' Speaking for the President, Senator Platt said that it should read 'some of the governed.' But since it has been shown that none of the Filipinos want American rule the President strikes out all of that great declaration and substitutes therefor: · All just powers of government are derived from purchasing the governed from any one who may give a quit-claim deed."

'Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi ness,' are not' inalienable' when they come in conflict with the interests of a 'gigantic trust' bent upon exploiting the Philippine Islands by means of cheap Asiatic labor.

"Taxation without representation,' is all right under the new revision.

"Troops may be quartered in the Philip pines in times of peace without consulting the wishes of the people.

"It is all right to have judges in the Philippines dependent upon the will of the Pres