Life — September 21, 1899 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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He: 1 WAVE NOT SEEN SISTER ALTHEA FOR SEVERAL DAYS. around to endorso all the vocal notes I threw at the Administration, Both states- men came to tho front in big style, Thoy said I was a man of raro executive ability, who was anxious to sacrifice home and mother to sorve his native land in the per- spiring Pbilippin “ My lion-bearted boy,” said Russell A., with a voice choked with emotion, “tho country needs you. Youaroa little crowded at tho equator, but a man can be useful and patriotic if he is fat; the plums are not always for the lean, You are now, my gal- lant fellow, at the plo counter of your native kand, What'll you have? Are you for gun- powder, gore and glory, or do your tastes run to pie, pickings and patriotism ?” ‘There's a statesman, iny boy. There's a man that knows his business, There's the grand old man the copperheads have been making an African dodger of for two years, He's a perfect lady, and tho country ought to be proud of him. I told Russ that, while I longed to fight, I was no longer a sprinter; if it was all tho same to him, I'd take something real soft and juicy. I hinted that my soul would burn with true devotion in a place where I could handle things and havea few chances, “The quartermaster department is your oyster,” said the old war-dog, ‘ That’sthe best fleld for your financial and executive activities, Come round in a week ang we'll XO; SIE 18 MOULTING."” have you fixed all right to start for Manila, You go right over and seo Corbin, and he'll toll you about your clothes and salary, and 80 on.” ‘That was the whole business, and hero Lam, Gasaloon did tho right thing by me—put moup at bis hotel and gave me the free- dom of his bottle and cigar-box; and Bun- kum showed me tho town. I want tho boys to remember this when the party en- dorses tho splendid patriotism of the Administration, See that Gasaloon and Bunkum are run in at the end of the reso- lutions and given a good send-off. Pinetop must stand firm for Gasaloon; be is a credit and ornament to our old State, and & fine typo of our Anglo-Saxon race, if he is Dutch. Tell tho boys to give J. Thomas Flabbers the shakedown; he 1s mixed up in Standard oil and his wife is from Boston ; he refused to endorse my papers, and said a lot of stuff about West Point being allowed to run the army. Flabbers is no good, Stand by your friends. I will writo from Manila. Yours, Q. M.D. I. Mantza, P. I., August, 1899, My Dear Banker: Here I am in Manila, the militia and the grand old quartermaster department, expanding the Republic and my personal estate, and showing the traitors and copperheads at home that true patriotism still burns in American hearts, You know all about affairs out here; wo get the news when the home papers get here, as the official incenser is very dis- ereet, I am glad to learn that the war would have been ended long ago but for the disloyalty and literature of the Boston cranks, who encourage tho niggers to shoot our boys, It is no excuse to allege that our heroes make the Dagos fussy by chasing and shooting them and burning up their old towns, for it was distinctly understood by everybody that we were to introduce Anglo-Saxon benevolence, assim- ilation and civilization upon arriving here. I wish you'd mail me some of that Incen- diary Boston literature that Griggs is de- nouncing; we never seo anything here until it {8 out of season, und I'd like to learn just what it is I'm mad about. It is a pleco of mean and shameful favoritism that these black-and-tan Tagals, who can neither read nor write English, should bo suppliod with Atkinson's firebrands, whilo we patriots who are sacrificing our lives every day for our native land should be barred out. Why doesn't our Congress- man look out for us fellows in the rear of the frout? I am beginning to understand the obduracy of these niggers, and it shows the inherent duplicity and cowardice of Aguinaldo. 1 am reliably informed by a comicbooks.com |