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...could have been used by President McKinley during the so-called Philippine Insurrection at the turn of the century, when 70,000 U.S. troops sought to "Christianize" Aguinaldo's guerrillas, and safeguard U.S.-Asian commerce in the process. Home-front critics of that war included Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, and ex-Presidents Harrison and Cleveland. A Negro editor called it "a sinful extravagance to waste our civilizing influence upon the unappreciative Filipinos when it is so badly needed right here in Arkansas." A few simple name changes and he could have been Martin Luther King blaming the cost...
Friday, May 5 THE LEGEND OF MARK TWAIN (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Host David Wayne perpetuates the legend by dramatizing scenes from Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court...
...combines a Mark Twain love for reminiscences with the crustiness of a Gloucester mariner. He does not mince words when he does what he is best at and best known for -- dropping bombs on U.S. foreign policy in Asia...
WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain's lively adventure in a three-part series. Part 1, "The Pauper King," features Sean Scully in a dual role-Prince Edward Tudor of England and his lookalike, Pauper Tom Can-try, who change places for a taste of each other's lives...
...Bank of the U.S. that if he wished the Senator's help against an attack on the bank, "it may be well to send the usual retainers." Big businessmen often "bought" themselves Senators by bribing the state legislatures, which at that time elected them, leading Mark Twain to remark: "I think I can say and say with pride that we have legislatures that bring higher prices than anywhere in the world...