Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 25, 1900, Page 3

e *about eighty Rews of the Rorthwest BLOCKADE HAS BEEN LIFTED. Schooner Maida Swung Round So That Boats Can Pass. Sault Ste. Marie, Aug. 21. — The blockade to Lake Superior navigation by the stranding of the schooner Maida directly across the deep water channel in St. Mary's river has been lifted. The wreck was swung around, leaving a space sufficient for deep laden ships to pass. The detained fleet of more than 200 vessels at once began moving. The blockade lasted hours. It is estimated the losses entailed by delay to ship- Ping will approximate $200,000. ARE BLOWN Dow Cyclone Levels Van Dusen Elevator at Harrold, 8. D. Pierre, S. D., Aug. 21. — A telephone Ss old, thirty age from miles of here, ss a cyclone struck about 5 o'clock, destroying the Van Dusen elevator and several small- er buildings. No one was injured. Tried to Kill His Wife. Jamestown, N. D., Aug. 21.—A. Tom- jack made a desperate attempt to mur- der h wife in a quarrel over money mat He wielded a knife and in his attempt to kill the woman slashed her arm. She escaped from his grasp and Tomjack, thinking he had wound- ed her seriously, made his escape. Tomjack is an ex-convict, having served five years in the state peniten- tiary for beating a man almost to death. Body Found Hanging. Fergus Falls, Minn., Aug. 21.—While picking plums in the town of Erdahl Lauris Larson and Ole Thompson found the dead body of a woman sus- pended from a tree, the corpse hang- ing so low that the knees touched the ground. The woman’s appearance Would indicate that she had been a traveling peddler. She was dark and about forty years old. Killed by Lawn Mowe Albert Lea, Minn., Aug. 21. — The three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Madison was found dead on the Jawn of the house, und the fact that the lever of the mower was on his head disclosed the cause of death. It is supposed that the child was playing around the mower and pulled the lever cut with the above result. Leaped to Her Death, Helena, Mont., Aug. 21.—Valeria G. Gibson, while temporarily insane late last night, jumped from the third floor of the Park hotel at Great Falls and received injuries from which she died. Mrs. Gibson was the wife of Paris Gibson, the founder of Great Falls, and one of the leading men of the State. Shot During a Quarrel. Pipestone, Aug. 21. — A quarrel at nton, fifteen miles north of here, between Sim Akers and Frank Finley resulted in the former drawing his re- volver and shooting the latter in the leg. Akers was a former village mar- shal of Ruthton and _ had arrested Finley several times. Akers was ar- rested. Cows Killed by Lightning. alton, Minn., Aug. 21.—During a heavy storm that passed over Buck- man lightning killed four valuable cows of N. W. Moorhead’s. Some of the farmers have started to thresh out of the shock and report light yield Attacked by a Steer. Hankinson, N. D., Aug. 21. — While Ww. E. McLaughlin was leading a steer to the slaughter house the animal rushed at Mr. McLaughlin, knocked him down and trampled on his head, breaking his cheek and nose bones. Ten Bushels to the Acre. Hawley, Minn., Aug. 21. — Warren Works, the first farmer here to thresh, reports ten bushels to the acre of re- markably fine wheat. This would in- dicate about three-fourths of 4 crop for Clay and surrounding counties. Hail Destroys 1,700 Acres of Grain. Langdon, Minn., Aug. 21.—News re- ceived from R. C. Pew of Cando, N. D., announces that a severe hail storm and cloudburst passed over that section, completely destroying 1,700 acres of grain, also his entire crop of hay. Horse Thieves in Evidence. Waverly, Iowa, Aug. 21. — Horse thieves have again visited the city and took from the barn of Henry Cchoof a valuable black liorse. They also took a set of double harness and flynets. No trace has yet been found. Tornado Breaks Everything. Chatsworth, Iowa, Aug. 21.—A de- structive tornado visited this section of the country. The storm was accom- panied by rain and hail and much damage was done to corn by the latter. ‘The storm was a mile wide. Killed by a Street Car. La Crosse, Wis., Aug. 21.—O. P. Ol- son stepped in front of a moving street car and.was instantly willed. He was in the employ of the company and was repairing rails at the place where the accident occurred. Killed on the Tracks. Storm Lake, Iowa, Aug. 21. — Leo Reeves, a boy of fourteen, was killed by jumping from an east-bound gravel train on the Illinois Central railroad. He was thrown backward under the cars. Crushed to Death. Fort Dodge, lowa, Aug. 21.—James F. Baker, foreman of the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul roundhouse at Storm Lake, was crushed to death be- tween two passenger coaches while at- tempting to couple them. Implement Sheds Burned. Downing, Wis., Aug. 21—The W. A. Douglass Tumber company’s yards and farm implement sheds were de- stroyed by fire. Some machinery was saved. The loss is partly covered by insurance. IkKILLS WHOLE FAMILY. , Horrible Tragedy Enacted at Ar- lington, Minn, Arlington, Minn., Aug. 22. — Five peopic are dead and a sixth is serious- ly wounded as the result of a horrib‘e tragedy which took place early Mon- day morning on the farm of Theodore Wallart, three miles from here. Wall- art is charged with the crime. cessation of hostilities received yester- art, 42 years old; Gustav Stanbors, 20; Helena Stanbors, 16; Anne Stanbors, 18; Reinold Stanbors, 12. Injured, Otto Stdnbors, 11. Domestic troubles caus2d the crime. During Saturday. Wallart was in the woods practicing with a revolver. In the evening he went to the farm, en- tering the house by means of one of the windows at about 1 o'clock. His wife was alarmed by the noise made on his entry and had started up from her bed, but fell back with a fatal wound, being afterward found dead on the bed. One child w killed and thrown on the lounge. daughter’s dead body was afterw found on the floor of her bedrom, and the boys were stabbed in their room, After committing the horrible butchery Wallart went into the barn and set fire to the stables. Nine horses were burned. He then took to the woods and thus far no trace of him has been found. The case against Wallart rests in part upon the testimony of a boy named Joel, the son of a neighbor. He says he saw Wallart leave the house. Joel found the boy, Otto Stanbors, who was stabbed, and took him home. Otto will recover. All in the hous? were killed except Otto and Theresa Osteinor, a little girl who was visiting with the Wallarts. The children killed were all the children of Mrs. Wallart by a former marriage. Domestic trouble is given as the cause of the crime. Wallart and his wife for some time have been separated. Sheriff Gaske, with a posse from Henderson, is in search of Wallart. WELD WEST MEN ON'A RAMPAGE, They Cause a Small Sized Riot at Prairie du Chien. Milwaukee, Aug. 22.—A special frony Madison says that William D. Evans of Prairie du Chien last night tele- graphed Gov. Scofield appealing for troops to protect the citizens of Prairie du Chien from the members of a wild West show. Mr. Evans’ telegram was as follows: “Scofield, Madison: Wild West showmen on a rampage here and are running the town. Cannot find mayor; police powerless. Three men shot.” Later the following telegram was re ceived: “Send militia; Buffalo Bill's men in riot with citizens. —‘G. B. Thomas, District Attorney.” Later Mr. Evans telegraphed to hold the soldiers until further notice. Mr. Thomas telegraphed that he did not sign the dispatch.sent in his name. Gov. Scofield is at Camp Douglass and the messages were forwarded to him by Col. Starkey, the governor's secretary. Before any action could be taken, however, the second message from Mr. Evans came and ended the matter for the night. A Sentinel special from Prairie du Chien says: Thomas Vavra, a special policeman, shot Charles Triangle, an artilleryman of the Wild West show, in the leg during an argument. The affair caused a small sized riot. Vavra escaped to a saloon under the protec- tion of Marshall Linder and Patrolman Merrill, who were seriously injured. The mob of the Wild West show broke into the saloon just as Vavra left it and completely demolished the interior of the building. Vavrais house was also wrecked. An appeal was made to Col. Cody (Buffalo Bill) who soon quieted the mob and everything was quiet at midnight and no further trouble expected. STILL A MYSTERY. No Trace of That 25,000 Express Package. Chicago, Aug. 22.—With all the po- lice machinery of the Adams Express company and the Pinkerton detective agency in motion since Saturday the identity of the man or men who sub- stituted a bogus package for the ene containing nearly $25,000 consigned to the Commercial National Bank of Burlington, Iowa, remains unknown and the currency has not been found. The package was delivered to the agent in charge of the Burlington of- fice. It was delivered to the bank and when opened was found to contain some brown paper. ! MADE A GOOD HAUL, Although the Cash Secured Was Less Than at First Reported. Burlington, [owa, Aug. 22. — The amount of money contained in the ex- press package from which the con- tents were stolen en route from Chi- cago, was $20,000, instead of $25,000, as reported. The address of the fraudu- lent package is claimed by the Chi- cago officials to be a forgery of their clerk’s handwriting. Several Chicago detectives are here working on the case. The package referred to con- tained brown paper, and was substi- tuted for the money package between Chicago and Burlington. Held on a Serious Charge. Winona, Minn., Aug. 22.—John Less- nau, a young man employed by a butcher in this city, was arrested here on a warrant issued by United States Court Commissioner Morey. He is charged with having passed a $1 silver certificate which had been raised to the denomination of $10. “Priests in Retreat. ‘Winona, Minn., Aug. 22.—The retreat of the priests of the Winona diocese opened here last evening and will con- tinue four days. About fifty priests, almost the full membership of the Wi- nona diocese are in attendance. _Damage to Crops. Green Bay, Wis., Aug. 22.—A cloud- burst struck here yesterday afternoon, the fall of rain being over 11-2 inches in half an hour. Much damage is re- ported to crops. Telephone and tele- graph wires suffered greatly. ‘WRECKED BY STORM. Sheboygan, Wis., Visited by a Tor. ( nado. Sheboygan, Wis., Aug. 22.—A t-rrific wind storm struck the city yest rday afternoon. The storm came suidenly from the north. Eight large buildings were completely wrecked and 200 small houses were blown down. The loss will be upward of $200,000. At noon it was as dark as night and intensely hot. A few moments before 1 o'clock the storm broke, increasing in force until a ternado was,blowing. People were thrown down and fences and signs hurled hundreds of feet. The storm raged for some minutes and passed off to the south. The storm started in the western part of the city near the cemetery,*and swept down on to the south side and off into the lake. It was two miles wide and wrecked y Everything in Its Path. All was over in ten minutes, although it seemed hours to the panic-stricken people. The roof of the large ware- house of the Crocker company was blown off and thrown against the large factory. The building was wrecked and the large stock of chairs was left without protection from the rain that fell in torrents. The street car barns were wrecked and cars smashed to pieces. The electric wires were all blown down. The tent over a horse and pony show was torn from the ground and blown away. The animals were freed and ran panic-stricken through the city. The roof of the malt house of the Konrad Schrieier Brew- ing company was lifted from the building and Carried Over 150 Yards and thrown into the street. It was carried over the huge ventilator of the brewery. The American Folding Bed company’s plant was demolished and the sheds in the Simball & Sons’ brick yards were blown down and the brick scattered in every direction. The storm struck the South Side Lutheran church and the steeple was blown down on to the residences, smashing in the roofs. The Fourth ward school house, a beautiful building, was com- pletely wrecked, one side and the ‘front being blown in, causing the roof to fall, Crushing the Floors down into the cellar. The plant of the Optenberg & Sonneman company was partially wrecked. Several freight cars standing on the Northwestern railway tracks were blown over on their sides. The following suffered heavy losses: Henry Tillman, Her- mann Dehne, Otto Zornes, Thomas Atkins, Gustave Roeheorn, William Gold. That no one was killed seems almost a miracle. The wind wrecked building after building with the great- est rapidity and there was little warn- ing of the approach of the storm. The people in every case were out of their houses before the storm struck and those who were struck by flying debris were only slightly injured. In the factories the employes were in many cases bruised and cut from wreckage. Michigan Gets a Taste of It. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 21.—The entire lower Peninsula of Michigan was swept by a severe storm yesterday af- ternoon. The damage to crops is im- mense. From all parts of the penin- sula come reports of standing grain beaten to the ground by ‘hail and practically ruined. Scores of barns were struck by lightning and burned with their contents, so that the loss to the farmers is very heavy. But one fatality has been reported. TOWNS IN DANGER. Forest Fires Near Battle Lake and Grand Encampment, Wyo. Saratoga, Wyo. Aug. 22. — Forest fires continue to rage in the mountains between Battle Lake and Grand En- campment, and those towns and the numerous mining camps and sheep camps are threatened with destruc- tion. The herders were forced to drive their flocks high up in the mountains to get feed owing to the scarcity of both feed and wat-r on the plains below, and it is feared that the flames have surrounded many of these herders with their flocks. The timb:r is as dry as tinder and burns fiere:ly. Nothing can stop the flames except a heavy rain. It is estimated that the loss thus far, exclusive of the millions of feét of timber, will be over $200,000. Miners have joined the forest rangers in fighting the fires. Their combined effort, however, seems to be of no avail. TWO BURNED TO DEATH. They Upset a Lamp While Fighting in a Room. Helena, Mont., Aug. 22. — A fire at Hamilton, a town in the Bitter Root valley, the county seat of Ravelli county, destroyed the Hamilton ho- tel and three adjoining hotels. The total loss is about $20,000; partly in- sured. Tom Martin and Barney Keegan were occupying a room in the Hamilton hotel. They got into a fight and upset the lamp setting fire to the building. Martin was rescued, but he died soon after. Keegan’s body has not been recovered. Heroic work by the townspeople prevented a larger fire loss. TWO KILLED BY ROBBERS. George Bonash and Joseph Juhass Victims of the Raffians. Florence, Colo., Aug. 22. — George Bonash and Joseph Juhass, miners, were shot and killed by robbers yes- terday at Brookside. Churles Havens and James Gray are under arrest. TRAIN BROKE IN TWo. Great Northern Brakeman Seriously Injured Near Larimore. Larimore, N. D., Aug. 22.—A Great Northern freight leaving here was wrecked six miles east. The train broke in.two on a down grade and the two sections collided. Brakeman Cortwright, who was on top of the cars, was thrown uncer the car, hav- ing his head severely hurt and one of his legs broken. He was taken to the hospital at Grand Forks. He is mar- ried, his wife being in Chicago. Mark Swings the Gavel in G. O. P. Campaign Meetings. —-National Watchman. MORALITY SIDE OF IT William Lloyd Garrison on the McKinley Criminal Ag- gression. The Morality Side of Our War of Conquest in the Phil- ippines. by cqurt martial of Maj. Kirkman and Lieuts. Gregg and Bailey for “drunk- enness in the streets of Manila.” The regimental canteen, my caller affirmed, was worse than the grog- shop. The temptation is ever present, and any good resoiutions or feelings of disgust after a spree were quickly dispelled by another drink. On the financial side, a soldier’s was limited at the saloon. Not so at the canteen, where his pay was held as secruity for his drink, and often entirely absorbed. A soldier is obliged to seek a grog- shop, but the canteen seeks him. If one questions whether such nec- essarily ananymous testimony as I re- port is to be compared with that of Other Political Pointersonthe|the great and good bishop of New Campaign Now Under Way. In a recent publication William Lloyd Garrison, of Boston, son of the | York, let him read the chapter of hor- rors detailed in the New York Voice by Frank M. Weils, late chaplain of United States volunteers, which he gave verbally to President McKinley and Secretary Root. Chaplain Pierce has laid stress upon the number of great Emancipator Garrison, thus pre-|huts from which maddening native sents the morality side of the McKin- liquors were dispensed, but it is not ‘ey war of criminal aggression in the; made plain that these were not in Philippines: It is to be hoped that in time we skall obtain faithful pictures of life in camp and field. Today it is difficult to find a medium of publication when the facts conflict with the theories of che administration. That a tacit cen- sorship exists in the Republican press is _palapable to every one who tries to zet an insertion of unwelcome truth. The soldiers’ letters, written privately, without thought of publicity, have re- vealed a depth of depravity and bru- cality so terrible that the last resort of the leading newspapers has been to chrow discredit on their truth. ~ Bishop Potter, after six days in Ma- aila, comes back to tell us of the so- oriety and good habits of the Ameri- ran soldier in the tropics. He did not see one drunken soldier, nor does he allude to the licentiousness of army men. It happened that on the very jay his testimony was given to the world there called upon me an army >fficial who had spent six months at Manila. Naturally I inquired if his ybservation and opinion coincided with those of the bishop, whose warn- ing that the true question with which the nation must deal is not “What shall we do with the Philippines, but what shall the Philippines do with as?” had not been forgotten. My in- formant is a man of medical education, i careful observer of reflective mind, and exceedingly deliberate in speech. This is the substance of his reply: He left San Francisco with the first troops sent to the Philippines. The Western regiment to which he was attached numbered about 1,300 men. Before sailing from San Francisco, aot only was drunkenness prevalent, put 480 men were registered for vener- zal diseases. : Arrived in Manila, they found but few houses of ill-repute, with less than a score,of total occupants, but imme- diately from all quarters came a great and sudden accession. From Vladivo- 3tock, Singapore, Yokohama, Hong Kong, Calcutta and other treaty ports abandoned’ women poured in to the aew and, active market. Social vice makes ro distinction of race or color. These importations included Russians, Germans, French and Italians. Three hundred were reported as arriving on one steamer. They found cordial wel- come, and their houses were guarded by United States soldiers under orders to protect the traffic. My visitor affirmed that, when he {eft Manila, in the Calla Alix, a street in the northwestern part of the city, these notorious houses occupied both sides of the way for three-quarters of a mile, the windows filled with solicit- ing women in garbs too scandalous for description. The blessings of Ameri- ean civilization were beginning among a chaste and temperate people. Actual war ‘upon the the natives, although im- minent, had not yet begun. On the arrival of the regiment, there existed, according to my informant, one brewery, one distillery, one gar- den for the sale of beer and spirits, and several hotels, clubs and restau- rants, where liquor was served with meals. Among 8,000 Spanish prison- ers not a single case of drunkenness was observable. With the arrival of troops, the grog-shops multiplied and flourished, over 400 cursing the con- quered city. That the officers were no better than the men was the convic- tion of my informant. It was a co- Incident that, on the very day of Bish- op Potter’s speech, the government re- ported the dismissal from the army, isuch evidence before out troops ar- rived, for whose trade they were es- tablished. Chaplein Wells, in a re- cent interview with the editor of the New York Philanthropist, testified: “Whispy and bad women are running more men into death in the Philippineg than are being killed by Filipino bul- lets or injured by other causes.” Drunkenness, lust, gambling, bru- tality and other vices that annihlate conscience are in full swing in Manila. Not only are these natives polluted by this contact with superior civilization, but the soldiers who return to the United States bring with them the seeds of disease and contagion, to be sown broadcast. Who can _ estimate the ravages among our own people in consequence? We have a president belonging to the great Methodist denomination, which probably includes the largest per cent of prohibitionists of any re- ligious organization in the country. The-souls of many of its members are stirred over the question whether their distinguished communicant turns his winegiass down on festive occasions or ventures to take a drop. ~We have a secretary of the navy who is president of the Massachusetts Total Abstinence society. Contributions for it are an- nually solicited to save a few drunk- ards from the gutter. Mr. McKinley has but to speak the word to close every grog shop in Manila and remedy the canteen abomination. He can find excuses for arbitrary power to the ex- tent of nullifying the principles of re- publican government and disregarding the constitution, but not to clean out the saloons in the Philippines. Nor has the total abstainer, Secretary Long, yet made his influence felt against this national enormity, which destroys more human beings in a day than this Massachusetts society can rescue in a lifetime. Let the responsi- bility be placed where it belongs. This is a difficult subject to handle without offence, but it needs exposure and emphasis more than any other as- pect of war. Death closes the account, and wounds of flesh may heal, but the soul degredation and dissemination of vice through the great enginery of the army entails incalculable curse. Noth- ing should stir the indignation and purpose of women like this sin against the human race. Porto Rico comes the same story. The trail of armies is the trail of the ser- pent, and no fine phrases like those of Bishop Potter can for a moment ob- scure the devlish work in which the countrymen of Washington and Lin- coln are now engaged. Two thousand years after the birth of the Prince of Peace, and pious lips, in His name, shielding the crime and the criminals! —WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. Boston, May, 19090. WILL THE LIGHT GO OUT? August 9th a Washington correspon- dent of the Brocklyn Eagle sent to his paper a message quoting Admiral Dewey in these words: “I regard the news from the Philippines as particu- larly encouraging. Aguinaldo’s lieu- tenants are surrendering, one after another. Whatever of resist- ance to our authority thore is at pres- ent in the Philippines be kept up until after our election | The insurrection is leaders, who hold From Cuba « and’ the princpal papers throughout the country. On the next day Admiral Dewey gave to the press a statement denying that he had made use of words saying or intimating “that whatever show of resistance to our authority there is at present in the Philippines will be kept up until after our election in November. The insur- rection is kept alive by the leaders who hold out to the soldiers the hope of Bryan’s election.” This denial was published in at least some of the leading newspapers of the country. It is clear that Admiral Dewey gave an interview to the correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle If it is accepted that Admiral Dewey is a truthful man the conclusion is that the correspon- dent lied, or that the correspondent misinterpreted what Admiral Dewey did say. It does not matter very much in our view whether Admiral Dewey used the words or not, whether they express his opinion or not. It is evi- dent that they do express the charge which has many times been repeated by the supporters of the McKinley ad- ministration, and if the correspondent purposely misquoted Admiral Dewey it was with premeditation and done in order to hold up Bryan and his sup- porters to the scorn and hatred of the people, and in effect to charge them with disloyalty. The inference is that in resorting to deceit and lying and in the attempt to show that Admiral Dewey, a supposed Democrat, de- nounced Bryan and his followers as traitors, the Republican leaders are in desperate straits. They fear defeat and hope by an appeal to the patriot- ism of the people to save themselves. There is one view of the matter which does not seem to have penetrat- ed the mind of the administra- tion supporters, who are madden- ed by the splendors of im- perialism, namely, that the Fil- ipinos, if they are holding out with the hope of Bryan’s election, are more intelligent than they have been con- sidered. That they clearly see the difference between the liberty and gov- ernment that will be vouchsafed to them by McKinley and that which will be granted to them by Bryan, and their love of independence and self- government is so great that they are ready and willing to make the most awful sacrifices in order to secure them. They do not take kindly to im- perialism. They are unwilling to ac- cept that degree of self-government which “is consistent with their wel- fare and our duties,” promised them by the Republican platform. They have no confidence in the generosity or magnanimity of the Republicans, and bedieve that their conception and measurement of the degree of self- government which they will be allow- ed to participate in if the Republican policy is continued, bears no resem- blance to the object for which they have so long struggled, the right of in- dependence and liberty. They have always been subjects, and they long to become citizens. And the correspon- dent, as the mouthpiece of the adminis- tration, has again revealed to the world that the great American repub- lic, which has been in the past the bright ray of hope to the oppressed natives and the example and en- couragement of all efforts of their people to throw off des- petism has been dimmed, and that the light will go out forever if McKinley is re-elected. The question to be decided at the November election is: Shall that Light of Liberty and Equality fail?” Even the benighted people of the Philippines can see, ac- cording to Admiral Dewey, or at least according to those who would use his testimony, that this is the impending issue. What shall be the answer? Will the light go out, or will it shine all the brighter after November 3rd? When I say that the contest of 1900 is a contest between Democracy on the one hand and plutocracy on the other I do not mean to say that all our oppenents have deliberately chosen to give to organized wealth a predominat- ing influence in the affairs of the gov- ernment, but I do assert that on the important issues of the day the Re- publican party is dominated by those influences which constantly tend to elevate pecuniary considerations and ignore human rights. The Democratic party is not making war upon the honest acquisition of wealth; it has no desire to discourage industry, economy and thrift. On the contrary, it gives to every citizen the greatest possible stimulus to honest toil when it promises him protection in the enjoyment of the proceeds of his labor. Property rights are most secure when human rights are respect- ed. Republicans who gloried in our in- dependence when the nation was less powerful now look with favor upon a foreign alliance. Republicans who three years ago condemned “for- cible annexation” as immoral and even criminal, are row sure that it is both immoral and criminal to oppose forci- ble annexation. If it is right for the United States to hold the Philippine islands perma- nently and imitate European empires in the government of colonies the Re- publican party ought to state its po- sition and defend it, but it must expect the subject races to protest against such a policy and to resist to the ex- tent of their ability. If the Republicans are prepared to censure all who have used language calcylated to make the Filipinos hate foreign domination let them condemn the speech of Patrick Henry. When he uttered that passionate appeal, “Give me liberty or give me death,” he expressed a sentiment which still echoes in the hearts of men. We cannot repudiate the principle of self-government in the Philippines without weakening that principle here. Eyen now we are beginning to see the paralyzing influence of imperialism. A large standing army is not only a pecuniary burden to the people and, if accomplished by gnaeeey, serv- ice, a constant sou! of irriatation, but it is ever a menace to a Republican form of government. Force ean defend a right, but force has never yet created a right. If it was true, as declared in the resolu- tions of intervention, that the Cubans “are and of right ought ‘to be freed and independent” (language taken from the Declaration of Independence). It es eq! true that the Filipinos “are and of ought to be free and inde- pendent.” ie