Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1900, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY _THE ©OMAHA DALY BE,,‘I 5. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. fly Bee (without Sunday), One Year.$6.00 afly Bee and Sunday One Year Nustrated Bee, One Year unday 1 One Year turday Bee, One Year. Weekly Bee, One Year 0! ICES. Omaha: The Bee Bullding. South Omaha: City Hall Bullding ty-Afth and N streets. Council Bluffs: 10 Pear] 8treet. Chicago: 160 Unity Bullding. New York: Temple Court ew York: Temple Court Washington: 51 Fourteenth Btreet, Bioux City: 611 Park Street CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LE Business tters and rem be addressed: The Bee I pany, Omaha. I Remit by draft yable to The | biishing Come TANCES press or postal order, Publishing Compan 1 pred in payment of | mafl accounts. Personal checks, except on | Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY T STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, 8.t Weorge B Taschiick, secretary of The Bee Yublishing Company. belng duly sworn, says that the actual number of full And complete coples of The Daily. Moening, | Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 190, was as follows: | 30,870 1 24,850 28,260 24,100 _.a%,a80 nly 2-cent stamps 28,460 20,2 28,0 28,680 28, 27,0060 | 27,020 | 27,740 | 27,770 | Total R 15 Less unsold and returned coples o | Net total sales Net daily average, GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of December. A. D., M. B_ HUNGA The attorney ge s “brief” in the Porto Rican case is embodied in a printed document covering 200 pages. | The “brief” should change its name. Governor Dietrich de “no” Just as easily as “yes” to a place bunter. That is another qualification that fits him eminently for the execu- tive chalr. It requires fully as much &parring to get the signatures of the powers to the peace agreement In Pekin as is wit nessed in arranging the preliminaries of a prize fight. Aares he can say | We fear the senate is playing sad | havoe with that bogey of a secret Anglo- American alliance worn threadbare by our popocratic friends during the late political unpleasantness. The acqulescence of China in that international agreement recalls the stage coach passenger who made a present of his wateh and pocketbook to the persuasive highwayman. The Chicago authorities have followed the lead of Omaha in calling a halt on prize fighting under the guise of “glove contests.” If they are too bad for Chi- cago they must be over the limit. In the case of the deputy attorney generalship which was headed for Omaha, we have another example where too much home competition has changed the direction of the shaft. Reliability in & newspaper Is one of the chief elements of its value. That is why The Bee Is worth full price while its cut-rate competitors are ex- pensive because of their cheapness, Mr. Bryan promises to illumine the future of democracy at the annual Jack. sonfan feast in this city next month, For this purpose no rush eandle will do—it requires the full power electric are. Governor Dietrich has invested two knights of the pen with sword and epaulettes as members of his military staff. The pen, combined with the sword, ought to make an invincible combination. Ex-President Cleveland spoken on politics and recommends that the party get back to 1ts old moorings. The principal trouble Is that the party has been drifting around so long the present pilots have lost their bearings and could not steer to the old anchor- age if they desired, has at last Senator Tillman has promised to bring his pitehfork out to Omaha and give a one-night exhibition for the henetit of the Jacksonians. He muy think the people of South Carolina know some thing about counting votes, but he could learn several new tricks by putting in & day ‘at South Omaha. When General Lee runs the gauuntlet of all the receptions and banguets that are tendered him he should be thor oughly impressed with the conviction that his assignment to the command of the Department of the Missourl is the most popular with the people of this section that could made, There is no good reuson why un checked pilfering should be so common in the High school. The pupils the are entitled to protection for their wraps and property and would have it if an example or two were made of the offenders. One case of detection and punishment would be worth all the dally lessons in moral philosophy that could be taught in u year. Some of the labor leaders and others attending the arbitration conference and making speeches advocating that method of settling difficultics between employer and employe should lay a printed copy of thelr speeches away where they will come handy. If read at the proper time It might prevent the | that | lar, in the v OBSTRUCTING NEGOTIATIONS. The British government continues obstruct neg at Pekin, cording to the correspondent of a Lon paper, the British representative at Pekin has been instructed to insist | upon the retention in the joint note of the irrevocable,” which the rep resentatives of the other had reed should be eliminated. 1t is also stated that the British government urges a declaration that until the Chi government has fultilled the de mands of the powers the allied troops | shall remain at Pekin and in the prov- ince of Chi Li The Americs to stiations word powers nese ) Ktate department has recetved Information giving o satis factory reason for the insistence of at Britain upon amending the Pekin | agreement, which, it is sald, un derstood by the department, is not re- | garded as belng material. It would seem probable, assuming the report from Pekin as to the British proposals to be correct, that Minister Conger is not keeping the Washington govern ment as well Informed as is desirable However, the opinion obtains at Wash- Ington that negotiations will not be much longe , late instructions | to the American minister being ex- pected t6 %o clear the way of obstacles | at Pekin that the signatur all the winlsters can be affixed to the agree- ment at once. This implies that the British amendments ar table to this government, CURRENCY IN THE PHILIPPIN The Taft counnission is engaged in framing a tari® for the Philippines, | whieh, it is announced, will be essen tlally for revenue, though some of the established industries will be given | protection. No less fmportant is the | question of a currency for the islands, | which Is recelving consideration at | Washington. The problem is a some- what ditficult one, owing to the fact the Philippines and their trade nnot be dealt with in this matter apart from the much larger questions of eastern Asiatic commerce and the currency system of Chin, The established currency for merean tile and finaucial business when the Uunited States took possession of the Philippines was the Mexican silver dol- lue of which there has of late been u rise, due in part to the ad- vance in the price of silver and part to the shortage of the local suppl, This Las, of course, affected all values, while fluctuations in exchange have produced wore or less disturbance, | Wihiat Is desired is a currency for the islands that will obviate the conditions | which are unfavorable to trade, but it | is by no means an easy matter to de- vise such a currency. It is realized t it would be most unwise and inexpedi ent to wake any change that would dis- locate the entire monetary system of the islands at a stroke, that it is neither practicable nor desirable that rapid and radical currency changes should be at tempted in that part of the world where the daily transactions of one-fourth of the buman race are measured in sil- ver. Whatever change Is made must be gradual. It is suggested thut the Amerlcan government authorize the coining of a special silver dollar having the same standard of weight and fin ness as the Mexiean and British dollar aud which should be obtainable as re quired for use In the Philippines. This i5 what will probably be done, as the stmplest and most practicable way of meeting a condition which cannot at once corrected by any radical chunge in the currency system without the danger of produciug a serious dis- turbance to the trade of the Philip pines. s of is NICARAGUA AND COSTA RICA It is said to be the view of persons close to the administration that If the United States is to build the projected interoceanic canal it may be necessary to adopt the policy which some senators appear to desire—the conquest of Nica- ragua and Costa R hese two counr tries, it Is stated, have a constitutional prohibition against ceding any part of their territory. They consented to the construction of the canal on the terms of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, but would not go any further. The State depart- ment induced Nlcaragua and Costa Rica to make protocols with the United States ugreeing to negotiate for the canal and to adhere to the terms of the pending treaty, This was the utmost concession that could be obtained from the governments of those states, Dur- ing the uegotiations they stood out against binding themselves to anything more. They were willing to consent to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, but to nothing which was indetintte or left a possibility of interference with their territory. It is said they plainly in timated that to yleld anythivg more would be to court a revolution, It to understand that N ragun and Costa Rica do not desive a military canal. They are prepared to let the United States have the territory needed for the construction of an inter onnfe waterway aud they are of course willing that it shall be properly \d adequately policed, but it is to their interest that the canal should be open to the ships of all countries at all times and they would naturally regard its fortitication as involving o possible danger to their territorial integrity presence at the canal of a considerable American military force, made necessary by fortifications, might easily become a source of irritation the people Nicaragua and Costa Rlca, perhaps eausing revolution directed against sueh military occupation. The governments of those countries, It must be supposed, are not blind to such a possibility and it would not be surprising if they should refuse to place themselves in a position that might at some time in the future imperil thelr ipdependence. They could never be In any danger from a neutral- ized canal under the jolnt protection of the maritime powers, A military canal, however, they might reasonably appre- hend would sooner or later cause troubl Is easy to of hasty calllng of a strike or sound strange to the employer who declares “There is nothing to arbitrate.” tnlmieal to thelr security as independent statos, | territory | ineorporated | the recent election are therefore | possibly happen | ment of its population to imagine that decided upon, ns secs likely, it is by that Niearagua a will decline to dispose of and make the concessions re- quired. In that an at tempt be made to compel those coun tries to yleld? It is hurdly concelvable and yet the course of some of the op ponents of a neutralized e and of the tevms of the Hay-Paun et ) suggests that they are not unwilling to | do The attitude the Central American states with which we nm!(‘\ deal, in the negotiations already had with them, may prove an obstacle to the canal project not casily overcome, o and Costa ¥ means improbable event would as disclosed A ROTIEN BOROUGH, Politically, South Omaha is rotten to the It the rotten bor- ough of this county ever since it was into a town. The revela tions of monstrous frauds practiced at core, has been no sur- to those who have known any- thing about South Omabu polities dur- Ing the past ten years, In a place where assessors count for more than presi dents and where leaders of all part are habitually intermixed in the same crooked deals, nothing unexpected can prise All the safeguards the law fmposes agalnst frandulent registration, repeat BEE What M An esteemed correspondent usks the Chronicle to state what its views in re gard to the Philippines would have been it Mr. Bryan had been elected The Chronicle’'s views with reference to the Philippines have been expressed many times without speclal reference to Mr Bryan's position before the country. In the first place it did not agree with him when he used his influence In Washington to secure the ratification of the treaty of Paris by the terms of which the Philip- pines became territory of the United States, It Mr. Bryan had been sincere and far- sighted in his opposition to colonialism, then was the time to have resisted the policy to the utmost. Instead of opposing it he favored it The treaty of Paris be- came law by the votes of the democratic seuators ruged on by Mr. Bryan himselt. During the recent campalgn it became evident as discussion progressed, and par- ticularly as Mr. Bryan's hmaking developed his ideas in regard to the Phil ippires, that he had no policy differing in any radical degree from that of the re- publicans. He called some things by other names, but in the main his plan amounted to the samo thing as that which was being pursued by Mr. McKinley He promised to refer the matter to con- gress, which promise was approved by the Chronicle. He said he would cstablish a stable form of government in the islands and would do many other things, all of Ing and false returns are impudently tgnored and audaciously overturned al most every time an election leld thers K siame rotten state of affairs to have prevailed in South Omalia without regard to chauge in the political complexion of may and The few men in office who ve had the nerve and the integrity to stand up against the reign of sdleism and blackmail have fared very badly, while the notorious loldups have un blushingly bonsted of their success in | levying tribute upon every interest that | has to run the gauntlet of the municipal | machine, | The ouly remedy outside of annexa- | tion is purlfication through the courts. When men who hold office in South Omaln are made to understand that | they will be held rigidly accountable | under the laws, whether implicated in election frauds or in boodle schemes, South Omaha will shake off its reputa- tion as a rotten borough. It is & mistake for the respectable ele- seems the exposure of the rottenness tends to damage their business interests. What | 18 injuring the business Interests of South Omaha is the toleration of out- lawry and reckless thi thut has piled upon the taxpayers an enormous burden that blocks needed improve- ments and keeps away investors, When the good people of South Guasha rid themselves of the incubus of rotten municipal government the Magic City will cease to be the prey of political plunderers, is oFy The river and harbor committee of the present congress Is not showing a disposition to do anything for the west, Its members « not only announced that the Missouri river must take care itself, but that ireigation measures will not be taken up. The feeling is growing in the west that eastern mem- bers, who are in the majority in con- gress, do not treat the west with fair- ness. The west is expanding and th time will come when the east will be compelled to come to the west for favors, and in view of this fact the st cannot afford to cultivate any sec tional sentiment. The legislature at its coming session should either pass new laws or make propriations which will render pres- ent laws effective, so that industrial and crop stutistics of the state can be col- lected in Nebraska as in other states, At present the man who starts out to ascertain how much and what i pro duced in Nebraska is confronted with a task which is enough to discourage him, and when he has done the best possible is not able to reach a satistactory re sult. The announcement 18 made that Am bassador Choate is coming home and may not return to his post in Eugland, The reason given is the old one -he is not a rich man and canuot afford to re- taln a position the s of which barely pays his house rent. Certainly some way should be devised by which men of ability could afford to hold such important positions even it they do not have a private fncome up in the thou- sands. which they are willing to sacri- fice. Denver has apparently lost the annual ud Army of the Republic en ment after it had secured the pri failing to come up strictly to the tions attached to the agreement. ave sorry for Denver, because the campment belongs in the west for benefit of the western wembers of organization, It it is taken east this year, perhaps Omaba can get in the running the succeeding event and come out a little better than Denvel The Indian appropriation bill emerges from committee into the house without any item relating to the maintenance of the Indian supply depot at Omaha, What is the matter? Why should not the interests of Omaba be taken care of in congress the other points where supply depots have been located? If the Chicago depot were left out, for example, would not some effort be mude to place the responsibility for the omis- sion? for same us e of u Clnch, Boston Transcript The Chinese emperor will ugree proposed terms of the powers, that we win, tails you lose.” Signit to th “heads Tera: and to the obe-Democrat. Four years ago the Nebraskans $7,000,000 in back taxes and now amount 1s reduced to $3,000,000. The voters of the state have shown that they ap- preciate the change. oint, owed Modific » of the Pact. Indianapolis Journal. The statement that the British people are Dot giving much attention to the modifica~ If, therefore, a military canal shall be tion of the treaty affecting the Clayton- | torce | backed by 7 | of empire and not as an expe the | which Involved the employment of military He would give the natives self- government as soon as they were capable of it and he would protect them against all comers, the same as the United States now protect the republics of South America To some of these things the Chronicle assented, although it pointed out the patent fact that the author of this plan evidently was not very well acquainted with the Filipinos and had no very clear idea of the | responsibilities which he would assume. It 1s much easier to take hold of some things than It 1s to let go. To up a stable form of government in the Philip- pines, to keep all other nations off the premises and to glve the natives self-gove ernment as soon as they are capable of ad ministering ft about the same thigg as 1s proposed by the present administration, 000 soldiers American sovereignty is to be exerted at every stage of these proccedings. Every act suggested by Mr, Bryan c for its exercise. American overelgnty is in the Phillppines not as a theory, not as a dream iment, but as an accomplished fact. Mr. McKinley and congress have no power to abrogate it. Mr. Bryan and congress would have had no power to abrogate it. It cannot be surs rendered to anybody. Having been estab- set WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1900, ght Have Been Chicago Chronicle (dem ) by law and by treaty it must be sustained by all the power of the republic, The Chronicle stated these facts more thau once during the campaign. It pointed out the circumstance that the democratic campalgn wa. belng carried on a year and a half too late. It might have been effec- tive in the winter of 1895-4, before the treaty was signed. It was absolutely in- effective in the summer of 1900. Tho issue then was, as the Chronicle sald on several occasions, not whether the fslands should be retained, for they must be retained, but how were they to be gov- erned? The I Porto Rico cose was one in point, but it was scarcely referred to by demo- cratic epeakers during the canvass. All discussion, except by the Chronicle, was confined to the minds of many the idea gained root that tho lssue was whether we were to hold the islands or to scuttle for home. This was a false position. It was a weak position. It cost the democratic can- didate many thousands of votes. But he alone was responsible for it. He wrote the platform and made the fssue. The truo fssue related to administration. 1t is the fssue today Replying specifically to its correspond- ent, therefore, the Chronicle takes pleasure in saying that if Mr. Bryan had been elected its attitude in regard to the Phil- ippines would have been exactly the same as it was during the campign and now is It would have said that first of all there must be order in the Philippines. It would have said that as these islands were American territory, acquired by conque nd treaty, and were as much a part of th United States as any other territory, it | would be the first duty of President-elect Bryan not to seek in some cowardly way to shirk his sworn duty of maintaining the authority of the government, but to address himself at once and with all the ability | which he possessed to the task of devising | an administrative policy which would be just to the natives and just to the people of the United States. He would have done | it, too. He would not have been president- elect for twenty-four hours before he would have learned, if he did not know it before, that no president can alienate, no congress can glve away or surrender, American ter- ritory These things should have been considered In February, 1868, when the treaty of Paris was under discussion. The ratification of that treaty settled the business, To carry on a campalgn cighteen months later as if | that treaty might be rejected as a result of | the campaizn and to comsider not at all| during that contest the urgent issue in re- gard to administration in the newly mc- | quired territory, was Dot statesmanship and it was not even credible politics now they have had their attention called to more serious matters in another quarter ot the world. How the Glass Trust Pinch, Philadelphia Record | The extortions of the glass trust have become so unbearable under the cover of the high duties imposed by the tariff upon imported glass that the dealers in paints and glass have been driven into open revolt There I8 no remedy for consumers except to | drive the trust from under its tariff shelter. The dealers know preciscly what pinches them and they have resolved to carry their grievance to the door of congress. Congress can reduce the tax on glass without reduc- 1ng the surplus in the treasury a dollar. But a remission of the tax or its reduction to a revenue basis woull save millions of dollars to taxpayers. hibitions of Bad Taste. Chicago Chroniele If Mr. James J. Jeffries should turn in and administer a terrific beating to an un- dersized newsboy he wouldn't be likely to g0 around boasting of his valor and prowess. 1t 1s in equally bad taste for some of the Lon- don newspapers to be exulting in the sub- jugation of the Boers—a subjugation, by the way, which 1s still very far from a fact ac- complished. At least one London paper, the Sunday Special, realizes the fact when It says: ““Tho less said about the south Afri- can campaign the better. Lord Roberts has subjugated the Dutch, but he did it with an army of 200,000 against 50,000 pastoral Boers." And that is the precise truth, Cheering Optimism. Kansas City Star. The address of Prof. E. Benjamin An- drows, president of the University of Ne- braska, before the Knife and Fork club Sat- urday night revealed a spirit of optimism which was decidedly grateful. “Unless the sun rises,” sald Prof. Andrews, “we will ali die, but it will rige.”" If Tweedism had ¢ tinued, it whisky rings and star routes had not been overthrown, the gloomy prophecies of the early '70's would have come true. So, today, if the evils feared and complained of, real or fanciful, shall continue and flour- ish, then there is danger ahead and disaster is imminent. But the great American na- tion shows no abatement of the vital integ- rity which has been asserted for the elim- ination of evil in the past and it will rise to that mission again, whenever it becomes urgent and imperative. This sort of faith in the destiny of the republic Is highly be- coming to all true Americans. ¢ BUILDING COMBINE, i dation of English fcan Concerns, Chronicle The Cramps have at last admitted that there 1s some foundation of truth in the stories which have been afloat about a great consolidation of English and Ameri- can concerns which are engaged in build- ing war ships. They at first denicd the stories in toto. Now they there s truth in them, but that they have been ex- aggerated, By way of explanation they say that it 1s a great desideratum to have an estab- lishment which can build and equip a bat- tleship complete, including armor and guns They say there are only three companie in the world that can do this. In this SHI country there is none. The hulls are buil in one place, the armor is m in another and the guns in still another. They say this makes the construction of a battleship more expeusive than it would be If all the work were done by one com pany. “The expenses of management would be saved," s their spokesman, “and In- stead of paying three profits to three con cerns only one would be necessary the proposed amalgamation. There will be some Englishmen in it because they controt ccrtaln gun patents, but the controlling in terest will be American. Very likely there will be some saving In the cost of management, but that be great, elnce the ekili and overright must be about the same in the three branches of werk mentloncd, whether they are carried on separately or under one gen ral management As for profita we may be sure that grand combine will not be content with much less than aoll three. We may de pend on it that the combine is not to be made in order that the government may get better rhins at lower prices, but in order that the parties forming it may real- izo larger profits. Theso comblney are not formed for the patriotie purpese of tolliu good things cheap to the govornment are going to get all they can for thelr sery- ices and thelr goods and never throw off a cent because a government s the eu cannot the Bulwer compact is probably true. Just ¢ tomer instead of some private citizen. A PROPOSED INJUSTICE, Equal Representation North and Sonth. Indianapolis Journal | The apportionment of representatives in congress to the states for the next Ah‘y'urh" is a very important matter. It may be added that never before has the subject aroused so much popular interest as at | the present time. As the subject comes to | the front it will attract more interest. At the outset It can be sald that an ap- portionment which would deprive Maine, In diana, Kansas and Nebraska of a member each and leave those states with the present representation that have disfranchised a half or a third of their voters, will call forth the vigorous condemnation of republicans the country over. Most republicans and many democrats, if the Chicago Chronicle speaks for a constituency, regard the full representation of the disfranchising states as a violation of the federal constitution, and consequently a dangerous precedent They regard it as a violation of the princi- ple of equal representation to allow a rep- resentative to 80,000 people in South Caro- lina, while in all the states of the north there is but one representative to 173,000, This injustice will be emphasized if those distranchising states are permitted to have tull representation on haif the voting popu- lation, while Indiana is deprived of a mem- ber because its fraction is not so large as in some other states, but larger by nearly 100 per cent than the voting popula- tion in districts in Mississippi, South Caro- lina, Louisiana and North Carolina The reasons given for not enforcing the constitution regarding disfranchisement is that to do so will irritate the south. What part of the south? In the last election not one voter in four went to the polls and those who did go voted for the same nar- row and prejudiced partisans who have represented the south in the house for twenty-five years. The extreme kindness of the president and the consideration shown that section in legislation by re- publican congresses seem not to have modified the bitter partisanship of the southern representative. He fights sound currenicy and other useful legislation as strenuously as he did (wenty-five years ago. The fricndliness of the president did not temper the hostility of southern repre- sentatives in the late campalgn. 8o far as the growing business Interests of the south and the men connected with them are coucerned, there is reason to be- lieve that they would regard with favor the curtailing of the power of the southern democrats In congress to inflict injury upon the materlal interests of the country. The one point, however, which congress must avold is the proposition to deprive certain northern states of one representative while those with half the voting population to each district retain the same number of representatives that they had during the lust decade, RSONAL NO A New York judge was so considerate to shed tears when be sentenced a 14- 1-0ld burglar to the penitentiary he Philadelphia mint is working over time trying to meet t demand for new pennies. About half a million a day are ground out to relieve the penny famine Speaker Henderson is sald to be dissatis- fied with the portrait for which he sat last year. The face, he thinks, is a good ki ness, but he objects that the artist has put @ wan's head on a boy’s shoulders The sultan of Turkey has, it appears, many tastes in common with other good men. He likes all sports and is a good shot. He collects old and odd weapons, is | fond of dogs and is a splendid horseman. Plans are about complete for the building in Pittsburg of a monument to the memory of Colonel A. L. Hawkins, who led the Tenth Pennsylvania regiment in the Philip- pines and died on the occan transport which was bringing his regiment home Congressman Richardson of Tennessee is the leuding Free Mason in this country since the death of T. H. Caswell, sovereign grand commander of the Ancient and Ac- cepted Scottish R Mr. Richardson has been lleutcnant grand commander and now succeeds to Mr. Caswell’s Masonlc station, which is a life station. Never was a medal bestowed on a more worthy individual than was that given to Frank Rattemacher of Hoboken, N. J., who, although only 16 years old, saved the lives of no less than 120 people during the Hobo- Ken fire of last June. With & largo boat | he rowed (hrough the smoke almost Into the ¥ [flames and took men from the burning ships and safely landed them on shore, Four times was his boat overturned, but this young hero, undaunted, righted his craft ohilippines, and In the | | @ patient, loyal citizen, he still stands true | ditions of the inhabitants, to prepare them COLONIES OR TERRITORIES? New York Sun (rep): The Ann Arbor address gives one the impression that Gen eral Harrison took the first convenlent op portunity to vent his feelings about the Philippine question, giving to them the dig- nified outlet of an apparent argument as to the law. Nevertheless, at the close Gen- ersal Herriscn found that he had reached the conclusion that waits for all orators on the subject: ‘“These constitutional ques- tions will soon be settled by the supreme court.” Chicago Chronicle (dem.): He holds that treaties, like laws, must be in harmony with the constitution; that they are void In 0 far as they are not in harmony with that instrument; that no treaty can coufer on congress or any branch of the govern- mont any power not grauted by the con- stitution; that the revenue provision of the constitution applles to territories as well s (o states and that the rights of the peo- ple of acquired territories are guaranteed by the constitution and are not dependent on the grace of congress—that thoy are rights and not privileges. Minneapolls Times (ind.): As to the Philippines the ex-chief magistrate Is him- self open to the criticlsm so often launched at more virulent anti-administrationists he tells of conditions which exist through no fault of this country or its executive, pointa to wrongs which no one denies, but falls to specify a remedy or to tell what he or any other fallible mortal wouid have done bad be been in similar case. Porto Rico I8 a case of itself—the Philippines present an unfortunately different get of problems and it were wiser to suggest practical solution than to make faces at the existent. Irdianapolis Press (ind.): Mr. Harrison was brave enough to speak out at the time when words were of value, that the atti- tude of congress and the president in the first legislation concerning these dependen- cies, namely, Porto Rico, was a serious de- parture from right principles. The pressure that has been put on him to change his views, the many inducements there are slmply for him to withhold his views, may eusily be imagined. To find now that, like to his position, and what is more, gives it expression, and hence gives it value, 18 ln- deed an encouragement. Chicago Times-Herald (rep.): We belleve that it is possible to govern the new terri- torles like the old; that this s not only poesible but that it is by far the best means to bring about peace and contentment. But if there is to be any discrimination, any exclusion, then it is better to let all the islands go. As General Harrison intimated, it Is & mistake to reason that the sound of Dewey's guns in Magila bay heralded a new mission for this country. Rather did they berald the “same old mission sounded by the guns of Washington,” the grandest mis- slon of which we are capable, the mission of liberty and equality under the law. Brooklyn Eagle (ind.): It was resolved by congress that the Paris treaty was not intended to incorporate the Filipinos Into citizenship of the United States, that it was not intended to permanently annex the islands us an integral part of our terri- tory, that it was intended to establish a government suitable to the wants and con- for sclf-government and to finally make such disposition of the archipelago as will best promote the interests of all concerned. Strained or unstrained constructions of the constitution to the contrary notwithsand- ing, that exceedingly sensible program will probably be interpreted. New York Evening Post (ind.): As to the legal questions involved, Mr. Harrison holds that the constitution follows the flag; that as Porto Rico and the Philippines are parts of the United States, the fundamental law of the republic applies to them as much a to any other parts of the United States The ex-president is an able constitutional lawyer, who has the faculty of muking his points 80 clearly that everybody can see them, and his argument that the constitu- tion applies as a whole everywhere, not such portions as a president or congress may choose to apply in one or another section, appeals irresistibly to the mind of the candid layman. New York Tribune (rep.): The idea which ex-President Harrison thinks so strange and dangerous was acted upon by Thomas Jefterson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and the champion of the Bill of Rights amendments to the constitu- tion. In spite of those sacred guaranties which he put in the fundamental law he denied the constitutional trial by jury to the people of Louisiana. This theory of a free hand 1n the territories which he ac cepted was also held and defended in his day by Madison, Gallatin, Randolph, Nichol- son and Rodney. A few years later Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson and even Cal- houn, whe had not yet taken the opposite side for the extension of slavery, adopted that view ani defended the denial of the constitutional writ of habeas corpus to Florida, Still later, in the days of the Wilmot Proviso discussion, Benton and | Webster champloned tional theoty. It may be a wrong theory | Perbaps officers of the government have been acting unconstitutionally in the terri- tories at intervals for a century, because nobody tested those particular acts in court, though they did not by any means Ppass without question and controversy. But certainly this view has been held too long and by too many eminent men to be char acterized today by its opponents as a new fnvention trumped up to serve the interesis of commercial adventurers | New York Times (ind.): Danlel Webster who was somethtng of a hand at expounding the constitution, declared that “the con stitution cannot be extended over anything except over the old states and the new states that shall come hereafter, when they /o come in."" Until that time congress was | the source of their government. The slave holders at one time eagerly sefzed upo General Harrigson's doctrine, the doctr that the constitution of its own force ex tends to the territories. They wanted, as Benton put it, to carry the constitution, “the slavery part of it, into the territories | overruling and overriding all the anti- | slavery laws which it found thero and | placing the institution there under its own Wing and maintaining it beyond the power of eradication either by congress the people of tho territory.” the same constitu- or Persttttcctttccctccccsececn Knows What Nebraska Needs Chadron Journal Rosewater has done as much to bring Nebraska to its present high standard of citizenship as any ‘ ‘ . ‘ i Mr. i other one man. He has exposed corruption and fraud in high piaces and is thanked for it by the rank and file of the party. As a man he is thoroughly awake, Ie knows what ought to be done, He knows what Nebraska most needs, He can represent his state in the $ United States senate to a better ud- i vantage than most any one clse. 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