The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 8, 1898, Page 6

FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1898 i THE SA JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 188 EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2IT to 221 Stevenson Street T THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE. NEW YORK OFFICE DAVID ALLEN, Advertis WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE <Rigge House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGC OFFICE... .-Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. One year, by mall, $1.50 ..908 Broadway ....Room 188, World Building Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 e'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 | Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. —_— e AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—“The Pursér. Columbia—«a Secret Warrant " Californ! Texas Steer. » Gay Parisians.” arts of New York.” Orphe: adeville Mechanics’ Puvilion—Masonie Festival, to-morrrow night. Metropolitan Temple—Testimonial to Fritz Scheel, Sunday aftern con, May 15. te Hall—Californta State Floral Soclety, Thursday netsel Quartet, Monday, May 16. deville, and “African Lion Hunt” Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Spectalties. and Pony Show. Swimming. incing boating, fishing,every Sunday, aseball to-day. Coursing—A oursing Park. Coursing—Ingl Coursing Park. erman, Cla The Chu | broke out. Caltfornia Jockey C.ub, Oakland—Races t0-morrow. AUCTION SALES. \day, May 9, Real Estate. at 14 | By G. H. Umbsen & C: Montgomery street, at HONORS FOR : DEWEY. —~\ EWEY'S glorious victory at Manila appears | D in brighter luster in the few words of his ydest dispatch than it did in the first re- ports. He accomplished the triple t: of silencing | the forts on land, destroying the Spanish fleet in the and mastering the capital of the Philippines | In all the tides of | achieved a greater »sing a ship or a man. ring and skill have never of war, and the brave commander from this time forth will rank among the most famous sea captains in histc war with Spain broke out Lord Charles 10st noted fighter in the British na encounter between the fleets 1s would be dependent more | 1 in command than upon anything else. to be measured by the number of ships, weight of armor and force of heavy guns a nation has in its navy, this experienced Engishman has insisted from the first that never did personal | courage and skill on the part of a commander count | for more at sea than in these days. The modern war- | ship is calculated to excite almost as much fear in her own crew as in that of the enemy. Only the brave | can heroically fight these monstrous war machines, ul whose skill does not waver in the hour of peril can make the heroism successful. Dewey | proven the truth of the estimate made His victory is the result of his Had he | Spanish opponents, or had his | ly during the battle | of Manila would be still in Spanish ; esford. er than of his ships. the Spanish gunners, hands and the Spanish fleet would still be a menace | to American commerce in the Pacific. now that hereafter “Admiral” Dewey. It is gratifying to k we can k This title, | given him spontaneously by the people in talking of | his victory [ of the hero spe; has now been confirmed by the President. | The promotion has been well and worthily deserved. | The whole people will applaud the action of the President in conferring it. A mighty deed of battle equal to the highest ever achieved by our navy has | been nobly done, and it is fitting the commander who | won the v: tory should wear the title made illustrious | in our na annals by the heroic Farragut. It was long ago that Capflalist Bradbury kicked a smaller man downstairs and was adjudged werthy to pay a fine of $100. Now the higher court has sus- | tained the lower, and Bradbury must feel that he is | paying for “dead hor Had he put up the money | while yet the memory of the kick was fresh and stim- ulating the pang would have been less severe. | | If T cannot disassociate himself from some of the wild fakes sprung in his name he will soon be the yellow journalist of the-electric world. His artificial lightning designed to strike hostile ships and strew them in small pieces over the sea has not yet got into working order, although Dewey seems to have been loaded up with something very like it. Whether the conduct of which School Director ‘Waller is strongly suspected comes under the head of felony or misdemeanor is really of less importance than the question of his guilt. In either case his use- fulness as a public official must be regarded as in a measure impaired. It is nothing more than simple justice that the pay of Consuls withdrawn from Spanish territory should be continued while they are home. It is worth some- thing to have been chased by a mob, called a “pig- Yankee” and perhaps to have unsuccessfully dodged bad eggs. The Los Angeles Herald shows excellent taste in copying a long article from The Call on the “Heroes of the Battle of Manila.”. At this point its good taste ends. It credits the article to the Chronicle, It is evident from the rumors that Alger is to re- sign that the Secretary has again been refusing to present to some correspondent full particulars as to the department plans for conduct of the war. There is a grave and growing suspicion that Span- ish soldiers only fight with zest when they find a hospital full of wounded Cubans and guarded by women nurses. | the truth of the most marvelous sea fight in recent | | which while at present purely speculative in its na- | liam Henry Harrison. | rivals in their own party who were far better known | to perform his duty to the flag, and his success is to | result from simple patriotism and an.easy mastery of | prevail. —— If the Atlantic fleet of Spain desires to have the least possible trouble it will approach Sampson and Schley with white flags fluttering from every visible noint, i F e THE BATTLE OF M@NILA. | SLL reports of the battle of Manila from an Fey&witncss are given to the people of the West this morning by The Call, and to those of the East by the New York Herald. No other paper on the globe will have an account of the great victory from a skilled correspondent on the scene of action. Thus another triumph has been achieved by The Call and Herald news service, which for the purpose of gathering and disseminating the news of the war with Spain is now without a competitor worthy of being called a rival. The accomplishment of this brilliant feat of jour- nalism has not been the result of accident or of any stroke of good fortune. It is the outcome of well laid plans arranged long ago in the expectation of war. As far back as last January it was foreseen by The Call and Herald that war with Spain was well nigh inevitable, and that when war came the Philip- pines would be the scene of some of the first and fiercest encounters of the two nations. Accordingly Mr. Joseph L. Stickney, naval editor of the Herald and one of the foremost authorities on naval matters now living, was selected to act as the special cor- | respondent of the two papers, and dispatched to the Orient to watch the course of events there and be | prepared to report either a war between European nations over the partition of China or a conflict be- | tween the United States and Spain in those waters. | Mr. Stickney was in Hongkong when the war | He went with the United States fleet on the expedition for the capture of Manila and was on board the flagship Olympia when the fleet entered | the harbor. He watched the combat from the bridge of the flagship, standing beside the commodore, and | saw the whole battle from beginning to end. An eye- | witness of the great scene, with the inspiration of vie- tory thrilling his mind, he wrote the story we pub- lish this morning. Every paragraph is a narrative of heroism, every sentence gleams with the fire of battle, | every phrase is vivid with glowing patriotism, every | word is history. Compared with this true story of the conflict the wild romances which the yellow fakers may publish as news under the pretense of having recsived it from the Emperor of China, the Grand Tycoon or some | other barbaric dignitary alleged to be the correspond- ent of the yellow journal, will be but a tame and silly production. Here in The Call and in the Herald is | times. It comes promptly in response to popular | eagerness for news of the victory. Every word of it will be read, and all who read it will find occasion for [ rejoicing that so gallant a hero as Admiral Dewey has | had so skillful a writer as Mr. Stickney to report his deeds to the world. WAR AND THE PRESIDENCY. Y the zeal with which a considerable number of | B persons have been discussing the advisability of giving Fitzhugh Lee the Democratic nomi- nation for the Presidency in 1900 the attention of the country is directed to the possible bearings of the war upon the Presidential succession.. It is a question ture cannot fail to be of general interest. Every war in which the United States has engaged has been the means of raising from obscurity some | hero to such eminence and popularity as to win for | him the highest office in the gift of the people. Out | of the war of 1812 came Andrew Jackson and Wil- | The Mexican War gave us | Taylor and Pierce. The Civil War lifted Grant from | the tanner’s shop to the White House, and had much | to do in so advancing the personal fortunes of Hayes, | Garfield, Benjamin Harrison and McKinley as to | obtain the Pre<id.ency for them over the heads of in the fields of statecraft. Reasoning from precedent, it is probable the pres ent war will afford some unknown man the oppor- tunity to gain the esteem of the people to such an extent that he will be elevated to the high office where so many other military chieftains have preceded him. The man to whom this high fortune is to come is as unaware of what fate has in store for him as are the rest of his countrymen. He is simply going to battle whatever opportunities come in his way. In all former wars the heroes destined to attain the Presidency have served in the army. No naval offi- cer however distinguished has ever come within measurable distance of the White House. This has been due, of course, to no preference on the part of | the people for the army over the navy, but only be- | | cause former wars have been fought mainly on land | and therefore the leaders of the land forces have nat- | urally and inevitably held the foremost place in the eyes of the country. | In the present war a different set of conditions will | The greater battles will be fought on the sea. | When the Spanish fleets have been destroyed the invasion of Cuba and the capture of Havana will | hardly entail a single battle of any considerable note. | We have, therefore, to face the possibility of a naval | hero as a candidate for the Presidency. An old sea dog in the White House might stir up a good many | things that are much in need of stirring, and the pop- | ular consciousness of that fact would probLably gain votes for him. Tt must be borne in mind, however, that the eleva- tion of the war hero to the Presidency does not often immediately follow the war. Taylor and Grant were the only generals elected while their laurels wer= fresh upon them. Jackson with the elder and younger Harrison, Pierce, Hayes and the others had to wait. A similar waiting will in all probability attend the hero of this conflict. McKinley is entitled to re- election in 1000, and from the present prospects can safely count on it. T e—— One German paper thinks that country will be given the Philippines in return for renouncing her claim on Samoa. It is hardly probable, however, that Dewey has been pulling chestnuts out of a rather hot fire for the benefit of the Kaiser. Uncle Sam is not bent upon acquiring territory; neither is he getting it so that a young Emperor shall have more space in which to do the warlord act. Apparently the estimate that the Spanish are with« out a sense of humor is correct. If they could recog- nize a joke they would regard themselves as more laughable than anything Cervantes ever wrote. If Blanco is really as anxious to leave Havana as he is reported to be, doubtless Admiral Sampson would take him aboard and treat him with the ut- most consideration. el A short article from the Governor of the Philip- pines as to his opinion of Yankee naval discipline would be read with great interest just at this time. Apparently the only way to defeat a pugilist so that he will not dispute the decision is to kill him. | lieve that the Southern Pacific reimbursed Mr. Stan- | March, 1898, amounted to $100,043, against $41,504 in | March, 189s. | amounted to $38,538 or 141.04 per cent. | policy. ASK THE QUESTIONS. LTHOUGH Mr. C. P. Huntington has been /[\ under examination before the Railroad Com- 5 mission during the better part of a week it has not yet occurred to anybody to ask him concerning the newspaper corruption fund which the Southern Pacific is supposed to keep on hand at all times. Much of the information which has been elicited by the Commissioners is valueless. The questions pro- pounded by La Rue and Hinton have been mouthed over till everybody is weary of them. Stanford, Crocker, Colton, Stubbs, Douty, Towne and every other man fortunate enough to be connected with the railroad has dodged or answered them a dozen times. As dealers in chestnuts, therefore, La Rue and Hinton are achieving great distinction. . As investi- gators of cold facts, however, they are showing a lamentable lack of capacity. Why do not these gentlemen inquire concerning that “advertising” contract with the Examiner? For twenty-two months the Southern Pacific paid the Mission street faker $1000 a month for keeping the peace. Had the sheet stayed bought the payments would have continued for thirty months, whicl pe- riod covered a political campaign and two Legisla- tures. The Southern Pacific also paid the Examiner $7000 for publishing Creed Haymond’s speech before the Senate Committee on Pacific Railroads, $5000 for keeping its hands off the Pattison investigation and $2500 for a horse which Hearst stole from Sen- ator Stanford’s stables at Palo Alto. The Senator said this theft was a “vicissitude of associated capital,” but the horse was stolen, and we have reason to be- ford for it. We call Commissioner Hinton's attcntion to the fact that here is over $36,000 disbursed by Mr. Hun- tington’s agents without warrant. Why not ask the old gentleman about it? We understand he takes the newspaper contract with him every time he visits the commission in anticipation of a demand for it. The document has Hearst’s name attached, and, being an original paper, is admissible in evidence to prove that Southern Pacific money has been disbursed for illegitimate purposes. The public is anxious to | learn all about this affair, and if Commissioners La Rue and Hinton do not extract the facts from Mr. Huntington while he is on the stand they need not expect to hear the last of their failure to do their duty for some time to come. We have it on reliable authoraty that Commissioner La Rue is a candidate for Governor. How are his prgspects going to be promoted by neglecting to ask the important questions we have suggested? If Hun- tington is allowed to leave the stand without telling about the Southern Pacific’s newspaper corruption fund there is certain to be a disagreeable political reckoning hereafter. p(rial establishments of the various States of the Union for the purpose of obtaining trastworthy information as to the condition of Amei'can labor after eight months of protection as contrasted with its condition during the corresponding period follow- ing the enactment of the Gorman-Wilson tariff, the American Economist has just compiled and pub- lished a series of reports from Oregon which in an unmistakable way show that protection has been to the people of that State a benefit of far-reaching value. Reports were received from 102 establishments represénting thirty-three departments of industry. They show that the number of hands employed in March, 1898, aggregated 1886, as compared with 837 employed in March, 1895. The total wages paid in PROTECTION IN OREGON. URSUANT of an intention to poll the indus- The average per capita wages for March of this year were $33 04, while those of the cor- responding period of 1805 were $49 35. From this showing it will be seen that the gain in the number of hands employed amounted to 1049, or 125.19 per cent. The increase in total wages The advance in per capita wages amounted to $3 49, or 7.04 per cent. This is an extraordinary showing for a single month, and the significance of it becomes greater when it is remembered that it is made from but 102 establishments out of a commonwealth which re- ported in the census of 1800 upward of 1523 manu- facturing industries. If all the shops and factories of the State had responded to the poll there can be little doubt but what the showing made of the benefits of protection would have been correspondingly greater. It must be borne in mind, moreover, that in addi- tion to the advance made in the manufacturing in- dustries of Oregon there has been also a marked im- provement in the condition of the farmers. The values of farm lands and farm stock have risen, and with the increase of work and wages in the cities there has resulted a better home market for all sorts of arm products. The publication of these papers is timely and op- portune to the campaign now under way in Oregon. They constitute one of the best campaign documents that can be circulated. The howls of the calamity orators can avail nothing against the prosperous showing made by the mills and factories. Protection has produced results which fully justify it as a national With this splendid record of industrial expansion, and with an equally favorable showing for the opera- tion of the gold standard, there ought to be an over- whelming Republican victory in Oregon at the June elections. Surely no considerable number of voters in the State would willingly return to the conditions of free trade and disaster of 1804, or vote in favor of getting payment for their crops and their wages in silver instead of gold. ——re— According to a dispatch from New Guinea four- teen prisoners escaped jail and dined upon eighteen full-grown villagers. The ability of some correspon- dents in the direction of lying is remarkable, or qlse the New Guinea appetite approaches the abnormal. It is difficult to believe that even prisoners, kept prob- ably on a scant diet, would be able to celebrate liberty by swallowing one and two-sevenths of a man apiece. Richard Harding Davis has sent some interesting news from the front, but when he wrote that the Spanish were without honor he came dangerously near sending something that was not news. Of course merely by being a relative f Weyler Colonel de Cortijo is not guilty of a capital offense, but he must excuse us if we regard him with sus- picion. Of course the usual dispute as to Californian ap- pointments is in progress in Washington, and the -fellows. NNESBR&NRB&88&888&888688&8&3&’388&& WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS. EE-E R 8 BRI RNN Tt is with regret I learn that a wor- thy gentleman has stopped his sub- scription to the paper which prints my stuff, and has done so because of some recent remarks of mine about Emma Goldman. I trust, however, that he is not governed by the idea that his act is to be regarded as a calamity, for, in- deed, he is the only sufferer. There are more logical methods of seeking revenge. Some people desirous of ex- pressing disapprobation send me po- etry. . A correspondent asks me to express myself as to the right of the telephone company to make him drop a nickel in the slot before giving him the infor- mation that he cannot get the number he wants. Ever ready to oblige, I am baffled by this request. The company has no such right; it simply assumes that it has. It has obtained from me more than one small coin by its sure- thing game. I do not know what can be done about it, for to smash the box with a club would be regarded as an extreme measure, and subject the smasher to inconvenience, although morally, the use of the club would often be wholly. justifiable. The matter has heretofore been called to the attention of the police, but they have been too busy in not suppressing poolrooms to take any action. The telephone gen- tlemen seem to have what might crude- ly be termed the bulge on us here, but in the last days, when the heavens shall be rolled up as a scroll, I think they will squirm mightily as the recording angel shall put his finger on a long series of items and say, “How about those nickels you swiped?” 8 de e “‘Stingy Jim” writes an expression of gratitude for the manner in which his combined churn and ice-cream freezer was extolled last week. I thank him for doing so. We all desire to be ap- preciated, and my aim is to please. R It seems to me that Willlam Jennings Bryan is not getting fair treatment. Some people did not like his campaign for the Presidency, and enough opposed his policy to defeat him. I think he made a manly fight. As to the worth of his policy, the decision already ren- dered will have to be accepted. But when some fool friends of Bryan ap- ply for a generaley for him he is blamed for it, and told that the ranks are open if he wants to serve his country. And if he were to enlist as a private the very papers now advising him to do so would howl at the act as new evi- dence that Bryan is a demagogue. . e A young woman sends clear from Towa a manuscript which she calls “A Stroll in the Woods.” It is accom- | panied by a photograph as evidence of good faith and a pretty face. I have no doubt that strolls through the Towa woods are enjoyable affairs, but ynless she can resist the impulse to write about the emotions they arouse, it is clearly her duty to the public to take them but rarely. I was touched by description of her success in getting through a barbwire fence, she being, as she aptly states, “ kind of tall and wiry,” but yet there was so much hard- ly up to this standard that to use the article is impossible. I confess to a pang at sending back the photograph. . . Years ago four men united in a plan to build a railroad across_ the continent. It was a big, bold scheme. They had a little mon- ey, which they devoted to the pru- ject. The history of their undertaking is too familiar to need recital. What- ever may have been their ambitions, honest ambitions, perhaps, at the start, they were more than realized. The four became immensely rich. Three of them have died, leaving fortunes little less than stupendous. The fourth sur- vives, his hoard vast beyond calcula- tion. It is to be regretted that the giant enterprise which Huntington, in a large measure, has directed from the first, should have been tainted by fraud, that scandal should have attended its progress, been a part of its history, and seem to cloud its future. For Huntington is a great man. In intel- lect as in physique he towers above his At the age of four score his mind is clear and keen. He knows the story of the Southern Pacific as no one else is destined ever to know it. There are chapters he will never reveal, and attempts to make him do so represent wasted effort and lost time. I saw him last week before the Railroad Commis- sioners undergoing what they were confident was an examination. It was nothing of the kind. Mr. Huntington was many times more than a match for the Commissioners. He played with them, wrapped them about his finger, made them seem his pitiful puppets. An answer to such questions as they asked would have been of no value, but he would not even answer these. He affably talked all around a point, but at last evaded it. He professed the ut- most willingness to tell everything, and told nothing. They stood in awe of him. He was the living representative of millions; he was railways, steam- ships, shipyards, gold. Not a man in the lot but knew Huntington was guilty of evasion. I say “evasion” because myself somewhat in awe of his im- pressive personality, and checked by the respect due old age. But nobody, even by insinuation, expressed the be- ‘Mef that when Huntington declared himself to have acquired nothing but poverty by his association with Paci- fie roads, he spoke aught but truth. Thus the examination became a farce. The gentiemen composing the commis- sion should remember that their wit- ness has been on the stand before. The Pattison committee tried in vain to get him to tell how he and his partners had played a confidence game and won the stake. They sought to cajole or trap him into committing himself, but failed utterly. Something of the bound- less iniquity of the Huntington meth- ods they did, indeed, lay bare, but aside from a cumbersome pile of re- ports, nothing came of it. Yet Patti- son was a lawyer of acute mentality, long experience, skilled in the art of cross-questioning, hostile to the wit- ness. At that time there were in ex- istence many records since destroyed, correspondence long ago committed to the flames, intimates of Huntington, usual result is to be expected. One way for French vessels to avoid being cap- tured would be to refrain from the attempt to run the blockade. . now silent in their graves. All the se- crets they knew are locked in his breast. There they are safe. Senator Morgan put Huntington through a course of queries. He is an eminent By HENRY JAMES. BRSNS He, too, failed. Whatever may have been the impression Morgan received, it did not shake Huntington, abate hi power, lessen his standing. The man is simply beyond the reach of law. He can defy the Government itself. Courts | and Legislatures he can buy; journals of some sort, corrupt; individuals, make his own for a price. And this little commission of doubtful authority, of untrained personnel, assumes that it can make Huntington onen the sealed pages of his life. For it to delve into the Afetant past is mere foolishness. Such accounting as Huntington may give will be given before a higher tri- bunal than the world knows. But the commission might reasonably ask him if he had a $30,000 contract with the Examiner; if he paid that paper $7000 for the printing of a certain speech; if the figure for its judicious forbear- ance was ever set at $5000 and paid. These are specific and recent things. He might think it no harm to tell about them. But as to the corruption which has crystallized into an enorm- ous corporation, himself its head and front, Huntington will be dumb to the end of his time; else charm the listen- ing ear with a flood of reminiscence and prophecy, or exalt his achievement until the hearers yield to hypnotic in- fluence, and the session adjourns, no whit having been added to the sum of human knowledge. . In good faith somebody has asked | me as to the wisdom of attending a | school of journalism. Never having attended a school having this title, I| am at loss how to reply. Still, my ad- vice would be to attend something else. Among working newspaper people, the, graduate of a school of journalism would be regarded as a joke, and his first important detail would be the un- learning of all he had absorbed during | his course, unless the mere ability to| write correct English. The only placei to be relied upon for learning the news- paper business is in a newspaper of-| fice. There some of us have studied | it for years, and are free to admit that | we do not know it all. | siiey e Never but once have I had the pleas- ure of seeing the Rev. Edwards Davis | of Oakland. On that occasion his shiny hat had been joggled over one ear, his abundant hair was askew, and the fear in his face was not the fear of the Lord. He was trembling lest a lot of reporters give him a licking, as he had used his garb to cut into their busi- ness. In other words, he had employed the character of preacher so as to be | enabled to obtain an interview from a | man, since suddenly dead, who de- clined to talk to newspaper representa- | tives. I thought then the Davis feet | were in the downward path which lead- | eth to the grand bounce, and time has | proved the correctness of the theory The gentleman is out of a job. No! clamor to have him enter another pul- | pit fills the land. The stage is crowded, The sorrowful possibility presents it self that Davis may have to go to work. | | | | | | . . Ishmael Dalghetty is in his grave, But never a tear is shed; For Ishmael, in truth, was a sorry knave, And we joy that the cuss is dead. | In life he'd a habit of lying low, 'Twas venom made him expire; So we hope his soul is a spark aglow As it laves in a lake of fire. . . I note with interest amounting to en- thusiaem that Willilam Astor Chanler has gone to join Gomez, and that he is| accompanied by a valet. There is rea son to fear, however, that Gomez has been a trifle neglectful in this regard. I trust the knowledge of his deficiency will not embarrass him. It is under- stood that a number of worthy young men are going from this country with the intention of putting up as good a fight as they, can, and that compara- tively few of them will have valets. B . It seems to me the present is an ex- cellent time for such foreign-born resi- dents as do not approve of the course of this country to pack their grips ana get back whence they came. If I haa my way I would welcome intelligent foreigners who sought this country | with a view to agquiring citizenship, and those who come merely to make money and take it away, reviling our institutions while they remain, I would conduct to the border. They deserve less consideration than the contract la- borer, and stand on the plane of the Chinese. | « s+ . It is happily the fact that I have the privilege, subject to abrupt -curtail- ment, of expressing in this column opinions which are not indorsed by the editor, and are directly counter to edi- torial policy. This relieves me, and does nobody any harm. I think the United States has too long followed the scheme of being in the world and not of it. We have attended to our own business within lines so restricted that the aggressions of nations openly hog- gish, have swept up to our very doors. So we have had to take the Philippines, so we will take Cuba, and, perhaps, ultimately, Hawaii. In the last there can be no advantage save to keep somebody else from taking it. If we assume the position of a dog in the manger, we would have to fight for the islands without owning them. I hope sincerely that the Stars and Stripes will float permanently over the Philippines. The mongrel people down there need to be governed by a strong hand, and T have more confidence in the hand of Uncle Sam than in that of the war-lording Kaiser. As to Cuba, it is certain to be ours. It will be turned over to the Cubans until they shall have demonstrated their large in- capacity to take care of it. If by miracle they prove themselves capable, then they can have their little old igland and welcome. But the proba- bilities are that while they keep it there will be a continuous throat-cut- ting performance in Uncle Sam’s rear yard. We ought to have a great navy, and let the world know that it is great, crack the impertinent pate of any back-number power which tries to di- rect our affairs, and go on the general theory that we are the people. R It is impossible not to have an ad- miration for Theodore Roosevelt. He seems to be an American all through. He is ready to fight at the drop of the hat, and is always on the lookout for a hat precariously balanced. If his ‘rough riders” do not do good work lawyer, was anxious to learn the truth.|I shall be greatly, mistaken. :l‘rwa,‘ | sale by all druggists. there are ma:!g a Sy wear glove: :::{aursuns of peace, but the chances are they will leave these behind. Roosevelt has been in the West. He knows the cowboys, and the bucking bronco is no novelty to him. He has acquired a becoming and consistent hatred for the Spanish, and they will learn to dislike him. = An evening paper remarks that at present there is a fashion of blaming the races every time a v~rng man turns out to be a thief. There certain- ly is such a fashion, but as the blame is rightly placed in nineteen cases out of twenty, the fashion itself cannot be viewed as a mere fad. PR It is good to turn from contemplation of the horrors of war to the calm and soothing pages of the Bowling Green Times, published in Pike County, Mis- souri. What beneficent Providence sent this my way, I know mnot, yet I am grateful to it. I shall attempt no analytical treatment of the Pike County product, but lay some of its gems _be‘- fore readers who do not have the privi- lege of possessing a copy. There are items, personal, serious and jocular. Strangely enough, the jocular ones are serious and the serious ones cause glad- some smiles. Here are samples: Jake Moore gave a fencing Tuesday. Jake is a prosperous farmer, and we wel- come him into our midst. Some four or five of the young members of the Peno church have been walking disorderly, and were excluded at the last meeting of the church. ‘We understand there was quite a shoot- while following . ing scrape at Curryville last week. We did not learn the particulars. Mrs. Willlam Scott is on the mend again. Qur town should feel proud for having in its limits such a good Christian lady as Mrs. Rooker. Then is told of the sensation caused by some wicked young men who placed a bent pin so that the pastor, at a emn moment, sat down upon the same. There is a column account of a social function, which event had been marked by “Dainty ham sandwiches and ice- cream which would melt in your mouth.” It is to be observed by the closifig paragraphs of the account that the function was really a recherche af- fair, as note: As the last happy guest departed, thank- ing the hostess for such a delightful even- ing, the front doors shut to with a re- sounding clang. and the floating echoes whispered through the now deserted de- partments. Dark grow the shadows, and quenched is the fire, Sound fades into silence, all footsteps re- tire, No voice in the chambers, no sound in the hall, Sleep and oblivion reign over all. Then there is a charming page de- voted to personal mention. From this I learn that “ Miss Carrie White is chilling.” The information was puz- zling at first. It did not appear that the morose disposition of Miss White was any proper subject for comment. But having captured a genuine Missou- rian, he made clear to me that the lady was merely undergoing a preliminary tussle with fever and ague. There is another Miss White, who, instead of chilling, is evidently thrilling. She has contributed a poem on the loss of the Maine, the last stanza of it being good enough for an Examiner war bulletin, in proof of which I present it: Ah! well! God will 1ift the curtain On the resurrection morn, And the one who did this playful act ‘Will be looked upon with scorn. From poetry to pork is but a step, and one may glide from Macie’s—I for- got to say her other name was Macie— from Macie’s impassioned lines to Ham- lett’s mutilated and murdered pig, al- most with a sense of relief. I will close with the editor's scathing ar- raignment: Some person with a devilish spirit shot a hog belonging to James Hamlett a few days ago. 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