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THE CHICAGO TEIBUNE: TUESDAY ATJGUST 16, 1898 and failure of Its domestic kitchen manage. Republicans 6hould not allow themselves to be deceived. They should not "cease ment. In France and Germany and OF INTEREST FROM EXCHANGES. Civilized Man as a Fighter Moral Strength In Our Battles with Spain Old Conditions Disappear.

exposing the rottenness of 1G to 1, and the dishonesty of retroactive legisla Asiatic archipelago as security for indemnity from Spain, while Budd of California and Adams of Colorado declare themselves unreservedly for their absolute retention. Business-men on the Pacific coast many of whom acknowledge that they were origlnally opposed to the war now seem generally in favor of permanently retaining the tion to enable gold standard debts to be paid in cheap silver standard dollars, even FOUNDED JUNE 10, 1847. if their opponents are mum regarding sil slowly. If the coast defenses are completed, however, the seacoast cities of the United States will he safe from harm, even if the United States should be at war with a nation whose navy was so much stronger as to allow it to send fleets to menace American cities on the Pacific or the Atlantic. There is no reason to believe that any European power will care to' try conclu-, eions with the American navy after it has reached its full growth.

But until the navy is what it should be there will be a special need of coast defenses. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ver. The gold standard should be defend ed and the financial iniauities of Brvan- ism exposed. Later additions to the United States of America are at liberty to regard George Washington as a stepfather.

There is a sprinkling of nearly every nationality in the American army, but Al- gerines are exceedingly scarce. The Philippines possibly may come in and Spain, In fact, in every European conn try except In the British Isles, the food of the workingman, though not so varied so abundant as Is desirable, is cheap well cooked, and nourishing. The English 'cook lng Is execrable. Nowhere else, except In the United State, where the supply Is endless and the vB riety great Is the wage earner fed so badi at so great a cost as in England, if Thomas succeeds In London there wouM seem to be no reason why we should not have good meals at cheap prices in ChlcarZ. or In New York.

New York World. Tax Hardens in the Before you grumble about your taxes jut rellect how much worse off the natives of the Philippines are. In the Philippine Islands all males over 21 years of age must pay poll tax that equals about 20 of our money and the women must pay $13. A man must pay a license to sell cocoanuts from his own trees or Indigo of his own raising. Every article of furniture that costs half a sovereign is taxed.

The curtain never goes t0 at the theater unless $10 Is paid to the government, and for every act of slaughtering his own animals, clipping his own sheep, or felling his own trees the Philippine fiirmtr must pay a fee to the government. There is exacted government tribute for getting married and for being burled, and at every sttp and turn of his life the tax collector holds out his hand to him. and it is not a demand that can be refused. No wonder Spain wishes to keep a possession that yields such a return; no wonder also that the last sixty years have developed seventeen rebellions in the Philippines. Lewiston Journal.

OXiI glory Arr THE. PHILIPPINE ISLJsDS. THE EUTUEE OF THE PHILIPPINES. The third article of the peace protocol reads as follows: That the United Statea will occupy and hold the City, Bay. and harbor of Manila pending the conclusion of a treaty of peace which shall determine the control, disposition, and government of the Philippines.

The interpretation which the Spanish officials are endeavoring to put on this under the head of too late to classify." Cap'n Dahlen has been much put out in consequence of the umpiring lately. General Aguinaldo seems to regard him Dally, single cepy. Scents Sunday, single Scents Dally, per week. ............12 cents VnUy and Sunday, per ..17 cent BY SI AIL. IN ADVANCE.

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Probably It needs a cold climate to bring Yankee pigs have practically conceded out all of General Shatter's strategic ability. to Spain in advance everything in the IN A. MINOR KEY. Philippines except and they hope that by shrewd management the Ameri Wade are the other two Americans who will probably serve with Lee. As far as our part of the commission is concerned, it can get to work at Havana in a few days, but the Madrid government possibly will prefer to appoint commissioners from Spain instead of from Havana, and will thus manage to consume about the whole of the thirty days allowed by the terms of the protocol.

It is understood that Blanco desires to have nothing to do with the evacuation, and his wishes "will be gratified with pleasure as long as he loses no time in getting out himself. There is no reason, however, why the American commissioners should waste the three or four weeks which are likely to elapse before the Madrid commissioners arrive. General Lee and his fellow-commissioners should be dispatched to Havana with an adequate guard at the earliest possible moment, and there are indications that this is what the President intends to do. The two army men on the commission have been ordered to Washington to receive instructions, and Admiral Schley is well on his way to the same destination, his vessel having been ordered north three days ago. Generals Lee and Wade will be specially charged to see that the Spanish soldiers do not take with them more arms and munitions than they are entitled to under the protocol, while Admiral Schley will be specially useful upon the commission in determining what proportion of the small Spanish cruisers and gunboats in Cuban harbors shall be allowed to go back to Spain and how many shall be held and added to the United States navy.

It is to be hoped he will counteract any tendency of the administration to be too lenient in this respect. Under General Lee's commission the Spanish evacuation of Havana City and Province should be pushed vigorously, and American troops should be in readiness to march down the gangplank from our transports as fast as Spanish troops embark, bag and baggage, on their own vessels. The Spaniards should be given to understand that no needless delays will be tolerated. If enough Spanish vessels are not available to remove the troops promptly to Spain then the Madrid government should hire enough foreign vessels for the work. The sooner our commissioners arrive in Havana and get a firm grasp on the actual facta of the situation, the sooner Spain will be made to understand these things, and the more promptly and satisfactorily will the duties of the full commission be executed.

For conducting and pushing this work of Spanish evacuation General Lee is exactly the right man in the right place. Her Way of Showing: It. 1 When your husband makes an effort to please can soldiers may be bundled out of mat city and sent back home. jrou, Laura, you always ought to show hlxn you appreciate tt." If the Spaniards really believe that the I do. mamma.

When George came home early protocol assures them the Philippines in the other evening I said Mirablle whole or in part, that pleasing delusion should be dispelled roughly and at once. The protocol contains two provisions. One The Marquis of Dufferin made a llttla speech a few days ago when presiding at a meeting held In the Interest of religious work in the army. He said that nothing had struck him more in the course of his long Kfe than the enormous Improvement in ihe moral and general tone of the army and ravy. The soldier and sailor of today were different beings from the men who fought under Marlborough and Wellington and Nelson.

They are subject to humanising Influences unknown fifty or 100 years ago. Yet, In spite of all theue civilizing changes, Lord Dufferin declared the soldiers and sailors of the present are equal to the bravest of their forefathers in all the virile qualities which go to make up the successful fighting man. This great lesson Is one which has been written clear in the three months of our war with Spain. The croakers are forever silenced who were so volubly declaring that a long period of peace and devotion to the Industries of civilized life was eating the strength out of American manhood. Our war was a brief one, happily, but it lasted long enough to give the lie to the assertion that we must be always fighting or we would not dare to fight.

We have seen our men suddenly taken from peaceful pursuits and bearing themselves, for the first time In their iives under fire with stanchest courage. There need be no question of comparing the volunteers with the regular troops for efficiency, but It Is certain that our volunteers have conducted themselves in such right soldierly fashion as to extort the admiration of foreign critics. The truth is that the old crude theory of the soldier as necessarily a raw-head and bloody-ibonea creature, living on saltpetre and broken glass and whisky, was fallacious, and has been made ridiculous by the changed conditions of modern warfare. Moral qualities have always counted for more than physical In the fighting man. The quiet, undaunted man Is proverbially more than a match for the ruffling bully.

Even more conspicuously ia this true of the navy. There have been some laughable tfls-illusionmenta on this subject in the course of the last four months. Some people stood agape and aghast, when told the manner of man Dewey was. What, that shrinking valetudinarian, that man. with, the disordered liver, who had to be bo careful what he ate and so regular about going to bed early, that unobtrusive, taciturn gentleman the corner of the club he the dashing Commodore who set all the world wondering? there must be some mistake! And the dapper Httle dudlsk Ensigns who jump overboard and unscrew the war nose from an automobile torpedo, or Be oft shore In a launch under a storm of shot and shell to wait for Hobson you don't mean to tell us that those blushing youths are the heroca we have beeni shouting over? Where are the ptrut and swagger, and the noble roll of the quarterdeck, and the horrid oaths? Blank disappointment sat upon the face of an ardent American of the old school who recently had the opportunity to look over the crew of a man-of-war.

Where were the salt old tars, shivering their timbers and staining their long beards with streams of tobacco juice? Where were the Tom Coffins, reeking with rum and profanity? Alas, alas, there were only trim young fellows, beardless and well-behaved, rooking quite Incapable of being the presiding geniuses of a hell of death and destruction. As a matter of fact, of course, the old-time man-of-war's man would be as much out ot place on a modern battleship as a muzzle-loading six-pounder. The beachcombers and Inmates of Hell's Kitchen and brimstone-breathed Jack Tars of other years are gone, and their place in the navy shell is that the future "control, disposition, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1898. ONE FLAG, ONE CAUSE, ONE COTJNTBT. and government of the Philippines is to be the subject of negotiation.

The other Hay. What! Hay Succeed Day? Hey O'wayt Will Day Not stay? Must Day Give way To Hay? Today, Say? Nay. When. Later, eh? Yea. is that while negotiations are going on the United States shall hold Manila.

No assurance is given that Spain 'is to be al lowed to retain a foot of land in the Philip pines. The protocol guarantees nothing to Spain, except inferentially that while nego tiations are going on it shall not be dis Secondary Matter. turbed by the United States in the pos What salary would you expect?" asked the theatrical manager. session of any points it may hold outside When you have dinner or supper served on Manila. the stage," demanded the gifted but gaunt tragedian who had applied for a.

Job, is It a real meal?" Consequently the fate of the Philippines BUSH FOB CUBAN TEASE. Already the influx of American goods, American capital, and American businessmen into Cuba and Porto Rico has begun. Wide awake ship owners all along our eastern and southern seaboard have cargoes ready or on the way to one or another of the newly opened West Indian ports in which our commerce is henceforth to. be at home. The Tribune yesterday printed a column of itemized dispatches telling of the new activity in the chief ports from New York to Galveston, and the exhibit formed a striking proof of the correctness of the prophecy that the Americanization of Cuba would speedily follow the evacuation of the island by Spain, simply through the natural processes of trade and settlement.

It is already practically demonstrated that close upon the establishment of peace a rapid increase of our commerce with Cuban and Porto Itican ports will take place. American capital will rush into both islands, and into the Philippines as well, and furnish a stimulus for business such as they have never known before. Along with the capital will go the men who control it, and close after them will go thousands of Americans with more moderate means, who will enter the islands as permanent settlers and cast in their fortunes with the newest American possessions. They will soon produce abundant exports to send back to the States in exchange for imports, and will build up a trade with their native country that will enrich both them and us. And in the meantime they will be planting American ideas as well as American seeds, and the native Cubans, as well as the American settlers, will be calling lustily for annexation after the manner of Hawaii.

Two big steamships of the Ward line are scheduled to clear today from New York for Havana, each with a cargo of provisions valued at $200,000. Three ships of the Munson line will also sail this week with similar cargoes of provisions, to be distributed among the local merchants of Havana, Matanzas, and Cardenas. These cargoes will be followed a few days later by two shiploads of coal. All these vessels will have to return in ballast this time, but it will not be long before American capital and brains will have begun to change that state of affairs, for almost every port is sending its enterprising passengers, as well as its cargoes of food, to the liberated island. The same is true of Porto Rico.

Ten days ago the steamer Silvia sailed from New York to Ponce with forty passengers on board merchants, prospectors, speculators, some with their wives all looking for opportunities to invest their money. One man represented a big brewery, another a leather firm, another a tobacco house, and others were agents of building, mechanical, and agricultural interests. A representative of the New England cotton mills was on board, and one man also had some samples of Southern cotton which he intended to plant with a view to raising cotton on that island. And so the list will continue through all the branches of American industry. These people, left before peace was formally assured.

They are but the vanguard of a great and enterprising army that is soon to follow, both in Cuba and in Porto Rico. There are golden opportunities for shrewd investors in both islands, and in snatching the opportunities these investors will at the same time solve the problem of how to secure a stable government and American ideas in the islands. Philadelphia, Tampa, Mobile, and Galveston all report a new boom in shipping circles. The business-men of Tampa have chartered all the available vessels at that port and are preparing for a grand rush to depends on the kind of peace commissioners 1 It is." 1 Then we will waive all discussion as to sal the President appoints and the instructions ary," replied the tragedian. he gives them.

He can instruct them to demand and stand out for the cession of The Eternal Juvenile. 1 Mr. Meeker, your nose looks Just Ilka other all the 1,700 or 2,000 islands to the United folks' noses." States, or to consent to the restoration Hush, Willie!" 1 1 heard you say thej other day, mamma, that of all the islands to Spain. If the Presi Mr. Meeker had had his nose to the grindstone for seventeen quit that!" dent pursues the first mentioned course and his commissioners disobey and betray him and attempt to surrender the islands, he can refuse to accept their treacherous Ascertaining; the Facta.

Inquisitive Person How many of Cervera'a ships did your battleship sink?" work. Were he to consent to such an act Heturned Sailor" Five." Inquisitive Person" Thanks. I'm trying to get of ignominious surrender the indications at the exact size of Cervera's fleet. I find by adding the figures I have got from you to the figures are that the Senate would refuse to ratify If Zoia 13 really a degenerate," as certain the treaty and thus repudiate the action the boys on the other battleships gave me rnat the Spaniards lost Just fifty-seven war vessels that so-called French scientists are said to have described hirn, their decision argues badly What! Give up Manila! By no means. Let the agitators call It Imperialism If they will, but the true American spirit will demand that we shall not surrender one inch of territory upon which we have so gallantly fought.

Philadelphia Inquirer. There is no disguising the temper of the American people. The people of the United States want the government at WTashlngton to secure the full control of the Philippine Islands, and they will not be satisfied with anything short of this. Peoria Journal. There is no question that there Is a constantly in-' creasing sentiment throughout the country in favor of the retention of the Philippine Islands and a growing opposition to the retrocession to Spain ot Manila and the Island of Luzon.

Nebraska Stats Journal. If the views of the Republican and part of tbe Democratic press, the demands of commercial bodies, and the common talk of the streets cVjj be cited as majority sentiment, the people are in fwnor of the annexation of the Philippine group. San Francisco Chronicle. The same principle exactly is Involved In the Philippines as was the cause of our interference In Cuba. The plea of humanity is as strong In the one case as in the other.

To abandon the Philippines now would be virtually to repudiate our own justification for any war at all. Denver Times. Taking Manila and Sublg Bay would be biting the Philippine cherry in two; we should be sure to take the other half at a future day. If it has been decided to take half of the Philippine cherry, the government might Just as well decide to take the whole cherry, and be over with the operation at once. Salt Lake Herald.

The Logical Solution. Hold, Govern. Develop, and Civilize the Philippine Islands." This heading, placed over a letter to the editor, on the editorial page of the New York Tribune, sums up tbe policy which that Influential and representative' Republican newspaper has been consistently advocating. It Is the American policy. Eastoa (Pa) Free Press.

If it be clear and It seems to be that Spain is without a navy, with a bankrupt treasury, with a beaten and discredited army, and, torn by Internal dissensions, could not long hold the Philippines against the Insurgents, and would have to parcel them out among other nations, the propriety of the United States relinquishing them would be doubtful. Boston Globe. There! would be nothing unusual or surprising In an understanding between Madrid and Berlin by virtue of which Germany would eventually acquire sovereign rights over the Philippines. In that event the possession hy the United States of a coaling station at Manila would provoke far more trouble than any that Is likely to arise from taking all the Islands now. Providence (R.

Journal. General Folavleja admits that tbe task of Spain, If caUed upon to govern the Philippines, has been rendered most difficult. The islands must be conquered again or Spain cannot rule. Accordingly Spanish government is out of the question In any settlement that may be made. Control and protection by the United States are the logical results of the war.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The United States entered upon the war to rescue a suffering and oppressed people from its bondage. The widening of the strursle has now placed it in our power to liberate the millions of downtrodden people of the Philippines from the same Intolerable tyranny, and President McKlnley and his advisers will be false to lofty ideals of the republic if they fall to insist that we shall keep the Philippines. New York Herald. No nation can have the Philippines without the consent of the Filipinos except at the cost of a long and bloody war.

The American, flag is up at Manila. Let It wave there until the people of the Philippines, under American protection, have grown Into capacity for full self-government. That Is the Just, the American policy. Kail the flag to the mast! New Xork Journal. Now we wish to lay down what must not be the final condition thene Islands must not revert to Spanish tyranny.

We do not now say that they tnust be held by the United States, although that Is the natural conclusion, and one not to be csre-fuUy avoided. If they should all come to us. that would be the better for them, not the worse, and. therefore, the better for us. But we do not seek them; we only must not reject them, and above all we must not restore them to Spain.

New York Independent. of the commissioners and the President. day." Suppose the President should instruct his for a great many French celebrities. Education Reelected. He (in the grand stand)" Great Scott! Did although tne ewora nas beer round a commissioners to give up nothing and they obeyed instructions, but the Spanish commissioners should refuse point blank to cede you see how that ball curved over the plate?" practically useless weapon In modern war She Why don they put somebody in that can throw straight?" fare, Spanish, officers have found it handy during the lats war when it came to surren know them no more forever.

In their room Extra Occasion. have come the skilled mechanic, the rapid dering-. Good morning, Mr. Keldon," said the tobac calculator of ranges and elevation, the ex the Philippines to this country, and it was evident that their determination was fixed and unalterable. "What would happen in the event of such a deadlock? Either the President, influenced by the mugwumps and conist.

Box of cigars? Tes, sir. Good five-cent brand?" The discovery of a new Klondike in the Canadian Northwest Territory comes just No," answered the regular customer. pert in ordnance and explosives in snort, the man In whom mental quality Is of much more Importance than physical quality. The typical naval hero of today Is hot a half-naked and gory ruffian, swarming over the It's In the nick of time, Otherwise complete want a box of your best ten-cent straight. the Bryans, Blands, and Baileys of the prostration might have befallen many people boy this time." PKHSONAXiS.

Bourbon Democracy, would back down and let the islands go; or he would stand by who have been living on. the stimulus furnished! by th excitement of ttye late war." MANUFACTURERS ASK TOO LITTLE. The Illinois Manufacturers' association has adopted and sent to the President resolutions in which, without in any way expressing an opinion upon the question of the acquisition of Spanish territory by this country," he is requested to instruct the peace commissioners whom he may appoint to exact that the ports of all Spanish territory in the Pacific be opened upon the most liberal terms to all products of American industry." The only territory of any value in the Pacific which Spain has had is in the Philippine Islands. So good a market will those islands be when developed, for the manufactured and agricultural products of this country, that it is not surprising the Illinois manufacturers shpuld be solicitous to secure trade opportunities in that quarter. That being the case, they should have worded their resolutions differently.

They should have respectfully requested the President to instruct his peace commissioners to insist on the retention by the United States of the Philippines. They should not have hesitated to express an opinion in favor of the acquisition of Spanish territory, because that acquisition will secure a better market for their products than the most liberal terms which Spain may profess its willingness to grant rail with a knife between his teh (which does not prevent him from swearing terribly), a cutlass In one hand and a boarding pike in the other, but a spectacled man on his guns, call his commissioners home. The Grand Duke of Luxemburg and Duke of Nassau, the eldest reigning sovereign in Eu An Ohio exehangeobserves that the Ohio fiotdler appear to be doing most of the fight- state the facts to the country, and order a resumption of hostilities. He could do that rope, has Just celebrated his 81st birthday, yet he has only been on the throne about ten years. the bridge reading off the stadlmeter, and quietly saying, Too bad!" when the head of his neighbor is blown off by a shelL with ease, for the army will not be dis Mrs.

Florence Craven, who is. with the exception what there is of it, in the Porto Rican campaign." Ohio has been a lucky State of late years, und in this particular case she New York Post. 1 banded until the treaty of peace has been signed and ratified. of Miss Nightingale, the oldest trained nurse in England, cherishes among her decorations the Iron Cross, the order of merit presented by Will-lam I. ot Germany.

has had what might be called! a particularly Democrats Illogical on the Question of soft snap." If the President pursues a firm, decisive tne Philippines. Tt Is clear that the Democratic Congress Ben Jordan, the prize-flghter, who recenttly course all he will have to do when Spain whipped George Dixon, America's champion Gen-era Macias of Porto Rico, in his men who voteo against tne annexation oi Hawaii did -not represent their party. The featherweight, is the! son of a London clergyman, and has "been disowned by his family because of his taking up pugilism. efforts to make martyrs of his followers by Instructing them not to respect flags of truce, thereby depriving them of the opportunity refuses finally to accept his terms will be to order the army under Merritt and the fleet under Dewey to capture the rest of the islands and whatever Spaniards are found hopeless Bourbons of Florida and Vermont are still opposed to the annexation, of any The three sons of Lobengula are now being edu cated at Cape Town at the expense or tne quar territory whatsoever, but the Democrats of States like Texas and Missouri take a broad of learning of the suspension- of hostilities between Spain and the United States; seems tered company. Toward the end or last montn occupying them.

As a precautionary meas Lomalongwe, Sitshwapa, Myolyana, ana Mrungo. ambitious to pose as the champion, idiot of er andi more democratic In both those States the majority of the Democratic Queens of Lobenirula, accompanied ty Mtyana, late headman of the royal regiment; two male at the late war. ure Merritt should be reinforced by from 13,000 to 20,000 men, so that he can make quick work of the Spaniards if Congressmen have found themselves over tendants, named Mokalbulawa ana Mapitsnoio, hniHrioa a. brace of the Queen's handmaidens, left ruled by public opinion, which among the by the south-bound train for the purpose of visit if permitted to retain the Philippines by an necessary. A few more vessels should also am auiairai passes tnrougu the Mediterranean on his way to relieve Admiral Iewey at Manila, It would be well ing the boys.

Republicans and Democrats has steadily grown In favor of utilizing the advantages offered by the war. There has been a perceptible reaction, among the former against be sent to strengthen Dewey. He should unwise American government. Cuban ports the moment they are declared open. All the Southern ports are Bismarck's memoirs are expected to appear be be given the Oregon or some other first class If the United States acquires possession for h'm to pay the Sultan of Turkey a visit.

fore Christmas. They will afford tne atneriana a kind of holiday reading it does not often get. aad the parochial policy tavorea by men Mae battleship and more cruisers. As long as of those islands their great natural riches He might be able to assist the ruler of the Bland and Bailey. Interest in them will reach around tne circle or me the United States holds Manila and its har Sublime Porte In coming to' a conclusion will be developed rapidly.

The mines of Apparently the majority of the Democrats world. Since Napoleon there has neen no otner career so stupendous, and Bismarck's qualifica bor it has a right to station there all the are exDanslonistsso far as Porto Rico Is con steam-coal mentioned recently will be In reference to the claims of American missionaries for the destruction of their prop tions to be his own historian moult no leatner cerned, and ready to welcome Cuba, In good men and ships it pleases. NOTES. worked to their full capacity. Gold mines beside those of Csesar.

In the way or memoirs erty by soldiers during the Armenian. Jlme. If the fates so provide. There most of The chances are ninety -nine to one, how massacres. will be opened up.

The other minerals which exist in the, island's will be dug out them stop, ine Wyoming Jjemocrats are, we believe, the only Democrats who have taken the logical and patriotic position that It will be the book of the century, perhaps or many centuries, portraying the life and deeds of the greatest Kingmaker In history. He Is a giant figure in the story of the Fatherland, and the near vision of him which his memoirs will present is in making extensive preparations to ship cattle to starving Cuba. No doubt fortunes will be made in this business, but fortunes will also be made in the less speculative ventures that are to follow in the development and cultivation of the whole rich island. The beneficial effects of these new activities will flow through every channel of trade and be felt all over this country, but, best of all, the rush for the new tropical territory will create new and stable American States, rich in varied products and loyally American to the backbone. ever, that if Spain discovers that thisr country does not mean to give up the Philippines, and that the President has given his com of the earth.

There will be a demand for Thh stocks of grain In Chicago elevators the United States should keep all the Spanish, last Saturday evening were 485,000 bushels mining and other machinery which is made territory It has got. The otner Demo no way likely to diminish the majesty of his proportions. Ex. missioners ironclad instructions to that in Illinois. But if the Spaniards should cratic expansionists are more timicu iney of wheat.

6,150,000 bushels of corn, 485,000 bushels of oats, 122,000 bushels of rye, and no barley. Total, 7,242,000 bushels of all object to the annexation of the Philippines, keep the islands there would be no de effect, it will back down. It will do so slowly and reluctantly, but it will have to yield and usually join to their objections a mysterious reference to the Monroe doctrine. As velopment. Everything would go on as kinds of grain, against 15,520,000 bushels a it has done for the last three centuries.

What we call aping in the case of a monkey we yet they misunderstand the Monroe doctrine finally, because it cannot go on making war. Spain is fought out. It has no navy and fail to appreciate the Immense commer The "most liberal terms" Spain might year ago. For the same date the Secretary of the Chicago Board of Trade states the visible supply of grain in the United, States call fashion in the case of men ana women. Fllegende Blatter.

cial importance of the Philippines. They call Ambassador Hay has ably demonstrated that a la possible for an American to be popular In Erf-land without spoiling his welcome In this country- Washington star. The armed camp of Europe, has learned mora about war within the last three months than it ever knew before, and yet does not know alL Spain, She knows. St. Louis Republic It will go into history as the war without a repulse for the Americans.

So much for the idea that this country was given up to mere commercialism. St. Louis Gtobe-Detnorrat. General Garcia" action In giving his army thirty days' leave of absence all round shows that he. too.

thinks that the war la over, and is perfectly willing to see peace come. Gomes 1 yet to be heard from. Boston Transcript. When the United States mail service across the. Rainy River at Korchlrhlng, was discontinued the result was that a letter posted there for Fort Frances, half a mile away on the Canadian side, now has to travel 1.250 miles and to take eight days to reach its destination.

A half-breed used to carrv It across tbe river In a bark left. It can raise some troops, but it can grant would benefit the Illinois manufactur for the revival of the merchant marine, and 1 Did you say the man was shot In. the woods. not send them to the Philippines, for its and Canada, as 0,897,000 bushels of wheat. ers little.

If, however, the United States doctor?" No, I didn't: I said he was shot in Treasury is empty and its credit is gone. the lumbar region." Yonkers Statesman. yet they want to throw away an opportunity that will noU return of building up a great foreign commerce and merchant marine. should relinquish the islands to Spain, that 10,017,000 bushels of corn, 3,081,000 bushels of oats, 440,000 bushels' of rye, and 243,000 If it were able to send reinforcements to She-" I don't believe there was a hat in church country would be unable to Ieep them, for todav that I didn't see." He" except tne one bushels of barley. These figures-are smaller the Philippines Merritt and Dewey would it could not put down the insurgents and Still we don despair of the ripening of these Democratic expansionists.

They have got so far that they admit the necessity of than the corresponding ones of a week ago that was passed for the collection." Indianapolis Journal. dispose of them in short order. preserve the peace. So there would be no by 1,357,000 bushels of wheat. 1,903,000 bush main Politician (whose friends have given him So the United States can have a splendid trade.

Finally Germany or some other Eu els of corn, 271,000 bushels of oats, larger by harbors, coaling stations, and commercial privileges in the Phlllpplnea Before long a'brass band serenade)" My fellow-citizens, this spontaneous tribute touches me deeply. I am at a 112.000 bushels of rye, and smaller by 55,000 ropean power would get the islands and group of islands by simply making a demand for them and insisting on the de they may come to see that the development bushels of barley. The visible supply of would shut out American products for the loss to find words to express my manns. ion uavo laid me under obligations I shall never, never, be mand. If this chance is neizleeted th wheat for the corresponding week of a year benefit of its own manufacturers.

able to repay." Leader of Brass -Band (In alarm) a so decreaeS 424,000 bushels. But dis vas to pe a gasn aransacuon, ma LEE'S EETUEN TO HAVANA. There is a gratifying appropriateness in the President's choice of General Fitzhugh Lee to head the Cuban evacuation commission and to command the American army of occupation in the Province of Havana. It is supposable that this will naturally lead to General Lee's appointment as Governor General, commanding the Department of Western Cuba, or of that portion of the islands not within the sphere of influence of General Lawton of Santiago. Anything short of such a complete recognition of General Lee's merits and services would be a disappointment to the American people and a frustration of poetic justice.

The world will regard with peculiar satisfaction this triumphal return of General Lee to Havana to take the reins of power United States never will have another. Why should the President hesitate to insist friend." Worcester Spy. DODGING THE ISSUE. Mv lord." said the prisoner to the Judge, VALUE OP COAST DEFENSES. should like to have my case postponed.

My law on retaining the islands? The cost of governing them will be a trifle. The adminis The examination made of the fortifies yer is iU and unable to attend." The Judge took Ex-Congressman Whiting of Michigan is the Gubernatorial candidate of the free silver Democrats, Populists, and the handful of silver Republicans. He is in favor tions at the entrance of Santiago harbor two or three minutes to coiismcr. a i vt k.j after the surrender of the place showed be postponed," he said at last, if you desire It. But I see here that you were taken In the act.

What can your counsel have to say on your behalf?" That's Just what I want to know, my lord," said the prisoner. Tit-Bits. that they had not been injured materially trative, military, and naval expenses will be small. The revenues derived from customs and excises will more than defray them. Congress surely has the ability to devise a simple and effective system of gov under American civilisation of those islands will be worth Infinitely more than any shadow or substance of commercial privileges and- that for purposes of peace or of war -harbors and coaling stations In a part of our own.

country the American Philippines will be much more valuable than harbors and coaling stations among races not controlled by America and liable to be stirred up by the intrigue, of foreigners. Security of trade' In. those islands! can be gained only by security and unity of government. To expect that the Spaniards or any of our commercial rivals will not hinder us as much as they can- If we appear not as owners 'but as tenants, Is a simplicity of expectation of which the Democratic expansionists or anybody else In his senses must be incapable. National expansion Is the American Idea of 1888.

New York Sun. of conducting the State campaign on the 16 to 1 issue, alleging that the financial by the severe bombardment to which they were subjected. There is reason to be canoe, but now It goes 150 miles by stage and 100 by rail to puluth, 50 miles (more to Winnipeg. 200 more by rail, and 20O more by steamer and canoe before It reaches the village. Great art the wonders ot civilization.

Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The Wyoming Republicans also left the matter of Philippine annexation to Uie President. This has been the attitude of all the Republican Stats conventions we have noticed. What 1 wanted In the President Is a leader, not a follower. Hia party Is prepared to follow Mr.

McKlnley In a course on this burning question consistent with the principles and traditions of the. republic And the other party Is practically committed to an Indorsement of this course. Let the President, therefore, take his ear fmra the ground and lead off according to the counsel of the fathers. Springfield Republican. Admiral Palumbo, the new Italian Minister of Marine, has decided to strike oft the list of the active fleet all the ships which, during the next naval maneuvers, show a speed Inferior to that laid down by tha navy regulations.

In addition, every effort Is being made to promote economy In the construction of battleships wherever sues economy can be effected without loss of POJf-For Instead of paneling officers' cabins and saloons with expensive woods, simpler policy of the Republican party is distasteful to the voters, and that by antagonizing FROM THE IX.L.HSTOIS PRESS. lieve that comparatively little damage was ernment, to be administered bv nersona acting under the orders of the President. it the usionists can elect their State tick it Is safe to say that If Alger had It to do over done at San Juaa by the big guns of Admiral Sampson's battleships and monitors. The natives are peace-loving and docile. again he wouldn't do neraia.

et and carry the Legislature. The fusion-1st committeemen are of a different opinion. It is true that at neither place did the fleets The money raised for the oppression of Cuba will never be paid by the Cubans. Spain can de Had they not been they would have been in a state of perpetual revolt against the misgovernment and tyranny of Spain. from the Spanish Captain General.

No one has forgotten the dramatic scene that occurred in Havana harbor on the day when Consul General Lee sailed for home, smarting nnder the slights and insults of Blanco and his minions. It will be remembered sustain any damage worth speaking of. That may be ascribed to the fact that the pend on that- I'eona ierato. They have so poor an idea of the availability of the free coinage and repudiation issue that they voted to relegate it to the immediately after the conclusion of peace Gen eral Prosperity will take command of the Indus fortifications were not provided with the best of guns and to the, further fact that trial armies of the unitea states. eona tieraia.

Under American rule they never will dream of rebelling. A small military garrison will be all that will be needed to keep the peace. Congressional districts." That is to say, How would It do to give every disabled soldier that Blanco sent word that he was too the Spanish gunners as a rule did not know nf the nresent war n. carm in 1'orto xico on the how to take aim. Had the forts been busy to see the American Consul General There will be no trouble with Aguinaldo or condition that he waive a pension Bloomlngton the candidates for Congress can talk free silver if they wish to, but candidates for State offices are expected to discuss State issues.

About the only one is the alleged when the latter called on the last day to Pantograph. equipped -with high power guns manned by American gunners the fleets would not have any other rebel chief. Their armies will dissolve. The men who comnose them win A mere coaling station In the Philippines Is not say a formal and polite good-by to the enough. Manila should be an American city, and got off as easily as they did.

go back to their fields and raise crops, which extravagance of the present administration, the islands brought under an American protecto head of the Spanish government in Cuba. Blanco will not be quite so busy when rial will be employed. The older ironciaos. the Dandolo and the Dullio. will be examined ana refitted wherever necesjwry.

Besides all th German firm of Bchlcau has been commlaelonea build four torpedo boat destroyers, one of wwen will have a speed of thirty and the other thirty-two knots. Bx. He Wouldn't Part. The conclusion to be drawn from these rate. Quincy Whig.

The Bryanites indorsed "16 to 1" in will swell the volume of exports and add to the value of the commerce of the islands. General Lee calls this time. It will be The man who boasts that he works with his recent experiences is that the wisdom of the their three platforms with great enthusi head instead of his hands is respectfully reminded remembered that when Lee got on board Everything depends on the President. coast defense -policy has been vindicated; asm. They declared it was the paramount that the woodpecker does the same thing and is Sound Doctrine from the South.

The Democratic party has always been an annexing, territory getting party, and In doing eo It never made any dangerous advances toward Imperialism or centralisation. Sew Orleans Picayune. Our esteemed Southern contemporary evidently was not brought up lr the woods to be scared by the hooting of an owL To avoid involving European nations In a war for the possession of the Philippines, and In order to extend tbe blessings of civilization to their oppressed inhabitants, we are bound to keep the islands. They have cost us life and treasure, and it would be an injustice to the brave fellows who have won. them for us to surrender them.

Fending events in the East may make the Islands of vital importance to us, and in any event the necessity for an expansion of our commerce westward demands that we shall keep them. President McKlnley may make the mistake of his life If he consents to give them up. New York Herald. his vessel and weighed anchor, he paid a and American ports which have been pro the biggest kind of bore. Aurora News.

Issue. The committeemen who have charge Nothing depends on Spain, a crippled, bankrupt country, which must submit to what departing tribute to some insolent Span Perhaps, after all, we'd better take the Philip of the campaign have decided that that tected by fortifications armed with the hug modern guns, mounted on disappearing car pines In, as if we don't Japan or some other power ish officials on the dock by waving his ever terms the President imposes. The isBue must be kept in the background. One reason is that last year 31,000 gold Demo will, uncle sam can govern tnem an right. He can govern all the world.

Danville News. arm toward Morro Castle and announc riages, need have no fear of an enemy' fleet, no mutter how powerful it may be. Cokmel William Jennings Bryan is reported as ing that when he came again the Stars crats voted for their own sound money trying to arrange to have his regiment (now on Philippines are ours if he only will say the word. The country looks to him to say it. The people will be profoundly disappointed, or rather they will be furiously indignant, if he does not.

With the Fhilimrines it is The efficiency of the forts will not be vm candidate for Supreme Court Judge. The its way to Cuba) paid in gold, as American silver at 18 to 1 doesn't go In Cuba. -Jollet Republican. nnd Stripes would be floating there. Not only will his stern prophecy be, literally fulfilled, but the man who was sent away mired, no matter how severe the bombard managers of the Bryanite campaign wish There are ten American graves in the vicinity to get the votes of those gold Democrats of Manila the graves of men who were killed ment may be, while the probabilities art that the attacking force will suffer heavy with supercilious insults will now return by Spaniards.

These are ten additional argu this year. In order to do that free silver "now or never." Let them go now and fortune never will offer them again. losses. TLe money which has been ex to sit in the seat of the pompous Spaniard ments against returning the Islands to Spain. Peoria Herald.

must be kept out of sight as much as pos who insulted him, while Blanco and all sible. It is assumed that if that is done factory has Just been completed at Marengo. pended thus far on coast defenses has been wisely spent, and the work of completing Tried Upton's Experiment Might Be The San- Francisco miner prints communlca- the odious regime he represents will take those Democrats will be less reluctant to for the manufacture of sugar from milk. It takes about 5.000 founds of good milk to produce a barrel of sugar, and this product sells for about their departure from Cuba and the West return to the fold- Goverxobs on from some half dozen these defenses, as to the necessity for which Thb Tribcnb has had so much to pay in ern Hemisphere forever. If ever the hand the past, should be carried forward steadily, of the God of justice has been manifest Territorial Pacific coast and Western Expansion, jtovernors, -stating their views In reference to the re If, however, by any accident, the Bryanites should carry Michigan this fall -and wipe out the adverse majority of nearly 60,000 cast against them two years ago, Th United States ought to have and will in history, it will be upon the day when Here.

The project of Sir Thomas Upton to furnish the working men and women of London with good, substantial meals at cheap prices will naturally provoke opposition from those caterers whose existing business la threatened by this new form of competition. But if the Upton restaurants can achieve success on. their merits they will teach the cooks, caterers, housekeepers, and tention of territ ory in settling terms of peace have a much larger navy than it has- now. General Fitzhugh Lee takes over the con with Spain, "All without exception declare Every State should have its trol of the Cuban capital in the name of the they would at once declare that the result themselves in favor of retaining Porto Rico, 40 cents a pound. Champaign Gazette.

From present Indications not one of the BOO men contributed by Bloomlngton to the war will get out of the country. And yet the boys are entitled to Just the earn generous recognition aa the regulars or the Rough Riders Bloomlngton Bulletin. If Spanish rule is tyrannous, cruel, and costly in Cuba, so must It be In the Philippine. Having driven In the wedge, England and other powers who make for civilisation and advancement think we should follow with the ax. To leave the Span-'u and insurgents to fight it cut under their barbarous Ideas of warfare would be a disgrace to American arms, Quincy Herald, United States.

was a great victory for 16 to 1. while giving Independence to Cuba. Gov Bat it will take some to create a navy of a size adequate to the demands of the country. Occasionally Congress will have The Cuban military commission, of which ernors Lord of Oregon and Leedy of Kateas Ky eon's a good lad. sir, but Vstco fon4 o' 'Is beer, and was 'ad up afore the osT?" tiemaa twice la a fortnlL But there! no more nor wot I wor meself sir.

can do a slarse or two bale wt They would do bo, though not a word had been said in behalf of free coinage during the compaiga. The Michigan Bryanites alone express themselves in opposition to the General Lee will be the head, is to consist of three American commissioners and heads of families of Great Britain a lesson of which they stand sadly In need. -Of all countries in tbe world Great Britain is the worst save one In the ignorance, In- a spasm of false economy and the work of retention of the Philippines'; Sadler of Ne naval construction will go forward too two Spanish. Admiral Schley and Genera! vada and McCord of Arizona would holffthe are proposing to "play possum." The best on'ei competence, stupidity, waste, extravagance. nn.