G. W. KUHEK, Editor. M’CRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1901. VOL. I.-NO. 5.
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
On the 25th Sir Ellis Aslimead-Rart
lett, M. P., was summoned to appear
at a London police court for assault
ing1 a lawyer’s clerk who had endeav
ored to serve him with a bankruptcy
notice for $432. A fine of ten shillings
was imposed.
On the 25th United States Minister
Conger arrived at San Francisco,
from China, on the steamer Nippon
Maru.
On the 25th Mrs. Annie Coover at
tempted to wreck the Exchange sa
loon in Junction City, Kas., using a
hammer. She was seized before seri
ous damage was done. Mrs. Coover
was arrested and taken before the po
lice judge, charged with malicious de
struction of personal property. A
large number of W. C. T. U. members
and prominent prohibition advocates
were in attendance. Trial was post
poned.
On the 25tli Gen. A. O. Miller, aged
74 years, one of Indiana’s noted he
roes of the civil war, died at Lebanon,
Jnd., after only a few days’ illness,
lie was in command of Co. C, Tenth
Indiana volunteers, at the battle of
Jlicli Mountain, Va., July 11, 1861, and
his company captured the first con
federate flag.
I). D. Thompson, of Chicago, the as
sistant editor, was, on the 25th, elect
ed editor of the Northwestern Chris
tian Advocate, by the Methodist book
committee, to succeed Dr. Edwards,
deceased.
On 1he 2fith L. P. Hunner, on trial
at Alma, Mis., for illegal banking,
pleaded guilty to the charge of re
ceiving money after knowing the
bank was insolvent, and was sen
tenced to one year at Waupun peni
tentiary.
The London Saturday Review says
that the expansion of the German
navy is more in preparation for a
contest with the United States than
with Great Britain, because the readi
est causes for future naval conflicts
will be found in the struggle for the
partition or the exploitation of the
great South American continent.
On tlia 23th George H. Bridgeinan,
United States minister to Bolivia,
who had been on a visit to the United
States, arrived at La Paz, Bolivia.
On the 26th Charles M. Switzer, of
New York city, filed a petition in
bankruptcy, with liabilities of $60,
167, and no assets. The petitioner was
formerly a member of the firm of
McPherson, Switzer & Co., of Chicago.
The czar and czarina of Russia will
privately visit England and London
during the coming season. They will
attend the Glasgow exhibition.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The comet first, seen at Cape Town,
Cape Colony, on the 25th, is visible on
the. eastern horizon. It is brilliant
nnrl triple-tailed and is rapidly ap
proaching the sun.
On the 25th the banking house of
Lcrov C. Partridge, of Ovid, N. Y.,
made an assignment. The liabilities
and essets were not made public. The
bank was capitalized at $150,000.
On the 25th dealings were discon
tinued in the share certificates of the
Federal Steel Co., National Steel Co.,
National Tube Co., American Steel
and M'ire Co., American Tin Plate Co.
and American Steel Hoop Co., the
New York stock exchange authorities
having ordered them stricken from
the list.
On the 2tlth Thomas E. Ketchmn,
alias “Flack Jack,” the notorious out
law who had terrorized the people of
the southwest for the past 15 years,
was hanged at. Clayton, N. M., for
train robbery-,and in the drop liishead
was severed from his body by the
rope as if by a guillotine. The head
less trunk pitched forward toward
the spectators, and blood spattered
upon those nearest the scafFcffd.
The government of Austria-Hun
gary has submitted to the reiehsrath
a bill authorizing the construction of
four canals in the Danube, Moldau,
Elbe and Vistula districts. The work
of construction is to begin in 1904,
nnd will be completed in 1924. Two
hundred and fifty million kroner at
four per rent, are to be borrowed
before 1912, and further funds for the
construction of the canals will be
borrowed when necessary.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $150,000,000 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
26th, showed: Available cash balance,
$155,142,227; gold, $95,272,526.
An important discovery of petro
leum has been made 20 miles south
west of the city of Guadalajara, Mex
ico, and a company has been formed
to operate oil wells.
On the 27th R. G. Dun & Co. report
ed: “Failures for the week numbered
215 in the United States, against 204
last year, and 26 in Canada, against
22 last year.”
On the 26th harmonious action was
taken by the committee on revision
of the creed of the Presbyterian
church at Pittsburgh, Pa., and a
unanimous report was formulated for
submission to the general assembly,
which will meet at Philadelphia, May
16. |
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On the 26tli an an ti-clericnl demon
stration in Lisbon vras dispersed by
the poliee. The figure of a Jesuit was
burned in effigy by the mob, who,
meanwhile, indulged in anti-Jesuit
cries.
The Filipino junta in Madrid has
adopted a resolution calling upon
their countrymen in the Philippine
islands to continue their struggle
against American sovereignty to the
bitter end.
CON DENSED~TELEG RAMS*
Capt. 'Wilson Chase, with a detach
ment of (he Twenty-first infantry, on
the 2Gth, surprised and captured the
camp of the insurgent Gen. Cailles, at
Dugot, nine miles northeast of Cn
vinti, in the Province of Laguna.
Cailles was at his camp at the time of
the American attack, but managed to
escape. Capt. Chase’s force captured
his adjutant general, five others of his
staff officers, 14 men, 20 rifles, a large
amount of ammunition and stores and
all the papers and personal effects of
the Filipino general.
In the case of James Callahan, on
trial at Omaha, Neb., on a charge of
kidnaping young Eddie Cuhady, the
jury brought in a verdict, on
the 28th, finding the prisoner not
guilty. In place of the usual thanks
and compliments, the judge scored
the jury in unmeasured terms, ending
as follows: “I do not know what mo
tive actuated you in reaching this de
cision, but I hope none of you will
ever appear again in this jury box.”
In a fire at Houston, Tex., which de
stroyed a livery stable and three res
idences, on the 28th, five persons were
burned to death and several others
were injured. The dead are Job Cop
ping, a florist, his wife and three chil
dren. A negro has been arrested on
the charge of having started the fire
to get revenge on his employer for
having discharged him.
The London Daily Chronicle says it
learns that Dr. Ludwig Mond has dis
covered a method of producing illumi
nating gas at two pence per 1,000 feet,
which will effect a revolution by
cheapening electric power and also as
bearing upon the production of open
hearth steel.
Carefully compiled statistics by the
Colorado Springs (Col.) Gazette show
that the gold prhdiiction of the Crip
ple Creek district tip to the close of
the April, makes a total of over one
hundred million dollars. Guld dust
was first discovered in that camp in
16SD.
The department of agriculture has
received no information bearing on
the reports, that have been circulated
in England, charging Doer emissaries
with inoculating horses shipped from
this country to Soulh Africa with
glanders and other maladies.
It is reported from Belgrade that
the Albanians in old Servia are com
mitting wholesale atrocities.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Yerkes has held that express receipts
for goods and merchandise to be
transported from the United States to
a foreign country are not exempt
front tax under decisions of the Unit
ed States supreme court in the mat
ter of export bills of lading.
At a meeting of the board of over
seers of Harvard university, held in
Boston, on the 29th, the question of
granting the degree of doctor of laws
to President McKinley was taken up
informally, and the sentiment ex
pressed was unanimously in favor of
the step.
The American ship R. D. Bice, of
San Francisco, (.'apt. Winn, which ar
river at Hioga, Japan, April 11, from
Philadelphia, was burned, on the 29th.
and is a total loss. The Uiee sailed
from Philadelphia on November 20,
1900, mailing the voyage to Hioga in
142 days.
James Leatherman, deputy game
warden for Wyoming, has found a wa
terfall 300 feet high in Yellowstone
National park, which he named “Lost
Falls.” The falls are in Box canyon,
two and a half miles northwest of
Hell's Half Acre.
After announcing various opinions
and hearing a number of motions, on
the 29th, the United States supreme
court took an adjournment till the
13th. The meeting then will be only
for the announcement of opinions.
The notorious “Jack the Kipper,”
who has assaulted and mutilated 18
women, has been caught at Ludwigs
hafen, Baden, red-handed, by two de
tectives attired as women.
The steamer Opliir, bearing the
duke and duchess of Cornwall and
York, was sighted, on the 29th, off
Cape Leeuwin, the most southwestern
point of Australia.
The board of directors of the Pan
American exposition at Buffalo, N. Y.t
have reconsidered their action in re
ducing the price of admission to 25
cents on Sundays.
State Senator Lemuel B. Bolter, a
prominent politician, died at his home
in Logan, la., on the 29th, after a
brief illness.
The British have enlisted a number
of Chinese at Tien Tsin for the Wei
Hai-Wei regiment.
Up to March 31, 1901, the war reve
nue act of June 13, 1898, had produced
$289,504,447.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Given an Ovation.
An ovation was tendered seven
members of the Thirty-third volun
teer infantry who arrived at Fort
Smith the other day from the Phil
ippines. They were met at the de
pot by about seventy-five of their rel
atives and friends and the fire depart
ment, of which several of the boys
were members prior to their enlist
ment, had one of the hose wagons
there to escort them up the street.
The young fellows’ names and ad
dresses are; Walter Graham, George
Shibley. .Toe Parker and Tony Eber
hardt, Fort Smith; Tom F. Dildy,
C'has. Reynolds and Hobt. E. Cooper,
Huntington.
Soldier lloyn Welcomed.
The returning soldiers from the
Philippines were given a hearty wel
come at Pine Bluff. The police and
fire departments formed in a- proces
sion at the courthouse, and with sev
eral thousand citizens, mached to the
station and escorted the boys from
the train. Public schools were closed,
and all business houses were decorat
ed with bunting. Addresses were de
livered by prominent citizens.
Will Wear Shirt Walds.
The clerks and mail carriers of the
Fort Smith post office held a meet
ing, and decided to wear shirtwaists,
under the recent ruling of the postal
department. The clerks selected a
costume of light blue chambray ging
ham waists, black belts and dark blue
four-in-hands. The carriers chose
light gray chambray waists, mouse
colored belts and black four-in-hands
Fire at Hot SprinRH.
The Hudgins house on Ouachita ave
nue, Hot Springs, was destroyed by
fire, together with its contents. The
property, including the furniture, was
valued at $5,000; insured for $3,000.
The fire was, it is said, of incendiary
origin. Shortly after the discovery
of the fire it was found that the walls
and floors of several rooms were sat
urated with coal oil.
Rn1>l»its Driven to Snndbar.
An interesting and unusual sight
was witnessed by citizens of Pine
Bluff recently. On account of the
heavy rise in the Arkansas river a
large number of rabbits were forced
to remain on a sandbar about tw«>
acres in area, isolated from the main
land and opposite Pine Bluff.
WcddiuK nt I.nmar.
Hr. L. F. Sims and Miss Florence
Kitchen were married in the Cumber
land Presbyterian church at Lamar.
After the ceremony a reception was
held at the hame of the bride’s moth
er, Mrs. Sarah Kitchen. The couple
left for Van Buren, which will be then
future home.
IteJolelnR nt Van Rnren.
The official report of the appoint
ment of P. I). Scott as a member o(
the St. Louis World’s fair commis
sion was received with great rejoic
ing among the people at Van Buren,
all of whom are proud of Mr. Scott’s
recognition by the president.
I.find Commissioners Report.
State Land Commissioner Colquitt
has tiled his report with the governor
for the quarter ending March 31,
showing the total amount of land dis
posed of to be -12,442.03 acres, and to
tal funds'$18,441.39.
Farmer Killed by Seftroe*.
Andrew McCarty, a farmer of Let
county, interfered in a negro quarrel
over a craps gome. One of the negroes
drew a revolver and tired five shots at
him, three talcing effect. McCafty died
within a few hours.
Eloper** Arrested.
Frank L. Kellogg and Miss Xellit
Keeble, who eloped from Missouri
were arrested at Fort Smith. Kellogg
was placed in jail and the young
woman sent to her home.
Rewards for Bandits.
The Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gull
Railroad Co. has offered a reward of
$2tX> for the arrest and conviction of
each of the six men implicated in the
recent hold-up on that road.
Open Olliers in Fort Smith.
James A. Tiernan, chief engineei
of construction work of the Fort
Smith «X" Western, and T. J. Law
rence, both of St. Louis, have opened
offices at Fort Smith.
Found Head in tlie Woods.
Grego Meyer, an old German, was
found dead in t he woods sixmiles from
Conway. The coroner's jury reported
that death resulted from unknown
causes.
Burned Ont.
Fire destroyed the store building
and stock of William J. Shepherd, or
West Barraque street, Pine Bluff.
Loss, about $3,000, with $1,000 insur
ance.
A Well-Known Odd Fellow.
James Haney, a well-known con
tractor and builder of Bentonville,
and prominent in the I. O. O. F., died
after a two months’ illness, aged 03.
Marriage nt Conway.
Miss Lulu Gist, of Conway, and Mr.
James M. Ligon, of Abilene, Tex,
were married at the home of tht
bride’s mother, at the forme* town.
KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION
Clva Men Killed and Several Injured by an
Unexplained Mine Explosion at
Alderton, 1. T.
South McAlester, I. T., April 30.—
An explosion of gas occurred in the
mine of the McAlester Coal Co. at. Al-i
derson, Saturday morning, by which
five men lost their lives, seven were in
jured and another is reported miss
ing. The killed are:
Emanuel Taylor, colored.
Wiley Clark and brother, colored.
Andrew Brescol.
Dominico Wesoluty.
The injured are: Ed. Andrews, col
ored, burned; Pat. Woods, burned, not
seriously; Paul Solak, burned serious
ly; Mose Garrett, colored,arm broken.
A man who lives with Joe Petro
vitch and a man who lives with
George Darling were burned, the lat
ter severely.
Joe Petrovitch is missing. It was
not known at the time the reporter
visited the mine whether he was killed
or had come out and gone home.
Two others were temporarily over
come by fire damp, but soon recovered
after being brought out.
The explosion occurred about a
quarter to seven o’clock yesterday
morning, at about the entry, be
tween Shaft Five and Slope Seven,
which led to the same mine. About
one hundred and twenty-five men
were working in the mine at the
time. It is not definitely known
whether gas ignited, but it seems
probable that, some one of the men
fired a shot that, the shot-firers had
not. fired. The firers enter in the even
ing after the miners leave and fire all
the shots or blasts that the miners
have prepared. Sometimes shots are
not well prepared, and the shot firers
refuse to fire them. Occasionally in
these cases the men afterward fire
these shots themselves, though this is
against the rules of the company. It,
is thought that this was done yester
day morning by some of the men who
were afterward killed or injured by
the explosion. The dead were all as
phyxiated.
A WEAK-MINDED JUROR
Rendered n Verdict to Plenae the
Other Jurymen anti In Sow Sorry
for It—Tine Cnllalinn Verdict.
Omaha, A'eb., April 30.—“I was the
twelfth man on the jury to vote for
Callahan’s acquittal,” said W. B. Ful
ler yesterday, and I stood alone from
the third ballot, about nine o'clock
Saturday night, until three o’clock
Sunday morning. I believe now, as I
believed then, that Callahan had not
proved an alibi, and that there was
suflicient evidence to convict him, but
for six hours I stood alone there.
“1 shall never forgive myself for
yielding. 1 wish now that I had stayed
with them and hung the jury, as I
said at the beginning 1 would do
rather than vote for acquittal."
W. E. Moore, Ed. Shaw and Other
jurymen concurred in the former's
statement. ”1 rendered a verdict in
accordance with my understanding of
the evidence under the instruction of
the court. The prosecution seemed
to think that all it needed to do was
to prove a connection between Crowe
and Callahan. Crowe has never been
convicted and his guilt is not a fore
gone conclusion.”
County Attorney Shields does not
agree with (ien. Cowan in the state
ment that Callahan should not be
tried on the charges of grand larceny
and false imprisonment, lie says:
"When Callahan’s lawyers put in
their plea for his release on the
ground that he has already been tried
and acquitted on the offense charged
in all three informations, the state
will oppose the plea. He is in the
same position, as a man who is
charged with both- assault and rob
bery would be if he were acquitted on
one or the other of the charges.”
DEPARTMENT STORE BURNED.
Coatly Fire ml rittnluirRli. Fn.—A
Score of Families Homeless
anti One Life Lost.
Pittsburgh, Pa., April 30.—Fire at
the corner of Carson and Seventeenth
streets, south side, resulted in the loss
of one life, a property loss estimated
at $233,000, consumed over a dozen
buildings and rendered a score of
families homeless. The flames were
discovered in the basement of the
four-story department stores of
George E. Lorseh & Bro., and in a
very short time the entire building
was burning furiously. It was in ruins
within 30 minutes. A panic ensued
among the customers and employes,
which resulted in what seemed at
first a well-founded report that eight
persons had perished. This was happi
ly untrue after the fire had been con
trolled, the only fatality being the
burning to death of Mrs. Kate Don
ley’s two-and-a-half-year-old child.
When the fire broke out Mrs. Donley
and child were on the fourth floor
of the Borsch building. In her haste
to escape the mother fell on the stair
way rnd was rendered unconscious.
In the excitqnient the child was either
forgotten or burned before aid could
reach it.
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SERVING A TRUST
Oa# Certain Evidence of the Benefi
cent Effect of Protection Upon
Monopoly.
Some very valuable information, if
It be properly applied, is being given
the industrial commission now taking
testimony in Washington. Evidence
from a thoroughly posted witness os
to the practical working of the pro
tective duty on wood pulp is particu
larly interesting. It affords one of the
most comprehensive examples that
could be given as to how money is lit
erally showered upon a great combine
through the ignorance or deliberate
attempt of national statesmanship.
The International Paper company pro
duces more news print paper on this
continent than all competitors com
bined, and is rapidly approaching a
monopoly. Evidence of this, showing
the large holdings of spruce in the
states and Canada, for the combine op
erates in both, was given in detail to
the commission.
Because a portion of its mills are
in the dominion their product is taxed
at the custom houses so as to shut out
foreign “competition." This presents
the ridiculous spectacle of taxing the
Canadian product of the corporation
to protect its “infant industry” in
this country. It is just as wise a prop
osition as to fatten, strengthen and
rear a living infant by confining it to
the nourishment to be had by suck
ing its own thumb. This disposes of
the theory of statesmanship involved,
but the consumers hare to suffer be
cause of the increased prices made
possible. The combine makes its pa
trons pay the duty on its Canadian
output, and at the same time makes
a corresponding increase in the
charges made for the home product.
In the final result the people are
forced to pay a direct and heavy tax
which protects no one, but is outright
extortion committed through an arbi
trary exercise of power.
The government uses an enormous
amount of this paper, and to that ex
tent taxes itself, which only means
the taxing of the people. They are
also the ultimate losers in all the
publications which they purchase, for
the cost of paper is among the fixed
charges and expenses upon which
every newspaper, magazine, journal,
periodical, book and printed produc
tion of whatever form or character
must estimate its reasonable profits.
It may endure a marginal loss be
cause of fluctuations in the price of
paper, or offset it through a decreased
expense in some other department,
but there is a fixed advance, as there
hns been through the indefensible
tariff referred to, the necessity of
making something or going out of
business results in an advance in the
printed product. Instead of perpet
uating the farce of pretending to tax
a trust to protect it against itself,
reciprocity in the pulp paper trade
should be brought about between the
United States and Canada, as ex
plained and advised by the expert wit
ness before the industrial commission.
—Detroit Free Press.
POINTS AND OPINIONS
——Mr. McKinley is consistent in
at least one thing. lie never appoints
an anti-trust man to a position where
he can injure the trusts. He at least
knows his “plain duty” to the trusts.
—Omaha World-Herald.
——The democratic country press
is the reflex of democratic thought,
and democrats must support the
country democratic papers if demo
cratic victories are to be won. A
well-supported press is more than
half the battle.—The C ommoner.
-Just as sellish interests con
tended that the tariff was for the
benefit of American labor, so now
selfish interests contend that expan
sion is for the benefit of those people
over whom we expand. They are
actuated by impulses of duty.—In
dianapolis News (Ind.).
-Unless a great change has sud
denly come over the character of the
American people, the present de
moralization of the opposition party
affords not the slightest indication
of what its condition may be a year
or two years from now, let alone
four years. The quick revivification
of a defunct opposition is a familiar
phenomenon in American politics.
The example afforded by the demo
cratic party which rose immediately
from the crushing defeat of 1872 to
successive and sweeping victories in
the elections of 1872, 1874 and 187(5
has been frequently pointed out.—
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
-The agent of plutocracy at the
head of the post office department
has usurped the law-making power
and is now making arbitrary rulings
that are without the warrant of law.
The curtailment of the sample copy
privilege to newspapers is aimed at
the weeklies ot the country. Con
gressman Loud, of California, the
chairman of the postal committee of
the house of representatives, has tried
for a number of years to secure the
passage of a bill embodying their
infamous schemes to throttle the
weekly press, but without success.
Now comes the postmaster general,
without authority of law, and makes
and enforces a ruling that curtails
the sample copy privilege.—National
Watchman.
FOR TARIFF REDUCTION,
Ctrtein I Inow of Trade and Iidmtry
That Are Touched by the
Trusts.
There is a growing’ sentiment for
reform of the tariff, based on the
increasing belief that the reduction
of it is needed for the best interests
of business. If it may be said that
the old effort, for tariff reform was
based on a principle, reform now is
advocated more from considerations
of expediency. This is not in any
wise a revival of the old idea of a
tariff for revenue only, nor is it
based on hostility to the protective
tariff as a principle. Indeed its sup
porters are those that in the days
of antagonism of those two prin
ciples supported the protective tar
iff and prospered by it. Thus tariff
reduction is now approached from a
new point of view. Undoubtedly the
growth of trusts has had something
to do with it.
The consensus of opinion in the
hardware trade is that, while a mod
erate tariff is necessary on some ar
ticles, the tariff has been abused in
favor of industries that desire an
inordinate increase in profits. This
clear view, we take it, would not be
easily obtainable unless trusts had
clarified the situation, for more of
this talk is that trusts are entirely
selfish; that the men at the head of
them are not men that have been
brought up in the business, but men
who are simply manipulating it.
It seems to us that these views,
coming from men who are in lines
of industry that are touched by the
trusts are significant; that they indi
cate a movement for regulation of
the tariff based on business reasons
and not on sentiment. Of such a
movement there is little hazard in
predicting that once started it will
not have done until it accomplishes
something, for as these men see the
steel trust, for example, watered four
times and helped in many directions
by enormous tariffs, the inevitable
protest will take the shape of a de
mand for reduction of the tariff. In
hardware, using the term as n gen
eral one, we are ex-porting over $700,
000,000 worth of products a year, and,
as one merchant put it, with our
greatly improved machinery and in
creased facility for manufacture, we
ought to be able to take care of our
selves. Moreover, certain lines of
hardware not made in this country
are subjected to excessive duties.
So it would not be surprising if in
the coming years and at a time when
the tariff has ceased to be a political
issue it should come up ns a business
subject and result in reductions in
many particulars.—Indianapolis Newi
(Ind.).
OUR PHILIPPINE DUTY.
Speedy Recognition of the Rights of
the People Should Be Made by
the Administration.
It may safely be believed that Agui
naldo’s proclamation to the Filipino
people, acknowledging and accepting
the sovereignty of the United States,
marks the beginning of a new and
tranquil era in that long-troubled
archipelago and promises to the
American government the early and
satisfactory solution of the Philip
pine problem.
The especially gratifying feature of
the Aguinaldo proclamation is that
this patriot leader seems to have rec
ognized the truth that American dom
ination means for the Filipinos some
thing infinitely different from Span
ish domination. This is indicated in
the terms of his reference to this
government as an irresistible force,
which, while it restrains his people,
yet enlightens their minds and opens
to them another course, presenting
them the cause of peace.
It is also to be noted that Agui
naldo clearly sees, and frankly con
fesses, that the Filipinos are already
beginning to enjoy liberty under
American rule, a circumstance upon
which he bases his expressed belief
that his people will yet come into the
enjoyment of their full jiberty. This
is a significant confession, the sin
cerity of which there is no reason
to doubt, and the manliness with
which Jt is made cannot fail to im
press the outside world with the be
lief that Aguinaldo is something bet
ter than the insurgent malcontent
and self-seeker he has been pictured
by prejudiced minds.
The proclamation ;n question
should have a tremendous influence
for peace in the Philippines. It
should also stimulate the American
government to extraordinary effort
for the good of this conquered peo
ple and the entire fulfillment of the
pledge of freedom which we have
given them. They have now, ♦hrotigh
their foremost leader, accepted this
pledge in good faith. Our consequent
duty is plain.—St. Lruis Republic.
-Senator Has*ia refused to per
mit his daubn;»r vo christen the bat
tleship Ohio, declaring that the Han
na and McKinley families had been
too often linked at public functions.
This declaration makes it unanimous.
—Chicago Chronicle.
-Protective tariffs and a colonial
policy will not pull in the sam* bar
pegs,—Jpdianapolis Newc (Ind.j.