CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AN1> POLITICAL.
On the 18th, in reply to a dispatch
of inquiry, On. MacArthur cabled
the adjutant yen era 1 thn.t press im
ports of peculation in the commissary
department, at Manila had been great
ly exaggerated and were misleading
(iov.-Gen. Wood, in accordance with
public sentiment, has commuted the
sentences of two Cubans, Dunbar and
Sosa, of Matanzas, from death by the
gaiTote to imy.risonment for life.
On the 18th (Jen. John C. Gilmore,
on duty in the adjutant general’s de
partment, was placed on the retired
jist by operitii n of law on account of
age.
On the 18th A. F. C. Waddell, for
the past 20 years manager at Youngs
tmui, ()., of the Standard Oil Co., and
who had been in ill health for a year,
died, in that city, aged 62.
On the 18th M. Emile Faquet, dra
matic critic, was installed as a mem
ber of the French academy. M. Emile
Oliver made the welcoming oration.
The Brooklyn contractor, Michael
J. Dady, has been awarded a contract,
amounting to $530,000, to dredge Car
denas harbor in Cuba.
On the 18th news was received at
the navy department of the death,
from heart failure, of Commander
Charles O. Allibone, commanding the
gunboat Wilmington, at Cavite. He
entered 1he service in July, 1863.
On the lOtli Jockey Head had a
narrow escape from being killed at
Newport, Kv. He was riding Clip
set ta, in the second race, and the
horse went down as the field made the
first turn. Clipsetta was in front and
the boy fell right in the path of the
fast flying field. Six horses passed
over his form without leaving a mark
on him.
On the !9th the president signed
and ratified the treaty amendatory of
the Brussels convention for the pro
tection- of industrial property, and
the document has been forwarded to
Brussels, where it will be deposited.
The quartermaster general’s depart
ment has purchased a transport at
Manila to carry animals from that
poit- to various island stations, reliev
ing the larger transports of that
duty. The new transport has been
named the Liscum, in honor of Col.
Liscvtm, who was killed at the' bat
tle of Tien Tsin, China.
On the B'tli Mrs. M. A. Radeliffe
was exonerated, at Denver, Col., from
the suspicion of having voted illegal
ly at the cHy election on April 2. Jus
tice Haynes, after hearing all the evi
dence in the ease, dismissed the com
plaint.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Incorporal ion articles have been
tiled at Pierre, S. D„ for <he Universal
Wireless Telegraph Co., with a capital
of $20,000,000. The incorporators are
James N. Huston, Thomas B. Bishop
and I.. C. Spilth.
The Continental Creamery Co., of
Topeka, Kas., has purchased nine ad
ditional creameries in Kansas. This
makes a total of 1911 creameries owned
and operated by the Continental com
pany. Nine of these are in Oklahoma,
three in Colorado, two in Nebraska,
end the remainder in Kansas. The
company's output at present is about
twenty thousand pounds of butter a
day.
(lit the lt81i the Kansas Wholesale
j.'oo- Dealers’ association met at Abi
lene, and accepted a contract to ship
100 cars of Kansas eggs to Cuba for
the island trade.
On the 18th the national Academy
of Science, at its metting in Washing
ton, elected Arnold Hague, of Wash
ington city, home secretary, and also
the following new members: 15. H.
Moore, Chicago; Edward II. Nichols,
of Cornell university: George F. Beck
er. of Washington city; Joseph McK.
Cat tell and T. M. Prudden, New York.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $150,009,000 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued cn the
19th. showed: Available cash balance,
$152,672,918; gold, $95,001,958.
It. G. Dun & Co.’s Review of Trade
reported: “Failures for the sev n
days ended the 19th numbered 206 in
the United .States, against 181 last
year, and 21 in Canada, against 17
last year.”
On the 19th the great chess event
of the year, the sixth international
cable match between America and
Great Britain for the possession of
the Newnes trophy, was begun, under
the auspices of the Brooklyn and
British Chess clubs.
Consummation of the project to
consolidate all the independent cereal
plants of the country is now assured.
The various properties, ten in num
ber, will be turned over to the Great
Western Cereal Co., at Chicago, on the
25th. The new company will compete
with the American Cereal Co., better
known ns the “Oatmeal trust.
The list of British otlicers accorded
promotions and honors for service!
In South Africa, prior to November
29, 1900, when J.ord Roberts gave up
the commend of the forces in the lloer
war. All 16 PWfei of the Gaaett*.
Officials of the French foreign office
say that the French claim against
China for indemnity amounts to 200,
000,000 francs.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg of
the 19th says the students of the
Great Kaluga seminary, near Moscow,
indulged in a series of excesses which
culminated in shooting at the bishop
of Kaluga and the rector of the semi
nary, neither of whom was hit. Fif
teen students w’ere arrested.
CONDENSED”tEl EGRAMS.
Col. James Hnyr, chairman of the
Grand Army standing committee on
free quarters, announced, on the 21st,
that he and his colleagues of the com
mittee had secured free quarters in
the school houses and halls of Cleve
land, ()., for 27,000 veterans at the en
campment in that city September 9 to
14 next. Col. Hayr is now ready to
receive applications for free quarters.
A high wind which struck Chicago,
on the 21st, loosened a huge iron wa
ter tank from its fastenings on the
roof of the Galbraith building, Madi
son and Franklin streets, causing it
to crash through the six floors to the
ground, injuring five persons and re
sulting in damage to the building es
timated at $50,000. The tank contained
40,000 gallons of water.
The hotel and bath house at the
historic Steamboat spring, Nevada,
which, in the palmy days of the Corn
stock mine, was a watering place
where more money was squandered
in a night than at most any other re
sort. on the Pacific slope, were de
stroyed bj fire on the 21st. The loss
is heavy, and, it is understood, no in
surance was carried.
Incessant snow and rain for many
hours in the valley of the Ohio caused
almost unprecedented floods in the
Ohio river and its tributaries on the
20th and 21st. Immense damage was
done at many points, the city of Pitts
burgh alone reporting losses esti
mated at between $2,000,000 and $3,
000,000.
The I .on dun morning papers of the
22d, printed elaborate descriptions of
the launching of Shamrock II. and
expressed good wishes for the success
of Sir Thomas Lipton, but they did
not venture opinions as to the chances
of the challenger.
The work of cutting the Nile sudd
(floating vegetable matter that forms
in the river and obstructs navigation)
has been so successful that navigation
will shortly be practicable from Uo.jai
to Omdurman, a distance of 1,200
miles.
The London Daily Mail says it un
derstands that the managers of the
Metropolitan district railway have de
cided to adopt the electric traction
system used by surface lines in New
York city.
.Josi'pp Jiume, ino pioneer salmon
packer of the Pacific coast, died, on
the '.'1st, from heart disease. Mr.
Hume established the first salmon
cannery or. the Columbia river i;i 1S7I.
Fifty million dollars of Great T!rit»
ain’s new loan has been placed in the
United States. The National City
bank, J. P. Morgan & Co., Baring,
Magouti & Co., and the New York Life
Insurance Co., comprise the syndicate
that has taken the loan. American
subscriptions will probably aggregate
much in excess of Ihe $50,000,000 ar
ranged for.
Kidney C. Newsom, teacher of En
glish and Latin at the manual train
ing high school of Indianapolis, lml.,
has accepted the situation of super
intendent in one of the nine divisions
of the Philippine islands. Mr. New
som will leave to assume his new
duties in a fen weeks. 11c will be ac
companied by Mrs. Newsom.
A terrific natural gas explosion oc
curred in the Commercial hotel at St.
Marys, \V. Ya., on the 22d, resulting
in the death of four persons. The en
tire building, a large frame, was in
stantly a mass of flames, and was en
tirely destroyed. Several persons
were badly injured, but will recover.
Thomas Shelton, editor of The
Christian, a monthly publication of
Denver, Col., was arrested, on the 22tl,
on an indictment returned by the fed
eral grand juiy, charging him with
using tbe mails to defraud. Shelton
professes to cure all mental and phy
sical ills by sending “vibrations."
Mrs. Elizabeth H. Ward died in
Kansas City, Kas., on the 22d, at the
home of her son after a brief illness.
She was the daughter of Maj. Chas.
Wheeler, who served with distinction
in the war of 1812 and in the Mexican
war.
Every mine in the fifth Ohio sub
district, which includes Belmont, Har
rison and Jefferson counties, Ohio,
and the four West Virginia Pan-Han
dle counties, is idle, the strike order
having become effective on the 22d.
The French foreign minister, M.
Deloasse, arrived at St. Petersburg,
on ttii‘ 22d, from Paris. A series of
dinners has been arranged in his
honor and the czar will receive him
in audience at Tzarskoe-Selo.
\ skiff containing three persons
who were catching driftwood in the
Ohio rher at Legionville, Pa., cap
sized, on the 22d, and two of the oc
cupants, W. II. Barnhart and Thomas
Hoslinger, were drowned.
The Beer force under Commandant
Bokburg. composed of 100 men, with
wagons and rifles, have surrendered
near Middlesburg, Transvaal colony.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
KnlKlita Templar Official*.
The Knights Templar grand com:
mandery of Arkansas held its an:
nnal session in Little Rook, and elect
ed the following officers for the en
suing term: E. A. McCulloch, Marian
na, grand commander; Frank Hill,
Little Rock, deputy grand comman
der; (J. J. Klock, Eureka Spring*,
grand generalissimo; T. II. Head, Pipe
Bluff, grand captain general; S. P.
Collins, Hot Springs, grand senior
warden; Thomas II. Jones, Little
Rock, grand junior warden; J. L
Caldwell, Pine Bluff, grand prelate)
John Brodie, Little Rock, grand treas
urer; Fay Hempstead, Little Rock,
grand recorder; James Chappie, Lit.
tie Rock, grand sword bearer; Nick
Kaiser, Eureka Springs, grand stand
ard bearer; Peter Buekey, Marianna,
grand warden; Ed Metcalf, Little
Rock, grand sentinel.
Accused of Murder.
Bine Whitlatch was arrested at
Mena, Folk county, charged with the
murder of Florence Wiley at Baby
Ruth City, 15 miles south of the
former town. The girl was washing
near the house,and it is supposed that
when the murderer appeared she
rushed into the house, where the fa
tal shot was fired. She was con
scious when her father arrived, and
she told him that Bine Whitlatch had
shot her. Whitlatch claims that ho
was at work hi the field at the time of
the tragedy. He had threatened the
girl’s life before, because she would
not receive his attentions.
Fly t'ncle Sain.
Says an item sent from Texarkana:
Deputy Marshal Holman came in from
Columbia county, having in charge
Jeff Wheeler, who is charged with a
violation of the liquor revenue laws
in that county. The accused was
given a hearing before United States
Commissioner Kommen ille, who held
him for the. iederal grand jury in a
bond of $5C0.
Ilejoicii\k nf Van Bnren.
The official report of the appoint
ment of P. D. Scott as a member of
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.
Mr*. Atkinson’* Will Filed.
The will of Mrs. Maggie Atkinson
wife of R. (I. Atkinson, has been filed
at Pine Bluff. She bequeather all of
her property to her sisters, Airs. Mol
lie S. Battle, of Alabama, and Mrs
Fannie Levy and Mrs. Fannie Carne
gie, of Fort Worth, Tex.
Will Hunt for Oil.
The Choctaw Oil Co. has filed arti
cles of incorporation at Fort Smith.
The capital siock is $100,000, of which
$10,000 is paid up. A contract for 3,
000 feet of drilling for oil has been let
The land to be prospected is neui
Fort Smith.
Buy* Water and Might Plant.
,T. W. Wilson, of Arkadelphia, has
bought the plant ot the old watei
and light company, at that town, foi
$12,500. New dynamos will he put ia
at once, and good light and watei
service will be resumed at an earlj
date.
Mysterious Dentil Xear Mena.
W. .). llrown was found dead l.'ea.
the tracks of the Kansas City South
ern, nine miles north of Mena. Fall
county. He had been struck over tin
left eye with a blunt intrument, ant
it is thought murder was done.
Queen of the Elks’ Fair.
Miss Loin a Fouke, daughter of Pres
ident George W. Fouke of the Texan
kana, Shreveport & Natehes Railroad
Co., was elected by the Klks, queen ol
their trades’ carnival and street fail
to begin at Texarkana on April 29.
I.anil Commissioners ltenort.
State Land Commissioner Colquitt
lias tiled his report with the governor
for ‘he quarter ending March 31
showing the total amount of land dis
posed of to be 42,442.03 acres, and to
tal funds $18,441.39.
Editors Arrange Plans.
The executive committee of the Ar
kansas Press association met at Little
Rock, the other day, and arranged the
programme for the annual meeting
of the association, which opens at Hot
Springs June 5.
Fire nt Cotton Plant.
Fire at Cotton Plant, Monroe coun
ty, destroyed the drug store of Ander
son Pros., Ed Vaughan & Co.’s gen
eral merchandise store and Reeves’
grocery store. Total loss will amount
to $4,000.
Girl Bnrneil to Death.
Addie Connolly, the eight-year-old
daughter of J. \Y. Connolly, of Rocky,
Polk county, while burning cornstalks
in a held, accidentally set fire to her
dress and was fatally burned.
Section Hand Killed.
Francis Harris, a Frisco section
hand, was struck by the Frisco fust
mail and instantly killed, at Fayette
ville. He had been married ;-#ly a
tv t el:.
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THE CONVERTED AGUINALDO,
B« Has Seen for lllmcelf the Benevolent
Intent of the United State*
and Is Satisfied.
Manila, April 23.—A press repre
sentative visited- Emilio Aguinaldo,
yesterday, at 56 Soulano streei, whith
er he was removed from the Malaca
nan, and found him in a large room
up stairs, furnished with a table, a
typewriting machine, three settees
and 20 chairs. His wife, who was en
tertaining a number of Filipino wom
en friends, sat at one end of the
room, while Aguinaldo, smoking a
cigar and chatting with Benito Legar
do, occupied the opposite corner.
Others present were Lieut.-Col.
John S. Mallory, of the Forty-first
volunteer infantry, who has charge
of Aguinaldo; Lieut. Gilbert A.
Youngberg, of the Third artillery,
and Mr. Fisher, Gen. MacArthur's pri
vate secretary.
Aguinaldo, whose bearing was
courteous and dignified, was dressed
in white, Icoked well and altogether
made an excellent impression. Le
gardo. who but recently returned
from the United States, was telling
him about, the trip; and he seemed in
tensely interested, smiling frequently
and asking numerous questions. He
inquired particularly as to what Pres
ident McKinley said, and seemed
anxious to' know what was thought
of him in the United States.
He was rather reluctant to talk for
publication, and considered every
question carefully before answering.
He said he was doing all he could to
assist in the pacification of the islands
and was surprised at what the Amer
icans had accomplished. tVhen he
was first captured, he went on to say,
he was greatly astonished to find that
a majority of the Filipinos enter
tained the opinion that American sov
ereignty was preferable to independ
ence; but now he was inclined to be
lieve that way himself. He explained
that since the dissolution of the in
surgent congress and the declaration
of guerilla warfare the chiefs had
operated to all intents and purposes
independently. They recognized him
as commander-in-chief, and he issued
some orders; but for the last seven
months communication had been diffi
cult and he had been almost discon
nected.
“1 am now urging in the strongest
possible manner,’’ said Aguinaldo,
“that all insurgents should surrender
and swear allegiance to the United
States.”
He expresses the opinion that 1 inio,
Lnsban, Malvar and other representa
tive insurgents will surrender as soon
as they come to understand the na
ture of the amnesty ofl'ered them. He
said he hoped that when the work
of pacification was complete and con
ditions were settled, the prisoners in
Guam would he released.
After referring in grateful terms to
the courteous treatment accorded
him by ihe military authorities, he
declared his conviction that the civil
government which would follow paci
fication, would realize the highest
hopes of the Filipino people. When
qestioned regarding to report that he
would visit the United States, he re
plied that he would like to do so, but
had made no plans as yet, placing
himself entirely at the disposition of
the United States government. He
observed:
‘‘livery word in my address to ray
countrymen, the Filipinos, came from
my heart. 1 hope ihe Americans give
me thorough credence in my sincere
efforts to restore peace and, under
American auspices, to promote the
welfare and prosperity of flie Philip
pines.”
RUSSIA’S RETALIATION.
Copy of the New Tariff on American
Machinery Deceived by the
State Department.
Washington, April 23.—The state
department has received from Ambas
sador Tower, at St. Petersburg, and
Consul Hcenan, at Odessa, copies of
the- order ot the Russian minister of
finance imposing the Russian retalia
tory tariff on American machinery,
anti a complete set of the regulations
governing the identification of the
articles levied upon. The tariff
schedule just received is a revision of
one formerly transmitted to the state
department. In the lalter ease, a
number ot mistakes were made in re
ducing amounts in Russian roubles to
their equivalent in United States cur
rency.
DRIVEN OUTBY HEAVY SNOW.
Snioky Mountain Herders Abundoq
Their Herds to Perish
by Freezing.
Knoxville, Tenn., April 23.—A party
of herders arrived here, yesterday,
from the Smoky mountains, having
been driven out by the heavy snow.
They report that they left 400 to 500
cattle behind, all of which, they say,
have frozen to death by this time.
The snow was from four to six feet
deep when they started homeward
Thursday. They had to flee for their
lives. Their horses were too numb to
carry a human load and had to be led
out of the mountains.
CUBA UNDER COERCION.
A. Decision iu Advance Thai fhe Platt
Amendment Must Stand
In Evident,
Within a week the Cuban constitu
tional convention defeated a motion to
accept the Platt amendment, but two
votes out of 2G being recorded in the
affirmative. Neither rancor nov haste
has been displayed by the members of
the convention in reaching this de
cisive conclusion. Every feature of the
amendment was exhaustively dis
cussed, this treatment being in strik
ing contrast with the way in which the
measuie was hustled through the sen
ate in the final rush of business when
there was no chance to investi
gate its merits, give the side of Cuba a
hearing or do anything but blindly
obey administration orders. The al
most unanimity with which the
amendment was rejected and the rap
idly changing sentiment among those
who have heretofore favored either a
protectorate or annexation, cannot
but be accepted as expressive of the
will of the majority.
The tension is not as great as might
be implied from the bitterness of the
radicals whose organ published a
coarse and insulting cartoon of the
president and the secretary of war,
but wherever there has been a chance
to test the popular sentiment it has
pronounced against the amendment.
A week ago the national party in San
tiago, representative of the masses,
passed a resolution against the de
mands of this government. Even the
most conservative element is insisting
that the United States should at least
make larger tariff concessions to the
island, thus giving a substantial evi
dence of the extreme friendliness ex
pressed.
Now there is talk of the constitu
tional convention sending to Washing
ton a commission to consult with the
president and secretary of war re
garding the Platt amendment. It is
not to be expected that much com
fort can be had from this original
source of the legislation objected to.
There is a decision in advance that it
must stand, and the one satisfaction
to be hoped for is a definite construc
tion, though this would have no bind
ing force any more than did the
memorable pledge of congress that
Cuba should have absolute indepen
dence. It will be recalled in this con
nection that the administrative de
partment urged upon both the senate
and house the promptest action upon
matters involving our colonial inter
ests, as it was essential to know just
where the government stood, but now
that we are dealing with a weaker and
dependent power of our own creation
there is not the slightest hurry to en
lighten it as to its status. The presi
dent will not change his plans for a
pleasure trip and the commission ivill
have to abide his convenience.—De
troit Free Press.
A DESPOTIC SYSTEM.
Act* of I'niteri States Military Of
ficers That Are Worse Than
Imperialistic.
The World jloes not believe that
this country is in any danger of im
perialism—that is. if the word is
used in its strict sense, meaning a
system or state of imperial govern
ment. It-is impossible to conceive of
the United States as anything but a
republic in the fullest sense of the
word.
But it must be admitted that acts
of purely despotic power committed
bv military officers of the United
States are becoming too common—
and, what is worse, receive neither
rebuke nor punishment from the
president, who is sworn io uphold
the constitution, with all its guaran
tees of personal liberty and of free
dom of speech and of the press.
It is a fact that (!cn. MacArlhur
deported from the Philippines a cit
izen of the United States and sup
pressed his newspaper for printing a
criticism of the administration of the
customs service at Manila which the
present exposure of frauds there
more than justifies.
It is a fact that Gpv. (Jen. Wood,
of the army in Cuba, shut up and
scaled a newspaper office without
trial, simply by his personal edict,
because it printed a cartoon which
was personally offensive to him.
It is a fact that (lov. Gen. Wood,
by another edict, imprisoned two
editors because he thought they had
published a libel.
We venture to say that with all the
outrageous acts of the imperial gov
ernment against the freedom of the
press in Germany, and on account of
lese majeste, Kaiser Wilhelm has
never dared to disregard all phases
of the law and justice and all respect
for public opinion as flagrantly as
Gen. Wood has done in these cases.
And yet it is often said that the
emperor is crazy! And yet Cuba is
held, by a sacred pledge of congress
unanimously passed, to be “free and
Independent!”—N. Y. World.
-President McKinley should send
a special commissioner to Agulnaldo
to get him right on the tariff ques
tion and trusts before he gets suffi
ciently familiar with American af
fairs to want to talk.—Cincinnati En
quirer.
IMPERIALISM AND SUGAR,
Protectionists Who Are Opposed
to the Annexation of
Cuba, and AVhy.
There seem to be some powerful
influences at work against the threat
ened annexation of Cuba—and they
are influences with which we are all
familiar. The New York Press, which
holds the record as the most passion
ate protectionist publication in this
country, if not in the world, express
es the opinion that the annexation
of Cuba would be fatal to our pro
tected sugar interests. Commenting
on a statement in a census bulletin
that “beet sugar manufacture is a
commercial success in the United
States,” the Press declares:
“This settles the larger part of our trop
ical and colonial questions. It prohibits
the annexation of Cuba to the United
States. It bans the abhorrent bargain
which the Planters' society seeks to make
of the exchange of political freedom for
commercial monopoly. There will be no re
duction of 50 per cent, or any per cent, of
the United States tariff on the chief Cuban
products.”
We can think of nothing that
would do more to check the expan
sion movement than a decision of the
supreme court that the American
tariff extended throughout the length
and breadth of any territory subject
to the jurisdiction of this govern
ment. The fight for a tariff on im
ports into this country from Porto
Rico was made by men interested in
sugar and tobacco, who feared, not
merely free trade with Porto Rico,
but the probability of free trade
with the Philippines. And if these
gentlemen find that we cannot hold
territory and at the same time main
tain discriminating tariffs against
the people occupying that territory,
they will promptly join forces with
the Boston anti-imperialists. It is,
therefore, clear that the tariff ques
tion is going to give us a good deal
of trouble in the work of carrying
our civilizing influence around the
world. We shall have to consider, not
simply the welfare of the people to
whom we propose to minister, end
that of the people of the United
States generally, but also that of
those for whose benefit we so cheer
fully tax ourselves. Thus the colli
sion between our protected interests
and the expansion sentiment rrny
have very interesting consequences.
One other thought in this connec
tion is important. Many people ar
gue that it is not worth while to dis
criminate in favor of the beet sugar
interest because it is so insignificant.
They hold that it is not established
and that it lias small prospeet of ever
being established. Their theory is
that protection should be granted
only in cases where a new industry
can be “cr-'ated” within a reasonable
time. On the other hand, we are now
told that the manufacture of beet
sugar is already a commercial suc
cess in the United States.” And from
this the canclusion is drawn tliat we
must protect it. Of course, we under
stand that the theory is that an in
dustry mi'y not he established strong
ly enough to resist foreign competi
tion. livt the time never comes
when the men engaged in a protected
industry will admit that it is estab
lished beyond the need of further
fostering care. Tn the present case
we have it argued that the beet sugar
industry ought not to be protected
because it is not established, and
that it ought to be protected because
it is established! We shall look for
ward with great pleasure to the im
pending struggle between the Mc
Kinley protectionists and the Mc
Kinley expansionists. Out of it may
come a more rational tariff system in
(his country, and a wise withdrawal
from the attempt to govern distant
peoples who ought, as far as we are
concerned, to he allowed to govern
themselves.—Indianapolis News (Inch).
PRESS COMMENTS.
-After all, isn't it quite an Amer
ican trait in Cuba to insist upon hav
ing her own opinion as to the best
tonics for her own constitution?—NT.
V. World.
-The deaths, the famine, the im
poverishment that prevail among the
Porto Ricans are unanswerable pro
tests against the un-American, liearf
less, selfish policy of imperialism.—
Kansas City Times.
-The men in the steel trust abso
lutely control, through that influence
and others allied with it, the repub
lican party, and so long as the repub
lican party remains in charge of the
government they wdl lose neither
dividends nor sleep.—Atlanta Consti
tution.
——The truth of the matter is, no
one knows the truth about the situa
tion in the Philippines save those in
terested in exploiting the islands and
making the taxpayers of this coun
try foot the bills. The people who
pay the expenses are kept in ignor
ance by working on their partisan
prejudices.—Omaha World-Herald.
-Some people criticise the pres
ident for putting a trust attorney
into an office in which his chief duty
will be to enforce the laws against
trusts, hut this is a superficial view
of the subject. It would be absurd
to have an anti-trust attorney gen
eral in a trust administration and
Mr. McKinley deserves credit for hi*
consistency.—N. Y. Journal.