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Whv not subsidi.e tlio Snake Creek Indians
into being good?
The trans-continental railroads are very well
satisfied with the status of the Nicaragua canal.
The Winchester (V;i.) Star issues a minister's
edition February 5 th with lie v. W. L. Seabrook
as editor.
The transport California brought buck from
the Philippines soventy-four mute protests against
a war of conquest.
While the salt trupt and the packing trust are
engaged in merry war the public is engaged in
Bad contemplation.
Ikf When the gas was turned on the Dclawaro
1?; senatorial contest, Mr. Addicks was discovered
ie v ' near the iootlights.
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Senator Chandler can now realize tho meaning
g of the poet's remark: J low sharper than a ser-
1 ' pout's tooth is a thankless railroad.
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jE. It is a mistake to assumo that people in the
JT Philippines or in South Africa can be benefited
by a carpet bag government held in authority
i : by armies.
The Commoner.
The gentlemen who decry the plan to talk tho
ship subsidy bill to death never worry about their
own plans for taxing tho people to death.
Paul Krugcr has just submitted to an operation
for defective vision. He strained his eyes looking
for justice among the crowned heads of Europe.
Ono of the democratic papers discusses "The
passing of Ilaiina," but tho trouble is that the
Senator from Ohio has the cat's habit of coming
back.
The floral tributes which greeted Mr. Quay
on his re-election to the Senate recall tho fact tnat
flowers, like showers, fall alike upon the just and
the unjust.
The recent burnings in northern states will
temporarily embarrass those republican papers
which take pleasure in discanting on "southern
outrages."
The war in the Philippines is so. nearly over
that Secretary Root refuses to lot 10,000 volun
teers come home until he has 17,000 more to take
their places.
The return of the Hon. Fred T. Dubois of
Idaho to tho Senate will be accepted as proof that
vindication comes to the righteous, though it
sometimes comes tardily. m
The parcels post has been indefinitely delayed.
Senator Platte is president of an express com
pany; with this as a basis it is not difficult to
reason from cause to effect.
Mr. Rockefeller will doubtless point to that
anti-trust oil well in Texas as proof of his asser
tion that the Standard Oil company is deserving
of a subsidy for its tank ships.
If some genius will invent a greenback with
an interest coupon attached it is believed that
Mr. Secretary Gage will soon be able to look it
in the' face without growing faint.
Tho large-army idea seems to be more popular
with republicans now than it was just before
election. Let us also hope that it is more popular
now than it will be four years hence.
If there are any more sons of justices of the
Supreme Court without fat jobs in Porto Rico,
this is the time for them to step forward and
give the grand hailing sign of distress.
It seems that some of the republicans still shy
at the gold standard when it comes around a cor
ner suddenly. Just now the proposition to re
deem the silver dollars is making them nervous.
Adjutant-Goneral Corbin has just received
from the Sulu archipelago ono of His Majesty's
Hags. The Sultan is not willing to have it hauled
down but he can afford to loan it to the. department
in return for a few unconstitutional courtesies.
Possibly the West Point officials who defend
hazing might be willing to compromise on a
settlement of the investigation which would com
pel the upper class men to furnish at their own
expense the tobasco sauce administered to the
new comers. Heretofore government sauce has
ii used.
The 'gentleman who picked the senatorial dead
look in Ohio about three years ago could secure
employment at Lincoln, Nebraska, were it not for
the fact that ho is is trying to escape punishment
for stealing a few thousand dollars from Uncle Sam.
The men. who complain most about attacks on
the Supreme Court are the same men who can see
nothing wrong in the appointment of two sons of
Supreme Court justices to Porto Hican positions
while the Court has tho Porto Rican case under ad
visement. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says that tho .
republican party of Missouri expects the majority
in the Legislature to help and not hurt the cause
of republicanism in that state. The G-D should
sot the minority members a better example before
it advises them.
Those Covington, Kentucky, citizens who
visited the city council chamber with ropes and
.tar to protest against the passage of an obnoxious
ordinance seem to be laboring under the old
fashioned delusion that executive officers are
servants of the people.
Another American official has been guilty of
embezzling Cuban postal funds. It may become
necessary to abolish postal charges in Cuba, or to
withdraw all money from the island and use coon
skins for currency, in order to protect our new
wards from the effects of a higher civilization.
As we have boon giving protection to manu
facturers and trusting to their ' generosity to give
to their employes a fair share of the blessings
conferred by the government, why not give sub
sidies to the farmere who export cotton, meat and
bread stuffs and trust them to divide with tho
ship-owners?
According to Dun's report the business fail
ures for the week ending Jan. 19th of this year
amounted to 325 as against 242 for the corres
ponding week in 1900, and 249 for the same week
in 1899. If we had a democratic ad ministration
this increase in tho failures would look bad, but
under a republican administration it is regarded
as simply the-weeding out of weak firms.
The money already expended in a vain effort
to subdue the Filipinos and grab their lands
would have made tillable, more land in western
America than there is in the whole Philippine
group. This would have created a larger market
at home, provided homes for millions of people
and made unnecessary the sacrifice of 3,500 Amer
ican lives on the altar of "commerce." The Phil
ippine game is not worth the candle.
Victoria's long reign was marked by advance
ment in many directions, but it closed while one
the most unjust wars in history was being waged.
Victoria was opposed to it from the start, and its
awful horrors caused her great grief -and possibly
hastened her death. Edward VII, who declares
that he reveres the memory of his mother and
would carry out her wishes, should use his on.
deavors to end that unjust war and do justice to a
brave people whose only offense is cherishing a
love for liberty. In this way he could earn the
gratitude of all people who believe in free government.
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