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Perhaps "malevolent dissimulation" is the
term meant.
General Botha's sword is still hanging at
Botha's holt.
It will bo noted that Russia is not the first to
cry for quarter in the little tariff war. ,
The references to "plain duty" in tho in-
P, augural address are conspicuous by their absence.
Christian Dowot has escaped again, thus once
more throwing General Kitchener into a regret
ful mood.
"Tho man behind tho letter" is not getting
tho same kind of applause that greoted "the man
L behind the gun."
"The public events of the past four years have
gone into history," declares President McKinley.
Of courso they were properly censored, however.
Self-government cannot bo taught to one peo
ple by another people. It is something that must
t be learned by experience.
The inaugural address did not predict any
ipoedy termination of the Philippine war. Pro
dictions of that sort are reserved for campaign
purposes.
Mr. McKinley expresses great concern for tho
"preservation of tho constitution." Perhaps this
concern explains his roluotanco to stretch it over
Porto Rico.
Mr. Speaker Henderson's censoring of tho
Congressional Record may have been impelled by
a fear of something that would menace tho mili
tary situation.
The "Washington correspondent who tele
graphed to his paper that tho Spooner resolution
was similar to tho resolution adopted for tho
government of tho Louisiana purohase should
read both. Tho two are dissimilar in every re-speot.
The Commoner.
By stirring tho Cubans to revolt it might be
possible to subdue them and thus render unnec
essary the carrying out of the pledge to give Cuba
independence.
Tho latest from Manila is to the effect that
anything with a semblance of truth about the sit- .
nation in the Philippines is a "menace to tho mil
itary situation."
The president of tho steel trust will receive a
salary of $800,000 a year. He will insist, how
ever, that he be not paid in water from that
$3,000 capitalization.
Of course tho republican orators in the
next campaign will insist that the republicans
have the credit of killing the river and harbor
bill because a republican senator talked it to death.
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Professor Shaler of Harvard 'predicts that be
fore the middle of the present century "we shall
have an almost intolerable supply of gold."
What's this? Is there no such thing as " intrin
sic value? "
Mr. Perry S. Heath has purchased an island.
But Mr. Heath will not have any director of
posts, which means that he will not' employ pri
vately the kind of men he recommended to tho
government
If Great Britain had retained control of the
American colonies until satisfied that they were
."ready for self-government," it is an assured fact
that we would be living under the reign of Ed
ward VII today.
The value of water power will bo shown at the
Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo by the use of
energy transmitted from Niagara Falls. The
power is carried by electricity from the Palls to
Buffalo and every building is to be supplied.
Tho friends of Mr. Griggs say he will retire
from tho cabinet to resume his private law prac
tice. A careful study of Mr. Griggs' record in
the cabinet will tend to convince the student that
ho has been attending to his private practice all
the time.
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By the way, is Banestreuther if that is his
name still master of the port of Manila? It
was for saying that he was taking illegal fees that
Editor Rice was deported, but up to dato no one
has heard Banestreuther was suspended pending
an investigation.
General MacArthur has just issued an order
declaring that a certain amount of Filipino money
shall bo worth a certain amount of United States
money. If seems that a colonial governor is not
bound by the rule which prevents a republic from
legislating value into metals.
The Chicago Chronicle was one of the papers
that felt called upon to scold Tiiu Commoner for
referring to the "common people." It is dis
tressing, therefore, to see the Chronicle use tho
same phrase and thus' contribute its weight
toward the Boheme to "array class against class."
In sppaking of a son of Potter Palmer it says:
."Ho has not been spoiled by wealth and sooiety.'
He is just as level headed as if ho had come from
the ranks of the common people." Unless the
Chronicle apologizes for tho expression at once it
may alienate some of " the men of means " whom
it tries so hard to please.
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' Mr. MoKinley's position on the Cuban ques
tion is a good explanation of the difference be
tween "ought" and "will." The Cuban resolu
tion in 1808 declared that Cuba "ought" to be
independent. The President intimates that it
"will" not be.
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President McKinley says "A portion of them
(Filipinos) are making war against the United
States." Does it take 05,000 men to subdue "a
portion" of the Filipinos? By implication Presi
dent McKinley makes charges against American
troops that would bring down upon his head the
epithet of "copperhead" if he did not happen to
be a republican.
It w6uld seem that Mr. McKinley is not the
only citizen of the Buckeye state who tries to im
pose upon the Almighty. An Ohio minister
when called to account by his church for kissing
a female member of his congregation explained:
"Do not blame mo; blame God, for from Him I
received divine revelation to do as I have done."
Those who insisted that Mr. Gage would re
main in the cabinet did so before Mr. Gage made
tho frightful mistake of hampering the steel
trust's operations in Russia in an effort to help
out the sugar trust in the United States, It
would, not be surprising if Mr. Gage were to find
that pressing private business prevents him from
remaining in the cabinet.
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In a recent number of Tiie Commonek atten
tion was called to the faot that it was customary
for the outgoing President and the incoming Pres
ident to ride to the inauguration together, and as
Mr. Hanna was chosen to ride with Mr. McKin
ley the question was asked whether Mr. Hanna
represented an outgoing or incoming Piesident.
One reader suggests the answer "Both," and an
other thinks that he may be in tho middle of his
term.
The Kansas City Journal commends the state
ment made by Congressman Landis to the' effect
that conscience and not commercialism took this
nation into the Philippines. If the Journal will
investigate it will discover that it was not tho
still small voice of conscience, but the strong and
strident voice of commercialism, that inquired
about tho resources of the island before the
republican leaders began to regard imperialism as
a matter of destiny.
Admiral Sampson is not to be credited with
the courage of his conviotions on questions of so
cial character. He did not want his viewp made
publio, thus proving himself cowardly. While
Admiral Sampson deserves all the condemnation
that has been heaped upon him let it not be over
looked that the sentiments expressed by San son
are the sentiments of hundreds of others, not alone
in the navy, but in the army, and in what its
members are pleased to term the "higher social
oiroles."
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