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CONTENTS
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Tin Ikdiaxa. Plattosk
Tests
Moifor Hukgkb
ElKOTIOWS AND IJCGISLA.TIGV
Thiktt-two Tkabs Ago
Me. Ruhsy's Hjkdxboastjek
"Tjelk Littijc Flowebs o St. Fbakois"
Washington City Letter
Comment ok Oubeknt Topics
Home Depabtment "
"Whetheb Common oe Not
News op the Week
THE BREEZE HAS REACHED "UNCLE JOE"
Writing to a-friend in Ohio Speaker Cannon
said: "I am satisfied that there will be no tariff
revision, this congress, but it goeB without say
ing that the desire for a change-which exists in
the c'ommon mind will drive the republican party,
if .continued in power, to a tariff revision. I do
not want it, but it will come in the not distant
future."
- Four years ago Mr,BIrge, a prominent re
publican and merchant at. Keokuk, Jpwa, jvrote
a letter to David B. Henderson, thenspeaker of
the house, in. which Mr, Birge said: "There is
a storm brewing in the mind of the average
American as to existing conditions, and the con
gressman who fails to realize this will find him
self in the near future relegated to the shade of
home life. I find many intelligent republicans
who feel as I do, that the time "has come when
it is the business of the republican party to look
the' whole question square in. the face and to
lower the protective tariff to its legitimate ends,
that it shall be no longer prohibitory."
The storm has been brewing all these years,
and the breeze is just beginning to fan "Uncle
Joe's" weather beaten cheeks.
MONEY HUNGER
David R. Forgan, vice president of the First
National Bank of Chicago, recently delivered an
address to a gathering of young men. Mr. For
gan gave his young auditors some wholesome,
advice and warned them not to be in too great a
hurry to get rich.
"Ferkaps you think it impossible that a man's
Dsoul should entirely shrivel up in the pursuit of
wealth. If you knew some millionaires as well
as I know them you would agree with me- that
fethey had lost the last vestige of the souls they
Jmay be presumed to have possessed before the
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rould like to acquire millions, but if the pro-
jss is going to make me like some of the old
levils I know who are millionaires I don't want
le money."
Mr. Forgan has merely put into his own
language the thought expressed nineteen centu
ries aeo: "What is a man profited, if he shall
rain the whole world and lose his own soul?" The
lan whose whale life Is given over to the mere
making of money is to be pitied. Money as a
lossession is not in itsett a baa tmng, &ut money
is the possessor is wholly bad.
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TREASON!
Some republican editors are just now criti
cising Judge Humphrey because of his decision
fin the beef trust case. Have tnese editors no
trespect for the courts? Have they forgotten that,
according to the instruction given by eminent
republican teachers in 1S96, the judge is above
jriticism?
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The Man Who Eats and the Man Who Pays
The Phi1ippine$TheMoro Country
Mr. Bryan's Fourteenth Letter
The term Moro is used to describe the Mo
hammedan Filipino and includes a number of
tribes occupying the large island of Mindanao
and the smaller islands adjacent to it and those
of the Sulu archipelago.
The northeast corner of Mindanao is separat
ed from the island of Leyte by the Surlgao Strait,
and that part of Mindanao has a considerable
sprinkling of Christian Filipinos, but both that
island and the Sulus can be considered Moro coun
try. The Americans recognize tne difference be
tween the two groups of Islands and administer
government according to different plans. Civil
government has been established in the northern
islands, and except where ladronlsm prevails, law
and order reign. There are in some places, as
in northern Luzon, wild tribes in the mountains,
but these are so few in number and so different
from the civilized Filipinos that they do not en
ter into the solution of the Philippine problem.
In Mindanao, however, and the other Moro
provinces warlike tribes have been in control.
They have furnished a large number of pirates
and have frequently invaded the northern Island,
carrying back Filipino slaves. They never ac
knowledged the authority of Spain and succeed
ed in keeping most of the islands In the south
ern group free from Spanish control. Our coun
try probably exercises authority over more Moro
territory than Spain ever did and yet our autho
Tity is limited and we employ the militaty form
of government rather than the civil.
rifour tour of the islands we crossed over
thenarrow part of Mindanao, went up the Oota-
bato valley and called upon the Sultan of Sulu
at his home near Maibun on the island of Sulu.
We landed at Camp Overton, a military post
dn Iligan bay on the north coast of Mindanao"
and Immediately began the ascent to Camp Kieth
ley, eighteen miles in the Interior. A military
road has been constructed between these two
camps, following for the greater part of the way
the Spanish trail. Owing to the heavy rainfall
and the luxuriant growth ofyegetatlon It Is diffl- .
cult to keep a road in repair, and not far from
the. coast we passed a large number of prisoners
who were engaged in straightening and improv
ing it. About three miles from the coast we made,
a short detour in order to see the famous Argus
Fall, and they are well worth seeing. The Ar
gus river, which at this point is a larger stream,
falls two hundred and twenty feet and rushes by
a tortuous route through the narrow walls of a -gorge.
The falls are not only picturesque, but
they suggest the possibility of future use. It has
been calculated that one hundred thousand horse
power is here going to waste which might bo
put to use. The military authorities have been
trying to secure an appropriation for an electric
railroad from Camp Overton to Camp Kiethley
with the intention of obtaining power from the
falls, but this would utilize only a small fraction
of the energy which the Argus possess. Two
miles farther up the road we turned aside to
see the rapids of the same river and here made .
our first acquaintance with the Moros. We found
a dozen of them under a rude shed of palm leaves
preparing the evening rno.al. tio moat conspic-
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