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f -1 ft ; ;.. - , ' . ' rP ? v. ...7 A ! ... - " .- V j , ' (SK fir fiT' : VOL. XIII. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FEBRUARY 6, 1902. NO. 38. "GO BACK AND SIT DOWN" A the Requeatof Teller That "Was Whit lieverldf-e of Indiana was Ordered to do by the SenaU Presiding Officer "Washington, D. C, Feb. 1, 1902. (Special Correspondence.) It seers as though the successor of Mark Han na, Hon. Henry C'bot Lodge, United States senator from Massachusetts, has partaken much of the strenousity of his chief, the president. On Tuesday of this last week, a bit of "strenuous ness" was exhibited in that staid old senate that would dispute any argu ment the plutocrats may make about the conservatism of the senate. Sena tor THler had been making a speech in 'vbich he bitterly denounced the re publican policies in the Philippines. He had said that the republicans knew tlt:U they were doing wrong in the Philippines, when Senator Lodge jumped from his seat and was clos to the venerable senator from Colo rado before he realized that he was in the senate instead of a prize ring; Senator Teller then modified his re mark sc that it would convey the idea that the republicans ought to know thoy were doing wrong. Whereupon Senator Lodge denounced him bitter ly. For a time everyone expected that cup of them would be "hors d com bat" on the floor of the senate, but Senator Lodge resumed his seat. Sena tor Teller replied that he did not in tend to be "bully-ragged or bullied by any one." Here happened one of the most dramatic occurrences that many of the senators will ever witness on the senate floor. vIt has been many years since the "plumed knight," James G. Blaine, was ordered to take his seat. It is deemed one of the sharpest rebukes for a United States senator to be told to take his seat by a senator whom he is questioning: but this is exactly what Senator Teller told the young "wasp of the Wabash." as Senator Beveridge of Indiana was aptly called by Tillman over a year ago. Senator Teller told the house that Beveridge had called him everything but a "liar," and thereupon Beveridge began "buzzing" about the falsity of that statement. Senator Teller replied, "I have been a men?Qrof this body for many years, and . "rve never seen a more discourteous piece of work by any senator. Therefore I ask that you be seated." And he was ordered to be seated by the chair. But before this little debate had taken place, the sen ator from Wisconsin (Spooner), while making a speech in support of the Philippine tariff bill, had made some remarks that aroused the ire of the Hon. Benjamin F. Tillman of South Carolina, whereupon he sprang to his feet and proposed to debate the ques tion with Spooner there and then. Then came one of the most famous word battles seen in the senate in many days. Tillman spoke of the treat ment of the "brown men" in the Philippines and of the republican love for the negro, but after lots of noise and confusion, the battle ended, only to make room for the Teller vs. Lodge case. The Philippine tariff bill has been under discussion in the senate all dur ing the week. There have been many and good speeches made both pro and con with the probability of an almost unceasing flow of debate for the next month on the same subject. Senator Carmack, of Tennessee, of whom I spoke so highly in a recent letter, will make his "maiden" speech in the sen ate during the session on Monday and everyone is waiting to hear this ex pected masterpiece. Senator Carmack is the recognized orator of the senate, and. as he is a true blue Kansas City platform democrat, his speech is looked to with great hopes. A bill has been introduced in the senate, which will dispose of the Hep burn canal bill if passed, and it will probably be considered before the house bill is taken up. This substi tute binds congress to buv the Panama holdings for the sum of " $40,000,000 if the United States can get a good title from both the French Panama Canal company and from the republic of the United States of Columbia. The senate passed the bill providing for the establishment of a department of labor and commerce. This will, if passed by the house, remove from the state, treasury and interior depart ments many and important bureaus, and transfer them to a special depart ment which will be organized. The chief of this department will be known as the secretary of commerce and la l.or and will have a seat in the cabinet. This is but carrying out a provision in the democratic platform, which de clared in favor of a separate depart ment of labor with a seat in the cabi net. The only fight that was mado upon it was that there should be a spe cial department of labor and that it not be coupled with any other depart ment. However, the bill went througn with little opposition. In the senate on Monday last, there was just such another bit of strenuous ity as was exhibited on Tuesday and reacted on Wednesday. A resolution was introduced inquiring into the ac tions and remarks of General Whea ton "the charity boy," as he was aptly called by Senator DuBois ;f Idaho. The fight waged over some re marks made by General Wheaton in . reference to some remarks made by Commissioner Schurman regarding the government and conditions of the Philippines. The resolution failed of passage and the senate resumed its normal position. In the house of representatives the bill providing for the permanent cen sus bureau was called up and passed. The chief opposition to it was raised by Hon. E. J. Burkett of Nebraska Mr. Burkett was the laughing stock of the house the whole afternoon the bill . . was being considered. He was asked E question from all sides of the house " " - f T - ers took special delight in making him appear ridiculous. Well, they succeeded and on the following morn ing (so it is said) the two clerks in the census office due to the congress man from the First district of Ne braska were given their walking pa pers. This is the way the Hon. E. J. looks out for his constituents at horns. I am afraid that it has finished Bur kett forever as a power in the hous. It was really amusing the whole thing. The house committee on ways and means decided to end, for a time, their discussion of the question of reciproc ity with Cuba. This very important measure has engrossed the attention of the house committee for some time past and the committee decided to talc a rest. The senate committee on insular af fairs heard the report of Governor Taft of the Philippines in person on Friday and Saturday. His work has been really a eulogy of the govern ment of the Philippines and of his own regime. Although he admits that there will never be final peace in the islands. He speaks of many of the government officials who are in favor of admitting the Philippines into the union and of the same and other men allying themselves with the federal party in the islands to either reach this end or to secure the final independence of the islands. He delivered quite a flattering tribute to the federal party, which is composed of men like Beau ancamino, Aguinaldo's secretary of state, and said that it contained the majority of the educated Filipinos and men of influence in the islands. See ing that there was no hope for the fu ture independence through hostilities, they had decided to try through peac able means to get the independence of the islands. The platform of this fed eral party pledges them to secure the independence of the islands and if this is impossible, they promise statehood for the Philippines. Governor Taft said that this committee sent a copy of the platform to the Philippine com mission; but that they had refused to either indorse or in any way recognize the party. They feel, they say, that the question of statehood, like that of independence, is one that is in the very far future and thus refuse to dis cuss it at this time. Governor Shaw has arrived in Wash ington and has taken the oath of office as secretary of the treasury. Today he was the recipient of a reception given in his honor at the treasury building and at which he was introduced to each of the employes. Secretary Gage re tired at noon and Shaw is now a full fledged member of the cabinet. The president has issued an order that clerks must not strive for raises in salaries under penalty of dismissal. The order came as a surprise and is the result of the great clamor made by representatives and others for an In crease in salary for each of their ap pointees. The order will bring back the "merit system" of Cleveland and ought to have good effect in the work done by the departments. The president has also announced that he has not made up his mind who he will appoint as governor of Hawaii in Governor Doles place. He also says that h2 has not reached a conclu sion regarding the numerous Hawai ian affairs that confront him. The case of Admiral Schley as sub mitted by his counsel has been de murred to by Captain Lemly and by Solicitor Hanna. The demurrer takes from Admiral Schley the credit of cLo victory at Santiago and is the most radical document that has been sub mitted in this line in this most impor tant affair. I am afraid that Roose velt has a very difficult and knotty problem to solve. It is like the ne gro's coon trap "It gits him a-comin' and gits him a-goin'." WILLIAM W. BRIDE. THEY LOOK TO THE WEST Statesmen and Patriots Must Come From the Rroad and Fertile Prairies as the East is Iomlnated by Greed Editor Independent: I have received two copies of your paper and I can speak in the highest praise of it. There was a time when we felt proud of the men of the east. New England and New York used to be the natural breeding ground for great men, but times have changed. We now have to look toward the setting sun and out on the broad and fertile prairies for great and fearless men men who have nothing but God's pure air to breathe. Ninety per cent of our edi tors and officials in the east are so contaminated with the spirit of greed and commercialism thta they can see nothing but the almighty dollar. Poli tics ought to be principles and not policy, and I thank God there are a few, even in this hide-bound republican county of St. Lawrence, who have not bowed the knee to Baal. I wish I could see such a paper as The Inde pendent and Commoner in every home in this county and as soon as I can unload some of my worthless papers that are keeping company with the New York World, I will fill their place with the Nebraska Independent. E. J. FRANK. Canton, N. Y. THREATENS REVOLUTION It is a Republican and not a Populist Paper That Talks That Way Because of Kallroad Tyranny The absolute soundness of populist principles has new demonstrations every day. Attention was called to the defiance made by the great railroad magnates the other day at the investi gation before the interstate commerce commission. It was so bold and de livered with such audacity and effront ery that it has attracted the attention of even some republican editors. After reading that defy, issued against the la ws of congress and constitutions of all the states of the great northwest, the Portland Oregonian has made the following remarks: "The recent report of the interstate commerce commission is a frank con fession on the part of its members that the great railroad managers jpt the country treat the interstate com merce law with contempt; that they disobey the law; that the great rail road managers and their favored ship pers are utterly without business honor and good faith in their attitude to the laws of the United States which at tempt to deal with their traffic. The commission makes no suggestion of legislative reform which would be like ly, to prove effective; it seems to speak in "the accents of despair rather than of hope of the future, and the keynote of the last two reports of the inter state commerce commission has been a tale of discrimination and other in justice on the part of the railroads which it is powerless to prevent. The commission annually finds that the railways gouge the people at non-competitive points and defy the orders of the commission to discontinue their unjust squeezing of the shipper. The commission points out that whenever it is necessary to resort to the trick to thwart the exercise of its authority or intercession, the railway companies raise rates without changing them by changing the classification of the com modities to be affected. "Both in England and in this coun try the method of public control un der private ownership has been fairly tried and found wanting. After fifty years of attempted government con trol in England and fourteen years under the commission system in this country, the railways really control the government. In both England and America the railway companies have been able to maintain exorbitant rates, both freight and passenger, and freight rates are so adjusted in favor of tba long haul for imported goods as to discriminate injuriously against local producers. And in both England and the United States the political power of the railways is able to defeat gen uine reform or relief. This situation cannot forever continue without a revolutionary solution, which is likely to come at no distant day in England and the United States in the form of general public ownership of railways. Whether this solution comes soon or late, it will depend on the future ad ministration of the great railway man agers of the country. If they con tinue to give cause for such severe in dictment as they have recently ob tained from the interstate commerce commission, the general public owner ship of railways will come before the end of the century. "The time has been when the lead ing men of both parties dreaded the assumption of so enormous an enter prise as the ownership and operation of the railways, but it is become a choice of evils at least, and successful public ownership in Belgium, Prussia, Australia and Austria has convinced us that the financial burden is not difficult to sustain. The political ob jection to a vast increase of gov ernment employes is worthy of very serious consideration, but these em ployes would not be the people's mas ters, but the people's servants, who could be got rid of when incompetent or corrupt, while the present railway oligarchy are the people's masters, since they are non-removable by the people. General public ownership of railways is not without very serious objections, but the ablest thinkers on this subject believe that these objec tions are fully offset by the unjust dis criminations and other impositions in cident to private ownership. The rail way magnates have abused their power and opportunity at the expense of the masses of the people too long and too wantonly much longer to escape revo lutionary legislation." THE HIGHWAYMAN'S PLEA Iowa has kept Senator Allison in the house and senate for 36 years and during all that time he has not been able to connect his name with any legislation of importance to the people. He has now been elected for anMher term and there is no more prospect that he will do anything than in all the years that are passed. He is only certain to vote with the imperialists and bank grafters. He never made a speech in all his life that attracted at tention and never formulated bne bill nf imnnrnp Ttp It; the frtal Of VL That Is the Plea of the Republican Party and Under It, it is as Sure to be Over thrown as That Moral Force That Governs Men In the house the minority developed j a sudden and extremely sharp attack upon the republican position in brief speeches from a large number of repre sentatives, all breathing the old Amer ican spirit and tying to the old ideals which the republican party was espe cially formed to perpetrate, but from which it has now gone far astray. And how does that party in con gress meet the attack? It is all summed up in the word of Mr. Cannon of Illinois, who led the majority on the floor throughout the week's de bate : "Right or wrong, the United States owns the Philippine islands, and the Anglo-Saxon people, abroad or here, never have parted with an acre of soil when they have once owned it. Wo have got to deal with it, and will deal with it, and now, respectfully, let me say, that we will march on and you will be criticizing and making, mouths while we march. (Loud applause on the republican side.)" We are there, in other words, by the light of might, and we will hold what wo have won by brute force, whether . To this pass, then,', has come the great republican - party; which started out fifty-six years, ago- with the follow ing declaration: ,-: wli. "That the highwayman's plea ; that might makes right" is; jLn every respect unwerthy of American, diplomacy, and would bring shame and dishonor upon any government or people that gave it their sanction." I -: v,' It is the highwayman's .plea. boldly spoken and amid great republican ap plause which that party mow enters in defense o? its position; and from its own mouth it is condemned as being in shame and dishonor. And J just as surely as the rejection of the h'ghwayman's character made that party what it became i in : its .earlier years an invincible political power in the nation so surely .will its present attitude work its final undoing. For it 'is as true now as , it ever lias been that in the long run moral and not physical force governs in the affairs of men. Springfield Republican. GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPH Pacific Cable a Probability Department of Commerce to be Created Madden After the Church and Secret Society Papers , Washington. D. C, Jan 30, 1902, Special Correspondence) Two . meas ures of considerable-. 'importance .have attracted attention this week in the senate. One of them jwhich has al readv received senatorial sanction, is an act creating a department of com merce, whose head shall he a mem ber of the presidentsv cabinet The other has been fayoraldy reported to the senate by a committee, and will likely pass, providing fat the construc tion by the government tf a Pacific ca ble line. The paramount ispue of the majority in this congress seems; to be to do things to the treasury surplus. The agricultural committee of the house reported favorably today the bill providing for a tax on oleomargar ine colored to resemble butter. - The bill reported is practically the same as the Grout bill at the last session. The minority ' of the committee will report a compromise measure, In which they will favor , the sale Of ; oleomargarine and allow it to be coloretfa straw color and properly stamped. It is believed the majority report will be adopted, but a stiff fight is more than likely. The statement has been made throughout the country that volunteer soldiers or officers who served in the Philippines were entitled to an extra month's pay and mileage,; It appears that this statement is therouigrowth of two decisions of the court of claims of December 2, 1901, in One of which it was held that volunteer soldiers or officers entering the service under the act of March 2, 1899, and mustered out with their respective organizations, were entitled to one or two month's extra pay under the act df January 12, 1899. In the other decision it was held that the soldier or officer dis charged oh his own application, by way of favor, was entitled to the same travelling allowances on discharge as if he had been discharged at the end of the term for which he enlisted. Both of these rulings are, however, con trary to the rulings of the comptroller of the treasury, and will be appealed to the United States supreme court and no action will be taken by the account ing officer allowing any claim under these decisions until the higher court has affirmed them. The postoffice department ruling lately promulgated, which is arousing such another storm of protest, will de prive all secret society journals and church papers of the privileges of the second-class mails. The -department holds that these publications are not intended for general distribution of news. The censorship exercised by Mr. Madden in the case of these and other publications will likely result in legis lation curtailing his discretionary, un just and irresponsible powers. H. W. RISLEY. AN AUTOCRATIC ORDER Military Censorship There has been some very heated re marks made in the United States sen ate over the censorship in the Philip pines. The republican senators have denied that there is a censorship of dispatches they say it has been abol ished. They do not deny, however, that before any newspaper man can send a cable dispatch he must file an exact copy of it with the military commander. If that is not a censor ship there is no such thing. The In dependent wonders that some of the senators did not put General Wheaton on the stand as a witness that there was not only a censorship of dis patches, hut that men were imprisoned in Manila for exercising the right of free speech. In the cabled interview which made such a row," General Wheaton is quoted as follows:- "General Wheaton, commander of the department of the North Philip pines, says men have been sent to prison here for remarks such as those of Professor Schurman, and that if what he advocates was accomplished it would mean the expenditure of much treasure and the shedding of blood like water. Now, as before, he adds, 5,0,000 soldiers are needed here, and will be required in these islands for, at least j five years. It will then be possible to form . a government based on that of the colonies of Holland and Great Britain, they having proved the most successful managers of oriental f aces." That is an undenied statement by General Wheaton and he declares that men are Imprisoned in the Philippines for declaring that they are anti-imperialists and advocating that the Fili pinos should finally be given their -independence.; It is a'positive statement that free speech has been abolished in the Philippines ; and that being the case can it be doubted that a free Plutocratic Press Says not a Word Philip pines not Pacified Commerce and Imdastry Dead Washington, D. C, Feb. 1, 1902. President Roosevelt has committed a good many small mistakes in the past few months and offended as many peo ple as possible, but it now seems that this sort of thing was only preparatory training for the sweeping order whicn has just been issued. It will probably cause Roosevelt more annoyance than anything in his wnole career. The order is worthy of reproduction so as to have it at hand for futur? reference. It is as follows: "All officers and employes of the United States of every description, serving in or under any of the execu tive departments, and whether so serv ing in or out cf Washington, are here by forbidden either directly or indi rectly, individually or through asso ciations, to solicit an increase of pay or to influence or to attempt to in fluence in their own interest any other legislation whatever, either before con gress or its committees, or in any way save though the heads of the depart ments in or under which they serve, on penalty of dismissal from the gov ernment service. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT. "White House, Jan. 31, 1902." Note first that the administration press is very silent about this order, barely mentioning it without com ment. Roosevelt doubtless thinks that he is giving the public the impression that he is discouraging lobbying and machine politics. On the contrary, this order is auto cratic enough to suit any continental country, not excepting Russia. It means that if you are lucky enough to get a government appoint ment this order wrill serve as a con venient, subterfuge for discharge in case someone else with a greater po litical pull wants your place. An order of this sort has long been desired by the heads of departments. Claude Johnson, former chief of the bureau of engraving and printing, did discharge an employe who secured a leave of absence in order to appear before a congressional committee tb protest against a piece of legislation which would have seriously impaired the usefulness of the bureau to the public. That there is more or less corruption in all large government bureaus is well known, .. This order will effectually muzzle the employes who may know and be disposed to seek reform.s The head of departments under this order are to be made the one source of information for congress and the public. . The government employe is denied the right of association with his fel lows and the right to ask for an in crease of wages which is conceded the employe of a private corporation. We are getting on beautifully with our imperialistic form of government. This order will not at all disturb the existing plan of having congress men see that their appointees get promotions in proportion to the "in fluence" they can command rather than the ability shown. You will note that the order makes no provision as to what shall guide the head of a department in making promotions or giving increases of sal ary. Even the republican press admits that the democrats are making a good deal of political capital these days over the Philippine question. The republicans are kept on the de fensive and forced to admit on every point that to keep the islands as col onial possessions will entail the sur render of the principles upon which our government is built. It is a pity that the islands are so far away. The truths about them do not come home with the force of sim ilar things that could be made a mat ter of direct observation. It takes very little knowledge and thought, however, to perceive that we are sinking vast amounts of money in keeping up a military form of govern ment in the islands. They are hot pacified. Industry is dead. The only reason for our course is that the specualtors and franchise grabbers may be given a chance to loot the islands. Governor Taft is here trying to per suade the senate committee that civil government in the islands has been successful. His own statements, however, are enough to show clearly what a colossal failure it ia and how far it departs from a republican form of govern ment, r The bouse ways and means commit tee threw down Roosevelt's program of Cuban reciprocity and advocates sweeping extinguishment of war taxes .on stock exchanges, sugar, the stand ard oil trust, legacies, etc. It rejected Babcock's proposition to put trust-controlled articles on the free list. It looks as though congress were in viting a revolt of the country against the trusts at the next presidential election. Also that it Is giving Roosevelt o strong hint to attend. to his own busi ness and congress 'will look after its affairs. There is a suggestion that the sen ate may modify the action taken by the house committee, but the thought ful .republicans in all parts of the country loo!s with anxiety upon the reckless action and the lack of zeal for the public welfare displayed by this congress. D. P. B. 5t . that any of them ever made great lor tunes in that way. In these latter days nearly everybody went Into that kind of business and it has been almost im possible to purchase pure food pf any kind. Dishonesty has become almost universal. While many merchants wanted to be honest they couldn't. Everything that- was on the market was adulterated more or less. A few have now started a revolt. Those who have striven the hardest to sell pure goods are getting the trade. A grocer who is known to sell good articles prospers and several others are now wanting to get into that class. Hon esty may not, always pay, but in the long run it does. THEY ARE W AKING UP PUBLIC OWNERSHIP It is the Only Practical Way to Fre-reat Discriminations Betwren Shippers Each year more forcibly emphasize? the fact that government control ol the great corporations operating public utilities is at best a failure. The In terstate Commerce commission has col lected facts regarding the railroads and SSSS? S0"1;116.? mental Principles of our republican substantially nothing in the way of i ' , A. Policy Dereloped by the Minority la. Congress Every Prediction of the Im perialists Has ProTed False The hot time that apeared in the senate the other day gives indications that the minority Is waking up. This government, as we have received it from our fathers, will not be over thrown without a contest that will go down into history. In commenting on this fact the Springfield Republican says: The signs multiply that the demo cratic opposition in congress Is begin ning to recover a grip upon itself and find solid ground. Every one of the minority members of the senate Philip pines committee signs a report taking direct and emphatic issue with the whole republican policy as to the isl ands, and offering instead a plan of action which, assures the country of something better than. continued crim inal . aggression, with its attendant horrors, and subversion of the funda- In the old days the dishonest grocer was wont to sand his sugar and dust A Ui I- X T-rJ, suostantiaiiy nothing in the waj remedying the. evils it has found. The fault is not so much that the commis sion tries to do little, or that the law is defective in some points, as that th. whole system is fundaxq.entally wrong. Prof. Ely struck th'enitiT squarely on the head when he said lp, effect that whenever any business requires the constant interference of the govern ment in order to make it useful to so ciety, that it has reached the point when the government should take that business and run it itself. We quote from the recent report of the commis sion: "The recent investigation of packing house products showed that rates be low published tariff charges had been applied both east and west of Chicago. East of Chicago the dressed meats tar iff had been cut from 3 3-4 to 5 cents per hundred pounds and 5 cents on ex port provisions. On some of the lines the vouchers and other evidences of these illegal rates were destroyed soon after the transactions were completed. West of Chicago the rates on these products were from 2 to 5 cents lower than the published tariff. One line made a contract to carry this traffic for a year from Kansas City to Chicago at '5 cents below the tariff then in force. All other lines must, of course, make the same rate. These lines west o' Chicago made no distinction between export and domestic business. Some times rebates were paid, sometimes tba freight was billed .at the" cut rate, and sometimes the published rate was re duced when the freight money was paid. The important fact disclosed from the testimony is that packing house products are habitually carried from points of origin to the seaboard at rates below the published 1 tariff of 5 to 10 cents per hundred pounds. '"The commission; required the car riers to file statements showing the number of cars shipped and the rates actually charged. When these" are' re: ceived the gross amount of the rebates can be determined; at present it can only be said to reach hundreds of thousands of dollars. While the gen eral public probably receives some benefit from these lower rates, in the main these sums swell the profits o.r the packers. These great concern? number only about five or six, and lit tle distinction in the rates appears to have been made between them. The effect is to give them an enormous ad vantage over smaller competitors lo cated at other points. Already these competitors have mostly ceased to ex ist. These disclosures afford a preg nant illustration of the manner in which secret rate concessions are tend ing to build up great,, trusts and mon opolies at the expense-of the small in dependent operator. Alf of the rail way traffic officials inquired of though, the published rate decidedly too lovT upon these products' although the tes timony showed that this rate had not been maintained by the carriers. This maor may not indicate that the published tariffs too high. If it is, it should be reduced and a tariff open all "and fairly adjusted between all localities put into effect." Coronation Ambassador That the primary object in the pres ent revival v of the baseless story of England's great and single-handed ser vice to the United States in 1893 is to prejudice the relations between this country and the continental powers is evident from a number of circum stances. The startling tension between the British and the Germans over Mr. Chamberlain's Edinburgh speech has alarmed British statesmen, and the announcement of Prince Henry's visit to the United States , has made, them exceedingly desirous of preventing the growth of a - too cordial feeling be tween the Germans and American peoples. Their obvious wish is that the Americans should make England's enemies their enemies, in short, that we should load ourselves with all the world-wide antipathies which the Brit ish empire has aroused. In the effort to effect their purpose the British poli ticians do not hesitate to employ in sinuations rather than proof. Proof, of course, they have not got, but what of that? As the coronation ambassa dor said in his New York newspaper yesterday morning, people who will not believe, without a particle of evidence, these British insinuations as to the un friendliness of ' -. E uropean powers toward America are, "too prejudiced to be willing to know the truth." That is very droll for our coronation am bassador to say. The swiftnejts with which he endorses' the British foreign office's malevolent outpourings; at this particular time is a convincing demon stration of the Republican's estimate of him ' as the coronation arobassa- Sjorln ffi el A fMnQ ) T?PTmh'lifnn I miaef anrt InrnoriaTlTor! p-rvfrri m f t. form of government. The immediate measure under con sideration is the Philippine tariff bill. As it passed the house this bill im posed the full Dingley customs duties against -imports from; the islands. As Mr. Lodge reports it.-o the senate on behalf of; the republican "members of the committee the bill allows imports to come in at a one-fourth reduction of the Dingley rates. But as the democratic members of the committee would have it, the bill offers free trade to the. Philippines for the time being and far more besides. Here is the democratic policy as to the whole ugly situation: 1. That the United States relinquish all claim to sovereignty over the Phil ippines, . "subject to the provisions hereinafter set forth." 2. . That from and after the passage of this act. the Philippine islands shall be foreign territory, and all goods en tering, the United States therefrom shall.be subject to the same duties, customs . and imposts as are now or may be hereafter prescribed by law for goods entered from other foreign countries; provided, that during the temporary occupation of the islands all trade between them and the United States shall be free. 3. That the United States shall con tinue to occupy the archipelago until the Filipinos have formed for them selves a stable government, and until sufficient guarantees have been ob tained for the performance of our treaty obligations with Spain, and for the safety of those inhabitants who have adhered to the United States. 4. That as soon as these results have been accomplished it is declared to be the purpose of the United States to withdraw from the Philippines, and leave the government, control and sovereignty thereof to the inhabitants, retaining only such military, naval and coaling stations as may be desig nated by the government.of the United States. This is closely in line with what we have urged from the outset as the only course to pursue if this nation would remain true to its traditions and prin ciples, true to the pledges with which it went to war with Spain, and true to that spirit of liberty and humanity which has been outraged so fearfully by this unending and wicked war of conquest. 'The struggle with the Philippine natives has now continued three years lacking a fortnight. Every declared expectation of the aggressors in this time has been disappointed; every prediction has been belied by evnts ani every assurance falsified. Fifty thous and human beings have gone to their graves in this our effort td crush the spirit of liberty out of that people. $300,000,000 of American money has been squandered in the bloody work, and great stretches of thickly popu lated teritory have been devastated. And as a result, what do we hare? Not peace, nor hearty submission, nor genuine loyalty and friendliness to the conqueror nothing of what was prom ised by the instigators of this aggres sion; but instead the assurances of practically every army officer there that hatred of the invader possesses substantially the whole native popula tion, that a spirit of resistance abides in a passive form where it is not ac tive, and that for an indefinite period the holding of the Islands will require the presence of a large army. Such is the situation and the pros pect as described by witnesses most competent to speak, and it proves, what should have -been obvious from' the beginning, that the way to peace, no less than the way back to old Amer ican "doctrine and example, lies not along the way we have been going, but must be found in such a policy as the minority of the senate committee present. This minority is composed of Senators Rawlins of Utah. Culbert son of Texas, Dubois of Idaho. Car mack of Tennessee and Patterson of Colorado all from sections of tb country where Imperialist sentiment has been strongest. As the democrats of the house, with the exception of a few sugared ones from Louisiana, took substantially the same position in con nection with the Philippine tariff bill, it is probable that the policy as pre sented to the senate will command the assentof every democratic sena tor with possibly one or two excep tions. This is of great significance and encouragement. It indicates that the democratic opposition is recoverintj from a state of woeful demoralization and beginning to lay some hold upon the solid dictates of conviction and truth as the best practical politics. It is significant of a growing belief among the people that the republican party. is wrong in this policy of distant con-