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Krery Policy Secured by a Deposit with the State of Nebraska. CONTAINS Declaration of Independence, Co limita tion oft U. N.. All National Platforms of all political parties since tin lr formation, to and Including 1900. Price, 25 Cents. Ono and two-cent postage stamps accepted. Don't send porsonal checks. Agents Wanted. A million copies may bo sold. Send three 2-cent stamps for treatise on Injurious Ins cts of Orchard, Garden and farm. Address VINCKNX I'VV, CO., XIUi and Jackson Sts., Omaha. Neb. Weekly News Summary. (Continued from Pago Ten.) nent colonies there wo should long since have inaugurated a policy assur ing to the people of those islands sta ble government and their ultimate in dependence. But oven if there is to he an admitted change in our institution and form of government and, a wide departure from the old land mark of political truth, that all governments instituted among- men derive their just powers from the consent of tho governed, and if it he admitted that we are to embark upon the dangerous and desperate policy of colony hold ing and subject governing, to none of which do we agree, even then we could not give our assent to the pass ago of the pending measure. The col onial plan set up by this bill is un just and illiberal in tho extreme." A comparison of the trade with the Phil ippines with the cost of maintaining the army is made with the assertion that at the end of the next year the Philippines will have cost the United States $450,000,000. The report further "says' that the secretary of war, in effect,- made the tax law for tho Philip pines and thus exercised greater pow er ' than most kings. Continuing, it says: "The seoond section, in effect, declares that the Philippin islands are foreign 'territory to the extent that all importations therefrom into the United States shall pay the same rates of duty as are provided in the existing tariff laws of the United States, known as the DIngley tariff act. The Dingley tariff act has proven itself to be a trust-breeding measure. We wit ness daily the great trusts, born of Dingley tariff law, so manipulating the manufacture and the prices of goods that our people are forced by them so pay at our own homes and' in our own markets higher prices for their manufactured goods and commodities than the same goods and commodities are manufactured by them and, shipped abroad and sold for in tho foreign mar kets of tho world. We do not believe ,that the trade we are now obtaining or that we are likely to obtain under our operations in the Philippines is worth what we are paying for it." The report then shows that the United States shared in the Philippine trade last year to the extent of ?5,427,500, representing profits to our government, or people, of about $1,085,541. "This paltry sum," it says, "is insignificant when we consider the other side of the account. It has cost us more than $85,000,000 to maintain our army in the Philippines for the past year. Other nations, without incurring the expense of a dollar toward that end, are get ting $48,000,000 worth of the Philip pine trade. We will have expended when the next year closes, at the very lowest estimate, for the maintenance of our array in the Philippines and our operations in the orient not less than $450,000,000. And this does not include the immense increase in naval expenditures and the $20,000,000 paid to Spain under the treaty of 1899." The casualties, both of United States troops and insurgents, are referred to and the report then concluded: "The casualties which nave occurred in the effort to enforce the policies of tho majority in the islands are of such ap palling magnitude that it should shock the public mind, and such a list of casualties .would In nowise refer to or include those ol our soldiers whose health has bPdn permanently broken down and of many others whose rea son and intellects have been shattered and ruined by protracted service in a torrid zone. We are squarely In op position to the methods and policies of tho majority of the committee in its efforts to deal with tho Philippine islands. We do not believe that the people of those islands can be made citizens of our republic without gross injustice to our people and without do ing violence and perhaps ireparable in juries to our Institution, nor can we hold them as subjects without tho most radical changes in our form and theory of government, which we arc unwilling to see inaugurated." Tho Philippine Salary List. Tho war department has supplied members of congress with a state ment of civilian expenditures in the Philippines. The salary list is espe cially interesting because it gives the public an idea of the fat jobs provided for political favorites by the new pol icy of imperialism. The Filipinos will havo to foot the bills, and while do ing so extract all the comfort possible from the knowledge that tho list will steadily grow In size: Governor Taft, president of commission $20,000 Commissioners Wright, Ido, Worcester and Moses, each.. 15,500 Secretary to the commission.. 3,500 Assistant secretary to the com mission 2,750 Secretary to the commission (Spanish) 3,500 Secretary to civil governor 7,500 Auditor for Philippine islands. 0,000 Collector of customs 0,000 Deputy collector of customs 4,000 Attorney general 5,500 First assistant attorney gen... 4,500 Second assistant attorney gen.. 3,000 Solicitor general 4,500 Chief justice of supreme court. . 7,500 Associate justices 7,000 Clerk of supremo court 3,000 Judges of courts of first in stance, in Manila 5,500 Judges of courts of first in stance, outside of Manila, from $3,000 to 5,000 Members of municipal board, Manila 4,500 City clerk 3,000 City engineer 3,500 Superintendent of police 3,500 Chief and assistant chief of secret service '. 3,000 City attorney 3,500 Assistant city attorney. . . .'. . . 3,000 Assessor 4,000 Deputy assessor . . . . 3,000 Superintendent of public in struction 0,000 Director general of posts 6,000 Assistant director general of posts 3,250 Insular purchasing agent 3,500 Commissioner of public health. 6,000 Chief health Inspector 3,500 Sanitary engineer 3,500 Chief of insular constabulary.. 4,000 Four assistants to chief of in sular constabulary, each 2,750 The Court of Inquiry. '(Continued from Page Nine.) ity report in thdse words: In the opinion of tho undersigned tho passage from Key West to Cien fuegos was made by the flying squad ron with all possible dispatch, Com modore Schley having in view the Im portance of arriving off Cientuegos with as much coal as possible in the ships' bunkers. The blockade of Cien fuegos was effective. Commander Schley in permitting the steamer Adula to enter the port of Clenfuegos expected to obtain infor mation concerning the Spanish squad ron from her when she came out. The passage from Clenfuegos to a point about twenty-two miles south of Santiago was made with as much dispatch as was possible while keeping the squadron a unit. The blockade of Santiago was ef fective. Commodore Schley was the senior officer of our squadron off Santiago when the Spanish squadron attempted to escape on the morning of July 3, 1898. 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