Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 15 October 1898 — Page 7

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No. 207

East Market Street.

RINK'S

Competition No Place! Prices Will Astonish You!

Three Items:

FIRST ITEM.

Tailor-Made Suits $12,50

worth $18.00, $20.00, $22.50. All fabrics and shades. Jackets

full silk lined.

SECOND ITEM.

Dress Skirts.

The up-to-date and man tailored flounce skirts with braids, ribbon, velvet and cord trimmings. No cheap goods. Worth $8.50, $10.00 $11.00, for $6.50.

THIRD ITEM.

New Fall and Winter Jackets

imade of the very best kersey, atfap seams or corded, in light tan, mode, «astor, army blue, royal black and brown shades, very best wairanted tsatin or silk lining throughout This week's price will be $10.00. Xou •can not match it for $l?.O0. We have plenty and will not be sold out '•when you come.

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

Knows well the value of perfect and accurate eyesight as well as anyone whose occupation necessitates the continual use of the eyes. Resting glasses are a great relief to the student or bookkeeper. We will test your eyesight and increase the ef ficiency of your vision by proper glasses, or to those whosefsight is failing with age.

M. C. KLINE.

Jeweler and Optician. Opp. Court House.

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Drinks At The Clipper.

108 South Green Street.

GET

Better Beer from a half barrel than from a fourth of a barrel. You also get better beer from a barrel than a half barrel. We are now tapping from^barrels exclusively.

"THE LODGE."

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WANTS NO FOREIGN POSSESSIONS

A.Correspondent Believes in Stick-

to Our Own Country.

EDITOR REVIEW:— Since the war has ceased and we have resorted to diplomacy to settle our difficulties, the public and the newspapers have quit discussing the subjects in controversy, and are engaged in profitless criticises over what has been done. For six months we have been making history rapidly. It is too late to correct what has been done, but we should reflect that the making of historical precedents is not yet concluded and it plainly appears that the public mind should be directed to the events now brewing and which will Boon be upon theatre of action, rather than to the incidents of the war. Three great commissions have been appointed looking to an adjustment of matters springing from the war. There is the commission to arrange for the evacuation by the Spaniards of Cuba we suppose it will determine when the evacuation shall take place what property shall be taken and what left, and what will be the legal status of the people of Cuba when they are abandoned by their present rulerst

Tber§ is the same kind of a commission for the island of Porto Rico with duties somewhat similar. There is alfeo the great commission appointed by the two governments to meet at Paris to arrange for terms of permanent peace. The questions submitted for several commissions to determine Will be of greater importanfle id American politics than anytbidg which has odsuf. red in this Oerttury.- Take for instance the dutieB referred1 lo the commission on Cuban affairA ^e have not as yet acknowledged any gdfefnment in Cuba, except that imposed by Spain. We hare said that the people of Cuba by right should be free and independent, It is BOW proposed that the Span fob government there be abolished. What takes its platSty? Or are the people of Cuba left protfempore without law or government? We" assume that the property belonging to* the present government will when it abdicates be left to its successor. It would' belong to the people of the island. Should not they be in some way represented when this transfer of property takes place, or is the government of the United States to act as trustee and guardian of the of the insipient republic? We inquire who is it that may call the trustee to account in case of any corrupt conduct or mismanagement?

No doubt the Spanish government holds a vast amount of property there in way of forts, arsenals, public buildings, ordanance and stores. This property may be under mortgage for loans held by bondholders. Is it understood that when we take chaage of all this property that we are held to be bound to care for and preserve it and under some contingencies become liable for the debt?

We have virtually repudiated any form of government in Cuba as being that of the people, or that we engaged in the war at the instance and request of any constituted authority then we are therefore simply volunteers in all that we have done or may do. We have denied ourselveB all opportunity of casting any responsibility upon the Cubans or any part of them or upon any other nation. We are purely volunteers and certainly the utmost care and greatest skill should be exercised in every step we take. It will not do to rely only upon the fact that wo have been moved by purely disinterested motives and that all of our sacrifices have been made in the aid of humanity to assist a down trodden and oppressed people. Such high pretentions can only be maintained by the strictest integrity and by conduct more lofty and disinterested than we assumed at the outset of the controversy.

In the case of the commissioners for Porto Rico there would seem to be less complications. The United States is assumed to be the owner in fee simple of the whole island and the Spanish government just picks up its valise and walks out. The tenure bv which we claim and bald possession is by conquest only. The same title by which Germany holds Alsace and LorainG the same as Russia and Austria hold Poland, and the Turks hold Scivand Crete. The same assumption that tyrants have always made to impose governments upon the balance of mankind. It is might and not right that asserts dominion.

ON SELF GOVERNMENT.

To the American familiar in the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence and familiar with the motto of sic semper tyranus nothing could be more absurd and repulsive than to deny any people the right of self government. But we never thought of obtaining the right to govern a people until they ex pressed a willingness to accept the

CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1898.

rules—until the Sandwich Islands wore annexed. That incident in our history furnished a precedent for Porto liico, and wo suppose will bo accepted doctrine from now onward. What will be the result is not difficult to foresee because it is not far off. But the commissions for the islands have already been appointed and are about to enter upon their duties, and so far as the public are advised will proceed on the proposition that conquest makes good title, and the conquered subject has no right to complain if a more intelligent and more powerful people should claim to rule over it.

This is the identical doctrine held by the slave holder before the rebellion, and is more offensive than the doctrine of Lord North that caused the war of the revolution. The theory of holding colonies as foreign provinces, forming foreign alliances, has been justly denominated imperialism. It was the accepted policy of the old Roman empires, Its central maxim was that they were more competent to govern a nation or a kingdom than were the inhabitants themselves, and therefore they have a right to do it, Imperialism resulted In an emperor then, what it will do now is yet ta he determined. Is the doctrine that all governments derive their just powers from the ooneent of the governed sound and corrector is it not? Is it American or is it not? If it is not right let us abolish it openly by an enacted law. If it is right let us stick to it and enforce it whenever it should Come into action, Jjavy )s a ryle oj

action to be enforced by the govern* m(juts for the safety and protection of all of its subjects and where the pub ic or tho courts Countenance a violatiofi id secure some popular end, all respect for the law as a rule of action terminates.

It makes me sick and disgusted to hear some of our newly-fledged politicians bloviating about progress and that we have become too wise to be governed by the "old fogyism" of the past that we have become a great nation and tfot a small colony that the laws and matittfs' of the past age are only fit to be throvf'D aside.- But we have grown, rich, great add powerful under the "old fogy" doctrine. Then why abandon it? We know that our history sustains the fact that all that we have and are is due to the fact that the great founders of our republic chose rather to be called rebels, to forfeit their lives and estates than abate one jot or title in the observance of the law. They said taxation without representation was not the law for an iUnglish subject and death would be preferred to enduring it. They spurned every apology of the British ministry for attempting to violate the jaw. It was not the trifling amount of tax imposed on them of which they complained. But they said it was unlawful to tax a people not represented and the right to take one cent implied the right to take it all. The motto was "millions for defense, not one cent for tribute."

We are not complaining of the fact that war was declared—we heartily approved of it and have sustained the Government in every step it has taken in its prosecution. The government inflicted upon the island of Cuba by Spain was a menace and an insult to their neighbors that were compelled to stand by and be witnesses to their cruelty and injustice.

THE WAR POLICY.

When the war was declared we did not propose to annex every spot of land we might be compelled to invade in pursuing our enemies. Our flag once floated over the capital of Mexico but we did not propose to annex it. At the commencement it was not hinted that even Hawaii was a necessity or that the West Indies and a large portion of the East Indies would have to be annexed, and that even Cuba would ultimately have to bo added to our great republic. And further adding to the probabilities of the future we did not expect to abandon our favorite Monroe Doctrine and leave the smaller Central American republics or their temporary usurpers free opportunity to sell, or it may be to conquer territory between two oceans and confer jurisdiction to some foreign potentate to own the gateway of the two continents. Neither did wo expect to abandon the parting administration of our great Washington "To keep peace with all the world aud entangling alliances with none." Now are we prepared to abandon the proposition that our constitution wa* ordained and established by we. the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity? And that by that constitution the power of the government was limited to the purposes for which it was organized, and a coui was croated imbued with

the

might and majesty of tho whole people Bnd fully authorized to restrain the government itself from exercising

powers not conferred on it by the constitution. And it is apprehended that the government threatens to exercise power omnipotent and which was not Conferred upon it by its authors. In politics we are approaching new and dangerous grounds. We are treating with countries and the counsels, and light that hitherto guided us and liberty is in danger of being lost in vanity and self-conceit. To illustrate our position more clearly let UB compare the present, or we might more properly say the prospective condition of the United States, with that of our now defeated adversary, Spain, and see which has the greater cause to congratulate itself upon tbe result. Spain has lost her navy. She has DO need for it now. Let her build ships for commerce. She hBB lost her colonial possessions. Well, what good have they ever done her? For three hundred years they have only served to pauper and make conceited fools of her grandees and hidalgoes— the laughing Btock of Europe. In tho meantime her commerce degenerated to only reministering to luxuryj her manufactures to oppress the poor and ignorant her agriculture dwindled down tQ sterile mountains and arid plains her leading productions are oork trees, trufles and olives, onions and garlio, The education of the common people was neglected and left in the ignoranoe of the 15th century. The clergy themselves busied themselves in training the young to be loyal to the church and the state. The only contributions they have made to the institutions or the world are Bome monkinh orders that tramped the world to train the heathen thut mankind must ot think for themselves, but their w? ole duty was tfl bfeay others, Even the scions of nobility attending

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have had to receive Bome lessons f'OXD 'Yankee pigs'before they learned to eit their neigbors with common courtesy. Spain is now relieved from the poisonous condiment which for ages she has been taking as nourishment. Her money that she has hitherto spent in an orna. mental navy she can now use to build commercial bottoms, to hire out to wealthy economists to do their carrying trade.

The United States can U6e a larg'e amount of it. She has been in that business for many years. Spain can use her manufacturers in Toledo to make sickles instead of swords and decent plows instead of Slauser rifles. Her armies heretofore sent to die in miasmatic climates she can use in making roads and irrigating canals to give beauty and verdure to her sterile plains. Spain loss in the war, though very mortifying, may yet prove to her a blessing.,

OOR SIDE OF IT.

While on the other hand, tho United States has taken up the business of running the world's politics, of furnishing good governments for all the unfortunate nations not competent to sustain stable institutions for themselves. The material we have on hands fit for statesmen and governors and for constituting ships of state, has of late years been deteriorating and is not proof to the boring instincts of the tordado of corruption. It is well known that the most potent argument to induce a people to accept a good government from strangers, is well equipped armies and iron clad navies. It is blood and money. This missionary work of instructing barbarous and semi-barbarous people is the business we have compelled Spain to abandon, and We have assumed her former position. Who has been benefitted by the exchange is yet to be discovered.

The great commission to form a treaty of peace will soon meet at Paris. Our only purpose now is to warn our people against threatened dangers and complications, especially relating to the disposition of the Philippine Islands. It may be that our fears are groundless. We hope so, but we don't want those foreign, tropical, unhealthy lands, already fully occupied by an old effete barbarous population, annexed to the United States. We have no use for them. We might tolerate them as neighbors but we don't want them as partners. We gain neither profit or happinses by tho application, and as to the justice or charity inthematter.it would be about like taking into one's comportable dwelling a camp of Sioux Indians and sharing with them your bed and board. Both parties are tnade miserable. The Indian would rather be in his teepe and the white man would make choice of purgatory rather than endure it.

It ia a lust for power and dominion that is animating our progressive politicians and not a love for our plain republican institutions. They are proposing to rush us into an alliance with the six groat powers of Europe that form the band of imperialism and divide the balance of the earth betwesu them. The combination is an unhuly one. The good of mankind is not the constituent element in it. It is ihe

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same selfish greed that has for made the earth reek with gory battl® fields and subordinate the mass of the people to the condition of serfs and soluiere*

In this momentus condition of affair® we waut to caution our rulers that behind the array of writers

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and blatent expounders ot the new order of things, there ia the great mass of common people that yet believe that the government established by our fathers is good enough for us, and we want every principle and maxim adhered to. We want no foreign possession to be governed by viceroys. We do not want a population annexed., to us that are admitted to be totally incompetent for self government. Wo cannot approve of the pretentous policy of excluding by detail the Chinese from becomidg citizens of our free republic and annexing by wholesale a state with a population no more competent to to control a free governi^ept QfQ the Chinese,

We do not want standing armies nor gilt edge navies, but we do want to maintain our old free, glorious oan republic, Hr

TWO 8UICIBJ5S

In Brown Township ©9 §a^urU^r

Night.

The appearance or an individual in town on Sunday afternoon, seeking for the coroner, was tb« first intelligence received that two men in Brown township had committed the crime of sett murder. OI course, when the news wns first received there was considerable excitement over tho uff irs. Jere Pitts, a former constable of Coal Creek t©*n» ship, aged 43, was one of the feei'sdnS* who had voluntarily taken his life Pitts had been separated from his wife since July last 866b after which he went to reside with a relative, Robert Goff,

at

Browne's Valley. Eiere the euicide occurred and morphene the agent which produced death. Since separation from his wife Pitts has been gloomy and morose. He is supposed to have t&Keir the poison some time through the later part of the night. Heavy breathing from him was discovered by Mr. Goff and an effort made to awaken him, but without avail. A physician was summoned at ODCO, but his services were useless and Pitts died soon after. Pitts left a letter urging his daughter to keep good company and conduct herself at all times properly. He concluded his letter by saying that he had determined "to go to the other country." Papers containing morphine were found in the room where Pitts had slept. Hia remains were burried in the cemetery at Russell^ille on Monday afternoon.

The other suicide was John Hole, aged 23, and residing in the country a few miles south of Brown's Valley. Hole lived with a brother-in-law, Fred Rogers, and was a farm hand, industrious and respected. For a year or more he had been quite attentive to Miss Alice Stilwell, a popular young lady school teacher of the township, and marriage had been contemplated soon by them. Hole visited the home of his fiancee on Saturday evening and asked her to accompany him to a party in the neighborhood. She being very tired declined to go. Her refusal seems to have borne down upon him to despair. He went to his home at Mr. Rodgera and after the family had retired proceeded to the porch and fired a bullet into his breast. His work being discovered a physician was summoned who ^worked energetically to

Bave

him,

but hi^efforts were ill vain. Hole died near nOon of Sunday. His remains were intered in a cemetery four miles northeast of the city on Monday. In the absence of Dr. Hutchings, the coroner, 'Squire Wm. Hanna held the inquests, and with a jury rendered verdicts in accordance with thetfacts here stated.

Monument to Fireman McBee. Yesterday, William McBe* the father, and Mrs. Georgia "McBee,* the wife of Fireman Frank McBee, one of the victims of the Silverwood wreck, purchased a very fine rustic monument to be placed over the grave of the deceased-• The firm specially designed the monument which will be peculiarly appro, priate. The inscription will be placed within a beautiful scroll on the front while a fireman's Bhovel will be carved' on one side and on tbe other side a clueter of clover leaves, symbolical of the road in whose service he Jost his life.— Frankfort Times.

A Plastering Job.

The job of plastering the new Bischof building haB been awarded to Harmon Deets, and there are about 9,000 yards of it in the work. It will require probably two months of the winter to complete it.

Five bands of music will be here dor. ing the street fair, among them being band from Shellby ville, Ind,