Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 7, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 June 1900 — Page 2

Another Position of Strategic Importance Surrendered to the British. COURTHOUSE SAID TO BE FULL OF ARMS. ■ctkiieB Md Kltchi»|r Have Not Gut Done With D«Wct-The Utter Attacked m Reeva.triiHloa TrolH, Bat wa. Orlvca OS l»jr Moaated Trcupi. London, June 15, 11:05 a. m.—Tht was office issues the following dispatch from Lord Roberts: “Pretoria, .Residency, June 14, 10:40 p.m.—Klorksdorp surrendered on June 9 to an armed party sent on by Hunter. '■* “Kitchener reports that the Boers attacked a reconstruction train early this morning, a few miles north of Rhenosteic river. He sent out mounted troops and drove off the enemy before they could do damage. One man was killed and 11 wounded, including two officers. \ "V “A messenger from Klerksdorp re* ports that Cronje, who commanded there, determined to surrender as soon as he knew for certain that Pretoria was in our possession. His example has been copied by many in the neighborhood. The courthouse is now s>uid to be full of arms.”

HbtlKW Of THK Klcrkadorp a Ponitton of Considerable Strntrcle luip«rtauc«. London, Juno 16.—By the peaceful occupation of Klerksdorp, announced by Lord Roberts, the British have gained a strategic position of some importance, as the town is not (Ally the terminus of another railroad to Johannesburg, but it is within easy reach of the Kroonstad-Vierfonteing railroad. A Son of Gear Piet Cronje. The Cronje who surrendered the place is a son of the faumUs den. Cronje, now a prisoner ap^St. Helena The son was prominent during the 6iege of Mafeking. Apart from the fact that Rord Roberts' dispatch comes direct from Pretoria. showing that the telegraph line is reopened,the only other point of interest is the fact that the Boers, whom Gen. Methuen was reported to have so utterly routed, have sufficient,' ly recuperated to attack a reconstruc tion train. “Jln»M Holloway Captured. A dispatch from Kimberley reports the capture of the well-known pugilist, “Jim” Holloway, who was an adjutant in the Boer army, and who blew up the bridge at Fourteen Streams. Holloway was among a body of federate captured id ? the western part of the Transvaal. The Afrikander Bond congress opened at Paarl, with 70 delegates, Including seven assemblymen, present. Sly Gen. D« Wet. ? The Daily Mail has a dispatch from Bloemfontein, dated Wednesday, saying: , * , •*' “Gen. De Wet’s attack on the railway was made after he had succeeded in luring Gen. Methuen from where he had destroyed the line. Then he cleverly seized it north of Kroonstnd, blew up the bridge and destroyed a long section of the line with dynamite.” Maj.-Gen. Baden-Powell has been ap pointed to the rank of lieutenant general. 31or« Captures than Reported. The Cape Town correspondent of th<? Daily Telegraph, in a dispatch dated yesterday, says: “1 understood that Gen. De Wet, in addition to the Derbyshire battalion, captured two continues of the city volunteers and two companies of yeomanry, two men only escaping, to tell the tale.”

Meyn tne MnmblinK Block. The Lorenzo Marquez correspondent of the Times says: “It appears that Steyn, and not Kruger, is now the stumbling block in the way of the surrender of the burghers. Shortly after the British entry into Pretoria, Mr. Kruger proposed to reopen the peace negotiations. Mr. Steyn, bearing in mind that his former advice was scouted, demurred to the and pointed out that, according to the treaty between the republics, neither could conclude peace without the other. Don't Want to Take the Initiative. “Mr. Kruger, equally unwilling to incur the charge of a breach of faith, had to continue the war. Nothing further is known regarding the rumored peace negotiations; but it is a matter of notoriety that Mr. Kruger favors peace on almost any terms, but dis likes personally to take the initiative that would involve unconditional surrender.” t Ninety-seven burghers out of 200 in one commando have returned to theii homes. . To Moot la Mexico City. Washington, June 16.—The executive committee of the bureau of American republics decided yesterday that the second international congress oi American republics shall assemble -a the City of Mexico next year some time between April and July. The Mexican government will be requested to fix the exact date within the limitations laid down, and also to send invitations to the other American republics to participate. The indications are that no objection will be made by any of the nations.

GETTING DOWN TO WORK. ru« rutllpp am luaanlM am Gat lag TUXmgm tu 6U*p« for Aunnilug Civil Control. Manila, June IS.—Judge Taft and hia colleagues of the civil commission are studying the different legislative phases of the situation preparatory to the work of enacting new laws on September 1, when they assume legis'ative power. The subjects have been tentatively divided among them as follows: Judge Taft—Crown lands, land titles, the church and the civil service, the last named with a view of bringing from the United States a good class of government employes who shall eventoally replace army officers in the civil idministration. Luke Wright—Internal improve* nents, constabulary, commerce, corporation franchises and the criminal code. Henry C. Ide—Banking and cur--ency and the origin of tlpe civil courts. Bernard Moses—Revenues, taxation and schools. The commissioners have established offices in the same buliding with Gen. MacArthur, and are receiving, discussing and absorbing the opinions of army | and navy men, and of foreigners and ! Filipinos. The people of Manila seem 1 pleased with the' democratic course of the commissioners and with their habitually courteous demeanor. The earlier fcpHltg. of disappointment is slowly disappearing.

TWO IMPORTANT U.NGAGKMEXTS. Anierlcmis Capture and Bara a Mountain Stronghold. Manila, Julie IS.—The United States forces had two engagements of importance last week. The troops unde#- Gen. Funston and Gen. Grant organized an advance with parts of five regiments and two guns, against 500 rebels in a mountain stronghold ^ast of Biacnabuta, where it was supposed Capt. Roberts, of the Thirty-fifth regiment, who was captured last month at San Miguel de Mnyumo; was held captive. The Americans operated undermany difficulties and over an exceedingly rough country; but the rebels retreated, only a few resisting, and the stronghold was occupied and burned. As the result of last week’s scouting 60 Filipinos were killed, 200 were captured, and 300 rifles, with 23,00^ rounds of ammunition were surrendered. Three Americans <£were killed. I * since April in parts of Cavite and Batangas provinces, whieh are garrisoned by the Forty-sixth and Thirty-ninth regiments. Thirty-two per cent, of the men of each regiment are on the sick list. Of two battalions in Batangas province one has 150 sick and the other 190. Sailed for Chita. Manila, June 18.—The gunboat Concord, with marines aboard, has sailed under sealed orders, supposedly for China. The British cruiser Buena Ventura has sailed for Bong Kong with troops and stores fon Hong Kong and Tien Manila, June 18, 10 a. m.—The Ninth regiment has been ordered to Manila, whence it will proceed to China. CONSIDERS THE WAR ENDED. Natal Volunteers Diana Used and a Complete Division Ordered to F.mhark for China. London, June 18, 4:20 a. m.—There are some indications that Lord Roberts considers the war’s end in South Africa not far distant. One of these is the fact that the Natal volunteers, who had seen hard service, were dismissed to their homes by Sir Redvers Buller Saturday. They were cheered as they left camp. Another indication is the report current in authoritatively informed military circles in London that a complete division is to be withdrawn from Gea Buller’s army and embarked at Dur* ban for China. The troops drawn from India will probably go next. Lord Roberts lets them go without telegraphing. Tha correspondents at headquarters are am they have been for ten days, silent. Malarial fever has been prei lent Tsin. Tfcoopi for China.

INSURGENTS VICTORIOUS, Win An Important Victory Over Government Troop* About Ten Mile* from Panama. Kingston*, Jamaica, June 18.—The royal mail steamer Don, Capt. Davis, which arrived here yesterday from Colon, brings ne\vs of an important battle fought on Friday last about ten miles outside of Panama. According to this information the insurgent forces were victorious, and some 200 of the government troops were killed. It is inferred that Panama may already be in possession of the rebels. The latter are strongly intrenched at San Joaquin, near Snr.ta Marta, and all the government troops at Baranquilla Lad been dispatched to Santa Marta when the Don left Colon. A Remarkable Spot oa the Saa. Paris, June 17.—Abbe Mareux, the astronomer, has discovered and sketched through the big telescope in the Optic palace of the exposition a remarkable spot on the sun forming a part of an extensive group and having a diameter of nearly forty kilometres. This spot, he says, will remain for ceven days and become visible to the naked eye. He predicts the appearance of other spots in July, August and September, inferring that the heat during those inonths will be very great.

SlftfS OF REPUBLICANS | Strong Arraignment of the Administraticn by Ohio Democrat. Temporary Chairman Wektttr P. Hantla*ton at Colanka* Coa. ▼ration Talks on Imperialism, Militarism and Trasts. At the preliminary deliberations of the Ohio democratic convention at Columbus, June 12, Temporary and Per- \ manent Chairman Webster P. Huntington spoke at some length upon the sins of the republican administration, sayinr:

"You ®r* assembled In state conventlon for the fourth time since the memorable campaign of 189C. Since that time democratic thought In Ohio has been s.lowly but surely concentrating along v*t?rtaln lines of reform and manifesting every year the renewed devotion of Buckeye democrats to the fundamental principles: until to-day, more than ever before In Its history, our party Is distinctively and peculiarly ‘the party of the people.* Tour last convention at Zanesville merely emphasised the boncluslons which the party had solemnly reached at Columbus and Dayton In 1897 and 1898. The Zanesville convention, and subsequently Its candidates, reaffirmed the Chicago platform and indorsed for president in 1900 the greatest popular leader of modern times: the eloquent orator in whose tongue is the law of kindness.’ the honest cltisen in whose heart Is the love of justice: the unselfish statesman in whose mind Is the welfare of mankind—the friend of the people and the dreaded foe of their enemies—William J. Bryan. That reaffirmation and that indorsement represented the earnest convictions of the democracy of Ohip.then: and there is no reason to believe that those convictions are changed now. “You are assembled at a time most critical for the nation and for the democratic party. We shall take no step backward, but we shall take long strides forward. The time has come when every American citizen must determineAor himself whether this nation shall continue to be in fact as well as in name a republic, or shall pattern after Great Britain and become a colonial empire. We believe that if we are to have a democracy. It cannot be too democratic: If we are to have a republic. It cannot be too republican. To remain a democracy— to remain a republic—is to preserve the1’ union; while to- become a colonial empire is to destroy the union. It was true in 1860 that this nation could not long endure, ’half slave and half free,* and it Is true now that it cannot long endure half republic and half empire. Therefore the paramount question which must be answered by the American people before the idc*; of November, is: Shall the union b4 preserved? I “We invite an adjustment of differences —or at least of cessation of factional strife—between those who are not agreed as to certain policies of government, but i who are agreed that the union must be i preserved. There are those who would preserve the union and at the same time maintain the gold standard: and there are those who would preserve the union and [ at the same time restore the bimetallic l currency that has always been and always will be the only basis of permanent prosperity in this country. But what good will either of these accomplish, even from his own point of view. If we have bimetallism or the single gold standard, and the union Is destroyed? ‘What shall it profit a man. if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?’ What shall it profit a nation-like ours, if it gain the whole world and lose its own character? Whatever a man’s convictions on the question, if he believes that the republic must remain, he is a fool if he trade the greater principle for the lesser; he Is blind If he do not unite with others to achieve the main object, no matter how he may disagree with them In respect to lesser objects. Democrats, get togethi er: and not democrats only, but all you of every political faith who would first save the- union from. the threat of imperialism. from the course of militarism and from the blight of monopoly, and after that is done would agree to disagree while determining other questions. Our appeal is not the appeal of the democratic party as a political organization. It is ! an appeal to the honor and the interest of our land, from all those who believe that George "Washington was right and i George III. was wrong. “We must have a long pull, a strongpull, and a pull all together. And that will be the end of Mark Hanna’s ‘pull’ with this government. “When we point to signs of empire and their dangers, which have appeared on every hand, multiplying every day since the hour when William McKinley took oath before God and his countrymen that he would support the constitution of the United States, we are told ; that there is no imperialism. But they who say there Is no imperialism are the very ones aiming to destroy the republic and create the empire. Their own teachings, their own conduct, their own purposes are startling evidences that they Ue ignorantly or viciously when they say there is no imperialism. As a matter of fact, the empire is at hand to-day, both in our dealings with our own people and our policy toward other peoples. The present administration has established and fostered an industrial imperialism at home and a military Imperialism abroad. An army of soldiers is more imperialistic than an army of trusts.

auc waters or Asiatic seas are not more treacherous to our welfare than the water in millions of watered stock. A military and an industrial dictatorship go hand in hand. The man who would rule others against their will by the bayonet, and the man who would'rule others against their will by the power of monopoly deserve but one name—the name of tyrant: and tyranny will not be endured by the American people. Suppose the exar of Russia, by royal edict, were to arbitrarily raise the price of bread throughout his dominions to all his subjects; would not that be called a wanton act of imperialism? But how would it differ from the edict of & trust in the United States, arbitrarily raising the price of any particular necessity of life which it might have the power to control? If a king anywhere on earth were to lay hands upon the sources of production among his people, and thereupon were to limit the supply, control the distribution and fix the price of natural products for his own benefit, would not that be called an act of imperialism, of trusts as practiced in this country to-day? The truth is that trusts do what kings would never dare. The king of England laid a tax on tea in Boston harbor, and as a consequence lost an empire: but the king of monopoly in the United States lays a tax on every article in universal use. and as a consequence expects his dupes to reelect a president who will confirm this i power. Show me anywhere on earth an i act of monarch or dictator more im- | perlous than an act of congress that ! turns the highest functions of govern- : ment over to national banks and makes the magnitude of the people’s debts the index of their prosperity. Show me in the world’s history a more arbitrary use of imperial power than is implied when ' the money trust controls the circulating medium of a country and the other trusts control all its manufactured and many of its natural products. Tou cannot show it, And still our opponents say there is no iraper'xHsm—there is only ‘duty’ and

’destiny* and ‘responsibility.* Meanwhile duty wears a crown. Destiny carries a •e«pt«r and responsibility benignly smiles on both and says: “God bless you. my children. * "Only a short time ago they were telllag u» with equal earnestness that there were no trusts. But when Mark Hanna dictated a platform for the republican state convention of Ohio, which was adopted in this Auditorium but a few weeksi since, he forsook that old falsehood and made full confession of his sins and the sins of the republican party. That platform not only acknowledged the existence of trusts, but proceeded to classify them. In effect, it declared that there are three kinds of trusts—good, bad and Indifferent. The Indifferent trust is the trust that is not big enough to attract much attention; the bad trust is the trust that refuses to throw up Its hands when the political highwayman appears, and the good trust Is the trust that contributes most to the republican party, to which it owes its life. Thus nowadays, instead of telling us there Is no Impe

Will UC (iviuium US IU U1V comparative advantages of different brands of Imperialism. Some will doubtless be labeled ‘Polygamy,' others ‘Slavery/ others Tariff Taxes Between Parts of the Union.* and still others with various designations more or less appropriate. And then we shall have dissertations on their respective merits by a man whose only claim to renown is that he bought a United States senatorship and afterward boasted that he ‘knows his business/ But when this happens we shall have gained one point. We shall have forced them to admit that imperialism Is at hand. Just as are have already forced them to admit trusts are to-day operating In every state of the union, In violation of the law and to the ruin of the public welfare. “Behind these trusts—the industrial and the imperial—is one greater than any and from which ajl the others come. It is the political trust operated by M. A. Hanna and represented In the white house by William McKinley. This is the trust that goes Into every state, every congressional district, every county and every precinct In this country, dictating who shall be candidates for public office; who, being candidates, shall be elected; who shall make the laws and what kind of laws they shall be when made. The political trust is the truit that goes into state legislatures and even to the distant islands of the sea, to procure public franchises for Its favorites. This Is the trust that determines which party shall predominate In both branches of congress, and in return for services to that end openly and shamelessly bestows foreign consulships and local offices upon those who promote Its Interests. This is the trust which gathers up the usufruct of all the other trusts and applies their millions annually to perpetuate itself in power. This is the trust that worms itself into political conventions, as it has recently done in Ohio, and from this very platform, and is able to prevent delegates from voting for their choice for a state officer, even after they have been instructed by their constituents for whom to vote. This is the trust that is able to prevent the people of Ohio from celebrating the one hundredth year of their glorious history in a manner already provided by law, because, forsooth, the political trust would make of the Ohio centennial a political machine. This is the trust whose operations are universal —the mother of all the other trusts. Sometimes its offspring multiply too rapidly, and then it becomes like ‘the old woman who lived in a shoe—she had so many children she didn’t know what to do.’ But when this happens to the political trust it has a remedy in killing off some of its children by giving others advantages over them; and so the family resumes its former numbers and pros-” pers on continued robbery without attracting too much attention. This trust fixes the policy of the government by dictating -feho shall, constitute it. It is able to stifle freedom abroad and breed corruption at home: for under its operations it is easier for a political boss to buy a United States senatorship than for a slave to buy his liberty in the Fhilipipnes. “Ypu cannot destroy the other trusts and let the political trust live. They must stand or fall together. If all the other trusts were destroyed, the political trust would breed their successors; but if, the political trust is destroyed, all the others will dtie from lack of nourishment. To accomplish this is the object of democracy; it is the object of your assemblage here and will be the object of the greater assemblage that will presently give a new expression of the national faith at Kansas City. And when that is done and our candidate is nominated. at one stroke we shall have made an end of the imperialism of industry and the imperialism of arms. “My friends, in all we think, in all we express, in all we do, in all we propose,it is most essential now that we renew our devotion to the cardinal principles of American statesmanship, since others have departed from them. It was written on the death of4 a great Persian philosopher that, ‘taking the first footstep with the good thought, the second with the good word and the third with the good deed, he entered Paradise.’ In the same order of progress the people of this country, marshaled under the banners of triumphant democracy, may reenter the land of the fathers and possess it. It is astonishing, it is humiliating—but it is true—that to-day?we are obliged to reaffirm fundamental doctrines that were accepted as matters of course only four years ago, in order to prove our title to the name of freeman. “We believe in the constitution of the

tion of independence. We believe in the Monroe doctrine. We believe that the love of liberty is inborn in the human breast and that possessing its fruits ourselves through more than a century of trial and temptation, we cannot deny them to others. We believe that the love of liberty is the same in California as in Massachusetts; the same in Cuba as in California; the same in Porto Rico as in Cuba; the same in the Philippines as in Porto Rico, and the same in South Africa as in the Philippines. We make no distinction as /to where liberty should be enjoyed when men desire it. Intelligent sacrifices for liberty prove the fitness; of their victims to possess it. and there is no line dratyn between such sacrifices;, whether they are offered on the altar of American tyranny in Luzon or on the altar of British greed In the Transvaal. Sherman said that ‘war is hell,’ but there Is no word this side of hell that can describe the horror of a war of conquest. “We charge^that William McKinley, of his own volition, began such a war on the 21st of December, 1898, by Issuing to the Filipinos a proclamation claiming absolute sovereignty over the entire Philippine archipelago and over the property and persons of its inhabitants. We charge that this declaration of war was issued against a people with whom we were then and always had been at peace —nay, more, that they were our allies agaipst a common enemy at the moment Mr. McKinley proclaimed the conquest. We charge that this declaration was is£ed without the consent or even the lowledg* of congress, which under the constitution is the sole power to make war. Before the treaty of peace vrtth Spain was ratified, before we could have substantiated the slightest claim, of purchaws or conquest, over the Philippines, the present' administration deliberately proclaimed the Filipino patriots rebels and put the stamp of treason upon their honest virtue. At that moment imperialism was born in this country. At tliat moment the clouds began to obscure she republic and a blood-red sun foretold the empire. That sun rose In a significant hue, for it showed the crimson tide that has since flowed from the death

wound* of 2.000 American soldiers. tThes: its rays pierced the (loom they "wer bolts of fire In as many desolate home, and where they shone not was the black ness of despair—-the despair of the her who was dented the privilege of stirrer, dering up his soul, but from whom thi. war of conquest took away his mind. “What has followed In the Philippine and wherever we have thrown down ok imperial gantlet has followed natural! and logically. ‘Ye shall know a tree b Its fruits.’ and by the fruits of imperial Ism we know the empire. Its herald.; carry one of two weapons—the sword o • j the carpetbag. Sometimes they carr' both, but they can't accomplish mor havoc with one than the other. Tt sword was never unsheathed in a wt of conquest, and a national theft w£ never accomplished by diplomacy, with out being followed by the carpetba If a nation were to choose how It shout! perish—by the sword or by the carpet bag—It could not do better than toss u , a penny and let ‘heads or tails* decide In any event, for the thievlny iatlc it would be ‘heads I win. tails you lose The American carpetbag In Cuba an, Porto Rico Is doing as much to destro

«h? vuoaas ana rorto Ricans as tb American sword ever did to destroy tfc Spaniards;. We are professing to teac our wards the lesson of self-government but are in fact impressing them with th belief that the efficacy of self-govern • went Is indicated by the amount of mot ey the governors can steal from the gov crned. We are pointing out to them th advantages of free American citizensh: that knows no restrictions between part of the union, but are telling them th*. ‘taxation without representation’ does no count as between the old parts of th union and the new parts. - We assur them that ‘trade follows the dag.’ be how much or how little or what kind t trade is ,‘our business,’ and not their. We place them on the solid rock of th constitution, but we are careful to greasy the rock, so that in case they slide o? they will attribute the catastrophe to tht grease and not to the constitution. f “How much better it would be if w guaranteed independence to the Filipino self-government to the Cuban and to th Porto -Rican equal rights in the unior> How much better it would have bee if we had done this two years ago—ho' infinite^ more urgent that we do it now “Thirty-five years ago Abraham Linf coin, standing on the threshold of hi. second term as president, and unknow. ingly in the valley of the shadow, look ing down the broad avenue of peace prosperity and contentment which he be lieved this nation would pursue fron that time on: and this is the heritage kj‘ left to those who should come after him and the guiding star of our domestic a»> foreign policy: | “ ‘With malice towards none, with char, ity for all. wi,th firmness in the righas God gives us to see the right, let u finish the business we are in; to bin” VP the nation’s wounds; to care for him’ who shall have borne the battle, and fo his widows and his orphans; to do ai that may achieve and cherish a lust an lasting peace among ourselves and wlti all nations.’ | “Analyse that utterance in the ligk of modern imperialism. ‘With malice to' wards none’—is that our policy in th-; Philippines? ‘With charity for all’—i' that our policy in Porto Rico? ‘Let u! finish the business’—what business? T embark in wars of conquest? To abaci don the opportunities of the land we llv in for the ‘business chances’ of land where others live? No. It is to finish the business we are in. Is it to mak. new wounds or tear old one’s asunder to make new veterans, new pensioner: new widows, new sacrifices? No. It tk to bind up the nation’s wounds, to car. for him who shall have already born the battle. Is it to undertake an inter national career which Invites a perpetua threat of foreign war? No. It is tv ‘do all that may achieve a just and J lasting peace among ourselves and witi all nations.’ “The imperialism of industry—otherwlsthe trusts—and the Imperialism of arm; falsely called ‘expansion’—is a hard tasks master. Its promoters are the enemie of mankind. They are telling the youti of the land that the shoulder-strap t more to be desired than the diploma They are raising the cry to ‘stand bjj the president,’ when no man can stan> by him a moment without jumping fron one platform to another. They are in voking the patriotism of the people t< destroy the very foundations of patriot; ism. They are draping the flag aroun a golden calf and asking you to fa? down and worship it. They are tellinyou that the constitution is ’obsolete apd the declaration of independence ‘writ ten for an occasion.’ They are doin^ all they can to remove the possibility ©. ‘a just and lasting peace among ourselve and with all nations.’ * ’To defeat and confound the enemie. of popular government is the mission ©t the democracy. We shall do it now oj fail hereafter. The republic cannot tern* porize with the empire. The light we ar in means life to one or death to both. N: division of opintdn can prevent patri otic men from uniting on the propoj sition that the union must be preserved During the - civil war there was a sor., that at one time or another has touch© the heart of every man and womaa Su this audience—‘The Union Forever! Hurl rah. Boys, Hurrah!’ And to-day a nation that knows no north, no south, n ■> east, no west, repeats in the same wore , with the same enthusiasm, with the sar j reverent devotion, with the tame ster i purpose, "The Union Forever.’”

Hanna Distrusted by Republican .. Xocjnatter how admiringly Mr. Hai - na may regard those monopolisic combinations in restraint of trade-8-the trusts—a very great proportion < f the people have not only no admir - tion for them, but unqualifiedly co: demn and denounce them as inimic 1 to pubnc policy and in contravene a of sound republican principles; Js concerns dangerous to our politic. 1 and economic institutions. Although the last national platform condemned the trusts, and although the next ob e is expected to present an even mote vigorous condemnation of them us public enemies, the national chairmt. :i has seen fit to persistently and a. - gressively defend and uphold. then:; to make himself, in fact, their mo; t conspicuous champion. It is indisputable that Senator Hanna is not t popular political idol; tnat many r. - publicans distrust him, his polici; a and methods, and especially do thcf view with disfavor his real or suppose 1 dominating influence over the atministration. — Philadelphia Ledgt r (Rep.). ____ -It is not capital, but monopoly, whose palm itches for the Philippine .. There was nothing, even under Spa iish rule, to prevent the investing < f American capital in the islands, an ) there is nothing to prevent it now, e: - eept a war provoked1 by ourselves, ne t is there anything to keep us fro id trading with any nation under tbs sun, except tariff laws, passed in th ; interest of monopoly. The imperiali: t doesn’t want to trade; he wants t> rob. He doesn’t want to invest capital; he wants to steal the capital cf others,—.Johnstown (Pa.) Democrat. .

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