Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1898 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE of the PRESS

One form of the Philippine question continues to be Aguinaldo’s “Where do I come in?”—Philadelphia Times. It is settled; the fluid with which the battleship Illinois is to be dedicated will not have to be boiled.—Chicago Time* Herald. Anarchy wears its most hideous aspect when it seeks its victims among feeble and grief-stricken women.—New York Tribune. Our next war ought to begin with the suppression of a few yellow journals and end with the hanging of a few sensational correspondents.—lndianapolis Journal. Pugilists are again hunting over the country for a place where they may fight. Prize fighting is rapidly degenerating into the game known as “tag.”—Washington Star. Aguinaldo is like the typical boy in the funny stories, who drives his father mad by asking questions. But his Uncle Sam is a very patient individual. — Cleveland Plain Dealer. If water takes the place of champagne in christening battleships, will it be followed by tin pails and dippers being presented to them instead of punch bowls?— Philadelphia Times. Spain will miss the annual revenue at $25,000,000 heretofore drjiwn from the Island of Cuba. The loss will be still more keenly felt when the revenue ie doubled under an intelligent rule of the territory.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The public may reasonably be somewhat suspicious of ordinary identifications of corpses when a girl, identified as dead by her own father, comes home alive and well in time to witness the final preparations for her funeral. —Indianapolis Journal. Herr Most says he would not commit such an act as the murder of the Empress of Austria. Of course he wouldn’t. Anyone who knows Most knows that he would not commit any act of any description that would be likely to involve himself in any danger.—Chicago Post.

South Eulogizes Mias Davis. She was beloved by all because of her bearing and her grateful appreciation of the affection shown her at all times.— Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. As the daughter of Jefferson Davis and as the “Daughter of the Confederacy,” she was dose to the hearts of the people of the South. —Savannah (Ga.) News. Personally Miss Davis seems, by the testimony of friends who knew and loved her, to have possessed a most amiable and interesting character. —Baltimore News. Passing into the deep valley, her memory will live in the hearts of her and her name will take its place as one of the few not born to die.—Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution. It is a pity that Miss Davis and her mother did not cultivate that bond of sympathy and love, a bond which united them so indissolubly to the South.—Nashville American. Every man who wore the gray loved the winsome and gifted girl with a sentiment of ahnosit. personal adoration, because of her being the connecting link between him and the past.—Atlanta Journal. The regard in which Winnie Davis was held was peculiar. It was not wholly based upon the fact that she was the child of the illustrious chief of the Southern cause; it was not entirely centered in th® magic that is exercised by a woman of many charms, great loveliness and worth. It was largely made up of all those influences. —New Orleans Picayune. In many respects Miss Winnie Davi* was identified with the old South and with sectional memories, but this was due rather to the surroundings of her birth and to the homage of which she was made the recipient on the jwrt of the old soldier® than to any absence of national spirit In her allegiance, and there is something peculiarly suggestive of restored peace and good will between the sections in the fact that this gentle child of the South should have closed her eyes in death under the skies of Narragausett Pier.—Atlanta Constitution.

The Philippine Problem. Neither party is a unit for or against the retention of the Philippines.—Boatns Transcript. There is no question of our mortgage onthe Philippines. The only question is ons of foreclosure.—New York Press. If we keep Luzon and deliver the other Philippines back to Spain we shall still have Spain for a neighbor.-—lndianapolia News. Flushed with victories won by Americans both the Cubans nnd the Filipino* are assuming an importance like unto th* pride that cometh before a fall. —Loui*ville Times. One thing may be taken for granted; the islands will not be left to rhe domination of the semi-savage insurgents. Thta practical certainty gives assurance that the troubles in the Philippines are not over by any means. The worst of .them may be yet to come. —Atlanta Journal. To all a |>ponrances it will be much mor* difficult disposing of the Philippines than it was driving the Spaniards from Manila. The sentiment of the country does not favor the retention of the islands, and yet there rests upon us the responsibility of determining their destiny.—Maneheater, N. 11. Union. If we annex the islands we must conquer Aguinnldo's army. If we return them to Spain that country will be unable to exorcise its rule over .them. If their independence is recognized it is certain that the islanders "would prove incapable of self-government. These are some of the knotty problems the Parts commission must solve.— Birmingham, Ala., News. Independent of any considerations affecting the welfare of the United State*, this country cannot honorably withdraw from the Philippines now, because, to da so, would be to leave the people in a state of anarchy, with the prospeefof perpetual conflict among themselves.—Kan* sas City Star. W. S. Shroeder, a newspaper artist, ha* been missing for three weeks in the north* ern part of Washington. He left hi* camp to make sketches of Mount Baker, nnd is supposed to have starved to death in the wiiderueea,