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EDITORIAL HENTION.
General Wood has proclaimed
thf anti-slavery law in the entire
Moro possessions.
The Chicago Colosseaum, in
whieh the republican national con
vention will be held next June,
will seat I'2,o<>o.
Senator Morgan's mouth dredger
is at work again on the Panama
canal. Oh, for a hundred earth
dredgers as tireless in the breach!
Mr. Chamberlain is in his sixty
sixth year but there is every indi
cation that he will live to see Eng
land become a champion of protec
tion.
Tramps throughout the country
are reported as very enthusiastic
over the declaration of a Chicago
professor that bathing is injurious
to the health.
A young Frenchman whjo dis
covered that his fiancee spent 50.-
000 fiance a year at her dressmak
er-, broke his engagement and mar
ried the dressmaker.
Tom Johnson regards his first
defeat as merely "the first battle."
H< is ambitious and wants at least
as many defeats as were adminis
tered to the "Peerless Leader."
Maj or General Wade, command
ing the Division of the Philippines,
who went; to investigat the trouble
at Jolo. reports that General
Wood's attack on the Moros was
ne vary.
Canada has received permission
from the Imperial Government to
appoint a Canadian commander of
6h militia. According to the pres
ent law only an officer of the Brit
ish army could hold such a posi
tion.
Since tlie New York election,
Tii umany has become a power in
the democratic party. Conse
quently Senator Gorman is in con
stant communication with the
Tammany leaders on all political
questions.
Mr. Bryan who has just been re
ceived by the Pope, can console
himself with the thought that if he
had been elected President of the
United States he would not been
ah! • to make his present trip to
Europe.
Speaker Cannon was shrewd in
allowing Leader Williams to name
the democratic members of the
House committee. Now all the
disappointed democratic Congress
men blame Mr. Williams for their
failure to get good committee as
signments.
The American Mining Congress
will have a bill introduced in the
Federal Congress providing for the
creation of a Department of Mines
and Mining, the head of which is
to be a member of the President's
cabinet.
Another editorial pelican in the
wilderness has lifted his voice
against the nomination of Presi
dent Roosevelt. Why ,/ill these
solitary birds insist upon thwart
ing trends, avalanches and gulf
streams.
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Manufacturers guarantee with every
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N«xt Year's Campaign.
A Democratic exchange insists
that the fixing of an early date for
the Republican national convention
assures a long campaign whieh will
be about as- disastrous to business
interests as bad crops. It is
strange but true that the party up
on which the exchange sheds its
radiance can never see anything
but disaster and clamity, says
Harris-burg Telegraph.
If it were unknown who would
be the selection of the Republican
convention for President and what
its choice of policy, there might be
some disturbance of business,
which nevertheless would not be
disastrous. Business disasters
have never been caused by Repub
lican campaigns or campaign meth
ods. Everybody knows that
Roosevelt will be nominated by
that convention and that on change
in tariff laws will be advocated.
And knowing this, the country is
going about its business undisturb
ed.
A different tale may be told after
the Democratic convention shall
have met. Leaders of that party
are again talking of making the
tariff their campaign issue. If
this bo dune business will be dis
turbed whether the campaign lie
long or short, and the histoiv of
the campaign of 181)2 will be re
peated. Business men cannot af
ford to take chances, and if a
Democrat should be elected on a
free trade platform next year his
election would be followed by an
industrial and commercial depres
sion which would foreshadow a
disaster such as this country has
not witnessed in thirty years.
The Republican party has always
been the party of safety and secur
ity. The Democratic party is al
ways the party of disaster and cal
amity; but there is no disaster and
calamity except that which is of
its own making.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Rjgutar Correspondent.)
Washington, Dec. 21, 1903.
Editor Press:—
The Chinese Commercial Treaty
was ratified by the Senate without
opposition. Mr. Nelson of Minne
sota criticised it for not giving the
United States sufficient conces
sions in the way of open ports and
placed the blaiuc for this on Rus
sia, whose attitude in Manchuria
might, he said, lead to trouble
with this country. Other Sena
tors agreed with Mr. Nelson, but it
was argued that the treaty was the
best China could give under the
circumstances. Senator Lodge
urged that it be ratilied immed
iately as such action was held by
the Stale Department to be essen
tial. Ho added that the ratifica
tion of the treaty would have a
good effect in the,settlement of the
far Eastern question.
By a bitter attack on the Admin
istration, which reminded one of
the days when he hailed Aguin
aldu as a second George Washing
ton, Senator Hoar caused a sharp
party debate on the Panama ques
tion. The Senator read his speech
from a carefully prepared manu
script, and this fact made his violent
statements all the more remark
able. The following citation gives
an idea of the character of his
speech. "I want to know—arid I
think the American people want to
know, and have a right to know —
whether this mighty policeman,
instructed to keep the peace on that
isthmus, seeing a man about to at
tack another, before he had struck
his blow manacled the arms of
attacked so that he the could
not defend himself, leaving
the assailant free, and then in
stantly proceeded to secure from
the assailant the pocket book of
the victim on the ground that he
was the de facto owner." This
speech caused delight among the
democrats, who would like to at
tack the Administration, but many
of whom fear that opposition to the
treaty would be a boomerang to the
party. Mr. Dai ley congratulated
the Massachusetts Senator on being
with the democrats on the ques
tion, and Mr. Gorman aided in the
attack on the Administration by
calling the President a second Nap
oleon. "A second Napoleon in
deed. lias it come to this that the
United States must have a Napol
eon to shape its destinies and to
distort the Presidential ofhee from
its proper function." Senator For
aker made a serious, able and dig
nified reply to these oratorical at
tacks on the President. His re
marks much annoyed Senator
Hoar, who then attempted to tone
down his written speech before it
went into the Congressional
Record. Mr. Foraker demanded
of Senator Hoar what right he had
to call upon the President to prove
that he had spoken the truth in his
message to Congress.
Congress has now adjourned un
til after the holidays, when further
debate on the Panama question is
expected. There is no doubt that
the treaty will be ratified.
By reaching an agreement by
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DBCEMBER 24, 1903.
which the land of the Philippine
friends can he purchased by our
government, Governor Taft has
solved one of the most irritating
problems in the island. The terms
of the agreement are that all the
land of the friars shall he bought
by the United States forseven mil
lion two hundred and fifty thous
and. The Pope's approval of the
agreement has been obtained and
that of the War Department is
now awaited. The friars first ask
ed $15,000,000. As the money for
the purchase of the lands will not
be paid by the people of the United
States and as the purchase will
meet the general approval of the
natives, President Roosevelt and
| Secretary will no doubt ratify the
action of Governor Taft.
Senator Hoar on Panama.
Senator Hoar occupies a position
in the Senate and before the coun
try which entitles him to a respect
ful hearing and a personal attention
given to few Americans. Men
may question his judgment, lie
has been wrong in the past. lie
doubtless will be again. But 110
man can question the good faith
with which he speaks or the high
sense of public duty which guides
him.
The challenge he makes in his
speech in the Senate 011 the recog
nition of the Panama Republic calls
for a full, careful and complete
answer. We do not doubt this can
be made. When all the facts are
fully known it will, we believe, be
seen that the end sought and the
policy adopted by the Administra
tion were justified. Whether each
precise step, the time when it, was
taken and the instant action de
cided upon can be justified, is an
issue which will depend in part ou
the facts and in part on the tem
perament of the critic.
But all the facts must be known,
and Senator lloar does right in
asking for them. They must be
furnished. His sober, temperate
and high-minded challenge must
not be met by attacking him and
cannot be answered by asserting
the need of the canal, the duty of
the United States to build it or the
wisdom of its early and prompt
construction.
Senator Hoar accepts all this.
He wants the canal built. He
wants it built in his own lifetime
and by "the present President of
the United States." iiut in his
speech he raises an issue and pre
sents interrogatories which have
occurred to every American citizen.
Senator lloai has a right to require
not only that the United States was
right in its policy at the Panama
Isthmus, but that it shall seem to
be right to all the world. Fortius
purpose all the facts, all the condi
tions and all the law, constitutional,
public and international, bearing
i)ii the case need to be known.
They must all lie judged without
prejudice or prepossession. The
fact that Columbia is "weak" or
the United States strong has noth
ing to do with the ease.
The broad issue which must be
pleaded at the; bar of public opin
ion now and at the bar of history
in the future is whether, taking
the world duty presented by the
claims of trade, the present and
future needs of 100,000,0(H) in
North America and (>o,000,(too in
South America, the rights of the
Republic of Columbia under a''pro
claimed'' constitution and of the
inhabitants of the isthmus to peace,
order, self-government and pros
perity, the United States was or
was not justified in stopping a re
gime which had cursed the isthmus,
across which a great public work
must go, with insurrection, riot,
rapine and bloodshed fifty-three
times in fifty years.—Philadelphia
Press.
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