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Naturally, however, tho An- I , glomaniac combination wh'ch is now j I running the government prefers to j i t hink that its own officers have gone i | wrong rather than admit that Great i J Britian might infringe neutral rights in war time. Congress however is not satisfied with the pro-British argu ments of the junior members of the the alliance, and has demanded the tacts in the case, Representative Whee [ ler. of Kentucky, having introduced the j resolution of inquiry. X X X I lie Democrats have good cause to ! rejoice. It is now fairly evident that they have defeated the three great ad ministration measures-—the Porto Itican tariff, the Hanna ship subsidy and the I II ay-Pa uncefote treaty. The first, named will probably be beaten despite ! the fact that the president has aban- ; doned his declared position in favor of I free trade with Porto Rico on the I ground that he is obliged to do so in order to secure the passage of any Porto Kicun bill by the house and | senate. He expresses his solicitude for ! the people of that island and says that I half a loaf is better for them than no : bread. He thus professes to believe , that, a bill granting free trade would lie defeated although all the Democrats j and at least half the Republicans will | ; vote for it, while one charging a duty | would be adopted, although all the j Democrats and at least thirty Republi \ The Cure thai Cures/ P Coughs, (k \ Colds, j I) Grippe, (k \ Whooping Cough. Asthma, J Bronchitis and Incipient A Consumption, Is fOIIO si Tm GERMAN remedy £ V -awd \ut\q Axstases. j cans will vote against it. Tho mere statement of this position is enough to show the cloven foot of the sugar and tobacco trusts. X X I The currency bill has passed the senate by a vote of 40 to 29, the other members of the senate being paired on opposing sides. The Democrats of fered a number of amendments, all of which were defeated by about the same vote. The most serious struggle of the day was on the adoption of the miserable evasion offered by the finance committee declaring that nothing in tlie bill should be constructed to pro vent the adoption of bimetallism by international consent. This clause was inserted in order to permit Senator Wolcott to vote for tho bill without going back on all his expressed con victions. The bill now goes to a con ference committee of the senate and house, where it is believed that the differences between the two bills will speedily be harmonized by the cohesive force of public plunder. X X t A caucus of Democratic senators was held to discuss the general line of op position to the Republican policy to wards the island possessions of the j United States. A committee was authorized to confer with tho Demo crats of tiie house, with a view to having the party in both branches of congress act aloug the same line. While no program was adopted, there was a unanimous sentiment in favor of continuing the opposition, and a com ( mittce was authorized to arrange a ! program. ,* * * j Notwithstanding numerous denials of the story that Boss Hanna hud threat ened to take the Republican national 1 convention away from Philadelphia, if the money promised by the committee representing that city to the Republican national committee was not forthcom ing, such a threat was made. And as a result. Boss Hanna lias received a check for $25,000 on account, and a promise that the other $75,000 will be raised and • turned over before the convention meets. XXX The hill providing a territorial form of government for Hawaii now before the senate, which means that Hawaii will ultimately become astute, naturally raises the question of why the Hawaii | ans should he much better treated than : the Porto Rieans? Surely no one out side of the clique which is shaping tho Republican policy can • see any good reason for making Hawaiians American citizens and tho Porto Iticans colonial subjects. Lehigh Valley'H Lake Fleet. The Lehigh Valley Railroad is in the market for a large steel steamship for its lake service, the company having sold its wooden steamers, 11. E. Packer, R. A. Packer and Fred Mercier and the steamships Oceanic and Clyde, thereby reducing the carrying capacity of its Lake fleet by 8,500 tons. To replace this tonnage a new steel steamer, to bo call ed the Wilkesbarre, with a tonnage of 5,800 tons, is now under construction by the Erie Railway Company, of Buffalo, and Is to be completed in time to be placed in service during the present year. This will still leave the fleet ton nage 2,700 tons short, for which provi sion is about to be made. News About Our Wheels. An English exchange says: "British manufacturers have racked their brains to effect improvements in bicycles, but none of them evidently have yet done anything to improve *he wabbling, shaking toolbag which has been car ried, fastened to the saddle, ever since blcy cles came Into existence. You hard ly ever see a toolbag on an American machine. An American wheel is so made that only one tool is necessary to adjust any of tho parts. This tool, and n telescopic pump and repairing materials In a compact form, are us ually carried in the recesses of the han dle bars." This will be news to the iNciage il "c-r in thiß country. Pardoned Too Many. On Sunday the World catalogued 310 pardons granted to criminals and 129 commutations of sentence by Pres- 1 ident McKinley duiing the two years j and live months of his administration. ' The list does not include the case of 1 Commissary General Eagan, who, af- I ter a fair trial by courtmartial, was sentenced to disgraceful dismissal i from the army, and whose sentence j the President changed into the reward of six years' furlough upon full pay. But it does include the pardon of i sixteen bank wreckers and a commu tation of sentence in the cases of eight I other men who as bank officers be trayed their trusts. It includes pardon in the cases of sixty-one and the commutation of twenty-nine sentences imposed upon postmasters for embezzlement and kindred crimes. It includes the pardon of thirty three counterfeiters and the lighten- ■ ing of sentences upon fourteen others. Without going further into the cata- I logue it is fair to ask why the Presi dent has come to the rescue of these infamous scoundrels by the use of his pardoning power. Why has he grant- j ed respite to bank wreckers and the betrayers of trusts, thus encouraging other bank officers to like offense? Why has he impaired the integrity of j the postal service by pardoning em- I bezzling postmasters for crimes that are unpardonable? What possible claim to clemency can any counter- \ feiter have? The pardoning power is conferred upon the Executive for one purpose, | and only one. It is not intended for the relief of criminals with or without j a "pull." It is intended, as proceed ings in equity are, to correct mistakes and cure injustices of the law. It was never meant in any constitution that | the Executive should pardon crim inals. It was meant only that as a last resort his power of pardon should ' rescue men unjustly convicted of crime. In this view of the law and the facts, President McKinley's wholesale j jail delivery is a gross abuse of the pardoning power.—N. Y. World. The Window Glass Trust. j The price of window glass has been 1 advanced to $2.75, says the Kansas j City Times. The price in 1890 was j $2.04, and the custom duties then were as they are now, 100 per cent. The ; price in Belgium and England, the ' chief glass manufacturing countries of Europe, is quoted at $1.30, and the makers are willing to lay it down in America at that figure, plus the freight, which would be a mere trifle, i This gives the American makers $1.45 more than foreign makers would charge—a price that would leave them j a satisfactory profit. That is to snv. by reason of high protection American i consumers have to pay more than i twice what they would be charged were competition permitted. The glass plants are in a trust so strong that capital will not attempt to erect | other factories, and so the combine has a monopoly that is scarcely equal- j ed by any other industrial conspiracy in opportunity and desire to rob the j public. But the enormous extra profit of , $2.45 does not satisfy the trust. Build- j ers complain that the quality of the j glass is becoming more aqd more in- \ ferior, which adds just that much to I the combine's net earnings. How long the people will submit to this sort of ! thing is a question that should be an swered very positively next year when j they vote for President. It would | seem that ex-Senator Sherman's plan would remedy the evil, if there are still "infant industries" that need pro tection against outside competition. His idea is that no industry shiuld have protection that can compete in our home markets with foreign goods and wares. The difficulty of ascer taining which industries needed no protection would not be great. Any j one selling his products in Europe at i or below the price in America would himself furnish the proof that he needed no tariff duties to keep out competition. If that were done, the country would very soon settle down j upon nearly a free trade basis, for ; there is scarcely an American manu- ; facturer that is not competing with the home products of the nations in their own markets. Price of Imperialism. Under these new conditions, what is so natural as that "Republican lead ers do not feel justified in favoring internal expenditures?" Basing their demand for the large outlays for army and navy increase that must "be con- i tinned indefinitely" upon the national ; revenues as at present in force, it is j seen that for the increased military expenditure there must be a corre- ' sponding decrease of expenses in some other direction. The retrench j ment will be made in internal affairs 1 —just as is the case with the great | powers of Europe, where everything is subordinated to the necessity of : maintaining big armies. It will be well for the people to un derstand why there will be no appro priations for river and harbor im j provements, for the erection and ! maintenance of public buildings and for other internal betterments by the present Congress. If we are resolved | upon becoming a world power, we i must pay the price of such power— I pay it in money and American blood and in the arrested development of our country's legitimate growth within Its own continental limits. This neces sity is as inevitable under an imper ialistic policy as that darkness shall follow daylight. The price of im perialism will be high, and the terms will be both "your money and your life."—St. Louis Republic. A Needless War. We would probably have obtained control of the Philippine Islands, so far as our commercial, political and diplomatic interests necessitated, with the full and amiable concurrence of the Filipinos, if our government had pursued the right policy and had sent theright men to Manila to carry it out. The war which is now going on, . which, whenever it ends, will leave its long legacy of distrust and hatred, was a needless war, and it might easily have been avoided if the administra tion had taken a proper course in our relations with the Filipinos.—Boston | Herald. | If Congressman Roberts cannot win proselytes to his convenient notions I of domestic life he certainly can intro l duce the firebrand of discord into the camns of his enemies. GRAVE AND GAY IN RHYME. ! Uncle Sam's Army School. Since Ben come back from war It's strange To notice the surprlsin' change In him; his good ol' ma an' me Are both astonished as kin be! He used to be a slouchy lad — Partakln' mebbe, from his dad— And hadn't the git up an snap You'd look fur in a rancher chap. The first day he slapped a nervy fist An' said he reckoned he'd enlist It tuk my breath in sich away 1 scurcoly knowed just what to say, 1 tol' him with a scornful grin He wasn't built fur soldierln*— That what they wanted in the ranks Was men with action in their shanks. But spite of all he went an* now That he is back again I swow Their ain't two prouder folks on earth Than me an' her who give him birth. Walks 'round with quick and snappy stride, Swelled up with military pride, An' slingin' style 't'd make you think He was a Gineral, by Jink! When walkin' 'long with me he'll say: "Now dad, don't slouch in sich away! Hoi' up yer head! throw out yer chest Ontil you think 't'll bust yer vest! Toe out, an' try to git the step! Now! hayfoot, strawfoot! hep! hep! hep! Eyes front! Throw back yershouldi-rs!" Gee! The way that kid keeps drillin' me! He's got a scar where he was hit At Caloocan, an' says that it la Uncle Sammy's brand to show That he knowed how to face a foe. An' then the gals! Why, they Jest seem To think he is a four-hoss team! Same gals that used to say that he Wa'n't in it at a sparkln' bee! I've heerd 'em tell o' books an' schools A ma kin' scholars out o* fools, Of di'mon's in the rough that's made To shine like gernß o' finest grade. But I am keen to bet that there Ain't nothln' else that kin compare With Uncle Ram in makln' men, An' I kin prove that same by Ben. —Denver Post. The Day's End. Boys, I've been out In the clearin' Choppin* up some second-growth. And, I swan, it's mighty cheerin' When the frost is interferin' With yer seeln' and yer hearin' And yer natchral feelln's, both, To hear yer Bister's voice a'callin: "Supper, pa; the boys is all in!" Then I drop my ax and listen, Makin' out I didn't hear, For I knew a voice like this'n, Which fer years I've been a-missin', And I seem to catch the glisten Of two girlish eyes—it's queer, But yer ma lives in yer sister As she was when I first kissed her. You remember her as turnin' Thirty odd, and all wore out; But them days when we was burnin' Walnut firewood and earnin' This old farm jest sets me yearnin* That the years could turn about And yer ma would call me to her From the days when first I knew her. Seems to me I didn't treat her With the care I should have took; Such a faithful wife, and neater Than a hummin' bird, and sweeter- God forgive me! if I meet her There, she'll wear a lovln' look And forgive me—she'll be oallln': "Come in, pa, the night is fallln'!" —Chicago News. But Is That All? A little dreaming by the way, A little toiling day by day, A little pain, a little strife, A little Joy—and that is life. A short-lived fleeting summer's morn When happiness seems newly born, When one day's sky is blue above, And one bird sings—and that is love. A little wearying of the years, The tribute of a few hot tears. Two folded hands, the fainting breath And peace at last—and that is death. Just dreaming, loving, dying, so The actors in the drama go; A fitting picture on a wall, Love, death, the themes! But is it all? —Paul Lawrence Dunbar. A Fairy Grave a little grave he made. Half in shadow, half in sha.de, In a quiet, kindly place, Friendly as her face. Let the passing fairy bird From his airy height be heard; Ever, ever, for that ground Only gentle sound. Let the singing winds, which be Winged dream and melody, Ringing softly, by her lie, Softly singing, die. Let the bee which sucked the bloom Homeward journey by her tomb, And hi* tithe of sweet be paid To her sweeter shade. Let the low clouds, red and gold, Mourn her on the mountain old; Beauty; aye her guardian be. You and Melody. Spirits of sound and souls of flowers, All you dearest griefless powers, You with whom she went away, Tend her night and day. —John Vance Cheney, In the Century. At Night. 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