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pTHE PHILIPPINE QUESTION AS | THE DOMINANT ISSUE. ' A DEMOCRATIC VIEW—By Clark Howell. (From Harper’s Weekly.) z , With the meting and adjournment of the three national committees, and the fixing of the tim e and place for the na tional conventions, it may be said that the natlnoal campaign t>f 1900 is fairly tender way. This campaign is, In many respects, (unusual in its presentation of new is sues. Regardless of former campaigns Arnd of old Issues, the two great par ities face each other In battle array on ■nes which have developed since the Hast national campaign. This condi tion is the result of the Spanish-Amer ■can war, and no human being could Bhave predicted four years ago, with Adequate reason for so doing, that be- Hon< Clark Howell, Wween the last anti this campaign en tirely new issues would arise, on which ■the campaign of this year would be ■ought. f Thedomlnating issue of the campaign (pf ’B4, which firstm ade Mr. Cleveland b' esident, wc# the tariff. The cam paign of ’BB Substantially the came grounds, with different results, «he pendulum swinging from tariff re .tform, pledged, but unredeemed, to a protective tariff. The money question fcvas injected into the next campaign, challenging the tariff for supremacy, ana resulting, four years ater, in a cleavage in both the Demo cratic and Republican parties. The i ilstory of that campaign is fresh in jthe minds of the people. Whatever je*.ay bo seid of the Democratic cohten- the Republican jiositlon during Visit campaign, there can be no doubt 4 (ihat the action of the Republic Con /kress has fixed- the gold standard at feast for a time, and a (Jme longer "than the life of the administration Ivhich will be created by the elections |>f this year. ( The money question becomes of sec- Cndary importance in this campaign, "because other questions have thrust 'themselves more acutely before the (public mind, and because of the realiza jtion of the fact that the triumph of the standard, as much as it may be approved or condemned, cannot be oyerthrown by anything that can be accomplished as the result of the cam t-ign or this year. Unquestionably the leading feature tof this campaign will be the contention over the control and disposition of the lerritlry. which has been brought un d,-r the dominion of the Stars and Stripes as the result of the Spanish- American war. The money question will figure incidentally, the Democrats reaffirming their platform of 1856, and the Republicans defending the action jbf their administration in the adoption if the gold standard; but the voter will cast his ballot with the knowledge that whatever may b e his oonvicition for or Bgainst the gold standard, the result pf the election cannot alter the status created by this administration, at least before the people have had opportuni ty to to the ballot-box in another .Tiatlonajp election. Democrats", who have -differed with their party On this issue are therefore returning to the fold, and joining the biajority of their party in other lines cf thought in which there is less room for divergent opinion. So it may be said that many of the Republican mi nority, who left their party on account cf its attitude on the currency ques tion, will renew their affiliation Vith It this year. On the other hand, there Democrats and come Repub licans who, while acting with their re spective organizations four years ago, •nay be found in other association in this campaign, as the result of the re nlignpent growing out of the question of expansion—or, as termed by some, Imperialism. The-""e are two controlling lines of thought In the consideration of the paramount issue of this campaign; one Is farnajed around the purpose to hold and administer the affairs in the Fhil- Kpplnes and Puerto Rico as an integral, Bverlesttng part of our government: the Bfrer is upon the theory tii.it transpacific islands which hav providentially brought under 1b of our flag should lie held < n a trust, and that their govern - ggjjH should be administered with flu ■■of securing the ul*l\ : - ■■of their people. policav would put the world on the Philippines arc ours, to have and to hold forever, regardless of cost or consequences—the other would extend the same guarantee 6f ultimate independence that has been accorded the Cubans, but it would condition such guarantee upon the complete and peaceable acquiescence by the Filipinos in the authority of the American flag an<3 the supremacy of American juris diction. As the result of developments of the past year, one factor in this discus sion has been practically eliminated— that which favored the immediate withdrawal of our troops from the Philippines, and which boldly announc ed that American soldiers were there as Interlopers and conquerors, hnd that they would get their just deserts if they were driven into the sea. This el ement, with headquarters in Boston, and with its ramifications extending with spasmodic breaks from there to the United States senate and else where, was particularly noisy at first, and while not less vociferous now, it is inflinitely less harmless. It is a non partisan aggregation made up of re publicans and democrats, and it would be unjust to it to withhold the full creit to e which It is entitled for having been the chief source of inspiration to Aguinaldo and his insurrection. The answer of the American people, re gardless of their opinion as to what should become ultimately of the Phil ippines, was firm and emphatic. They declared that the flag must be upheld: that the insurrection against the Am erican authority in the Philippines must be quelled: that the acquiescence of thenatives to American control must be secured: thfet the strong right arm of Uncle Sam would bo backed with all the men and all the money neces sary to bring about this condition. While partisans have differed, do dif fer and will continue to differ as to the policy that should be adopted concern ing the future of the Philippines, It is worthy of note that the representatives of all parties in Congress have patriot ically rallied to the support of the gov ernment in meeting present conditions in the Philippines, and the world has been put on notice that American man hood could be depended upon to pro tect and defend the flag where it may float. There was at one time a disposition in some quarters—and it canont be said to have disappeared now—to mis construe and misrepresent the purpose of those democrats who, yielding to none in devotion to the flag, nor in the arfloß of its defence when attacked, would say to the people of the Phil ippines that they should live in hope of a government of their own —that when, in God’s appointed time, they are cap able of meeting the demands of civili zation and of administrating a repub lican form of government, with jus tice to their own people and to the vast interests identified with the isl ands, they should be given opportun ity to establish and maintain such a government. On the other hand, there has been a similar disposition to mis represent the attitude of many of those who believe conscientiously that it is to the best interest of our gov ernment to retain the Philippines as a permanent possession. There is a vast difference between “imperialism” and “expansion,” and it is entirely consis tent that the latter can be accomplish ed without the former as a necessary corelative. The advantage of commercial expan sion to the people of this country is so apparent that argument is not neces sary to sustain the contention that we should leave nothing undone to open new avenues for the extension of our commercial facilities. We are now at the open gates of China, and our hold on the Philippines puts us in a posi tion where we can take such advantage of our oportunity as would not have been possible had we not obtained the unexpected footing given us when Ad miral Dewey sailed into Manila har bor and raised the Anglican flag above the wreck of the Spanish fleet. Nobody denies the great benefit to ac crue from our increasing trade in the Orient, and it is an unjust argument which seeks to make it appear that those who would hold out the hope of ultimate independence to the Filipinos fail to understand the importance of the extension of our commerce to the Asiatic market. Many of those who are keenly ap preciative of the riches offered in the development of this market believe that it can be better secured to Amer ican commerce by dealing with the Fil ipinos as we have dealt with the Cu bans than by proceeding with them on the unjust basis that we have the right to tyrannize over them, as was boldly declared, in effect, that we proposed to with. Puerto Rico, whose people were formally put on notice by the repre sentatives of the dominant party in congress that the Spanish yoke of tyr anny which had been taken from their throats by American Interference was to be substituted with another of Am erican make, the only difference being that the new one was to be of some what different character than the old one. There can be no doubt that this new venture Into the uncertain sea of colonial experiment has already had a very nauseating effect upon the public mind. The people of this country will never be satisfied to hold Puerto Rico in discriminating bonds, and if we hold it—as we ought to .do—it must be as a Territory—and ultimately as a state with full and free access to American ports, and with American commerce given an open gate to the Puerto Ri can market. Any other course would be cruel, conscienceless and defence less, and the party or the power re sponsible for It will be repudiated by the American people. In dealing with the Philippines, It Is well to keep in view the fact that American sentiment, without regard to party, is determined to maintain the commercial footing already established there. Viewing the matter from a party stand-point, the Democrats are no less emphatic in their endorsement of this position than are the Republi cans. If the Democrats contend, as they will, in party convention, that our government must put down the insur rection in the Philippines; formerly es tablish our authority, and administer the affairs of the islands with the view of giving their people ultimate inde pendence, as we have pledged the Cu bans, it will be because they think that our commercial interests will be bet ter conserved by such a policy than by a declaration for colonial administra tion as a permanency. Whether or not the Republicans declare openly for the permanent retention of the Philip pines, and the administration of their affairs l as a vassal possession, they must defend such a policy in the ap proaching campaign, Just ns its repre sentatives in congress have defended the theory of permanent possession in antagonism to the Democratic conten tion for ultimate independence. Around these two contentions the na tional campaign of 1900 will wage. All other Issues will be of secondary Im portance—the trust question, the cur rency, and tho tariff —excepting In so far as the Puerto Rican tariff brings up the whole question of protection as an Incident to the main Issue. If the Republicans succeed In Novem ber in electing their president, return ing a Republican house of representa tives, and guaranteeing a Republican administration to succeed the one now in power, there can be no other pos sible alternative to the conclusion that it will mean that we are to keep the Philippines as a permanent possession, maintaining our hold on the 8,000,000 people of the islands by the same pro cess of colonial administration by which Great Britain is enabled to hold India; that our government is to be committed to the establishment of a large standing army, a half hundred thousand of which must be retained In t&e Philippines to insure our suprema cy; that we must keep across the Pa cific, 7,000 miles from our own shores, a formidable armada, ready to cope at any time with the fleet of any nation with which we may have cross pur poses; that, wc must make a sweeping change .In our system of government for the purpose of adjusting it to this r.ewly created condition, and that the tax-payers of the country must be prepared to go down into their pockets to indulge their demand for tills luxu rious departure. It may develop into a profitable investment, and the tax-pay er may ultimately revel in the expen diture, but the assurance is, to say the lest, rather vague and uninviting. If, on the other hand, the Democrats should win the fall elections—if they should elect their president, or, fall ing in that, should capture the house of represntatfves, the verdict would be susceptible of only one construction and that would be that the American people are unwilling to commit thetr government, the strength of which has been proved by a century of crucial tests, to a new departure in the realm of colonial administration, the basis of which is government without the con sent of the governed, authority main tained by force, subjection without votion, and submission'without patriot ism. Governments have been so admin istered and people have been so held, but not until this day has It been es tablished that such a system of gov ernment Is best, either for those who govern or for those who are governed. Personally, I am inclined to think that the American flag now In Cuba and in the Philippines will never be substituted by any other. I think It Is there to stay, and that as it was put there by the hand of God, so will It bo kept by divine direction. I believe, however, that it Is not force which will shape this end, but that it wtiMf oma about as the voluntary act ple of Cuba and the Philippi|B|p Like the republic of Texas, Cuba, if* .: ever attains independence, will instinctively turn for admission to the American sisterhood of state; it is inevitable. As to the Philippines, when we have put down the insurrection, the end of which IS now apparently In sight; when we have established our right to pro ceed to the work of reconstruction, even to the satisfaction Of Aguinaldo himself; when peace and order shall prevail; and the people of the Islands shall have turned once more Into the almost forgotten paths of prosperity— we will bring to their hearthstones such a practical illustration of the ben efits to accrue to them from our sys tem of government, so strikingly In contrast with the oppressive methods of Spanish tyranny under which they have bowed for centuries, that, rather than risk a return to old conditions, they will invite the perpetual domina tion of American ideas by insisting upon the permanent retention of the American flag. It will take time to bring all this about—-years perhaps—maybe decades. In the meantime we should deal fairly and frankly with tl. • people of the Is lands, holding before them, as a guar antee of our good faith assurances of ultimate Independence when, In the opinion of this government, they are able to maintain a government of tholr own. They will accept this guarantee, and had It been made by the last Con gress the rebellion against which we have contended for moro than a yeAr would never havo begun. Millions of dollars would have been saved, not to speak of the thousands of lives which have been lost, the hearts which have been broken, and the homes which have been darkened. It is never too late to THE AUGUSTA HERALD The Pretty Hat That ny Lady Will Wear. The Spring flillinery That Has Been Brought to Augusta This Year by the Buyers Just Returned From the Fashionable Centers of the East v\s spring advances, tho thoughts of lovely woman naturally turn to mat ters millinery, and tho question on ev ery tongue is, what Will be worn this year? ■ The Augusta milliners will not have their openings until the first week in April and they decline to give before hand hints regarding the exclusive styles they wijl bring out; but the pages of the fashion journals are al ready bright with tulle, feathers, flow ers? and lace, and there are prophecies lrfnumerable regarding the modes for the spring and summer of the last year In the century. An undoubted author ity says: •‘The spring hat of 1900 occupies a unique position In tho mililnery world. It Is approved by the radical dress-re formers hecause of its lightness, and by the most fastidious society girls be cause of Its beauty. Never have the spring hats been so light in weight and so artistic In shape and coloring, Airi ness is the key-note of the early spring models. Heavy coarse straw Is no longer used, and tho big floxver-garden picture-hats have also been relegated to the jast. The most aprpovcd hats are of medium size, and the straws which are used are of the lightest pos~ sible texture. , “Itis to be a season of tulle and flex ible straw braids. The Tuscan, Cuba, nnd wood-fibre braids are all seen_jn the pastel shades, and form many of the spring hats, but they are used in various ways as a trimming. Many of the newest rosettes ate composed of tulle, or mallnes edged with straw braid, and appliques of Tuscan straw braid are a feature of many of the smartest net toques. “Although straw hats are not fash ionable until Easter, already the new styles are being exihibited, while most fascinating combinations of tulle, tnf fota and, lace and velvet are turned out that are suitable for wear at the present moment. “The woman who has the happy tal ent of always looking well gowned spends np end of time and thought, not to mention money, in hats. She is most careful never to buy ofta that is of unbecoming shape or color, and is also most careful that the side and back views suit her particular style as does the front. Fortunately this re sult is not so difficult of attainment In these days when there is such a variety of shapes to choose from. To be in fashion this season it is not necesary to wear one’s hat flaring off the fore head, regardless of whether it is be coming or not, neither is it the edict of (the season that all hats shall be worn tipped over the nose. In buying her spring hat the woman of taste has ac tually the privilege this year of taking into consideration the contour of her onwn face In making her selection. There are as many hats worn off the face as over it.” Another authority informs us that toques are made for the most part in wide, large shapes, fitting closely over the hair at the back and turned up in the center of the front, where the trim ming consists of fruit, flowers or lace, an ( j ribbon formed into soft rosettes. These toques are built on the same lines as those of feather and fur which were so popular all through the past Season. Barge-brimmed hats follow in the lines somewhat of those worn in the late winter, and the made of taf feta, chiffon, mousseline, and are shir red, 'tucked, corded or draped. Barge hats more often have a fancy facing than not, and many of the black and dark blue straws show a facing of white chip, which to the woman of dark skin is almost a necessity. Some of the new shapes in stratv and other materials that show quite a high and Rather pointed crown, Ihe outlinetof whlct®is covered with soft trimming. To the fresh young face a facing cf black is worn with charming effect, hut white or colored facing must 'come to the rescue of women who are .not sure of their complexions or skin.” Also “that “rose du Barry Is one of "the most popular rose shades this sea ‘son In gowns as well as millinery, and can be worn by almost every one If black or white is judiciously usc-d to tone down the color. Many white hats .of fine straws and chips are simply .trimmed with white ostrich tips or white flowers and ribbon for children’s wear. “The sailor hat, as usual, Is out In varied shapes, and is worn both much trimmed and nuite plain with a simple band and quills. “Fewer shapes droop over the face than last year, and more of them roll up at the sides and front. In making your own millinery remember that the fewer stitches used the prettier the ef fect. Millinery this season is so very pretty and tasteful that It takes a really clever woman to find an ugly hot.” An exhibition recently mode of twen- ~ - - - |_ _ 4 do right, 'and It la not too late now to declare our purposo, and when this Is done, to work to that end. Along theso lines the forces for the great battle of 1900 havo been formed, the bugles have been 1 sounded, and the smoke from the picket lines already announces that the tight Is on« ty new spring hats, Included the fol io-wing varying styles: Toreador hat with pompons of pltsse chiffon and silk pierced with pointed quills. Poke-shaped hat trimmed with two feather and a velvet bow. Chou and strings of chiffon. Straw toque with Louis XVI. bow of velvet ribbon and wreath of small roses at one side. Round sailor hat, faced with flowers and trimmed with Empire wreath and chou of ribbon. Girls’ leghorn hat, shepherd shape, simply trhqmed with black velvet rib bon. Draped toque of straw and plisse mousseline-de-sole fasted with a high bow of velvet. Toque with plisse chiffon, bell-shaped crown, Empire brim and bow of chif fon. Shape ala Napoleon. The trim ming consists of a pair of wings clasp ed by a buckle. « Round toque of coarse straw. Brim covered with wings, two birds form ing .entire trimming. Little girls’ hat, trimmed with field flowers, tied with stiffly wired velvet ribbon. Marie Stuart bonnent trimmed with bluets, grasses, ribbon and chiffon strings of velevt. Ilat trimmed with crepe-de-chene with a buckle from which spring two wings. Sailor hat with loosely sprayed wreath of (lowers and chou of velvet fastened to the crown. Pompadour hat of coarse straw trim med with velvet, through which a quill Is thrust. trimmed with bow of velvet and two stiff quills. Bonnet toque of straw faced with jet anrl trimmed with a large gauze but terfly. Picture hat of white straw with vel vet facing. Ostrich feathers caught with a jet eahochnn. Round toque of soft milan straw. Tho trimming consists of a stiff round wreath. Capote of straw, entire side covered with wild roses. Large bow of velvet on crown. Toque with crown of lace over chif fon, finishing in front with bow and two curving quills. 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Christmas fllnenrw ns beans, bread and coffee, and Wfe had to rush through that, for there wa9 another move to be made. The prisoners were turned over to Co. B, ami we hiked out to the south In light order. At regimental headquarters a battalion was formed of Companies A, D, I and D, and we continued the march south under com mand of Major Johnston. Capt. Lid dell had been siek in bed for a week or more and so had Major Almand, our lieutenant, but they trudged along just the same, over the roughest of rough Voads. Tho captain was for tunate enough to get hold of a horse somewhere, or he would probably have dropped out in a few miles. 1 Aftertwo miles of this rough road we ipuddenly turned Into a fine macadam ized highroad,anil marched nearly east, In column of four. All the marching on tho rough country roas and path 3 is done in column of twos, and mostly files, as there is only one narrow beat en path In a road, the roadbed being cut up by teams In the wet season, and drying in ruts and furrows of hard mud, that are impostble to walk over. About the middle of tho afternoon we came to the “Depository,” an ord nance depot and General Hall’s head quarters. We halted here and rested nearly ail hour, drawing two days' travel rations of bacon, hardtack, cof fee and sugars, which we put In our haversacks, stuffed in our shirt bos oms and pockets and tied on with strings—anything to carry all we could. Lieut. Almand had kept up so far, but was ordered back here by the sur geon, and as we marched off he turned his back and wept like a child, and 1 felt like crying, too, for I knew how hard it was. From the Depository we followed the highway, now lying a little north of east, and passed four of five camps of cavalry and infantry, guarding tli great iron pipe that brings water from the Mariquina river to Manila, a dis tance of at least ten miles- We arrived at the waterworks on the Ilarlquina river shortly before sunset, getting our ■first view of the beautiful valley from th t > heights over the little town of of ficials’ and workmen's houses sur rounding the pump-houses anq other buildings of the plant, half hidden by the tropical foliage In tne streets, squares and courts. Beyond was the swift river, gleaming in the slanting ... /<•••:•>.. >v X vV.'-Vf. •-::■■ mmfjgL ..••♦ ‘.A / )jnEgß* \ { ••'..■ jfeCTirSrlßrTßrll*- \ ( *7g V-. V:.:'v.T\ tJ 'Jr '*•■■ ‘pffiSPwwlr ~ Price. Mme. Rnppcrfs Almond Oil Complexion Soup, n perfect soap, u combination of almond oil and F" wax, not a boiled uoup, ami con- _ tains no ijre, • . ♦ . •^ Mmo. 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Ruppvrt'n Kgyptlan Balm, a ▼■limblo alcia food, and -g axed in connection with the I fl 0 Bleach romovoe wrlnklos, . ** • v v rays of the sun, cool, c.*jur a.*J fresh front the mountains, so very from the sluggish, miSrky streams we w r ero acquainted with In the level country uround Mania, an ideal halt ing place after our ten mile march in the hot sun, over the rough country roads and dusty military road, with llttlo cr no water to drink. * * • To the north the valley extended, a green, level plain traversed by the winding ribbon of the river, with a network of bamboo hedges enclosing and separating fields of rice and cane, and backed by great, rugged moun tains clothed in verdure of all shades— not the faint blue outlines we were ac customed to see from the breastworks nnj outposts around Manila, but stand ing clear ar.d bold In plain view across the valley, a few short miles. Of couro I thought of 'lortez, and when wo halted on tho brow of the hill I felt some of the enthusiasm and acstaey—almost frenzy—which wholly possessed me two days after. I thought, too, of home and the teh-thousands of miles which separated me from it. And at the thought I half closed my 6ye3 and my imagination carried me to the Savannah valley as I left It, and I stood under the sycamore, broad-leaved and spreading, with tho red river flow ing silently, lined with willows and cotton-wood; above, the long wooden bridges from which came the rumble of country wagns crossing, and far downt a fisherman in his boat so intent oh hid lines that he and his boat and the rip pits from the bow seemed a picture or a dream. Then I looked under the great oaks to the end*of the street, and there,a t the gate, as I expected, was my little mother, ar.d as she beckoned to me—l started forward in rospohse to the command, “Forward march!” and home was half a world away. With tears in my eyes I turned to the man behind me and earnestly begged him to kick me good and hnrd. We tramped down the hill, through (he town, out on a sand-bar, where we stripped to the waist and with clothes in one hand and rifle In the other we forded the swift, cold river in water at our waists. On the farther side wo dressed and rested for a short wklteß greatly refreshed by the ■#«Gsi3s Ond in—for we filled our and drank all we could os we forded. ... - \ The bataiion spent the night in the little village of San Tomas, about two hundred yards from the ford, my squad and I sleeping under a bamboo house with a pig pen on one side and a chick en coop On the other, and farming im plements all around, above and below. Our supper was bacon fried in meat cans or plates, and coffee made in tin cups, and hard tacit, dry or fried in ba con greaSe—this is what We had on the wholq campaign, except a few potatoes and onions we got at Sari Mated. As we wore eating supper Blnch, Odour and Bugler Carroll came up, panting, with wat' 3 r dripping from every fold of their clothing. They had been on a pass to Manila, a nd when they learn ed from the sick men of the company’s move, they set out hot-foot, two hours and a half after we left, to- Join us. My squad and I Went on guard, pat rol and outpost duty, all In one, at sous in the morning, and stayed till day break. When we went down to the river for water we |>und a battalion of the Forty-sixth, wlieh had come over during the night.'’They went on ahead of us across the rice fields. V • . » Major Johnston gave us aloout half an hour to bathe and get ready to “hike,” and then, as the sun rose, we hiked, across a mile and a half of rice paddies in single file, til! we struck the military road again, passing mule-wag ons, a novelty, and cariboo carts going for rations, through a half-ruined.,vlD iage, beyond which we began tff> find pieces of sugar cane, which we/picked up and chewed on the march. We forced two small streams, the water not com ing much above our knees, and on tho hanks of the second we rested under the shade of the trees from the fierce rays of the sun. Here we cookd all our rations and filled up on sugar cane from a field a short way down the creek. I think that in the week we spent In that valley I ate nearly two acres of sugar cane. • • • Our route lay through many cane fields and in a march in single file there nre many "stops and halts of a few minutes duration, affording amp’e :imo to select and cut two or thre" 1 good stnlks, that have been trampled down by the troops ahead; or It is but a moment’s work and no delay to ste'. aside and cut a stalk. and -etch up *• your place. I think we had ample ex* cuse; we were on nf orced mc.rch, rest of the t'mo we had r.o water, nn 1 th can ju'ee was an excellent ruhstltut'". an i the Maxing sun mode water ah* lutely neces ary, while the • •hc’i amount the battalion u-cd (luring *he week would not be missed frem a t“ - acre field, and lastly—we wire 1 n the merry's country. CHAS. G. nEN”/"'' Co. D, 29th U. S. V. I. A Boon TO All women