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WANTS ARMY ENLARGED
AVhy Money Power Favors an
Imperial Policy.
HOUSE FOR POPULAR GOVERNMENT
friv’IIcKcd Claused Wlio Plunder the
AbiitU'iiii People Wont to Overawe
tlvr I'eople uml Set ,\ni«le a Verdict
Against Them w ith »«,o»«M*-Spe- .. . *
Bisu k*p»b«iou Argamfutn.
The excitement incident to the war
tnnd the rejoicing that accompanies
victory have so occupied the attention
«f our people that .... the masses bare not
yet come to a full realization of the
radical and portentous change ot base
sulopUsi by tlie administration and its
supporters. That tlie more thoughtful
men of tlie country, regardless of
part v. are outspoken in condemnation
of the policy of the administration is
the most hopeful sign of tlie times,
That the pendulum ot public opinion ,s
.-surely and steadily swinging in the op
posite direction to a policy ot impel in
ism is becoming more apparent day by
day. But that the emergency that is
upon the American people demands the
utmost activity on the part of those
who realize the true condition, in order
to avert the dangers that threaten the
nation is yet painfully apparent.
Never at any time in the history of
the world was time so pregnant with
change as it is today, and never before
was there so much reason to fear a
confusion of ideas that may obscure
Hit* moral vision of the people. Never,
therefore, has there been a time when
duty so imperatively demanded of
every intelligent citizen that in* labor
for the enlightenment of his fellows.
Greed for gain and lust for power have
their roots deep iti the human heart.
Tho history of man is the record of a
continuous, relentless and remorseless
warfare of the more crafty and power¬
ful against the rights and liberties of
the weak, The civilizations of the
past, built upon force, perished when
the strong enslaved, degraded and
crushed tlie weak. and. being unable to
.administer seif restraint unto them
twelves, all went down together in a
common ruin.
The founders of the American repub
lic made a new departure, published to
tin- world an Indictment against gov¬
ernment resting upon force and estab¬
lished a government tlie cornerstone of
which is the rights of man. The suc
«t*ss of a century and a quarter vindi¬
cates the judgment of the fathers. The
Bclioolhouse. the church and the ballot
l>ox in so short a time transformed a
comparative handful of men scattered
over thousands of miles of a rugged
wilderness, separated by 3,000 miles of
ocean front the great nations of F.u
S,™. . vi1 ,. .... L“Ie ZZx-'tZL pm their brain o!
, r I _, ho Golden huh\ cj
•tlie Mount, the Ten Commandments
sutd the Declaration of Independence
constituted their shield. The father
hood of God and the brotherhood of
man were to them what the North
star is to the mariner. Their success
infused hope into the hearts of men ev¬
erywhere, and as one day succeeded
another the thrones of the kings and
despots of earth grew less secure. Such
a world power liad never existed be¬
fore.
At our doors on the island of Cuba
the barbarism of the middle ages was
rampant. American freemen wept over
the sufferings of tlie struggling pa¬
triots of Cuba. When, under the in
jiuman Woyler, a war of exterm inn
lion bv starvation was inaugurated, in
eluding noacoiubntaut women and chil¬
dren, and 2(i(i officers and men of our
navy were foully murdered in the har¬
bor of Havana, the American people
forced an unwilling administration to
intervene by force and drive Spanish
misrule from the American continent.
In making a declaration of war against
kpain the government of the United
States announced to tlie world its pur¬
pose to aid the Cubans to form a free
and independent government, exercis¬
ing great care to disclaim any purpose
of entering upon a war of conquest or
embarking upon a colonial or imperial
policy.
In tlie prosecution of the war against
Spain the destruction of the naval
forces of Spain became necessary for
our own safety and success of our un¬
dertaking. But that in so doing we
should adopt the policy of conquest.
subjugation and exploitation with
vvhicli Spain cursed the world and
'which was now turning its curses back
upon her did not suggest itself to the
American mind. That the president of
tlie 1 nited States should throw the
cherished Monroe doctrine to the four
■winds and stoop to bargain with Spain
for the purchase of her consent that
we might wade through tlie blood of
patriots and conquer and subjugate a
people whom slio had failed to conquer
iu ;kk> years is to reach a depth of in
famy that staggers intelligent Ameri¬
cans and puts the brand of insincerity
u 1 mil our progressions as a nation and
ja-ople.
The president of the United States
lias misjudged the American people
and outraged the conscience of the na-
tion. The glamour of war and the ex
utie ranee of emotion and patriotic im¬
pulse accompanying victory may cloud
the moral vision temporarily, but with
^Ttbe' rcpSi wffi‘iTrUnd
stronger than ever before and will as
sert themselves in such a positive man
)]( .r that the rebuke that will be admin
(stored to the president and his mis
guided followers will be both stunning
and decisive. The privileged classes
who plunder the American people un
der cover of law are the aiders and
abetters of the foreign policy of the
ailDjiui . st ratIon. They have no further
use for popular government. Militarism
to overawe the people and set aside a
verdict against them at the ballot box
the only thing that holds out to them
the promise ' ot uninterrupted rule and
P ^.y' favor a colonial or imperial
p 0 jj,.y because it will increase tlie
strength of the military arm of the
government. Be not deceived by tlie
spacious arguments for expansion. Im¬
perialistn and militarism are what is
meant. Expansion is to acquire terri
tory to be peopled with freemen and
^ t<( Rllbjlwate tr0 pi, ;i) islands
Qn the opposito si(]e (lf the earth, the
population of which has already reach
(>( j i) m jt of their capacity to supply
themselves with food, The adminis
tration stands for imperialism, tlie
grim monster whose trail reaches back
ward over the ruins of empires, peoples
and civilizations. The hideous form of
the fell destroyer now casts its shadow
across the path of American freedmen.
Your ballots can dispel that shadow.
I)o not permit the substance to ma¬
terialize. or liberty may be lost.—Na¬
tional Watchman.
Harrow Quits the Race.
Jackson, Miss., July 17.—Professor
j. m. Barrow, candidate for state su
periutnideuc of education, has an
noaace d his withdrawal from the race.
only aspirant now in the race is
Professor H. L. Whitfield, the nieum
bent,
CURRENT WEEK’S DOINC-S.
NEWS PARAGRAPHS CULLED IN
VARIOUS QUARTERS.
Tuesday, July 11.
The Glen Mary Coal company of Glen
Mary, Tent)., has raised the wages of
ns 800 miners 10 per cent.
President McKinley is said to be work
lug energetically' upon a plan to submit
the question of independence or annex¬
ation to tlie people of Cuba.
The cruiser Raleigh, which was with
Admiral Dewey’s fleet in the battle V f
Manila, is to undergo extensive altera
turns, involving au outlay of $.’45,009.
At Savannah, Mamie Iialpin. an 8
year-old white girl, tried to start a fire
with kerosene oil. Au explosion oc
curred and she was burned to death.
A movement is on foot to stop street
preaching iu Atlanta, one of tlie police
commissioners having declared that the
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The government of Queensland with has
0 gf ere( j 250 mounted infantry a
machine gun for service iu South At
r j t . a In case of hostilities between Great
Britain ami the Transvaal,
Wednesday, July 112
Lightning started a fire that destroyed
half the bus.ness portion of Frewsburg,
N. Y.
The Huntsville, Ala., fiber factory,
manufacturers of street orooms, has
been destroyed by fire.
The constitutionality of Florida’s an
tiseaiping law has been questioned and
a test case will bo made.
Contrary to common belief, the trade
between the United States and Brazil
last year showed a tailing ofl, both in
exports and imports.
Two men. Shields Irvin and F. A.
Tarleton, shot each other to death on
the streets of Crawford, Miss , the fight
being the result ot an old grudge.
The president has granted a pardon
to Harris Bramble, convicted in Georgia
April 1, 1893, of illicit distilling ami
sentenced to two years iu the North
Carolina pr ison.
Tuesday, July 115.
Former Seuator Arthur P. Gorman of
Maryland is seriously ill.
Fire has destroyed about one-half of
the west side of the public square at
Gallatin. Tenu.
The British ship City of Y’ork has
been wrecked off the Australian coast.
The captain and II men are missing.
Governor J. Hoge Tyler of Virginia
announces himself a candidate for
United States senator to succeed Thomas
& Martin.
The tax rate on insurance agents in
(> eor} , ia 0 f 11 „ j )er ceat ou premiums
received has been reduced to 1 per cent
by the tax committee,
United States transports New
port and Ohio, bearing the Oregon vol
uuteer regiment from Manila, have
reached San Francisco,
Senator Morgan of Alabama has cre
ated a sensation by authorizing an in
terview in which he virtually declares
against the nomination of Brvau for
president.
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Friday, July IT.
A C0Iupanv o{ engineers left San Fran
c , sco f or Manila,
Fiood» o, ns ,d bv heavy vaios have
tione great damage in Nicaragua.
Admiral Dewey has arrived at Port
Saiii, EjfvpD, oil board the suited States
cruiser Olympia.
Major John C. Courtney, manager of
the Western Union Telegraph cornpa
It jg reported that an alliance between
the Seaboard Air Line and the Bairi
more and Ohio is urobable in the near
future.
Fire William C. Whitney _ s estate
on
at Westbury, L. L. burned one of his
largest barns, containing several hne
race horses,
Pedro Orizar, 14 years old. who was
cabin bov and bugier on the Spanish
cruiser Vizcaya, has enlisted in the
United Stales navy at the Brooklyn
uaV yyard.__
Saturday, July 15.
A strike of mill‘firemen for higher
wages was inaugurated at Fall River,
Mass.
The Rhenia silk mills, at College
Point, L. I., have shut down for au in¬
definite period.
Will Wilson, a negro, was hanged at
Eastman, Ga., for killing the town
marshal of Chauncey.
The Baldwin Locomotive works of
Philadelphia have received an order for
13 consolidation engines from the state
railways of Finland.
The strict enforcement of General
Wood’s quarantine and sanitary order
is repressing the yellow fever outbreak
at Santiago de Cuba.
The Chicago platform Democrats of
New York have adopted resolutions pro
" d, ““ f " * blK s “ ler be
held in that city on Labor day.
reSSTtaX SSta
prohibiting hanks from affixing stamps
the drawers.
Monday, -July 17.
Colonel William Preston Johnston,
president of Tuiano university, New
Orleans, is dead.
Tinplate workers throughout the
country to the number of nearly 50,000
have resumed work after an idleness of
two weeks.
G. H. Neal, foreman of the Atlanta
Excelsior woAs, was caught in a large
belt and buried to death, almost every
bone in his body being broken.
News of the drowning of seven men
has been received from Cook’s inlet,
Alaska. They were overtaken by a
great tidal wave which swamped their
canoes.
Fire at the Brooklyn navyyard de¬
stroyed much valuable property iu the
building occupied by the provision and
clothing department of the bureau of
supplies and accounts.
It is stated that tho present French
cabinet has decided in the event of the
acquittal of Dreyfus at Rennes—which
is regarded as almost a certainty to
hush up the whole scauual.
Colonel A. 15. .limes Dead,
Anniston, Ala., July 15.— Colonel A.
B. Jones of this city, United States cou
gul to Tuxpam, Mex., died at that place
yesterday morning. The nature of his
illness is not known. The remains can
not be shipped borne. Colonel Jones
«• bon. . 0 wale,, in ,m. «»e to
! Pennsylvania . when 2 years of ace, and
afterwards to Alabama. He was ap
pointed consul to Tuxpam by President
McKinley iu October, 1897. His family
is here,
Home For Gfiierat Hampton.
Columbia, S. C., July 15.—It is stated
t p at (ij e executive committee of the
Hampton memorial fund today pur¬
chased for $1,500 a third of an acre lot
at the corner of Pendleton and Barn¬
well streets on which to build the home
for General Hampton.
Standard Oil.
Quite unnecessarily au Ohio monop
oly purposes to “test" the antitrust
law of that state in the federal courts.
The proceeding is superfluous, because,
even if the law be held to be constitu
tional. there is no danger in the world
that it ever will be enforced. Attorney
General Monnett. who has sought to do
so. has been rewarded for liis activity
by a "turndown" for a renomination.,
His successor will not fail to take!
warning, and even if he were fool-!
hardy enough to follow Monnett’s ex
ample the Oliio supreme court, which 1 I
is the obedient servant of tlie kerosene ,
monopoly, will see to it that no minor;
trusts come to harm. The antitrust)
plank iu the Columbus platform was'
merely for publication.—Exchange.
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a greater truth than when lie said, “No
better illustration of tlie absolute inde
fensibility of trusts can be offered than
the fact that the Ohio Republican con
ventiou. of which Mark Ilanna was
manager, was compelled to denounce
them." It is a pathetic sight to see a
mother brand her own offspring, even
though everybody knows that she does
for spectacular effect, while in her
heart of hearts tlie maternal instinct
asserts itself with every throb.- New
York News.
Fish and lee company, with a capital of
countries, operating steam and sailing
vessels.
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