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t-let.MV.i V wztiTTut"" -?-"" ' ' THE REPFBLTO: MOKDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1900. 4 ; i it J i M r r r r f i i L wi I- M- fcf THE ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC Pl'IiUSlIKRS: GEOUGi: KXAIT i. CO. Charles IV. Knarp. President and e!cn. Mgr. George 1 Allen. ice 1'icMrni. IV. 11 Cam secretin Office. Corner Seiehlh and e)llic streets. enupt'iii.ie nrii.iu.vi: ) TRIUIS OP SUICItllTlOV uailt and jrNnv-.i:vi:x is-ii'ks KUK. lis- Mall la Ailiam-e Postage liejiaid Cino Year. Hx Months Threo Months Am three dav excel t SunJiej. with Masailne l..v 3 ! I 1.7 1.2 fcnlJ. ear... S-Icc1a1 Mall Edition. s'undax fcundai Magazine . ... I CARRIER. ST. liUPIS AXI I"1H ItlW. 1 er Vie, v. dailr onlj tents Per 'Week daily and sunds 11 cents twick-a-ivi:kk iri: Pi.Mtf.hrd Monday ard Thur.-slJ one tear .$1 ) Hemit li ltank draft. expi.ss money older or registered leiwr. AcMi. THK KKPI'IU.H. M I ills. Mil. C" Rejected communications cannot 1m nturmd taderanv circumstance. Knlered at the Pott Office in S"t I.ouis, Mo., as sei-onl-class matter IKlMCXllf ro-.TA:K. PKK COPV". 1 Kht ten ard tvtelte pasts I cent sixteen, eiphl-n and tttentj lwsts . rem fir ne or Z intn fur tno parer Twenl ttiu or ttientl-eieht pace Stents Tbirtj i ace- Stents ti LLriiicct; M'.Mimr.ri lull Klil..h Cfui tins; Ilium .. Main 3lH A kTJ Ut rill Kc itlun llimm l"aik 1 .1 l.7t MONDAY, OCTOKER 15. l'si. Vol S3 No 407 SEPTltMUEIt riItcri.TI05. W. B. Carr. Buslne-s Manager of The. St. Xouls Republic, being dj!y sworn. as that the actual number of full and complete Copies of the dailj and Sunday Republic printed during the month of September. 1SO0. all In regular editions, was as per schedule fctlaw: Bats. CMntes I Date. Coptaa 1 85,820 16 Sunday.. M.960 Sunday.. S5.750 17 83,310 8 85,040 IS 84,180 83,570 19 84,460 B 83,260 21 84,250 6 85,690 21 83,580 7 83,190 22 86,210 B 85,810 23 Sunday.. 84,700 P Sunday.. 85,710 21 84,090 10 82,970 25 83,680 31 83,060 23 83,560 32 83,620 27 83,280 18 83,590 23 83,240 H S3.920 29 86.040 36 S5.810 30 Sunday.. 86,250 Total or the month 2,532,600 t5s alL copies spcllrd in rrlnt .. ing. left over or filed 5IS Net number distributed 2,487,364 JAversge daily distribution 82,912 And said W. R. Carr further says that the number of copies returned or reported 'r.:nia -luring the month of September was Z.22 per cent W. B. CARR. Sworn to and subscribed before me this Bu day cf October. 1960 J. F. PARISH. Votary Public. City of 9t. Louis. Mo. My term expires Arril K. 1901. ALL POU THE I.OItBY. Missouri loters should not miss the Figniticance of the lat that even from the close liciuit.i of the Itopublican na tional headquarters in Xevv York City now conies the news that the Hepublic au light in Missouri will lie a tight for contiol of the State Legislature. As The Kepublie has already repeated ly warned Missourians, ihe object of this Republican raid on the State Legis lature is to give Dili; Kerens a chance of beiug sent to represent Missouri In the Senate of the United States. It Is a ghoulish sort of movement, based on the Ill-health or Senator Vest, but that it is briug prosecuted with exceeding llgor there is no longer any reason to doubt. The Globe-Democrat and Dick Dallon. .who was a Democrat so long as he could hold office as a reward for his Democ racy, arc engineering this irepublican hciicnie. to gain u majority in the State I.egilatnie. Such a Republican control of the tleueral Assembly of Missouri Mould mean infinite iujuiy to the State. The lobby would own the Legislature body aud soul. It is for the people of Missouri to defeat these cunning trkk Mrrs. A lote for a Republican candi date for the Missouri Legislatine is a lote for the lobby and Tor nothing but the lobby. MOXEY VS. THE PEOPLE. Thete Is unquestionably the best of feations for the apprehension now felt in Republican minds as to the danger of disaster at the polls uet month, due to the refusal of the American Middle West to follow I"resltleut McKiuley and Jiis party in their unamcriean policies. It is natural, also, that in such a crisis the managers of the Republican na tional campaign should place their de pendence upon the lavish use of money in the corruption of corruptible voters. KMany times before this have they been l saved through pandering to this baser K'lemcut.of American citizenship. The 'Republican cteetl that money is more potent than principles Is fitly e:xpresed in the cry now being raised by Eastern llepublicans "You can't bent the coin:" 1 H may be. however, that the sound and consistent Americans of the Middle JWost will proie to the Haunaitcs that there are limes of national crisis when mouey cannot pieiail lo pervert or to nullify the will of the people. The enormous slush fund now said lo have j been placed in the hands of the Western managers of (he Republican campaign need not loo hastily be regarded as the clinching argument insuring the re-election of McKInley. The inters of the "West are not willing to betray the Re public for gold. PRIVATE ENTERPRISE. Couucilmeu Carroll and Tinnier are not usually the heroes of munklpal ic form. The Republic feels the novelty of being associated with them. Rut there can be only commendation for their position on the Exposition bill in troduced by Mr. Richards. There could be but one reason for granting new liuauc-ial privileges to the Exposition company. That icasou would be the continuance of the institutions original character as an enterprise de voted primarily to the public welfare of St. Louis. In its pieseut aspect the Ex position Is an enterprise as purely pri vate and commercial as a theater, a Btore or a factory. Its directors may in tend an indirect usefulness to the com munity. So do the directors of a bauk or railway company. The Exposition occupies a position towatd the public in no way different. Messrs. Thuner, Carroll and Kratzare right in demanding proof of elemental public purpose before granting renewed privileges to the Exposition company. Tiie buildings occupy public land of large extent aud immense value. They jvero constructed Ur subscription for a distinctly public object. In tlic course of time the uses nf the plant have lie come private anil commercial. The present comiauy was orKtiuized as an Investment of the stockholders. The plans are those of a profit-making enter prise. The Alttuicip.il Assembly should consider it as a private enterprise and take no action which would commit the city to partnership in a commercial use t what is the ciij's park property. srnritMAX i:xtkxsioxs. Coiupeiition with the Tran-it com pany is to be ciu-oiii-ased. The Silliur liau s.istcm N the only competitor in siht. Keu so, the oulinance introduced last week Rhine; the Snbiirbaii new privi leges and practitaliy aiieiteiidtil chailcr must be amended flout l.'j;hilllli lo end before it will be adjusted to the good of the community. As ilrawn. the ordiiiau-e t-oulalns evi dentil a specitic purpose (if making iim sollilatlou with the Transit company a lemtuierative deal for the Suburban. The oiilluunie should not assist but ob struct consolidation. Otherwise then Is uo teason whatever for evpaudin the pii ilexes of the Suburban. The con solidation is directly authorized in this oidiuaiue ami preparations for it plain ly appear in eiery section where the subject could appear. There are no penalties for nunc on si ruction of the eMeusious authorized. The ordinance is like the Central Trac tion franchise. It would simply gle to the Suhuih.iu a most effect lit1 anna iiicnt for a hold-up campaign against the Transit lompaui. or a valuable weapon for use on the stok market. A flagrant outrage on the public is an easy possibility of the Purest Park sec tion. An extension through the park is authorized: to be made whenever a street is inn through. It would be very easy fur our city fathers to inn a road through the p.uk and call It a street, thus giving the Suburban a light to Iiitihl a surface line coniiiletcly anoss the pail;. Otuer objections of an important kind can be made against ihe oulimuue. They will not be permitted to go un loiecd. It is enough now to show some of the radical faults. The noise of a political campaign cannot deflect public attention from one of the woist street railway propositions ever laid before the Mtinitlpal Assembly and that -willing and enticing body of statesmen has gazed longingly upon some bad ones. .MORTGAGE TAXES. Pew suggestions In lawmaking are more attractive at first glance than the taxation of mortgages and the relief of mortgaged laud from taxation. Pew suggestions are likely to become more injurious and oppressive to those who borrow money on land. It Is an axiom, In the operation of which there are few variations, that the rate of return on capital is nxi-d by the risks and expense, and the promptness or dilatorincss in repayment. Capital Is easily moled and invariably finds the level of average return. This fall a constitutional amendment will be submitted to the voters of Mis souri providing that mortgages shall be assessed for taxation in the counties where the land is situated. The amount would be deducted from the assessment of the land. Both parties would be for bidden to make contracts for the pay ment of the taxes' by the land owner. What will be the result of the adop tion of this amendment aud the enact ment of legislation to carry it Into ef fect? Xo well-informed man imagines that the cost of capital to the borrower will be lessened. Xo one hopes that the lenders of capital will assume expenses which would alter the average return. Ry dozens of ways the usual return on capital under the conditions of a giieu locality would be secured. There Is auother law of lapital. It is that obstacles, aside from necessary and recognized regulations, aud expenses arbitrarily laid upon the operation of capital cost the boriower heavily. A margin will certainly be charged on every risk, every technicality, every ex pense. If there Is an attempt at extra tax, involving uncertainties aud penal ties, tne borrower will Inevitably pay not only the tax but the additional mar gin for trouble and risk. It would be agreeable to contemplate if the loaning or ready capital were cheapest in places where it is most sore ly needed and in places where lepay ment Is most difficult aud uncertain. Rut that Is not the condition under which business of any kind is done as mankind now do business. Capital is cheapest where there are fewest ob stacles and where lepaytuent Is most prompt. If a man has ample and quick security, and has a reputation for promptness aud energy, the owners of capital seek his patronage and he puts them under obligation when he borrows. IT another man has slow aud doubtful security aud Is not habitually prompt aud energetic he must ask favors aud encounter unwillingness. Such is busi ness, whether It Is good fellowship or not. Another fact of the case deserves ton sideratiou. lu many, probably in most, counties of Missouri, the estimate of land for loaning purposes is higher tliau the assessment for tax purposes. As suming that the borrower must lu one way or another pay the tax, his tax payments would be greatly Increased by this amendment if he should put his land to any considerable extent under mortgage. The mortgage would be as sessed for taxation at Its full face value, being a sum of record. It might often happen that the laud aud mortgage to gether would be taxed .at twice the original assessment of the laud. The owner of the laud would then be pay ing twite the tax of his ueighbor who owned unmortgaged laud of the same value. Xot many political candidates of either party will care to tell the people the plain trutli about the course of busi ness iu mortgage loans. But it ivould be a blessing if all candidates ivould be bold enough to point out the conse quences of this proposed constitutional amendment. UNRELIABILITY. State Superintendent of Schools Car rlngtou scores a telling point when he calls the attention or the Globe-Democrat to the fact that the permanent school fuuds or several other States are invested in a manner similar to that or Missouri. In Wisconsin, Mr. Carriugton shows, the system is exactly the same, the fund being secured by a certificate of indebtedness fioi'n the State anil the In terest being paid from the State Treas ury. In Ohio the school fuud tinstt tutes, what Is termed the "Irreduiible State Debt." In Kentucky it is known as an 'Pmedeeiuable State Itoutl," ami In California as a "Itond Held In Trust for School Pund." Missouri voters are now fully awake to the fact that the :iobe-Ilemocraf has not hesitated to abandon the truth in its partisan eagerness to injure the nemoeiatie patty. Neither has It te f rained from injuiing the uedlt of the Stale of Missouri. Thus tar it has not presented one valid fact to sustain its chaige that the m hoot fund h.itl been looted" by the lie era tic parly and that the State itself was hankliipt. The sole facts in evi dence are llt.it the .Missouri School Pund is the biggest and most wisely invested in the Pnioii. aihl that MIssouil heiscif is piactically free of debt ami enjoving the lowest tax-rate in the Pnioii. The I i lobe-Democrat must of netessity abide by the results of its campaign of slander and iiiisrcpicsciitatiou. It has suicceiled only in disci editing its own party and proving its own utter ume liability as a newspaper. This is a penally Hut never fails to alla h lo such a course. The parly liar, like all oilier liars, is sine to be tonne out ulti mately ami Ihereaft.r to be finitely de void of Influence, because a liar. Maybe Candidates Parelra and Wil hou were renominated for the State l.egislatuie by St. Louis Itcpnblieaus to give them a chance to atone tor hav ing so eiithusi.tsticall.v suppoitcd and luted for the stieet railway consolida tion bill. If the Republicans aie honest in con demning ihe stu.fl railway toiisolida tiou bill, why dM they nominate for At torney Gcncial of Missoiui one Samuel P. o'Pallon. who worked ami voted tor that bill? Theie's not much lomfoit for .McKiu ley in Renjaiuin Harrison's one tain paign utterance of Rkjo "The pass.igt. or the Porto Riian tariff bill was a wide departure fiom light pilnciples." Those St. Louis Republican member, of the lower House of the Legislature who loteil against the slieet railway consolidation bill were "ifwarded" by being defeated for leiiomiuatioii. Xow that Republican Candidate. Hor lou has matelialized lu the Twelfth Mis souri District Hie only table-rapping ele ment of spiritualism leniaining is fr beers at his expense. It has been demonstrated, with the as sistance of the Globe-Democrat, that -Missouri has one of the biggest and most wisely Invested State school funds in tlie entire L'nion. Republican State Senatois Scliwelck ardt aud Riisclie. who supjiorlcd the street railway consolidation bill, weie "punished" by being renominated unan imously. When Joe Klory, Dick Daltou or the Globe-Democrat makes a campaign statement these days Missouriaus turn to Mr. Dockery for the truth about the matter. Xew York, Illinois and Indiana look so Democratic at the present moment that Republicans turn iu desperation to Missouri for a little make-believe com fort. Missouri Republicans will distribute" Mark Hauua'.s campaign boodle all right. all light. The only trouble will lie when Mark Iiegius to clamor for results. It ivould not greatly frighten the .lef feison City lobby if Joe Plory, the pet and tool of (he railroad corporations, weie elected Governor of Missouri. Young Jesse Giant enlists with Democracy to fight McKinleyism. His father and old Abe Lincoln would prob ably do the same were they alive. "You cnu't beat the toinl" is the tri umphant cry or Eastern Republicans. This is a fitting slogan for a party that places the dollar above the man. It was naturally easy for Teddy Roosevelt to enthuse a St. Louis eiovvil composed of Republican campaign clubs and Zlegcnholu ringstcrs. Americans villi hesitate to belieio that Mark Ilanua is a native of Eng land. They have begun to think that he was born iu iniquity. If Mark Hanna and his L1M trust mul timillionaires win at the polls next mouth It will be at the expense of oier 7(,0(K),U00 Americans. Secretary of State Hay yearns to re turn to dear old Lunnon. He will be entirely at liberty to do so after March 4, 1901. Dick Kerens Is iu line to learn that he is not eligible to membership iu the Sen ate Millionaires' Club by way of Mis souri. The Kentler Side. Him can we tell, from th.5 harh world without. The inner seelne of unother ".ml. All ntsitlie and rdlrd with winclnc doubt. Taught b lt I urto lt Impure to contrrd That whlth the nortd eea la the armortd thirp. Il tendernrf. roiKeal.fi lit mill of pride. II Id J.n eeure from hate's enitnomed stlnK. On the oul'. gtntler side Fut when In friendship true lite l.innds are j arsed. Tie harrier lilted .tt loieV tountert-lun. And jihe atlm nrmcr put aside at la"t. That naked faith In fearless trust may shine; O lot able and pas.fnx all belief The ilrttus that street-sheltered thus abide. Held clcte In aladnfs. closer still In crief. On the sours rentier aide! R1PI.KV I. S.U'.N'UKKS. i LAST DAY To Registir. To-Morrow, Tmsday, Oct. 16. Precinct Polls Open from S a. m. to 9 p. m. i SENATOR VEST STRIKES STRONGLY INTO THE FIGHT. Through The Republic He Speaks to the People Upon the Pending Issues. S.e. lul Inter I, k fur Tin Iteimblic, adlreed to Mix-out! o1ih Sneet Springs, Jl.i. Oct. 13--Senator cttsirue CJ. Vtst S Jt i,s Sweet Spttuss tt.tt.ine this fan, .-loseij watchim; the jiros rtss of tlie ojiiitMlun. Ills health Is much imiipiittl. mid lu- exhiliils a great tie tl of his tilti t'.iriitstuess lu tlisciisiiiB Ihe Is suts of Ihe iatnp,iiKn. "e tMK-ets lo leave his tott.ixe in u fen il.i ami will ruii.ilu fur s.jini time at the 1 nine uf his tljusiUer In St. Lonlt Ml:-. J.tt ksuii. He will to from SI. Louis to WaMiliiKtuit t'ity in ample lime for lilt; beginning of Ihe next session of t'l.1 Kress Senator .sl tjKjke forcibly to-day on tlie it.t'stniis Lefuie Ihe people, lie s.iitl: "1 hale l.etu fle.o,llelltl aKetl nli.it. 111 . jU'U-liH lit. liguM be; tlie rt stilt of the priietit vainiMisii. but ds I haic taken nu active part In It. my opinions on this sub ject are wurih very Utile. 1 do not believe that u majority of lite people or the Put ted Slates favor tlie new doolrliie of Im perialism, and 1 am letlalu that they are hlttt-rl) opposed to trusts. The Republicans; how tier, have an unlimited supply of niouej. and they will buy every purchasable lote lu the country. This is one of the fac te r vvlilcli make the present campaign tcjiilfUli.it uncertain. "I have nut heard u political speech dur Iiil," thu imiujs-, but hale rtad nlth llimh lt.tt.itst tile speeches of Ooiernor Rooscielt and Senator Uei erltlge. who have lattly hoi ort.d Jlissouri with their presence. I Lnoii both these gentlemen, and have much Irsonal resaru lor each of them. Uovtrnor K'useielt Is a strange compound of tlie Southern cavalier, tli- New Iceland re former ami I ho Western coivboi. Ills moth er was a c;,orsia ladi. iiolunglni; to ot.e of the old arlhiocratlc. sl.ue-hoMing fam llks of that Stale, and Ills father was .1 Putin New Yorker, lie was born Iu Neil Yoik. but eilucited nt a New England nnl iirity, and nfttr graduating was a West ern cuulsjy fur seirral jtars. lie is bravo anil peisiinaliy hoiiefl. but reckless in his lUteinim. uncertain lu 1 1 1 judgment unit tl.t.!ou!;hl Imbued with the iHiiitlcal bitttt nets and prejudit.es of New Knglaud. "He has considerable literary talent, and his 'Life of Thomas II. Henton' Is a very culcrlainlnt: work. It represents thorouglily the tllfft rent phaes of Roosevelt's iharac tir. Por tniitanie. In one chapter he de clares that the Southern soldiers who fou-ht unikr Lee were superior to those of the North on account of their outdoor llfi,, their famtli.irlt) tilth tirearms aud th fact that they were not corrupted by com mercial pursuits. He sajs thai Robert E. I.ce was the greatest General of the English-speaking races, not excepting .llarl boiougl., Wellng or Lee's great rival, Uljs sts s. Grant. "In another chapter of the same work he denounces most bitterly the leaders of the secession movement, and can llud no epithets too severe for the attempt to ells solvo the Union. Ha then defends the, lourse of the United States toward the Indian tribes, and sas that unfortunate race has been treated with justice and .eneroblty by the whites. It Is evident that the memory of his mother cauged him to pay this high tribute to Lee and his soldiers, while his New- England tuition and his life In the West caused htm. to denounce the Democratic leaders of the South and to Justify the robbery and murdrr which have attended our treatment of the Indians. "If Roosevelt hhould by nny c bunco be come President of the United States ho would keep his party and the country In u mute of constant uproar, and would cause Senator Hoar to groan In more acute an guish than when he bewailed In the Senate the conduct of McKInley and his associates toward the Filipinos. ROOSBVELTS III.IMJER.S. "In his speech at Kansas City, Governor Roosevelt began with a statement which ho must have known to be untrue. He de clared that the Republican party bait not changed its position upon the great lssua of 1.". but stood where it alus had. Ho certainly knew- that In ISM hl party de clared for the free coinage of sliver at a ratio to be tiled by the united States and foiclgn nations; while in 1P0O they tleclared for the single, gold standard In opposition lo any coinage of silver. "Ho also In that speech attempted lo cre ate a false Impr-sslon by charging that the Democrats at .he last session of Congress defeated a resolution proposing an amend irint to the Constitution illicit would have dtMioied the trusts If adopted. Governor Rioseielt knew when he made this state ment that no Democrat could have voted for the resolution because It absolutely ue stiojed State rights and gave to Congres unlimited eontrjl of all corporation cre ated by and existing In the State. It was a longer step toward centralization than has evei been proposed since the adoption of our present Constitution. In the debate upon the resolution, every Democrat woh (poke declared his opposition to trusts, but nr tagonlzed the resolution on the ground that it was in direct conlllct with the doe trine of State rights. The resolution was defeated, notwithstanding the fact that four Democrats voted lor It. by enough Repub 1 cans lointmr the oonositlon. "Governor Roosevelt took calm not to pal in mention the fact that after this resolu tion was defeated a vote was taken In the House upon a bill reported by the Jn dlclarj Committee in tei,Cji the. Republic ans had a majority, the proilslons of which mil greatly strengthened the anti-trust act known as the Sherman law. This till lssed the House with but one dissenting vote, anil when It came to the Senate the Republican majorltv there, by a jea and nay vote, referred it lo the Judiciary Com mlttie. notwithstanding- the ureent demand of the Democrats that the bill be adopted at once. T7"the btll hail passes. It would haie dene more to destroy the trusts than twen ty such amendments to the Constitution as had been proposed In the House, hut tlie Republican leaders of the Senate deliberate ly postponed notion because they feared to antagonize Ihe trusts, from which they expected to recelic a campaign fund large em ugh to carry the presidential election. "In hla speech at St. Louis, Governor Roosevelt declared that the wur In the Philippines Is necewary in order to prevent the brigand and outlaw Agulnaldo from loot Ins Manila and butchering the inoffenMie people of Luzon. I care no more for Aguln uldo than for any other human being, and distinctly assert that bin character b not an Ivue, but I refer Goiernor Hooseielt to the published testimony of our Generals In the Philippines, who went liefore the Paris Commission and stated that they knew Agulnaldo to he a man of high character, good estate, and a patriotic citizen; they t stifled that he had acted in the most honorable manner In reBdrd to the money he received from the Spaniards when he ccncluded a treaty with them by which they agreed lo redress certain grievances of which the Filipinos complained, and af ter the Spaniards failed lo comply with this treaty. Dewey sent for Agulnaldo and broiiR-lit him with his chiefs to Manila, where, nt Denet's Instance, he raised an armv of S.ono native, arms being furnished by Dewey, and this army so raised, hemmed In the Spaniards at Manila until General .Merrill arrived with the American forces. "I stated In an Interview at the beginning of the campaign that the Republican lead ers Intended to revolutionize thl govern ment so as to cntrnlize ail power at Wash ington, and that they were all devout be lievers In the opinions expressed by Alex ander Hamilton, that the English Govern ment was the bet ever Invented by man. "Governor Roosevelt and Senator Hever Idge. unlike the older Republican politicians, have the lourage of their convictions, and openly avow that the United Slates must become a world power and hold colonies whereier commercial Interests mav require it. Senator Beverldge stated. In his speech at Kansas City, that the Republican party Intended to hold the Philippines foreier. and that they must adopt the colonial sys tern which had made the English Empire rich ond powerful. He apoke of England as Democratic England.' with the most flexi ble and popular form of government In the world, and said that the Constitutional pro vision which gave to Congress the power to dispose of and make ail needful rules and regulations In regard to tre territories and other property of the United States, meant that the power of Congress was unlimited over the territories, and not controlled by the Constitution. He Ignored the fact that the Supreme Court of the United States has often construed this clause of the Constitu tion to mean that Congress had the power to sell or give the public domain or ter ritories to settlers, and to make all neces sary rules and regulations! regarding its government, but that tribunal has never decided that the limitation or the Consti tution and the mil of rtlnhts did not nnnlv ; to the territories everywhere. "Chief Justice Marshall. In the case of Loughborough vs. HUke. Z Wheaton, de liv.red the unanimous opinion of the Su preme Court, deciding that the Ct)titllulioti 111 nil Its provisions applied to the Territo ries as to the Stales, and this without any treaty stipulation or uct of Congress. Iu the) Died Scott decision, and lu seitn other cases since, the Supreme Court affirmed th'i doctrine, announied by Marshall, and lu the Drtd Scott ease It was also emphatic ally decided that the United States could not hold colonies, but that all irnllory ac quired by cession or compiest mut be h.M for Ihe ultimate purpose of Iwlng forme I Into States. This dattrlite wh .ittlnn.il hi ISt t'. S. Report, lusih,. Gray .tulll.lin.r the ununlmous uplnlon of the court. MKMMITIU I'llUKIII. ."President McKlnky unquestionably thinks that the Constitution does not appiv lo the Territories, as he signed the hill placing duties upon Imports fim Poito lllco. und lu his letter of iitceptauce sas that lie directed the flrat commission ne sent to the Philippines to give the people trial by Jury and the right of habeds cor ,'."s,.ft.."' (ne Prlitleges and immunities of the. Rill of Rights, 'lldst Is the llrst time lu the history of our Cuiinlr) tltMt a President bus arrogated the right to tontrol the priv ilege of trial by Jury and the otlur provis ions of the Bill of Rights. Under this claim or executive power, a citizen of Missouri In Porto Rico or the Philippines could be de nted the right of habeas corpus, and the President could grant or withhold It, us he thought best. "It Is evident from Mr. McKInley' state ment in his letter of acceptance that Gen eral Henderson. Speaker of the Hotise of Representatlies. was right when he dc 'ar"1 '" his spuech before the Hamilton l lub at Chicago that he wanted a Presi dent thoroughly Imbued with the principles and opinions of Hamilton, and that William McKInley was the man. "The question of whether the Constitu tion applies to tlie tcrrilorj propire ilgore will be decided by the Supreme Court of the l niled Mates at its present term, a two cast. (moiling the duties on Imports from Porto Rico are now pending before lhat tribunal, but It Is more than probable that no decision v. III. be made until after tile election. It Is lh- vrm rut ,.i.lnlr... ..' the best lantern in Ihe country. Including such men as Senator Edmunds una et President Harrison, that the Supreme Court will deride agulu-u tile position now held by the Republican party, but I vtry much legret that the power of the United Slates to hold colonies cannot he ilirettly passed on bv our highest Judicial tribunal, f have no Uoubt that the court would decide gainst such power, but I do not s,.,. nny way In which a decision or this quesilnu can be had. While It Is evident from the declarations of the Ktpuhlh an leaders that Porto RIro and the Philippines are lo be held as colonies. It would be argued til ths counsel for the Imperialists in the Su preme Court lhat, ns Congress lias the ex clusive power to determine when the Ter ritories are tit for admission as States li must be assumed that this power would' be "i cue proper time and that the Supremo Court could not Interfere with fcuch legislative discretion. The time will never come when any Congress would ,1 termlne that the Philippine Archipelago 1' (W miles distant from this country and in habited by eight million Malajs. should be admitted as States of the Union. . "It Is the same old etorr as that told of an Irish nobleman, who. being pressed bi rds tailor for the payment of a bill, de clared that he had no money, and when told by his creditor that he would accept his promissory note, lo be paid at anv lime which the debtor might tlx. was tol.l that the offer was entirely satisfactory; where upon his Lordship wrote out a note for principal and Interest pa j able one day after the Day of Judgment. "If the. Republicans should lose the presi dency .or the House of Representatlies they will make a desperate effort at the coming short session of Congres to pass two measures now pending tn the Senate and favorably reported by the Repuhllean majorities In the committees on the Philip pines and Commerce. 'Thn first of these measure Is the Spoon er bill, which was Introduced by Senator Spooner of Wisconsin at the Jast session, referred to the Committee on the Philippines and reported back favor ably by Senator Lodge, chairman if that committee. This bill provides that, until the last vestige of opposition to the authority of the United States shall cease In the Philippine Islands, the President may appoint such officers as he may choo3e with such powers as he may designate. This would give to the Chief Exeuulic more power than any monarch In Europe has fo-diy. except the. Czar of Russia; it wouio piace under the President's control the life, liberty and property of eiery in habitant in the Archipelago. 'The other bill which will he nrMu.il fee passige Is that reported by Senator Fre of the Senate Committee on Commerce, which proildes for the payment of lKn,iai. W. or tt.000.000 a enr for twenty jears. to every American citizen who hall build a ship for foreign trade to be sailed under the American flag. "Tho Republican party refuses to Tpeal the navigation laws enacted in is; under which no citizen of the United States can purchase a ship abroad and place It under our flag. He must bc.(ld or buy his ship lit this country, no matter what may be the excess of cost over what he can bui the same ship abroad, and the operation of this Infamous statute has been to decrease the amount or our commerce carried in Ameri can ships from 75 per tent in ISJ7 to S per cent In 1S99. "These navigation laws, which constitute a part of thn so-called protective system, were born of a corrupt coalition between New England and some of the slave-hcld-lng States or the South In the convention of 1T87 which framed the Federal Consti tution. Elliott's debates show that when the question of the slave trade and tre en actment of navigation laws came before the convention. It was found that New Erglsnd was very much In favor of n nav igation law- which would exclude all for-elgn-hullt ships from registry In thi coun try, thereby giving a monopoly of the ship building to the New England States. South Carolina. North Carolina and Geor gia, on the other hand, were anxious lo extend the time fixed by law for the ter mination of the slave trade, a they needed more negroes for the cultivation of cotton. "Under these conditions it was suggested by a ileicgate that these two matins should be referred to a. special committee of one from each State, who might agree upon an adjustment satisfactory to lKth sections. This was done, and In two days afterwards the committee reported, ex tending the slave trade to ISM and reject ing tne proposeu clause to the Constitution which provided that no navigation law should he enacted without the assent of two-thirds of the members in each House of Congress. The delegates from Virginia. Madison mid Mason, vehemently protested against this compromise, denouncing the slave trade as a disgrace to thn Republic, but their protests were In vain. General Pinkney. a delegate from South Carolina, moied to extend the slave trade to 1S03. which motion was seconded by Mr. Gor liam. a delegate from Massachusetts, and upon an aje and no vote the motion pre vailed, all the New Engltnd States, with South Carolina, North Carolina. Georgia and .Mao land, voting in the nflirmatlie. and Virginia, Pennsylvarla, Delaware and New Jersey voting in the negative. "Eiery man who voted the Republican ticket at the coming election can be cer tain that he Is giving his assent to the en actment of the two measures I have named, and If he Is willing to clothe the President with unlimited power In the Philippines, and to give 1180.009.000 cf the people's tax money to the owners and builders of ships In the shipyards of Dela ware and Newport News, whether theo -hips carry a pound of mall for the United States or not. he should cast his vote for McKInley and Rcosevelt and for the can didates for Corgress on the Republican ticket. 1SSIE IS PARAMOUNT. "I have stated in a former Interview, and now repeat, that the overwhelming lsue of this campalcn Is whether the United State shall enter upon the sjstem of colonization which now exists among the monarchies of Europe. Mr. Jefferson founded the Demo cratic party upon the distinct Issue that the people were capable of governing them selves and that this country should haie citizens, but not subjects. "I have no respect for the untenable po sition that the acquisition of Ijiulslana, Florida, the northern provinces uf .Mexico and Alaska violated the principles defended by Jefferson and upon which our Govern ment Is founded. All these area were ac quired under acts of cession with stimula tions that the people of the Ceded territories were to beenme citizens of -the Unltetl States and the territory acquired should lie formed Into States of the Union. There would be no parallel between such acqui sition and that of an archipelago 12.009 miles irom our snores ana innaoitea uy people who could ne'er become citizens of the United States. Every honest man of ordl- T. T7.in.,., !.--.. .u. .L. . .-.i I " of the Republican pVrtjl -to to hold the Philippines as subjects, and no believer In ' tho principle of Jefferson can acquiesce In this proposition. "I nave Just scon what purports to be a speech delivered by my old law partner. Judge John F. Phlll.p. United States Judge for the Western District of Missouri, madu at a reunion of his old resiment, the fcoventh Mlurl Slate Militia, on Sep tember It, and now being distributed in large numbers as a campaign document by the State Republican Committee. I am sorry to see Judge Phillips lake an ex treme position in favor of Imperialism and declare that the acquisition of Iojuislani under JefferFon justifies our taking and holding ihe Philippines. "I ennnot understand how anv fair and Impartial mind, suth as should be that of every Judicial olllcer, ran come to any such conclusion. The I.ouM.uia Purchase was acquired under the express condltoin tint it should be admitted at mi early dale Into th Amuican Union and that its citizens should have all the right and privilege of other eltl.eiw of the t'nltfil State. No In telligent man has eier imitrtrded that this lountrj could not take conquered territory, but the Usue now pending before the toim trj I whether, after taking ucli territory. We tan hold the neotile .is sublecls and not a citizens. "Judge Phillip ta.is In his address that ll.e United St ttes Senile having approvetl the tr-aty with Spain, there 1 in c-stopliel i.l.ui every oi.e a to the w ir now being wagid lu the Philippine. I ileiiv this ab solutely. The action of the S-nute was con t Ill-lie a to tlie acquisition of the Philip pine", but It was no estoppel as to the pur po for will, h that acquisition was made. "itr. McKInley haw stated In hi public Speeches that we were i .impelled to take the archipelago In order to prevent anarchy and rapln- or tt partition by Eumpt-jn countries. Senator Fre. one of the Paris Commissioners, stated In an open eion of the Senate that Ihe President had tn struited the cotnml-s'on when leaving Washington for Pari not to take any part of the archlplago except Luzon, and from this It appear thtt lie was willing at that time to surr'iidtr all the rest of the Island-, to anarchy and rapine or to the clutches of Germany, England or Russia. "Congress, when declatlng war against Sfaln. solemnly and unanimously resolved that the war was one not of i iinqu-t but for thu emanclp itlon of the Cuban people. What dishonor can there be In our declar ing the same thing a.s to tlie people of the Philippines; What consistency or Justice can there lie In changing the result of the war from emancipation to conquest; "Judge Phillips declare that his speech Is nonpartisan, but I think he will con clude, i,n reading It a published by 'he State Republican Committee, that no more vicious attack ha been made on the Dem ocratic party iliirmi; thl canvas. I re spectfully submit that while he ha the unquestionable tight to express his opinions ns a citizen up'm all public questions, he should have hesitated when addressing Iu former comrade at a sce.lal reunion be fore furnishing to our imlitical opponent speeh which they are now- scattering broadcast over the State as coining fro.n an eminent Judge, who has been heretofore an honorta! members of the Democratic party. J OI ft srvri:. "As to the State of Missouri. I cannot be made to believe that the peopb are willing to turn over our State government to the party that mismanaged and outraged the Mate for eleven disastrous jears. It can not surely be forgotten bv the loters of Hie State that the Republicans of Missouri, when in power, sold the railroad, to build which the leople had been taxed I25.000,'w, for. a.. me re pittance, mid-that, the roads w r. sold -tor the purpose of enriching syn dicates and lobbyists who were gathered about Jefferson City like carrion crows. Nor can It bo forgotten so soon that cor rupt county courts fastened upon counties and township fraudulent bonds for Ihe construction of imaginary railroads, some of this inoebtedtiess being jet unpaid. The iredit of the State of Missouri is now, under Democratic administration, equal tn that, of any State In the Union, and our bond. Instead of selling at S3 rents on th,- dollar, as they did under Republic an rule, are now worth more than par. "The statement lhat the Democratic par ty hax squandered or diminished the school find is a baseless fabrication. We have in creased the fund until it is now- larger than that of any State In the Union. If any Democrat hit embezzled any portion of it, let his name lie given, but until this is doe, these slanaers should .Cfae, "We haie diminished the rate of taxation on the farmers of the State, while Increas ing the rate of assessment on the rail roads, and w-e bale paid off Jl8.000.0l) of the Stale Indebtedness since taking charge of the State Treasury. "I do. not know- Mr. Fiory. the Republic an candidate for Governor, and haie never heard his name mentioned in connection with public affairs until his nomination by the Hcpubrlcaii State Convention. I know Alexander J!. Dockery Intimately, haling served In Congress with him fur sixteen year. He was one of the most efficient, un tiring and Incorruptible Representatives eier honored by any constituency, and his retirement from the House of Representa tives wa a public calamity. As a member of the Appropriations Committee of the Hct.se. he saved many millions of dollars to tho people of the United States. and was tho ceaseless enemy of all Jobs aud schemes to plunder the Treasury. If elected Govern or, ns he will be hy an overwhelming ma- jcruj. in Bene win secure tne servites o, a chief exeeutlio whose administration will be- one of the best In our history. "Ihe Democratic oartv never oresented a ticket stronger in personnel than In this campaign. Each candid He for State office represents the embodiments of honesty, fearlosness and excellent citizenshi;i." WHITEC0TT0N ENTERS DENIAL Falsi; Stah'iut'iits .Mtide Ctmcein iiij; His Tour. ifi:pcni.icsPKciii Paris. Mo.. Oct. 11. In an Internew with J. H. Whitecotton to-day. he said: "My at tention has been called to the Globe-Democrat of to-day, containing statements as to m3clf, which are not true. The facta are that on Thursday, after toy appointment at Kucklln. at the request of some friends I took the train and went to Marcellnc in order to be sure a.s to some statements the Republican speakers were making regarding the Democratic looting of the State school funds. I did not desire the speakers to krow my purpose in being there. I got the Information furnished lefore they found I was there. I went from there to Rrookfleld and spoke at night, answering Urockmeyer and Ua'sford, and told the audience what I supposed Mr. Flory would say that night, as I had heard him in Southeast Missouri. "My next date was at Sumner, and as I went west to Laclede I found Flory and company on the train, nnd Mr. Flory said tn me: 'I understand last night oti criti cised the speech I made at Marcellne,' to whlth I answered: There Is nothing in that, as I did not hear jour speech, as you well know.' "He answered that some committeemen had a told him. At Laclede I took the train to Sumner, as thej- well knew. At Si-mn'r my voice would not permit me '" ppeak nnd I was compelled to come home, go I wired Scott Miller I could not come. Now, there Is as much truth in what he had sent to the Globe as there was in his reception at Marceline In fact. more. The truth Is. that at Marcellne Florj' and hl' colleagues received a heaij" frost. The parade from the derot consisted of only one siirrcj-. a tlraj-, tfce band, some fifteen or twenty men and about as many bojs. The Republicans themselves were aston ished at the report sent In." KANSAS WHEAT DISCREDITED. Kansas .Millers Will Deuouuce .Minneapolis Millers. ISKPL'IIMC fcPECIAL Topeka. Kas., Oct. II The Kansas State Millers Association is called to meet here to-morrow to denounce the Minneapolis millers for discrediting Kansas wheat. The Minneapolis millers advertised wldelj- the fact that they did not use Kansas wheat in the manufacture of flour. The Topeka Capital sent a representative to Minneapolis to Investigate, anil he found that several hundred carloads of Kansas wheat had been shipped there. Representa tives of the Kansas Millers' Association went to Minneapolis and verified these re ports. Now- the Kansas millers propose to condemn the Minneapolis millers for dis crediting Kansas wheat and at the same time furnishing flour made from It to their customers. The Kansas millers will appeal to Kansas farmers to patronize Kansas mills and ship surplus wheat to Europe via Gulf ports. EMPRESS FREDERICK'S HEALTH Late Iiepoi'ts to Queen Victoria Aie More Favorable. London. Oct. II The following announce ment appears to-day In the Court Circular: The Queen has been In some anxiety for a tiooL' JMtrr - th& i i lai .,... "s- s ... .......ow w. j ait-nunis ot lhe heaUh ot KmP Frederick. Re. porta now, however, are favorable." AN IMPRESSlVt OFFERING BY A STOCK COMPANY. Mr. Robert Lincoln GltTen Is producing "A Gilded Fool" at the Imperial Theater this week. The part which helped to make Nathaniel C. GocmIwIu faraou is bcinfr.ulajed by Mr. Itatcliffe. Margaret Ruthven. formerly plajed hi- LIUi Vane. M,ib-I Ainlf. Max Ine Elliott and others, l- in the hands of Miss Odell Nell, the youngster, who v. as once capitally acted by Miss Minnie Dupree. is presented, even more capitally, by MLs Grnycif Scott. , The cast, taken as In bunched form. Is s.. good that one falls to wondering If it Is not Mi to the old ones that Goodwin used in offer In the piece, Mr. Ratcliffe has the hard job of trjin? to be a good as a famous, -star. The audi enee lts and tries to think how- Goodwii did this or that bit, all the time feeling that the Initiation I hardly up to the standpriL To Mr. Ratcllite's credit It may be written that he does not play according to the rules of the house of Goodwin. He seem. Indeed. to be more like the real Chauncej- Short than Goodwin ever was. For example, hei Is a bit rougher. Goodwin was alv.aj-s so united (apologies to Way Down Ea:i smooth that no one believed him when h sale: that he had worked In a country gro eerv store live years before the curtain rose. llist night, at the conclusion of the third act. the audience wanted Mr. Ratcliffe to make a speech, and it was 11 o'clock, too. M:ss Odell plajed the girl whom Chauncey eventually married. In The Sunday Repub lic j esterdaj- morning Miss Odell stated thfci she was not t belleier in engagements that she preferred a simple arrangement. She must have been thinking of "A Glided Fool" when she was lnteniewed, for as Margaret Rut hi en she refuses to make an engagement with joung Mr. Short: but n "arrangement." well understood by both, takes its place. . Miss Odell Is a charming actress. Sh has qualities of beautj-. a wonderfully large, rich loice and much of both kinds of graca natural and acquired. She will grow with her audience as the weeks roll around. The Imperial stock Is a carefully managed company that deserves the best that a pub lie has to offer. Mr. Glffen'st general direc tion, aided bj' the able stage management of Mr. Piatt, is of the best tjpe. Tho com pany Ik big and strong' In a variety of tal ents. Next week the plaj- Villi be "Th Dancing Girl," a drama of the hrst rate. Mr. Herbert Kelcey and Miss Etn Shannon will present "Mj- Daughter-iu-Law" at the Olympic Theater to-night. Mr. Kelcey and Miss Shannon are giving much consideration, lo their plan for a notnbl production of "Romeo and Juliet" next sea son. Mr. Kelce) ' Romeo w ill attract won derful matinee crowds and Miss Shannon's Juliet ougiit to keep tho night audiences prosperously large. Meanwhile, this sea son will be taken up entlrelj by "My Daughter-in-Law." which is proceeding most Prohtablj. "Zhe Tide of Life" at Havlin's Is a rh 'ping1 melodrama. For example, u. man jumps from a steentn-story window, catches a live wire -and proceeds to be come an electric motor. Ha docs this at each and eiery performance. In another act. a. young girl leaps from the top of a small mountain to a moving freight train. Whew : And there is something like thlj is every act. Charles Hoyt's "A Midnight Bell" is al wajs mentioned as one of his pieces tbaj; is "so different from the others." Jt Is the piece in which Maude Adams and many another clearer actress has plajx-d. It will live a long time after "A Rag Baby" and the others haie gona to their long rest. The. piece Is capitally put on at the Grand this week. "A Female Unimmer" is to follow it. There will be a change of bill at the Co lumbia Theater this afternoon. Old friends of the Standard clientele. Har ry Morris and h!s Twentieth, Century Maids," are back again this -week. Tho piece, closes with two now burlesques by Mr. Morris. Next week another Standard favorites, the "City Club." will return. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. As Good as Bonds. Tj the Editor ot The Krpubtlc. St. Louis. Oct. 15. Simmered down to tTr logical conclusion of the argument, all there Is In tho contention of th Globe-Democrat touching the school fund of the State, is that the Globe prefers a Government S pec cent bond as a basis for our school fund, rather than a 6 per cent State of Missouri bond. It Is understood by any one even partly Informed that our school fund certl ilcates are as binding and as legal an obli gation upon the State of Missouri as that of ter bonus, and even less liame'to be re pudiated bj- the State This Is a statement at facts that any par ent who has a cnlld to educate cau easily verlfj-. The Democratic partj- of tma Stain Invites the closest scrutlnj- of its manage ment of this, as well as all of the other monejs belonging to the Commonwealth. - No party can win in the great State ot Missouri nt a campaign of falsehood and misrepresentations. CITIZEN. Emburraiilng. To ti Kditor of The JUpuoIic. St. .Louis, Oct. 13. Good citizens are woaV dering bow the Globe-Democrat will man age to crawl out of the hole Into which It has fallen bj- reason of Its malicious false hoods concerning the State's school fund. It has done Its party an Infinite amount o harm in that matter, for its misrepresenta tions are so grosB as to disgust all thought ful persons, regardless of political affilia tions. Its party leaders will expect It to Protect them from the effects of Its malev olence, but how will It contrive to do so without admitting willful misrepresenta tion? ' It seems strange that party malice could Induce a great newspaper to take the risk of placing Itself in such an embarrassing position when It could so easily have known the truth before making the attack. Its reckleseness in this instance Is closely re lated to stupidity: but It is In line with the policy that that paper has pursued from the beginning. Its old cry of "Robber State," which was echoed by other papers of Its kind all over the world, hurt Mis souri to the extent of millions of dollars. Thousands ot emigrants who did not know better avoided our State and located else where, investing their means where thy felt safe from the depredations of Imaginary "robbers," who existed only in the Globe Democrat's party-crazed Imagination; and now a similar evil Is being enacted In con nection with its menoaclous attacks on the State's credit, as. clearly snown by this ex tract from an article In the Boston Herald, which the Ulobe-Demccrat maliciously re produces without comment or correction, and under a neadllne mat aggravates th outrage: Prohabl there la not In the L'nion a Stat worae managed by any party than the b'tate t,c Mltaourt h the Democratic ring which con trol It. As a aample of political Iniquity, the re cently discovered condition of the aenoot fund la In point. A few years ago ill.vourl had a school fund, general, rrmlnarj and unliersltr. of K.X.W. Initiied in Unltetl states cloiernmen.t tonda. pajing s per cent Int-reat. This waa a State arect. rlie Interest was an Income of th Mate from ouUtd? eourcea. These bonds were sold, and the proceed were Imested in Mis souri per cefil atate bonds. Later these bonds were canceled, and State certificate- of indebt-edn-aa were Inutd to the achool fund la thedr He. On January 1. lWft. according to the Stat Auditors report, the State school and sem inary fund consisted entirely of State certifl catu, amounting to M.395.RS.C The latertst on these Is paid by th' people through taxation, and the principal must be paid In thn alms way. If It ever Is paid. Th school fund has thus been manlpulaltd by these financiers of tho Bryaa Party from a cash asset of the State to a State debt, and the cash rebelled baa been used, or quanasrckl. or stolen. It la tntlrety character istic that the platform ot the State Democratic Convention, Ignoring then certificates, says that the State debt amounts to O.OOO.OoO. which will be paid within two ytars. It would be worth millions of dollars to Missouri .property owners, without rsfsr nce to politics, it they would buy the Ulobe Democrat at Its full estimated value, and discontinue its publicatlon-op put It undee a management tfcat could tH the tmtb, eW.-VJUXAN, . P ;iM'