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THURSDAY. H 1 M**).
OLNEYOM EXPANSION
Hichakh Oi.nkv, cx secretary of state
who has been talked of by Anti-Bryan
democrats as a desirable democratic
candidate for president, has an artiMc
in the March Atlantic Monthly giving
his views on expansion Though he
lives in Massachusetts, the state of the
anti imperialists, his views <lo not coin
cide with theirs in many imjiortant par
tii nlars He deplores our presence in
the Philippines, hut feels that since we
sre there it is our duty not to get out
hut to make the liest possible disposition
of the problems offered He feels that
< üba is de facto United States territory
in spite of the congressional resolution
which he considers ill-advised and futile.
He notes the fact that this country has
Is-en forced by the march of events to
abandon its policy of isolation, the <'u
bun war being merely a step in its pro
gress toward a position among the ini
pertant nations of the world. Perhajis
the most interesting point discussed in
his s the no t ailed British alliance.
He does not assert it to he an actual fact,
hut adverts to England's countenance of
mir position in the east He does not
have the dread for such an alliance that
most public men perforce profess to feel.
Tie distinction ls*tween tenijioniry and
limited alliances with foreign countries
and "entangling alliances’ is pointed
out. with a reference to the great ad
vantage to this country of her compact
with France during the revolution. In
discussing these things he says:
We start our career as a world power
with the Philippine handicap firmly fas
tened to us, and that situation being ac
cepted how aliont alliances? The true,
the ideal position for ns. would Is- com
plete freedom of fiction, jwrfect lilierty
lo pick allies from time to linn asspecial
is’casions might warrant and an enlight
ened view of our own interests might
dictate Without the Philippines we
might closely approach that position.
But, with then., not merely is our need
of friendship imperative, hnt if is a need
which only one of the great powers can
satisfy or is disposed to satisfy. Except
lor Great Britain s countenance, we j
should almost certainly never have got
the Philippines; except for her continued
support, our hold ii|ui them would !■
likely to prove prei arious. is-rhaps alto
gether unstable It follows that we now
find ourselves actually caught in an en
tangling alliance, forced there not by
any treaty, or compact of any sort, form
al in informal, hut by the stress of the
inexorable facts of the situation It is
an alliance that entangles because we
might be and should lie friends with all
the world and liecause our necessary in
timacy with and de|suidence upon one
of them is certain toexcile t i suspicion
and ill will of other nations Still, how
ever min h Iletter otr we mii.lit have been,
regrets the irrevocable having happen
ed, are often worse than useless, and it
is much more profitable to note such
compensatory advantages as the actual
situation offers. In that view, it is con
soling to reflect that, il we must single
out an ally from among the nations at
the cost of alienating all others, and con
seipienlly have thrown ourselves into
the anus of England. our choice is prob
ably unexceptionable We join ourselves
to that of the great powers most formid
able as n foe and most effective as a
friend; whose people make with our own
lint one family whose internal differ
enci-s should not prevent amnitod front
as against the world outside; whose in
tlui nrc upon the material and spiritual
conditions of the human race has on the
whole lss-n elevating and lieneficent:
and whose example and experience can
nut help being of the utmost service in
our dealing with the difficult problems
liefore us ”
Mr. Olney considers the Monroe doc
trim* of great iuqiortance and argue*
that "it may and should command gen
••ral acquiescence since it requires of
Europe to abstain from doing in Ameri
< a nothing more than we should and
must ii.bstri.in from doing in Europe
lb' liojkis for an abandonment of the
polite al provincialism that lias marked
our national existence for many years
and says
While the Monroe doctrine and a pro
lecfive tariff may Is* regar h*d as the dis
liiiguishing manifestation if our foreign
piln y prior to tin* late Spanish war. our
international isolation has had other ini
|m irtant colisisjueiices which should Is*
briefly adverted to The isolation policy
and practice have tended to Is.little the |
national • haracter. have led to a specie*
of provincialism and to narrow views of
our duties and functions as a nation
They have caused us to ignore the iiiqsir
tain i of sea (siwerand to look with eqna
iimiity upon the decay of our navy and |
the ruin of our merchant marine They ,
have made us content with a diplomatic
servi*T always inadequate ami often po* !
itnily detrimental to our interests
They have induced in the jieople at large!
,m Illil* ral and unintelligent attitude
towards foreigners constantly shown in .
lie disparagement of other people*, m
IsMistingsof our own *ii|s*rioriij and in
i *j-ii*e of complete irresponsibility for
anything uttered or written to their tn
jut 1 This attitude of the |s*ople at
hit has naturally Usui reflected in their
representatives In public life while m ot
IP nils brought in dins t contact with for
clgn affairs it has often Usui even great
ly intensified Apparently, in their an
riety not to fall below She pilch of |snu
hit sentiment. 11>< v have Usui h* I to strike
a note allogeth* rlieyond it Hence liavi
ensue only s> frequently and on slight
pretexts v.,)|ent diatnU sagainst foreign
governments and gross abuse of their
{ssiplesai.d institutions, not merely on
the hustings, full on the Moor of the sen
aii- or hin.se. not merely by unknown so
lieinr-of votes, tail by public officials in
tallows si. prominent as to give to their
utterances an air of real significance
Tin lav.l Piste and worse manners of such
utterances from such sources, whether
111 tile (Mist or in the future, need not Is.
enlarged u|hhi Tin difference for the
future i* that they can no loiignrJs- made
witu impunity nor excused by any pro
fe„~ed U-lief in their hannlessiiess The
cheapest politician, the most arrant deni
.igog n cannot fail to realize both that
after joining the international family of
European states, the United States can
not afford to Mont gratuitously its asso
ciates, and that foreign governments and
peoples cannot be expected to discrimi
nate between the American jieople rd
those who represent them in apjiearance
however much they may misrepresent
them iu fact.
“Thongh historians will probably as
sign the Man don men t of the isolation pol
icy of the United States to the time when
this country and Sjiain want to war ov
er Cuba, and thongh the abandonment
may have been precipitated by that con
test. the change was inevitable, hadfieen
long preparing, and could not have leen
long delayed. The American jieople
were fast opening their eyes to the fact
that they were one of the foremost pow
ers of the earth and should play a corn
mensnrately great part in its affairs,
"In short, when our troubles with
Spain came to a bead, it bad, it is be
lieved. already dawned upon the Ameri
can mind'that the international policy
suitable to our infancy and onr weak
ness was unworty of our maturity and
onr strength; that the traditional rules
regulating our relations to Europe, al
most a necessity of conditions prevailing
a century ago. were inapplicable to the
changed conditions of the present day;
and that isith duty and interest required
ns to take our true jsisition in the Euro
pean family and to both reap all the ad
vantages and assume all the burdens in
cident to that position. Therefore, while
the Spanish war of I HUH is synchronous
with the abandonment of its isolation
policy by the United States, it was not
the cause of such abandonment and at
the most hastened it by an inconsider
able period."
The article is scholarly and thought
ful and will have an effect in directing
the thought of the day.
FAIEK.
The Missouri editorial association held
a meeting recently to discus* the Cannes
of the present high price of print paper.
The net result of the discussion and in
vestigation was that the democratic edi
tors found the trouble to 1* caused by
the tarilT protected pajs-r trust, while
the republican editors maintained it was
all due to the excess of demand for print
(taper over the supply. It is an interest
ing question. It vitally concerns every
newspaper published in the country.
There must Is- some relief soon or many
of tint smaller papers will have to go out
of business. Tint point is made that
while the tariff on print (taper is only
pi 00 jter ton the advance in the cost of |
it to publishers has been nearly fUO.Oo
(sir ton, and that therefore the protect
ive duty can not be held res|tonsible for
the rise. Still it would seem that the
addition of the $0 00 duty would reduce
the price per ton that much. The trust
was formed with a capital of f.V,000,000,
of which $'.10,000,000 was "water". The
remaining sifi.ooo.ooo, consisting of pre
ferred stock and bonds, was issued for
the machinery, buildings and equipment
of t he various paper mill concerns which
entered the trust. It is now known that
.ft:. ,000,000 was a heavy over valuation |
of the projsTties turned in. Consequent
ly the trust has to earn dividends on
$.Vi. in to, I too of capital by the ojieration of
properties worth perhaps half that.
This involves the making of enormous
profits on the product sold. The organ
izers of the combine in figuring up the
possibilities of profits and consequent
dividends undoubtedly took the SO.OO
per ton tariff into account and relied up
on it to insure them a portion of the big
profits they needed for their purpose.
The withdrawal of the duty would eith
er force the trust to reduce prices or it
would not; the reduction would come if
foreign manufacturers could afford to
sell pajs'r here at less than the present
prices, and it would not come if they
could not afford to do it. In the former
case there would lie some relief to con
sumers. and in the latter we should at
least have the satisfaction of knowing
that our weak and struggling paper
makers no longer needed protection
from cheap foreign paper. At any
rate it would seem that there could
Ih* no harm in wiping out the duty.
If it <lid no good to the consummer it
would do no damage to the producer.
On the other hand it might relieve the
consumer and at the same time hurt the
trust a little, in which case all news
pa|ier men would extend their heartfelt
sympathy to the combine. But the pub
lishers in spite of sympathy would doubt
less find it possible to deny themselves
the pleasure of contributing to the divid
end fund of the thirty odd millions of
watered trust stssk. They would Is
willing for a time to divert those some
what su|ertluous dividends into their
own pis kets. •>f course they would not
know as well what todo with the money
as would the stockholders of the trust,
but they would accept it with due hum
ility and stow it away somewhere. Most
of them would probably use it to found
hospitals and libraries and old ladies
' homes.
MlSStil.liA NKTIIKKSOhK. tile faillOHH
Knglish actress baa recently hail herself
am) her play Sapho. advertised in a most
effective way It was newspaper adver
tising too The New York World a
strictly unmoral jiajier, declared the
plav immoral and had its re | sir tern
swear out u eoinpliiint against the ae
tiess and her manager They were
arrested and arraigned in a Now York
|sdiee court where the hearing was
Iswtponed and ordered to Is" private.
•>f course the legitimate result of all
this is that Sapho draws a |>aeked house
every liiglll Tile jssiple Clin t Is" kept
away They must see for themselves
whether tlie Worlds characterization
of tlie play is accurate or not. It is
a far help i ad vtirtisemeiit for Miss Neth
ersole Ilian the customary scheme of get
, ting divorced or having jewelry shden
Secretary R<xjt has sent to the sen
ate a letter from Gen. Divisaccorujiany
ing a petition from the people of Porto
Rico asking for free-trade with the Unit
ed States, s) that some market may be
found not only for the surplus tobacco
crops of !B$W and 1 hso. but for thematur
' ing crop of 1900. The whole of this would
not exceed 3,500,000 pounds, Gen. Davis
says in his letter; “I cannot in any words
at my command overstate the urgency
and gravity of the industrial paralysis
now existing in Porto Rico,” owing to
the Porto Ricans lieing practically shut
out of all markets. It seems pitiful
that this great nation having taken
Porto Rico cannot permit its people
to make a living. What harm would
it do us to let them sell their poor little
three and a half million pounds of to
bacco, the surplus of three years crops,
when we produce annually hundreds of
millions of pounds? The effect would
scarcely be noticed by our well-protected
growers, while it would be a godsend to
the impoverished and unrepresented
Porto Ricans. It is to le hoj)ed that the
Republican opjxisition to the promised
Porto Rican tariff will prove strong
enough to defeat it.
Senator Clark of Montana is one
of your true philanthropists. His pity
of the people of Montana und'*; tht dom
ination of the unsjieakable Marcus Daly
was so great that he came to the front
and contributed some $140,000 toward
the legitimate expenses involved in de
posing the said Daly. To make his phil
anthropy the more noteworthy he con
sented to bestow himself upon the people
of Montana as a United States Senator
for the period of six long and weary
years. The senate committee on elec
tions may. however, ruthlessly separate
the people of Montana from their servant
Senator Clark and thus interrupt the six
years of devotion to the public weal that
Senator Clark had in mind. Republics
have always been ungrateful, and Clark’s
disinterested efforts in Is-half of down
trodden Montana are in danger of going
unappreciated.
An Appendicitis Club has been formed
in Cleveland, O. Any one who has been
separated from his appendix is eligible
to membership, and the promoters in
tend to make the organization national.
There are said to be several thousand
appendix less people in the United States
who will rush to enroll themselves.
What the object of these clubs is does
not appear. Probably the political par
ties will now have to get out and hustle
for the anti appendix vote in every cam
paign. The clubs will doubtless demand
an appendix-protection plank in every
[silitica! platform, and maintain a lobby'
at Washington. The inauguration of
the movement just on the eve of a presi
dential campaign certainly lends color
to the supposition. Next we shall hear
of small pox clubs, cholera clubs, meas-
I< •Inbs, chickenpox clubs, bunion and
wart clubs and amputated leg clubs.
Then the party managers will have to
establish another bureau to go after the
cholera vote, the measles vote, and so
on. There would he as much sense in
this as in bidding for the hyphenated
American vote of various kinds.
It is interesting to note that many of
tin* most prominent republican news
pajiers are now advocating tariff reform.
They see that the protected industries
are no longer infants and should not tie
carrii 1 any further by the great govern
ment perambulator, the tariff. The Chi
cago Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer
Press are among the western papers that
are working in the republican party for
tariff reduction.
JrtxiK Baknhcu of this city was given
a pleasing attestation of confidence and
regard last week. The republican coun
ty committee of Dodge county passed u
unanimous resolution endorsing him as
their candidate for the nomination for
governor. The action was spontaneous
and was unknown to Judge Bu *nsch un
til he read of it in the next morning's
palters.
A FKKNi'HMAN recently connected
with the French army passed through
Milwaukee last week, and stated in an
interview that immediately after the
close of the Paris exjiosition France
would probably make war against Eng
land on "general principles." and that
Germany and Russia Would probaby
join France. It would Is* a pleasing
way to oisui tin* new century in Europe.
Col, Huy an bin* imiiounred ton wait
ing public Unit Me in Satisfied with Kan
City. It in fortunate that he graci
ously permit* the democratic party to
buhl their convention there, fur It would
really 1* a lot of bother to have to go to
work and pick out some other place.
Wonder who’ll U* nominaUsl
MII.WAITKKK ban ls*en distinguished
in a manner more creditable than ha*
l*en her wont since the street railway
agitation brought her to prominence; to
wit She has lieen rejected as a conven
tion city l*ecanse of "coldness to silver."
KsuhANH is making heroic effort* to
feed the famine stricken |>eople of India,
The government is now supplying three
and one-half million natives but the
failure of crops will affect over fifty
millions and the government cannot
jKissibly prevent enormous suffering
Tut; question of title to Roman Cath
olic church property in the Philippines
is likely to Is* difficult of solution.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
GRANADA, Miss. Feb. 24.
The purpose to assist the editor pro |
tern, and not the hoie of having any-
thing interesting to communicate is re
sponsible for this letter. I have acquir- j
e i reasonable facility in the matter of
writing, that is penmanship, not com
position while on l>oard a running
train and have cultivated abstraction
purposely to meet distractions such as ,
are inseparable from excursion trains,
not annoying because in the line of
pleasure, and in the present instance ;
purposely designed to "break me up" in
the performance of the expressed pur
pose to “send in some copy.” A com
munication under such circumstances
must I** discursive without the general
quality of interest.
It is cold to-day. a raw ind blowing
which makes a heavy overcoat pleasant
to have when making short excursions
from the cars. It was extremely warm
in Memphis yesterday fait the change
during the night has given the native an
opportunity of offering the invariable
explanation given in the south ot any
untoward circumstance calculated to
injure the climatic reputation of the
place, viz “the worst in 50 years.
The magnolias with their pulpy leaves
of clean, rich green are pleasant to the
eye after long months of divorce from
nature's choicest color. The cotton
Helds are scraggy with the wasted stems
of last season's crop and give but little
promise of the lieauty which crowns
them when in blossom.
The fieople of Memphis have the true
southern hospitality. Thev have the
courtesy of refined sentiment and the
practicality of thorough going business
men. 1 received my impression of Mem
phis from the virulent nature of the
yellow fever which prevailed there 32
vears ago, and credited its sail experi
ence then to obstacles to projier sanitary
measures which it would lie difficult if
not almost impossible to overcome. But
it is a city on a hill," beautifully and
healthfully located and offering a point
of view which makes the Father of
Waters picturesque as well as living a
channel of commerce. Its very immun
ity from disease because of its natural
surface drainage must have rerulted in
neglect to take the ordinary precautions
for cleanliness It profited by its ter
rible exjierience. and there is no city in
the United States which now presents
an apjiearance exceeding that of Mem
phis in the matter of cleanliness. It is
said to Is* one of the best sewered cities
in the world and even Paris engineers
have visited the city to study its system
and profit by its excellence. The sur
rounding country is beautiful and the
country roads are well nigh pe>-fect.
They are all macadam. Mr W H.
Bates, who is well known to many in
Manitowoc, and of whom jiarent helical-
This Space Be*
longs to the
Rand & Roemer
Hdwe. Cos.
Look for adver*
tisem’t in next
week’s issue.
ly it may be said, be is not only one of the
leading businessmen of the city but one
of the most public spirited as well, in
formed me that the work of improving
the country roads is done by the convicts
and that these magnificent roads are
constructed at an average cost of $lOO
per mile. We of Wisconsin may gather
some ideas of practical value from our
southern brothers.
Memphis is one of the southern cities
which early broke the limitations of lo
cal prejudice. It hail sufficient conser
vatism to exclude the boom feature, so
that reverses from an overstimulated
growth have ls*eu avoided, and every bit
of growth has developed from a legiti
mate cultivation of resources. The sol
idity resulting from this is apparent on
every hand, t )ne feels there is perma
nency in everything and tinsel appears |
nowhere. This characteristic apjiears
in the bearing of the people There is
soundness of judgment, frankness of ex
pression and independence of action
which give an added expression of pleas
ure to the acts of courtesy which is one
of the charms of the south.
Memphis, Nashville and Atlanta are
developing on parallel lines, quick to
take advantage of conditions without
vulgar exhibition of greediness, and not
neglecting this cultivation of social
graces while progressive on the line of
business.
No city could do more than Memphis
did in the entertainment of its guests.
Everything of interest was shown them,
that could lie in the space of one day,
and not in the spirit of parvenu,—for
the delight of exhibiting, but to give
pleasure to its guests.
Memphis is a great cotton market,
though its lumber interests are being
pushed with considerable vigor. Cotton
is king again this year. The advance in
the price has made the people happy.
The advance averages about fIS per
bale, the weight of a bale lieing from
400 to 500 lbs. This advance has made
the people jubilant though the growers
of cotton, as a rule, sold a little too ear
ly to profit by it. A businessman of
Memphis informed me that he never
knew before of a more perfect feeling of
satisfaction among the people. The ad
vance has given them money beyond
their expectations and he says it is not
unusual to see people, proverbially hard
up, now with a wad of money, and meet
ing all their obligations promptly.
But Memphis has taken too much
space already, not because of its lack of
merit, but detailed mention of events on
a trip may prove wearisome.
(tranada was reached this morning,
ami after leaving the place, the writing
of this letter was liegun. It is quite an
old city and had but little "wah" expe
rience. 1 walked to the depot • from
where we hail breakfast with Tom Cun
ningham. Tom i*. always in search of
information and noticing a large build-
in# outside the city, of considerable ar
chitectural pretension and occupying a
commanding site, he asked a little Ne
gro Ixiy what building it was.
“A college," was the reply.
‘'A collegel" Toni said, ‘'what's its
name?’’
“Pay college" replied the lad innocent
ly-
“A queer name for a college” replied
his interlocutor.
“You see," the lad answered. “Dein
who goes there must pay.”
He didn’t mean it as a joke, but the
genial ex-secretary thought it one on
him.
The lady students were at the depot to
bid us good-by. They wore the conven
tional gown of the olden time and had a
regular college yell.
Admiral Dewey has expressed the
opinion that the Hay-Panncefote treaty
concerning the Nicaraguan canal should
be ratified. He says that the canal
should neutralized and considered as a
commercial rather than a military ad
vantage to this country; and that in case
of war the American navy could easily
guard it. Dewey’s opinion in a matter
, of this kind carries considerable weight.
j The Standard Oil Cos. has recently de
! dared a quarterly dividend of 20 per
j irent. That is it is now taking profits
I out of consumers at the rate of 80 per
j cent, a year on its enormous capitaliza
tion. Probably Mr. Rockefeller has con -
1 eluded to give Chicago University an
other Rockefeller Hall, and has screwed
I up the price of oil t< provide the price.
| The advance in the cost of oil to the pur
! chaser has been 43 per cent, since last
j May.
Thebe is more Catarrh in this section
o f the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few years
was supposed to be incurable. For a
great many years doctors pronounced it
a local disease, and prescribed local rem
edies, and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced it in
curable. Science has proven catarrh to
l>e a constitutional disease, and therefore
requires constitutional treatment. Hall's
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Cos.. Toledo, Ohio, is the only
constitutional cure on the market. It is
taken internally in doses from 10 drops
to a teasjKxmful. It acts directly on the
bloou and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any
case it fails to cnre. Send for circulars
and testimonials.
Address, F. ,T. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the l>est. ui'JW
The main reason why most women are
so dowr. on the Mormons is because they
think the men have too good a time, any
way.