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: Circulation in the County fivurnoii rm mjm* thla WMltb; OTW- lool- « of t ooo TBUB EXPAMBIOW the 'F** 0 * I _ DmIoI, of vixffnto, Mde* btoapoeob 1b kho Sooftto prior to tko nrtlftoBtJoB of tbo poooe treaty, bat It U BOt too Uto for our reader* to enjoy a part of thio oratorical produo* tioa. It i* the Ant speech made far him 1b maaj year* whoa his voice dli aot follhlBi. It reminded one of the days when he was known as the silver- tor of the Old Dominion. Be handled the subject largely from a standpoint, and his refer* the raolal Question were most is teres ting to every oae. Be excel led himself la the fervor of its delivery. He pointed ont thr foot that in the Borneo! trade the blacks were seised oa the ooaet of Africa and sold in this eoaatry. Be recalled with pride how the people of Virginia had. through their legislative twenty-seven times against this admix tare of races. Be could think of no greater tragedy that ever occurred In the human race, than when these peo ple were snatched out of their homes and hats and in the name of commerce eeld in the markets. Just when this government was adjusting itself to this problem, which cam* near wrecking the government, he said, the people of this country were asksd to add to it the question of governing ten millions more of blacks and mixed breeds. That portion of his speoctf is of special interest to the South. His speech Was one of the longest made on the ques* tionf and contained voluminous con stitutional arguments against annex lag the Philippines. Following Is an extract in which he touches on this racial question: "I do not believe that the great body of the American people understand thef significance of this treaty. 1 do not believe, at least if I may judge from their utterances, that many Senators who are saying, ‘Vote for the treaty bow and fix your policy tomorrow,’ un derstand what that treaty does irre trievably. That treaty fixes our policy. The rest of our policy is a msre matter of-clerkly de tail. The treaty is the thoroughfare, and through and over that thorough fare a million of Filipinos march Into the open doorway of the American re public. More than that, 70,000,000 Amerieans march Into the Philippine islands os the Filipinos tparcb here. M It is n merrlage of nations. This twain becomes one flesh. They be come bone of our bone end flesh of our flesh. Henceforth and forever, accord- lag to tha terminology of this treaty, the Filipino# and Americans are one. I trust yet, Mr. President, that before this marriage is consummated the spirit of American constitutional liberty will arise and forbid the bans. M The obligation that we owe to the Filipinos is the obligation of oomrade- their legislative the intrusion of this elite fiiixture Into tbelr com bat trade, the commercial riding the great liberty ‘ ples of the British rice upoa the SSwry * now ***• , wu< i n m- r ^||^eit lea ihn AmuridUUk lO^rvQlVlIw tm wfliv iB WVl MM' wealth turned brother against broth er, sowed the seeds of discord into that which otherwise would have beta a perfect Union. Without that wo were a homogeneous people. , “Go Inio Meine or Louieiana; go Into Tennessee or Mssseqbueette; go into Virginia or Ohio or litloois, end the American people era like unto themselves, with the seme Idea# of government, with the same devoted and undying love of ilborty, with the seme sense of justice end of equity and of honor. This one thing poured 'the sweet milk of oonoord into bell.’ “We are happily beginning, Mr. President, to adjust ourselves to the ooDditlon* and oomplioatiohs and In finite troubles that this one ancient crime brought down upon us. Wc ora happiljr at pence with ourselves today ur 'W ■*w throughout all this and I thank God I this day. tn fou have lived to see It matters not oa which side rought in the civil war; he is devoted today to the flag of hie coun try and to everything that that flag ■tends for. Be honor* and esteems the President of the United States not only with the naked loyalty that bo- longs to the dignity of his grant oflloe, but with that grateful esteem and with that open and honest admiration for greet wisdom end public virtue and broad and enlightened patriotism and for sweet and gracious and friendly ‘^Now, Mr. President, at this mo ment, perfect in every defense, at peace with all the nations of tha world, blessed with everything, and with more than everything, that nay other nation we* ever blessed with, we are challenged to go forth upon a great expedition, 7,000 miles away from our home,, to lay the heavy hand of our sovereign power upoa 8,000,000 people and introduce again Into the American commonwealth the fatal and Insidious element wbioh came near being the oaufe of Its destruction. “ Mr. President, there 1* one thing that neither time nor education ooo change. You may change the leo pard's spots, but you will never change the different qualities of the races which God bee created la order that they may fulfill separate and distinct mission* in the cultivation and civili sation of the world. The Indian of one hundred and twenty-five years ago if the Indian of today—ameliorated, to a certain extent civilised, and yet the wisdom of our forefathers, when in the constitution, they set them apart one people separate and distinct from the great dominant race which indioome to take this land and to Inhabit it, 1* indicated In what we are still doing and must forever do with them so long m they maintain their tribal relation* and so long os they ora Indians. Racial differences, differences of religion, differences in mode of thought, difference* in psychology, the subtle analyses of man nave put them asunder.” ■hip. It is the obligation of fraternity. it is not pecuniary; It is honorary. It eotnee under that class of obligations whloh has ns its touchstone and Its watchword noblesse oblige. Hsvlng oeoeuted comradeship—call It ally, soadjutor, co-operator, or what not— having accepted the feet of friendship and clasped hands on the perilous edge of battle, we cannot renounce the hood that we there clasped nod treat the maa or the men who gave u* those hands otherwise than as friends. That is nobles* oblige. “ Whet is It, Mr. President, if you strike the gun out of the bend In which yon put the gen and aim the gun at the breast which touched elbow with your elbow when you went down to oattlo f Whnt is that V I name it not, but It is not noblesse oblige. We can not leave the Filipinos in the hands ol Spain. No, no, no. Americans can not so treat those who were their com rades. “ They tell u* that Jefferson was e groat annexationist. - So he was; but annexationist as he was, he drew the line on sxpansion. He interpreted the oracles of nature. If Indeed they needed interpretation, for their language Is not oracular in the olden oracular sense. Cuba we want, he said, (or It is an outpost of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean sea, but we want no an nexation that will require a navy to defend it “If we look Introspectlvely, Mr. President, we Bud that this nation, having now established its ascendency on tha wing* of the republic in the Sandwioh Island* and in Cuba and In Porto Rloo, Is a perfect, symmetrical body, becoming homogeneous In all its parts, dedicated to the principles of haman liberty, which goes forth like a bridegroom from his chamber, re jololng as a strong man to run a race. Annex the Philippine islands to this A GONVSKY TO LOCAL OPTION. thing beyond the boundaries indicated In its constitution, something beyond any ideal that ever entered the dreams of our fathers, something that 1* cum brous and unnatural, something that is heterogeneous and surprising, some thing that is amphibious, something that Is half man and half fish, some thing that never would have been born in the natural course of human projec tion, something that is the haphatard ehanoe of war, which we are asked to change into n permanent establish ment. '' Mr. President, when we contem plate the one hundred end twenty-five years of the history of the Amerioen republic and the anterior years in which it was forming In these forests of America, we discern that there has beea but one impediment to our na tional harmony and to our national growth. For that impediment the generation that founded this republic end its successors were sot responsible. They were the unwilling heirs of un willing end protesting ancestors. The Dutch ship that landed at Jamestown bringing here another race brought also Pandora’s box. The interjection of a race nonasslmllable with the American people has been the fly in tha ointment of American institutii ° r, authorities to enforce the dispensary . law In the large oities Tfeei it would of Amerioen peace, of American “Si ions, his- Senator Appelt Thinks the Liqnor Question Should be Taken Out of Polities. Senator Appelt, of Clarendon, has ntroduoed a local option measure, and when asked his reasons for taking this step he replied as follows i No doubt you thluk the Introduc tion of this bill is a reversal of my Msltloa and to some extent it is, but I lave given the subject considerable thought, and I have come to the con clusion that the people are tired of this everlasting dlngdonglog about the ispensary, and they want the liquor uestlon eliminated from politics. The r oot la that in moat of the counties in the State questions that should have been discussed In the primary were entirely side-tracked by the sole ques tion, whether or not liquor should be sold under the State control. I have been no ardent supporter of the dispen sary system, as you know, because I believe it a practical way of handling o. In my county it works like a charm ; It bos had the effect of lessening the drink habit, and it has done away almost en tirely with the boisterous noise oo mm on in the days when bar rooms existed. am now satisfied that the only way to get the liquor question out of politic* Is to let the people In the oduhUes *nj what thty want, and when they have )oken the matter will be settled, his is good Democratic doctrine and It will take away from the politician* hobby they now ride in polltiool races. At one time I was doubtful of the advisability of putting the liquor questiou to the people, because I feared that It could only re licenses to the large meat of the smaller towns, but when I consider the complete failure of the authorities to enforoe the dlsi write a The •e yet tha Philippine “ upon te ooi nolle have tan gravity of 'iTheg i divlde < lhe > spoils of Spanish"!!!? Whether the Phil felly preporad fla ig the peMlaai Powers ill is too iatew ask, for the Philip pine notion is born, delivered before its time by an uae itiing mother in the threes of war. . Bat for the forteitoas or providential, oooartng at tha saese time of the Bpanfeh-AmoriooB war oad i Philippine iasorMotioa, have reawilnsd in ■abjection for fifty or a haadrsd years longer. They would have goes oa in creasing in number* end netlonnl spirit, rebelling often eoongh ns they have la the poet, to keep olive the hope of freedom uatil they bed [h to ooeqeer their wonld tnen have entered the family of notions with more strength andexperienoe end wisdom than they now posesss. Bat the Philip pine people have already long passed that state of development in whloh eirilised nations would have had a right to appropriate them and their territories against their own good will. It hoe become a matter of tacit ogroa- teat among nations, a law of common eeaee, that wild savages continually at war with each other have no right to independent exletenoe, and that their territories ore the legitimate spoils of nations who will mans a better use of them. This hee been the rude but C at law of the conquest of Africa nod orth America. Whoa Magellan and Aegaspl anchored their ships in the harbors of Cuba and Hod ilia 350 yean ago the painted and tattooed savages of the Pnilipplnes may wall have fallen into this list, bat the year 1899 shows altogether another picture. Count d’Bu thus writes of the Philippine peo ple in 1888; “The religious orders one ■how with pride the result of tbelr labors la these 4,000,000 of native Christians of the Philippine settle ments, more civilised, more indepen dent and richer than any other Euro pean colony In Asia, or, Indeed, in all the last,’’ One ol the strongest arguments for the right of the Filipinos to be n nntlon is founded on their rapid increase in numbers, and whnt this goes to prove of the moral and lawful relations of the sexes, and of quiet, orderly and eleanly life In their communities. In 1878 Dr. De In Celle, a Spanish surgeon of much experience In the Islands, thus wrote of the Philippine family In “ Tlerras y Rasas Filipinos “There is another trait worthy of notion whloh makes the Filipinos superior to many of the Asiatic and Malayan races. la them love of pa rents U one of the strongest of senti ments. The father and mother watch over theli children with the iqoet anxious solicitude and surround them with every kind of oare. They love domestic life, and the family enjoys all the graces found among the most cul tured peoples.’’ At the time of tne •punish conquest the Philippine tribes were supposed to number about lit,008. At first .they increased so' slowly that. 199 years later they were estimated at hut 1,000,008, but as they gvadsally emerged from barbarism their rate of increase became more oqd more rapid. In 1870, ooeordlng to estimates made by both the eivll government and the fhuroh, and drawn by the one from the number of persons paying tribute and by the other from the perish lists, they numbered over 5,000,000. They era now supposed to number from 1.000,000 to 10,000,000, exolusire of the 500,000 of Mohammedans end savages. Signs of their rapid Increase are seen ia many places la new plantations and towas. or m ZM poll*# the retell trade, absorb the ■J*ey of^thsj^B^sad^keepU powr. Indian and Ohtasse ladloa stead reedy Ur establish ■elves as an arlatoeraey. A h portion of the best loads oft tiT ore the property of the Orders. Two or three hundred a Irreconcilable Mohom- t ttulu oad portions of several of the soathefa islands. These and many ether serioas questions most be settled by this people as it begins ea independent exlstesoe. They sadly need disinterested help and counsel. With proper guidance they may escape the long sohooling of blood had and revelation through whloh the other colonies of Spain have passed oa their ay to peace and stable government. The Amerioen people have with the Filipino* as with the Cubans, the op portunity of ago* to make the world lorever their debtor by keeping greedy heeds off them uatil they have learned to know good end evil. But the United States should not only protect these natioes still in their eredles from the attack* of other State*; it shouhLpro- teot them against tie own citizens who may wish to explolAyhem to their ad vantage. If these peoples wake to find our wealthy men end corpora tions holding every valuable franchise In their territories, every valaable forest or mine .or sugar emte,-while they are doomed to lives of toil oad ppoverty and peonage la the land* they were born in and fought to make free, they and their children will learn to curse our coming, and our boasted benevolence will beoome the laughing ■took of the world. If the United States can beoome the disinterested guardian of these wards until they shall beoome of age, shall we, as loyal citizens, be satisfied with anything less or more than this ? I have good reason for knowing some thing of the true condition of things, having spent two years in traveling in the Islands and visiting the fifteen larger islands of the Philippine group. In 1887 I led a party of students from the University of Michigan on an ex ploring expedition to the island*. J. B. Stkkbb Ann Arbor, Michigan. ir. riweti, whC ! is a i »w, ex-< i the praseat die- ■hoaM ssrjfre pressing his vis pebsary situation: r *No changes'whi mode la the law at this time, te to* prohibit the granting of hotel and beer privileges. I think the friends of the dispensary la the General As sembly oaa better ooonpy their time in organising to fifth* tbs proposed deal between the ProhiMtioaists oad high license men than la attempting to assend the law at this session. I say *'proposed deal," beoaOse I do not &lnk that bona fide Prohibitionists are going te unite with their old ene- mtee. the high license men, to down a law that au oooseient ous Prohibition* iste must admit is far superior to the old bar room system, nod that is what high itosass will result la. Don't suppose that I am attempting to dictate to the frlends of the dispen sary ia the General Assembly for they ere presumed to know their business and to reprseeet the interests of their constituents; but they, as aH men, would like to hear from home oova- sioeally and to know that they are la elbow touch with their constituents in repelling assaults upon a lew that the 6 reel mass of the peopteof South Coro na ora heartily ia favor of, end espe cially so at this -time; when such on onslaught te being made ogalnst the' dispensary, and on y that whloh is abusive of It is being dished out every morning for the consumption of the members of the General Assembly by the dally papers. If there ever was a time in the history of the dispensary law when its friends, both in the Gen eral Assembly and In the State, should and i mi its ly by object! all MoIiAVRlN’B WEAK POSITION. * • - Hie Vote on the Treaty Nullified Hie Previous Onslaught Upon Kxpau. sion. The describes iifrg ‘ That interjection came from war and earns from distant colonial estab lishments. The untutored black man in his native haunts was seized upon bp war, was torn from the habitat for whloh nature had LA tended him, was an alien ship by aa alien was brought her* and teas tragedy ia human Mr. President, so pitiable, If it be justly contemplated, las tractive. There lie* be better to permit some modifications and protlslons whloh will have a tendency to put a stop to this defiance of law. “ I sincerely believe If we continue in this failure to enforoe the dispen sary law in the large oities the evil will grow and reach the smaller towns sooner or later, and eventually make the law a farce. I am now convinced that it 1* against the wishes and Inter ests of the people for th* dispensary to remain In poll tics, and I believe the management of the dispensary has be oome e huge political machine. What leads me to this belief te the soene*I witnessed upon the floor of the House when the General Assembly was te joint session during aa slsotioa for a member of the State boerd of control. Why, it Is a notorious foot that dis pensary officials and their friends worked and lobbyed for the defeat of a candidate for the position; personal ^peals wore made to members to vote against the candidate they were op posing. Why this was done I do aot know, but I do know that It has the appearance of too much politics, In a business Institution, and th* grip of the politicians should be loosened from it. That Incident, together with the bickerings and dissensions of the State board so oooled my ardor towards the dispensary that I am reedy and willing to sead the question to th* people for •ettleaumt w The Philippine people are a distinct raee. Though they i many tribes and though several lan guages or Idioms are still spoken in different parts of the Islands, they are •atially alike la personal appear ance, dress, habits and religion. They or* most nearly like the people of Celebes and Java in raoe aaa grade of slvUlaation, but are widely separated 4hesa geographically and la ra» I oa. tree centuries and a half of Spanish dominion has drawn them together by a common government and religion, and has nearly destroyed their ancient tribal Jealousies, as it has destroyed all remains of tribal organization and tribal government. The most power- fel bond In their national life te their common religion. Instinctively cognizing that they owe their superio- ityte ‘ .... tribes about them to their rellgloa, they era devout and seelous Catholics, indeed, Spain owed the conquest of Washington correspondent of the New* and Courier thus Senator MoLaurln’s action in vot ter the -treaty: Senator McLaurin's vote in favor of the treaty was the surprise of the mem- morable contest Iil the Senate to-day. His neighbor, Senator Clay, of Georgia, also contributed to the result. With out the votes of these two Senators the treaty would have failed of ratifica tion. Senator Clay’s advocacy of the treaty has been assured for several days, but Senator McLaurln did not commit himself finally until a few min-- utes before the vote was taken in ex ecutive session. The friends of the treaty have had their missionaries at work upon Senator McLaurln for the post forty-eight hours, and it was not until five minutes to 3 o’clock this af- ternobn that he decided to break away from the majority of his party asso ciates in the Senate and cast his vote for the treaty. The friends of the treaty had about given op all hope of securing the ne cessary two-thirds, and a number of dispatches were sent from the Senate by Republicans announcing that the treaty was defeated. It was not until after t'/.e Senate had proceeded to ex ecutive sesslou that the junior Sena tor from South Carolina astonished hie. party associates and delighted the friends of the treaty, by declaring his intention to vote with the majority Hi* declaration produced a profound sensation and destroyed all chances of defeating the treaty. The leaders' of the opposition had labored all morning to hold him in line, but wfisn he broke away from them Senator Gorman waved his hand to Senator Aldrich, acknowledging defeat, and congratu- » -Rees'" laved the Republican maeoger upon capturing the new convert. That set tied the fate of the treaty, for, in the meantime, Senator McEnery, of Louis iana, who, (or several days has been seeking a protest to vote with the ma jority. had also been captured by assur ances that bis fesolution (printed else where) would be acceptable to the friends of the treaty. The votes of McLaurln and McEaery gave the ue- . , . oessary two thirds, and Jones, of No te the heathen end Mohammedan rad a, tell Into tine at the test moment Senator McLaurln explained his vote by •tatifig tn exooutive speak out and rally to Its defence, now Is the time. Only in the last few days the Prohi bition candidate for Governor ia the recent campaign, who upon every stump in South Carolina preached pro hibition and prohibition only, in lan guage seldom heard upon the hustings, but paore frequently in the pulpit, comes out la an Interview followed by a letter, and boldly advocates a coali tion between the Prohibitionists and high license members of the General Assembly to down the dispensary, giv ing as his’ reason that in that event both the Prohibitionists and high license men will get what they wish, prohibition and high license. Such a combination Is caoulated to make Goff and Neal Dow turn over in their graves in disgust. -f What do you tnick of Mr. Mauldin’s local option bill f Following close upon the heels of Mr. Fcatherstone’s interview, and embrac ing his ideas, It looks like the offspring of a compact. It is local legislation run mad, and, if enacted, would require a standing army to enforoe It. Of course, the primary object of the bill is to kill the dispensary and, secondly, to give Charleston, Columbia, and maybe Greenville and Spartanburg, high license. All of the other c junties in the State would hold on to the dis pensary, with the exception of taree or four, which would adopt prohibition. I say this because the third section of the bill provides that In those counties adopting high license only the Court House towns shall be allowed to sell liquors, and you know as well as I do teat In those counties where the Court House towns do not contain a majority of the voters of the county that the other towns in the county are not going to allow them to have a monopoly of the liquor business. Therefore, as these towns now have dispensaries they will vote to retain them. Tne friends of the dispensary are not afraid to submit the question to the whole people of the State to decide between prohibition, high license *nd dispen sary at a special election, hr they are confident that a large majority are In favor of its retention; out they are most assuredly opposed to special leg islation to exempt certain cities from the dispensary law that have flagrantly violated It and have thrown every ob stacle in the way of its enforcement, and whloh are now responsible for oil of this wrangling about a law that has given general satisfaction to the people ailarge. If high license is adopted with the constitutional restrlotions what affect will it have ? Ai l said upon a (Qraaer oocqaion, It out of it they differeaoe between the State ea ia the sale of liquor oad receiving profits therefrom then for it to receive the ibeese fees froth saloons. It te e choice ’between two evils, oad I oboose the lesser. As loaf a* the State eogeges ia the sale of liquor the good feature* of the dispensary law oan be enforced—such as the opening and oiuslrg at certain hours, not selling to minors or druk- ords, or upon election dags of. Sundays, aot selling less than a half plat, not allowing liquor to be draak-upon tbs premises and the helling for oath. The lost requirement prevents many a men from buying liquor, while the selooe or high iloeas* system does aot and would not. Adopt high iiosass and in a few years all of these goed features of the dispensary law will, be a dead letter. Prohibition te Impracticable and can not be enforced, and If the Prohibi- lionists sjooeed in having h prohibi tory law passed they will regret it, for pandemonium will reign in Ibis State until the Legislature oaa repeal the law. At one time 1 was in favor of S rohlbltion, and voted for the Childs 111 while In the Legislature. Since then observation and experience have taught me that it cannot be en forced, and that the dispensary Is the best solution of the liquor problem. During the two years that we had prohibltioa Ip Barnwell County I was county chairman of the Prohibition party, ahd I mutt admit that the law was a perfect farce. It was violated upon every side, and the grand juries would throw out the bills as fast as they were presented. All 1 have to ■ay to the Prohjbltlonists is not to for get our condition under the old bar room system, and what change the dis pensary law has brought about in some of the worst towns in South Carolina. Don’t kill “ the goose that leys the golden egg.” Before the dlspenszry law was adop ted there were over six hundred bar rooms in South Carolina, and now there are only ninety-one dispensaries. While 1 am in favor of the dispensary iatf’, yet I am, and have always been, opposed to the granting of hotel and beer privileges for they are no more than bar rooms, and 1 do not believe that they are in keeping with the spirit and object of the dispensary sys tem. If anyone, be he tourist or beer drinker, desires to quench his thirst he should be requirea to go to the re- f ular dispensary and purchase (here. he law was not passed for the purpose to make money, but to regulate and control the sale of liquor, and to furnish It only to those who will have it, at a reasonable profit, and it should be ad ministered with this object In view. Therefore, as I have said, a rigid en forcement of the dispensary law is the solution of the liquor problem for South Carolina. die And even of blood gross of Who ism tloo WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH WAR. will mean a victory for the barkeepers aqd be a curse to the State*, We would be retrograding, and all of tllfe work that has been done against the saloon during past years Is this State would be lost. In a few yea”* the con stitutional restrictions would be Ignor ed, for experience has taught us that the saloon keeper will not respect laws that affect his pocketbopk. We had laws against selling to minors, drunk ards, selling noon election days and on Sundays before the dispensary law was the islands more to the peaceful labors el missionary priests tfauin to tbs arms other soldiers. The Philippine ter ritory te sharply defined and widely ted from that of adjacent ooun- The area of the Islands In square miles is but little less than that of /open without Formosa, and the proportion of cultivated lands appears ' “Ik 1 upoa which that stleeriao i did tha ] —The . volunteer outbreafcJB^_„ mustered ous of service oo telood last stock. The battery was ai- the oew for* ^ _ department, ■ KXC“"‘“ —WolWsoa says of the resalts of the war. “We wanted tmt e e aad have beea a givea a Charleston heavy battary, a r company reoruited at the i of hostilities last terlof, was 1 ous of servlo* on Solli van’s jti stock. The baf 4 signed to garrison duty at tiioatioe* by the war dope has rendered good servloe Fifty millions of n le could "find homes end abundance ese fertile islands. The Filipinos In this their lest quarrel with the Spaniards have prov ed their right to be celled e civilized K le. They have been treated kly by the Spaniard* and made to C y tribute ns a subject race, and chon ay hove rebelled they have been shown no mercy. When taken as prisoners they have boon “passed to the guns ” end shot, or banished to penal settlements far from home. Yet when their eadlent masters have fallen late their hands they have proved thsmselves more humans than they. With the provocation they hove re ceived we might expect to hear of bantings at the stoke and crucifixions and alT manner of tortures, bat the world hss vet to hew of a single au thenticated ease of ill-treatment. They have fed and oared for tbelr prisoners like OhristieDs. Apparently the only oomploW made by the Spaniards te they have la a few aasor been mode to work on the roads. Aad all this from a brown-skinned people, just sprung froa barbarism, and supposed to be of Malay descent. They have also shown their self-control in their contact with the American troop*. Alt though this new people of th* eve dsmoastrated their right to ms as a nation, there is do doubt he present te a time of extrem peril for th9ab They have beea gov- eraad for oeatariee as orowa colonies, la which they had ae right of repre- iry are absolute!] ’ * session that he hod mode up hi* mind aad announced his Intention of voting against the treaty, but that the recent occurrences in the Philippine Islands had led him to the conviction that it was his duty to vote for the treaty ; that he was vio lently opposed to the annexation of any oatiaytbg territory whose people oould be brought into harmony with our institutions, and for that reason had opposed the ratification of the treaty In the hope of securing an am endment; that he bad desired to force the colling ot on extra session, and had not seen where 'tbs interests of the country would suffer by thus making the Republican party assume the en tire responsibility. The condition of war existing, however, materially changed the aspect of affairs. The President claimed that without rattfl oation of the treaty, we had no status in the Philippine Islands, and ether complication* were liable to arise. By the rati fioatioo of the treaty it would enable our Government to promptly settle existing trouble* with Agulnoldo and his followers. For Jha matter to bo held In abeyance for a month longer, with the appearance of the couatry belrg divided would give encourage ment to those w.io were now attaching our flag. If the Administration does aot Intend in good faith to oarry out its promise aot to annex these island*, than he would not be responsible for tha result* that might follow. Be said he disliked to differ with so maoj of hi* party associates, but to vote the treaty under existing oo would be e violation of hi* oonvlctiboe as a Senator aad citizen. Senator Olay had previously defined hi* position in similar term*, in open session. ' —Over the door of a ohuroh in the sonih of England is engraved ia stone, This te the gate to heaven," but down below the iasoription te a printed no tion to the effect, “ No odmitelon dor* tK» winter moo the." ' uSIkBM adopted, yet they were ■violated Impunitj. Such e 1 lew would not be enforced, for 'everybody’s business 1* nobody’s business.’ If It Is almost 1m possible now under the dispensary law to get a reputable citisen to testify against a fellow that runs a miserable ’blind tiger,’ how much more difficult would It be to get him to voluntarily report a licensed saloon keeper for allowing him to drink upon the premise* or selling to him after sun down ? Don’t you know that he would not do it ?■— -- Wnenever you place the sale of liquor in the bonds of jm ioAividcml whose sole object Is to soake as great a profi t out of it as he can, he will violate the lew. On the contrary, under the dispensary law yon have a moo os dl* peaser wno is no officer of the State. He is responsible to the State for his conduct, and If he violates the law hi* official hood te chopped off. He is required to be a man of good character and temperate. He is simply paid a salary for his services, ana therefore has no object in p.rsuadieg and Influencing men to buy liquor. He is under a heavy bond for the faithful performance of his duties, and is ever watched by the State and county boards ufoontrol and by the public. Isay tha public, because there ore asy number of men ever ready to report any mis conduct on his part, so as to step into his official shoes, and the enemies of the dispensary are vigiludi watch dogs upon blmjso os to bring the law into disrepute * Another serioas objection to high li cense, which concern* the health ol oar bibulous citizens, is that they wou'd be at the mercy of the barkeep er* ai to the quality of the liquors that they would drink, for it stands to reason that the higher the license the higher the pr.oe. The poor mao would get meaner iiqusr and the rich, man would have to pay more for the fleer brands. It te e well-kadwe foot that under the selooe system the vilest stuff was palmed off on the poor whits man ■ i ■' Bill Arp Talks Abont the Philippines and the Qaestion ot Annexation. This Philippine business has given great occasion for expansion of mind and oratory, if not of territory, and I am proud to say that both In the Sen ate aad the House our Georgia members have borne themselves well and added luster to our State’s reputation for forensic eloquence. It now seems to be settled that the policy of the admin istration will not be sustained and the Filipinos will not ha robbed of their couatry. Mr. McKinley will have to go. nock to his original declaration, “that forcible annexation would be criminal aggression ” Our twenty millions are gone where the woodbine twineth and ail we have left for consola tion is the glory of the Manila victory. It may be worm mat, provided we can ■ettic.up things and establish a per manent peace. Peace is what our peo ple want. If Edward A kinson’s ut terances even approximate the true situation, we are in a bad condition to carry on any more war. He is a great conservative statesman and Is always careful about his facts. A fresh regi ment every month to take the places of the troops who die in hospital from malarial and venereal diseases. Just think of it. No, we are not going to do it. Heard an expansionist say yester day that the Anglo-Saxon race must rule the world because it was manifest destiny. Who are the Anglo-Saxons, or the English speaking race as they are called? My read leg tell* me that there Is no such race. There once was, but It has been lost by emigration and The door of health stands open to even woman who win enter. All that she needs la the key and a little knowledge. The knowledge that she needs is concerning her own nature, her own physical make-up and the principal cause of ill-health in women. Wnen a woman suffers from headaches and pains in the back and aides, and burn ing and dragging sensations ana the weak ness, nervousness and despondency that are caused by diseases peculiar to her sex, abe cannot enjoy good general health. The key to the door of health—the cure for all disorders of this description—is Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It is a medicine specially devised for disorders of this na ture ana no other. It is the invention of an eminent and skillful specialist, Dr. R. V. Pierce, for thirty years chief consulting physician to the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgi cal Institute, at Buffalo. N. Y. When a woman writes to Dr. Pierce she consults n physician who has practiced for thirty ‘*§ hit Ml English and that aattlea oar i unuerGod to Chrlstlanlan the Well, Calvin dident speak it. ubr Luther, nor John Knox. Tha Roman Citholios of thift ooaAtrv AMftk ik bul Our Protestant praaohar* who ora pleading for more missionary ground do not rsoognlsa thorn as fittoa for missionary work. Yarily, when I think of trj lag to subjugate tha Philippines to please the preachers. I am disgusted , and am reminded of that scripture which soith, “The zeal of mine house hath eaten me up,” aad of what Paul -I said, *• They have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge." Tha ' Lord does uot favor an unjust war. He may let it go oa, last an Ha harden* ed the heart of Pnaraoh that tha plagues might coma to punish him, but <t ia blasphemy to soy that the Lord is behind tula orlmtool aggression. Might , . as well say Hfe was behind Napoleon in making widows aad orphans of a million people. I tell yea, my breth ren, If the scriptures be tree there te an evil spirit called Satan, and he Is ■t il going to and fro upon the earth and walxing up aad down in it. For reasons we know not, he sms not de- - strayed when he fell and te still per mitted to tempt mankind from allegi ance to the Creator. This is not only taughtln the scriptures, but the groat- , e«t of the heathen phUoeophern, such as Cyrus the Great and Socrates, use the some language ns did Paul, when , . he said, “Evil is present with -V That I would not do that do I.” ^ Cyrus said I am ever coucloua of ' the existence of two spirits within me^ —one.lncllnlng me to evil and theotherY . to good. Satan is a spiritual being of great power and assunnoe or tha Lord would not have held converse with him at Job's feast, nor would Michael the archangel had a contention with him about the body of M)*ee; nor would the Savior been led away to the top of a mountain by him and listened to hi* persuasions. I heard a good 'man say that Satan was very much of a gentle man in bis way and hod most fascinat ing manner*. Bat I did not start to preach a'ser mon. My thoughts ruminated that -— way, and I reckon that every man aad woman has had the same consciousness of evil that Paul and Cyrus had. Tne devil is not dead, and war Is his re vival, his big camp-meeting. During Its existence he catches men by the thousand—young men wbo benaved well at home, where they were under good influences, are turned into demons and brutes. Tula late Spanish war has been ahprrlble exhibition of hu man depravity, both among officers and men. The condnct of most of them is a stench on the page of American his tory, and the country will never re cover from the debasement of the sol diers who were in it. Courage In battle is always to be admired, but not that brutal oougage whloh a bulldog has. Courage without patriotic emotions or any other emotions except to kill some body. That Is the reason whv I have oo high regard for the soldiers profes sion. The chief end and aim of a profes sional soldier 1* to fight and be pro moted. I don’t allude to privates, for they are hireling*. Neither do I allude to such noble men as Lee and Long- street and the two Johnstons and Wheeler, but with a very few excep tions the affibers of the late war were vain, selfish and corrupt. The country has no respect for them. Let them quarrel. No doubt they are all teUiag tne truth on each other. The first commandment says: “ The sins of tha father shall be visited upon hte child ren," but It nowhere say*: I will visit the sins of the officers upon the man. Of course, there are some honorable men among the privates and I have talked with some of them since their return from Cuba, oad they all lament the moral depravity of the ma jority of the white soldiers and the total depravity of all the negroes. The ten dency of war is to demoralise. Men will rob and plunder and commit nameless crimes who never did it at home; of mercenaries who fight for pay, piuoder is port of It, and it winds up with a pension. But enough of this. It reads pessimistic, aad so do the speeches of Hoar and our Senator* and the writings of Bryan aad Carnegie and Atkinson. The hope of the coun try now te that new party lines will be formed and any further war will be aver ted. There ore a few honest states men left wbo have not bowed the knee to Baal. What a sod spectacle it is to ies the sou of General Grxat openly baying* seat In the Senate with 820,- 000. * What is to beoome of the eoaatry when money Is openly used to secure office la the highest tribunal that makes our laws ? But I forebear. J must walk out in the garden and get the ground ready for peas. Politics te aeproising and so te war and the ru mors of war. The beet thing that Gen eral Grant ever sold, was: “Let us have peace.” Bill Abf. —The keel of the new battleship Maine, the contract for the construc tion of which was a few months sgu le will answer letters from women free of charge. All professional correspondence is regarded as sacredly confidential. . " For years I kept failing in health and getting worse and more nervous all the time," writes Mrs. Aank Dolan, of Bast Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., Pa. “I doctored with two different doctors without relief. My system- wss run down and my ^nerves weak. 1 had ulcers of the nterus which were so painful at times that I sms afraid they must be cancers. I felt discouraged aad did not get any better until my nurse advised me to write to Dr. Pierce. In May I commenced tak ing Dr. Pierce’s favorite Prescription Sad ‘Gold en Medical Discovery.’ I took twelve bottles in •U, six of each. Thanks to God and Dr. Pierce’s each. Thanks to God and Dr il am cured and am a wed -■ ***■ uaw wssi uo biso an niversary of the explosion in Habana har bor of (he ship of that name. —Mrs. Lelond S ten ford has success fully handled 135,000,000as the execu trix of her husband's estate, and has waived all claims for bar services. 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