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A WAR OF CONQUEST.
Army Circles Oppose Concil
iatory O ers to the
Filipinos.
Manila. May 23 , 6 15 p. m.-The
Filipino commission spent the day at
tho residence of she American commis
stoners. They diseossed every point of
tho scheme of government and the
peace proclamation details, asking for
information as io what personal rights
would be guaranteed them. Col. Chas
Denby of the American commission
explained that they would be the same
as nader the United States constitution.
The-Filipinos also desired informa
tion as to the school system to be
established, and approved of the Ameri
can policy of the separation of church
and state. They chiefly object to the
'scheme on the ground that it gave them
personal liberty, waioh they know they
would have, but did not give them
political liberty.
Finally tbe Filipinos said they were
personally pleased with the plan, bot
could not endorse it officially.
During the day the Filipino commis
sioners cai lsd upon Gen. Otis, and
they will repeat their call tomorrow.
There is much comment here on the
outing the Filipino envoys are enjoying.
They are arrayed in blue coats, scarlet
trousers and gold laoe, and drive about
the city, revelling in the attention
bestowed upon them, which is evident
ly exceedingly gratifying to them.
They are the centers of continual levees
at Filipino houses, where they have
been entertained, and have every
opportunity to advance the interests of
the insurrection. Military sentiment
disapproves of the Filipinos being
lionised by the civil lian element. Geo.
Otis, from ante helium exp rience, and
owing to the Filipinos' fondness for
discussion, has maintained the attitude
he assumed with the first commission.
He has had no offer to make the Fili
pinos save that they lay dowo their
arms without terms. The army
believes that if we intend to remain in
the Philippine islands it will be cheap
er in the long roo to whip the insur
gents so thoroughly that they would be
glad of the opportunity to surrender,
rather than io parley with them and
make terms which they would construe
as a compromise
The army is also of the opinion that
while the first course may cost more
mea and money in the beginning than
the Utter, it will prove an effectual
damper upon future insurrection, where
as if the war is ended by a compromise,
the professional revolutionists among
the Tagals may be encouraged to try
again io a few years.
Professor Sch arm an, speaking of the
commission's policy, said : "I believe
force was necessary, because they
thought us weaklings aod cowards, but
I believe also that conciliation should
accom pany fe rc4. My endeavor has
been, ever since I cime here, to exer
cise co neil at ion."
The professor is most optimistic as to
the results of tbe negotiations, and be
lieves the scheme of government pro
posed by the United States commission
will ultimately be adopted
Rosario, a Filipino congressman,
wealthy resident of Mao i'la and former
ly Aguinaldo's commissary general, ac
companied by an insurgent captain,
called upon Maj Gen. Chis today and
announced that "we desire to surrender
oir persons aod property into the bands
of the Americans " The surrender
was arraoged by Cbsplaio Pierce of the
Fourteenth regiment, who koew
Rosario before the war. Rosario cor
respocdeoded io cipher with Gen.
Looa, so he has beeo closely watched
by the officials at Tarlac since tbe in
surrection bas been weakening. Rosa
rio only escaped by persuading Geo.
Luna to send him on a secret mission
to Manila fer the parp se of collecting
foods. With the captaio, 10 men and
their families, Rosario travelled at
night through the swamps and moun
tains, passed the lines of both armies
and entered Maoila Ust evening. He
has been liberated on parole.
According to tho story told by
Rosario, Geo. Luna u absolute dicator j
and Aguinaldo fears bim. Every
Filipino leader, it is addcJ, suspects
the others of treachery
The recent meeting of the Filipino
congress was to secure a new cabinet.
and the question of peace was not
formally considered, as the members
feared Gen. Lona's displeasure. The
Filipino government was unable to
secure a secretary of the treasury.
AH who were offered the portfolio
declined to accept it.
Maj. Bell, with two companies of the
Fourth cavalry, bas been reconnoiter
ing in the direction of Santa Arita.
He found a hundred Filipinos there,
and was driving them away when large
re-enforcement of rebels arrived and
be was obliged to withdraw with four
men wounded.
A raft carrying soldiers of the
Fourteenth regiment bas been sunk at
Pasig ferry. One man was drowned.
The wet season bas finally begun,
and another week's rain will make
the rice fields tbiok with mud.
Reconnoitering Battalion of
Cavalry Kill 20 Filipinos.
Manila, May 24 - Two companies
of the Third infantry and two com
panies of the Twenty-second in
fantry, forming Gen. Lawton's rear
guard, returning from San Miguel to
Balinag yesterday, escorting a signal
party which was picking up wire
laid with Gen Lawton's expedition,
found that the insurgents bad reoccu
pied the country and bard fighting
followed from daylight until the
Americans camped at night. But
the troops completed their work,
though harrassed by the enemy. One
American was killed and 14 were
wounded The troops captured 20
prisoners and 30 ri es.
It developed that five men, instead
[)f one, were drowned by the sinking
)f a raft loaded with soldiers of the
Fourteenth regiment at the Pasig
ferry.
Twenty insurgents were killed aod
LO were wounded in the engagement
vith Maj. Bell, a reconnoitering
>arty, consisting of two companies
>f the Fourth cavalry, in the vicinity
>f Santa Arita, yesterday.
Gen Lawton with most of his
roops bas arrived at Malolos His
xp ed it ion marched 120 miles in 20
laye, had 22 fights, captured 28
3wns, destroyed 300,000 bushels of
ice and only lost 6 men killed and
1 wounded On the other band,
en. Lawton estimates that his
.oops killed 400 insurgents and
ounded double that number.
The Oregon and Minnesota regi
ents are returning to Manila.
The Spanish newspaper Oceania
as been suppressed for publishing
ditioua editorials
The United States commissioners
id many American officers ceie
ated Queen Victoria's birthday
day on board the British first class
uiser Powerful.
Manila, May 24 -Gens. MacArthur
d Funstoo, with the Kansas and
ontana regiment and the Utah bat
ry, have dispersed 800 insurgents
io were intrenched on the railroad
yond San Fernando near Santa Arita.
The American scouts were fired upon
>m fcbe trenches unexpectedly and
thdrew. The firing was heard at
o Fernando and Geo. MacArthur
embled his troops aod marohed
iokly after the scouts. The Montana
;iment Sinked the trenches on the
t. and the Kansas regiment attaoked
enemy's right flank. Gen. Funston
ding the charge at the doable quick
The insurgent loss was heavy, many
so era were captured and it is re
'ted 20 Americans were wounded
Queer Claims.
Home queer claims are made against
government. A Chicago man
ned Taylor asked congress for
eral sessions to give him $100,000
having suggested to President
icoln the idea of issuing greenbacks,
e Colone! d' Arnaud made repeated
lands for 50,000 for having shown
leral Grant how to capture the town
Paducah. Ky. An Iowa man
ted $350 for cutting corns off
ors aod soldiers during the rebeiliou,
ther from New York wanted $25
a pair of trousers wbicb were eaten
a clothes line by a government
t; a fellow io Minnesota requested
earn of $550 for a sky blue horse
io by the soldiers ; the som of $50
ld satisfy ao Illinois man for a oalf
jh be says the cattle inspector
td by putting a brass tag through
loee, causing blood poison There
many just such claims coming from
y State in the union.
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. B Williams, editor of the
ville News, claims that the
list church has ex communicated
3tate of South Carolina During
ecent session in Louisville, Ky.,
Southern Baptist convention
ed upou a resolution to exclude
quor dealers from membership.
, Mr. Williams claims, includes
State of South Carolina and also
ndividuai citizens who compose
State The deduction 3 very
founded from a standpoint of
: ; but then, of course, peopie
do not favor tue dispensary can
y be held responsible for the
ion of the State in the matter.
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LA GER ARMY IS
BADLY NEEDED.
Events of Past Week in Phil
ippines Emphasize lt.
Manila, May 26-7.40 p m.-Toe
events of the past week have empha
sised the need of a much larger army
here, without which, acoordiog to the
best authorities io Manila, it would be
attempting the impossible to ezpeot to
establish American supremacy in (he
Philippice islands. The inadequacy of
the Ameriean forces is said to be
responsible for the large total loss in
the number of small encounters,
without material resalte as a compensa
tion. Most of the fighting has been io
territory which tbe Americans had
swept bot have beeo compelled to
abandon because they could not spare
troops to bold it.
The forces commanded by Geos.
MacArthur and Lawton hold two
important lines of communnioation aod
commerce, the railroad to San Fern n
do aod the Rio Grande River. Bat
mach of the country they have swept,
including scores of the smaller towns
and some of the larger ones, have been
left uncovered simply for want of men
to hold them, and the insurgents have
returned and are occupying the towns
the Americans abandoned, and are
camping in the jungles aod woods
outside of others, oo the watch for
chances to barraes the garrisons and
attack scouting parties or detached
sompaoies with greater forces This
is the kiod of warfare they prefer to
regular battles.
It appears that the Filipinos who
ittacked the Third regiment betweeo
550 Miguel and Balinag were part of
?io del Piiar's army. They came
rom the South across the mountains,
presumably to meet a wagon train
rhich Gen: Lawton expected along the
oad. They also planned to capture
everal large detachments and were
laced in ambush at different points,
'hey fired from the jangle, at a dis
loco of 200 yards, aod gave the
Americans one of the hardest fights
xperienced in the campaign
The Filipinos lost more heavily than
ie Americans in all the recent
acounters. The insurgent generals
ike the loss of arms more to heart
ian they do the loss of meo
Foreigners who have arrived here
om the insurgents" country, ander the
iceni order of expulsion, say the
uneteries in ali the towns are filled
ith fresh graves. A majority of the
iiipioos wounded die, beoauss the
surgeot hospitals are inadequate,
edicines are scarce, and they have
w surgeons, except Spanish captives
bo have beeo impressed.
NO SECTIONAL ISSUE.
The Philadelphia Times says : "The
>uth, being democratic in politics,
s not heretofore been considered
favorite field for the exploitation of
aets But business is business in
e South ss everywhere else, and a
luthern steel and iron trust, with a
pital of $15,000,000, is now in pro
ss of incubation, and is likely to
full fledged very soon. The best
nsolation that can be derived from
i wide application of the trusts
inciple to productive enterprise is
it if it shall prove detrimental to
? general welfare the whole
untry will have a common interest
its suppression When the war
ainst trusts is formerly declared
3 effectively waged it will be found
it the trusts know no North, South,
st or West, but that they have
celed out the entire country be
sen them."
lo much the better, for when the
vitable war on trusts begins, it
i be no section where the trusts
1 be exempt from attack but all
tiens will unite to make
attack. The day is com
;-and is not far distant
en North, East, South and West
1 unite to overthrow the trusts
! trusts are heading up the waters
7 and ere long there will be fine
iding, unless the waters get head
io high that when they break loose
7 will sweep all before them -
imbia Record
From ali accounts the Porto Ri
are a cowardly and corrupt lot.
inly a trifle of what be said of
i is true it is clear that many
s mu8telapee before they wiil bo
to conduct their affairs in an
st and inteligent manner/'
ably never. Send 6ome honest
ublican carpet baggers down to
luct their affairs for them, by all
is What did we annex them I ^R'DFI
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venly thousand persons gathered j Cogh
Pittsfield, lils, Wednesday to | conon
i to Wm. J Bryan Une hun- j to th
guns were fired at sunrise in j naval
r of the arrival of Mr and Mrs j toa
n. Mr. Bryan's speech in thejeomrr
loon was along the usual lines | mouti
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NO ARMS, NO MONEY,
SAYS BROOKE.
No Immediate House - to -
House Search for Arms
in Cuba.
Havana, May 23, 10 45 a. m -
Some of the insurgents aver that
they will not give up their arms, bat
Governor General Brooke has no
present intention of making a house
to house search io order to seize
arms If the Cuba i soldiers are not
willing to bring in theil arms and
hereby get the $75 allotted to each
man as his share of the $3,000,000
the matter will be passed over
Mrs. Estes G Rathbun is organiz
ing Decoration Day exercises The
graves of forty-nine American sol
diers, buried at Quemados during the
winter, will be decorated with flow
ers, and Gen. Fitzhngh Lee will issue
an order on the subject of the usual
military display.
The collector of customs, Major T
H Bliss, explained at a meeting of
Spanish merchants today the advan
tages of the bonded warehouse and
dock plan that he originated. It ap
pears that 5*2,000,000 are now spent
on the antiquated lighter system, and
it is the collector's design to build
two docks slightly longer than the
New York piers used by the Trans
Atlantic steamship companies, with
ouble stories, electric cranes and
electric railroads. It is estimated
they will save their cost in twenty
jeven months.
La Union Espanola says editorially
oday : "It is easy to see the near
ipproach of war between Cuba and
he United States "
La Discussion, which denounces
his sentiment as "absurd and mahci*
>us,'; says : "Against the statements
f such enemies of Cuba and Cuban
latriotism is the determination not to
ielay or to endanger the republic by
single imprudence.
'ayment of Soldiers to Begin
Today.
Habana. May 26.-The distribution
f the $3,000,000 which the United
tates government has cfJered as a
ratuity to the Coban troops on dis
inding and surrendering their arms
ill begin at 10 o'clock tomorrow morn*
g at the foot of the Prado. Under
,e swollen master roils prepared by
e late Cab&o military assembly, the
mericans, who have closely followed
ie subject, are curi os to see what
oportion of the numbers listed will
?tually appear.
At a meeting of the Veterans of Io
peodenoe last night a resolution de
iring against either giving op arms
accepting money from th United
ates was carried unanimously.
The strike of the 'lightermen, in the
inion of Admiral Cromwell, captain
the port and the prinoipal shippers,
fast assuming serious proportions.
Lawton Childs, agent of the Plant
e, was notified today that the steve
res ia bis company's employ had
ned ths strike, giving as their reason
sir sympathy with the others and the
lera of the trade union.
Tbs general opinion is that the strike
absolutely without justification. The
n have been earning good wages,
m $50 to $80 a mooth. The diffi
ty involves also the importation of
n from Florida, as happened five
-rs ago. Trouble has been brewing
some time, bot no one could explain
cause, as the lightermen have ail
ag beeo the best paid body of men
[aged io maooal labor in Habana,
xovernor Geoeral Brooke has a de
3 ready to be issued, making editors
publishers responsible for libels.
Spanish law made writer of an
cle alone responsible : and,, there
i, every Habana editor has a hired
stitute, paid to sign articles of a
imatory character. This substitutes
8oal!y a "long time ji.il bird," who
monSy enough to make inprison
t easy will sigo anything.
Virtues of Fruit Juice.
ure Grape justice, says an authority
foods, is invaluible in either sick
or health. Io fevers it is both
and medioine and is more used by
?icians. Oranges and pineapples
s a delici os juice, but the small
s are more valuable. Currants,
alone or mixed with a third of
jerries, ere more so, and the buckle
j and elderberry yield products not
despised Blackberries, field or
2n, are valuable medicinal agents,
bc poorest cherry, uneatable as a
becomes nectar when made into a
ashington, May 24 -Captain
lan has bean detatcbed from the
land of the Raleigh and ordered
3 cammand of the Puget r:ound
station at Bremerton, Washing
The Raleigh will be put out of
kission immediately at Port >
, N, H.
BRYAN'S VOICE
AGAINST TRUSTS.
Great Gathering of Anti-Mo
nopoiists in St. Louis.
The mammoth Democratic anti*
trust banquet was held in St Louis,
Mo , on May 25th and was partici
pated in by 1,445 banqueters.
The table of honor was placed on
a raised platform at the north side of
the arena and at it were seated Hon.
W J Bryan, ex Governor John P.
Altgeid, O. P H Belmont, M. C
Wetmore, Harry B. Hawes, presi
dent of the Jefferson club, under
whose auspices the dinner was given,
Hon Champ Clark, Hon David A
DeArmond and a number of other
prominent Democrats.
The dinner was concluded at 8
o'clock. It was strictly a love feast
By the time the tables were cleared
the 5.000 seats of the amphitheatre
were filled with spectators represent
ing the society of St Louis, and the
speaking began The first speaker
of the evening was Harry B Hawes,
president of the Jefferson club, who
delivered the addrees of welcome
President Hawes was followea by
Hon Champ Clark of Missouri, who
presented the State and district ban
ners in the name of the State commit
tee Mr Clark was greeted with a
tremendous ovation
"Trusts and Democracy," occupied
Col M. C. Wetmore of St Louis but
i few minutes His remarks were
^reeled with cheers
He was followed by Hon. David
S. DeArmond of Missouri, who spoke
ipou "trusts and its parents "
A FLATTERING RECEPTION
The applause which met Mr.
Bryan was of the . most flattering
iescription The. cheers drowned
he music which struck up "Hold
he Fort," as he advanced to the
ront of the rostrum.
Mr Bryan spoke as follows :
"An actor who visited Nebraska
ecently, upon learning from a Re
oblican that confidence bad been
estored, remarked tnat he had ex
mined Webster's dictionary to learn
rhat 'confidence' meant and found
onfidence defined as 'trnst,' and
len he understood that confidence
ad been really restored.
"More trusts have been formed
uring the last two years than exist
3 at the beginning of the present
^ministration, and the nominal can
alization of trusts now in existence
^preaches, if it does not equal in
nount the world's total supply of
Did and silver.
"The influence of these trusts has
jcome so enormous that the people,
ithout respect to party, are asking
emselvee how the evil can be reme
ed.
"The purpose of the trust* is to
ntroi the product of some article of
?rchandise, and the methods em
oyed are, first, the onion of aii
dividual factories under -one man
ement or in one corporation, and,
cond, the crushing out of new
rals. A monopoly, when once
mplete, not only dictates terms to
)se who buy the product, but it
o dictates terms to those who seli
raw material and to those who
nish the labor If the trusts are
-mitted to continue we shall find
industrial aristocracy growing up
the United States which will prove
destructive of our ideals as a land
aristocracy would
'The principle of monopoly is in
opatible with our institutions,
n's necessities compel him to
:ome a purchaser, and where there
but one seller the purchaser is
apletely at the mercy of the seller,
ere there is competition between
ducers, the purchaser is sure to
ain what he wants at a reasonable
;e When competition is elimi
3d the price is controlled not by
jon, but by the greed of the one
) possesses the monopoly.
lt has been said that the power
t8X is a power to destroy. A
opoly possesses the power to tax;
:an levy such assessraenta as it
upon the purchaser, and we can
more afford to permit euch a
er io be exercised by private
viduals than to use the machinery
xat'on in order to enrich himself
ie expense of his fellows :
CAN BE REGULATED.
The government would be guilty
ross neglect if it permitted an
ridual to secure a monopoly even
out legislative assistance, but it
Il more culpable, if by legislative
Makes the food more deliciou
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NE
act it furnished the means by which
monopoly is secured The corpon
tion is the means now employed b
those who seek to secure a moncpolj
Since the corporation is a fictitiou
person, created by law, the powe
that creates can regulate, restaic o
annihilate To say that the govorr
ment is impotent to prevent th
organization of trusts is to say that i
bas called into existence a fictitious
person and that the created has be
come greater than the creator.
"One of the difficulties which ha:
been encountered in opposing trust)
is that the trusts hide behind the
federal constitution when attacked bj
State legislation, and shields itself be
bind its State charter when attacked
in the federal cauris No remed
will be complete that is not cc
sxtensive with the federal govern
lient. If the extinguishment of thc
-.rusts ie left to State legislation the
jublic at large will be victimized as
eng as a single State will furnish s
obber's roost where the spoils cor
seted in other states can be divided.
TIME TO BE STARTLED. '
"Just now people are startled by
he principle of monopoly as it man
feste itself in the industrial trust, and
pell may they be startled. The
irinciple, manifests itself in the effort
f the national bankers to secure &
lonopoly of the issue of paper
oney.
"The green back is a rival of the
ank note and its presence is a con
tact menace to the banks of issue,
ome who recognize the evils that
ow from a soap trust seem indiff r
t to the dangers that attend the
>rmation of a pape ' money trust
' The principle of monopoly nofc
ly Hes at the foundation of the
ttempt to destroy the greeubacke,
nt it isthe controlling principle thai
oderlies the crusade against silver
? a standard money. Between 1850
id 1860, when the production of
Did was increasing and the produc
on of silver was small, three nations
^monetized gold and gave to silver
monooply of mint privileges. Early
the "TO's the financiers became
armed at the increase in the produo
)n of silver and conspired to destroy
Iver as a standard money and give
monopoly to gold, the production*
which at that time was stationary.
ie standard money trust ie not only
e parent trust, but is in the baud
foreigners
The Republican party is impotent to
3troy the trusts. It is controlled by
)se who are interested in trusts, and
campaign funds and sinews of war
; supplied by the trusts. The poli
s for which it now stands disregard
: interests of the producers of wealth
i give the mosey power a considera
Q which is denied to the individual.
"Abraham Lincoln, in the very be
niog ot bis presidential career ,
med the country against the threat
id attempt to put capital above labor
the structure of the government ,
dern Republicanism is fulfilling the
pbecy made by Linooln, it is put
I the doiiar above the man.
.The Demosratio pa;ry is opposeoj
he priociple cf monopoly wherever
janifests itself. It has declared war
the trusts Not a little trust only,
a big trust as well Not against
kind of trust only, brt against all
ts."
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iper Dolls, dressed or otherwise at B. G.
io & Co's.
JAGGERY ON JOBS
Washington, May 24 -Ex-Governor
i Gary Evans of Sooth Carolina,
, as a member of Gen Ludlow's
, at oce time had charge of the
of Kabaoa, called at the White
Be today. He returned from Cuba
t three weeks ago His accounts,
ubao conditions are moat interest
He is a firm believer in aooexa.
'f you oould have seen the army
narched into Habana behind
ez, you wouid have acknowledged
npossiblity of decent self-govern
on that island. Of all ihehetero
)us assemblages ever gathered,
vas the worst Cozey's army was.
ipaoy of aristocratic gentlemen by
arison. All this talk ab tit the
)tism of the Cuban army is a
They were largely actuated by
ire for plunder and for ofEce. They
vant to rule the island beoaa&e.
see their chances of looting the
iry will not be good so long as it
ns under American control. To.
the island over to the Cubans-,
be a worse crime against civiii-.
than to have allowed the Soanishj
5 it."
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