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MMMORIAL KXBRCI8K8. Tbe largNt crowd for yeore wti present at the Memorial eervtr-rs he'd At & 30 o'clock 1 bared* v efieroooo et the eern*te y. It j almost be Mid that the whit* populettoo tereed oat to masse to do honor to the mem? ory of Ibe Confederate deed of the South, and to decorate the grave* of the fallen tea**, woo lie beried la Som'er with far* laoda of aprlag towara. The crowd eeeemblvd around tba speaker'c etaed which was erected to tba iaft of tba Ooafbd scale aoldlert, plot, and feeing tba aveaue tbroogb taa eevnetorv tt rough which too ?roeeaaiaa of fl jwer girls. Deugbtere of taa Ooofederacv, Confederate Veterans, Sons of Coef-derete Vetereoe and tba 8aaitar Light lafaatry marehed from tba cemetery gate. Tba Foortb Regiment Bmd which waa ?tottoeed aoar the speaker's ttaod played a dirge, "Dalora," aa tha procaaaioo ruerched la aad tba several orgeoaetions took thair eppoloted statious Too sxerovoee were opened with Dreyer by Dr. J. A Obftoo, after wbich tba b*nd reo darad "Ne*r?r My Ood to Thee ' Tha grave* wars thaa decoreted by tha chilureu aod tha Daagbtere of tbo Confederacy There waa a profasioo of lowere aud tha graves wars el moat co v ered w Ith t bam Too orator of tha day, Hon. R B Scar baroogb, of Oooway, Llaataoaot Governor af ftoatb Carolina, was introduced by Ool. ?i oh a II Kalght withafaw brief hat appo? site remarks. Mr. Scarborough's eddreaa, which appaari alaowhara to thia paper aad spe ?k? for Itself ?or* forcibly aud elcqueotly thao tha writer aoald apoak of it, waa haard with tha eloaaat atieattoa by tha largo aad ??myathetic au 4 loose Too hood followed tha eddreaa with a ?Boraaade" by Bieaon, aad tba Sumter Light lafaatry trad ?he aalata. "Taps/' wars ?jaaded aad tba aaareloss ware concluded. At tha ooaelaetoa of the memorial cervices I tha grosso of taa Confederate dead tba Mom tor Light lafaatry searched to the grave af private Owiglt H. Dich, who diad at Obtokamoage while a member of tha Somtar Light lafaatry (Oompaay M. First 8. 0 Msglasssi. U 8. V. I,) la tha summer of Itat. darlag tba war with 8paio, aod fired a aalata A Life am* Dwaia Fight. Mr W A MJaos of Maaubeeter. la, writing af hie aleeeet mirsoolosi aaaapa from death, says: "lipeeare aftar maaelea induced serious lung troaele, whiah ended Is consumption. I had 'raqooot bomorrbsgos aad eeoghed night aad day. All my dealers said I matt aooa dia. Thaw I hagaa ta oao Dr Klag'i Maw Discovery far Onagomptloa, which completely cured me I waold sat ho wilhaat It eves if it aast $5 a battle. Haadrade hove aaod It on sty recom gaoodoUao aad sll asy U never falle ta eora tatwoA, eaost aad laag trooelee" Regular size it* and ft. Trial hot lias fros at J F W Pa Lama's drag stare. 4 QOOD* r??lTm I93?K Iditor at tha Watchman aad Southron : Yoor editorial lost wook about lag lelettfo aaod id a taa being called upon to stato thair posit loo oo tha solo of tho Siate farms at Hegood. aad tho putting of all able hodlad ooavlots to work oa tho public roads la time ly aad aloog right lines. Moao hat the fastis, sad boys aad women ahoald bo ass ployad oo o farm, sad theo only la growlog vegetables aad pt o vision crops for tha sap part of iearns*has aod tba other cooticts worhiag oa tho foods. Sorna of tha ctoeicts sboald ho emn\>-ed la tasking drain tila or hriek to repl, v tha asaall bridges wb ch are soch a source ot as poaoa. Oao or more such plaota located who/a railroad faoilttlaa woold gi?a easy d lair Iba i too ehoold ba eat* bl is bed, and as tba woes progreased more could bo added, or I boa* established c >uld bo moved to more desirable locations. A aaaoll brich or iHt aiahiag plant could ho mated about snore cheaply tbaa tha brick or Itgw could be dlstribo ad. Say, make brick or the far a radios oi ten milee and iben saeve to aoolhor looality which would not be a ear wo miles from the poiot t j be eupplied froea tbo last locatioo, aau so oa. Of court some faw poiote won. d have to be Iaft further off, bat it aoald ho arranged so that two or Ibra* wagoa loade eoold reach theee places. Aad where more than ona or two hundred tbonstad brick woold bo oaadad the plaota award t-0 well located eioeef tbao on a teo mile rodtae Of eeoree tho objection will ho raited that thio will oosoa la competition with private eaegrprta*. I do oot thloh It will hold good for ot least two reetooe: 1st No private enterprise is aow aagaged to making brick or tiro eselasitely for rood improvement. Aod lad, if they wore Ii woold ho at a profit, while tbia vystaea propooos to foroisb them at east ; aad at a aoar, whaa properly arraogad. Oboapar thaa private enterprise could meke taeav Persaaaaat culverts will have to ha pot ia same day for It is oow hard to find dorable timber, ood every year It is gattiog saarear aad more expensive I asa la favor of aboliebiog every form of volootary aod unpaid labor oo tba roads, loot aad of tba option of pay lag s tai or worhlog too roads, ! think ao equitable er rasgernest could ho made by requiring each ablewodled male e* twee a 31 aod 50 to pay a poll ua of 11 for road parpoeea, unless he paid s license tax oo oaa or more vehicles, or o property las oa $1,000 worth of eitbrr root aetata or personalty Require a license oo every vehicle, graded fr w a road cart or .betyeioioo four boraa wagoo or log cert, aad a lax oo ail property for road purpose* Taeeoevieie to be fed and clothed, aod nec? essary tools to be charged agaiost tba foods arising from tbeeo sources, and the balance expenjed ia hiricg work or boyiog material The aoove loohe euabniour, aod like pil? ing up tax*e. 1 do uot pretend it is a perfect plea, bat it is tba oatliao of what cao be made a perfect system. As for teses, the beat teat tax we now pay is ibe tex oo Irene portetiob, levied by bad roads, aod from whi'-b ere get no rrufu We cannot bate good roads without peytog for them Under tbe preeeat system we pay for tbem bat do oot get tbem. You will (lod, though, Mr Editor, 'bei very tew of our people will ap? preciate tba importance nf good ro<dv, aod tha doiag away witii convict farming, and tha caadidate who cornea oot iqaerely for tbia reform will ba left at home, I am etraid E W. O Pythian Fish Fry. Aboat 40 members of Oamecock Lodge, K of f , went out to Hcerborough a mill Toes day afternooo of last weak oo their annual neb fry Tie supply offish was somewhat small, aad tha commute* oo refreshments patched ool th* copper with a snpplemeat of ipriog ebicheo Bterybody got * bountiful meal, aod the oceasioo was most eopyeb'e Where ibe epnog cnicken e* me from ii e metbing of a mystery, aud it w wbispnred about that Barlow Welib and Henry Baroetl may be orreeted today for re d>og cenein fr wl ytr.1* Is ihe seighhorboo) of tbe mill Should ibis prove true tbeir friende hope they may effect a conpri aiiee with tbe io jired parnae. There doixo't appear io be aay do ibt of tbeir guilt But u wee mighty good cbnken, bow**er obtained ? ? ? pve gam CUBAN RELIEF ataymg Colic, Neuralgia find Tootluo lu' in five minutes. Sour Stotmtrh Mad Suuimor ('oinplaints. Price 25c. Sold by Hoghaoo-Ligoo Co. 8ohool Entertainment PLEASANT QROVB, 8 0 , May 1ft. Miss Minnie Trier, ooe of Aiken i fair und well accomplished young ladies, who has successfully taught school foor ye in io tbe vicinity of Pleasant Qrove, will soon return to her home very much eocooraged as an educational worker. The entertainment at Pleeeaot Grove was a grand succees. Tbe earnest endeavors of Mite Tyler ?od tbe bright winds which ehe wm ewnyiog afforded an enjoyable evening for not leas than three hun? dred ooei, women and children Tbe follow? ing it a elight sketch of what tbe entertain? ment wee composed : Recitations, dialogaee, drills, dramas sod t *. bits a i by the obildren. Music by Messrs. Thomas, Jacob Keeli sod Taylor. Addressee by Messrs. Tbos. Bennett, N. C , Tbos. McLerd and Bllie Smith Lynch burg. Tbe writer sorely appreciates tbe interest which the Pleasant Qroee people manifest in all educational matten. Should they contin? ue the coarse now pursued tbe day Is not far distent when Pleasant Qroee will produce some of oar most brillieni moo and women We hope that our sister scbooli will grasp the idea which Plsasaot Qroee has sdeanced, and that they may unite and form one grand, harmonious throng, by which tbe world will be christianised aad enlightened. Katrins Tbe secretary of stete yeeterday chartered a concern which means tbe coming of an entirely new entere ise to Colombia. It is to be known es tbe vVillard Manufacturing Company of Columbia, and its purpose as set forth is to manufacture a general Hoe of ad basiees, statiooers's specialise, stamping inks, pads, chemicals and chemical com pouads and mixture*. This concern pro? poses to ee tab lieb a plaot oq Main Street lo this city ; it is a company which has had a plaot io Norfolk, Va , hot wishes to move hers ooder new management Tbe cspital stock is to ha $10,000 snd tbe directors sre Edmund M Wilson, of Mayeeville, Somter County ; I L Weathers, P H Wsstoo sod Wm Wsstoo, of Columbia. The officers sre I L Withers, president and treasurer; P H Wee tin, ties president; B M Wilson,seers tary.? Tbs State, May 16. lUtworolcgiOal Bocord, The following is a report of observations of the westhsr taken at Stateburp, by Dr. W W. Anderson, for the 14 daya sodiog Sun? day, May 13, 1900: Temperature. Condition BO 10 11 13 63 18 61 61 74 6ft 6T 89 66 82 14 80 8? 13' 90 63 ?6 63 61 64 67 61 62 66 64 BO f6 C8 61 7i. 72. 72.6 73. 64. 71. 74. 7ft 6 76 73. 62. 68 72.1 7ft ft s* ? a-vs ?w sw s 8 s ?w sw sw sw .00 00 00 03 .00 .00 00 .00 .00 .31 .00 00 .00 .00 ?Cioody Cloudy Cloudy ?Oloudy Olrar Clear Clear Clear ?Cloudy ?Cloudy Clear Clear Clear fll*ar ?Partly cloudy. Light rain oI the 9th was of some eervice, but tbe ground in a day or two was as drv as ever: and rain is now needed. Raise Horses. Tbe Neoraska State Journal cIf? ra a sug? gestion which mav loterrst tome of tbe farm ers io South Carolioa. A man who is wel> queliBed to speak on the subject, it eaye, ex preeeee tbe opinion that every farmer "Wb< wisbee to make money in the next few years can do so by raising boreee," as there art fewer sucb animals In the coootry now that at any time in tbe past 40 yeare. "Nebras ka," says the Journal, "may eafely mark ?> its wealth several millions on account of tbt increase to prices and tbe certainty that tb< busioess of bone-raising cannot be overdon? for seesral years." Two agsots of ibe British eoveromeot, it io added, are oow io New York saekiog 3ft,000 head of eoch stock foi wer purpoees, sod stand s small chance o gettlog eeso a fractioo of that oumner "Tbe country simply cannot snpply tbe de maod." This is good odeioe, sod the farmers o Somter county should be wise and follow it Tbey need horses far their own ose, aod they will make moosy by raisiog for borne uee II tbey rates oooe to sell. Properly maoaged It costs little more to raise a colt than it does *> cow, aod eveo a plog horse is worth sever* timee as mach ss a cow. It dose oot pay u raise plug borsee, however, for it costs n< more to raise a blooded horse than a plog Jost at this tin)* those who wish to improv. their stock by raisiog first class stock bavt an opportunity wiibio their reach. Modoc McKwen, No. 32785, a standard bred trotte: of tne beet strain of blood in America, o ? e eise, epeedy, fine actioo, unusually h m some aod superior quatuiee, is standing tbt season id Sum er. All of bie get closely roeemble him and sbo* the distinguishing mark? of too Haul nivionian-Mambrino Mood. Modoc MeKwe is desceaded Im u Harold tbe sire of Maud S and from hUmbletonian 10, the ancestors o> ninety five per cent of all tbe fomuu- trottir^ borses ever r*ued io America No bette, bred horse has ever neeo brought into South Carolina, aod tbe matt who owus one o his colt* a f?w years hence will consider hij self lucky. May 1ft?3t - ? ???? ^BJBOBWavvM? Ooa More White Enumerator. Eiitor tbe Item : In yesterday's Watch diu aod Soutbroo, among tbe census enu tuerators for Sumter couoty is the name el Juoius A Ratteld, colored, of oibley. 1 s ould ee Jumu A Raffield, wbo is not col? ored, but perhaps owes bis appointment lo 'he authorities tbioking be was. He has al ready received bis commission. Keepecifully, 8. M. Raffield. Sibley, S C , May 10, 1930 a^saeMSBj?*Oa>i aSBJSl? THE SUMMER SCHOOL Faculty or School to ba Held in Surator The oumroer school for te?ilnrt? <?i!l bt held iri this citv Auaus'. 1'> lo H. |.u miH-r 11 Th?* following faculty hae eoes selected to ro-tduct the school J I) Rtst, of Dsrllag too, wits Pmnie McUaotS, of OolatBJwtS M*<9 V L Sa jnders, instructor in drawing CUBAN OIL eures Cuts BttTBoi BrillaM] Rheumav Ilm and Sores. 1 'ruv, 25 cts Sold by Hugbsoo-Ligoo Co. Sulzer's Fight For Boer Recognition. BLOCKED BY HENDERSON. Free Ballot Priaciple Outraged by Republicans. GOVERNMENT BT PB000NSULS. Already It Is Hearing- Bitter Fruit. Shortage Shown In the Cuban Poet nfllce Department?C. P. Neely'a Fat Haul ? 630,000 Mining ? Shocking Revelation* of Corruption and Em beulemeat?Gates and Wall Street. [Special Washington Letter.! Whether Hon. William Sulzer be? igeres in the perseverance of the saints I do cot know, as I have not explored his religious opinions, but he most cer? tainly believes in persevering In the cause of human liberty. This is dem? onstrated by his persistency in endeav? oring to aid the cause of the heroic Boers who are fighting so valiantly for their wives, homes and little children. The recollection of the proceedings of the house on Monday, May 7, will pes? ter the Republicans considerably be? tween now aud the first Tuesday after the first Monday In November, for the all sufficient reason that the Amer? ican people, without regard to race, aex or previous condition, love freedom and sympathize with all people every? where struggling either to achieve it or to retain it after having' got it. I undertake to say without the fear cf successful contradiction that nine tenths of all American citizens have an earnest desire to see the Boers triumph la their struggle with Great Britain, because the Boers are fighting for the same principle for which our fathers fought during the Revolution ? the right to govern themselves, and, what's more, they believe that congress ought to voice authoritatively our sympathy with them. Monday, May 7, Mr. Sulzer under? took to have that very thing done In the house of representatives, but Mr. Sulzer did not succeed in his laudable undertaking. He undertook to have his resolution of sympathy read as a prelude to having it passed. lie never even got It read. General David B. Henderson, speaker, would not permit It and squelched Mr. Sulzer. He did not squelch him at the first effort, but he did it finally. I hereby Incorporate an excerpt from Tho Record, verbatim, without addi? tion or subtract ion, showing what Messrs. Sulzer and Henderson said, in order that unbiased readers may form their own opinion as to which of them was right aud which was reflecting the will of the American people: Sulser's Rights Ignored. The journal of Saturday's proceed? ings was read. Mr. Sulzer?Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules for the purpose of passing the following resolution, which I send to the clerk's desk. Tho Speaker?The gentleman from New York Is out of order. The journal has not been approved. Without ob? jection the journal will be considered as approved. [After a pause.] The chair hears none. Other business here intervened, fol? lowing which came the ensuing dia? logue: Mr. Sulzer?Mr. Speaker, I thought I had the floor. The Speaker?The gentleman from New York was not recognized. Mr. Sulzer?I understood that I had the floor and would be recognized as soon as the journal was approved. The Speaker?The gentleman from New York was not recognized, and the chair may as well state that the chair will recognize no gentleman unless he has some knowledge of what is going to bo called up. Mr. Sulzer?1 would like to have the resolution read. The Speaker?The gentleman has not been recognized. Other business again occupied the house, after which came the following tilt: Mr. Sulzer?Mr. Speaker? Tho Speaker?For what purpose does the gentleman rise? Mr. Sulzer?I rise for the purpose of moviug a suspension of the rules, this being suspension day, for the purposo of passing a resolution sympathising with the patriotic Boers In their strug? gle to maintain their freedom and inde? pendence. Tho Speaker?Tho chair declines to recognize the gentleman from New York at this time. Mr. Sulzer?Does the chair refuse to recognize me because? The Speaker?The gentleman from New York is out of order. Mr. Sulzer (continuing)?The speaker Is opposed to the resolutionV The Speaker?The gentleman will take his seat; tbe gentleman is out of order. Mr. Sulzer?Mr. Speaker, I rise to a parliamentary inquiry. The Speaker?The gentleman will state It Mr. Sulzer- My parliamentary in? quiry is. Have I no rights on the floor of this house as a member to move n snspenslon of the rules on suspension day) The Speaker?The gentleman not making a parliamentary inquiry. Tho chair must exercise his duty t<? thti house and recognize members upon matters which the chnlr thinks should lie considered, Itepulilleiiti Outrnae. Hon. William Thomas Crawford of North Carolina. Democrat, was ousted from his sea* in the house last week and Mr. Richmond Pearson, Republic' an, seated in his stead, although Craw? ford was as fairly ami clearly eleeted as was any man who voted to put him out. This was as foul an outrage as was ever perpetrated even by a Re? publican house, which, as I am fully aware, Is putting it strong. My business is to practice law. Pol? itics is with me only a recreation. In my professional work I long since learned that a fact favorable to my Bide of a case, stated by a witness for the opposing side, has much more force than if stated by one of my own wit? nesses. Consequently to establish be? yond all cavil that the Republican ma? jority did commit a most palpable out? rage against the principle of a free ballot ond a fair count?of which they falsely vaunt themselves the special guardians?I shall call no Democratic witness, but will rely on the evidence of an eminent Republican, thoroughly conversant with the facts?to wit, Gov? ernor Russell of North Carolina. Sure? ly even Republicans ought to believe him. Here is what he says: "The truth is," added Governor Rus? sell, "Pearson was fairly beaten by I Mr. Crawford. His real complaint is I that he did not have votes enough. There are other Republicans in the state who think as I do about it, among them Colonel Lusk and Mr. Smathers. They say that Mr. Crawford ought to want Mr. Pearson to be seated because It means a sweep for Crawtord next November. They think it worse than that?it mea?s the loss to us of many seats in the legislature. What is the use of our making the great issue as to honesty in our elections if our own party should perpetrate such a fraud as this? Why, just think of it. The whole city of Asheville is to be flung In the ditch because a colored man was arrested for perjury committed during the contest, long after the elec? tion. Why. not throw out the whole vote of Buncombe county?" Bearing Bitter Fruit. Government by proconsuls is bearing Its natural and inevitable fruit in Cuba and elsewhere. That fruit is bitter and nauseating. For a week or two the papers have been full of the scan? dals touching the wonderful and ex? traordinary allowances to our officials in Cuba. The question as to them has not been definitely settled, whether these allowances were made with any shadow of legal authority or were made as "a military necessity," a phrase which, like the mantle of eharl ty, is made to cover a multitude of sins. The country had scarcely had time to catch its breath after these startling revelations before the press notified us that a high Republican offi? cial over there had got down to plain stealing. His name is Mr. C. F. Neely. For a novice he started out strong, as at his first grab he appears to have cabbaged willfully and feloniously some $30,000 of somebody else's money ?-Uncle Sam's money or the Cubans' money. While C. F. Neely will not be a name for Republican spellbinders to conjure with this year, it must be said for Mr. Neely that ho took his nerve with hi in when lie went to Cuba. I have not been introduced to Mr. Nee? ly and have no chance to study his psychological processes at short range, but 1 judge that, seeing other :io more meritorious proconsuls in the enjoy? ment of fat "allowances" on the side, he concluded he would make himself an allowance and proceeded to do so without auy unnecessary red tape. That lie "allowanced" himself at an Inopportune season for the Republican spellbinders i.s patent. lie, as a matter of ordinary gratitude to the Mellan naites, ought to have postponed feath? ering his nest until after the election, but his impatience hurried him into doing an untimely piece of business. What the poor, benighted Cubans, who fought Spain so long to rid them? selves of Spanish plunderers and thieves, will think of American plun? derers and thieves is a question which Is liable io cause some trouble to Mark Hamm, the apostle of Republican puri? ty and sweetness. The Cubans may kick. Then what? J Hitherto I have frequently quoted the Washington Post. As to Mr. Nee? ly, that great organ of goldbuggery, imperialism and high tariff says caus? tically: OPEN* THE P.OOKS IN* CUBA! A former treasurer of the postotlice department in Cuha has just beta arrested on a charge of em? bezzlement of the public funds. The amount specified is 000?not enough to endow a college or erect a monastery, hut quite sufficient for a modest robber ready to retire from the madding crowd and lead a life of simple eSSO and plenty ever after. The story further goes, on to show that the prisoner, a ilr. ('. F. Neely, When arrested, had some $0,000 concealed in hij trunk. What hecame of the remaining !fo0,000, if it be true thaf. lie embezzled that amount, does not appear. No douht the criminal proceedings v.ill enlighten us, hut for that we must contain our souls in pa? tience. We have already advised tho administration to inaugurate an inquiry into our regime in Cuha. This advice was offered in full knowledge of the facts?not all of them, perhaps-and in a pro? found conviction of its imperative importance. Tor months past we have been hearing sinister nnd abhorrent rumors from the Island. We have been told, on what seemed to he good authority, of profligate and oftUmes corrupt wastefulness in the dispensation of the public funds. It has not always seemed to us tliat we were called upon to ventilate these Scandals, and it happens thus that many of them hase been ignored, but, in our Opinion, the time has come for searching, deter? mined and relentless Investigation. The adminis? tration is Imperatively required, for its own honor und renown, to silt these disgraceful rumors t'> the bottom. For our put. we need no assurance whatsoever. We believe absolutely in the integ? rity and high purpose of the government, but these Shocking revelations, following so fast upon each other's heels, require explanation, and if the administration would free itstlf ?.f shame and disrepute as we believe it to be free In truth - it should waste lit time in turning on the light. The American people are instilled in their demand for in accounting. To deio them this will be to make eonfeesion uf reeream-y .'U*. lo envelop thq administration in impulai suspicion and contempt. A Democratic Battlccrr. l npprehetid thai 11??* ti11?* of that P.tsi editorial, "Open th?> Books In Cuba!" will cause the cold chills to 1 chase each other up and down the splual coin mutt of iho McIIannaltes, for "Open Iho Rooks!" was the slogan of that Immortal l>omocral Thomas A. llendrlcks <?r Indiana lu 1884, and it ha 1 much to do with lue Democratic victory of that year. "Opou the Books In Cuba!" will have much to do with the Democratic victory this year. The Post 1ms rendered Democracy a good service by giving it a tiptop bat tlecry. it will not do to underrate the force of a happy phrase. Lord Whar ton always claimed that he whistled King James II out of three kingdoms, and everybody knows what a marvel? ous part a few jiugly sentences, some of tbem well nigh idiotic, cut in the famous campaign of 1840. But "Open the Books In Cuba!" is not idiotic. It is full of meat and founded on wisdom. The quicker they are opened the better. In the following words Senator Hoar tears the jingoes and their fantastic arguments into tatters, or, in ring par? lance, cuts them into ribbons. Why, Mr. President, i< it credible that anj American statesman, that any American senator, that any Intelligent American citiccn anywhere two years ago <ould have been found lo afhrra tiiat a proceeding like that <?( the Paris treaty could give a just a:ul valid title to sovereignty over a people situated us were the people of tboee Islands? A title of Spain, originally by conquest, never submitted to nor admitted by the people of the islands, with frequent insurrections at differ? ent times for centuries, and then the yoke all thrown off, a constitutional government, schools, colleges, churches, universities, hospitals, town governments, i legislature, a cabinet, courts, a code of laws > nd the whole island occupied and controlled by its people, with the single excep? tion of one city, with taxes lawfully If ?ied and collected, with an army and the beginning of a navy. And yet the senate, the congress, enacted lc?s than two years ago that the people of Cuba?con? trolling peaceably no part of their island, levying no taxes in any orderly or peaceable way, with no administration of justice, no cabinet?not only of right ought to be, but were, in fact, a free and independent state. I did not give my assent to that declaration of fact. I assented to the doc? trine that they of right ought to be. But 1 thought the statement of fact much calculated to embarrass the government of the United States, if it were bound by that declaration, and it has been practically disregarded by the administra? tion ever since. But the question now i3 a very different one. You not only deny that the Fili? pinos ate, but you deny that they of right ought to be, free and independent, and you recognize Spain as entitled to sell to you the sovereignty of an island where she was not at the time occu? pying a foot of territory, where her soldiers were held captives by the government of the island, a government to which you had delivered over a large number of 'Spanish prisoners to be held as captives. And yet you come here today and say that they not only are not, but they of right ought not, to be free and independent, and when you are pressed you answer us by talking about mountains A iron and nuggets of gold and trade with China. 1 affirm that you cannot get by conquest, end you cannot get by purchase, according to the modern law of nations, according to the law of nations as accepted and expounded by the United States, sovereignty over a people or title to a ter? ritory of which the power that undertakes to sell it or the power from whom you undertake to wrest it has not the actual possession and do? minion. Under municipal law you cannot buy a horse of which the seller is dispossessed; you cannot buy a foot of land of which he is disseiz? ed; you cannot purchase a lawsuit. Under inter? national law you cannot buy a people from a power that has no actual dominion over them. You cannot buy a war. More than this, you can? not buy a tyrant's claim to subject again an op? pressed people who have achieved their freedom. You cannot buy the liberties of a people from a dispossessed tyrant?liberties they have bravely won for themselves in arms. Yru cannot buy sovereignty like merchandise and men like sheep. The king of England kept, down to 1S00, the title of duke of Normandy and king of France. Could any other country or all Europe together have bought France of King George? I wonder what would have happened if, instead of acknowledg? ing our independence, any time before the French treaty France had bought England out and under? taken to assert her title to the United States. These questions have to be answered, not amid the shouting and applause ot a political cam? paign, not in party platforms, not alone in a sin? gle campaign or a single generation. They have got to be answered to history, to the instructed conscience of the civilized world, when the pas ?ions and the greed anJ the ambitions of a sin? gle generation have gone by and are cold. And there will be to them but one answer. Gate* Goes Free. When the old woman was iuformed that the cow hau eaten the grindstone, she exclaimed. "I told you so*." I am hi her frame of mind. Recently I pre? dicted in these letters that the prosecu? tion against lion. John \V. dates for cheating, swindling, fleecing and other? wise maltreating other Wall street gamblers would come to naught. That prediction has been fulfilled, a New York judge having liberated Gates. Of course he did. I guess that after the fleeced gamblers had applied arnica to their wouuds and had had time to re? flect they coucluded that, as Gates had already realized a colossal fortune at their expense, he might. If driven to the wall, take It Into his head to give the snap away and thereby prevent them from recouping themselves for losses inflicted upon them by Gates by fleecing tenderfoot operators in that perilous street. So Gates goes free to arrange other coups and to throw oth? er tbousandl out of employment in or? der that ho may pile up a few addition? al millions. 1 wish to repeat that as between Gates and his Wall street opponents it Is a choice betwixt tweedledum and tweedledee. When they abuse each other, it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black, but the public has this di? rect interest in having Gates prosecut? ed to the full extent of the law?a bona tide prosecution conducted by a brave, resolute, incorruptible prosecuting at? torney before a fair, capable, Incorrupt? ible court might or might not end in his conviction, but would drag to the light of day the inside working of the wire and steel trust, which is neither better nor worse than the rest of the trusts. The trusts must be destroyed, or the bulk of the people will be reduced to the condition of Russian serfs or Mex? ican peons, which God forbid! Distorted by ClnmoTir. "What is the honeymoon, pa7" "Well, the honeymoon is the only period in a man's life during which he Considers it funny to come home and find that his dear little wife hasn't dinner ready on time."?Detroit Free Press. Clever BwgteTentle>ei. ?'JIow slut!! 1 prove (!i<* sincerity of iny devotionV risked the young man Who bnd been so lung coining to the point thai doubt had begun to accu? mulate against him. "Call the parson in as a witness," suggested the young lady.?Detroit Free Prosa. The comptroller geoeral ie new ready to begin the dieborsement of the pension funds, and the dispensary profits to the school fond. 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