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JERRY SIMPSON'S BAYONET. If the islands were admitted as one state into the union, they would have a representation in the present congress according to the present apportionment of between fifty and sixty members and would hold the balance of power in that body. That the Republican leaders have no such action in view is clearly apparent to every intelligent man and therefore, when they attempt to justify the forcible annexation of the Philippines, by citing our previous territorial expansion, they are falsely reading history in an endeavor to provide justification for their conduct. On Sept. 2, the birthday of the greatest man given to the world by the eighteenth century was celebrated in many lands, and his life-work was the main theme of conversation in thousands of homes.

Every year the number of celebrants of this anniversary will increase, until long after the triumph of the truth to the promulgation of which he devoted his life and for the sake of which he died. In order to be truly great two months dead and not forgotten yet it is necessary to be in advance of your time, to be a light set on a heaven-kissing hill, to guide the struggling multitude onward. Therefor it is, that no generation can know its truly great men; a few recognize their genius, but the masses scoff at the prophet; and it remains for the future to uncover the truth. For that reason, there are many of his contemporaries who arc reckoned greater than Henry George, by popular sentiment, who will have been forgotten long before he will reach the zenith of his fame. In order to prove how true these words are, let us Institute a comparison with the man who when alive had a larger personal following than any in the United States.

We refer to James G. Blaine. Blaine i9 but six years dead, but memory of him is fading faster than his body is crumbling into dust. Who would think, for instance, of celebrating the birthday of Blaine? How many of his ancient admirers know when was his birthday? Will the number of his admirers increase with years as the number of George's admirers is increasing? A great man must do something for the whole world and must belong to the whole world. The fact that the birthday of Henry George, even so recently after his death, is celebrated in the United States, England, Australia, Japan, Canada and Russia bears noble testimony to his worth.

either a man or a nation to do wrong. At times, there seems to be profit, but it only "seems." This moral view is as incomprehensible to the gross materialist, who has the same viewpoint of life as a hog and makes its main object seeking what he may devour, as it is sound to those who think there is a spiritual part to man. We state it as something which needs no proof to those whose moral natures render them capable of understanding it and which cannot be proved to the two-legged brutes. Notwithstanding the utter contempt we have for the mere dollars and cents side of any question which involves right or wrong we shall again demonstrate how little ground there is for assuming that the subjugation of the Philippines will Spay." The Republicans have been feeding the people on assumptions that it will pay and every one of theirassumptions can be answered with a fact to show, that it would be cheaper and better for the United States in every way if the money expended in the war of conquest were dumped into the sea. Some weeks ago, we printed the value of our exports to the Philippines for the fiscal year 1898-9.

They amounted, if we remember rightly, to some $400,000. Allowing our merchants, ten per cent, profit, a few dozen people in the United States are $40,000 richer because of the trade with the Philippines, although whether they would not have been just as rich if engaged in some other business, is a nice question. If the Philippine islands, in the course of the next generation get to the point where they will buy $10,000,000 worth of goods annually from us as they will then be buying as much from us as they now buy from all the countries in the world. The profits on such a volume of trade, clear of all expense, can be placed at $1,000,000.: that is to say, there is a possibility that in a generation, some few citizens of the United States may be able to make a million a year out of the Philippines. It would, of course, be impossible for any one to state positively that a dollar of such trade would result from annexation it could only be assumed.

Looking at the other side of the ledger, we find that the President intends to soon have sixty thousand soldiers in the Philippine islands. The cost of maintaining such an army there for one year is estimated at without taking into consideration future pension dues. The interest on $90,000,000 at three per cent, the rate the United States has to pay on its bonds, amounts to $2,700,000. To make the profits of the Philippine trade equal to the interest, (saying nothing of the principal) on the cost of one year's operations in the Philippines, our trade with the islands would have to be increased to two hundred times its present FRANK SENATOR CARTA It. 5 Senator Carter of Montana, one of the predecessors of Senator Mark Hanua, as chairman of the Republican National committee, is a refreshing: contrast to his chief, William McKinley and some of the other professors of cant, hypocrisy and hum-, bug.

Carter does not bother himself with making any moral defense for our attitude toward the Filipinos; he considers it wholly unnecessary to drag in the argument from precedents which, in reality are not precedents. He says the American people will hold the Philippines, if it pays to hold them and then assumes that it will "pay." He declares' that this is all there is to the question. Thank God, we have not reached that opinion of the American people, which Carter has formed from a contemplation of himself. His assumption that it pay," to hold the Philippines has often been disproved in these columns, but even if it were true, the American people are not so money-mad as to have descended to the moral attitude of a- thief or a murderer. There are not two standards of morality, one for a nation and the other for individuals.

A nation is but an aggregation of individuals and what is wrong for them to do individually is wrong if done collectively. Carter libels his countrymen most villaineously. His own moral nature, like that of a good many other politicians, is beyond repair, but because he has to constantly walk in the stench which arises from its decaying fragments, that is no reason why he should assume that it is an universal emenation.5 There who think that we speak harshly of Carter and it there, fore becomes us, to show that we have drawn a true picture. We might say, in passing, that the picture is one which would serve as well for a good many of his Republican associates in high places. Carter misrepresents the state of Montana in the Senate of the United States.1 He claims to be an advocate of the free coinage of silver.

Carter was one of the leaders of the bolt against Republican policies in the Senate during the fifty fourth congress. He stood then with Teller, Dubois, Cannon and Pettigrew. He claimed that if the Republican party would not retire from the evil of its ways it would bring destruction upon the country. This was prior to the meeting of the Republican National Convention and the adoption of the gold plank. After that action, Teller, Dubois, Cannon and Pettigrew left the party, but Carter remained.

The question with him was whether or not it would "pay" and he decided that it would not payto leave. He supported McKinley to the best of his ability and he has since supported him, although, if he believes what he has said in many speeches, McKinley is steering the country to perdition. If moral considerations are not to weigh with us, if the only question to be considered is whether a given thing will pay, wherein are we better than, a horse thief. He steals the horse, because he believes that the theft will pay; or. the.

burglar, who burgles because he thinks it pays, or the sandbagger who strikes down his victim because he thinks it pays, or the smooth-tongued scoundrel, who robs widows and orphans, because he thinks it pays? As a matter of fact, it never pays David Davies, special correspondent of the London Times and other English publications, was in the United States in 1898 inspecting the tin plate industry. Previous to the establishment" of the industry in this country Wales supplied the United States markets. He said: "The English merchant marine, as all will agree, controls the markets of the world. You have barred Welsh tin plate from your shores by prohibitory tariff. You have barred us effectually.

You closed down our manufacturing concerns, it is true. But that was some time ago. Wales has been at work. She has built up another market for her tin plate in Russia, Siberia, Asia Minor and Japan; which is now almost as great in volume as was the trade of the United States. "What of this? Why, simply this: Our merchant marine carries our tin plate to these countries.

All are raising wheat and lots of it. The vessels land their cargoes. They are empty. They load up with wheat, corn, rye and other products and bring them home. They formerly did this in United States ports.

What is the effect? Is it necessary to ask? I make the prediction that your high tariff will begin to kick like an army mule. The point has been reached. Your manufacturers will combine and the consumer will pay two cents a pound tribute to concentrated capital." This prediction was made April 1, 1898. It has since been fulfilled. The tin plate trust controls the industry, swallows up the protective duty and the American people pay the piper.

It is not by anti-imperialistic organization nor individual protest against the forcible crushing out of a nation's aspirations for freedom that the downfall of this criminal aggression is to come. It is the imperialists' own avalanche that will yet bury them. A builder who is careless of foundations, materials and perpendiculars, will soon have his house tumbling about his ears, however exemplary a husband, neighbor or Methodist he may be. The foundations ofj expansion are the shifting sands of expediency: its materials are lies, brutalities, arabt-tions and greed; its bulging outlines warn the observer to shun the premises; its ties are Cumulative and its own weight will duly accomplish its ruin. Wm.

Lloyd Garrison. You remember the French revolution? In France all the lands had come into the hands of a few people, the king and nobles and a majority of the people, were depending them for a living. The time came when these down-trodderi people rose up and Paris streets ran with blood. Your country will have the same experience if you keep on fooling with the laws of God. Rome was once mistress of the whole world.

She lorded it over the other countries. But she fell and Pliny, her historian, lays the cause of her downfall to land monopoly. John S.Crosby. Notwithstanding its yarious antitrust platforms, the trusts continue to play in the Republican party's back yard. Lincoln said no man was good enough to govern another without his consent, and yet there are men who compare Lincoln with McKinley and think the latter suffers nothing in the comparison.

We would like to ask Abraham Lincoln Republicans, whether they think were the martyr President now occupying the executive chair, he would have recognized and ratified the existence of slavery as McKinley has done in the treaty with the Sultan of the Sulu islands? As They Do. Private Secretary (to Beef Trust magnate): And how much shall I say you've subscribed to the fund for the relief of the starving Porto Ricans? Magnate: Put me down Ah and by the way, just telegraph my New York agents to put up the price of beef two cents a pound more. We've got to break even on this charity business somewhere, or we'll be ruined. Disproportion of Sexes. The disproportion of the sexes is still very great in Australia.

In West Australia, e. there were only 54,000 women in a population of 168,000. Killed in War. A German army officer estimates that In the century just closing no less than 30,000,000 men have been killed in war in civilized countries. Bicycle Music Boxes.

Music-boxes for bicycles are now manufactured by a firm in Hamburg, Germany. Until this year of our Lord, 1899, not a square foot of territory, with exception of some few islands intended as naval stations, was ever annexed to the United States, unless with the intention that it would some time, in the future, form a part of one of the sisterhood of states. Even in the case of the principal reason urged was a military one, the belief that these islands offered opportunity for colonization was at the bottom of the annexation sentiment. In the case of the Philippines, however, we have yet to hear any Republican speaker or statesman advocate their annexation on the ground that they can be carved into states..