Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-09-01
Thoughts and Pen Pict-
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] policy respecting Cuba. Gen, Wood
ford was instructed before going to
Spain to visit England, France and
Germany and to inform those nations
that the United States was firmly OF
the conviction that the independence
of Cuba was the only outcome OF the
war now raging in that island. He
was further instructed to inform
those nations through our ministers
that the United States had suffered
in her commercial relations, and that
our citizens had not been granted the
rights of civilized warfare and that
the United States proposed that the
war should stop, which is understood
to be the instructions of Minister
Woodford to so inform Spain when
he arrives and commences the duties
of his position.
The presidents action has appeared
slow to many of us, yet-we know that
his whole sympathies are with the
patriots of Cuba, but what he has
been constrained to do has been in
the interest of the government of the
United States.
1t is very easy to harp and to find
fault and make faces at the president
because of his apparent slowness re-
garding this Cuban affair. We must
t. axe into consideration that he must
not be governed by his private SYM
pathies, but must be governed by
what is best for the people of the
United States.
That the presidents Cuban policy
will meet the approval of all of our
patriotic citizens, we have not the
shadow of doubt.
In conversation with President
Gompers, the chief of the Federation
of Labor, relative to the coal strike,
he informed our reporter that the re-
suit was yet in doubt, and apparently
at considerable distance. He said
that all that he could prognosticate
was that he had hopes for the ulti-
mate success of the miners conten
ton, but that whatever might be the
final result of this strike, the tenden-
CIV would be in the future towards
higher wages for the miners.
The assertion that the approaching
gold standard is bringing pros
p Gritty is but the fossil of wisdomless
wit.
The dollar is about the same size,
but heartaches of suffering humanity
is settling the difference between
what it once bought and what it buys
now.
The Maryland Republican fight is
beco ming so warm that the icicleness
of Senator Germans face is melting
into broad smile.
The wisdom of honestly obtaining
money makes one happy. The knowl-
edge that few fellows have dishon
estly obtained it all makes the major
ity of the world miserable.
Wisdom applied to legislation is
the diadem that surmounts the crown
of craftsmanship.
The two princely donkeys of Italy
and France failing to attract the at
tention of their countrymen by lack
of wisdom in themselves resort to the
methods of brutes in order to again
assure the world of the nothingness
of royalty.
The worlds history of human woe
is the story of the redemption money
lie.
The Hanna Populists of Ohio are
rat her cheap lot; they cost less than
an ordinary ward politician.
The wise legislator plunges be-
meath the surface of conflicting ideas
in order to find the principal which
solves the problems of contention.
The Spanish Inquisition in Cuba is
forcing the flush of shame to the face
Of modern vivisectlonists while an en-
Lightened world looks calmly on.
How long, oh Lord how long?
The Dingley bill, by making crop
failures throughout the world which
raises theprice of American products,
had better keep right on and make
new world wherein all mankind can
be happy great thing this tariff,
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