The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-27
Washington Letter.
(From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Nav 26, 1897.

to congress asking that $5O, OOO be
appropriated for the relief of desti-
tute American citizens in Cuba he
went as far as he desires to go in that
direction at present; and he was not
affected by threats of senators to
side-track his tariff bill, if the Cuban
belligerency resolution was not
adopted, nor by the contemplate
tactics of the democrats in the house,
who delayed that appropriation three
days merel y to try to embarrass the
administration and to seek for popu-
larity through the known sympathy
existing among our people for Cuba,
by trying to combine the recognition
of Cuban belligrency with the ap-
preparation. While all this has been
going on President Mckinley pur-
sued the even tenor of his way. He
has more real sympathy for Cuba
than some of those who have been
making blood and thunder speeches
in congress, as will in due time be
seen. He is looking forward to some
thing great deal better than the
recognition of the belligrency of the
Cubans, and when the proper time,
in his Judgment, shall arrive, he will
act; and his action will be in keeping
with the man, firm, resolute and thor
oughly American. He doesn't believe
in doing sensational things, nor in
being so hasty that important conse-
quences are overlooked. With the
destitute Americans in Cuba provided
for, there is no occasion for haste in
any further action towards Cuba,
while there is every reason for haste
in getting the tariff bill, which will
be ia ken up in the senate this week,
enacted into a law. The first duty
of congress and the government is to
help our own people; then we can
devote some time to helping the dis
tressed and oppressed elsewhere.
x*
Representative WILDER. of New
York, who bas been studying and
working on the subject for a long
time, thinks a method has been found
that will make it impossible for imi
tations to be sold in English markets
as genuine American cheese. Mr..
w. A. Mcknight, a member of the
Liverpool and Manchester chamber
of commerce, has been in this coun-
try working IN conjunction with Rep
resentative WILDER, and he promises
to aid in suppressing the sale Of imi-
tation American goods and the con-
sequent extension OF the sale of the
genuine, on his side Of the Atlantic.
Secretaries Gage and Wilson are
thoroughly in favor of this project,
and the commissioner of internal rev.
enue has already given the necessary
orders to government officers at New
York and Chicago to put into effect.
Xxx
Senator Hawley took occasion dur
ing the Cuban talk in the senate to
reiterate warning words upon a sub
ject he is thoroughly familiar with.
He said: I'VE are in no condition as
a country to step forward into the
arena of the world and say we are 60
ing to see justice done to every poor
people everywhere; that we will de-
clare belligrency, or that we will de-
clare war. The senator from Illinois
(Mason) asked with vigor once or
twice if we were afraid of war. Yes,
1 am. am afraid of war on the part
of az Unprotected nation. I declare
that we are not fit to undertake a
war against any but the very, weakest
nations of the earth, and this is the
text upon which I have been preach
ing these ten or twelve years.. more
or less. My hope is to see our coast
defences and our navy put into such
condition that we can conduct an in
ternalional debate, for we cannot
have an information debate without
the guns; and when we have some
thing of an armament that is befitt-
ing our great place in the world, we
can afford to assume the responsible.
ties the Almighty has placed upon
us by reason of our wealth and ou1
power" In speaking thus Senator
Hawley made no pretense of repre-:
senting the administration, or in fact
anybody but himself. -. ....l KS.
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The order closing the doors Of the
international postal congress to the
public and to the newspaper men has
been rather unjustly criticised as an
act of exclusiveness, when in reality
it was merely following precedent
The other postal congresses were
held behind closed doors, and the for
eign delegates objected to the pub
licity which followed the experiment
Of holding this one with open doors,
SO the doors were shut. That is all
there is about it. This congress has
no authority to decide anything. Its
functions are to discuss and make
recommendations to the countries in
the postal union, and the foreign del
! egates objected to having reports
published Of everything they said in
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