The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-07-28

enCS. II Will convert tnOusduua over 10
the plan of annexation who would have
opposed It If left TO themselves. The
japanese will find. therefore, that their
protest has injured their cause and will
not receive feathers weight Of con-
sideration when the question Of annexa-
ton comes 10 be determined. Hawaii
will be annexed or rejected accordingly as
the people Of this country want or DO not
want the islands. and Japan's views Will
not affect the action or opinion of one
single American. They may get japan
into the hottest water, though, that any
japanese was told about.
In the last fifteen years there was al
ways the hope 10 the citizens that they
might some time escape from the Bell
monopoly by the expiration of patents
the Withdrawal Of its franchise, or the
establishment of an opposition company,
but if We permit the existing opposition
TO be driven from the field, and grant g,
new and indefinite franchise to what is
branch of the Bell Company our condition
will be hopeless.
In the rush for the gold fields no two
people have stopped 10 spell Klondyke
alike.
The Klondike summer is only six weeks
long. and this is the only time the people
have TO sleigh ride without freezing to
death.
If the people Of Richmond have suf-
fered for the last fifteen years from the
Bell monopoly, what may We expect If
it is moro strolgy fastened upon US un-
der another name
The new law prohibits the giving OF in
decent photographs Of actresses with
cigarettes. Some OF those photographs
were awful, but the public could hardly
expect oil paintings of the giddy things
with one scent package.
There is one thing that can be said for
Reed, he played the limit all the way
through and never was caught bluffing.
a wild man named Zacada has been
caught running about in Ohio. but it is
not known what office he was after.
we should make no compromise with
right and justice. The city's faith is at
stake, and it should refuse any local
franchise until the existing company
proves itself unworthy.
1t seems very strange that these
people who knew so much about the
great stores Of gold in Klondike have
stayed away from it 80 long.
Every time things get a little dull in
Pennsylvania the Governor approves
some bill passed some time ago appro-
priatlng a hundred thousand or 80.
It is stm undetermined in the Federal
courts whether the Bell Company can
defy the city and do business without
franchise. Pass the Long Distance Com
pany's ordinance and all doubt will be re-
moved. The city will DO bound hand and
foot forever.
We cannot just reconcile the statements
that $lOo0ooO is on the way TO Cuba, and
that Weyler Is going back to Spain.
somebody must have put about five too
many clphers in that 100000.
Rudyard Kipling wisely waited until all
the jubilee poems were in, and then he
had no trouble in producing just what ne
has done, the best in the OUTFIT.
The experience the city is now under
going Of Federal Interference in munici-
pal affairs is but slight evil in COM
parison with what it may expect should
the Long Distance franchise be granted.
Jerry Simpson was on his feet so much
during the past few months, that Speaker
Reed could not even get him down on
committee.
That tilt with China may prove a costly
victory TO Japan If she accepts it as in
dicatiyo OF the fact that she can whip
every other nation on earth.
Secretary Of the Treasury Gage IS so
pleased with the new prosperity that he
has gone TO Massachusetts, to eat few
dinners with it.
We should distinctly and afbrmatiyely
fsustain- $hs Richmond TelenhAnA Cons