The times., 1898-11-22
GENERAL POLITICAL GOSSIP.

1 uieW CarHSeslSI 1orIleris Vi IittspuiB, pu'
now Of sc9thnh, are engaged in throwing
bouquets |tseach other. Pingree refers
to his friend Andrew Carnegie says
that he is IA tsvel-headed. smart chap. a
man uponHwhose judgment it is safe to
rely Carnegie thinks that Pingree Is a
Statesman" Salthough perhaps trifie
| eccentric at times. Probably the eccen-
! tricity Carnegie had in mind was when
| Pingree referred to his Scotch friend as a
| bloody, thieving rascal of monopolist
| who ought to be strung up at lamp
| post" but that is another story. Pin
| gree and Carnegie today are chums. The
past is forgotten. They are both deter
| mined to prevent the United States from
going into the expansion business. Pin
gree is apparently afraid that the poor
Filipinos will never become civilized
enough to wear shoes. hence his deep
disgust and alarm at the thought of ou,'
trying to assimilate such a dense mass
of ignorance. Carnegie has ceased to be
citizen of the United States He re-
| newed his allegiance TO Her Majesty.
Queen Victoria, several years ago. He
evidently believes that Great Britain
ought to be permitted to continue to have
monopoly of the colonization business.
The spectacle of Pingree and Carnegie
working side by side in a common cause
is certainly edifying. Carnegie, however,
has got the: start of Pingree in one re-
spect He has sent his check for $1,000
to Edward Atkinson. of Boston. to be
used to defray the expenses of getting up
a monster petition against expansion.
There is not much danger that Pingree
will follow suit. He is invariably shy
when it comes to contributing anything
any more substantial than wind to help
along good cause. Mr.. Atkinson II m
self is too modest to take the presidency
of the anti-eXpansion society which he
has organized. That great honor las
been conferred on George S. Boutwell,.
Boutwell, was Secretary of the Treasury
during a part of Gen. Grants second
term. Most people will be surprised TO
learn that he is alive. These gentlemen
have mapped out very small task for
themselves. 1t is TO make a thorough
canvass of the country and obtain enough
signatures to an anti-expansion or annex
Congress to give up the Philippines. Por-
to Rico, Cuba and all the other islands
we contemplate acquiring, and turn them
back to Spain. All of this must be ac-
complished inside of the next ten days. or
before the assembling of Congress. IL
Spain objects to taking the islands back.
these patriots propose TO offer her an in
demnity sufficient to induce her to do so.
1.-The argument" said n prominent Off
cial of the State Department yesterday,
which is advanced by some misguided
people that we ought not to take the
Philippines, ias fhey contain a population
that cann5t assimiiate with ours. etc, is
the silliest Kind of rubbish Suppose, for
instance Columbus, upon returning TO
Spain from his memorable voyage across
the Atlantic, had addressed Ferdinand
and Isabella after this fashion: Your
majesties, it is true that l have discov-
cred a new world, land that appears to
be fertile and rich beyond the dream OF
avarice but 1t is filled with strange be-
ings, sayages, in fact, who wear no
clothes, do not speak our language, have
never been at court and are untutored
and uncivilized, therefore, / most respect
iuhS " spuA lidJtSlltS Nlldl
you do not undertake to annex this new
land; your country would be swamped by
the pauper labor of the new territory.
What would have happened TO Columbus,
do you think? Would he have lost his
head? Undoubtedly and rightly, too. Ex-
pansion is our natural and logical destiny.
Nothing can stop it,
Andrew Carnegie's influence with the
leaders of the Republican party is not
what 1t used to be by any means. Ever
since the campaign of 1892 the Republican
managers have regarded Carnegie as a
first-class hoodoo. 1t will be recalled
that during that campaign there was a
strike at the Carnegie works at Home
stead. Workmen were shot down like
dogs and the result politically was to
array practically the entire labor element
of the country against the G. o. z.
Carnegie had it in his power to prevent
the strike and he was appealed to by
Chairman Carter, of the Republican ma
tional committee, and other prominent
friends of President Harrison to do so
but from his safe retreat in Scotland he
absolutely refused to lift his finger The
comments made by Chairman Carter and
others on Carnegie's conduct were more
forcible than polite. Summed up, they
were: THE = hound, after all we have
done for him to go back on us in this |
way. He has not even contributed a cent
to offset his dastardly behavior. The Re- |
publican party has made him present |
of millions, and this is the return we get |
for it. He deserves
Shortly after the Inauguration of Mr.. |
Cleveland for the second time, Carnegie |
came out as an advocate of free raw |
materials" He had been 'fostered'' into
a position where he could compete with
the whole world in his particular line and
he was filled with the unselfish desire
of wanting to do it. His disinterested-
ness is something phenomenal
Representative Tawney, of Minnesota.
who has arrived in the city, takes the
position that there will be no extra ses-
sion of the Fifty-siXth Congress. If
reaty of peace is finally negotiated be-
ore the adjournment of the short ses-
ion Congress will not be in a position to
eSislate intelligently on the subject of
ur new possessions for some time. Mr.
rawney is a member of the Ways and
deans Committee and has evidently taken
lis cue from Chairman Dingley. He
avors the continuation of military rule
n our various island possessions and in
he meantime the appointment of COM
MISSIONS to visit the different places to
investigate and report on the proper form
f government to be adopted. The COM
mission idea as a rule is popular with
he average representative In Congress