The Advocate and news., 1898-03-30

tney gave their votes. II did not cost
much for the Republicans to get the
votes Of their dupes A few printing
Dills, a few hirellng speakers, a few
well-Daid editors, and the thing was
done.
Congressman Richard p. Bland, of
Mlssouri: We are waiting for the report
OF this commission Of inquiry, which is
supposed to be hard at work probing
for the facts in the Maine disaster.
When 1 say we, mean the Democrats
OF the House. We are not pressing mat
ters because we want to hear what this
board has to say. We want to know
whether 1t is going to find the SDanlards
guilty or blameless, and we want to
know other things in this connection.
What the administration proposes to do.
OF course, do not know; but unless It
drives the Spaniards out Of Cuba the
people Of this country are going to ask
the reason why, and their demands will
be strong and emphatic. do not believe
Congress will adjourn until 1t knows
what the President Is going to do for
Cuba. l believe these sentiments have
Just given voice to are those of the
AAuu5O VI representatives..
Financial Record: The Secretary Of
the Navy is finding out what the parrot
learned from experience, that he talked
too much. A scandal has grown out of
his utterance. There are two men who.
pending the report of the court of in
quiry, should say nothing. The Presi-
dent and the Secretary of the Navy.
The officers Of the court are directly sub
ject to their orders and possibly suscep-
tible to influence by any expression of
opinion. II the court should find that the
destruction Of the Maine was due to an
accident, their verdict would have to
meet a general public opinion, previously
formed, to the contrary, and 1t certainly
would not help to reconcile that opinion
to the accident theory if the public had
the slightest reason to believe that the
board had been in the slightest degree
influenced In forming an opinion by
utterances Of those in authority over
them. Silence is golden, pending the
report, to ALL But especially to those in
authority.
Osborne News POp.): Do you remem-
Der that Mark Hanna, one day during the
last Presidential campaign, issued a
proclamation calling upon all patriotic
citizens to hang out the stars and stripes.
Do you remember that everybody, re-
gardless of party affiliations, hung out
the dear old emblem? No one doubted
that the idea was to intimate that the
flag and the love of 1t, that patriotism
belonged only to the people who voted
for the gold standard. Some old SOL
d1ers in Osborne county were heard to
intimate that the old soldier silver men
did not possess patriotism in as marked
a degree as the old soldier gold stand
ard man. A mans patriotism was to be
measured by his ability to yell for Nc
Kinley and the gold standard; in short,
to measure a mans patriotism simply
measure his mouth. The prompt ac-
tion of both branches of Congress in
80 quickly making the fifty million ap-
shows that the American
people are equally patriotic, regardless
Of party affiliations.
Kansas City Times: Years ago some
body said he did not care who made the
nations laws, IL he were allowed to write
its songs. The oney-changers of the
present day have revised this aphorism.
They do not care who make the nations
laws, so long as they control the courts
which pass upon them. There is no need
to discuss the income tax decision OF
the United States Supreme court, in
which that eminent body deliberately
Overthrew its own precedents, and the
decision in the Nebraska maximum rail-
way rate case, by which the deliberate
act Of State Legislature was nullifed
only the other day on what must APP
pear to the people decidedly far-fetched
Of the constitution. Both
these cases have been thoroughly venti-
lated in the press-and that was all the
good 1t did. But now comes the Su-
preme court Of Washington with de-
cisions along the same line. Several
OF the Legislature of that