Middletown transcript., 1898-08-13

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N dpDt from the as
A. snrances he has
NM received that the
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our terms of peace. that he is dsvoting
considerable time TO deciding upon just
the right men TO represent the United
States upon the Commission that will
be charged with the important and del
icate duty of negotiating the treaty OF
peace between the United States and
Spain. Notwithstanding his cohf-
dence, there is limit 10 the time he is
willing to give the Spanish government
to square itself with the people of
Spain. The French Am m'rassador, who
is representing Spain in Washington,
has been told tina. unless the terms of
peace are accepted in given time they
will be withGrawn, and that If they
are Withdrawn, it is intended by this
government to carry the war into
Spain at once, and that no such mag
unanimous terms will be again offered.
The news from General Miles con-
tinues good. Nor 'han half of Porto
Rico is already in bis possession and he
is steadily extending his ines, without
fighting.
General Skaters army is being
brought away from Santiago just as
fast as the ships at hand can get them
away, in order TO give the men chance
to recuperate.
President Mckinley gave the two
Cincinnati boys who started the idea
of raising, by contributions from school
children, the money to buy the finest
battleship in the world, for presenta-
tion to the United States, and to be
named the American Boy, letter
endorsing their project and saying: 81
am sure the boys and girls will de&m it
a privilege to be numbered among the
contributors to this patriotic under taxi
ing" Master W. Rankin Good. of
Cincinnati, President of the National
American Boy Fund, and a compan-
ion, had a very pleasant interview with
the President-tWo interviews, in fact.
The Department Of Slate has been
officially notified that an intern 4tlonal
Congress, for the purpose of discussing
tariff legislation and the regulation of
labor, will be held at Antwerp, Belgi-
um, from Sept. 18th to 18th inclusive.
Public economists, socialists, mauufac-
turers, merchants, employers and work.
men are invited to take part. The
points from which these questions are
viewed by Americans and Europeans,
are so wide apart that few Americans
are likely to attend this Congress, ex-
cept from curiosity. Americans have
tariff system now that is bringing
them great prosperity, and countries
that are prosperous have little difficulty
in the regulation of labor.
Not only is the American manufac.
turer holding his own market under
the Dingley tariff law, but he is pusl-
ing his goods into all the markets of
the world at rate that must be aston
ishing to those who claim that pro-
tective tariff would cause our manu-
facturers to lose all their foreign trade.
It was generally known long before the
bureau of statistics could foot up the
figures and announce the grand total,
that our expectation of agricultural
products during the last fiscal year was
largely in excess of any single year in
the history o: the country, and it is
now known that our expectation of
manufactured articles during the last
fiscal year exceeded that of any other
year by nearly S12, 600, ,OG0, and reached
in value the enormous sum of $685.
81 ,449, and. what is still more gratify-
lug, our imports of manufactured arti-
cles during the same period were un-
usually light, showing that our manu-
facturers have recovered control Of the
home market. which they partially lost
under the low tariff law enacted by the
Democrats, as well as increased their
foreign trade. These are the sort of
facts that will have to be forgotten be-
fore the people of this country vote the
Democratic party back into power;
they are also the sort of facts that
speak for themselves and need no la.
bored argument to make them under
stood.
Surgeon-General Sternberg has writ
ten general defense Of the medical
corps Of the army and himself from at
tacks made upon them, many of which |
he says we're instigated by those who
btcame offended at his opposition to
sending female nurses TO camps Of in
struction or with the army in the field.
He says the only trouble with the med
ical corps is that there are not enough
surgeons in the army, even in peace;
that 1t is probable that In taking on