The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-23


these Hawaiian planters Is for privileged
or special legislation to the detriment of
the sugar growers In the States! And
congress ought to jump upon the request
with all Its weight, and promptly
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An intelligent critic of tho proposed repub-
lican financial reform tells us that II the
pending measure is enacted It will:
!. Retire s3i6 co. 900 OF grecnbacks.
2. Stop coinage Of silver dollars
3. Make s5O000o,000 Of silver redeemabls In
gold
4. Make debt contracts, public and private,
payable In gold
8. Turn over to banks nll power TO Issue
paper currency.
6. Secure bank currency by assets only.
Z. Leave depositors without protection.
s. Enable banks to contract or expand their
currency at will.
o. Create n bank monopoly.
10, Leave honest banks at the mercy OF
dishonest ones.
II. Make legitimate banking hazardous.
IL. Increase tho value OF our debt obllga-
lions, National and private. many hundred
million dollars.
10. Open an avenue for wildcat banking
II. Provide Il twelve-year board to control
currency.
Is. mako money tho master. everything
else the servant. Mckinley
Let us hope. for tho sake of the country
that Mark Hanna has no interest In the Cuban
debt
Surgeon Major Seaman, who got back from
Porto Rico hot IN the collar. told the reporters
some things about the shortcomings of army
management in Porto Rico and on tho trans
ports that the public hui right to know.
Before the war commission Major Seaman
weakened and said the reporters had "Inis-
quoted" him. Tho New York Herald there
upon stated, editorlaIly that the report OF tho
interview had even been submitted to the ma
tor for correction before 1t WAS published,
! Now cid this witness tell tho truth to the
newspapers, or to the commission? And was
dc mildly but really intlmidated In his formal
testimony before tho commission?
! England may soon draw on the large de-
| post of sympathy which she placed TO her
credit In this country Few months ago.
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Tho world's product OF gold and silver last
year. according to official figures, showed
s237 coo In round numbers In gold and
| 1896, GOO COO In silver. This does not look much
like silver was flooding" the nations Let
the goldbuga tell It and one would imagine
Tint silver was being produced at tho rate OF
about nifty dollars to one of gold
II higgins to look very much ms II we would
have to give the don a friendly lift to get him
out Of Cuba He can't buy transportation
and walking is not good across the interyen-
ing space.
Unless the next three days show an I'M
usually lively registration in Houston, It Is
more than likely that Harris county's repre-
sontatlon In democratic conventions In 1900
!, viii he considerably cut down. II there IS no
special Interest In the election, there ought to
10 at least gr alter local pride displayed,
, From the way the United States commits
! sion,r to the Paris exposition is hustIng for
more floor space. it Is evident he expects
, France to be on her feet in 1900 in spite of the
Fashoda Incident
Santiago do Cuba Ia enjoying such good
fruits OF American control that IL will be SIN
g,lar II she does not become an object OF
envy from all the othcr Cuban towns She
suffered first aud worst. but shc is having her
reward in the first good government she has
had In nearly four hundred years,
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Tho Indianapolis Sentinel suggests that
American citizens who remember the Maine
viii remember not to vote next month with
tho party which tried 30 hard to make the
5 country forgot tho Havana outraged
Memphis has come back into the world!
II Is u dangerous experiment, ordinarily. for
live town in those days to withdraw from
tho busy throng for even six weeks few
years ago Memphis was boastlns that she
, feared yellow fever no more, but she can not
| slug that song hereafter
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II was hardly expected that tho French
could romaln cool for any great length Of
time under the war talk from tho British
fhe Latin races are not built on the ee,f
contained pattern and rarely count conse
quences
II France and England fight, we shall be-
able to set some valuable pointers for our
new naval programme, We learned somethinS
from, the late war, but not all that we shouls
Know before beginning construction ON the
large scale proposed,
II the American people had Just and c,car
conception OF the Significance OF the pend,p,
congressional election and appreciated tnnv
what republican success will mean. rom Reed
wouldn't have oorpora's guard 10 back
him in the next house.
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