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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

largely interested in the property, said
today The extension leaves the main
Tine at lieata, some 200 miles from tao
terminus OF Ciudad Portfolio dag, along
the RIO Grande, 1t Is sevensy-two miles
long ana Us very valuable as d spur inas-
much rs 1t covers a region tributary 10 the
saldo river. Tht particular section Is rIeh
IN cereals. sugar cane and oranges"
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CARLOS MUST FIGHT.
He Must Move Soon If He Would Ac-
ccmplish Anything.


ccmplish Anything.
London. December 2S.-The Morning
Post published today communication from
their correspondent now travelling in Spain,
witch says
The results of my inquiries tend TO SHOW
that the Spanish republicans have some
sympathy with Don Carlos. They would
not fight for him. but cefuainly they would
not oppose him. On the whsle. they would
rather welcome any means of overJarowing
the present corrupt regime. still. 1T is
useless for Don Carlos to imagine that he
can do anything without Sighting and he
must make a move soon or not AT all.
Lomlon. December 2s.-The Times edi-
tor ally rerud.ates this morning the state
nrant THAT Don Carlos will get any support
from England.
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no MORE RATE CUTTING.
Cincinnati Shippers Have Been not
fled of the Change.

Cincinnati. December 27-.Al snlpps1'
in Cincinnati have received nohice IRON
tine headquarters Of all railroads cents1(
ing here that on and after January !, Ivy,
tariff rates will be rigldly adhered to. ~.
lis in consequence OF recent decisions 80
sdmonitions by various United s'Ass5
courts. Receivers OF roads have cOa7
planned to the courts here OF loss 81 DuA',
ness by reason of their competitors sv'a'
rebates ON freights.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.


Especial Dispatch TO The Post)
Washington, December a7.-Fonrih- class
Texas postmasters appointed today: Re-
gency. Mills county, John II. James; San
ser. Denton county. ]. f. Creach: She.id
Houston county, Alberu n. Elins; Sylvan,
Lamar county. William A. Ellis,
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heretofore granted by the Spanish authori-
ties, experimenting the order of the war
department prohibiting the granting of a
new franchise. The generals order Is IN
der reconsideration on account of the legal
QUESTION: raised
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suits anu No
cures, same -
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or the surlst ~
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belts, free prssss
lions and
medIcines: IIst
Is the cheeesss1It
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I Speclaltlcs;
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syphilis. nervous debility, lnyI,srres rh:sgs1
ceie. structure. unndfurai isennsfarrh sr4
ssss: p 81 so%eb p'e H's ssdsS;
HATHAWAY 4 CO., 2oa,s sA. aas ~,
sending for symptom blanks. IL M Siss6
:s: 4; s;:::;!: Z go g
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Dreyru. to Lcnvc cayenne

DFcytuN 10 LchVc Cayenne.
Lopdon, December 2s.-Tbe Paris corre-
spondent of tho Daily News, Mrs. Emily
Crawford, says she has reason to believe
that Dreyfus Will leave Cayenne capital of
on January 3.
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Havana, December 27.-The city jail was
delivered into the hands Of the Americans
on Saturday. One political prisoner was
found there. Colonel gacalloa, who was
captured with General Ruiz Rivera and
who was pandoned for political olfense but
murder
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STRICTLY SAFE

And scientific treatment is only nssaa
Dr. Hathaway 4 Co.. the expert s.,si;c NJ
They with TO impress upon the puo onS IN
fact that all diseases peculia: % msn rn"srispesl
physicians and scientific methods' .sss ~
SO. ouch diseases are amenaDle 70 aui<0
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Issue OF December is, 1898, pensions for
Texans: originai--Cha,ses Il. Davis. Arco-
la. SC. Original widows. etc.--MInors CT
Charles Eppner. Palestine. sl2 Widows
OF Indian wars-Sevilia T.. Evans. Bel
ton, Ss
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GoIuchowsky to Rexirn.

London. December 2S.-The Vienna cor
respondent OF the Chronicle says he learns
on the best of authority that Count Golu-
chowsky is about 10 resign the por,folio
OF Austro- Hungarian foreign minister.
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The second annual meeting OF the Amer
fcan negro academy, the membership az
which is limited 10 fifty. Is in session here.
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Sterling mt Montevideo.

Especial Gable Dispatch to the New York Her.
aid and The Houston Post. Copyrighted.
1885, by James Gordon Bennett.l
Montevideo, December 97.-The Ameri-
can transport ship Sterling has arrived at
this port fram Punta Arenas, where she
ppylded coal and provision to the Oregon
and Iowa.
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END of THE "BApGERr TRIAL.

Moore Sentenced to Nineteen re
In state Prison.
New York, December CIV. =
Moore. convicted of robbing Marian ~
a hotel keeper OF this city. BY inc Ky s.s
GER game, was today sentenced 70
teen years In State prison ~
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Death Of Ex-Governor Cochran
Wilmington. DEL. December I'
p. Cochran. ex-governor Of Delaware
today, aged so, -
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san Juan. December s7.--Geaeral Guy
Hesry tho military commander here has
ordered the revocation OF ali fr.,.., -
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international Mexicnn Extensi"n.
New York. December 27.~-C pncerning
the extension OF the International Mexican
railroad, Collie P. Huntington. who Is
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Bubonic PIaguc Appears.

Pretoria, December 27.--It Is reported
hsre today that the bubonic plague has
broken CUT in the district OF Delagoa bay.
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oharleston, 8 G.. December s7--Brga-
dior General ssagsr, With headquarters %
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Admiral Sampson has a slisht attack OF
grip. but Is expected 10 be all right shortly.
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 ment of the beliefs which the fathers held when they established this Gov ernment in 1776
 Some one may ask Isn't it possible to derive from these proposed colonies a revenue greater than the additional expenditure which their possession would involve.
 How? By taxation? Every time you attempt to collect a tax from these people they would rise and you would nave to call on your military force to suppress them. And suppress them for what? For doing what John Han COCK did. They might quote against us our immortal declaration, that tax alton without representation is tyr amy That is, assuming that the people had not voted the tax It is beyond imagining that they could form a representative government on our" lines of universal suffrage, for they arec not like the people of Cuba, capable ofc self government. They are semi -bar-r barous Malays and savage tribes, whose only Knowledge of government is that of an autocratic chief. (
 Spain has not made the Philippines productive. Perhaps that is due toe spans form of colonial government. C So far, l believe, they have enriched z only the officials and a Governor-Gen- = eral. But the taxes have been raised by enforced taxation. upheld by mill c tary rule. And still Spain herself To learn, has found her dependencies for several years an actual source of loss; = but then there has been great corrup- tion in Spanish officials.
 It is possible that we could hardly civiliZe the people of the Philippines inC a hundred years and make them self-o governing Meantime we would haveo to keep an army of 50,000 men on the = islands to hold them in check.
 Some one has suggested that theO Philippines could be made a district Q like Alaska.
 The conditions are wholly different. o Alaska is governed as district be- cause it has no population, or at leastO the population is inconsiderable. YouO have there a territory adjunct to uso nearly as great as the whole United States and a population of about 5000. V In the Philippines you have a popula-O o tion of ten millions in a country oldero in settlement than ours, and still theo people are not fit to be admitted as citizens of a territory of the UnitedO States or to send Representatives to theo Senate as a State. O
 I do not think we will ever acquired Cuba. If we took Cuba into the Unitedo, States we would repudiate the em- phatic declarations we have made to- the world of the cause for which weot are now carrying on a war with Spain. o In a great measure this is a sentimental o war It certainly is not a war of con- quest We have no desire to acquireO Cuba. If you saw a woman beingO beaten on the streets of New York byo; q big man you would rescue her from his brutality, but not because youO wanted to make the woman your wife. o That is precisely the situation in Cuba. o We are rescuing her from a brutal ando despotic form of government, and all we want is to give her freedom andO help her people to establish a stableo
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this, we must adopt the Eastern policy Of the nations of Europe and utilize k our conquest by further expansions. k Already with England they have be- gun to divide up China. England's s . policy is the policy of the open door. But Russia, France and Germany have
 taken slices of China and said that these territories and their ports would be closed to the commerce of other nations. If we are to become a great trading nation like England. we, too, must pick out our port in China and seize, fortify and hold it. Then, from that naval and military port, we must begin to build railroads into the in terfor and thus open up to our goods markets among the Asiatics. We cer- tainly cannot be dependent for our Asiatic port on the friendship Of Eng land, and we must be ready to say to Continental Europe that we want our fair share of the East or we will fight for it.
 I certainly think it would be possi- ble to reserve a coaling station for our selves in the Philippines and thus avoid this international complication.
 There are something like a thousand islands there, I believe. All we need to do before we hand the islands over to some other nation is to pick out the island that we want for a coaling sta
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/ think the wiser plan wouid be to follow the principles Of our forefathers. The permanent oc- cupaton Of the Philippines or other foreign conquests would bring about conditions with which we could not cope.-L. 2. EHert.

I am opposed to the permanent oc- "cupation of the Philippine Islands, or oany other conquests that may accrue Oto us through war.
 o We could not govern the millions Of opeople on the Philippine Islands by the Claws of our country. They are entire oly dissimilar in every respect. And it owould be out of the question for us to O colonize the islands with white labor o from this country, because they could not stand the climate.
 U From a commercial point of view othere would be advantages in the per- o omanent possession of the islands, but Q to my mind these advantages are far more than counterbalanced by the dis advantages.
 O I think the wiser plan would be to ofollow the principles of our forefathers. o The permanent occupation of the Phil- o oippines or other foreign conquests would bring about conditions with (which we could not cope.
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form of republican government.
 There are those who claim that the people of the Philippines have suffered as much as the people of Cuba, and that we are as much bound in morality to help them to be free as we are to aid the Cubans.
 I do not think so. In the first place, nine -tenths of them are semi -barbarous or savage. And then we can't go around hunting for wrongs to right and reorganizing all the cruel despotlsms of the earth. If we followed that pol icy to its logical conclusion, we should have to drive the Turk out of Armenia; we should have to send an army to Teheran to dispose of the Shah of Per sia, who thinks no more of cutting or a head than Wall street does of cut ting off coupon. Cuba is within few hours of our own coast. We have cordial social and commercial relations with her. For three years we have sat by and seen her people struggling for freedom We have seen them driven in from the country and shut up helpless within Spanish fortified towns and starved to death, and we have intervened to rescue them because we could stand this outrage on hu- manity no longer.
 What shall we do with the Philip pines?
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/ have always opposed the acces-I sion Of any outlying territory, fife defense Of which might be embar- assing to our country.---Ex-Secretary Of State John Sherman.


ierers ie rom our entry on an imperial CO., lonial policy e4 i'i oo- As AS colonial possessions, the Pbi1,n- 1,lll piLies are in climate to which o,Yr nroSSr iaoor cannot migrate and where for,,, ae must be sustained by some
 III ol cheap and servile Iabor Tf t iildn will show me any forn, oP iaool tiot Ill the tropics at any time in their
 otoiy that has been paid on the few petate zone scale of wages. I will an
 ist as a private tomorrow or ero n
 Wha, ipplhes as missionary.
 when we assume colonies in +bs tropics they can be made profitabis to us only by cheap and seryiIe 1abor ana system of laws not annIico b1a +a our continental domain.
 me products of cheap labor in such coIonles will destroy the yalue of ths products Of our well-pafd white Iahor at nome. Our laboring population cam not transfer itself to the tropics for climatic reasons -'A :, TOT these reasons I am onnosed f, .he permanent occupation of the Pbi,- ,ppines n.! s, or any other tropical conquests. as well as the annexation of tba Ia Waiian Islands. Ah0-
 want to see the war prosecuted y;o orously to victory. but I don't wan. our country stained in history by max. lne the war one of conquest and se- eIahulzement instead of one for hu- nanlty and the enlargement of +b. rights of man. 'Ao
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By General Sick|es, Ex-Minister to Madrid.

the situation is very different. The people of Spain, taken en masse, are not well educated or widely travelled and they are particularly ignorant as to what this particular part of the world is like. Even those whom one would expect to find well posted in this particular cherish singular delusions That these incorrect ideas persist is due, l believe, to the fact that they are constantly put forward by the edi- tors or newspapers and the civil lead CTS who know them to be false.
 One cannot avoid the conclusion that there is systematic and willful misrep- resentat1on of the United States on the part Of the Spanish leaders. Why this is so is hard to say, but it accounts for the general transformation that ob- tains throughout Spain on this partic- ular subject. We'll educated Spaniards believe that there is small cultured class in the United States, but that as nation we are made up chiefly of shop-keepers and ditch-diggers.
 They have been told over and over again that we have no courage, that we are afraid to fight, that our navy is useless, or nearly so, and that our lead CTS are all blowhard politicians. Nat urally they have come to believe this, and so confidently expect to whip us.
 AS for the lower classes, they actual Ay OSiiCNS llidl lilc O1 America is the raising of hogs, and at the word Americanos they conjure up visions of swine herders and their droveS.
 One or two instances will give a bet ter idea of these popular misconcep- tions. A comic paper has just been started in Madrid. It is called "The Porker" and is devoted to the ridicule of Americans The title does not seem at all crude or exaggerated to the av- craze Spaniard, I'll warrant The other day the Spanish press printed a report that the savages of Ohio and Illinois had risen and that all the regular troops would have to be called from the seaboard to quell the outbreak.
 From what I know of the state of public information in Madrid I dare say this story didn't raise a smile of incredulity in all the capital unless it was in the case of some American born
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resident. It seems to be the settled policy of the Spanish officials and newspapers to increase rather than tc d1Spel this ignorance. Therefore the Spanish people are likely to experience rude awakening before this war is over, an awakening that may be fraught with danger to these same of- ficials.
 At the same time I believe that those who expect Spain to yield the present contest without a struggle are badly mistaken. The Spaniard is really a desperate lighter when he is pushed to it.
 What Spain has done toward quell- ing the instruction in Cuba is not to be taken as fair test of what she can do in an extremity. There may have been sufficient reasons why the Span ish generals did not wish to bring the Cuban war to a speedy end, and any way in that contest the Spanish na- tton has not been straining every nerve as they will against the United States. The Spaniard's boast about shedding the last drop of blood in defense of his country's honor may be partly bun combe, but it is not altogether with out foundation.
 Some of the wars between the South American countries, whose people are of Spanish blood, give instances of this desperate species of bravery. In the war between Chile and Peru, after the Chilean vessel had been sunk and while her crew were struggling in the water, they still fought with their knives against the Peruvians who came to rescue them and died rather than ac- cept aid at the hands of their enemies.
 l have been asked if I think that the present plan of raising an army by calling out the national militia will pro-, vide a more efficient force than the North had at it's command at the be- ginning of the Civil War.
 The conditions are widely different, but they are alike in this: At the be-, ginning of the Civil War 1t was neces- sary to make an army and now it is' necessary to make an army. There. was militia to be called on then as, now. Perhaps 1t is a little more num- erous and a trifie more efficient andT better equipped now.
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rF we should keep the Philippine
 n Islands we would reverse the tra-
 ' ditions of this Government from
 E it's foundation. We would open up
 = a new line of policy. Let us see
 what that would mean In the first place 1t would mean the establishment of a military government over possibly ten millions of people 5000 miles away from us; it would mean the increase of our navy to the navy of France or Germany.
 It would mean the increase of our army to 150, ,000-more likely to 100000 men. It would mean the increase of our annual expenditures todouble what they are now. It would mean that the United States Government would be brought in closer contact with the peo- ple than ever before in the history of this country.
 We have known that there is a Fed eral Government only as representing our flag, our nationality and glorious traditions. but we have not felt the burden of it's support or been con- fronted with the possibility of the payment of an enormous annual mili- tary tax except during the Civil War.
  navies are maintained, the people are taxed directly for their maintenance. Our revenues have been obtained here tofore by indirect taxation, with the exception of a slight tax on whisky.
 But with the increase of our expen- ditures by 100 per cent the taxes to support the Government would be felt in our homes and in our offices. We should feel them in both the neces- saries and the luxuries of life-in our homes, in our tools, in our food, in our clothing, in our carriages and in our wagons; in our checks and notes and bonds and transfers of property-in every transaction of everyday busi- ness life For if we are to maintain great armies and navies like the pow CTS of Europe we must raise the reve- nue for them by the means mentioned and also by stamp tax that will face us at every turn.
 These conditions are contrary to our present form of government. To-day we know that the customs collector exists. He sits in his office at the GUS tOn1-house, and few of us ever think of him-fewer still have ever seen him or felt the taxes collected through him. Under the new regime tax collectors would necessarily be excise men, with offices everywhere. They would be known not only in New York and the other great centers of commerce, but in every town, village and hamlet in the United States. Our people respond with patriotic alacrity to every bur den sacrifice or tax for the successful carrying On of war. Whether they would with equal cheerfulness do the same for the new policy of the colonial empire furnishes food for considera- tion.
 What else does a world wide policy mean to us? It means a standardization which would change materially the re- lations of the United States to the Federal Government. The control of these populous colonies would be cen-
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a. WASHINGTON, D. C., May, 1So8.-: ss1n my judgment we ought not to en-: *barrass ourselves with the ownership of: *the Philippine Islands, distant so far; *from the United States. concur in the' x *opinion expressed by MT. Depew and {. *'.have always opposed the accession of, !. any outlying territory, the defense of. ]. (which might be embarrassing to our, * country. JOHN SHERMAN. . * * *** * * * k * * * * x * *S
 Why, trade them for something that
 we want. Or, If Spain should recognize
 the inevitable before long and come to
 us saying: ''We will release Cuba;
 European nations have agreed to help
 us out on the pledge of these islands,
 with the war indemnity you demand;
 we will repay you now" Then we
 could give up the Philippines and with
 draw from the East. If we don't do
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H
 \ ciated in order to understand
 the situation in the present war between the United States and Spain is the difference in the extent and accuracy of the information which each country possesses in regard to the other.
 Americans are, as rule, well read and well informed. They don't know all about Spain, but they know in a more or less general way of its extent and it's resources. They know, too, something of the habits and character of the people. A good many of them have actually visited Spain and have seen the country for themselves; near 'ly all the others have read about 1t. To be sure, I think the ideas which our people have formed regarding Spain are not altogether accurate.
 We are apt to regard the upper
 classes of Spain as ignorant, lazy and
 worthless and to believe that the rest
 Of the nation is made up of bull fight
 CTS and muleteers who are good for lit
 tie else. As a matter of fact, the re- sources of Spain are apt to prove sur prisingly great, considering the desper- ate condition in which she is now placed, and the average Spaniard, though he may be averse to ordinary labor, looks upon fighting as an honor able and worthy employment, and gen. orally has enjoyed some training for it. Mind, I am not casting doubt on the result of the present war; it can have but one ending. What I may say is that we must not expect Spain to crumble to pieces at the first touch of a hostile nation. The fully informed people of this country do not expect that, but they realize that Spain is immeasurably weaker that the United States. In general, the ideas in regard to our opponent which prevail in this country are pretty accurate.
 When one turns to Spain, however.