The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-06-09

AA0A0 00O Oo0A HOW'D VI 6OO0 pro
liminsry fighting, and there is
daily expectation Of news Of deci-
sive battles from both Porto Rico
and Santiago. The lines are be-
ing 90 tightly drawn around Spain
that a prominent European diplo-
mat predicts it will be begging
for peace on any terms in q very
short time. :.> .. I.
Senator Lodge struck q patrio-
tic key note which should find q
congenial response in the breast
of every Senator and Representa-
tive when he said: Il am firmly
impressed with the idea that we
ought not only to pass the revenue
measure, but every other bill
which the administration desires
as war measure, and do SO speedi-
ly. So far as I am concerned, I
am unwilling that Congress should
adjourn until all of the measures
demanded by the exigencies of
war, of whatever nature those
measures may be, shall have been
enacted into law. Anxious as I
am for IN early adjournment, I
will never give my vote to a pro-
position to adjourn until the Pre-
sident has been afforded every bit
of Legislative aid he desires in the
prosecution of the war;"
Senator Elkins said in an inter-.
esting speech, nominally on the
war revenue bill, but really on
the vista of progress already open
ed to the U. s. by the results of
the war: I'VE must have mer-
chant ships on the seas, control
the shipping and commerce on the
great oceans that wash our shores,
and have navy greater and more
powerful than any now afoat.
This is manifest destiny. The
world is today but a vast neigh
borhood, fast being divided up in
groups of great families; it is
drawn more closely together than
were counties and states fifty years
ago; it has become more CONNER
cial than ever; one member of
this family cannot resist in its
own interest doing what the other
members do. Consolidation and
merging of smaller states into
larger ones and empires is irresist.
ible. Necessity lies at the bottom
of this great movement
| President Mckinley could not
have adopted a more striking
method of showing the world that
the governments of France and
the q. s. were on the most friend
ly terms than the publication of
his proclamation of the going in
to effect on June l, of a treaty of
commercial reciprocity between
the two countries. This is the
first reciprocity treaty under the
Dlngley law, but others are in
course of negotiation. Under this
treaty France grants substantial
concessions in the duty upon
American meats and meat pro-
ducts, and We upon French liquors,
except champagne, and works of
art.
When the main army of invas-
ion goes to Cuba it will carry four
war balloons, ,oade in France,
which will be operated by a train
Cd corps of aeronauts under COM
mand of Lieut.. JOS. E. Maxfeld.
This corps will be divided into
two companies, each of which will
have two balloons and all the
paraphanalia needed to work
them, including apparatus for the
manufacture of gas. Military
mon are looking forward to this
branch of the service-new on
this side of tho Atlantic-witb
much interest.
President Mckinley sent a
special message to Congress this
week sor the purpose of transmit.
ting the following modest reply
of Admiral Dewey to the message
from the Secretary of the Navy
extending the thanks of the Presi-
dent, the Congress, and the people
to him and his gallant men, to that
body: II desire to express to the
department, and to request that it
will be transmitted to the Presi.
dent and to Congress, my most
sincere thanks for the oraat con