Arizona republican., 1898-04-07
AT WASHINGTON HOTELS.

''If any one should suppose that all the wealthy and influential citizens of New York are for peace at any price, he makes big mistake" said MT. F. Fish, prominent real estate man of Gotham at the NOrmandie
 My business brings me in contact with rich men, with owners of sky scraping structures, officers of banks, insurance companies, and the like and from what I hear these men say in daily conversation, I know that by far the greater number believe in talk ing active and heroic measures to eX- pei Spanish dominion from the west ern hemisphere. There isn't a nation in Europe that would have put up with what the United States has stood from Spain. We have endured too much and if ever there was time that the manhood of the nation should assert itself now is the hour
 But what I started out to say was that the overwhelming feeling that has manifested itself throughout the Union and that shows the patriotism of our people in the strongest light, Is just as prevalent in the city of New York as it is in any part of the country, and New Workers will be as glad when the time comes for decisive action, as it surely must very soon, as the inhabi- tants of any other community in this broad land"
 "We hear a good deal about the grandeur of Spain in centuries gone by" said MT. F. H. Martin of New Or leans at the Shoreham, "but in most respects she was always one of the backward nations. Her boasted art was a f1orid, foreign importation, and her literature was bCmbastic in style and full of exaggeration that seems to characterize Spanish thought. For the discovery of America she is en- titled to small credit, and to her ever lasting shame is recorded in history the ingratitude with which she repaid those who had served her, and the cruelty that she exercised to the people Of the territory she acquired by con- quest Cruelty, In fact, is a dominant trait of the Spaniards.
 Nor was Spain ever in reality a prosperous country. In her best days the land was always overrun with beg gars. At no time did manufacturing industries flourish. Her exports have in the main always been those of a soil practically unimproved- as wool, hides, minerals, raw silk, and the like. In the days of her power she was largely land of mining camps and cattle ranches, and never has she reached any high plane of civiliza- tion."
 "No institution designed for the benefit of the negro has done that race nfnT%a ity," said MT. W. A. Freeman of Geor- gia to a Post man at the National.
 ''1t has done a magnificent work in and many young men and women, who are destined to be leaders of their peo- pie, have received their intellectual quipment there Today it has about 300 students, the greatest number of whom are in the normal department.
 "A Yale man, Edmund A. Ware, was one of the founders of the college and it's president up to 1885. A son of his is interested in the same work and is devoting much time to securing con- tributions from friends in the north"
 "I do not believe that another at tempt to defeat by trickery legislation that has been enacted will ever be made in Montana again." said MT. P. D. Laughlin of that state at the Vel lington.
 "The experience of John Bloor, for merly secretary of the senate, will be long remembered. On the last day of the session of the legislature, to pre- vent from final enrolment, he secreted bill that provided for a cut of 25 per cent in the salaries of county off, cers. He was tried and found guilty last April but annealed to the Sunreme