Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-08-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.

(From our Regular Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 8, '9s.
President Mckinley is so confident
from the assurances he has receiv-
ed that the Spanish government will
as soon as it can with safety to itself
formally accept our terms of peace
that he is devoting considerable time
to deciding upon just the right man
to represent the U. S. upon the COM
mission that will be charged with
the important and delicate duty of
negotiating the treaty Of peace be-
tween y .S. and Spain Notwith-
standing his confidence, there is a
limit to the time he is willing to
give the Spanish government to
square itself with the people of
Spain. The French Ambassador,
who is representing Spain, in WASH
ington, has been told that unless
the terms of peace are accepted in
a given time they will be withdrawn
and that if they are withdrawn, it
is intended by this government to
carry the war into Spain at once,
and that no such magnanimous
terms will be again offered.
President Mckinley gave the two
Cincinnati boys who started tho
idea of raising, by contributions
from school children, the money to
buy the finest battleship in the
world for presentation to the u. S.
and to be named the American Boy,
letter endorsing their project and
saying 81 am sure the boys and
girls will deem it privilege TO be
numbered among the contributors
to this patrio tic undertaking. Mas
ter W. Good, of Cincinnati, Presi-
dent of the National American Boy
Fund, and a companion, had very
pleasant interview with the Presi-
dent--two interviews, in fact.
The Department of State has been
officially notified that an inter-
national Congress for the purpose
of discussing tariff legislation and
the regulation of labor, will be held
at Antwerp, Belgium, from Sept. 10
to II, inclusive. Public economists
socialists, manufacturer merchants,
employers and workmen are invit-
ed 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 tins Congress, ex-
cept from curiosity. Americans
have q 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 manu-
| facturer holding his own market
under the Dingley tariff law, but he
is pushing his goods into all the
marke is of the world at rate that
must be astonishing to those who
claim that protective tariff would
cause our manufacturers to lose all
their foreign trade. 1t was gener-
ally known long before the bureau
of statistics could foot up their
figures and announce the grand
total, that our expectations of agri-
cultural products during the last f1s-
cal year, was largely in excess of any
single year in the history of the
CphibA0 0ilA ~ llOM huOMh bllhb
our expectation of manufactured
articles during the last fiscal year,
exceeded e that of any other year, by
nearly S12, 600, 900, and reached in
value the enormous sum of $2SS, 81,
449 and, what is still more gratify-
ing, our imports of manufactured
articles during the same period,
were unusually light, showing that
our manufacturers have recovered
control of the home market, which
they partially lost under the low
tariff law, enacted by the Demo-
Gratis, as well as increased their for
eign trade. These are the sort of
facts that will have to be forgotten
before the people of this country
vote the Democratic party back in
to power they are also the sort of
facts that speak for themselves and
need no labored argument to ma Ike
them understood.
Surgecn-General Sternberg has
written a general defense of the
medical corps of the army and him
self from attacks made on them,
many of which were instigated by
those who became offended at his
/ opposition to sending female nurses
to camps Of instruction or with the
army in the field He says the only
trouble with the medical corps is
that there are not enough surgeons
in the army, even in peace that it
is probable that in taking on about
300 contract surgeons, some incom-
petence may have slipped in, owing
to hurried examinations. OF the
shortage of medical supplies at San
tiago, lie says; The principal reas-
on was that the supplies were left
behind when the army left Tampa,
owing to lack of transportation ia
eilities, and one of the minor reas-