The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-07

States there arises a question OF peculiar
Importance TO the American people. Aside
from anything commercial or military, the
question is purely political Can tho Unit ID
States undertake a system OF colonization
through the republican party consistent
With the preservation OF free institutions
Can the American idea of selfsovereigniy
be rerpetuated by a political party that is
committed to protectionism and the gold
standard. both OF which are monarehital
rather than democratic?
Without any discussion OF the colonial
ton idea at all within itself the incidental
question of the fitness Of the republican
party to undertake a policy OF territorial
expansion offers food for wholesome
thought by the American people, There Is
much that may be said both for and against
colonial policy from the standpoint of our
material welfare; but the one question
that stands eminently above every
other is that OF the political means OF its
promotion in case of it's adoption.
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No amount Of combination in congress-, and
no amount of oloqucnce about effective meth
DDS OF raising revenue. can keep from the
people the fact that until the income tax de-
cisiun Is reversed there can be no tax levied
on tic wealth Of the country even to meet its
necessities In time Of war. And the fact can
not lie concealed that this right of taxation
was uhjustly, wrongfully UNANIMOUSLY taken
away from congress by the supreme court OF
the UineG States
A Houston Crank OF tho right sort was In
that Morrimac episode.
From far off Teheran comes the news that
Amin Ed Doulo has resigned and that Mocher
Ed Touoh is forming new ministry II
Editor Mike Connolly Of the Memphis CONNER
eel Appeal can discover by hook or by crook
tha5 any Irlshmcn ever o,.ligrated to Persia, he
VIII have good cause to assert that the two
gentlemen above, had their ancestors re-
NAMED In ireland. would today be plain Andy
DDoley and Mickey Tooley respectively.
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II would be strange II we were to fight this
war without one or two "set backs"
rLey may talk IA they like about old Ger
vera. and bottle his ships as enectunlly as
they Will, but they can not bottle his man
hood. His courtesy to Hobson and the crew
OF the Mcrrimnc was the act of brave man
anl gentleman. Had Spain sent men of his
ilN to govern Inflated Cuba, she might not
nov be In the throes OF war that VIII shake
her SO creIgnty to It's very corner stone.
When q man Is down his enemies do not
klcl. him. They simply stand aside and watch
his friends do it.
Dispatches to The Post from Washington saw
tina. tho future of the Philippines is causing
thc officials much concern. The query at the
capitol Is, shall tho white elephant which
Dewey has captured he kept or sold?" Kent
ny all mems. we would suggest. as n wall
street preserve. The highnyors would find
plenty OF rope there. and the rest would be
eaai.
IL begins to look MS IL the Cervera bottle
VIII be covered with the cobweb of age before
Simpson can get chance to crack IL.
Letter has the power and IL willing to as
sumo the responsibility OF sending wheat from
s''' down to si.25, Just to show how well HI.
mas hiH game In hand. It's lucky for This
Fn"hs man that he is In n country rich enough
to stand such 'monkeying" with the stan OF
life.
The sinking of the Mcrrimnc in SANTIAGO
hafbtr was ono instance, at least. where Hob.
sons choice could not have been imnroyoa
Ca ''' '''
Alexander ropes famous counIe, e,iy,,,x
paihphrased, might be nptIy suggested 10 tho
T'A"s troops. who are now chahng under tho
restraint OF being kept at Mobile all summer.
Honor and rank from no position rise
Act well your part, there are the honor Iies,,.
Mary Anderson may have been once In,
moH beautiful woman on the American stoyc
bu' she can't hold n kerosene lamp now n
Maxine Elliott
liong Kong advces say that 5000 chinese
rohNets are assembled near Canton. If tbev
can not rob any better than Ch,namcn CA,
night 1t would take about that number to roh
y" average American, Engishman or Japa-
nose.
inogine from the ease With which the guilt |
Die Ssnniards swallow the lying reports Of thu
Madro papers ancnt the war Spain would be |
a vcritable Klondike for gold brick men or
bunco sharps.
The report of an Aurora man who chopped
two fingers of his right hand In order ~
avoid being drafted as soldier raises the
problem. why man who has nerve enough To
do that should be afraid to 20 to war.
The latest published question of proprietv
Is; should or should not n young man paw
ho fare of ladies whom he is escorting homer"
fea. by all means, even ii he has 10 borrow
quarter of one OF them to do IT,
City Health Officer Rutherford is talking
straight to the people u Houston on the snb
ieet Of cleaning up their premises. And no
stys he Ia going to act II his orders ara nor
oboNed. That sounds bna,ncsslike
CEHNERA's RECORD,
Fhc Triumphnnt Points of Strntcpx
He Has Made.
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