The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-08-11
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

w OANs ~ W., aug. ObIl, 1890.
President Mckinley is so confident
from the assurances he has received
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 men
to represent the U. S. upon the com
mission that will be charged with the
important and delicate duty of nego-
tiating the treaty between the U. S.
and Spain. Notwithstanding his con-
tidence, there is limit to the time
he is willing to give the Spanish gov
eminent with the people of Spain.
The French Ambassador who is rep
reSenting Spain, in Washington, has
been told that unless the terms of
peace are accepted within a given
time, they will be withdrawn, and
that if they are withdrawn, it is in
tended by this government to carry
the war into Spain at once, and that
no such maglaniinOus terms will be
again offered.
The news frniu General Miles CON
tinues good. More than half of Por-
to Rico is already il his possession
and he is steadily tyi ending his lines,
without fighting.
Gen. Shafter's army is being
brought away from Santiago Just as
fast as the ships at hand can get them
away i'll order to give the men a
chance to recuperate.
President Mckinley gave the two
Cincinnati boys who started the 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, a letter en-
dorsing their project and saying: Il
am sure the boys and girls will deem
it privilege to be numbered among
the contributors of this patriotic un-
dertaking." Master w. Rankin Good.
of Cincinnati, President of the Ma
tional American Boy Fund, and a
companion, had a very pleasant in
terview with the President-twoi in
terviews, in fact.
The Department of State has been
officially notified that an internation-
al Congress, for the purpose of dis
cussing tariff legislation and the req
ulation of labor, will be held at Ant
verb, Belgiu m, from Sept. 18th to
18th inclusive. Public economists.
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employers and workmen are invited
to take part. The points from which
these questions are viewed by Amer
leans and Europeans, are so wide
apart that few Americans are likely
to attend this Congress, except from
curiosity. Americans have a tariff
system now that is bringing them
great prosperity, and countries that
laN,n
in the regulation of labor.
Not only is the American manufac-
turer holding his own market under
the Dingley tariff law, but he is push
ing his goods into all the markets of
the world at rate that must be as
tonishing to those who claim that a
protective tariff would cause our man
ufacturers to lose all their foreign
trade. 1t was generally known long
before the bureau of statistics could
1oot up the figures and announce the
grand total, that our expectation of
agricultural products during the last
1lscal year, was largely in excess of
any single year in the history of the
country, and it is now known that
our expectation of manufactured arti !
Giles during the last fiscal wear. eX-
ceeded that of any other year by |
nearly 100000, and reached in |
value the enormous sum of S2SS, ST. |
Az, ana, what is still more gratifying. |
our imports OF manufactured articles |
curing the same period, were unusu-
ally llght, showing that our manufac- |
turers have recovered control of the |
nome market, which they partially !
lost under the low tariff law, enacted |
by the democrats, as well as increased |
thelr foreign trade. These are the |
sort OF facts that will have to be for
gotten before the people of this coun-
Try vote the democratic party back
INTO power; they are also the sort of
facts that speak for themselves and |
need no labored argument to make
them understood.
Surgeon-G General Sternberg has
written a general defense of the med
zeal corps of the army and himself |
from attacks made upon them, many
OF which he says were instigated by
those who became offended at his OBJ
position 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 sur
geons, some Incompetence may have
slipped in, owing to hurried eXamina-
lions: Of the shortage of medical
supplies at Santiago he says: The
principal reason was that the supplies
We're left behind when the army left
Tampa, owing to lack Of transporta-
ton facilities, and one of the minor
reasons was the delay in landing sup
plies OF al kinds at Siboncy.
Tho Snre Ia Gripp" Cure.
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