The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1898-12-31
CURRENT COMMENT.

$4,000 for Nv. McKinley's committee
to whitewash Secretary Alger, -Roches-
ter Herald.
For crazy populist vagary, govern
ment ownership is making great adj.
vancement among the peolle. Ii some
other party will adopt that plank it will
then cease to he a vagary. News Miner.
We should have i state board of i'm.
migration. regardless of any howl that
may he set up by the antedeluvians, and
at the head Of that department should be
placed the most competent man to be
found in the state.-Payette Indepen-
dent.
At the Paris Exposition OF 1900 the
United States viii have two hundred
and sixty-ive thousand square feet OF
floor space-more than any other nation
except France herself. At the last
exposition We occupied less than half as
much space. But the United States has
been growing.-kmmett Index.
Arthur Sewall, late candidate for vice
president, was asked Recently ii, in his
opinion, iree silver has received its death
blow in the recent elections Il don't
think free silver suffered in the least"
he said. 1T was not an issue. believe
it is as popular today "a it was two years
ago. 1t will he the supreme issue OF
1900, and ii successful then will he up
held uutil il wins Idaho Record.
One oi Mi,souri's congressman, while
on visit to New York recently, came
near brin" asphyxiated. He did not
blow our the gas, however, the trouble
being caused by coal fumes escaping
from the furnace into the air fiue Not
withs,autting the fart thar they live in
such Il suoharged atuosphs re, congress
men seem TO be particularly subject To-
the influence OF gas-Iiaho Statesman.
In the entire United States there are
hut eigh' military departments, whereas
Cuba, with total area and population
not greater than Alabama, is to be d.
vided into seven departments. There j.
no occasion for this undue multiplication
OF places held by appointment in the
military service, unless, indeed, the
leeches. ignoramuses and sons of fathers
who came to the surface by war office
iayors in the recent war ART. to keep their
positions OF advantage at the public crib.
Philadelphia Record.
President Mckinley has been i much
more staunch civil service reiormer IN
form than in tact SubSeryience on the
part oi the executive 10 the will Of party
bosses might lead to most drplorabe
consequences if it should result in send
ing 10 the West and East Indies such
political harpies as too often attain places
Of responsibility and emolument in the
United States. This il precisely the
same kind Of exploitation which has lost
to Spain every yestige OF her vast colon
/ ial empire.-PhIladelphla Record.
The victories OF the navy were COM
plete, because men who had been trained
and educated in the service and who
knew their business, we're left to fight
naval battles. The victories Of the army
were less compete because the trained
and educated men for military affairs
were side-tracked and incompeteuts put
10 work they had no conception Of. Our
government is becoming so grrar and its
responsibilities 80 enormous that Tom,
Dick and Harry can no longer be assigned
TO high places American.
The plan for a 90 called territorial gov
ernm-nt for Hawaii ha- been reported to
the senate with few changes from the
draft presented ny President MchinIey's
com m;s-ioners. II il y curiosity. We
may get used to setting mp governments
Tor subject peoples before We finish with
Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Cuba,
but this first essay in the new business
is rather startling. 1t brings he Amer
lean people face to face with the TACT that
the Declaration Of Independence and the
constitution of the United States are
back numbers" at Washington. The
government proposed for Hawaii local
oligarchy, tempered or dominated by an
imperial absoIuteism. The president is
absolute, holding and exercising his CON
troll through the governor and other Off
Gals whom he directly appoints. The
local authority, or what is left from the
almost supreme control of the appointed
officials, is in the hands Of a go called
Legislature, which is an executive body,
BASED on the possession Of wealth.-Bo7.
ton Post
1t ia plainly to lie seen Why Adjutant
General Corbin is beloved by the Hon.
orabIe Russell A. Alger. The adjutant
g neral is a sympathetic soul, who shares
the secretary's views concerning the con.
duct OF the war. For example, General
COrbln, testiiying before the war com.
mission, admitled-because he could not
deny that there was shortage OF uni
fo.ms, canvas and tentage; that Tampa
was unfit for military camp, and that
the payInaster's department was in
chaos, but lac still maintained that ''the
army was well equipped and thoroughly
supplied" And in answer to the ques.
ton how, considering the ideal state Of
aHairs, he accounted for the general COM
plants against the war department, he
solemniy and severely responded: ITO