Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-17
enterprise and industrial development

enterprise and industrial development
will be opened.
! Our Peace Commissioners and those
from Spain are now having a little diff.
ference Of opinion concerning the
Philippine Islands, as you will probably
nave observed OF course that was to
be expected. 1t is like the trial which
follows the issue of writ of attach
ment. But one hardly knows whether
to be amused or angry at the comments
of the German journalistic bystanders.
One German paper gravely announces
that compelling Spain to yield these
islands would tarnish with shame the
arms OF the conquorer Forsooth. Can
this be the sentiment of the nation
whose greatest statesman not long since
admitted that France was tricked into a
war in which she lost great province
and was compelled to pay a good round
war indemnity besides? And wasn't it
the peace negotiations, conducted with
the heel of the Kaisers upon her neck,
that we're suddenly broken by SAID
sta esman dropping the acknowledged
diplomatic language of the world and
reverting to his mother-tongue? Is all
this ancient and forgotten history and
did it 'tarnish" German arms to any APP
probable degree, even it it was tough on
France. One would hardly think so.
But then it makes difference whose OK
is gored and possibly the Germany of
William l., Bismark and Unser Fritz
was different from the Germany today
The whole country will greatly re-
greet the loss of the Spanish cruiser
Maria Taresa, which foundered on her
way to this country. Not only was it
thought possible to So repair the vessel
as to make her valuable addition to
sentiment in preserving her as trophy
of the war However the West Indian
hurricane was too much for her ard she
is now safely resting beneath about
three miles Of water. Spain will probab-
| ly claim this as an intervention of Provi-
dence in behalf of her honor Also a
warning that we should not Cypress the
poor by taking from them that which
they have not-the Philippines II is
said at the Navy department that this
will probably end the attempts to save
any of the other vessels.
There is considerable discussion of
the probable action of the railroads now
that the supreme court has decided the
Sherman anti-tr law to be constitu-
tional and to apply to them. The de-
cision has pra ,tically killed the Traffic
association. 1t has also shown the hol-
low falsity and utter baseness of the
tiresome and mendacious assertions that
corporate interests control our courts.
So also has the decision of the Illinois
supreme court in the Pullman case. OF
course judges, legislators, and officials
are men and as much liable to error and
once in a while some corrupt individual
speaks into one of these places. But as
a rule they are high minded, honest,
honorable and patriotic. The more a
man sees of them and knows of their
work, peIplexities and responsibilities,
the better he knows this. The fellow
who takes the contrary view is the fell
low that needs watching and the more
empnatlc and persistent he is in publish
ing his views the more he needs watch
! ing whether his profession be trading
jack knives or something higher in the
scale. Ed. e. DAVIS.