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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-12-01

376,133 square miles in Texas in 1916
and 1853, and purchased from Russia
531, 400 square miles in 1867.
While the territory of the United States
was expanding from s27 ,s44 square miles
TO 5000, 800 square miles, the territory of
Spain in the Western continent declined
from 7,02S,6SS square miles TO $4,000
Portugal lost all of her territory, Russia
all Of hers, and France nearly all of hers
while Great Britain merely declined
from 3, 719,109 square miles to 3,625,352.
In 1900 an area of S27,S44 square miles
was occupied by republican government
now the area is 11,632,426 square miles.
Mr.. Taylor contends that the wal with
Spain was "the inevitableoutcome of our
national development. which has drawn
after ii, as "a necessary consequence, a
vast and rapid territorial expansion" He
hc4ds that it is not within the power Of
political parties DR. individual statesman
10 check thai expansion arbitrarily. The
pAbNNNS "llNli btE III Win DlN tApuAolOh
Of France from North America in 1868
ended with the expulsion of Spain from
Cuba and Porto Rico in 1898.
This logic of events is stronger, Mr..
Taylor CLAIMS, than party leadership or
legislation. 1t has carried the United
States forward TO the primary of the
Western continent, this primacy being TO
America what European concert is to the
nations of the old world. All the pend
ing problems as to Cuba, the PHILIPPINES,
Porto Rico and the Nicaragua canal, Mr..
Taylor believes, may be solved by the
constitutional means at our command.
He practically admits that in the settle
ment Of all the greater questions grow
ing n of the war the Democrats will
play the part of obstructionjsts, and he
warns them that 'no party and no indi
yidual statesman can stand against the
irresistible laws Of progress
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-12-01
Pending Problems and Democracy.

The Hon. Hannis Taylor, Democrat,
submits an argument on pending Prob
lens" in the North American Review for
November that makes untenable the po-
sition of his party as To the Philippines.
Mr.. Taylor contends that the treaty of
Westphalia in 1913, which established
the principle of European concert, was
not intended 10 have and never has had
application TO the trans Atlantic acqui-
sitions of the signatory powers. The
maritime powers of Europe acted on
another theory as 10 the Western hemi.
~sphere-that conquest and settlement.
the final outcome of which has been the
creation of a new world power, "whose
expansion has suddenly precipitated
events that now promise to bring about
a Encouragement of international forces
on a new basis"
Pursuing this expansion policy, France
secured Canada and the ST Lawrence
valley, the countryin the United States
between the Alleghauies and the Mis-
I siSsippi, and proceeded TO build up the
empire of New France, extending from
New Orleans to Quebec. Spain, pursu
ing the same policy, appropriated a part
Of North America and nearly all of South
America, and Great Britain and Portugal
were at the same time conquering and
settling, the one in the Atlantic area Of
1 North America and the other along the
great river in South America. The pro
cess of expansion brought the European
powers in conflict in America, but the
influencing agent in readjustment was
the expansion Of the English colonies,
which were in a few years to become the
United States.
The annexation by settlement and con
quest continued through the revolution
AIRY war and destroyed New France. In
January 1890, Spain possessed 7,02S,62s
square miles Of territory on the Western
continent; Great Britain, 3,719,109; Por
tugal, 3,209,s7S,; United States, 82T,SA:
Russia, 81, 800: France, 1882: Neither
lands, 434: Denmark, 223. In 1900 under
the Louisiana purchase, 1,124,6S5 square
miles were added TO the United States
Florada was ceded by Spain in 1919, and
under the expansion policy we annexed
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-12-01
Lees Mysterious Vote.

For a day OF two after the election
it was supposed that Phillips had
been badly cut by the Republicans,
from the fact that while the entire
Republican ticket was elected by
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-12-01
The speech Of Father Abraham in

The speech of Father Abraham in
the last number of Poor Richards
Almanac, published by Benjamin
Franklin in 1757,r contains the Wis
dom ofmany ages and nation sassem
BLEED and formed into one connecred .
When FIRST published it attracted
world wide attention and was copied
in all of the newspapers in Ameri "a
and England aud translated into
many foreign languages. Would
YOU not like 70 read it? Get a cop,
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-12-01
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12
Explosion OF Gas in "A Water Tunnel
Under Lake Erie.

CLEVELAND, o., May 11.-Ten men were
injured by an explosion of gas to-day in
the new water-worl1s tunnel under the lake.
The diggers were $500 feet from shore. The
explosion was caused by one of the men
striking a match 10 light his pipe. In
stantly there was binding flash of flame
and terrific roar, filing the tunnel with
smoke and binding the diggers. An alarm
was at once sent to the tower house on shore
and a relief expedition was organized among
other workmen for the rescue of their COM
rades Blackened, blinded and stunned, the
injured men were carefully transported to
the shaft and thence conveyed by ambu-
lances to hospitals Following are those IN
jured: Ernst Engel, badly burned about
face, arms and body; Villa Tejedia, burned
about head, arms and body; Alex. McFad-
den, burned about the legs, face and body;
Daniel Maher, burned about face and body;
Michael Treviln, of Grove City, o., burned
about head and arms; Thomas Corrigans
burned about arms and body; James Black,
burned about head and arms; Tony Sadeta,
badly burned. The men in the tunnel were
mostly foreigners.
Three of the injured men died this even
ing. They are Michael Tovelin, James An
derson and Michael McFadden. Two others,
Tony Degrade and Thomas Corrigan, are
expected to die before morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12
And Says the Government VIII Pros
ecute the War to the End De-
spite Home Discussions.
DEFENSE OF SPAIN'S POLICY
TRIED TO AVOID WAR, WHILE YAM
KEGS WERE PLAYING FOUL.
Senior SaImerOn Also Scored by senior
SiIveIa-SpcciaI Budget of f2O,-
100000 Demanded.

MADRID, May lin the Chamber to-
night Senior Sagasta replied to Senior Sal
merons attack on the present regime, re-
torting that the state of anarchy which ex-
listed in Spain during the short-lived Re
publican regime under Salmeron made Spain
the laughing stock of the world. The pre-
mier defended the policy Of the government
in doing its utmost to avoid war, while
the Yankees were playing foul game"
He REPEATED his appeal for union, adding
that whoever sowed discord was not a
patriot. He concluded his speech by de-
claring that the government would prose-
cute the war outrance.
In the Senate to-day Admiral Beranger,
minister of marine in the last Cabinet of
the late Senior Canovas del Castillo, asked
for an account of the war material sent to
the colonies and of the war ships purchased
by Spain between May {. 1895, and March 4,
1896. He asked also for a report on the
electric torpedo boats bought by Spain
At the beginning of to-day's sitting the
chamber passed bills for the temporary
abolition of the import duty on raw cotton
and the abolition of differential duties on
foreign ships trading between Spain and her
colonies. The former will help the Cata-
lonian manufacturers and the latter will
tend to encourage blockade running. The
indemnity bill was the next passed, almost
unopposed, the Carlists alone voting
against it. The remainder of the sitting
was devoted to a continuation of yester-
days oratorical tournament The chief fea-
ture was crushing reply by Senior Silvela,
leader of the Dissident Conservatives, to
Senior Salmeron's grafton. Senior Silvela
calmly and with parliamentary propriety
shot many poisoned darts in the form Of
illusions to incidents in Salmeron's former
political career, producing much hilarity.
Senior Silvela declared confidently that the
monarchy had nothing to fear from Repub-
licans under leader who divided instead
of uniting his followers. He said the best
thing Senior Salmeron could do was to make
himself forgotten Even the Carlists, who
had been coquetting with the Republicans,
applauded Senior Silvela, one of them
speaking almost in the same sense.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, May 11-Three
hundred and forty cowboys from New Mex
leo and thirty-nine society leaders from
New York are the latest acquisitions to
Roosevelt's riders Among the men from
the East are Craig Wadsworth. one of the
best polo players in America; Basil Rick
etts, son of the late General Ricketts,,
who has served two years apprenticeship
on a Colorado cattle ranch; Hamilton Fish,
jr., another noted polo player; Horace
Devereaux, of Colorado Springs and the
Princeton football team; William Tiffany,
of New York, a social favorite, but who
can boast of a long experience on western
ranch and range; Kenneth Robinson, of the
knickerbOcker Club; Reginald Eonalds,
half back of the Yale football team, and
HOLSTER the Harvard sprinter. There will
be about fifty of these college and clibmen
in all, but their wealth and influence will
secure them no special consideration in the
regiment. One of them may get Heuten-
ants commission, and two or three of them
are likely to be made noncommissioned OFF,
GERS, but the rest will serve as troopers on
a perfect equality with the rest of the men.
ARDMORE, 1. T.. May 1.-THE Chicka-
saw contingent of Colonel Woods's rough
riders who had been previously mustered in
at Muskogee, left to-day for San Antonio,
Tex. They had been delayed by washouts.
The company is under the command of
Capt Dan j. Kendall and every man is
crack shot,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12

English People Say Mean Things, butt
on the Whole, Are Friendly.
/ Washington Post.

London Letter in washington POST.
President Mckinley is now. at Nine Tus-
happy but very dignified-yes, pompously
dignifed. His clothes don't fit him. The
President is also represented on cinemato-
graphic screen every night at the Palace
Music Hall. The appearance of his coun-
terfeit presentment is greeted with mingled
cheers and Kisses. The Maine and the Viz
hailed with melange of appreciation and
groans Opinion in the music halls on the
evidently divided. r. G. Knowles, the popu-
lar comedian, now every night gets off this
gag at the Empire Music Hall: Five hum
dred years ago Spain discovered America.
america Captures Cruisers" Spain
Strikes Terror" Panic, in New York.
of the cries which the coclSney newsboys
bawl into our ears nowadays and nova
nights. The city is drunk with rumor. The
penny papers and the haif-pennies feed the
flame by the issue of sensational bulletins
every few hours. Tie Times is loftily neu-
trail in it's attitude. The Daily Telegraph is
non-committal. The Daily Mail is outspoken
for you. The Pail Mall Gazette favors your
cause. though somewhat mixed as 20 what
your cause is The Westminster Gazette.
the Sun and the Daily News back you. The
Daily Chronicle iries to run The war in your
war for the Greeks against the Turks. In
front of the Globe Office, in the Strand.
in the window, there is a large map. and
OH TINS map the positions or the ulHerent
war ships are indicated by the tiny flags
of the respective countries. Dense crowds
always scan that large map. The Globe
gives the news accurately and seriously. and
The st. James Gazette is rather against
that Anglo-SaXon alliance which we hear
so much of just now. 1t cynically asks Eng
lishmen whether they have forgotten the
twisting of their lions tail during the three
generations, and that windy bluff about
Venezuela. It also asks how they would Ike
interference in the affairs Of Jamaica. or
Canada. or the Bermudas, as they now
claim the right TO interfere In the affairs
of Cuba And how about that doctrine OF
the late lamente6 Mr. President Monroe?
But the mass of public opinion in England
seems inclined to side with you. This.
suppose win be the case as long as you
show sign of being able to beat the Dona
thoroughly and quickly
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12
BUSTLE AT TAMPA.
War Munitions Transferred from
RAILWAY Cnra to TransnOrts


TAMPA, Fla, May 11.-Everything posi-
BILE is being done to facilitate the work of
loading the transports at Port Tampa with
ammunition and supplies for the expedition.
All last night and all to-day hundreds of
men were kept busy unloading the war ma
terial from flat cars and carefully slowing
1T away in the steamers This part of the
work will be practically concluded by to-
morrow night and the ships now in the slip
will drop anchor in the bay to make room
for other transports. The Orizaba is ex-
pected up from quarantine tomorrow. This
is one of the largest transports engaged by
the government and will be used for carry
ing infantry. A number of Hotchkiss
quick-fring and Calling guns were loaded
on the Florida to-day The big siege guns
four of which have arrived here, have not
yet been unloaded from the cars They will
be loaded on some of the larger vessels,
probably the Alamo or Orizaba.
Lieut.. j. ID. Miley, of General Skaters
staff who was sent to Washington Satur-
day with the reports of Captain DOrst and
Lieutenant Colonel LaWton and the plans
for the Cuban campaign. returned to-day,
bearing with him q big bundle of maps and
documents and Immediately reported to Gen
Shafter. 1t is now believed that the two
Cuban regiments will accompany the regu-
lar troops TO Cuba. They have all been
armed with Springfield rifles, and, under al
most incessant drilling, are rapidly being
pounded into Shape.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12

the Judgement of the invading army on the
Cuban coast. But should an effort to re-
duce the Notifications of Havana from the
water side be thought necessary. the heav-
Ter fighting ships now off Porto Rico would
have to be called on to undertake the bonn
bardment; while il the Vizcaya. the Al
mirante Oquendo. the Maria Teresa and the
Cristobal Colon should, after all have
passed unnoticed into the Caribbean sea
and should appear unexpectedly off the
west end of Cuba, the presence of the full
Key West fleet in that neighborhood would
be found indispensable to beat off the as
sailants and maintlin communications with
the American forces already landed.
Though Monday is the date now set for
the departure of the first division of regu-
lars from Tampa it would create no great
surprise If the troops were detained on
Florida soil a few days longer. To take
advantage of the comparative dryness of
May prompt start and a sharply directed
campaign against Havana are considered
advisable. But it seems certain that the
volunteers who are to follow the regulars
to Cuba cannot be assembled on the gulf
coast in fit condition for field work within
the next two weeks, so that actual opera
tons in Cuba will scarcely be possible be-
fore May 20. BY that time, too. all doubts
about the disposition OF the Spanish naval
forces will have been solved, and Acting
Admiral SIMPSONS reunited fleet can be
employed to cooperate with the American
land forces in pushing the siege of the Gu
ban capital
No serious weight is attached here to the
suggestion that Spain will send fleet
through the Suez canal to attack Admiral
Dewey's forces in the Philippines. 1t is not
considered likely that the Spanish govern
ment would strip its home ports of ade-
quate protection in order to undertake the
reconquest Of distant colony, which could
be held only at the sacrifice of national in
terests in every other quarter of the world.
Moreover, with government and Cabinet
engrossed in a struggle for political exist
ence at home, Spain is scarcely in a posi-
ton to pursue for the present any but
defensive and negative naval and military
programme.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12

ST THOMAS, May 1.-TWO thousand
seven hundred tons of coal has arrived here
from Philadelphia for speculation.
According TO reports from Porto Rico, the
people are panic-stricken at the prospects
of the bombardwent of San Juan. There
have been two hundred political arrests in
Porto Rico recently under the tyrannical
measures enforced there. The shipping is
suspended and there are no customs re-
ceipts.
Hunger and smallpox are spreading
through the country, and two hundred fam
lilies are starving at Franguez and Maya
guez. Two women are said to have died Of
sheer fear Of bombardment by a suspicious
looking vessel at sea, and there has been
suicide at Aguadilla for the same reason.
An incessant coast patrol is maintained,
and the Spanish authorities are confiscating
the coal Of private individuals. Exchange
is at 120
1t is reported that an American war ship,
which had been lying to the westward,
sailed yesterday to join the American fleet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12
MASTERING IN VOLUNTEERS.
Reports Received by War Depart
ment from State MILITIA Camps.

WASHINGTON, May 11.-Reports re-
ceived at the War Department show con-
tinuation of the rapid progress being made
the advices received under yesterdays date
are the following:
Colorado-One regiment mustered.
1oWa-IWelVe regimental surgeons mus
tered.
ADMINISTRATIVE mastering officer reports
That he has completed the muster of the
quota or the State army, its strength being
128 officers and $3.50 men.
New York-From Camp Black the report
comes that the SeVenty-first Regiment of
New York Volunteers has been examined
and mustered; strength 40 officers and 964
Rhode Island-TWelve companies of the
First Rhode Island Volunteers reported
complete; 43 officers and $40 men.
Other adViceS which come to the War
Department are as follows: The Governor
of Colorado reports that the State regi-
ment VIII report wherever and whenever it
may be ordered In Wyoming a battalion
OF infantry has been mustered into the
service. 1t consists of four companies of
eghty-one men each, with full compile
ment OF off1cers.slj Governor Wolcott of
Massachusetts, telegraphs that the regi-
ment designated for Tampa has been uni
formed, armed and equipped and is ready
to go. Two regiments of Ohioans are
armed and equipped ready to move at once,
Georgia about 1000 men are encamped. In
Illinois the Third and Fifth Regiments Of
Volunteers are ready for service. From
Minnesota the Governor reports that the
first service. The First New Hampshire
Regiment is fully armed and equipped.
mastering officer Davis reports that none
of the four New York regiments will be
ready to leave before Saturday. The mus
tering officers report does not state which
OF the four regiments are referred to.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12
Preparing for Indiana Troops.

NEW ORLEANS, May 11.-Ofhcers at the
fair grounds of both the regular and volun-
teer forces are waiting anxiously for some
news confrmatory of the press dispatches
intimating that troops are to be sent hence
to Cuba very shortly. If any orders have
been received, however. they have not yet
been given out. The announcement that
Iowa, Illinois and Indiana troops have been
ordered to New Orleans has stirred the onl-
GERS at the fair grounds to activity and
preparations are being made for the en-,
campment of the Western troops, proVlded
that they are to remain here for any length
of time before taking transport for the
island The grounds and ACCOMMODATIONS
here are ample for the several thousand
troops that have been ordered to New Or
leans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12
Anxious to Comnand ..Immunes.v

WASHINGTON, May 11.-Already appli-
cations to raise regiments of inmunes under
the recent legislation of Congress are being
received at the War Department. To-day
Senator McEnery and Representative Rob-
ertson, of Louisiana, called at Secretary AL
gers office in the interest of J. c. Wickliff,
of Louisiana, who desires authority from
the department to proceed to enist one, of
the special regiments. Mr.. Wicixliff has
can H. Hood, a son of the noted Confed-
crate general of that name, also has re-
quested permission to raise one of the I'M
mune' regiments. Other persons who have
volunteered to raise independent regiments
are General CIPHER, of this city, and Col
Hines. Some of the applicants are not only
willing to raise the regiments, but express
their Intention Of fully equipping them for
the service of the government
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12

Why So Many Volunteers Have Been
Rejected by Medical Examiners.

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE large num-
Der of reflections of volunteers has caused
much comment in the army medical corps.
However, the physicians who have con-
Quoted the examinations say that outside of
the ranks of cigarette smokers there are
even fewer reflections than there were in the
days of the civil war Among habitual users
of cigarettes the reflections are about 80 per
cent. DR.. Benjamin King of Philadelphia,
who acted as an examining surgeon during
1898 in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Indiana, says that the average reflections
during those years did not exceed Ii per
cent. He attributes the large increase al
most entirely to the cigarette habit Il have
been inspecting the papers in a number of
cases under the present recruiting act"
said DR.. King, land 1 observe that most Of
the men who failed to pass the medical ex-
animation have weak hearts or lack the vi
tally necessary to make a good soldier
had expected that the percentage OF reJec-
lions would be greater now than IN 1851. but
L did not dream IL would be almost three
times as great. The examining physicians
WIN whom ! have talked nave generally
told me. that the excess of reflections Is due
10 the large number of y0ung men Applying