The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-03

destroying the very market for
American products which Is held
out as a bait to quiet consciences
which know that this war of cou-
quest is unjustitiable.
The administration breads the
future. 1t is using every energy,
whip and spur, to force the Hull
army bill without change through
the senate. 1t IS Offering to Demo
cratic and opposition senators brides
in the form OF army appointments
without number to secure votes and
weaken 1h, opposition. Should 1t
get through, watch the army
appointees for the next three
months and discover who is back of
them.
In case the bill does not pass
President Mckinley threatens an
extra session, but what will stall
him then will be the fact that his
present volunteer army will have
dissolved under operation of the
Jaw Of their enlistment. He knows
that no false cry of patriotism ca"
prevail against the shameful reco"1
Of A gerism and inetticency, to pro-
vide u fresh army for embalmed
beef and favored contractors 10 ex-
plot.
No better illustration of what IS
ahead Of the administration can be
furnished that the campaign which
Japan has been conducting for seve-
raj years in Formosa. That islano
situated some 10 degrees north OF
Manila and therefore less difficult
and tropical, is inhabited by peoples
practically indentical in all essen
tials with the mixed tribes of the
Philippines. They resented the at
tempt Of the Japanese to govern the
island after it had been e coded BY
China.
The Chinese government through
d combination of wisdom and inert
ness had allowed the FOrmOSan ma.
tives the privilege of managing
their own affairs. Japan, however.
determined to administer the island.
Her record is not n which she pub
fishes with pride. The cost has al
ready been somewhat greater than
the Chinese-Japanese war. Her loss
of life has been five times as great.
Over 200 Formosan villages have
been burned and more than 100, 600
killed, men women and children.
But up to date the only portions Of
the interior which the Japanese hold
are those where the natives have
been exterminated. Twu-thirds OF
the island are still in revolt.
Formosa is three days steamine
from Yokahoma. Manila is thirty
days steaming from San Francisc,
ut, d six weeks from New York.
Furmosa has less than 10000 squar,
miles: the Philippines fourteen times
that area. For1nosa has a popula-
ion of sou, 900; the Philippines,
5000. 600. No further comparlso.
is needed.
The responsibility belongs to this
republican administration, and tn,
la> of reckoning is coming. Mos,
significant of all, there are three
candidates for the pext republican
nomination, which six months 100
was considered as already 81 rned
and sealed for Mckinley. These
three are Speaker Reed, Genera
Miles and Governor Roosevelt.
Reed is boldly, openly thwartiny
the administration. He gave his
orders that the Nicaragua canal
scheme should be shelved in the
house. He allowed a resolution on
the Philippines to be sent tie another
committee than the committee on
foreign affairs, where it would have
been smothered and will allow it to
be used as a club to kill any pet ad-
ministration project which he wants
defeated. Chairman Cannon and all
Of Reeds personal following in the
house are now talking the necessity
for economy.
1t is absolutely patent even now
that the administration cannot
reach the next presidential election
without the absolute necessity for
a further bond issue confronting the
treasury. Reed knows it, believes
that McKirleV cannot escape the