Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-12
gurg ghudsp ortnhr ~ 1870

were the property OF wealthy families
of Omaha and had been left for the
summer in Shukert's vaults The two
men awaiting trial for the crime are
Tom Monahan and Charlie Dennis, the
latter having been we'll known in Chs
cago many years ago, when he was arr
rested for the burglary of silk house
in Fifth avenue and the murder of Of
ficer Race.
NJ. L. Temple announces that he is
not and will not be a candidate for
nomination on the republican ticket
next year as attorney general of the
state.
Edwin Wildman, former vice consul
at Hong Kong. who arrived recently in
Washington, thinks Gen. Otis is too old
for the work in which he is engaged
and that he is not aggressive-that he
tries to do it all, and. like every other
man who tries to do it all, he does
nothing successfully" He believes
with Dewey that our flag should never
come down in the Philippines. mo
promises were ever made to the Fill
pinos. We brought Agunaldo to Ma
Mia, we'll, the same as we might help
any other man. No promises were
made to Aguinaldo or anybody else by
Dewey or myself
Campaign days are rapidly passing
and democratic orators have hardly
stirred a breeze.
"Populism is dead on the Pacific
coast" according to the declaration of
a citizen of Portland, Ore. THE coast is
too prosperous to listen to 16 to l clap
trap, and Washington, Oregon and CAL
sffornia will register rousing majorities
for Mckinley in 1900 Portland is par
ticularly prosperous, and we are ex-
porting more corn to the Orient than
any port on the coast. Our people are
stalwart defenders of the expansion
idea. for we know that the occupation
of the Philippines means that we will
never be crowded out of participation
in the Chinese and Japanese trade"
The Beers have acted impulsively and
perhaps with fatal precipitancy in in
voking war, possibly on the ground that
the British forces would soon be in a
position to browbeat them into a
peaceful compliance with their de-
mands.
kLONDIKE MINING GRIEVANCES.
New York Tribune.l
While the British and other outlander
miners in the Transvaal are bitterly
complaining of the alleged burdens laid
upon them by the Pretoria government
it is interesting to observe that British
miners in undisputably British terri
tory are by no means without their
grievances. against which they are pro-
testing about as earnestly as their
kinsmen on the Rand. There has been
much talk OF dissatisfaction among the
miners on the Yukon with the regula-
lions imposed upon them by the Do
minion government. That dissatsfac-
ton has at last reached climax in the
form of a petition and remonstrance
addressed to that government. remind
| ing one in no small measure of the sim
years from johannesburg.
/ The miners of the klondike first pro.
test against the royalty of 10 per CEN
| which is exacted by the Dominion gov
eminent from the gross output OF al
the mines. Only few mines are, they
say, able to pay it and have any profits
left, and they declare that the royalty
1 has greatly initiated against the devel
of the region. 1t is. they point out, TIL,
highest royalty exacted by any govern
ment in the world at any time, ant
they denounce it as an oppressive tax
unprecedented. unequal in its effect ant
4 opposed to legitimate enterprise 1t vii
be remembered that one of the chic
4 grievances at Johannesburg has bee
! the extortionate price OF dynamite un
der the monopoly of President Kruger
friend. An oppressive tax" are tn
very words used by the outlanders il
describing 1t.
Again the Klondike miners say tina
under existing rules and practice Their
is no security of title to mining proper
ty. Some OF the regulations provid
4 for the outright confiscation of mine:
for reasons entirely beyond the miner!
control. A bit of carelessness. involur
tary absence, dishonesty on the part {
an employe or any one of many othe
things may deprive men of the riches
mines to which. equitably. they shoul
have clear title. This Circumstance
the petitioners declare, has also ser
ously initiated against he mining ir
; dustry. And 1t will also be remembers
that this matter of insecurity of title
has been one of the chief grievances {
. miners on the Rand.
1t Will be matter of considerable IL
terest and instruetiveness to see no
; the Dominion government deals wit
matters which the Pretoria governmer
has sighted. 1t is intimated that
prompt redress is not obtained at o
tawa appeal will be made to Londo
] Such latter action would add vastly
t the joyousness of life. The picture
e Great Britain coercing the Transva
into granting reforms which its ow
: most favored colony does not graz
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