The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-01-20

From our regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. ID. G. Ian IL 1890


President Mckinley Is no more in.
cliHed to officially recognize Agni.
nald"'s man, Agoncillo, now that he
claims to he Minister from the Philip
pine Republic, than when be came to
Washington as Agninaldo's personal
agent. Then the President consented
to receive him as an individual, with
the stipulation that nothing OF an of
ficial nature should .p-cnr al The iuter-
view That Is further than Ason.ill.s
Is likely to get this time, This iellew.
aided by the anti-expansionis.e, in and
out of Congress, is largely responsible
for the present unsatisfactory condi-
ton of affairs in the Philippines. He
gave guinaldo advance notice that
the policy OF this government would
he eonciliatory towards the insurge Is.
] and told him that the anti-expansion
element in this country was powerful,
and that If he wonld take a bold stand
1t would aid him in getting recogni-
ton from this government. The effect
of this information may be very dis
astrous to Aguinaldo and his followers.
as it may cause orders to be sent to
Gen. Otis to put them down by forci-
BILE, instead OF persuasive means.
Senator McLaurin came very near
making a bulPs-eye when he said !:
There ought to be a law that every
President of the u S. should first serve
term In the Senate or the House. A
very large degree OF President McKin-
ley's popularity is due 10 the fact that
he has been through the Congressional
mill and knows how to deal with Sen
ators and Representatives. He ap-
preciates their difficulties and helps
them to the utmost, manifesting to-
ward them friendliness, which they
appreciate. If President Cleveland
had had Congressional training be
would not have made so many enc
mics. His lack of that experience
WAS one of the rocks upon which he
was wrecked"
The late James G. Blaine fore
shadowed the annexation of Hawaii
and the Philippine Islands in an edi-
torial in Maine newspaper, years be-
FIRE he became prominent as a states
man. He wrote-it seems like lnspir-
ed prophecy when read in connection
with recent evenfs-that the time
would come when the u. S. would
have to enlarge its boundaries, If it
was to hol.i its fair share of the COM
merce of the world, and pointed out
that Hawaii and the Philippines were
within the natural sphere of our in
huence, and predicted that it would
become absolutely necessary for this
country to control the Philippines, as
the key to the trade of the Orient.
There was no significance In the ad-
option by the Senate of Mr.. Hoar's
resolution-asking the President, If
not incompatible with public inter
ests, to send to the Senate all the in
struetions give to our Peace Commis-
sioners, although some of the anti-ex-
pansionists are trying hard to make
themselves and the public believe there
was. The resolution is no more bind
ing upon the President than his DIS
cretion makes it; he can give or not
give the information asked for. The
anti's have somehow got the idea that
it viii hQrt expansion 10 bring out of
ficially what everybody has known
unofficially for months; that our Com
missioners were originally instructed
to only demand the island of Luzon of
of Spain, and that their instructions
were changed upon reports made by
them, after their arrival at Paris. So
much has been told to individual SEN
ators already by their colleagues who
were Peace Commissioners. and the
story wonld doubtless have been more
fully told as soon as the Senate begins
to consider the treaty of peace in secret
session, regardless of this resolution.
Whether all his reasons for changing
those instructions viii he told at this
time, is question that President Nc
Kinley will decide for himself. The
Committee on Foreign Relations viii
this week favorably report the treaty
TO the Senate, and then it viii speed
ily become apparent whether the anti's
will dare to delay the ratification of
the treaty, knowing that it viii be inn
possible fer item tn defeat it By votes.
The aorchard census" just issued
by Jesse z. Baker, the State Horticul-
4,~,sf SbouS that this STATE NOW has