El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-09

| Inc unfortunate birth OF twins TO MS
No. 2 wife, Mr.. Roberts would not be
having so much trouble now, but
twins seemed to be rather heaping 1t
up, in judgmentsof the great American
people. And they weren't even "Salt
Lake twins" which, as understand the
phrase, means twins by the fathers
side only.
A newspaper anti-Roberts petition.
said to contain 1000, 900 names. col
lected and sent in by one of the New
York twin penny dreadfuls, was pres
ented today. 1t consisted of % rolls
each two feet in diameter and was the
biggest thing in the house.
Today's session was, aud tomorrow
| will be, merely q formal matter.
Wednesday the houses will probably
get down to work, and begin to ex-
pound the constitution. If the in
dustrious gentlemen who drew up that
palladium of our liberties, happen to
when the Philippines discussion gets
under way, they Will feel like Bacon
and Shakespeare inspecting Ignatius
Donnelly from the safe altitude of the
pearly gates, rapt in smazement at the
amount they must have known to have
meant what they did. There is an I'M
usual influx of new members, and
copies OF the constitution are worth SO
per cent over par in any bookstore in
town.
A drummer for Swiss electrical
firm, Mr.. Franz Osterhaus, is in town
looking at our underground trolley
lines. He Is just from South Africa.
His opinion of the situation is as lurid
as remarks in German can well be
which isn't saying so much after all.
He is not fanatica!ly pro-British, but
he does not love the Boer. He thinks
the rest of the world, particularly
America, owes a vote of thanks to the
British lion for pulling our chestnuts
out of the fire. AS he pictures the sit
uation at Johsnnesberg, the position
of the Outlanders must be something
like that of q company of New York
negroes who once tried to work a rich
mine in back county of Arkansas.
They worked it, but the proceeds were
not for them, nor were their lives of
unalloyed bliss. Most OF the mining
machinery in the Transvaal Is Ameri-
can. One Chicago firm probably sells
more than.any four others of it's COM
petitors Jumped together. AS Mr..
Osterhaus views it, the situation had
become intolerable, the Outlanders
were powerless, having no arms, and
Great Britain interposed for the SAX q
of those who were..her subjects. There
is no direct profit to her. since British
colonies do not pay any taxes to the
home government.
The Supreme court today rendered
decision in trust case. the Pipe
Trust, adverse to the trust and decid-
ing the mutual agreement of.the COM
ponent members, so far as it applied
to interstate commerce, to be in re-
ssraint of business and against pu bile |
policy. Which means that another |
agreement will be made which can |
hold water legally. The trusts are
like the department stores, here to |
stay-some Of them. Everybody has
been trying to make a trust of his par
ticular l me OF business recently and the |
natural result is that it has been over
done. Moreover, il all the proposed |
comb nations had been floated the stock |
would have required the turnover of |
about all the money IN the country. |
However, since com bination means q |
cheapening of costs of manufacture by |
cutting Office expenses instead of wages,
and since to retain a monopoly the |
trust must sell its products at a rate |
less than they can be produced by |
small competitors, the country at large |
has no special reason to complain.
1t is said the president delayed writ
ing his message till the last moment,
with the news of Aguiualdo's capture,
but the elusive Kakyak gentleman
forfeited his pull with the admfnistra-'
ton by not coming up to taw at the
last moment. However. as Dewey
says, 1--WE all hope he's LOST If he
will only be obliging enough to get
killed hard enough for a coroner's
certificate, or to get away to Hong
Kong, we will be infinitely obliged to
hip. AS prisoner he will be large
sized problem. II we shoot him, all
the old ladies of both sexes In the coun-
try will regard him as a martyr; If we
doo't shoot him the gentle Kakyak
will think IL Ia hecause wa on, ofroid
to. Either way it means trouble.