Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-01-19
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

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EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.
Senator Hoar voted for the anneXa-
ton of the outlying territory of
Hawaii He was right then and is
wrong now.
Bryan made few speeches last week.
He yielded the floor gracefully to his
new colleagues, Senator Hoar and
Billy Mason.
Intimate commerce with Cuba is
desirable and SO is an assurance that
yellow fever is not to be a leading
Cuban export.
A question recently asked is "Will
cotton become by-product?" The
value of cotton seed is placed at $780,
100000 year.
The disappearance of the bull fight
and the lottery in Havana shows that
the moral sanitation of the town is
we'll under way.
The anti-expansionist idea that the
name of this country should be
changed to the United States, Limited
is not making much Roadway.
The half-breed Filipinos who are
stirring up revolution as business
will learn something about retributiOn
if they strike at Dewey and Otis.
Sagasta still remains at the head Of
the Spanish cabinet. He is Spain'S
ableSt statesman though he has been
struggling with an impossible task.
Tens of thousands of Cubans are
undergoing vaccination for the first
time. In more senses than one the
nineteenth century is just beginning
in Cuba.
Gen. Miller, in command of the
IloilO expedition, began fighting In
dians in 1857. He is a good man to
deal with Aguinaldo and hiS0irreSpOn
SpOnSible horde.
The speech of Senator Mason of
illinois against anneXing the Philip
pines would be more generally read if
any one could be induced to take the
senator seriously.
An American residing in Canada
writes that American variety songs
are popular in the Dominion. All
doubt of the era Of good feeling may
now be dismissed.
In 1888 our exports of copper
to S3,S12, 1913 and in 1898 to
S32, 1S0,S72. American copper pro-
duction is worth more than half that
of our gold mines.
Uncle Sam this year will apprOpri-
ate S2,500,000 for Indian schools. Mr.,
Cleveland viii notice that the forte of
this country is not exclusively ''the
killing of natives"
No Senator would oppose the rati
tlcation of the treaty if Dewey had
not won his brilliant victory. But if
Dewey had been defeated Spain
would still be holding out.
There were threats in Cuba Of burn
ing towns when our armies first
landed, but nothing Of the kind oc-
CURED. The menace at Iloilo may
evapOrate in the same way.
The governor Of Maine favors the
reorganization of the militia of the
state on regular army lines. He holds
that military experience and knowl-
edge are worth considering.
The Rochester Democrat and Chron-
icle is right in saying that Abraham
Lincoln deserves better memorial at
Springfield, ILL.,, than neglected and
poorly constructed mo nument.
A large mogul locomotive was built
in Pennsylvania shop last week in
hours and thirty minutes
The whole world wants American
locomotives and the demand will be.
met.
The fayorite tactic Of the army and
navy Of the United States in the war
of 1898 was to advance at once and
Keep advancing. The Spanish con-
demned it theoretically, but quickly
'sa,nnuuh -
The North Carolina legislature has
refused to adopt the golden rod as a
state flower because something silyery
is preferre d. The plant known as
cheat, diSiked by wheat growers,
might answer the purpose.
The sma Hest LOGON olive ever made
was seen at the On ,aha exposition.
us height from the top of the stack to
The rail is twenty-tiv 2 inches. and the
guage is Twelve and half inches.
The cylinders are 2x4 inches: the
boiler IS one and one half horse power,
made of steel and te sted 10 800 pounds
pressure, and will hold twenty-four
gallons OF water. The diameter of