The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-19
WHAT THE EDITORS SAY

Boston was 26S years old yesterday
and some of her citizens are still living
in the year 1881 A. D.-springfield
Union.
Ex-Gov. Stone, of Missouri, continues
to act as a sounding board for William
Jennings Bryan. He doesn't emit any
original music, but simply helps to swell
the volume of the other fellow s.-New
York Mail and Express.
Considering the fact that ten years
ago we had nothing that could be called
a modern navy, our progress in this de-
partment has been phenomenal and
quite without precedent in the history
Of nations.-Atlanta Journal.
The New York Sun lately undertook
10 show that the bicycle is rapidly de-
clining in public favor in its vicinity,
and now the New York World follows
suit and says there is no doubt about
1t. 1t may be true of New York, but ii
has not impressed itself upon popular
observation elsewhere. Gotham is a
tickle jade.
The Guild and Bates campaign bu-
reaus put out their usual reports to the
effect that from the opinions of we'll
informed republicans throughout the
state" it appears certain that both
Guild and Bates will be nominated for
lieutenant governor by a large major
ity. But the true report, we doubt not,
would read like that from Worcester,
of very profound apathy respecting
the whole affair.-Sprirg feld Republi-
can.
When the talk of Ayers candidacy
for the Senate was loudest, Senator Nc
MILAN of Michigan, who knows the way
around his own state as we'll as the way
around Washington, announced that
when the time came he would be re-
nominated unanimously. Alger & Co.
ridiculed the notion. Now Mr.. Alger is
out with a card, declaring that he will
not be a candidate again, and the re-
publican press says that there will be
no opposition whatever in the party to
Mr.. Mcmillan. Which he said so him
self. "-Hartford Courant.
According to the latest returns from
the recruiting Offices, Massachusetts, in
proportion to her population. heads the
list of states in the number of men al
ready furnished for the new volunteer
regiments. The fact should bring pride
to the heart of every citizen in the Old
Bay State. That the record of the revo-
lutionary and civil wars should have
been maintained by the promptness
with which Massachusetts responded to
the call for troops in the late war, was
matter of great pride; and this new
spirit of loyalty, at a time when the
inducements to service are not nearly
so great as in the hour of national dan
ger, cannot fail to strike a common
thrill throughout the commonwealth
Lowell Courier.
No mercenary considerations enter
into the policy of the United States.
1t does not dream of holding the Philip
pines, temporarily or permanently, to
make money out of them. During the
occupation of the islands their revenue
inhabitants. They are the wards-un-
ruly wards at this moment-of the
United States, and their income will be
spent for their benefit not for that of
their guardian. No spirit of base greed
actuates Americans. They are not send
ing troops to the Philippines to make
the inhabitants hewers of wood and
drawers of water for this country, but
to suppress their outburst Of insane
fury; to safeguard what civilization
there is in the Philippines and to set
the feet of the Filipinos on the ways
that may lead to ultimate freedom and
self-go Chicago Tribune.