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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-27

Mr. q schrepf. the Opera House drug
gfst made the following observations %
IA. xvea Their YESTERDAY. q. M. 80, a. Ms
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Weather fair.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-27

MAY LAST SOME DAYS CHAIR
NAN MUTT SAID THERE WAS
NO PROSPECT OF AN EARLY
AGREEMENT - SALARIES OF
THE GENERAL OFFICERS OF
THE AMALGAMATED ASSOCIA-
TION INCREASED PRESIDENT
SHAFFER NOT SERIOUSLY ILL
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-27
UNDER MILITARY CONTROL-THE
OFFICES OF AUDITOR AND
TREASURER CREATED TO BE
FILLED BY MILITARY MEN UN-
TIL CONGRESS SHALL HAVE
PROVIDED A FORM OF GOVERN
MENT.

Washington, May 26.-On May s
President Mckinley issued the follow
ing executive order, not heretofore pub
lished, for the government of the ISL
ands which came under control of the
United States government as result
of the war with Spain:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18
IN LOVES LOST LAND.


Over the sea and the hiding hills
Back to the land that she loves the best.
Is there joy in the throb of the heart that
thrills
The rose that dreams on her breast?
She comes like a ghost from the Past-she
stands
Statue-Iike, and her tears like rain
Fail on the pale and trembling hands
Love shall not clasp again.
Not that Love that she left that day
prisoner, chained to the burning stake;
For it sighed its sorrowful life away
Dying for her dear sake.
And she breathes a name, and she calls in
How can the desolate hills reply
Or the winds that moan Ger the misty
plain,
Or the stars in the hopeless sky?
The rose in the garden is ghostly white
The weeds are wild al the threshold dear:
No glad gooG-morhing-no sweet good
night
From the lips of the loved one there.
VIII not the lights through the lattice
WHY should the Voices the halls forsake?
It was onlv dream-it was only a dream
That strong mans heart could break!
But the silence is there, and woman
Loveless and lone in her wild unrest;
And the world knows not that a dead man
with her her gold hair on his breast.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18
WHY NOT STOP ITe
In his Madison, Wis, address Presi-
dent Mckinley said:

In his Madison, Wis, address Presi-
dent Mckinley said:
One tribe and a small faction of that
tribe, IS questioning the sovereignty of the
I United States in the Island of Luzon. The
very people we enlancipated from oppres-
SION struck our flag and shot our soldiers.
The shedding of blood is anguish to my
soul The giving up of the lives of our brav-
est ana best young men Wrings my heart.
Ine shedding of the blood of the misguided
flhplnos is matter of sincere regret and
sorrow TO all of us, and yet they are re-
slstlng the sovereignty of the United States
over a territory which we acquired not by
conquest alone, but by the solemn treaty of
peace sanctioned by the Congress OF the
United States. and as long as that sover-
eighty Is disputed so long win we continue
hostilities."
This sort of talk calls for some re-
mark.
If but a small faction of one tribe is
resisting the authority of the United
States government why not lock that
faction up for disorderly conduct, stop
the effusion of blood, the expenditure
of many millions of dollars, and all the
rest of it. If the war is such a trifing
matter why does Otis continue to eyac-
uate towns as fast as he captures them,
and why is it necessary to take one
town as often as five or six times?
Again.
"The very people we emancipated from
oppression struck our flag and shot our
soldiers.
The first shot fired in the present
Filipino war was fired by an American
cOIdior n I,ilioiroc l., +bo c,,L,,phc 80
Manila, after six months of effort on
the part of Otis to devil the natives into
a breach OF the peace. This war was not
commenced by the Filipinos, who, I'M
der the pacific policy of Admiral
Dewey, were more than friendly to the
United States.
Misguided Filipinos" is good, when
it is remembered they are fighting for
liberty and independence Directing to a
transfer on a wholesale basis by i'm
potent Spain.
AS to the rights we obtained, not by
conquest alone, but by solemn treaty
of peace, one would think the less the
President said about that phase of the
case the better. When Dewey smashed
the Spanish fleet and captured Manila
Spanish title to the Philippines was
practically, at an end. Spain hadn't a
leg to stand on in the Island of Luzon,
for the points not held by the United
States were in control of the Filipinos.
She was as helpless as a three weeks
old babe; and yet, having nothing to
either cede or sell she bunkoed the
administration into paying twenty mill
ion dollars, and pretended to thus
transfer to us nine or ten million people
who were already free and Independent.
The crocodile tears the President is
shedding over the losses in the Philip
pines will only excite derision; he
might weep in fact, however, for his
own monumental laundering.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18
rnE rRurH : GOVT Ir.

A certain portion Of the administra-
ton press, with that lack of truthful
ness which characteriZes the subser-
Went Republican organ, is just now
making the whining complaint that GER
tain wicked and designing Democratic
Senators and Congressman interfered
at the last session of Congress with the
Presidents plan for increasing the
army. and that, therefore, the govern
ment was badly handicapped in the
matter of troops and was unable to
push things to a rapid consumation in
the Philippines.
This is about as close to the truth
as an administration organ ever gets.
Before the Spanish war the strength Of
the regular army was about $4,000 men,
After that war was ended, the volun-
teers were entitled to their discharge.
The President asked Congress for an
increase in the regular army to 100000
men, or four times the old force. This
request was so amended by Congress
.,
all he asked for, but the strength of the
regular army was fixed at $4,000 men,
and the President was authorized to
call for $4,000 volunteers. Did the
President avail himself promptly Of
this authority? He did not The law
raising the army to the 100000 men
asked for was uaSSed within fhroa vvaclx-
after the trouble began in the Philip
pines, and yet the administration, fully
aware of the right of the volunteers
to their discharge, did not call for a
single regiment for three months, and
Their only called for ten, followed, after
some time, by call for ten more regi-
ments. If the administration meant
business in the Philippines why was
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

M'KINLEY' S PHILIPPINE POLICY.
Atlanta Constitution.
Observe how logical the whole philip
pine business is-how truly typical it is of
Republicanism as interpreted by Hanna.
The Filipinos, who have resisted our SOW
ereignty, are shot down wherever they
are to be found. On the other hand, we
are to pay the Sultan of Sulu an annuity
to maintain his own sovereignty. which is
hateful and revolving to every American
mind-we mean, of course, every American
mind which has not fallen under the in
fiuence of Hannaism.
But observe the beautiful inconsistency
of Hannasm. We are upholding our SOW
eregnty in the neghborhood of Manila with
sword and gun. shot and shell. In the Sulu
group we are paying the Sultan to recog-
nize our Sovereignty" while maintaining
his own supremacy. and we are enabling
him to perpetuate the vile practices of his
monarchy, concubinage and slavery. In
LuzOn the policy is to shoot, while ignor-
ing the rights of man, whereas, when it
comes to the Sulu group. it is deemed best
to open a ''barrel" and thereby sanction
and sustain the vileness that is found
there.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18
a QUESTION ANSWERED..

At Cedar Falls, Ia, President McKin-
ley said in the course of some desultory
remarks: I'VE have expanded. II
there is any question at all it is ques-
ton of contraction, and who is going
to contract"
Answering this, the administration
might be reminded that it is in the con-
traction business in very uncalled for
and disreputabue way, in allowing
Canada to secure large slice of good
American territory in Alaska, with
every prospect of finally securing a sea-
port there. This constitutes contraction
without palliation or necessity, except
that there is gold in the country, and
the British flag follows gold discoveries
every time there is the least chance.
That is the milk in the cocoanut in
South Africa, and that's what's the
matter in Alaska. England, through
Canada, has been crowd1ng us up there
ever since it was demonstrated the
mines were worth something, and it is
to be presumed that in the end she will
get what she is after.
The Alaska case is almost upon all
fours with that of Kimberley, in South
Africa, and the story is worth telling as
Illustrating the point. The territory in
which the Kimberley diamond fields
were discovered was acknowledged by
the treaty of Aliwal as belonging to
the Orange Free State, and England
solemnly pledged herself to keep her
hands off it. But the ink was scarcely
dry on this document when the klmber-
ley mines were discovered, and that
altered the case entirely. The discov-
ery of diamonds stirred the British con-
science, and the government soon
ascertained that the Kimberley region
really belonged to a Griqua chief, and
not to the Dutch; so they proceeded to
take it away from the Free State In
order to hand it carefully back to its
rightful owner. the native chief. I'm
fortunately, however, he could not be
found and to prevent mistakes in the
future England gobbled the territory
herself, giving the Free Stare S45O,O00
as compensation" Tor mines worth
scores of millions and hundreds Of
square miles of territory. The historian
Froude characterized this trick as "one
of the most scandalous acts recorded
in our history. In modern European
history no treaty has ever been broken
with more deliberate shamelessness
than the treaty of Aliwal was broken
by us when we annexed the diamond
fields" But the act was very English,
Just as our surrender in Alaska is very
un-American. But the administration
at Washington is todying to England
these days, and initiating her in some
conspicuous regards.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

Representatives, legal and other, Of
about seventy-five big trusts have held
a consultation in New York to plan
means of thwarting the Investigations
of the Congressional Industrial Com
mission, and meanwhile there has been
a concerted movement of books and
papers into the State of New Jersey.
The friends and benefactors of the peo-
pie appear to be greatly agitated about
something. Is it possible there is
something about this trust business
which won't bear enquiry?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18
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WHO PAYS IT?

Philadelphia Record.
In his speech at DanviIle, Ills, President
Mckinley said that 1--WE are collecting
about $650oCO every working day of every
month from the tariff we put on foreign
products that come into the United States
from other countries; and that does not
seem to give you any serious trouble here"
Has not our amiable President told us a
hundred times that the foreign producers
pay the tariff for the privilege of trading
in this country? Yet besides the $4,000 of
revenue a day the President does not seem
to take into account the large sums which
the tariff daily diverts from the treasury
into the Golfers of the trusts.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

Up at Pittsburg the charges against
State Senator Finn, of borrowing and
using public funds, to the private profit
of certain individuals, is rapidly coming
to a focus. City Attorney Burleigh has
entered three suits against the Senator
and the firm of Booth & Finn and
others, for the recovery of 100000,
and the papers upon which the suits are
based make decided allegations of
crookedness.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

LII II l<4NtAtA ~ -tAN'>- y k7kl1S(<N.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Any attampt to gag public opinion and
free discussion in this country is singu-
larry incongruous and preposterous. Our
very scheme of government is founded on
discussion. Manhood suffrage was pro-
vided for on the assumption that the peo-
pie would be so educated and Instructed by
discussion of principles and policies of gov
eminent that the suffrage could be safely
intrusted TO them.
We go through the throes of a Presiden-
tial election every four years; we hold in
Vulnerable other elections; we stop indus
try, paralyze business in long campaigns,
spend money like water on complex ma
chinery of government, all for the purpose
of educating the electors, increasing their
sense of responsibility and inducing them
to exercise their private, unbiased judg-
ment, after a thorough discussion of the
issues involved The people are made mas
ter in a republic on the theory that they
will qualify themselves to exercise their
powers by iucessant, thorough discussion,
and until we decide to change our form
of government it is ridiculous and mis-
chievous TO attempt TO hamper the freest
possible discussion of every important
question.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18
WHAT'S THE TROUBLE.

The fact that there was a narrow
escape from a popular uprising among
the poorer natives of Manila, last Sun
day, and that it was prevented only by
vigorous military measures, appears to
call for some explanation Perhaps 1t
is afforded in a contribution by Rev.
Peter MacQueen to the Congregation
alist. He said in that communication
that Americans have kept up the old
Spanish taxes in. all their wanton rigor.
Filirinos of Manila pay higher
taxes now than they did in the worst
days of Weyler. They have
revived many obsolete taxes and are
collecting them with terrific rigor.
And Americans dressed in the
uniform of the army enter private
houses and demand money as taxes
which is spent in neighboring saloons. -
A telegram from Hong Kong to the
New York Tribune says: Murders,
robberies and crimes of every descrip-
ton are greater than before" These
statements may be true, exaggerated
or false but there is something wrong,
evidently.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

The Washington correspondent of a
thick and-thin administration paper
explains that Admiral Dewey cannot
be candidate for President" against
Mckinley, because Admiral Dewey
has fine sense of loyalty to the Pres
ident." Indeed! The test of loyalty
therefore, is not the country, the peo-
pie or their interests. but President
Mckinley solely and alone. One is
tempted to enquire: Upon what meat
doth this our Caesar feed. that he is
grown so great?''
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

s
secured Ex-senator G. J. Faulkner as
counsel in the contest brought by Hon.
John T McGraw has no especial politi-
cal significance Mr.. Faulkner is a
lawyer of parts and standing, skilled
in his profession, and Mr. Scott I'M
doubtedly is able to pay good round
fees for services rendered. 1t is simp-
ly a matter of business on the part of
Mr.. Faulkner. and he will give Mr..
Scott his best advice and his untiring
effort for proper remuneration.
Doubtless Mr. McGraw will appear
backed by some Republican attorney Of
prominence, but this will be business
matter also, and scarcely worthy OF
comment.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

While the apostles of expansion are
insisting that the flag once raised shall
never come down, they have hauled
down the stars and stripes in Alaska
under a provisional agreement with
Canada which comedies to that British
dependency territory held as American
for more than twenty years. Sooner
or later Canada will get a seaport in
Alaska, and territory rightfully Amer
lean by purchase will be cut in two.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

not the army increased promptly in ac-
cordance with Congressional action, the
Filipinos subjugated and an end put to
bushwacking jungle and cane-brake
war which is now no nearer an end
than when it started, and which is cost
ing the people $15.0O0,OO0 a month
When the facts regarding the Filipino
war are fully presented the people will
be astounded.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18
ANSWERING PRESIDENT MK1NLEY

ANSWERING PRESIDENT MKINLEY.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In his Chicago speech Mr.. Mckinney
asked: Has the republic lost any OF its
virility? Is there any present menace to
our stability or duration?"
Yes Mr.. Mckinley Monopoly is a men
ace TO our stability and duration. Ii plac 5
in the hands Of the few the power TO con-
fiscate the wealth OF the people and to en-
slave them. When the masses are de-
pendent upon a few plutocrats for the
means of living the viri,ity of the repub-
lie is Slapped and its existence is threat
ened.
Imperialism is a menace TO the stability
and duration of the republic and source
of weakness. We should not mistake the
evidence of strength for an increase of
strength. Conquest proves a nation strong.
but policy Of conquests weakens and
ruins it. Miitarism undermines liberty and
prosperity.
A nation in which one class preys upon
the rest of the people and uses the ma
tional strength TO prey upon the world is
on the road 10 destruction. Decay is sap
ping its vigor. The maintenance of the
principles of liberty and equality is the
only sure foundation Of nstinn'a stability
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18
FOES OF THE MERIT SYSTEM.


Philadelphia Record.
There is a saying that children and fools
blurt out the truth. They tell inconven-
lent truths upon unexpected occasions.
This is what happened when the Pennsyl-
vania State League of Republican Clubs
at its late dismal session at Harrisburg
adopted unanimously its resolutions favor
ing the repeal of the civil service law.
Self-respecting Republican journals are
busily engaged in explaining that the
Pennsylvania State League of Republican
Clubs cannot speak with authority for the
Republican party but we very much fear
that there is a solid basis for the deliver
ance of the State League.
Whilst the Republican party has been
loud in its advocacy of civil service reform
in its platform, it has been VIGOROUSLY lax
in performance. The administration has
done more than to wink al infraetions of
the letter and spirit of the law. If the OPP
posers of civil service reform have lost
standing in the party by reason of their
frank utterance they do not appear to be
conscious of it. They are whooping it up
for the Quay ticket to the best of their
ability.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

Yesterdays run over the course by
the Columbia is no more victory than
for one Splinter to claim he had de-
feated a competitor who had fallen and
broken a leg. Straight-out sailing,
with both boats in good condition is
what counts.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

Up to the present time Mr.. Mckinley,
in his swing round the circle, has re-
ferred to Patriotism 1913 times, to
THE Flag 176 times, and to "Provi-
dence'' 104 times. Providence" APP
pears to be getting a little the worst
of it, while Humanity" isn't in it at
all.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

Forty of the members of the Astor
battery are ready to enlist on the side
OF the Beers, and a strong effort viii
be made, unless the government inter
feres, to reorganize the old command
and have it sail for South Africa.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

The account of the recent train rob
berry is calculated to deepen the impress
sion of foreigners that Chicago is on
the extreme western frontier.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

The South African censor's chief duty
appears to be to chop up the kilograms
into two-sentence paragraphs and give
each one a different date.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

A careful search through the South
African wood pile would result in the
discovery of Cecil Rhodes as the col
ored person who caused the trouble.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

Now General Merritt says our coast
defenses, upon which years of time and
many millions of dollars have been ex-
pended, are sadly deficient as to the
artillery, in some instances the COM
monest necessities being absent. Will
the War Department ever learn any
thing?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

In the Circuit Court Of Ohio County.
West Virginia.
c. May. Complainant,
vs.. In Chaneery.
Phoebe A. Davis and James Davis.
her husband. defendants
above entitled cause on the fourteenth day
Of October, 1899, it is referred 20 the under
signed commissioner 20 ascertain and re-
port to the Court the following matters, to-
wit.
Frst-Tha real estate within Ohio county
owned by the defendant. Phoebe a. Davis,
or iii which she has an interest
SecQnG--Ihe liens against the real estate
Of the said Phoebe A. Davis. with their
amount and priurities.
Tnird-Nhefhrr the rents and profits of
such real estate vii satisfy sucn liens
within the period Of five years
Fourth-Any other matters deemed by
him pertinent or required by any party.
Notice is hereby given that The UNDER
signed has fixed upon Tuesday. the twsnty-
FIRST day 10 November, ls9s. commencing
al ten O'Clock a. m. as the time and MS
office. No. 1904 Chapline street, b the City
OF Wheeling. ~ ONO County. " Va. as
the place 81 which be Will proceed 20 as
certain and report the. several matters in
the said order OF reference required.
Given Under my hand this seventeenth
GEO. r. r.. GfIcmgfsT.
FRANK e. cox. Commissioner.
Solicitor for complainant. 0eisoaws
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

When there was no wind the Sham
rock people were not happy. Yester-
day there was plenty of wind, and still
they were in the dumps.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18
CURRENT COM MENT.
A DAISY RECnRn

n DAlS1 RECORD.
Pittsburg Post
quoting the record of Philippine towns
and cities attacked, captured and general
ly destroyed and evacuated by orders of
Otis, recently made public by the CHICAGO
Record correspondent, the Washington
Post says it is only part of the record. but
makes 1t basis of calculation. Here are
twenty-one Philippine towns which have
been captured, many of them twice or
three times, and one of them as often az
SIX times. OF these we hold only six We
have attacked thirty-nine times and aban-
doned the results of the bloodshed thirtv-
three times. Our soldiers therefore. have
been sent to needless peril and slaughter
thirty-three times out Of thirtv-nine
Measured by military standards. we have
made just six considerable movements
The other thirty-three movements were
wanton and stupid. If we could not hold
point, there was no excuse for taking
1t. The lives lost in the thirty-three fruit-
less engagements were simply lives thrown
away. The Post quotes the bulletins from
Otis relating TO five of these small sLir-
mishes, and shows that 30 of our men
were killed and wounded. and on this basis
figures go killed and wounded in the list
of engagements. This is within bounds.
But, as the President told the Chicago
negroes on Sunday, it was all for liberty
and hope to an oppressed people"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

Twenty tons of fossils have just ar
rived at Pittsburg. A lot of Philadel-
phians must be out on an excursion.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18

The Ohio State Bankers Association
has voted down a proposition to ask
for State examination of banks. Won
der why?