Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-09-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom our Regular Correspondent

Washington at once, was 10 enable
he Commission, with the exception
# Gen. Otis, to assemble at Wash
ngton and prepare a report before
Congress meets, there is another,
MANY consider a more important OBJ
ect, in getting the civillian CommlS-
,loners away from Manila before the
next campaign opens. That is, toput
\ stop to negotiations, which so ham,
pered the last campaign in Luzon
and were productive of nothing but
DELAY, which was advantageous to
the PHILIPPINES. Present plans do not
contemplate any more negotiations
and the surest way to prevent them
was TO order the last of the civilian
Commissioners away from the Phil
ippines. Nothing but unconditional
surrender is to be allowed to stop
the fighting during the coming cam
paign.
The administration has prepared
to make the Ohio campaign one OF
National importance, and TO fight 1t
mon National issues. 1t recognizes
that Mr.. Mclean is a strong candl-
lare. and that the President cannot
afford TO lose his own state thus year
At least two members of the Ca"i-
n-Postmaster-General Smith and
Ne rerary Wilson-will stump Oho'
q, ask an endorsement of the admin
istra,lon and its policy. They will
defend eApqnsion as just the thing
n ,eded to extend the foreign market
f,r the surplus products of this coun-
try, aud vigorously combat the clam
that expansion and imperialism are
s nonvmous terms. As the oppose
ton seem willing to make the fight
ON national lines, the voters OF Ohio
are not likely to lack full information
on both sides Of the questions at issue
during the next few weeks. Both
sides will agree until election day
that the result will practically settle
the Presidential contest; after tue
votes are counted, the losers will, OF
course, declare that it will not intiu-
ence the national campaign at all.
As war-like as the situation in the
Trarsvaal republic now looks, the
average educated Englishman WHO
visit Washington expresses the strong
est confidence in a peaceful settle
ment of the squabble between the ht-
tie South African government ana
Great Britain. The cause OF tins feel
inc of confidence in peace, according
t. a Londoner, now in Washington,
IS the belief that Queen Victoria has
fully made up her mind that no war
shall mar the last years of her long
reign, if it can be avoided with honor.
1t may he that distance lends enchant-
ment to the view, but it is certain
that the average American does not
see the British foreign policy in any
such rosy light; nor does he believe
that the Queens wishes control that
policy to any marked extent. AS a
matter of cold everyday fact, there
has not been a single year OF Queen
Victoria long reign, not excepting
the Present one, in which Great
Britain has not been engaged in a
war of some sort in some parts OF the
world.
The rest of the world is just be
ginning to realize that Russia will be
a future factor In industrial matters.
which for years was thought
70 be a vest wilderness, used princl-
pally to shorten the lives OF Russian
prisoners cf state, is now known 10
be one of the finest agricultural re-
yions on earth. A late report to the
State Department from the L. ;.
Consul at Chemniiz, says: "Slbera
and the Amur lands are rich beyond
belief Their 5,213,956 square miles
ire inhabited by only 100000 pei
sons. In recent years, however, tie
number of immigrants-4O0, 900 last
year-has been eqaaled only by tie
.ide which poured into the U. S. in
.he past. This vast territory, lol G
ooked upon as a barren waste, is
/ destined to be one of the worlC 5
richest and most productive sections.
rhe industries ofSiberia are in their
infancy; still they are growing and
IRE bound to grow, so rich are the
rewards promised" The wheat crop
Of Siberia rIpens in l07 days, against
l37 days in Northern France, and
will someday become enormous.
II a report just made to the De-
,arlment of State, by the u. S. Con-
II at Slratiord, Canada, is not based
p)n exaggerated information, it is
,nly question Of time when the
n rket for coal from the L. S. will
De very poor in Canada, where it
low has practically a monopoly.
The report say that Canadian com
Iany expects to put n compressed