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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-04

been no time for regularity, no coilsider. ation of right food Tlie stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition become diseased and tllen begins the bitter and varied sufferings of the tfiatl with q stomach trouble.e
 Yct this condition edn be cured The stomach and other orgaus of digestion and nutrition, can be restored to q nor maj condition of sound health. Thou sands testify that b. Pieree's Golden Medical Discovery, strengthens the storus acl, nourishes the nerves and purittcs the blood, that 1t breaks tie bonds of the. tlyspeptic, and makes him healthy hapD< man. No alcohol whisky or otlser iiitoxiealt is contained Ill " Golden Med- ieal Discovery
 was a sufferer from what tlie doctors caiiesi indigestion but after trying se4sfas cnlihsitf t5fy<icians failed to get eaae ' writes MrsFratis Meriele P Q. Ro1 4f5, Independence. Jackson Go Mo Some of my symptoms were sore ness ill Dit of stomach, fullness5 tired teetinei constipation: some times soreness would extend 10 bowels. Some one# recommended tfe to take Br. piereets Golden Medical Discovery, which did, and after taking enly fc91 bottles of Di7 ceverv' and your Pleasant Pellets can say derived more benefit from them laan trom aitY other iuedicinc ever triasl. began 10 gain in flesh from tie start. Have recommended t te others and will continue to do SO
 Df Pierce's Pleasant Pellets do not become q necessity to tlle system they have relieved of accunulations and eh- structions.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-04

Room for 100000, ,ooo Souls. Australia is capable of supporting at least 100 900 900 inhabitants.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-04
Lightning Statistics.

Lightning caused the death of sg7 persons in the United States last year and property loss Of s1,441.SS0. Few of the deaths occurred in cities. Tho annual number of thunderstorms at given localities in this country aver ages between thirty-five and forty-ive. The maximum is in the southeaster4- states.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-04

An unknown boy was killed by q train at Texarkana, Tex.
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-06
What Are We Coming To?

Are our people really at this end
of the century degeneratlng ar a
rate OF which we had no concep-
ton at its beginning7 Here are
two young men, belonging to the
highest social and professional
circles in Philadelphia, OF whom
one had been United States District
Attorney and the other expected
to be, and meanwhile making
$4,000 a year in their law prac
tice, charged with attempting to
bribe other United States officials
in order to defraud the Govern
ment by issuing counterfeit money
and revenue stampsl
The saddest features Of our con-
ditions are that in the beginning
of the century all our prominent
men, and especially those in Gov
ernment employment, were honor
able men, particularly in money
affairs. Now when such a case
like this Philadelphia one occurs
it rouses no indignation; a little bit
OF surprise that these people al
lowed themselves to be caught
that is all.
Consider the case OF Captain
Carter, who swindled his Gov
ernment out OF So ,ooo, 900 by using
his official position. His COM
rades in their court martial showed
what they thought Of him and his
action; they drove him out Of the
army and sentenced him to several
years in the penitentiary. But the
sentence has not been carried out;
he is still free man, and has paid
no fine. Think how strong must
be the sympathy with crime and
criminals and how influential these
friends must be who have such a
power over the President OF the
United States!
Is it not time for the good men
Of the countrywide must be ir
the majority--to arise and assert
their influence.
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-06

that we should not increase the
difficulties OF bad situation; that
we should not shake the arm OF
the man when he is taking aim.
Is il dislOyal to keep our nation in
the path OF honor We who love
our country most wish most that
its flag shall be sustained"
"They tell US there is nothing
now to be done. Is It nothing to
change war to peace9 Is it nothing
to stay the horrible slaughter Of
natives7 Is it nothing to stop e
operations by which our brave
fellow citizens are killed by bullets
and equally deadly disease2 The
assumption that the war is newt
able is gratuitous. II we have not
promised the natives a free and in
dependent government, try that at
once. That is the crux of the
whole matter. So, when they tell
US there is nothing now to be done,
| say the principal thing remains
to be dOne-to assure the Filipinos
as to the policy oil the United States
in regard to their liberty"
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-06
WILL AIger and Eagan Escape2

The report of the court of in
quiry on the beef scandal is IN the
hands Of the President. No official
statement Of its contents has been
de. but the Washington CORE
spondents all agree that General
Miles will be condemned for not
making his complaints about the
beef to the War Departm ent at the
time he claims to have discovered
that IT was an unfit ration, instead
OF waiting until it was too late to
remedy matters.
If the court Of inquiry shifts the
blame on General Miles. and pro
nounces the canned beef nutritious
and wholesome, thus acquitting
AlgeT, Eagan and the plundering
beef contractors Of all responsible
ity, it will be a most unjust de
cision. Ninety per cent OF the tes-
timony confirmed Miles's charges.
The beet was rotten before it
rea ched Cuba. The men ate the
best OF it at the peril OF their lives
They sickened and died from the
effects of the poisonous stuff.
Hundreds OF soldiers swore to
these facts before the court, and
they were supported by their
officers.
Whatever may be the verdict Of
the court of inquiry, the public has
formed its opinion as to the guilt
of the beef contractors and the in
efficiency OF the Commissary De
partment, And the Administra-
ton, too, will come in for its share
of condemnation for tacit support
Of these blunderers and conspira-
tors.
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-06

unjust treaty, voted down in the
Senate the Bacon resolution, which
disowned any intention Of holding
these islands permanently, refused
even to consider similarly worded
resolution in the House, and, hav-
ing provoked this unhappy people
to attack US at Manila by our
menace OF them, we find ourselves
now waging against them at all
points not only a defensive, but an
aggressive and bloody war to re-
duce them to our arbitrary wills.
Now comes the Chief Executive
of this nation, the one person re-
sponsible above everyone else for
the whole wretched business, and
in lugubrious accents repeated at
every banquet informs US that
every drop OF blood around the
trenches in these islands, whsther
Of an American soldier or of
misguided" Filipino, brings an
guish to his heart.
How it must augment the
agony of the great sufferer TO re-
fleet that his own hand has precip.
itated his all-absorbing grief upon
him! Let him reflect upon the un-
affected sorroW-the sorrow thai
dwells IN the breast OF the heart
broken wife, parent, or child as the
terrible message daily is flashed TO
many OF them over the ocean
cable that a loved one has fallen
far off in the East, Lnder the hot
skies Of the tropics. Let him turn
his face to the Orient and there in
the lurid glare oil their burning
homes behold in the jungles the
dusky bodies OF the liieless FLIP.
mos. whose sightless orbs turn
as though mutely appeal
ing to high heaven Tor the justice
which he denied them. And all
these wrongs to which we have
m ade reference, have been COM
mitted in the name of people who
boast of ftheir tree institutions, and
who live under a written Constitu-
tion, every line OF which fairly |
briStles with guarantees for the
liberties oil the citizen.
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-06

us into such enthusiasm, or such
madness, as TO turn US permanently
from the principles and policies to
which we owe our national exist
ence, our life and liberty; or that
destiny, the divinity Of f;talists and
materialists, can weaken our faith
in the God OF justice, righteous
ness, and love, who scorns and
thrusts far away those who, having
the giants strength. use it to op-
press or destroy the weak and
ignorant.
We have never looked upon
ourselves, he concludes, as pre-
destined to subdue the earth, to
compel other nations with sword
and hell to accept our rule; we
have always believed in human
rights,in freedom and opp ortunity,
in educatIon and religion, and we
have invited all men to come and
enjoy these blessings in this half
Of a world which God has given US;
but we have never dreamed that
they were articles to be exported
and thrust down unwilling throats
at the point of the bayonet. We |
have sYn1Dathized with all op- |
pressed peoples-with Ireland, |
Greece, Armenia, Cuba. To eman-
cipate the slave we gladly sacri-
feed the lives of hundreds OF
thousands OF our soldiers. And
now the American soldier, who
should never shoulder a gun
except in righteous cause, is sent
10, 900 miles across the ocean to
shoot men whose real crime is that
they wish to be tree, wish to
govern themselves.
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-06
CommeroIaIism or I.oyaltv9

Prof. J. Lawrence Laughlin, oi
the University Of Chicago, speak
ing about the Philippine wars,
says: "Commercialism has sunk its
fangs deep enough into our polit-
ical life. 1t cannot go much fur
ther without stirring the righteous
indignation Of Justice loving Amer
leans. Too long has public Office
been given, not to selected fitness,
but to service in advancement OF
personal ambitions. Great for
tunes, rather than great statesman
ship, too often ill the Senate.
Arrogant wealth buys legislation,
which should be as cheap Tor the
frugal consumer as for the power
iul producer. We send up an ap-
peal-which will be followed by a
shout of approval from the Amer
ican eleetorate-for equality in
treatment OF all, both rich and
poor, and tor justice to the weak,
whether white or brown.
Approach the problem any way
you may, it ever harks backs to
a question, whether it is our policy
to subjugate or to free the island
ers. We are opposed to the fur
ther war, because we are opposed
to the subjugation OF the people
under a foreign yoke; we propose
a cessation OF slaughter. because
we believe that the Filipinos are
and OF right ought to be free and
independent under a protection
by the United States, which will
save them from foreign aggres ZION
"They tell US we are disloyal, il
we do not agree with any and every
policy of conquest which may be
arranged Tor US by the government
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-06
England has Never Been a Friend
OF this Country.

OF this Country.
We are at present, says Bishop
J. L. Spalding, of Peoria, H., in
the mi 1st Of crisis in which lack
Of thought and deliberation may
lead US far from the ideals which,
as Americans, we have most cher.
ished, and expose US to evils OF
which we scarcely dream. We
stand at the parting OF the ways.
1t is not YET too late to turn from
the way which leads through war
and conquest to imperialism, to
standing armies, to alliances with
foreign powers, and finally to the
disruption Of the Union itself. II
IS not too late because it is still
possible, probable even, that the
American people will reconsider
the whole question oil the compli-
cations in which our victories over
Spain have involved US, and calling
to mind the fact that they did not
enter into this war for the purpose
oil becoming an empire. but for the
purpose Of helping others to throw
of the yoke OF a tyrannical imper-
ialism, will see that to be blinded
and led away by success is to be
weak and foolish; or, rather, since
here the highest interests OF hu-
manitY are at stake, is to be wicked
and criminal. II this may not be,
then the American people have de-
generated, they have lost their hold
upon the historical causes and the
political habits which led to the
founding OF our institutions anc
to the marvellous growth and pros
peTity oil our country.
We shall not believe. continue.
the bishop, that the gain of a Few
naval battles over a weak and un
prepared foe have power to throw
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-06
German Americans Coniinue their
Hostility 40 Expansion.

I
Hostility 40 Expansion.
The WeSElichE Post has printed
an article defining the policy Of a
German American papers in thil
country regarding Americsnisn
against imperialism. Time anC
again." the article reads, "the at.
tempt has been made to supplaHt
American republicanism with In
perialism. Time and again Amer
ican patriotism, and that high and
far seeing love OF mankind which
unites men ct all countries in a
common brotherhood, have rallied
and won against it. When half a
century ago, we had the same cries
OF manifest destiny, the conquer
ing Saxon expansion and all
the rest we are hearing over again
now, Americans as radically op-
posed to each other in most things
as were Calhoun and Corbin,
joined with Clay. Webster. Lowell,
Clayton, and Clemens against it,
What American can read this
without an indignant refusal to
consent that the blood OF those
once our allies shall saturate the
soil on which they were born, that
we may be praised by the London
Times for our noble work for prog
ress' in furthering British plans for
dismembering and robbing China.
John M. Cla"ton himself, the
author of the Clayton Bulwer
treaty, and openly in favor OF CO.
operating with England in busi-
ness, was orenly opposed to having
anything TO do with the political
methods of British imperialism.
"What is there in stalwart
Americanism tits native Amerl-
canism, if you willy except what
erman.Americans are saying
now in declarinp that they gave
up home and friends and came
thousands of miles into an I'M
known country for the deep love
not Of English colonialism, but OF |
American republicanism7 To that |
they are loyal now and always.
To Americanisn. to liberty, to |
to freedom from militar-
ism, to the expectation OF a time
to come when the world will be
no longer shackled by imperial
ism, with its baYonets and fetters--
to that German Americans who
renounced imperialism in Europe
are ss devoted now as they were
fifty years ago, when they listened |
TO Seward as he said OF these same |
'expansionists': Sir, they have
sent the American Eagle abroad, |
bearing not the olive branch, but
a shackle in his talons,' The flag
Of this great republic stands now
mot for what the London Times
approves-but for what it meant
when Seward stood under it to
utter this immortal sentence.
"Such republicanism as that was
not his, nor is 1t that OF any local
German American or OF any other
American, who is loyal to his flag |
and to his country. May heaven
forbid that i, should ever be. May
the time never come when the
people will applaud
those who drabble a flag dedicated
to freedom and human progress ia
the blood of men who die on their
own soil, resisting the same prin-
ciple of British imperialism against
which America triumphed at
Yorktown and New Orleans.
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-06
NO As

trenchmen soften its bitter Judgment.
Time assuages the harshest impression.
and egotism comes to the aid of kindly
ieeling' 81 have gone through il
myself," " murmurs the soldier, land il
ala me no harm, and am convinced
that 1t is for the good of the country
that every man should be a soldier,
Possibly involved with this new horn
optimism is the selfish feeling. that
which onei man lhas endured NAV be
endured oy the rest. After all. where
Is the use Of supporting hardship If
others are to escape3 So have we heard
the English boy, whose early years at a
public school were not mere hap-
plness, explain the advantages OF a
public school education, and il is the
same spirit of unexalted aItruism which
preserves the general alteration OF the
French army. This, then, is the primary
reason why France cherishes a military
ambition. Every man of full age Is or
has been soldier; his sons have served
or are serving, and there is not a single
citizen OF the Republic, be he Senator
or concierge, who does not know his
drill and has not shuddered at the ran.
cous voice OF an intimidating sergeant.
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-06
A Mig hty Protest.

| A[ the great Anti l-ImperlaliSI
meeting held in the Central Music
Hall at Chicago, last week (April
soy, to protest against the course
of the Administration with refer
en:e to the Philippine is lands, the
following truly American resolu-
tions were adopted:
The frank expression of honest con.
victions upon great questions of public
honor is vital to the health and even to
the preservation of representative gov.
ernment. Such expression is therefore
the sacred duty of American citizens.
We hold that the policy known as
imperialism is hostile to liberty and
tends to miitarism, an evil from which
1t has been our glory to be free. We
regret that it is now necessary in the
land OF Washington and Lincoln to
reaffirm that all m en-, of whatever race
or color, are entitled to lie, liberty and
the pursuit OF happiness. We still main
tain that governments derive their just
powers from the consent of the gov.
erned. We insist that the torcible sub
jugatlCn Of a purchased people is
atty to the distinctive principles of our
government.
We honor our soldiers and sailors in
the Philippine Islands for their uDques.
toned bravery; and we mourn with the
whole nation for the American lives that
have been sacrificed. Their duty was
obedience to orders our duty is dIligent
inquiry and fearless protest. We hold
that our own government created the
conditions which have brought about
the sacrifice.
We earnestly condemnt the policy ofthe
present National Administration in the
Philippines. 1t is the spirit of '76 that
our government IS striving to eXtinguish
in those islands; we denounce the
attempt and demand its abandonment.
We deplore and resent the slaughter of
the Filiplnos as a needless horror, a
deep dishonOr 10 our nation.
We protest against the extension OF
American empire by Spanish methods,
and demand the immediate cessation OF
the war gainst liberty, begun by Spain
and continued by us. We believe that
a foolish pride is the chief obstacle to a
speedy settlement OF all difficulties AS
Mr., Gladstone said to England: I'VE
are strong enough y to cast aside
all considerations Of false shame
walking in the plain and simple ways of
right and Justice" Our government
should al once announce to the FilipInos
its purpose to grant them, under proper
guarantees of order, the independence
for which they have so long fought, and
should seek by diplomatic methods to
secure this independence by the common
consent of nations. Itis today as true OF
the Fihpinos as it was a year ago of the
Cubans, that they "are and OF right
ought to be free and independent"
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-06
what Are His Intentionsq

What Are His Intentions?
President Mckinley, after he
had negotiated the Peace Treaty
and before It was ratified, said
do not discuss, at this time, govern
ment or the future of the new posses
siOns. Such discussion will be appropri'
ate after the treaty Of peace shall be
ratified.
Thus he at that time announced
the essential doctrines Of an un
limited tyranny. First we are to
take the Islands, and then We are
to decide how they are to be gov
eTned. The President assumes
that the inhabitants have no rights,
that all right was in Spain, and as
we succeed to her jurisdiction we
may also impose upon the inhab-
itants whatever form Of govern
ment may be agreeable to us.
We are to pursue the policy which
we had condemned in Spain, and
which has ended in unmitigated
disaster. We do not now discuss
the constitutionalitY Of the pro
jected colonial system, but it is
manifest that its introduction leads
to departure, a wide departure,
from the doctrine that all just
governments derive their powers
from the free consent OF the gov
erned. BY this one step which the
President is now taking, we pass
from a repu blic to an empire. We
abandon the doctrine that per-
sonal freedom and political equal
ity in public affairs and self gov
ernment in communities are a
COMMON heritage, and we ally
ourselves with the long line of
despots who have seized power
and Jurisdiction, and then gov
erned and misgoverned their fellow
men accoi ding to their own
sovereign will.
Enforced governments, says
Hon. Geo. S. Boutw ell, though
temporary, are unjust govern
ments, and leniency in despotic
governments is far away from JUS
tice. These considerations, even
If we'll founded, are no defence for
the act of seizing ten million peo-
pie and holding them Tor even a
day. We are of the opinion if the
President even at this late stage
would recognize their republican
form Of government the fighting
would cease instanter. General |
Luna's envoys last week informed |
General Otis to that efect-but |
Otis refused. Upon the Presidents |
plan the Philippines are to be
under military government until
until when1 AssuredlY until
civil government can be set up.
Can any dreamer suggest a time
when a free. republican, self sus-
and selfsupporting civil !
can be set up in those
islands9 Can the President name
such a timer Although no such
time has been named, or can be
yet, as a measure OF public
policy, the United States is urged
to sanction in perpetuity a presi-
Dental government over ten mil.
ion conquered people who occupy
one thousand islands in pestilential
in unfrequented seas, ten
thousand miles away. live leave
the islands the inhabitants will set
up government. 1t may not be
a good government as we prize
governments, but il will be their
ANY form Of free
is better than our
form of tyranny. A protectorate
will suffice.
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-06

The request of the Filipino
General Luna for a three months
truce to enable him to Sonsult with
the Filipino Congress on the terms
oi peace demonstrates the possess
sion OF qualities which would lead
to success in civil life-as a book
agent or lightning-rod peddler.
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-06

AS A remedy for the prevalence
OF unpunished crime in Chicago an
eminent physician Of that city rec
ommends the establishment Of
rarpeian Rock on the ancient
Roman model, from which Grim.
inals might be hurled to death.
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-06
The German. as well as the Irish

The German, as we'll as the Irish
Americans, are opposed TO the
proposed alliance of England and
the United States, and there is
nothing TO induce the belief that
the people OF the South are dead in
love with it, much as the Admins
traton and its supporters may be,
With three such influential ia :tors
in this country opposed to Mr..
McKinley's pet scheme, says the
Alexandria Gagette, it is hardly
possible it can succeed. Northern
native Americans may repudiate
the wise advice of General Wash
rngton, but the foreign born citi-
zens Of the country have too much
good sense to do so.
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-06
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FRANCE AND HER ARMY.
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President Mckinley, after he
had negotiated the Peace Treaty
and before It was ratified, SAID;
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