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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-26
Manila, Aug. 20. 1899.

ManlIa, Aug. 70. INJ9.
. Lieut.-Col. Sixth infantry, so men,
attacked and routed 100 of the enemy
entrenched at Tibuan, Negroes noun
tains. having three men slightly
wounded. Enemy left in entrench-
ments 10 dead. six rifles. all reserved
ammunition. Supposed to he armed
Tagalos who Il few days since crossed
to Panay III small beats.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-26
OTIS.

First Lieut.. Alfred W. Drew men.
&ioned In above dispatch was born: ir
Texas. He graduated from the MILL
tary scafemy In 1so1and was assigned
as second lieutenant of the Twelfth in.
fantry. During the war with Spain he
MAS major of the Third Texas.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-26
OTIS.
Manila. Aug. ]

Nf'IT"' 'HS' IV'
First Lieut.. Alfred w. Drew, Twelfth
infantry, instantly killed and First
Lieut.. Willie Ulihe, Same regiment, Sc
yerely wounded yesterday in an attack.
on insurgents in the vicinity of An
geles by two companies OF the Twelfth
infantry No other casualties. Enemy
routed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-26

$ Don't 90 to extremes-especidily IN your
dealings with bees and ,wasps.WTzChicago,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-26
DISPATCHES From GEN. OTIS.
Two Successful arrangements WITH
the 1nsurcnts-Onc Lieutenant
Killed. One Wounded.

Washington. Aug. 21.-The follow.
ing dispatches announcing engage
ments with the Philippine insurgents
were received at the war department
Yesterday:
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-26
NHyNEAI &rSARAee
a Representative Of sf1Ibsn Msiris
-A:co. Explains the Cause
lr"xof the Risef E,gs rs
WAR UPON AUSTRALIAN BEEF RAiSERS.
The American Consumer Has to Re
coup the American. Beef BarOns
for Their Losses Sustained in
CrOyvdinE the Australians Out of
the English Markets. GIL.

New York. Aug. 1S.-A representa-
tive of the firm of Nelson, Morris &
Co., when asked as TO the cause of the
rise in the price of beef, said to a
World reporter: ..,....
War on Australian Beef.
''The. advance here is caused by the
efforts of American packers to drive
Australian beef from the English mar
ketS and establish American beef in
order to secure ii we are shipping i'm
mense quantities of BEEF 20 England.
Just now this business abroad is
being carried on at a heavy loss, be-
cause we are cutting prices to kill
competition.
THE consequence is that The export
of American beef is very much heav-
Ter than ever before. Naturally. un-
der these conditions. there is less beef
for the home trade. although there are
as many cattle for the market as ever.
No Shortage of Cattle.
There is no real shortage in mar
kctable cattle. all reports to the con-
tdI iSSSlP'
al the yards in Kansas City, Omaha
and Chicago are as large as ever.
The foreign demand being extra
heavy, as I nave explained, the prices
to cattle dealers as well as TO butch
ers, are high. The packers are not
reaping II fortune.
"The remedy for complaining butch
ers is simple. They must raise prices.
1 have.hcard not heard any complaints
from consumers. The butchers are
complaining, and they must work u
their salvation by getting more money
FOR their beef"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-26
Heavy Demand for Meats.

Chicago. Aug. 1S.-The Record saws:
Investigation at the s~tockyards in re-
gard to the recent advances in the
price of beef brought out the state
ment that never before in the history
of the tAmerican cattle market has
there beer such a demand for all kinds
of meats as at the present time. The
demand for export cattle is normou
The statement is made that the prices
of all cattle will be higher next year
than they are now, but that in three
years. when all the thousands of feed
ers find their way into the market,
there is likely to be a slump in the
price from 70 to three cents.
Nanas Cattle Herds.
This year Kansas has 100000 head
of cattle, which is a record breaker
for that state. The big ranches in
Montana, Wyoming and North and
South. Dakota are sending IN few cat
lie 1T present. Most benefited by the
increase in prices is the stock raiser.
At present everything costs more
alive than formerly, making it neces-
sary for the packers to advance the
prices, on all dressed meats.
Prices to Retail Butchers.
The prices quoted to. retail butchers
are nine cents Il pound for best
straight beef in the whole carcass,
and 14H cents a pound for loins and
ribs, when together in even sets. One
lot of 60 barrels of the latter was sold
at 15h cents a pound. All other
meats. have been more or less effected.
Prices have gone up in pork, mutton,
real and all dried and smoked meats.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-29
SECULAR SHOTS Al ruE rrLrir.

Chicago Tribune: The duty seems to he
laid upon Chicago OF furnishing mission
aries to New York city.
Chicago Posi-. We are Informed that an
Indiana clergyman who has been using a rel
volver to maintain order In his church will
have his license revoked, but we are left in
doubt as TO whether 1t will be his license
to preach or his license to carry arms.
Boston Herald 1t looks queer to see dis
tinguished churchmen like Bishop Potter,
Rev. DIR. Rainsford and even Rev. DR.. Park
hurst defending the saloon as an institution
that is capable OF being made useful. They
seem disposed to look facts squarely in the
face and make the best of them.
Pioneer Press: 1t seems that a pennsyl-
vania preacher has been dismissed by his
congregation because he v%entured to say that
the rainbow had existed before Noah's time.
Yet when we remember the little tempest
that followed DR.. Lyman Abbott's remarks
is not so amazing.
Kansas City Star: Captain Augustus y.
Gardiner. in a recent report on Porto Rico to
the assistant. secretary Of war, Mr.. Meikle-
john, says that 1t does not appear that the
Porto Ricans have ever taken their religion
Gardiner is presumably a Protestant, but
Father Thomas Sherman of the Catholic
church says the same thing. Whatever our
recently acquired citizens in Porto Rico may
be, it is evident that they are not pious.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-29
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Indiana's new senator is said to be as full
of figures of speech as a circulation affidavit.
A Kansas City preacher AYERS that "the
devil is abroad in the town. He got his
cue from the advance billing of a theatrical
star.
The influence OF environment frequently
manifests itself. A Chicago girl confessed
to the police that she could not tell the
truth.
Every returning soldier from Manila
cheerfully admits that Admiral Dewey oc-
cupies the big tent out there. All others
are side-shows.
A simple method OF a~verting trouble with
the Filipinos would be the suppression of
poetic apostrophes on expansion. There Is
a limit to Malay patience.
Down at Macon, Mo-, a few days ago, "a
Hot Time in the Old Town" did duty at a
funeral. The deceased must have been a
genuine Missouri mossback.
Rebel" Aguinaldo must be credited with
foresight and business sense in keeping at
the front. His war "reminiscences will com.
mand a fortune in the near future.
The foolkiller misses many tempting OPP
portunities these frosty days. A Massa-
chusetts woman has just reared q marble
monument over the grave of her pet mon
key.
Girls who packed Christmas boxes for
soldier boys in Manila will be interested in
the cabled statement that many Of the
Yankee soldiers have become engaged to
Filipino girls.
Up in the classic regions OF Oshkosh a
barkeeper has been convicted of man.
slaughter, having piled a local character
with enough liquor to kill him. Barkeepers
should be careful about overlooking tanks.
G.. Clunies Ross, an American who owns
and practically rules the Keeling-Cocos
islands, near Java, is in San Francisco. He
says his possessions, though thickly popu-
lated, have no prisons nor police and crime
is almost unknown.
The town of Peoria intimates rather forci-
bly, that a prophet is without honor in his
own country by warming the solar plexus
of a prophet who was rather frlsky with his
predictions. Other portions of his cuticle
were famed with shoe leather.
A bogus edition OF Denver's "divine
healer Schlatter, bumped up against a
wave Of popular indignation in a Georgia
town and was hustled outside the corpora
tion limits by the police. Now the pious
fakir will play the persecution dodge and
wax wealthy.
Mayor John DAILY Of Limerick is the same
John Daily who talked eloquently and pa
thetically to his countrymen in Omaha last
March. His description of the horrors of
solitary confinement in British prisons,
which he survived, has rarely been equalled
by human Inns.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-29

has supposed that birth under the Amer
ship. But it turns out, apparently, that
everyone has been radically wrong. The
boy who has been told that because
he was born in the United States he has
a chance some day to become president
of the greatest nation on earth Is
doomed to sad disappointment. The
men who drafted this amendment may
NOT have known It. but the fact is now
proclaimed that when they wrote the
words United States they referred not
of the brave pictured in song and poetry,
but to the thirty odd states then forming
the union and those which might be
later admitted to equal privileges. the
boy born in Nevada then may be eligible
to h presidency, while the boy born in
Arizona is barred from that high station,
and 1t will make no difference to the
fresh generation of little tilipinos
whether they are born the day before
or the day after the treaty of peace and
cession is ratified and the Publications
exchanged.
With such facile constitutional con-
tortionistS always at hand we ought
never to feel under any necessity of re-
vising or amending our written frame
OF government. All that is needed is to
call in the juridical doctors and ask
them to make a new reading.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-29

The declaration of NJ. Delcasse that
Frances rights I'm the French shore
question are incontestable is a sweep
ing general denial of Mr.. Chamberlain's
statement that it will be adjusted sat
isfactorily to English interests, and I'M
less some other more important question
in dispute should precipitate an early
adjustment. the weary controversy
threatens to drag its interminable length
through another generation or two. The
old dispute has been standing sc long
that 1t resembles another great con-
troversy of some years ago that could
not be adjusted because only I'VE men
had eve understood it. and n of them
was dead. while the other n had for
gotten what 1t was about. and its chief
object seems to be to furnish Il cause
for an irreconcilable quarrel over some
shadowy rights that are of little i'm
portance to either country and of which
the world in general is heartily tired.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-29
CITIZEN or SUBJECT.
tatus of the FiIipinOs Under the
Treaty II Ratified.

Detroit Free Press.
Senator Hoar raised a pertinent question in
the senate Wednesday when he wanted to
know whether the Filipinos were to be re-
garded, after the treaty is ratified, as citizens
of the United States or subjects. IL the
Paris treaty is ratified without amendment
nothin. can be more certain than that the
Massachusetts, senator's question will thrust
itself upon the country to create dissensions
and wranglings,
There are already two opposing opinions
springing up and dividing the public mind.
Certain newspapers and individuals are argu-
ing that we can govern the FilipinOs as sub
jects without giving them citizenship, just
The New York Times, for instance. says,
I'VE ought to take the islands as provided In
the treaty" but "they must never become
citizens of the United States" Senator Hoar
thinks that II the treaty IL adopted as 1t
stands every Filipino child born under the
flag OF this country, be he ~Mohommedan,
Chinese, Japanese or Malay, would be a
citizen Of this country"
1t will readily be seen that the question Is
a vital one, To treat 5000, 900 or 10, 900, 600
OF inferior Asiatics as citizens means that
they must be admitted to the United States
as freely as Americans born. Such able
constitutional lawyers as Edmunds and Hoar
think that any other treatment would be
unconstitutional. Are the millions OF
American laborers ready to submit meekly
to an invasion OF Asiatic competitors? Ger
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-29

tainly they will protest, and the constltu.
ton will have to be amended. In order 10
prevent disaster to our own citizens. When
amendments Of the fundamental law once
begin there Ia no telling whore they may
end, nor what radical impairment to the
American ideal OF government may follow.
senators who love constitutions liberty
will surely hesitate before voting to ratify
a treaty which is certain to bring such a
disturbing issue upon the country. II will
be vastly safer to amend the instrument so
as to place the Philippines in the same re-
lationship to the United States as Cuba
is to occupy. Then there will be no danger
OF comforting American citizenship upon
Oriental savages, thereby endangering our
own most highly cherished rights and
privileges.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-29
CONSTITUTION HAIR-SPLITTING

'OA'S
The new questions precipitated by the
unforeseen outcome of the war with
Spain, bringing the American people
face to face with problems undreamed
of by the fathers of the republic, are oc-
%casioning more constitution hairsplitttng
than anything that has happened since
the wal of the rebellion. The question
whether Andrew Jackson had any con-
stitutional right to put down the
nullifiers or President Lincoln to meet
with force the armies of the seced-
ing states raised up no more ingenious
constitution twisters than the proposed
annexation of the Philippines.
For a case directly in point an article
by Prof. ii. +. JudsOn of the Uni
versity of Chicago could not be improved
oil. contributed to the last number of
the Review Of Reviews. in which he
brushes away with one sweep of the
pen all the constitutional obstacles to
the unrestricted acquisition and govern
ment of distant territory by congress.
The way this is done is by distinguish
ing two different uses of the terms
United States of America in the consti-
tuition.
We are told that the United States
refers not only to the people vested
with the nations sovereignty, but also
to a territorial empire m that the lin
itations set up in our fundamental law
have no relation to the territorial idea.
Eve. the people of the United States"
ordain and enact the constitution for
1.-The United States of America" What
people? asks the learned professor, M
answers, The people of the states form
ing the union.
In another place the doctrine is enun-
ciated that all duties, excuses and i'm
posts shall be uniform throughout the
United States. The ordinary mortal
might think this meant that they should
really be uniform throughout all the
land, subject to the United States gov
eminent, but the commentators have
discovered that such a conclusion is
based on a wrong conception of the use
Of the English language. The consti-
tuition trainers did not intend that all
duties, excuses and imposts levied by
congress should be uniform, but that
they should be uniform merely within
the states admitted to membership in
the union, leaving the people Of the terri
tories, colonies and ROW estates de
pendent wholly upon the favor Gnd fair
disposition of the men who happen 10
constitute the reiCnlnp congress-.
When the constitution, was mende
to protect the freedmen In their civil
and political rights, citizenship was eX-
tended to all persons born or naturallzed
in the United States and subject to It's
jurisdiction. I'd to this time every one
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-29
Uniformity In Divorce Laws.
rhsno-n T.tI


The movement for uniformity of state
laws is far from being general enough as
yet to give promise of tangible results. At
one time or another various states have APP
pointed commissions to investigate the sub
ject, but there has been no concert of action.
In no one thing is the reform needed more
than in divorce laws. The Constitution OF
the United States provides that full faith
and credit shall be given In each state to
the public acts, records and judicial pro-
ceedings Of every other state" Yet eastern
courts habitually ignore Dakota divorces.
A marriage In New York following a divorce
in Illinois on grounds not recognized in New
York may lead to a charge Of bigamy. The
state courts are getting further and further
away from the constitutional safeguard on
this subject especially. II the several states
will not take the initiative toward Uniform
ity let congress appoint a commission to in
vestigate. codify and formulate
dations. 1t would not be binding upon any
state, OF course, but this is a possible way
in which 70 secure concert Of action.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-29
THE CUBAN
Indications of Trouble in Il
Liberated Island.
Baltimore Sun.

Baltimore Sun.
The burning OF caneields in Cuba out OF
spite because civil offices and other employ
ments have not been given to Cuban SOL
diers in sufficient abundance is an illogical
proceeding which ought to be stopped. The
Isabel plantation has already been burned
over, and only the arrival of American
troops saved the Romeli and San Miguel
estates. near Guantanamo. The negroes
who constitute the bulk of the Cuban army
are said to be d%isgruntled at the turn mat
ters are taking. Accustomed to plundering
for a living while the war continued, they
now find their livelihood gone. They get
no pay to replace the spoils they may no
longer seize. Peace means hard work, and
to this they are averse. They have another
grievance in the fact that the white Cubans
get all the offices the Americans have to dis
tribute and they come in nowhere. They
have accordingly concluded, it seems, to
prevent the working of the sugar estates
by burning them, in order to show that the
negro patriots must be "recognized," too.
In the Mayari district bands of robbers are
said to be plundering and killing the resi-
dents. Now that the Spanish troops are
withdrawn to the coast much OF the interior
Of the island Is doubtless terroriZed by the
Cuban soldiers. The latter have not been
disbanded by their leaders. Their attitude
is one of expectancy. General Gomez has
not recognized our pretensions to govern
Cuba. He does not come into our lines or
put himself in our power. He and his COM
patriots entertain the idea, it appears, that
they may yet some day have to fight us II
we do not turn Cuba over to them.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-29
popuLAR ELECTION or SENATOR'S.

For the last quarter of n century pub
llc sentiment has beer steadily growing
in favor of the election of senators by
popular vote. The consensus of opin-
ion among intelligent thinkers is that
the present method of c~lecting United
States senators by the legislatures Is
responsible for a marked decadcncc in
the upper branch of our national legis-
lature.
1t is to be deplored that bigotcd par
tisanship caused the defeat of a joint
resolution urging congress to propose
an amendment to the constitution of the
United States providing for the election
of United States senators by the direct
vote of the people in the state senate. Be
cause and only because this resolution
had been introduced by a member of
the fusionist minority, Il motion to table
the proposition without discussion was
carried by all but two votes of the re-
publican majority.
And yet the first steps in this direction
were taken by the republican legislature
in 1919 in the following memorial and
joint resolution:
Your memorialists. the legislature OF the
state of Nebraska. would respectfully rep
resent that they express the will of the
people of this state in asking for an amend
ment to the constitution Of the United
States, which shall provide for the election
OF United States senators by the whole peo-
pie, and not by delegated authority.
Therefore, Your memorialists would re-
specially ask your honorable body to pro-
pose an amendment to section 8, article
i, of the constitution of the United States,
by which this election by the people Of
their qualified representatives shall be ar
ranged more in accordance with the demand
or the popular voice.
Resolved, That the secretary of state be
and hereby is instructed to transmit a GER
titled copy Of this memorial to our SEN
ators and representatives in congress, VINO
are hereby requested to use all honorable
means to secure the object above ex-
pressed.
This joint resolution was introduced in
the house by Hon. Benjamin Barrows, a
republican, and was voted for by every
member of that body, including John NJ.
Thurston, the present junior senator of
NeDTaShd, tleu IL HleulDef OIL the mousse.
In 1893 another memorial and joint
resolution TO the same purport was
adopted, and although failing to receive
the approval of Governor Crounse, was
transmitted to the representatives ot
Nebraska in congress. This memorial
also received the sanction Of the men,
bers of all parties.
1T goes without saying that a memorial
asking congress to submit q constitu-
tional amendment that would remit the
election of United States senators to Il
vote of the people would receive the
endorsement of ninety-nine out of every
hundred electors of Nebraska. Whether
such memorials to congress would be
needed by men who occupy seats in the
United States senate through influences
that were potential with legislatures, but
could not have carried them through q
popular election, is problematlc.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-29

spcclaltics, but rather in the direction of
thorough training in all of those broad
and comprehensive branches the study
of which bcgcts not only culture ana
knowledge, but the power to think cor
rcctly and we'll. Special training should
not he underestimatcd, but wherever
possible should begin after the general
education is completed. The man thus
educated has many advantages in the
competitions of life over his brother
equipped only with n store of special
knowledge. The chief danger in special
training alone is narrowness and the loss
of that broad and comprehensive power
of thought that will correct the errors
of humanity and make the world better
materially and morally.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-29
to a circular just issued by

EtCCbTullS W ii ClICuluE just lSSutu ny
the signal officers of the War de-
partment the military telegraph ines
in Cuba and Porto Rico operated by the
signal corps are ready to handle com
mercial messages at a uniform local rate
Of . cents a word. In a nutshell, the
government telegraph finds itself in po-
sition to do private business at rates
which no private telegraph company
would offer under the same conditions,
namely, a monopoly Of the field and
comparatively small patronage. The
question simply presents itself whether
the government, with a postal telegraph
system of its own covering the whole
United States, could not transmit mes
sages much cheaper than the = cents Il
word it now asks in sparsely settled
Cuba, whose inhabitants have yet to be
educated up to the use of the electric
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-29

PIttSDUTS DISpatCN.
When we are confronted with the spectacle
of the organs Of an alleged national policy
declaring that the Declaration of Independ-
ence is merely an impracticable theory and
only effete rhetoric it is time to stop and
think. When the organs of expansion are
declaring that the American policy crystal
LIKED in the Monroe doctrine is worn out
there is more room for reflection. When n
general Of the army publicly announces with
out reprimand that 1--WE have outgrown the
constitution the people may well inquire
what they have left.