The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-06-21
Washington Letter.
(From our Regnlar Correspondent }

sanctioned policy for the sending of
soldiers to the Philippines that is q
clear case Of what used to be called
whipping the devil around the
stump" Mr.. Mckinley has gone off
on ten day pleasure trip, with the
very important object of seeing his
niece graduate from Massachusetts,
female college. Meanwhile private
advices from Manila say that instead
of ending the war General Otis is
likely to find himself and his army
confined to Manila and its outskirts,
before the rainy season is over, unless
he is heavily reinforced. Mr.. Mckln-
ley fears the political effect of fissuing
the call for volunteers, although he
has several times decided to do so,
and adopted the plan OF sending a
sufficient number of regulars to Otis
to give him o total of $4,000 men.
This is to be done in way to ban
boozle the public. Portions of regi-
ments are to be sent and portions re.
tanned in barracks. And to the latter
all the men enlisted at the recruiting
Offices are to be sent to be broke 10,
aud nobody outside Of the War De-
partment will be able to know wheth-
er the regular army is over-enlisted
or not. as early as last week every
Z. 5. recruiting Office was ordered 10
hustle and to keep it up until fuither
notice.
The boldest witness who has testi-
fed since the Industrial Commission
began the Investigation OF trusts was
Henry O. Havemeyer, the president
of the sugar trust, who was heard
this week. After reading u carefully
prepared essay, i'll which he claimed
that trusts, and especially the sugar
trust, were public berefactors, he said:
"We are not in the business for phil
anthropic purposes It is policy,
sometimes, to divide our profits with
the public, and we conduct our busi-
ness on business liaes. We have tried
to sell So low as to shut out ali COM
petition, but up to the present time
we are in it up to our neck. Trusts
are natural growth. They are reg
ulated by the laws of trade, and Meth
er you, nor the Federal government,
nor any other power, can alter these
laws, and the sooner you fud it out
and cease these useless investigations,
the better for the country" Now
that is a fine picture, isn'til? The head
of one of the most notorious of the
trusts which are driving individual
enterprise to the wall and slowly but
surely getting possession ofthe whole
country, standing up and boldly tell
ing tue representatives Of the Q. S.
Government that they are engaged in
q use less investigation Of trusts, and
that neither the Federal government,
nor any other power, is strong enough
to stop the growth of trusts. Mr..
Havemeyer was mistaken. There is
a power strong enough t. stop the
growth of the trusts, and sooner or
later it will do it. That power is
welded by the people, who pay the
enormous profits of the trusts.
Representative Sherman's friends
try hard to conceal their soreness over
the Henderson bunco that he ran up
against, but they do not succeed very
well. For instance, read the follow
ing remarks made by ex-represents-
tive Southwick, of New York, and it
is easy to see that be does not believe
Sherman was given square deal: "Mr.
Sherman accepts his defeat for the
Speakership with the utmost philoso-
ply, and isn't in the least sore over
lienderson's ord-breaking victory.
He never knew in advance Of others
that Mr.. Reed contemplated retiring
from the House, and his declination
OF the Customs appraisership WAS not
made prior to his knowledge of Mr..
Reeds intentions" That sounds very
much like pleading the baby act, rs
it was generally believed that Mr.
Sherman did know in advance, and
that he WAS Mr. Reeds choice for the
Speakership. In fact, it was MIR.
Sherman's declination of an Office
that he had sought which gave the
pubic the first intimation of AIR.
Reeds intention to retire. Again,
Mr.. Southwick indicated bis belief in
bunco practices by the Henderson
men when he said: "When the Hi
uois people put up Hopkins instead
OF Cannon, we would have had a large
following outside his own State, they
picked a fore-doomed non-winner.
Had Joe Cannon been their candidate
the result would never have been set
tied in advance OF the meeting OF
Congress. When the Committee
chairmanships are announced the
Sherman men will understand still
better how they were knocked out.
Ex-Governor Bookwalter, of Ohio,
who has lately returned from a three
years trip through Russia and its
dependencies, has some new Ideas Of
the Cars country. He said: II en-
joyed the trip to Russia thoroughly,
and arrived at the conclusion that
Russia is wofully misjudged coun-
try. Nowhere have l seen a more
pronounced tendency on the part OF
government to promote the interests
of its poor people. l think the pre-
vailing delusion in America concern
ing the alleged tyranny of the Rus
sian government arises from the fact
that it will not tolerate crime. JUS
tice there is swift and severe, but are
we in a position to say that it is too
swift and severe?' Mr.. Bookwalter
says that Russia is hound TO be the