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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-16

HoENcKE. magnetic healer established
Dallas avenue; best OF city references Whom
writing address $40 Main street. enclosing
stamp. esI r.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-16

YOUR EYES examined free. properly adjust
ed with best speoatcles and eve glasses:
guarantee satisfaction. Wiltor's 9Os Prairie
avenue.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-24

Major Lee will soon be engaged
in teaching the Pittsburg young idea
how to shoot.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-24

Col. RICHARD E. FAST, the elo-
quent Senator from Monongalia,
would not be ayerse to becoming Gov
ernor Of West Virginia. Il cannot
say yet, said the Senator at the Ruff
ner the other day, whether | will be
a candidate or not 1t all depends on
circumstances. You can never pre-
dict in politics what are going to be
the conditions year in the future
| am not making any active effort at
present towards securing the nomina-
ton My work is OF such nature
til 1t cannot devote much attention
to politics at this time. Nevertheless
il | see that the nomination is coming
nay way | am not going TO run away
from it, Col. Fast was in the city
Thursday and Friday, attending the
meeting Of the annex site commission,
Of which he is a member. He return
ed to Morgantown Friday evening. =
Charleston Sunday Herald.
The county court will meet about
Nav 22d to select five persons for
re assessment commissioners two of
whom will be chosen by the Board
Ct Public Works for this county. 1t
will be the duty of the two men
chosen to revalue all the real estate
in this county. 1t is provided that
these e-assessessments be made ev
cry ten years Under the act passed
by the last legisla .ure this law will
apply only to the year 1900 The
last section reads this way The
re assessment made under the pro
visions Of this act shall apply to the
taxes to be levied and collected in
the year one thousand nine hundred.
It is provided in the constitution of
West Virginia that IA assessment
act shall be in force for ten years
and here we have one made for only
next year. The constitutional law
yers who drew up the bill evidently
missed quite an important feature,
The legislature of 1901 will be com
PEELED to amend the act as soon as
it meets.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-24

A Pennsylvania weather prophet
predicts that there will be no sum
mer this year but that water will
freeze in every month as was the
case in 1916. Mr. Peter Smith has
not given us anything quite so bad
US this.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-24

Ones virtues are never mentioned
as long as one vice is in sight
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-24

In order to be strictly convention
al the public school commencement
will not have anything for partici-
pants but sweet girl graduates.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-24

The moon will change in day OF
so and then we may have some rain
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-24

Almost time for the annual noun.
tain peregrinations Of the hunters
after the beautiful and fragant trail
ing arbutus.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-24

The sheriff has been shut up from
the rest of the population. Uusually
it is the rest Of the population that
are smut up.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-24

The fact that Fairmont has license
could readily be seen on examination
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-24

Everyone who don't own "a wheel
will have to buy flying machine or
climb tree.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-24

The Fourth of July may be ush
cred in with the bang of the hammer
on the spikes on the new railroad.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-24

Strawberries are still high but
street paving Berrys are the cheap
est we have ever met.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-24

The weather is not the only scorch
er which has been cussed in the last
few days.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-24
MoRGANTowN, APRIL a. 1893.

The county court may meet with
us again next week.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-24

1t seems that the way to make a
good Filipino is the same way good
Indians are made.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-24

Commencement this week will not
be marred by the presence of any
horrid boys.
The Irish standard., 1899-05-20

Last Wednesday, May II, ex-Presi-
dent Benjamin Harrison sailed for Paris
to take part in all international lawsuit,
to be heard by a tribunal of arbitra-
ton. The parties at law are the gov
ernment of Great Britain and the gov
ernment of Venezuela, backed by the
government of the United States. It
will settle the question that four years
ago nearly precipitated an Anglo-Ameri-
can war. Ex-President Harrison, who
is chief counsel for Venezuela, has come
to the conclusion that England has
rights in only narrow eastern strip
OF the disputed territory. He will con-
tend for the Venezuelan government
that the proper boundary should be in
the neighborhood of the 5oth degree of
longitude west of Greenwich, whereas
Great Britain has claimed westward be-
yond the 63d degree Of longitude, taking
a number OF exceedingly valuable gold
mines in which British capital is now
interested. Assisting Gen. Harrison as
counsel for Venezuela are Benjamin F.
Tracy, who was secretary of the navy
in his cabinet; S. Mallet-Prevost and
James Russell Solely, all of New York.
The Irish standard., 1899-05-20
PRESIDENT NoR1HRop,s IDEAS.

The upholders Of McKinley's Philip
pine policy had mass meeting in Min
lleapolis last Sunday in imitation of the
imperialists of Chicago who held
meeting the Sunday before to counter
act the effect produced by the anti-im-
pcrialsts OF that city in their denuncia-
ton OF the policy pursued by the ad-
ministration in the Orient. The DEM
onstration held in this city was to give
encouragement to Mckinley in his war
OF determination. None but Republi-
cans were speakers, save Mayor Gray.
Every effort was made to get Demo-
Gratis to speak, but without avail. 1t
was an out-and-out Republican affair
for which there was no necessity. An
administration organ called on the citi-
zens to hoist the flag in token of their
loyalty to the government, but the citi-
zcns paid no attention to the request OF
the partisan sheet, with the exception OF
few Republican politicians.
The principal speaker at the meeting
was President Cyrus Northrop of the
State University, and we are happy to
say that the distinguished educator is
not an offensive partisan. The organs
OF imperialism and expansion praise his
speech, but why they do SO is not ap-
parent, for Dr.. Northrop unhesitatingly
declared that he is against the policy OF
holding the Philippines as colony.
Said he: eve don't want to go into a
contest for the acquisition OF colonies all
over the world. We have territory
enough at home without that"
We are led to think from other ex-
pressions used by him that DR.. Nor
throp's educational duties have prevent
ed him from closely watching the course
OF events in the Far East. In his speech
he said:
"We proposed doing for them (the
The Irish standard., 1899-05-20

George P. Flannery, the corporation
attorney, is an advanced imperialist. In
his speech at the Mckinley meeting in
Minneapolis last Sunday he declared
that he would not be governed by what
people said hundred years ago. Like
General Merritt he thinks we have out
grown the constitution. He believes
with Rev. DR.. Henson, of Chicago, that
"a live president in the year of grace
1899 is better authority than dead
president who lived hundred years
ago." Therefore, like Cush. Davis, he
would hold the Philippines for ever
against the consent of the natives, eff
the best interests of the United States
and the Philippines demand our re-
tention of the islands, Prof. Laugh
lin, in speech published on the first
page of this paper, shows that it would
be detriment and not an advantage to
the United States to acquire these dis
tant possessions for the promotion of
trade. What he says, of course, would
produce no effect upon the profound
mind of Republican lawyer in the en-
ploy of the corporate interests who favor
expansion and imperial sway in the
eastern hemisphere.
The Irish standard., 1899-05-20

Says William Dillon in the New
World: Do the American people hold
that Lord Chatham was disloyal to Eng
land when he denounced the war against
the American colonists on the floor of
the House of Lords? Do they not
rather hold that he then showed himself
even more loyal to the best interests OF
England than when, at the most glori-
Gus period in his splendid career, he di-
rected those operations which built up
the British empire in North America
and Hindostan? Was he disloyal to
England when he uttered those famous
words: "Were I an American, as I am
an Englishman, while a hostile soldier
remained on the soil of my country I
would never lay down my arms. Never,
never, neverW We are told that there
were cries of traitor" when he uttered
these words. But he treated those cries
with scorn, because he knew he was
right. History has more than vindicated
him, and has proved how we'll it would
have been for England had she then lis
tened to his advice.
The Irish standard., 1899-05-20

Last Sunday, in New York, Rev, Dr.
Briggs, who was suspended by the Pres
Dyterlan assembly for heresy, was or
dalned minister OF the Episcopal
church by Bishop Potter. In pub
llshed letter to layman of the Episco-
pal denomination who objected to
Briggs's ordination Bishop Potter said:
Il note the prediction with which vol
conclude-that DR.. Briggs's advance
ment to the hierarchy, for which he has
been commended, will precipitate depar-
lures to the Church of Rome. This, in
deed, would be unfortunate, for the
author of Introduction to the
Study OF Holy Scripture holds letters
from eminent Roman Catholic scholars
OF foremost rank in institutions of learn
ing of foremost dignity, expressing
warmest appreciation of his contribution
to the study of the Bible, and intimating
their purpose to make use of it in their
class rooms"
1t would be interesting to know who
the eminent Catholic scholars are who
lntimated to DR.. Briggs that they would
Use his book in their class rooms.
The Irish standard., 1899-05-20
RELIGIOUS ORDERS COMPLAIN. 49,

A special cable from Rome to the
New York World announces that the
Vatican has received lengthy report
from the religious orders in the Philip.
pines describing the atrocities of the
American soldiers, and protesting
against the wholesale slaughter of non.
combatants and the wanton destruction
of property.
From what the volunteers say in pri
vate letters to parents there is no doub
but that many atrocities have been com.
:nitted on unarmed Filipinos during the
war of conquest in the island of Luzon
The following letter from soldier ir
Manila appeared in the Boston Evening
Transcript of April 18th:
II don't think I would miss the truth
much if 1 said more non-combatants
have been killed here than actual native
soldiers. I don't believe the people in
the United States understand the inlu,
man warfare now being carried on.
don't expect to have war without death
and destruction, but l do expect that
when an enemy goes down on his knees
and begs for his life that he won't be
shot in cold blood. But it is fact that
the order was not to take any prisoner
and have seen enough to make me
ashamed to call myself an American"
Gen. Otis, commander of the Amer,
lean troops in the Philippines, appears
to be the counterpart of Gen. Weyler
commander OF the Spanish forces ir
Cuba, and both of them will go down ir
history as the close imitators Of Crom-
wells policy OF mo quarter" in IRELAND
in the seventeenth century.
The American soldiers have no res.
pect for the religious feelings OF the
people they are trying to conquer. They
have desecrated their churches ant
Knocked their simple faith. No barbara
ans could have shown more disrespect
to Catholic worship than the soldiers O
the American republic, and we are MOI
surprised that the priests OF the Philip
pines have invoked the interference O
Leo XIII. The Pope is said to be much
moved. but hesitates to direct an address
to President Mckinley, fearing re-
buff. The humane Mckinley and his
military satraps would pay no attention
to the Pope, for they are bent on the
! determination Of the natives until the,
lay down their arms and surrender un.
conditionally. Lest the Irish Standard
The Irish standard., 1899-05-20

This was the comment of prominent
state Republican upon the speech of
William Henry Eustis and w. P.
Roberts proposing the doom of "trait-
ors," and hanging to the nearest lamp
post OF all who do not approve of the
Philippine war: "What a pretty fix
this state would be in with such dizzy
Drained men as Eustis at the head of its
affairs"
This recalls what John Goodnow
wrote from Shanghai, month after
election, supposing OF course that Will
liarl Henry was elected: "Well, sup
pose Eustis is in by this time and rip
ping you all up the back" Rumor has
it that Notwithstanding William Henry
will rum for governor again, presumably
on war issues" as last time it was on
good roads"
The Irish standard., 1899-05-20

Frederick Palmer, the special cores
pondent of the New York World at
Manila, says that the sentiment of the
average volunteer private is best ex-
pressed by one of them thus: 1--WE
came out here to fight Spain, not to fight
Filipinos. Now that the war with Spain
is over we are kept back here chasing
through brush after black men who
won't stand their ground. Our CON-
rades have been shot down in a cause
in which we don't believe. There is no
gratitude in the Filipino If we baby
him he will never end the war; and what
we want to do is to end the war with the
loss OF as few of our comrades as posi-
Bile and go home. The devil may have
the country so far as we care. We don't
want it."
The Irish standard., 1899-05-20

Hon. John Brennan, of Sioux City,
who is going to lecture in Minneapolis
on May 20, believes in free speech, as
may be seen from the following para
graph in the Northwestern Catholic: If
free discussion by patriotic men is to be
henceforth treated as treason, it might
be we'll for the administration to cause
the seizure and cremation of all copies
OF the Declaration of Independence; be-
cause so long as that document stands,
even though the government should be
destroyed, some men will continue to
reasonably insist on the right of 'slife,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The Irish standard., 1899-05-20

Who is responsible for the appoint
ment OF LIE Graft Powers to his census
job, is what they want to know in the
Fifth district. State Republicans re-
pudiate and Congressman Fletcher de-
nies. All the same Powers appoint
ment to the fat berth has reduced all
the places which the district can have
at Merriam's hands to six or eight, Out
OF the $4,000 in all. And the blame il
not taken away from Uncle Loren's
smoke house may make Judge Canty
the next congressman. 1t is certain
some one will beat Fletcher, and why
not Judge CAVITY?
The Irish standard., 1899-05-20

be accused OF prejudice by the uphold
ers and advocates of McKinley's Philip
pine policy, the following leading ar
ticle from the Chicago Chronicle is here
with presented for the special instruc-
ton of McKinley's admirers:
In the large Philippine archipelago
various religions are protested. In one
quarter Mohammedism holds sway, but
in Luzon, the island longest occupied
by civilization, now the scene of our
military operations, containing the old
Spanish capital of the archipelago, Ro-
man Catholicism has long been DOM
inant. Luzon was the scene of early
missionary labor. For three centuries
succeeding generations OF Filipinos in
Luzon have been Catholics. Their labor
and piety have reared in the various
centers OF population in that island those
structures consecrated to the service OF
God that Catholics especially regard
with the peculiar reverence indicated in
the phrase, sacred edi6ce." Naturally,
In their opinion, church consecrated
solemnly to the service of God is pro-
famed by military occupancy.
1t is small wonder that the natives
who have reared such edifces regard
with wonder and indignation the use
made of them by soldiers who are said
to come to the island to secure them lib
erty, civilization and, incidentally, the
blessings of gospel with which they
and their forbears have been acquainted
for centuries.
Mr.. McCutcheon, artist of the Rec
ord, presents a picture of the interior
of the Caloocan church, which General
Macarthur has made the headquarters
of his division. Use of the edifce by
the conquerors stopped short only Of
stabling horses. The church is filled
with cots and equipments. On the altar
where the Filipino was accustomed to
witness on Sundays, and to witness daily
if his piety called him to attendance,
what he believed to be the immolation
of sacred host a telegraph instrument
clicks, and the chancel rail whereat he
was wont to receive in communion what
he believed to be the body and blood Of
his Savior is devoted to a rack for sad
dies and brides.
A wise conqueror carefully abstains
from outraging the religious practice,
or, if he choose to call it, the religious
prejudice, of subject people, but the
Filipino notes with growing and desper-
ate indignation the ruthlessness of the
soldiery of nation he has heard of as
highly civilized and entirely Christian.
AS we grow older in imperialism and
militarism we may learn with profit how
Napoleon, the most ruthless of con-
querors, respected Mohammedan preju-
dices, and how England at this day even
is conscious that the continuance of her
rule in India depends entirely upon her
abstention from proselytism. History
shows that the banner of the cross
waved i'll Luzon long before the forma-
ton of an American missionary society.
The Irish standard., 1899-05-20

1t is said that President Mckinley
sent a cipher telegram from Hot
Springs, Va, to Gen. Otis at Manila,
saying: "Force the fighting. Penetrate
far into the interior and capture or de-
stroy every warning Filipino" Why
did not MIR. Mckinley send Otis troops,
as he was authorized to do by congress?
Gen. Lawton says it will take $1,000
men to subdue the Filipinos, but instead
of needing what he said the organs OF
the administration bounced upon him.
Otis is unable to do what Mckinley
commands. After the rainy season COM
mences in June Otis must quit fighting
for several months.
The Irish standard., 1899-05-20
Cardinal on Society Divorce.

In the course of sermon delivered in
the Baltimore cathedral last Sunday
week, Cardinal Gibbons referred to the
Sloane divorce case and strongly de-
nounced the action of Mrs. Sloane in
remarrying almost Immediately after the
decree was signed
Although the cardinal did not refer to
the Sloanes or the Belmonts by name,
he particularized the case in such a way
as left no doubt of what he referred to.
1t was in the course of sermon on
the unity of the church that the high
dignitary characterized the recent di-
vorce and marriage of "a society lady
in New York" as crime against Christ.
His eminence said:
"Consider the Pontiff in relation to
King Henry VIII, who asked for the
Pope's sanction to divorce so that he
might marry again. The Pope refused
to give it, saying: Whom God hath
Joined together let not man put asun-
Ger. Only few days ago the country
was shocked at woman in high life,
who was divorced at o'clock and mar
ried again almost before the ink was
dry on the divorce papers. This is a
crime against the law of Jesus Christ"
"The church is one in its teachings.
1t is the same in France, England, Italy,
San Francisco, on the Pacific, and New
York, on the Atlantic. All proclaim
the same doctrine, one faith, one hope,
one baptism and one Lord. God grant
that you may not be contented to be
united to the church, but to the spirit
God grant that all may be living branch
es laden with fruit"
The Irish standard., 1899-05-20
DR.. Kelvin Izord O'Doherty, the s.

w..
survivor of the Irish state prisoners who
were transported to Tasmania in the
year Of revolutions, 184s, is to revisit
ireland this summer. A medical stu
dent in Dublin, he was caught in the
revolutionary current and started an
outspoken little paper, which was
promptly suppressed by Dublin Castle
AS he afterwards observed, he wrote
only one leading article in his life and
ne got ten years for it. Being pardoned
alter tive years of exile, he returned TO
the Old World to complete his medical
education, and then established himself
IN practice in Brisbane. After another
interval in London as M. P. for Meath
Tor SIX months, he returned in 1887 to
Queensland, and accepted a government
medical appointment, which he has held
ever since.
The Irish standard., 1899-05-20

The strained effort of some of the
Republican press to make capital of
Governor Lind's veto of the bill to
make records of the Railroad Commits
sion final as to findings of fact, falls fiat
in the explanation which the Governor
filed when deciding not to sign the bill.
1t was this. He recommended such
legislation in his message, which the
Republicans themselves have defeated
BY Juggling into the bill other matter
rot necessary, but vicious. Gas it is
ncw," said the Governor, when the
commission makes an order there is the
right of appeal to either party, and if it
is not exercised the order is final. All
the courts have to do is to enforce the
order. But the measure passed was so
framed that the grounds OH which the
order was based might be reopened
when the order to enforce it is before
tile court" which, the Governor adds,
would allow interminable appeals and
lead to endless litigation"
The Irish standard., 1899-05-20

The Irish Standard desires to tender
its sincere sympathy to Mr.. William M.
Higgins, editor of the Kentucky Irish
American, whose eldest son, William l..
Higgins, Company B, Ninth infantry,
was drowned in the Philippine Islands
on April 2o. The young patriot was
nearly 81 years old, and had bright
future before him. He was attached to
the engineer corps and had been made a
corporal for faithfulness to duty and
efficiency as a soldier in the regular
army since his enlistment year ago.
The Irish standard., 1899-05-20

Senator Davis was rendered recep-
ton and banquet in St. Paul on Tues
day night by the Chamber of Commerce,
the Jobbers' Union and the Commercial
Club. He mad. a disconnected and dis
cursive speech OF no special interest to
the public. 1t lacked the defiant tone
that characterized his imperialistic
mouthings when he was insulting Euro
pean powers and thanking England for
her friendship to the United States. OF
course, he would hold the Philippines.
He declared hewas speaking only for him
self and without any inspiration or con-
cert of opinion with any other man when
he said: II am in favor of holding the
Philippines at whatever cost permanent
ly and not Professionally, until the in
habitants thereof shall demonstrate their
capacity for autonomy, and then grant
it to them, little by little, to the fullest
degree to which they shall show them
selves capable" He went on to tell
how the Philippines should be governed
and said: 81 would take the example
of England in the Malay states and the
Malay peninsula over Immediately op-
posite and I would give to the Philip
pines, just as would to any other peo-
pie, just as complete autonomy as from
time to time they show themselves capa-
Bile of exercising" That is how the
Anglolnaniac would bring the blessings
OF liberty to an oppressed race against
which a war of conquest is now being
waged in the interest OF the plutocracy.