The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1899-06-01
ARBITRATION
Ofan International Charac-
ter Not FavOrably Look
ed Upon.
JOHN SHERMAN
Jumps Onto the Administration Heavy
Washington News.

other very serious mistake was made
by this administration when it in
structed the American delegates to
the Cars disarmament conference,
now sIttgr the Hague, to join the
.tsa delegates in working to
cure an ement Of the nations
repre- antaa for International arbitra-
Uou believed by many close
students of international politics.
Should such an agreement be enter
ed into the u. $. would be likely to
get the worst of every question sub
mitted to arbitration that affects
European interests, for the very
simple reason that majority of the
arbitrators would necessarily be
European, possessing the natural
prejudice that every man feels
against the inhabitants of another
hemisphere. Senator Stewart, whose
wide experience in public life and
close study of history makes his
opinion entitled to consideration,
says that we will live to deeply re-
gret it, if we enter any arbitration
agreement with the European ma
tions; that every decision under such
an agreement would certainly be
anti-American, and that we will be
all the time fighting hostile COM
bination from which we can expect
neither justice nor fair play.
EX-Gov. Evans, S. c., who has just
returned from Cuba, where he was
serving on the staff of Gen. Ludlow
who is in command of the city OF
Havana, hasn't a high opinion of the
Cubans. He says the talk about the
patriotism of the Cuban soldiers is
all bosh; that there is no such thing
IN existence; that, with few eXcep.
tions, they were actuated by desire
for plumber and to hold office. He
also says that CoXey's army was a
! band of aristocratic gentlemen by
comparison with the followers of
Gomez, and that it would be a fal
greater crime against civilization to
allow these men to control the island
than it would have been to have left
the Spaniards in control, and that
property-owners over there are un-
animous for annexation.
Secretary Wilson, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, who has just
returned from southern trip, is in.
clined to grow enthusiastic over
what he believes VIII be accomplish
ed by the Southern people in the
near future. He says, among other
interesting things, that they will in
the course of time grow all the tea
consumed in this country and manu-
facture practically all the cotton
they grow, and of the people: "The
universal sentiment in the South, so
far as L could observe, was that they
welcome every northern man of
education, enterprise or means"
John Sherman has stirred up the
administration once more. On his
way ,o Ch,o he ave out an inter-
view, which caused q
etaa %. Illustration circles,
".ea WIS raphed to Wash
ia..ou. G-eo.- man jumped on the
'A.ip In po.lcy Of the administra-
non with Goth feet, so to speak, de-
claring it to be wrong from begin
ing to end, or at least, to where it has
got. Mr.. Mckinley fears that this
interview will do the republicans
much harm in Ohio, and is trying to
bring influence to bear upon MI.
Sherman to get him to repudiate it
outright, or, if he cannot be made to
go that far, to say that what he said
was exaggerated by the reporter,
Notwithstanding official denials
everything points to the correctness
of the press reports from Manila,
stating that there is clash between
the military and civilian members
of the Philippine Commission as to
Low the Filipinos should be dealt
with. In the first place, if these
statements had not been absolutely
correct they would not have been
allowed to pass the strict censorship
at Manila. 1t is stated upon good
authority that this clash was of such
serious nature that Gen. Otis APP
pealed to Mr.. Mckinley, and inti-
mated as strongly as a military man
may with propriety to the Com
mander-in-Chiefo of the army that
unless he was sustained in the con-
troversy he would ask to be relieved
of duty in the Philippines. 1t is un-
derstood that Mr.. Mckinley decided
to uphold Otis, and that was why
the official denial of any clash of
authority in the Commission was
given out.
Although two of the Speakership
candidates-Hopkins of Ills, and
Sherman of N. Y.-are in Washing
ton, as we'll as numerous other
politicians, politics had to lake a
back seat this week to give the peo-
pie chance to enjoy the three day
Peace Jubilee, which closed tonight
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