Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.


of his great personal popularity to
keeping 10 touch with the people,
and doing what they wish to be done.
An instance was his ordering a mill
tary funeral over the bodies of 365
American soldiers brought from Cuba
and Porto Rico for interment In the
National cemetery At Arlington, and
ordering all the government of,ces
closed In their honor. Washington
has had military funerals over gen.
erals, but never such an outpouring
OF people In honor OF prIvates as wit
messed the solemn and impressive
ceremonies at Arlington. yesterday
afternoon. The military procession
was composed Of regulars and the
entire National Guard OF the District
of Columbia, and the President,
members OF the Cabinet, Justices oil
the Supreme Court, aud many other
officials Joined with the people In
paying honor to those who died Ia
the service Of their country. 1t was
al object lesson In patriotism that
will not lie soon forgotten, and which
deserve eternal remembrance. Such
an occasion naturally produces path.
etic incidents. An old lady ap-
preached one of the guards, near the
caskets, with small boquet In heI
hand, and said: "He 10 not my boy
only my nephew. 1 don't know
whether they have him here. The
records say he was killed at San
Juan, hut his body was never identi.
ded. Can't you take this bouquet?
Just put 1t ON one of the caskets,
one of those marked unidentified,
and perhaps 1t may be the one wish
It to 60 on" The tears In that
guards eyes az he took the flowers
may not have been soldierly, but
they were human and manly.
The industrial Commission, which
10 again holding regular services In
Washington, has secured the aid Of
Prot. jerks, Of Cornell University, In
preparing . plan for thorough in
vestigation of trusts and their effects
upon prices. Prof, jerks, who dis
the chair of political economy at
Cornell, has given this subject much
study, and good results are expected
from his cooperation with the COM
mission. Members of the commits
sion express satisfaction with the
progress made and the information
obtained In the various branches OF
It's work.
According to sdvices received in
Washington sentiment Ia favor Of
annexation to the United States is
rapidly spreading and making itself
felt in nearly all of the South and
Central-A'nerican countries, and In
the British West Indies. Nothing
has been done, so far as known, in
this country to foster or encourage
such sentiment, and nothing Is likely
to he done in that direction. The
feeling in the British West Indies Ia
easily accounted for. The people Of
these islands see that our possession
of Porto Rico, and peculisa relation
with Cuba, are bound to handicap IL
1t does not entirely wipe out their
trade with US. so far as selling to us
Is concerned. The sentiment In
South and Central America is prob
ably caused by a natural warming for
the stable government and prosper
ity which the people of the United
States enjoy.
A prominent member of the dip
lomat!c corps pays this deserved COM
pliment to the Philippine Commits
sion and the President under whose
personal direction the proclamation
issued to the Filipinos this week was
prepared: "You Americans may not
be trained In the arts of diplomacy
but you have q way of getting there
at the proper time. 1t would be i'm
possible to improve on the wording
OF the proclamation to the Filipinos.
No point is omitted aud nothing is
overlooked. 1t cannot fail to make
q good impression in the courts If
Europe, however 1t may be received
by Aguinaldo and his deluded follow
ers. l presume that the signers of
the proclamation had this point in
mind. For raw recruits In the dip
lomatic field the Americans are do
ing quite we'll"
There 10 nothing Official in the talk
abont swapping the Philippines for
the British West Indiea of which
much IN heard just now, and there
are several very substantial reasons
for thinking that there never will be.
Admiral Schley said on the subject:
Jamaica, Barbados, st. Lucia, Ber-
mada and Trinidad, owned by En-