Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08
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touch with the people and doing what
they wish to be done. An instance
was his ordering a military funeral
over the bodies of 366 American SOL
diers brought from Cuba and Porto
Rico for interment in the National
cemetery at Arlington, and ordering
all the government Offices closed in
their honor. Washington has had mil
itary funerals over generals, but never
such an outpouring of people in honor
of privates as witnessed the solemn
and impressive ceremonies at Airing
ton yesterday afternoon. The military
procession was composed of regulars
and the entire National Guard of the
District of Columbia; and the Presi-
dent, members of the Cabinet, justices
of the Supreme Court and many other
officials Joined with the people in pay
ing honor to those who died in the ser
vice of their country. 1t was an object
lesson in patriotism that will not be
soon forgotten, and which deserves
eternal remembrance. Such an occas-
ion naturally produces pathetic incl
dents. An old lady approached one of
the guards near the caskets, with
small boquet in her hand, and said:
Hes not my boy; only my nephew.
| don't know whether they have him
here. The records say he was killed
at San Juan, but his body was never
identified. Can't you take this boquet?
Just put ii on one of the caskets, one
of those marked unidentified, and per-
haps it may the one wish it to go on"
The tears in that guards eyes as he
took the flowers may not have been
soldlerly, but they were humane and
manly.
The Industrial Commission, which
is again holding regular services in
! Washington, has secured the aid of
Prof. Jenks, of Cornell University, in
preparing plan for thorough inves-
| tigation of trusts and their effect upon
prices. Prof. jerks, who fills the
chair of Political Economy at Cornell,
has given this subject much study,
and good results are expected from
his cooperation with the commission.
Members of the commission express
satisfaction with the progress made
and .ne information obtained in the
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According to advices received in
Washington, sentiment in favor of an
nexation to the United States is rapid
ly spreading and making itself felt in
nearly all of the South and Central
American countries, and in the British
West Indies. Nothing has been done
so far as known in this country to en-
courage or foster such sentiments,
and nothing is likely to be done in
that direction. The feeling in the Brit
ish West Indies is easily accounted for.
The people of these islands see that
our possession of Porto Rico, and pc
culiar relations with Cuba, are bound
to handicap If it does not entirely
wipe out their trade with us, so far as
selling to us is concerned. The senti-
ment in South and Central America is
probably caused by national yearn-
ing for the stable government and
prosperity the people of the United
States enjoy.
A prominent member of the Diplo-
matte Corps pays this deserved compli-
ment to the Philippine commission
and the President under whose person
al direotionsthe proclamation issued to
the Filipinos this week was prepared:
You Americans may not be trained
in the art of diplomacy, but you have
way of getting there at the proper time
1t would be impossible TO improve on
the wording of the proclamation to the
Filipinos. No point is omitted and
nothing is overlooked. 1t cannot fail
to make an impression in the courts of
Europe, however it may be received by
Aguinaldo and his deluded followers.
presume that the signers of the proc
lamatlon had this point in mind. For
raw recruits in the diplomatic field, the
Americans are doing quite we'll"
There is nothing official in the talk
about swapping the Philippines for the
British West Indies, of which so much
is heard just now, and there are sew
eral very substantial reasons for
thinking that there never will be-
Admiral Schley said on the subject:
Jamaica, Barbados, st. Lucia, Trini-
dad and Bermuda, owned by Eng
land, would make valuable additions
to our southern territory, but 1 doubt
very much whether England is ready
to part with them. Bermuda is the
naval station of the English feet on
this side of the Atlantic ,and Barba-
does is the military rendezvous for the
British troops in the West Indies.
England maintains large garrison on
that beautiful island and st. Lucia
and Trinidad are invaluable to her in
many ways"
Secretary Gage said, speaking of the
present prosperous condition of the
country: Increased wages is the nat
ural result of the turn commercial and
industrial affairs have taken. The
logic of the present situation is easily
understood. Confidence has returned,
followed by a revival of trade Values