New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-15
JTY MINI, MARCH 1seg WHOLE NUMBER
just while we are speaking Of our for

want to be annexed and wish we would
move our army off the land. Not very
grateful2 Well, what business hay.. we
there anyhow. The Cubans have offered
to enlist 10000 soldiers to protect the
island. They can do 1t better than our
nnacclimated troops. About the only
thing We have done so far is to permit
some very doubtful franchise grabs and
pay the Cuban army and feed the Cuban
poor. We might try the experiment Of
letting them do those things for them
selves.
oh, by the way we did put through
some kind of measure for the govern
ment Of Alaska, but nobody knows what
It was. There was an extra evening ses-
sion-which was attended by four sena-
tors-the bill was read at this session
and passed the next day. You can he
sure it is full of nice plump woodchucks,
who are 50 glad they got through with
out being skinned.
The Republicans are patting them
selves on the back and trying to tell us
that we have nice Nicaragua canal bill.
Not much, The Nicaragua canal meas
ure was absolutely defeated and the lob
by IS triumphant. A paltry million dol
lars is appropriated for survey to re-
port when it gets ready. just watch the
next Congress and see the Huntington
interests waltz up and get the govern
ment to pledge its credit to build the
canal for private profit. That is what
will be done and we might as we'll un-
derstand it.
Think of Mark Hanna's armorplated
nerve when he told the senate we could
not afford twelve new battleships. No
more we could if he got the millions he
wanted for his subsidy bill. He got
more of them than he should: But the
senate had just done him the courtesy to
dismiss the bribery charges preferred
against HIM by the Ohio state senate and
no wonder he felt in merry, merry
mood. E " .-
The senate did good thing when it
ventilated the armor plate steal. The
trust wanted us to pay $3.50 ton. They
sell it to European nations for half that
sum and make good profit. The SEN
ate simply decided that unless we could
get it for $500 ton we would start a
government factory and make our own.
This would he very easy because there is
considerable hand work about armor
plate and not much expensive machinery
and no secrets, except those of defraud-
Ing the government and making it pay
Tor something it did not get. That has
been done number of times very sue
cessfully.
There is painfully loud whisper 60
ing the rounds that the Administration
managers and some other Republicans
Will force Secretary Alger to resign,
They realize that his beef and other war
scandals threaten the party with defeat
in the next Presidential campaign.
OF course President Mckinley hates
to turn out the man who rescued hin,
when in financial difficulty AMI Alger
takes full advantage of the painful stu
alton in which the President finds him
self. But party success is too big a
thing to be endangered by one man and
we may expect shortly to hear that,
"dellcate health or "business cares"
have caused Mr.. Alger to retire to his
native Environment. -. ss
1t is said that the President is going to
spend week or TWO with Senator Han
ma at his winter home and recu perate.
Probably the poor man needs rest and
nobody will miss him. A certain sort
of President would have it, on his con-
science that the Philippine question
needed an extra session of Congress and
immediate attention, but not this one.
We shall miss many we'll known faces
OF Democratic leaders from Washington
for the next two years. For instance at a
public gathering last week were three
known retiring Congressmen. Jerry
Simpson, James Hamilton Lewis and
Champ Clark. They are all coming
back after the next election and two
of them to the senate.
The Democrats of New York are go
ing to have banquet at the Metropoli-
tan Opera House to celebrate Jefferson's
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