The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-22
WASHINGTON.
rom our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Tune 10. rs

Washington, June 70, 1899.
Having sanctioned a policy for the
sending of soldiers to the Philippines
that is a clear case of wnat used to be
called whipping the devil around the
stump" MIR. Mckinley has gone off
on ten day pleasure trip, with the
very important object of seeing his
niece graduate from a Massachusetts
female college. Meanwhile private
advices from Manila say that instead
of ending the war Gen. Otis is likely
to find himself and his army confined
to Manila and its outskirts, before the
rainy season is over, unless he is heav-
lily reinforced. Mr.. Mckinley fears
the political effect of issuing the call
for volunteers, although he has several
times decided to do SO, and adopted
the plan of sending sufficient num-
Der of regulars to OTIS to give him a
total of $4,000 men. This is to be
done IN a way to banboozle the public.
Portions of regiments are to be sent
and portions retained IN barracks.
And to the latter all the men enlisted
at the recruiting Offices are to be sent
to be broke in, and no body outside
of the War Department will be able to
know whether the regular army is
over.enlisted or not. AS early as last
week every U. S. recruiting Office was
ordered to hustle and keep it up until
further notice.
The boldest witness who has testi-
fed since the Industrial Commission
began the investigation of trusts was
Henry o. Havemeyer, the president
of the sugar trust, who was heard this
week. After reading carefully pre-
pared essay, in which he claimed that
trusts, and especially the sugar trust,
were public benefactors, he said: "We
are not in the business for philanthro-
pic purposes. 1t is policy, sometimes
to divide our profits with the public,
and we conduct our business on busi-
ness lines. We have tried to sell SO
low as to shut out all competition, but
up to the present time we are IN it up
to our neck. Trusts are natural
growth. They are regulated by the
laws of trade, and neither you, nor
the Federal government, nor any other
power, can alter these laws, and the
sooner you find 1t out and cease these
useless Investigations, the better for
the country" Now that is fine
picture, isn't it? The head of one Of
the most notorious Of the trusts which
are driving individual enterprise to
the wall and slowly but surely getting
possession of the whole country, stand
ing up and boldly telling the repres.
entatives of the U. S. Government
that they are engaged in useless in
vestigation of trusts, and that neither
the Federal government, nor any other
power, is strong enough to stop the
growth of trusts. Mr.. Havemeyer
was mistaken. There is power
strong enough to stow the growth Of
the trusts, and sooner or later it will
do it. That power is welded by the
people, who pay the enormous profits
of the trusts.
Representative Sherman's friends
try hard to conceal their soreness over
the Henderson bunco that he ran up
against, but they do not succeed very
WELL For instance, read the follow
ing remarks made by ex-Represent-
ative Southwick, of New York, and il
is easy to see that he does not believe
Sherman was given square deal
"Mr. Sherman accepts his defeat for
the Speakership with the utmost phil
osophy, and isn't in the least sore over
Hendersons recordbreaking victory
He never knew in advance. of Others
that Mr.. Reed contemplated retiring
from the House, and his declinatior
of the Customs Appraisership was not
made prior to his knowledge of Mr.
Reeds intentions" Thatsounds very
much like pleading the baby act, as il
was generally believed that Mr.. Sher
man did know in advance, and thai
he was Mr.. Reeds choice for the
Speakership, In fact, it was Mr..
Sherman's declination OF an Office tina
he had sought which gave the public
the first intimatton of Mr.. Reeds in
tention to retire. Again, Mr.. South
wick indicated his belief N buncc
practices by the Henderson men,wher
he SAID: "When the Illinois people
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