Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-01-07

i'm Havana ana Santiago. but elsewhere
EN- enditutes will he divided as equit-
ably as possibly, so as to relieve distress
exis ting in Various quarters, and to
make this relief correspond as nearly
as possible to tie emergency. 1t would
he just as equitable. it is urged. for
the port of New Yo!k 10 retain all the
customs funds collected there for eX-
penditure in the is.and of Manhattan
rs /, would be for Havana or Santiago
or any other town in Cuba 10 retain all
uf TIE customs receipts tor eNpendi-
tura within its own borders.
So far from the war department con-
templating any curtaiment of the re-
lief work in Cuba. an order has already
been issued to the governor general di-
rectirg lila to furnish work to every
able b d. | Cuban applying for it at Il
fair weekly wage. measured by cuban
standard. Tie order suggests that the
bes. nes of employ ment are in sani-
tnry work. road Improvement and mu-
riciial works of various sorts. 1t is
intended to Offer chance for remunera-
tive work t" all wto are able to take
tU Dl IL, anu W 'ut VII llit X a
tuitous diytribrtiOn of rat.onS among
those natives able to We! X for what they
cat. Tie employment contemplated
iii not be offered, however, to AIRY resi-
dent of the island who retains his al
legiance to Spain.
The plans so far formulated by the wal
department do not touch the payment of
the Cuban army, which has been urG gent
ly requested by General Gomez, but this
matter is now under advisement and ii
it not impossible that the war depart
ment will hold that it has quite as much
right to apply the income of Cuba to
paying off these men, and thus giving
them Il new start in life, as it has to en-
ploy laborers on public works, with the
same general end in view.
Augusta, Me-, Jan. 5.-The general Re-
publican caucus of the Maine legislat ture
was held in the house last evening t.
nominate state officials, seven council
lors and Il United States senator. Sena-
tor She pherd pre- sided and Representa-
tive Webb was secretary. Every nom
ination of the evening was by acclama
tion.
The event of the evening, however
awaited with greatest interest, was the
nomina tion of United States senator
1t was Il foregone conclusion that Eugene
Hale would be named to succeed himself
all idea of opposition having vanished
Mr. Hale's name was presented by Sena-
4 1, to,
White and Represe ntative Virgin. The
nomination was made by a grand chorus
of ayes" Mr.. Hale made strong
speech of thanks. Touching upon the
questions of the day, he said:
The Republican party has gone
through the storm of controversy and
sometimes of defeat. upon great ques
tiUns that affect the every day welfare
of the people, not only of Maine but OF
the United States. 1t has established
not to go back upon in the last years OF
its life. certain things that are elemental
and at the foundation of human pros
perity, of thrift, of good business. of the
success and of the independence and
dignity of labor. 1t has settled the great
'iuS"'iOAl VI pi'tCNNioii' H. Huo
that the Legislation of the country shall
be in the interests of our own labor in
competition with foreign labor. 1t has
settled the great question of the cur
rency of the people. 1t has a president
u leader of the party today who has Sc
cured the confidence of the country who
has not been rash, who has not been for
ward. who has not preciptated issues
who has guided the country sue
cessfully ard with marked, Won
derful, unprecedented success through a
war; and has been able to show and viii
show that notwithstanding the attack.
that have been made upon he udministra
ton and upon it's different branches In
the conduct of the war. the wonderful
thing is that. in the state of unprepared-
ness and with the great force that was
called out, there has been so little fric
tion and little loss; and the cry that aros
six months ago of complaint against the
president and his administration in the
Investigations that have taken place ha.
ceased and that storm has ceased tc
beat upon the administration.
Upon the question which perhaps to-
day is occupying mems minds more thar
any other, the question of what is callet
expansion. there are two sides do no
fancy that you are all agreed upon that
l am not an eXpansionist. | dread the
annexation of territory thousands OF
miles away of a foreign people with nc
habits and no life like ours. dread the
results of it.
Nobody can tell what is in store, bu
the Republican party can be trusted
If it has got to go forward. it will go for.
ward unitedly. If it has got to take any
back steps. II is not ashamed to take
them. And no man can tell now. in the
present circumstances, with the grea
: objects that are coming before u.s. wha
will be best. That we have got to settle
in the future. And so much for that.
There are other things that are of the
greatest importaice. There is a com
mission made up of our own people ant
lishmen and Canadians that are sit
ting in judgment and scrutiny over al
the legislation that has been established
by the Republican party for the benefi
the force of what is said of common BLOOD
and common ancestry with England
Her past and her traditions are ours as
they are hers. Her national life, hel
literature. her splendid development, are
all ours as much as hers. But it is en-.
trey true that when England is en-.
gagged in any negotiation that affects her
material interes $. blood counts for very
little with an English commission. 1t is
the business of an English commission
q Canadian commission. to get the bene.
fit of that: and the Canadian commits.
sion that has been sitting for months has
at last come to the point where the de-
mand of the Canadian and the English
side is the practical destruction of the
tariff which Governor Dingley H. his bill
put upon Maine products and especially
upon lumber. The state will never know
the Gebt that she owes to Governor
Dingley in holding that commission. in
Thermometer Below Zero.
ST. Johns. Jan. 4.-British steamer
Arcadian, from Sydney, c. b laden with