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So Anxious for Discussion.

TT is a singular circumstance that
newspapers which began their dis
cussion" of Mr. McKinleys foreign
policy by attempting to absolutely ST
lence the opposition and strange all
debate, with the cry Of "copperhead"
and traitor" should now be pleading
piteously for these ''copperheads" and
traitors" to debate with them.
Any person of the most common I'M
terize the opposition to Mr. Mckinley
as treason" is to assume the entire
case, and to do it in the most offensive
and insulting way. In fact, some of
these journals have admitted broadly
that the terms are Offensive and
ana still they expect the courtesy of q
debate, and take on an air of injured
| innocence when they fail to get it.
In the plea that they can't get their
| opponents to discuss public questions
with them, they also display an egotisrn
that is nothing less than monumental
These papers seem to think that unless
they are brought directly into the de-
bate and mentioned by name there is
no discussion Of public questions
This is an idea that the Standard is not
disposed to encourage. Public aues-
tons are bigger than any individual c.
any newspaper.
But there is no improperly in dis
cussing such questions with other news
papers, and when an opportunity pre-
sents itself for a fair and candid in
| terchange of views with some contem-
porary that does not studiously make
itself Offensive" and then boast that
such was its purpose, we may occasion
ally take advantage Of the opportunity
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IN HIS absent Minded Beggar,"
printed in another column, Rud-
yard kipling has struck the old
time gait he displayed to such advant-
age in his barrack-room ballads and
departmental ditties. 1t is Tommy At
kins himself who is speaking-as in
Fuzzy Wuzzy." "Oonts," Loot" and
'Mandalay,' we are up against the
real English soldier now. The merit of
Absent Minded Beggar' lies in it's
bold and pungent slang, It's strong,
firm, sturdy Anglo-Saxon words,
and its striking, swinging rhythm. AS
a picture of the destitute circumstances
in which the departing English soldiers
may leave their families it is vivid and
complete-columns of ornate editorials
could not produce the impression that
these verses will produce. 1t is poem
with purpose" and if anything will
induce the British public to pass the
hat for the wives and babies of those
who have gone to the war, the Absent
Minded Beggar" will
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1899
TEN PAGES.
At the South African Front.

e~HE situa ton in South Africa is
unchanged and is likely to re-
main SO several days. Reports
that the Beers have captured Lady
smith have not been verified. 1t is
all right as late as Friday. White and
\ Joubert continue to exchange prison.
ers and courtesies-you can almost i'm
agine them meeting under a flag Of
| truce to have a drink together.
IN While the news from the front is
exasperatingly meager, it seems clear
enough that the Boer army is in fine
health and spirits. In all proba bility
their successes of last week have prov
ed OF great advantage to them in caus-
ing a focking to their standard Of
those who, while sympathizing with
the Boer cause, feared it was hopeless
The dream of independence, of a
Dutch confederation. of the United
States of Africa" will take a more
powerful hold upon the minds of all
the Dutch down there. The Nichol-
sons Mex engagement will be offered
In proof of the claim that the Lord is
taking an active interest in the sue
cess of the Boer arms. The main Brit
ish army will not arrive for a month
vet and every days delay will make
the subjugation of the Beers a more
difficult task. In all probability it will
be accomplished eventually, but not
without the cost of thousands of lives
and millions CT property.
The amenities and humanities of war
are still carefully observed by both
!, sides The Beers seem to be taking
pride in demonstrating to the world
, that they are as humane as the most
i civilized nation in it. The British pris-
! oners at Pretoria praise the treatment
they have received at the hands of
their captors in the highest terms.
These prisoners are putting in their
/ time playing football--a fact indica-
tive that they are not suffering much
/! an body or in mind. It is a matter of
worldwide congratulation that there is
no repetition of Andersonvile horrors
4 On South Africa. "Civilized warfare"
i has made some important advances
after all. Think of the prisoners at
! unreasonable or at Libby being per-
!! united to play football or any other
! outdoor game! At one time 5000 men
were confined in the Andersonville
stockade, which gave a space of about
four feet square to each man. There
is no better evidence of the high in
1 telllgence and moral worth of the Beers
than the manner in which thew ar.
treating their prisoners of war.
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HOW LSON ISLANDERS THE WEST

( other republican imperialists say that the
people of the West are practically all en-
thusiastic supporters of the Mckinley
conquest policy they say either what they
know to be false or what they do not
know to be true, which amounts to about
the same thing in point of inveraeity.
According to "a high authority rep
resentative Filipino will soon be in Wash
.ngton with an offer. among other things,
of .'coaling stations for the United States
upon all important islands OF the arch1-
pelago to be selected by the United States
and coded outright forever by the Fill
pinos This would include Manila Also
military reservations at Manila, 1loilo.
Panay. Mindoro, Negroes and such
other islands as may be determined upon
by both governments Also absolute
free trade between the United States and
the Philippine islands, carrying with 1t
the fullest commercial favor between the
two countries" Also ''the employment OF
United States officials in the customs and
all other internal branches of the govern
ment, to be selected by the United States
and paid by the Filipino government"
This. with Filipino independence under
an American protectorate, is all that
could possibly be desired in commercial
way 1t would give us all the "place to
tie and all the starting point for which
we can have any use. 1t would be Infinite
ly better commercially well as infinite
ly more according to our progressed deyo-
ton to the principles of self-government
than the ruthless policy of conquest and
the undying hatred of millions of subject
people in the islands.
Besides, it would leave us in complete
control of the subject of emigration from
the islands to the United States, free from
any constitutional questions, and it would
enable us to tolerate polyganly and
slavery in the Sulu sultanate without fla
gravity violating the constitution and
laws of the land.
The people of the West are not 50 stupid
as not to see that there is a better way
than the way of conquest and mortal en-
mity-a way not only vastly less expen-
sive and vastly more profitable CONNER
cially, but infinitely more in harmony
with those professions of devotion to the
prin ciples of liberty which have made our
country the greatest political power on
earth-the strongest influence making for
the overthrow of despotism and the unl-
versal establishment of popular parlta-
mentary government.
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Mans Inhumanity to Man.

IN HERE died in the city of Balti-
more a few days ago, in COM
parative poverty, one of the
great inventors of the century This
man, Ottmar Mergenthaler, thought
out and after years of disappointments
and failures. to which he almost sue
cumbed, brought to perfection a ma
chine for setting type-an invention
that has proved one of the greatest
labor-saving devices of later days 1t
has made some men rich. but Mergen-
thaler died a middle-aged. poverty
stricken, broken-hearted man. While
toiling on the machine he lived from
hand to mouth, often going without
the necessities OF life to procure what
he needed in his work. Having no
money to put his product on the mar
ket, he turned it over to a syndicate
and the syndicate has handled the ma
chine and all the incomes ever since
There is plenty of profit to the manu-
facturers-a Mergenthaler machine like
the one that puts these words in type
costs about $4,000. The Standard uses
five of them and they take the place OF
eighteen or twenty men.
The latter years of his life Mergen-
thaler spent in a little shop in Balti-
more earning living by making vari-
GUS small parts of the machine for re-
pair purposes. Embittered by disap-
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don't you change your barber?
Buggins-Never! He may slash me
bit. but he's a deaf mute, my boy
Philadelphia Record.
Gust lin cheap restaurant)-Here
waiter! This food is vile, and I don't
propose to pay for it. Where's the pro-
prietor?
Waiter-He's gone home to lunch.
sir.-Standard and Catholic Times.
"a self-opening and closing umbrella
has been invented"
That's no good. What the Wo1id
wants is an umbrella that Will md its
way back home when stole a.--Detroit
Free Press.
A Philanthropist.-He (angrily)-
You've no right to be engaged to SO
many men at once.
She (sweetly)-You see, I believe in
the greatest good to the greatest num-
ber-Brooklyn Life.
She aired her French knowledge at
Paris in vain,
Although she essayed 1t again and
again,
head,
s'They don't understand their own lam
guage,' she said. PUCK.
"Till me- said Larry. what tn Unoited
Shtates hos liver done fer t Oirshi''
"a good dale" spoke up Dinney; she S
hod her paper money made Crane on wan
soide. ''-Chicago News.
Stranger-I hear that YOU have great
many queer people in this town.
Citizen-As odd a lot as you'd find in a
| years travel. They're a queer set, the
| whole of 'em, outside my family And my
| wife is almost as bad as the others; but
| then. you know, she wasn't originally of
| my family.-Boston Transcript,
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From the Chicago Chronicle.
Secretary Wilson, who heretofore has
devoted himself pretty strictly to the in
terests of agriculture, now comes forward
and essays to illuminate the field of world
politics He says of the West that ''peopie
live there and do things They look north
wardly as we'll as eastwardy." By this
we are to understand that the people who
live in. the West and do things propose to
subJugate everything to the north of them
as well as numerous things to the east
away around beyond the eastern coast OF
China. He makes it plain that he has
fully imbibed the imperialist notion, new
to this country that the way to build up
trade is to subjugate somebody or seize
somebody's country
He shows this when he says that when
Dewey was forced to leave Hong Kong
with his fleet by the neutrality laws there
was not a stake in the whole eastern
hemisphere. to which he could tie. We've
got one now and we are going to keep 1t.
We have home in the Orient for our
warships as well as merchant vessels and
a starting point for commercial expedi-
tiG1s into all Asia and Oceanica. The
Western people know the value of this, -
therefore they uphold the policy of con-
quest and subiugation of people who are
fighting for independence.
here DreatheS the true spirit or the
American world politician of the republic
can variety. 1t is the spirit OF the i'm
perialist who imagines that in order to
sell things in call Asia and Oceanica" we
must subjugate an archipelago with a
population of some 100000, even if, as
General Shafter puts it. we have to kill
half the natives, at no matter what cost
of life and treasure.
1t is SANDER on the Western people to
say that nearly all of them approve Of
this policy. 1t is a SANDER on them to
say that only q few of them know no bet
ter than to accept the dictum of the i'm
perialists that the only way to secure
trade in the East is to set up American
sovereignty and to force American rule
upon unwilling millions A good many
Western people are intelligent and learn
ed enough to know that this country
opened the doors of Japan to the COM
merce of the world and gained more in
fuence there than any other country
without acquiring one acre of territory
anywhere in that part of the world.
When Mr.. Wilson, Mr.. Henderson and
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thus afforded. Nevertheless, the Stand.
| ard will at all times deal with public
| questions in its own way, debating
them with others. or presenting its own
views independently, according to the
| nature of the particular question and
| what may seem to best fit the case The
| Standard has stated its views of public
questions with the utmost freedom and
| it has tried to be fair. That policy will
be continued. 1t has also freely criti-
cised men in public positions, and in
this it has aimed to be just. Here.
again, there will be no change in the
Standards course. Public measures
and public men are the legitimate sub
jects of discussion, but either an ad-
verse criticism or a defense should be
offered in spirit of fairness.
We believe that Mr.. McKinley's for
eign policy is wrong. We have said so
and from time to time have given rea-
sons for the belief. The Standard does
not insist upon the acceptance of it's
views by either it's subscribers or its
contemporaries. 1t simply gives them
for what they are worth believing
them to be sound. In our Judgment,
the position of Mr.. Mckinley and his
supporters with reference to the Phil
ippines, is directly opposed to the spirit
of our own declaration of independence
and every fundamental principle upon
which the American government IS
founded.
The political and moral philosophy
which would twist, distort, pervert and
| restrict the meaning of that immortal
bill Of rights in order to make it har-
monte with the policy of the present
administration is one that the Stand
ard does not and cannot accept To
take possession of foreign country
and it's people, make them subject to
our laws. give them no voice III their
own government and tax them without
their consent, upon the plea that they
are inferior to US in civilization, is to
violate the very principle which our
forefathers invoked when they appeal
ed to the God of battles at Concord and
fired the shot heard round the world"
We believe that those who are de-
| liberately setting at defiance the prin-
ciples which we celebrate on the Fourth
of July, stand very much nearer to the
| line of treason" than do those who in
sist that the declaration means exactly
what it says. Nevertheless, we shall
| not call the supporters of Mr.. McKin-
| ley TRAITORS" in either a legal OF moral
sense: but in the future, as in the past
we shall debate with them or ignore
| them, according to our own notion OF
| the fitness of things.
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The Bible Trust.

n VOW comes the Bible trust Its or
N sanlsers. or rather its promoters
for the organization has not yet
been perfected. are at some pains to in
form the public why the control of the
manufacture and output of Bibles has
been deemed wise and proper. It seems
that more Bibles are manufactured and
sold nowadays than ever before. We
don't know whether or not the in
creased demand for Bibles is attrib-
utable to the Mckinley prosperity-the
Butte Inter Mountain. Of course, will
make that claim, though we fail to find
it put forth by the trust. The trust
contents itself with stating it to be a
fact that the demand for Bibles is
great: but that, great as it is. there
is grave danger of the supply exceeding
the demand.
Competition in selling Bibles, it seems.
has been very keen of late and prices
have been dropping down beyond rea-
sonable point. Nothing is really
cheaper than this book in all its styles
and bindings" says one defender Of the
trust, but there is good ground to fear
that competition will hurt the Bible
more than ever higher criticism pre-
sumed to do. It's chief enemy is not
the inflde1 either. It is the business
that makes such merchandise out of it.
| and keeps aflame the Irritating compe-
tition, constantly causing furry in it's
| marketable value. The trust will ad-
| just all prices and keep the Bible out
of the sweating shops To have Bibles
so cheap that they implied suffering
| and restitution for those who publish
| them would be an unwelcomed condi-
ton Of affairs and is now rendered by
this trust an impossible experience"
Here we have it at last. the secret is
out-the trust is religious institution
an agent of Christianity defender OF
the faith and promoter of the holy
scriptures, going into all the world and
4 at a fixed price per copy, no more, NJ
less. No longer shall bulls and bears
have the opportunity to toss the Bible
up and down like cotton, oil and pork
No more shall Bibles be so cheap as tc
imply suffering and restitution on this
part of those who publish them which
forsooth would. indeed. be IAN unwel.
coined condition of affairs" seriously
detracting from devout Christians en-
joyment of the holy word.
We have heard of the reductio &C
absurdum, but the argument of ths
trust seems to be a reductio ad glorian
Del. In putting the Bible on a respect
able, paying basis, the trust will in
crease the worlds respect and admira
ton for it. Who wants cheap ant
nasty Bibles? By all means abolish
the tenement-made Bible, and give tht
public good goods both in respect t.
wrappers and filters. The Bible bust
ness must be reformed in every way
There are altogether too many Bible:
now on the market. The output mus
be restricted and controlled. The visi
BILE supply must be reduced The ruin,
Gus competition must cease. Prices
| must be brought to a satisfactory ba.
sis-otherwise there will be IAN unwel
| coined condition Of affairs" and thu
holy word will suffer. Well as long a:
the devil quotes scripture, perhaps 1t i.
not out Of keeping that a trust Should
monopolize its manufacture.
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Current Comment.
The People viii Deal With I

From the Houston Post.
Not since the foundation of the govern
ment has an evil arisen that. like the
trust, threatens the subjugation of the
agricultural masses to the heartless rule
of capital, combined for no other purpose
than to fix prices to both producer and
consumer. according to the limits it shall
choose to place upon its own avarice. All
this is coming to be understood, far and
wide, by all the people, and they will not
hesitate to override party lines when
necessary to the correction or destruction
of system that hangs over their homes
the shadows of ruin.
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Pro-Engl sh Imperia1ist Talk.

From the indianapolis Sentinel.
Our contemporaries which have been
urging that British alliance was not de-
sired or advocated by anybody will kindly
notice Clifton r. Breckinridges assertion
that if any other nation should attempt
to embarrass Great Britain in her work
of subjugating the Beers it would be the
duty of the United States, il necessary, to
go to war in Great Brltain's support.
Such Is the extent to which this Anglo
Saxon theory has been cultivated by
shrewd schemers. England has always
maintained herself by getting other ma
tions to fight her battles.
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Chance for the Fatldists.

From the Boston Transcript.
The list of congresses which the French
officials have arranged for the Paris ex-
position is something formidable. Hardly
anything of near or remote hui
man interest seems to have been omitted.
1t runs from the rational feeding of cattle
to the higher criticism. and embraces
nearly 200 different subjects. Certainly
both the wise men and the crank, the
faddist and the reformer will find an
arena here in which they can exploit
their latest conclusions.
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INDUCED in Dangerous Pleasantly.

From the Buffalo Commercial.
A citizen of Bost ION who attempted lit
tie pleasantly while the Dewey function
was going on in the streets of Boston re-
eeived a sudden eye-opener as to the
danger of a too free use of irony or sar-
casm, or even of penetrating an innocent
little joke in mixed company. One man
near the grand stand asked facetiously:
"Who is this man Dewey" Whereupon
two or three other men, who had some
what seafaring look, promptly knocked
him down and hammered the admiral
fame deep into him.
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"ABSENT-M MINDED BEGGAR."
BY RuDYARD KrPLING.

1.-THE following ia Mr.. Kipling's latest
poem, published last week in London. 1t
is plea that care be taken of the fami-
lies of the soldiers who are being sent to
South Africa, many wives and children
being left in an almost destitute condi-
ton, only pitiful stipend being allowed
them by the governmental
When you've shouted "Rule Britannia"
when you've sung "God Save the
Queen"
When you've finished killing Kruger
with your mouth,
Will you kindly drop a shilling in my lit
tie tambourine
For a gentleman in kharki ordered
South?
He's an absent-minded beggar and his
weaknesses are great,
But we and Paul must take him as we
find him:
He is out on active service wiping some
thing off slate,
And he's left lot O little things be-
hind him.
Dukes son, cooks son, son of a hun
dred kings,
(Fifty thousand horse and foot going
to Table Bay,
Each of 'em doing his country's work
land who's to look after their
things0
Pass the hat for your credits sake
and pay--pay-pay!
There are girls he married secret asking
no permission to,
For he knew he wouldn't get 1t if no
did;
There is gas and Goals and vttles and
the house rent falling due,
And it's more than rather likely there's
kid.
There are girls he walked with casual;
they'll be sorry now he's gone.
For an absent-minded beggar they will
find him;
But it amt the time for sermons with
the winter coming on
We must help the girl that Tommy's
left behind him.
Cooks son-Duke's son--son Of belted
Earl,
Son of Lambeth puhlcan-its all
the same to-day:
Each of 'em doing his countrys work
land who's to look after the girD :?
Pass the hat for your credits sake
and pay-pay-pay!
There are families by thousands far too
proud to beg or speak,
And they'll put their sticks and bedding
up the spout,
And they'll live on half O. nothing paid
'em pInctual once a week.
Cause the man that earned the wage is
ordered out.
He's an absent-minded beggar, but he
heard his country's call,
And his regiment didn't need to send to
find him.
| Hhe chucked his job and Joined it-so
| the job before us all
! Is to help the home that Tommys left
behind him.
!
| net, groom
News or palace or paper shop
| there's some one gone away
| Each of 'em doing his country's wort
land who's to look after the ROOM
Pass the hat for your credits sake
and pay-pay-pay!
him in the face
And tell him-what he'd very much pre-
fer
That while he saved the empire his EN-
ployer saved his place.
And his mates Chats you and mel
looked out for her
| He's an absent-minded beggar, and HI
may forget it all;
But we do not want his Riddles to re
mind him
That we sent 'em to the workhous,
while their daddy hammered Paul,
So we'll help the home that Tommy.
left behind him.
Cooks home-Duke's Monochrome of
| millionaire
Fifty thousand horse and foot goins
to Table Bay,
Each of EN- doing his country's worl
land what have you got t,
| spare)?
Pass the hat for your credits SAX
and pay-pay-payi
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Colonel Goebel of Kentucky has put
up the lievliest political fight of the
season and If he is beaten it will be
only because of the superior numbers
of the enemy.
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When it comes to Thanksgiving day
proclama lions, Governor Smith, always
a good man, moves right up into the
amen corner and allows no brother to
excel him in deep and fervid religious
sentiment.