The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-02-07

month gives the banks a power that
will inevitably lead to a sudden con
traction of the currency and business
prostration. This will give the banks,
says the minority report, the power to
contract the currency at their will, and
t coerce legislation under the threat
of panics and business depression to
be brought about by such contraction.
The whole scheme of the bill, continues
the minority, contemplates the destruc-
tion of silver as money; the destEU c-
tion of ~greenbacks and treasury notes
as money, and denies to Congress the
right to issue paper money, except by
farming out to corporations this great
sovereign power. Notice is given that
a substitute will be offered, providing
that both the gold and silver dollars
shall be standard of value and provid
ing for free coinage of silver"
In the Senate last Wednesday, Mr.
Rawlins, of Utah, said: what do we
want the Philippine Islands for7 Do
we want them to furnish homes for
our own people2 No. Do we want
them to furnish an outlet for our sur
plus labor2 Do we want them to add
a wholesome element to our popula
ton, that our SONS may find wives and
our daughters husbandsG The blight
ing curse of the Almighty would rest
V1nnn aI1nh Recommendation To Wo "on$
them in order to practice upon their
inhabitants the same arts of philan.
thropy which, applied to the aboriginal
inhabitants of this continent, have
led to their extermination3 Humanity
says no. Do we want them in order to
send thither swarms of Cmce-holders,
carpet baggers, to riot among them
like Shiny worms eating out their sub
stance7 Alb there's the rub. But for
this, I doubt if this perplexing problem
would to day be seriously confronting
the American people. No, there is no
conceivable good which they can
bring to US. Their retention BODIES
nothing but evil.
I'VE cannot eff )rd to go even halt
way do WI to the Asiatic level in order
to proportionately uplift their ~civiliza
ton. We have enacted laws which
stand like cherubims with flaming
sword, at the gate ways of the republic
to drive back the hordes of the dark
and degenerate races of the East, lest
they might enter into, infect and de
grade u.s."
On Thursday, the River and Harbor
Bill, carrying slightly more than $50,
600. 900, passed the House by a vote of
100 to Z. This is the largest majority
any river and habor bill has ever
obtained in the House. A PopuIist
demanded the ayes and does, but the
call was not sustained. The House
voted down all propositions to amend
the bill to any material extent, and it
goes to the Senate practically as it
came from the committee. A change
was made in the provision regarding
the harbor at Brunswick, Ga, SO that
the contractor only has a chance to
earn $50 900 instead OF 1920, 900, the
government to take charge Of any
deepening and widening deemed Q
essary.
On Friday, q resolution Was adopted
by the Senate appro priating $40, COO to
build in Havana a monument to the
sailors killed by the explosion Of the
Maine last February.
Replying to a resolution of inquiry,
Secretary Alzer forwarded to the Sen
ate a cable dispatch from General Otis
as follows:
Manila, Feb. 2-Deaths among troops
in the Philippines since arrival to Feb
ruary 1st, seven months, 400; OF
which forty were due to wounds and
accidents; of the remaining 179, IS
died of typhoid fever, % of smallpox,
81 Of d~ysentery and malarial fever.
The remaing deaths we're due to many
various diseases. Smallpox causes
apprehension. The entire command
has been vacinated several times.
Twelve physicians we're engaged sew
eral weeks vacinating natives. The
more sickIy season is during the hot
months-March, April, May-when
smallpox and ~dyeentery are
more prevalent. Nine per cent. of the
command is now reported sick. a
great meJority of cases is slight all
ments. (Signed) Otis
ION thesame day the inquiry ordered
by the House, of representatives, as to
what members had forfeited their seats
by reason of accepting other offices,