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onceivable case, what would be the re-

conceivable case, what would be the re-
suit?
Part of the result would of course be
just what followed in the free trade
case. We have never had a free trade
Congress that would pass anything but
protection tariff bill, and we cannot
have an anti-expansion administration
that will do anything but keep right on
expanding. No administration would
dare withdraw our troops from the
Philippines defeated, and no one can
find way to withdraw them victori-
Gus. If a Filipino army should be
stronger than an American army, it
could only be because the American
army was not as strong as it ought to
be. There are a few anti-expansion-
lists so rabid as to say that in such
case we ought to sneak out defeated,
but even they concede that we will not
do so. Whatever they, or anybody,
thinks ought to happen, what will hap
pen is that we shall fight out the Fill
pino war to victorious conclusion. This
is as inevitable under an anti-expan-
sion administration as under any other.
A FRANK KACKNOWLEDGME
Marysville Appeal: Hon. William
K. Grace, ex-Mayor of the city of New
York, a lifelong Democrat and, more
over heretofore one of the most stren-
uous advocates of a free trade tariff
policy. has publicly acknowledged that
he has completely changed his views
regarding that economic question. He
says, in an interview with the New
York correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press:
Il now see, as believe clearly, that
the amazing growth in all that makes
for permanently prosperous conditions
and in all influences that have so re-
Gently established the United States as
a first Power among the nations of the
world, not only politically, but finan-
cially and commercially, is due in great
measure to the policy of protection. l.
never dreamed that the time would
come when should be willing to make
an admission of this kind. But facts
are stronger than theories, and the
fact remains that in the past six years
we have had abundant proof that there
is some fallacy, SO far as the United
States is concerned, in the doctrine
which the Democratic party held and
which Mr.. Cleveland proclaimed in his
message; and, on the other hand, there
was truth in the claims made by Nc
Kinley, by Dingley, by Morrill, and by
other great protectionists, and, SO un-
derstanding this, 1 am ready to say
that 1 now see the truth
1t will be observed that there is not
the shadow of equivocation in this
statement, and not the least reserva-
ton, and, moreover, the declaration or
confession, if such it may be called.
was manifestly the result of careful de-
liberation and of the analysis of eco
nomic conditions by a judicial mind.
Mr.. Grace, a lifelong Democrat, looks
beyond the limited environment of par
ty lines. He has not failed to observe
the maze Of economic and political er
rors through which the Democratic
party has been cropping during the
greater part of the century and into the
inextricable depths Of which it now
seems to be helplessly foundering.
LOSSES IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Ukiah Republican-Press One pecu
liarity about the campaign in the Phil
ippines is the small loss of life which
should prove, if it proves anything,
that General Otis is not the incompe-
lCIl lIldl Tic yellON press GIluSdNOIS "
make him out. Three volunteer regi-
ments from Manila have reached San
Francisco to be mustered out The
Oregon Regiment brought back over
200 men. The Nebraskans report a
total loss of sixty-two men. The
Pennsylvanians lost an aggregate of
only twenty-four men. Here are three
regiments which after a years service,
largely on the firing line in Luzon and
in the trenches, return to their homes
with combined mortality Of less than
130. All saw more or less hard fight
ing and marching. 1t was the Pennsyl-
vanians who stood the brunt of a Span
ish night sortie during a storm. The
Nebraskans and Oregonians We're in the
thick Of the engagements reaching from
Manila to Malolos and San Fernando,
and passed through several ugly am
buscades But they are back home
looking we'll and with ranks but little
reduced when comparison is made with
former wars In the face of figures SO
significant it is useless to say that these
regiments have not been intelligently
handled and we'll cared for. They are
healthy, make a fine appearance on
parade and their mortality list is small
They have worked steadily, fought
bravely and seen some hardships but
all this is in the line of a soldiers
duty.