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The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06
Gcrmany's Significant Move.

The announcement that Germany has
succeeded IN purchasing from Spain three
different groups Of islands In the imme-
o.ate us,ghJorhood Of the Philippines and
so situated, IN a military sense. as 10
FORM a species of Gordon about them. will
not surprise any one who has intelligently
considered Germany's policy for the past
ten years and who Is aware Of the real
German sentiment toward the United
States. This action was quite 10 have
been expected. and those who knew Ger
many best expected q most confidently
especially when the Official and semi-Offi-
cial press began 20 preach to Us so pa
taetically about magnaniElity 10 a fallen
foe and ch!yalroUs moderation in the hour
o. victory.
To become indignant over il now and 10
Indulge in childish reprOaches and re-
grets is 10 confess that We have been out
"lttei and b@foOled and 10 apply, by in
direction az least, for a guardian. We
know, or should have known, the genuine
attitude Of Germany toward the United
States, and II We intended TO play ser
i0us part In international politics, We
owed II 90 our dignity 10 play that part
with vigilance and TelentleSsness. If We
are going into the grisly game OF terri
torial expansion we need cynicism, cal
lousness. and all the armameRt Of the
sD0liator. We can afford to overlook no
points In the tremendous tragedy. We
can safely listen to no promptings Of SEN
timentai philanthropy
Germany has taken the trick. and that's
al there Is about it. No one save a dupe
could possibly have expected less. only
a cry-baby would think Of wbimpering
now. The deed is done. The compact has
been consummated, anG nothing is left 10
as excepting the compensa tion of self
reproach and the policy of a new and less
simple habit Of preparation. Ii may be
perhaps II were the wisest thing TO do
that we shall, after suppressing, for hon
or's sake, the insurrection in LuZon. per-
ceive our best interests in a transfer OF
the Philippines to some other power
England, Russia, what you will but 10
some power other than Germany. We
''1i'' TAM SuGl naval ana tOdlng Std-
uons as might be desirable in our new
commercial scheme, and we should be
Obliged, OF course, 10 guarantee the pur-
chaser in possession. But in this way we
could shake off a burden of great respon-
sibiity and irritation, without resigning
any material advantage 1t is a solution
worthy Of serious consideration.
Meanwhile, however, the German deal
with Spain is a completed fact. We have |
none but ourselves TO upbraid-or thank, |
as the case may be-for this consumrna- |
ion- We could easily have prevented it |
had We wished or been enlightened TO do |
50. We let the matter pass and we must |
quarrel with ourselves over the result |
II We really want TO go into the worlds |
game We have missed a point. But we |
shall not. in any event. uplift or dignity |
ourselves by silly repinings and recrlmi- |
nations. Our duty is to stiffen our backs |
and to see that our ammunition is close
BY
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this Interesting juncture our Cleveland
contemporary Genes out wfth the prop0-
siil0n that the Democrats and Republic
ans. Instead OF fighting each other. make
common cause" against the trusts A
competition between two great parties in
denouncing snG singing epithsts az 4
common target. while each il calling the
other hard names because OF its past at
titude toward or relations TO that target
may serve for amusement while the real
Work of the Presidential campaign Is far
OF. but something more tangible than
that will be needed when the fight be-
gins. And that something viii be on
hand In the familiar shape Of the Chicago
platform Of Isss, reasserted BY the Dem
ocratiC convention OF 1900 All the indica-
uons point TO a repetition Of the coinage
light under the old leaders. II the Re
pubiicans fight the trusts as vigorously as
they promise TO from now On uH next
summer. and = the Democrats dispiav
equal Zeal in that work. an antitrust
plank IN each OF the national platforms
viii cut as unimportant a figure in the
canvass as did the tariff or civil service
reform in the last Presidential campaign
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Problems at Paris.

Ihe spectacle now presented in Paris is
perhaps the most astounding ever beheId
in any civilized country. When Dreyfus
was hrst condemned, We could sympathize
with the Indignation and horror of the
French people. The crime attributed TO
DTSytus WAS the most hideous that can
be imagined. And when the highest mill
tary authorities in the nation united in
nSelalming his guilt II is safe to say
that public opinion throughout Cnristen-
dom would have approved. even if il did
not enthusiastically applauu, any penalty
imposed upon him, no matter how dread
tul and how humiliating il might have
been. Up 10 that point. France and her
people he'd the entire sympathy of this
country, and while Te regretted the vio-
ieuce Of their methods of demonstration
Hnt the apparent injustice involved in
founding an anti-Semitic movement upon
the sin OF one member OF the race, we
felt that France had 4 right 10 defend the
honor Of her army in her own way. She
rad been wounded In what. for any proud
nation, must be the tenderest of spots.
She was justified in any vengeance.
What wc no not understand. however.
IS the almost frantic resentment ex-
hiuIled by prominent people. occupying
high places and possessing great social
LnI political Influence. over the exonera-
ton o. an innocent and Wickedly perse-
ru.rl man. That is a trait of French
character we End utterly unintelligible.
: the outbreak on Sunday had been
mere demonstration by the sans-culottes
ot the Faubourg 81. Antoine. notoriousIy
80 vicious and ignorant and dangerous
clement We might have been able TO
.ggOuut for il: but when We lId in the
lsJ of the leaders ari promoters OF thar
Indecent and abomiuable outbreak such
names as those OF Comte Chris.iani.
Comt- Dion. Comts d'Aubigny d'Assi.
A1l. de CIarmont HouucYre. de Renu-
zat. le Beaumont Dc VilHers, de Melville,
an1-tIlnk OF 1.-THE Comtesse Boni de
CastellaEe. Jay Gou,d's daushter-when
We see scores Of sUch lsrnes and are
told. besides. that the outbreak was or
g.aiZcI by the Jcunesse' Patr.otes. the
L.sle des Particles. and the Steeplechase
soclcty-an representing high social cir
oies-theH. surely. Ne may be pardoned fo-
assuming that swell society, so-called. IN
France is a remarkable, rot to say amaz-
irg institution.
The question amcng thinking people OUT
side Of that nation is: Whom shah We
accept as the real representatives. OF
France The Court OF Cessation, which
f. 90 France what our Supreme Court Is
20 ihe United States, has declared that
ITeyfus Is the victim OF q conspiracy
formed by the highest officials OF the
army that De is not guilty: that the in
l9HOls crime ascr1DeG 10 him was com.
miiiea by others; that the war offiee aEd
It's officials have deliberately sacrificed
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06
A Spartan Mother.

From the Chicago Tribune.
The OregOnian prints a letter written BY
Mrs. Turpin. of Lebanon. Greg. mother
OF Private John II. Turpin. Of COMPANY
h, Second Oregon Volunteers, now sery-
ing In the Philippines. The letter was
written with reference to the return OF
the regiment, and In II she says.
Il love my boy as much as any NO.
man could love her son, but / do not
want him to come home until the govern
ment has no further need OF his s-r-
vices. | am ashamed Of the healthy men
who have left the Philippines az the tim.
when they are most needed Every one
that comes home deserts my boy when ha
Is fighting. Ny son writes 10 M that
the Second Oregon will not come hom-
until the nation no longer needs them
He was in the hospital corps. but irf.
that branch Of the service and went 10
fighting. and has kept az IT, / DO not v.aut
him to be killed. nor DO / want him 90
come home and leave the rest Of the
boys To do his fighting for him. ! do not
want him 10 come until he can come with
the knowledge that he has done MS full.
duty. Then, II he comes | shall be- tho
prOUdest mother In Oregon"
Ii Is not likely that auy OF the an'i-eX-
pansion newspapers will print This pa
triotic expression from the Oregon moth
er IL Is a pUngent Tebuke 10 them for
their vile effort 10 make ~ sppear that
the American volunteers are towards.
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Meant Well.

From the Chicago Tribune
The pleasant-faced, kind-hsartAd v5Irs
man In the end seat noticed that the MD
dle-aged man sitting next 10 him vas .a-
tOxicated.
He noticed also that he was about 20
leave the car block or two before reach
Ing his destination.
With the spirit of seIf-sacriS.e com
mon 10 generous, lmpetuOIs yOutl be- r--
strained the unfortunate inebr.a'e. ara
stepped down on the running board him
self for the purpose ~ assisting him u
the car al the right crossing.
Then his foot slipped
There was q mud hole handy.
There always 81.
The generOus-hearted young man 'si
into Il.
The conductor huriedly stopped 'a- car
And then the mlddle-aged lHeJr.a,e .rs-
urely climbed dosn. and shouted N.,a
thick-tongued ULterdnce 10 the s--'---rf.-
hcing young man, who. covered a.'a a.-4'
was slowly picking himself up.
You -- fool. Look a. M Eet oa.
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A Great Problem.

Froai the Brooklyn EssIs
The New York Times literary slp,.r'
ment Is wrestling with the problem Q.
How Large Is the Ordinary Mans ',-
cabularyZ" II depends on cir~4us f.st
Bishop Potter's vocabulary. f1r irs'a,s,.
IS much larger Ia the pulplJ than when p
meets the reporter. Capt CoeHiaa -t-t
many more words after dinner than in ~
plantations 10 his superlogs. Eugene b.
Brewster command ot language b. NOE
coD.Ouz. although Jess choice When t
Interviews himself than when TIE .-pof.-
ers uss their retaining jHlEH-'l i'
ariIing him Ou'. And neither t.=r. t-f
nor the electric chair could restrict t-.
vocabulary Of William j Bryan ~ TtJ1
a. g. Shearman 10 the 2ylg words 80 2
some Times correspondents tni.k Al r--'
Gated man should ave
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Only a Ouestion Of Time.

From the Philadelphia Record
The steel industry has thus far been a
Northern rather than a Southern Industry
In the United States, but before many
years shall have passed the South Will
come 10 the front with its steel, as il has
with its pig iron. II is only a question OF
time for development.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

One Of our leading statesmen makes a
specially Of retailing petty political Sc
crets with what he is pleased TO term an
ENTRY moose" embargo. We fear that
pure and undefiled French will never Sc
cure fOOthold in the Middle West until
hon. Jack Gowdy returns to Indiana and
establishes a night school for ambitious
statesmen.
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a Necessary Precanriou.

Fron the New York Evening World.
Yes said little Archie, addressing the
visitor, mamma will be down pTettv
soon. She said. when she seen Won cou-
in. that she sp0sed she must slick IN a
little or you'd think she done her own
work, and hurry around and tell the
neighbors about il"
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06
Art HaHus

Froz the Detroit Frse PfslE
How are sou gettlag on IN your cay
modelling. Kitty
"Oh, just lovely: Fm devoted % il"
This h hue head. who b. itT'
"G0Oduegsl don't ask re ir-t Et
sweet, u g. either Martin LJthrg " Era'
jaroin Franklin"
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Where Custom Fails.

From the B0stOa Traveller
In Paraguay gentleman Is eniolned nv
the laws Of good society 10 kiss eServ Iass
to whom he Is Introduced. This so;inas
alluring uaiess you happen 20 have met =
lady IN Paraguay
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

Hon. Joe Blackburn took the platform
at Louisville the other day and cussed the
money devil to a staDdstill There Is no
use minclng words with a great evil.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06
His Turn WilICome

From the New York Mall and Express
Uncle Richard Bland, Of Missouri. is he
ing stndioUsly ignored by the Rrvanira
leaders In that state. II will be Uncle
Richards turn 10 engage In the ignoring
business next year.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

Mr. Hanna said he wanted to take a
Gear conscience 10 Europe. II he does
this he will be sure to have all sorts of
trouble with the fussy customs inspacr-
Ors.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

Coin Harvey will make the fight of his
life TO have the Democratic Party adopt
when You Amt Got No Money, WHY
You Needn't Come Around as its battle
song
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06
Merely a Coincidence.

From the Yorkerz Statesman
beaeon-"hen man is In love every
thing about looks different 10 him.
Egbert-Yes. it's the same way wber n.
knocks his head against a gas brackst
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

Gov Benton McMillin has gone to New
York 10 borrow money with which to
pay the interest on the Tennessee debt.
When Benton feels the hot breath of the
money devil on his cheek he will be sure
to fire up and say something sultry.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

1t is stated that Mr.. De Wolf Hopper
is about to take another chance on The
sea OF matrimCny- Is this TO be another
round-trip voyage?
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

The Birmingham Age-Herald says Mr..
HENDERSON Will be the first man of for-
elGn birth TO reach the Speakers chair
Has the Age-Herald so soon forgotten the
late Charles F. Crisp?
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

After little independent snorting the
Cincinnati Commercially is trot-
ting along under the Republican wagon
with the utmost compl2isance.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06
hs esgua.

Frosa re Ls Ps,i; Journal
Autograph Fiend-Ah. here ls the ger
OF nay coilsetion-an old Ihee, ~ yap,; %
which Napoleon failed 70 write.
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GIVE for Their Education.

at seems to me that the government
| of the United States ought, by vote of
Congress. afford common schools and
| printlng-presses to those benighted re-
giOns. Our national Legislature by one
vote appropriated s50.000,coo 20 give bread
and medicine to Cuba. Why moi by a
similar generosity give coo for the
minds and souls of those ignorant and
besotted archipelagOes. In the name of
God, l nominate a school for every neigh
bOrhood OF Cuba. Porto Rico, and the
Philippines As soon as the gaVel falls
at Il O'clock of next December on the
table of Senate and House of Represen-
tatives, and the roll has been called and
the preliminaries observed, let some men,
Der of our national Legislature, with
mind and soul and voice strong enough
to be heard not only through those halls.
but through ChrstendOm, propose a
measure for the mental and moral dis
inthrallment OF the islands in controversy.
What has made American civilization
the highest civilization the world has ever
seen? Next TO the Bible and the church.
schools, common schools, schools reach
ing from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
from British America to the Gulf of Mex
co. Five years under such educational
advantages, and this whole subject that
keeps our public men agitated, some of
them TO frothing at the mouth, will settle
itself. Give those islands readers, spoilers,
arithmetic., histories, blackboards, ma ps,
biographies, globes. Let the State Leg
islatures at their next meeting, some of
them assembling in early autumn, take
parts of those islands under their especial
educational patronage. What is needed is
State and national action in this matter
of schools.
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The valued Cincinnati Enquirer gives
the Ohio Republicans a large Infection
OF advice every twenty-four hours. but
the patient appears 10 be inOculaUion
proof.
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The joke on Germany will be intensified
if the Cars peace scheme is successful
and islands and coaling stations become
a drug on the market.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

Which paper shall we believe?' in-
qulres the Springfield Union in discussing
the New York yellows In order TO be
on the safe side you should believe
neither
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

Now that Baby Clark has been found.
perhaps the Atlanta Constitution VIII be
able to solve the mystery OF that 81.
Louis conference.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

Editor kohlsaat doesn't display good
newspaper judgment when he pays cable
tolls 10 demonstrate that the New York
Evening Post is engaged in misrepre-
sentinS the situation in the Philippines
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

We presume that Hon. o. H p. Bel
mont carries large and luscious plug OF
Hon. Nose" Wetmore's tobacco in mis-
hip pocket.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

And now it is alleged that Tom Plat
has everything creased so that the New
YORK delegation will slide out from under
Hon. Jim Sherman.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

The value Of printers ink" now has
new meaning. trust has been formed
10 look after its manufacture.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

The Ohio Valley Bimetallic League was
dispersed few tears from Hon. George
Fred Williams.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

Mr.. Foraker had no idea that his tire
would blow out just as he began pump
ing in the home stretch.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

II Hon. Jim Sherman were inoculated
with few grains OF Mrs. PartingtOn he
would bob up and move to make it ''cere-
monioys"
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wha,.Ir Name

lie aid he'd lave a EsiaEy f'fa.Ks...''
We Gei a. sass izis.-
BE ,s4nse zEallst q ssbbly cate
e. I.e l@,lss sss ne aisaisltsF
-cAilsse Ilasi, Ht-s :
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

II things continue as at present, Gen
Joe Wheeler will soon be able to keep
an octopus in his back yard.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

Mr. Jim Jeitries viii make a serious
mistake II ne attempts 10 dodge behind
the prayers Of Mr. John l.. Sullivan.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

II Aguinaldo keeps up his present lick
he Will soon be able to Go a century run
every tWenty-four hours.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

Hon. Serene f. Payne is going to
Alaska. This will doubtless enable him
to cool off
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

we infer from Mr.. GOrman's latest re-
marx that he Is not a patron of Hon.
Nose Wetmore's chewing tobacco.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

Mark Hanna beat the early-bird theory
all to pieces. He stayed up all night TO
catch the Ohio worm.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

According to the views of Hon. Dave
Henderson. there is no such thing as a
Speakership contest.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

The fussy Parisians evidently took
President Loubet for a sort of Mazer
committee.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

Hon. John Peter Altgeld ought to be a
success as a political undertaken.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

We trust Mr.. Hanna will not crowd his
luck TO the extent of trying 10 create a
panic at Monte Carlo.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

We fear Mr.. Quay has abandoned all
hope Of capturing the Speakershlp for
Hon. John DalZen
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06

Mr.. Chandler's opinion of the Ohio re-
suit viii have TO be iced before it is fit
for publication.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06
GOSPEL AND EXPANSION
Christianize Our New Islands.
Says DIR. Talmage.
THEY NAY BE GODS CHOSEN LAND
He Has started for the Conquest of Ma
Can Stop Him-The Gates Ars Opea for
a speedy Introduction of the Gospel
Among Those Peopls-Lessoas TO BE
Drawn from Ancient kingdums.

| Rev. Or. T. De Witt Talmage took for
1 his subject yesterday, Expansion -
/ Speaking from the text, Genesis, xviii IA
! Ihou shalt spread abroad to the west
| and the east" he said:
since the Americana -Hispanfc wa is
concluded and ;he United States Ambas-
| sador Is in Madrid and the Spanish Am
I DassadOr is IL Washington, the people of
| our country are divided into expansion
| lists and anti-expansionists From a diff
ferent standpoint than that usually taks n,
/ discuss this 2llabsoTbing theme / leave
the political aspects of this subject 20
| statesmen and warriors, and pray Al
mighty God that they may be enabled
| rightly 30 settle the question whether the
Islands in controversy shall be finally an
neXed or held under protectorate, or re-
signed 10 themselves, while 1 call atIen-
ton 90 the fact that 2 campaign OF NOR
al ana religious expansion ought 10 be
Immediately opened on widest and grand
est scale.
AT The close of this war God has put
into The hands cf this country the key 10
t1e worlds redemption. Heretofore the
religious movement in pagan lands had TO
pTecede the educational. After, in China
and India aud the islands of the sea, the
missionaries labored fifty or seventy-fve
years. the printing press and the secular
school came in. Now, to better advan-
tage than ever before. religious and secu-
lar enlightenment may go side by side,
ana 50 the work be accomplished in short
time and more thoroughly. Starting with
the fact that in Cuba and Porto Rico and
the Philippine Islands at least three
fourths Of the people can neither read nor
write, what an opportunity for school
and printing-press! Within five years
every man in those islands may be taught
TO read not only the Bible but the Decla-
ration Of Independence and the Constitu-
ton Of the United States and the biog-
raphy Of George Washington and Of Abra-
ham Lincoln.
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