The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-27

such a royal flush as this administra-
ton.
1--WE are at peace with the entire
solar system, and nothing threatens TO
disturb our friendly relations with any
foreign planet. From Jupiter to Mer-
curry, from ,Serpentarius to Achernar,
from Orion to Andromeda, our flag is
honored and the rights of American citi-
zenship respected. Healthy industrial
conditions prevail in all the fixed stars
in which the flag has been raised and
all the intelligent classes of people IN
these our distant possessions. with an
unfaltering trust in the power ana
majesty of the administration which 1t
represents, are eager to maintain It,
The benevolent assimilation of the in
habitants of Aldebran is rapidly prog
ressing, and for an annual considera-
ton of $4,000 cash the sultan OF
Zubenhakrabi has bound himself, his
houris, his eunuchs and his slaves, not
to cut the star spangled banner up into
dishrags, or to wear it for breech clouts,
but to keep it floating in all it's glory
over the imperial harem both day and
night shifts As a further token of his
| love and admiration for us, our institu-
| tons and our annual stipend Of $4,000
| to him in hand paid, the sultan has
| solemnly covenanted and agreed not to
wage war against us and sweep our
commerce from the seas, but to re-
main at home in the bosom of his eX-
panding family and devote himself to
the further upbuilding of the industries
of slavery and polygamy.
while the Instruction still con-
| tinues in Luzon, the business of cap
| turing towns one day and abandoning
| them the next was never more flourish
| ing and prosperous. The confidence OF
| the natives in the ability of General
| Otis to fight it out on this line If i,
| takes all eternity, is increasing witt
| each succeeding day. Those engaged
| in maintaining the honor of the ad.
ministrat ton in the Philippines with
such signal success have been In
| large degree spared from disaster ane
| disease. And in even a still higher de
| gree are the Filipinos now enjoying
| exemption from wounds and death. i
is peculiarly fortunate that this glori
Gus war for liberty can be carried on ii
this agreeable way indefinitely. 1t is {
theme of wonder and establishment tt
all the nations of the earth. There vii
be no faltering in our policy--we shall
| keep on taking towns and villages ant
letting them go again as long as this
brilliant administration shall exist.
For these reasons and counties
others / do hereby nominate and ap
point Thursday, the 30th day of No
vember next, as day of genera
thanksgiving to this administration, Z
be observed by all our people on thi
continent and in our islands beyon'
the sea. Give thanks unto the admin
istration for it is a good thing and
warm. Praise We the administration o.
the megaphone; praise it on the til
horn, the bass drum and the sackbut
praise it on the hand organ, the moutl
organ, the steam calliope and the fir
! alarm bell. For the earth and the full
ness thereof never saw such anothe
| administration as this administration
| nor shall its like be ever seen again.
In witness whereof 1 have set m
hand and caused the seal of the Unite
States of America, Sulu, Luzon and tn
Milky Way to be affixed.
"WILLIAM McGINTY."