The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-03
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

The extension of the Investigations of
the Agricultural Department over Porto
Rico and Cuba, through the agency of its
various bureaus, is movement of great
significance. Indifferent to the real pros
perity of its colonies, Spain neither stud
led their interests nor developed their re-
sources nor gave the helping hand of sci
ence in any way to advance their material
condition. Money, it is true was spent
ostensibly for science and education, but
it got but little further than the pockets
of greedy -officialdom. Hence, the work
Secretary Wilson initiates in these two
great islands means practically the study
OF virgin conditions. Everything will
have to be begun from the very begin
ming, and, while this means labor under
difficulties, it also promises great things
for the two islands now to be subjected
to this critical study of the scientific bu-
reaus of the United States. This is the
kind of imperialism that the world will
applaud. -Phi1a. Press.
Maxims are admirable, but when they
stand in the way of the advancement of
freedom and the spread of civilization
their literal Interpretation must be disre-
garded, in spite of any Philippine junta
or of any men who falsely describe them
selves as Jeffersonians or Washingtonians,
and pervert the teachings of these states
men. The junta intends to make all that
it can out of the utterances of these men,
and these men will use the junta as the
representatives of a race making heroic
struggle for liberty, and they will lose
sight of the broad principles involved in
expansion while they busy themselves
with the narrow Interpretation of rules
made to facilitate rather than to obstruct
the development of government by the
people Brooklyn Eagle
Bryan is explaining the ms and outs of
his military career to his Nebraska neigh
bors, who will require diagram to I'M
derstand it. His warlike intentions were
directed toward pulling down the flag, in
stead of advancing it; but they were only
intentions, sustained by no action, though
they will now, of course, revive in his
speeches. His influence on the situation
of the flag will be the same out of the
army as in it. 1t will fly high and wide
without any reference to his sentiments
on the subject, but will not try to unroll
itself where it has no business. The poor
style of patriotism he exhibits cannot
find very welcome acceptance even
among his home constituency. 1t is quite
possible that it may repudiate him and his
cadger's bag of mouldy principles, -
throwing them both overheard together,
and rallying round the flag, according to
the natural and patriotic impulses which
ought to and probably do animate them.
N. r Tribune.
The gold medal presented by the Span
ish residents of Santiago to General Leon
ard Wood has been well earned, and hon
ors both the givers and the recipient. 1t
is perhaps not too much to say that Gen
eral Woods administration there has
shown Cuba the first example of good
municipal government in the history of
the Island. He has displayed the highest
talents for that kind of work, of which
we shall henceforward have more to do
than formerly, and the agents to whom it
is confided cannot do better than to take
General Wood as an exemplar. There are
plenty of men like him in the country,
but the standard he has set in the swift
and complete rehabilitation of shatter-
ed and disordered and always badly gov
erned municipality is as high as any of
4horn are ever likely to reach.