The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-01
WASHINGTON.
ON our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Nav 90. I

Washington, May 20, 1890.
That another very serious mistake
was made by the administration when
it instructed the American delegates
to the Cars disarmament conference.
nov sitting at the Hague, to Join the
British delegates in working to secure
an agreement of the nations repre-.
sented for international arbltrat on, is
believed by many close students of
international politics. Should such
an agreement be entered into the
United States would be likely to get
the worst of every question submitted
to arbitration that affects European
interests, for the very simple reason
that the majority of the arbitra-
tors would necessarily be European,
possessing the natural prejudice that
every man feels against The inhabi-
tants of another hemisphere. Sena-
tor Stewart, whose wide experience in
public life and close study OF history
makes his opinion entitled tc consid-
Grafton, says that we will live to deeply
regret 1t, if we enter any arbitration
agreement with the European nations;
that every decision under such an
agreement would certainly be anti
American, and that we will be all the
time fighting hostile combination
from which we can expect neither JUS
tice or fairplay.
Ex-Gov. Evans, of South Carolina,
who has just returned from Cuba,
where he was serving on the staff of
Gen. Ludlow, who is in command OF
the city of Havana, hasn't a high
opinion Of the Cubans. He says the
talk about the patriotism of the Cuban
soldiers is all bosh that there is no
such thing in existence that, with few
exceptions, they were actuated by de-
sire for plunder and to hold office.
He also says that Coxeys army was a
band of aristocratic gentlemen by
comparison with the followers OF
Gomez, and that it would be far
greater crime against civilization to
allow these men to control the island
than 1t would have been to have lef,
IN the Spaniards in control, and tha,
property owners over there are unani
nous for annexation.
-.
Secretary Wilson, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, who has just re
turned from southern trip, is inclined
to grow enthusiastic over what he be
lieves will be accomplished by the
Southern people in the near future
He says, among other interesting
things, that they will in the course O
time grow all the tea consumed in thi
country and manufacture PRACTICAL,
all the cotton they grow, and of tn
people: "The universal sentiment il
the South, so far as l could observe
was that they welcome every norther
man of education, enterprise G
means"
John Sherman has stirred up tn
administration once more. On hi
way to Ohio he gave out an interview
at Pittsburg, which caused sensatio
in administration circles, when it wa
telegraphed to Washington. The ol
man jumped on the Philippine polio
of the administration with both fee
so to speak, declaring it to be wron
from beginning to end, or at least,
where it has got. Mr.. Mckinley fea
that this interview will do the Repul
licans much harm in Ohio, and is tr
ing to bring influence to bear upo
Mr.. Sherman to get him to repudiat
it outright, or, if he cannot be mac
to 60 that far, to say that what h
said was exaggerated BY the reporte
Notwithstanding official denials e
erything points to the correctness
the press reports from Manila, statir
that there is clash between the mi
tary and civilian members of the Phi
ippine Commission as to how the Fl
pinos should be dealt with. In Il
first place, il these statements hi
not been absolutely correct they wou
not have been allowed to pass Il
strict censorship at Manila. 1t
stated, upon good authority, that tt
clash was of such serious natu
that General Otis appealed to N
Mckinley, and intimated as strong
as a military man may with proprie
to the commander-in-chief of t