Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-10-31

ter are very scarce these days. The
Western people want the flag to stay
where it is, and there is no doubt of
it. They haven't forgotten that when
Dewey was forced to leave Hong
Kong with his fleet, by the neutrality
laws, there wasn't a stake In the
whole eastern hemisphere to which
he could tie. We've got one now, and
we are going to keep it. We have a
home in the Orient for our warships
as we'll as merchant vessels, and q
starting point for commercial expe-
ditions into all Asia and Oceanica.
The Western people know the value
of this. They realize that every year
their products of farm and factory
are going into the Pacific ocean in in
creased ratio. They want to keep it
up. Our people are not going to
tyranlze over the Filipinos. They
will contribute money to send them
school teachers and missionaries,
and they will make the Philippines
to blossom like the rose. These little
fellows who are barking at the heels
of President Mckinley and carping
the laws and the people require, do
not alarm the Western people. The
residents of that section do not for
get that the land which they live on
was acquired by treaty. They have
no intention of alternating Iowa and
Minnesota, nor of alternating any
other territory we have more recent
lv obtained by treaty."
Archbishop Chappelle, the apostol-
ic delegate to the Philippines, who Is
now III Washington, has given the
ants a new nut to crack by coming
out good and strong for permanent
American ownership Of the Philip
pines, and strongly endorsing this
government for having acquired the
islands by the treaty of peace with
Spain.
Admiral Dewey is now the owner
of a handsome Washington residence,
the deed for the same having been
formally turned over to him by the
committee which made the purchase.
The admiral has announced his in
tention to make two trips early next
year, one to the South and one to
the West, in order to show the people
of those sections how much be APP
preciates the cordial Invitations
which he has been compelled by the
advice of his physician to decline for
the time being.
From the talk Of Republican mem
bers of the house there Is reason TO
believe that u new committee will be
created when the house is organized,
which will have control t all legisla-
ton relating to Hawaii, Porto Rico,
Cuba and the Philippines, the idea
seeming to be general that such d
committee composed of the ablest
men in the house is needed.
In the dairy division Of the depart
ment of agriculture there is on exhi-
bition a strip Of thin, almost trans
parent material, that looks like
celluloid or hard rubber. This ma
terial, which was made from skim
milk, represents a discovery which
is believed to be very valuable by the
capitalists who have obtained pat
ents on the process for making it, as
it IS claimed that 1t can be used to
make anything now made OF hard
ru Ober or celluloid and that it has
some advantages over both those
materials In addition to its cheap
ness. Major Alvord, chief of the dairy
division, while not disparaging the
discovery itself, expresses doubts as
to whether it will enable the manu-
facturers who intend using the pro-
cess it's manufacture to pay prices
that will make it advantageous for
dairymen to sell them their skim
milk instead Of feeding it judiciouslY
to the stock on their farms.