Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-05-27

cure the passage Of Q measure killing
all opposition to II when II had no fran.
chise from Chicago to do business II.
self.
X the members Of our Legislature
are to be regularly bribed. and II the
tribunals Of Justice fail through cor.
ruption, what will become of popular
liberty and popular rightsi
~SA
Calumet Western IL q good name for
bad proposition.
~~
The people Of Illinois demand q con.
stitutional convention.
&e
With the corporations buying the
courts and denying the people Justice:
with the corporations buying the Leg.
islature and depriving the people Of
their rights. Of what use 10 Republic2
When the corporations want q law
they buy It. When they want q yer.
dict the, buy that. too. Where are we
drifting to"
1t will not be long before the people
settle the Gas Trust. Mark these
words.
The gas 10 Of o poor quality and the
condition Of the gas lamps was never
20 bad.
~6
The most baneful. threa tening aud
dangerous influence In public life to- day
ID In the shape Of the all-corrupting
corporations. and they are themselves
rapidly giving that fact the beueflt Of
public demonstration. The only way 70
secure our politics, our Lesisla tures and
our courts against their pOlluting iniiu.
ence 10 to take the great monopoly they
now control out Of their hands and ad. |
minister It a. trust for the people.
A curious condition exists at Guam,
to which Capt. II. Leary has been sent
40 governor. The Islands. Of which |
Guam 10 the most important, have long
been the scene Of missionary labors, |
managed generally by tho American
Board Of Commissioners Of FOREIGN |
Missions. Some ten years ago the Rev. |
Alfred Smelling was sent to the Carol.
Ines from Boston by this C0ngrega.
ti0nal missionary board. For some
probably good reason the work Of Mr..
Smelling was not satisfactory. and q
few years since he was relieved and
the Rev. DR.. Price was sent out to sun.
ply bis place. Mr.. Smelling immediate
~ revOlted, and wherever DR.. Price
established schools or opened churches
Mr.. Smelling duplicated them. Each
OF the missionaries used bis influence
against the other, and In these contro.
versies the natives took an active part.
DR.. Price was recently superseded By
the Rev. Mr.. Stims0n. who IL now car.
rying on the work In opposition to Mr..
Smelling. The latter is the more non.
ular with the native population, II be.
Ing claimed that he maintains bis hold
upon them rather by judiciOus distri.
button OF trlnkets as presents than by
the soundness Of his doctrines or the
energy Of bis religious work. The ma.
tives are all In favor Of annexation tn
the United States, as Is shown by an
Incident ut POnape, the capital of the
Caroline group. which Is held by the
Spaniards with small garrison and
two gunbOats. When the people OF the
island heard Of the taking OF Guam
by the Americans they shut up the
Spanish garrison In the fort and made
ready to deliver them to the United
States upon the first demand. A few
Of the spaniards escaped to the gun.
boats. which they took up one of the
rivers and concealed In a mangroye
swamp. The natives show, In many
ways. their kindly disposition toward
The United States, and Capt. Leary will
have an easy task In instituting q bet.
ter order Of things than the people
knew under Spanish rule. |!
The name Of the late Justin Smith
Morrill,. born April II. 1910, aud for
hirty-twO years United States Sen.
tor from Vermont, will ever he assO-
lated with those successive acts of
Congress by which nearly ten millions I
Il acres Of public lands have been di. q
'ided between the States and Terri.
cries for the establishment of "cOl. q
eges Of agriculture and mechanic
rts." Forty-eight such institutions q
ne gradually getting into shape. aud /
10 the day OF small things. Yet az.