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II N ex-United States consul to the
Philippines, Ogden E. Edwards,
asserts that as to Americana
ing the islands by settlement, that is
impossible. The Philippines, he says,
are tropical country, and no Ameri-
can can go there and work on his own
land as farmer, or engage in day EN-
ployment which will oblige him to labor
under a tropical sun. He can do useful
work in overseeing and directing ma
tives. but as an artisan or mechanic he
cannot compete with native or Chinese
labor The climatic obstacles to Amer
icanizing the islands by settlement are
insurmountable.
1t Is not the great heat but the
steady. uninterrupted heat, which saps
the strength of Europeans or Ameri-
cans. Year by year the European or
American living in the Philippines loses
something of his vitality, and instead
of being accllmatzed at the end of ten
years he is less fit to endure the heat
or exposure to the sun than he was
when he first arrived. The children
born of American or European parents
will thrive for four or five years and
then must be sent home" or they will
grow up "degenerates So far as is
yet known the children of unmixed
American or European blood cannot be
reared in the Philippines. If the chill
dren be of mixed blood, with a Malay
mother, they may be physically vigor-
Gus, but will not be the mental or moral
equal of their parents. ut is therefore
impossible" says Mr.. Edwards, ito
Americanize the Philippines through
American settlers. All we can do is to
govern them SO justly as to assist the
Filipinos in raising themselves to a
higher political and mental state'
Mr.. Edwards takes a dscouraging
view of the Filipinos. They cannot be
trusted with self-government. Years of
good, honest and just government. he
says, must precede so radical a change.
A certain amount of local sefgovern-
ment such as the management of VIII
lage affairs by the elders of the village
might safely be entrusted to the ma
tives. Each of the twenty-five provinces
or districts on the island of Luzon could
be governed by an American either
regular army or navy officer, assisted
by an advisory council, chosen from
among the head men of the district and
by two or three young Americans. who
had passed a strict civil service exami-
nation at home. This, it will be noted
is a form of government for the rural
English rule In India
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The Same Everywhere.

q PEAKING of the three demo-
~ cratic traitors in the Delaware
legislature. the Helena Herald
says: "A few democratic members of
the legislature in Delaware voted for
republican for United States sena tor.
When they went home they We're met
by a mob with ieers and revilngs
bricks and dead cats. They were COM
PEELED to leave their homes and sneak
away to avoid violence. That is the
way democrats treat their delinquent
representatives for doing what they
term patriotic service when done by
republican for democracys benefit
What democrats ever praised a re-
publican for voting for Il democratic
candidate for United States senator?
Even w. A. Clark in his heart despises
the republicans he bought like cattle
Treachery is treachery the world over
and there are few crimes in the cate
CORY so universally and justly con-
demned Not one of the republican
members of the legislature who voted
for w. A. Clark may hope ever to out
live the fearful shame and disgrace
with which, like so much tar and feath-
ers, he stands covered
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London. March 3l.--The returns. show
ing an unexpectedly large increase. prac-
tically remove the anticipated difficulties
in balancing the budget. The chancellor
of the excheauer, Sir Michael Hicks
Beach, has estimated that the increase OF
revenue would be only E5000tO. The actual
increase, however, exceeds his estimate
by more than G1.00O00O, and it is now ex-
pected that the budget deficit will amount
to only 81 100000 instead of G3.00o goo. This
amount cannot be provided for without
serious increase in taxation. The aug
menter revenues are mainly derived from
the income tax and the death duties. 1t
is generally expected that the chancellor
of the exchequer will propose a remposi-
ton of the tobacco duties or an increase
in the duties on beer.
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Both of En- After Normoyle Now.

~ ROM the first, the Inter Noun
tain has shown itself ready and
willing to go a long way from
home in supporting the Kirk end of the
election, but, for good while, that
newspaper drew the line at Mr.. Nor
moyle, democratic candidate for the
office of police magistrate--the Inter
Mountain declined to attack him.
Mr. Normoyle is one of the Silver
Bow democrats in this states legisla-
ture who refused to be bribed to vote
for Clark for senator. OF nurse the
Miner started out to oppose Normoyle,
in his present candidacy. 1t seemed
like asking too much of the Inter
Mountain to expect it to follow the
Miner in this crusade. In fact, the In
ter Mountain stood out for long time
but it finally swung into line; and
Kirk band of them.
Clark is fighting Normoyle because
he could not be bought to vote for
Clark for senator, and Heinze is fight
ing him because he would not vote
against house bill 1872 which the Heinze
people We're very DESTROYS of having
beaten.
That Normoyle voted right when he
voted against Clark is shown by the
communication which has been given
him by citizens generally, by the fact
that he has been honored by his party
with a nomination and by the fact that
members of the legislature who accept
ed Clark's brides have been generally
condemned on returning home from
Helena. That Mr. Normoyle voted right
in supporting house bill 1872 is shown by
the fact that not only the Standard
but the Butte Miner and the Butte In
ter Mountain urged the passage Of that
bill, rejoiced at its passage and COM
mended the legislators who voted for
it. AS the Butte papers commended
Normoyle for this action it leaves his
opposition to Clark as the only ground
for their spite.
If a man is to be marked for defeat
because he refused a bride of thousands
of dollars offered him for his vote for
senator, then let that be the issue.
Make the fight on him if you please,
make it as vindictive and as hard and
as INSCRIPTIONS as you please On
bringing it to a test as to whether Nor
moyle did right or wrong in refusing
the bride he will be elected by a ma
jority so triumphant that even the
Miner and the Inter Mountain will be
forced to blush for opposing him.
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Baseball in a Bad Way.

~ HE National league base ball
season will begin on April IA
and close on October Is. 1t will
be a critical year in base ball history.
The internal dissensions among the
managers are violent and bitter. There
are ell sorts Of chickering's brols and
squabbles. Speaking of the meeting in
New York last week the New York
Herald says: THE playing schedule
for the coming season was taken up
yesterday, and, as usual, whenever the
delegates have anything to discuss,
there was a row. This one wanted such
and such date for his team, another
one opposed it, and so on Their angry
voices penetrated the corridor, and it
was little short of marvellous that they
did not make kindlng wood of the fur
nfture Every one in the cafe, when
at last the delegates appeared
after adjourning, marvelled that no one
showed any outward signs of a per-
sonal encounter. All the owners stead
lastly denied that the lie had been
passed, or that any attempt had been
made on the part of any one to draw a
pistol" The Louisville club was given
the worst of it in every conceivable
way, the object being apparently to
Gust it from the league. and that every
effort will be made to injure the Phila-
delphia club by certain clubs is GER
tain The Herald says the owners
seemed to view their ruffianly proceed
ings with broad smiles, taking it all as
huge joke. Yet they are the ones to
whom the public looks to enact rules for
clean base bail. 1t is not to be Won
dered that players resort to dsorderly
methods when their owners indulge in
the same kind of tactics. Instead of the
ball players killing the game it would
appear that some of the owners are the
real culprits.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer observes
that no flags f1oated at half-staff: there
was no weeping, no waiing and no
crashing of teeth over the announce
ment that the tmisl mana cement of the
Cleveland base ball team had been
transferred to st. Louis. OF course the
team controlled by the ex-Clevelanders
will follow them, and that will cause
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BATTLE AT THE BRIDGE.
The American Advance Has Been Won
uu. derfulIy Rapid.

The American Advance Has Been Won
~~ derfnlIy Rapid.
New York. March 3o-A dispatch to the
Herald from Manila Wednesday saws:
The army's advance to-day had covered
more than twn ni,es before anv resistance
was offered. Insurgents have been found
with their threats cut. THIS is taken to
Indicate that thew were punished for re-
fusng to fight It is now believed that
the insurgents faith In Aguinaldo is de-
stroyed. Aguinaldo with his family, Is
said to be preparing to flee from Malo-
los
General Macarthur is making ready an
armored railroad car for future onera-
tions.
At 6 o'clock this "wednesday, morning
the flying column. with the al artillery
and the Montana and Kansas volunteers
on the left ar the railroad and the Penn
syIvania. South Dakota and Nebraska
volunteers on the south started Far 20.
cave across two miles If Oman tield The
insurgents began ia Are Immediately and
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A BITTER ATTACK.
Topper Arraigns the Liberals for Incom-
potency.


potency.
Ottawa, Ont, March 30.--In the house
of commons to-day Sir Hilbert Topper,
conservative, made bitter attack upon
the government for the manner in
which it had conducted things at Wash
ington before the high commission. He
said that the Canadian commissioners
were not acquainted with the subjects
under discussion and thus they allowed
the United States commissioners to take
advantage of them, 1t was enough, he
exclaimed, to bring the blush Of shame
to the face of any Canadian when he
considered the position taken by the
United States commissioners in regard
to the Alaskan boundary. The reason
for the United States taking that 'ex-
traordinary attitude, he said. was ow-
ing to the speeches delivered by mem
bers of the liberal party in past years.
Sir Hilbert devoted the greater part of
a lengthy speech to attacks on the pol
icy of the government in the Yukon,
where. he said, the government had al
lowed its agents to terrorize and rob the
people.
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Killed and Wounded.

Washington, March 30.-Under this date
Otis from Manila, forwards the follow
ing additional casualties March IS:
Killed-Second Oregon, company A: Pri-
vate Bert /. Clark.
Wounded-Company l: Captain II.
Wells. stomach, slight; Sergeant W.. w.
Wilson, right hand, slight: Private
Charles R. Robert. leg, slight; Private
Frank E. E. Adams, side, severe: Private
Benjamen F. Smith, jr., legs. severe.
Injured-Company X: Quartermaster
Sergeant Ed Colgan. leg. slight "
Company M-Private Edward Jaques,
hand, slight.
March %, Cd Oregon-Wounded: Pri-
vate Frank c. Woodruff, heel, moderate.
Company 6: E. G. Thornton. hand. mod
crate
First Observation-Disclosures James ]. Boyle.
First Nebraska-Wounded: First Ser
geant Robbins, Privates Bruce Macy.
Charles Knapp. Gustave Myer, Lewis Red,
Emery w. Grossman, Charles Fl. Youngs,
James Carroll, John A. Wuhoe, Corporal
Monroe Spence.
Twentieth Kansas-Major Wilder S.
Metcalf, Privates Henry Radclff, Walter
Kemp. William Ebert, Thaddeus G. AL
german. John E. Ballou, Walter Wyatt,
Sergeant Joseph DewaId
Private E. d. Hatfield wounded March
27, and since died
First Montana-Company A: Corporal
H. Tolbert. wrist. severe. Company H:
Soron s. Smith, arm, moderate; Private
Fred Wheaton, back, severe. Company
D: William Marshall, head, severe. Com
pany f.: Edward Bowen, eye, slight.
Tenth acknowledgement Thomas
Critchiield, Privates Patrick Cummings,
Ralph Downs. William West Archibald
Power. Alex Young.
Second Oregon-Company X: Private
Thomas c. Townsend. foot. slight.
Injured-Tenth Pennsylvania Private
Alex Coulter.
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Sailed for Manila.

San Francisco, March 30.-The trans
port steamer Charles Nelson sailed this
afternoon for Manila. She had 900 tons
of freight which is to be equally divid-
ed between the commissary and quar-
termaster's departments. Lieutenant
Alfred Aloe of the 18th United States
infantry was in command Of 66 re-
cruits, number Of whom are for the
hospital corps. The Nelson carried a
large number of collins, in which the
remains of American soldiers will be
brought back to this country.
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Mountain has managed to play on the

Mountain has managed to play on the
passions of any OF its followers until
it has really made them mad, we trust
that these quick-tempered people will
get over it in a hurry and be clothed
in their right minds from now until the
polls close.
Insofar" says the Inter Mountain,
''as the welfare of the municipality is
involved. nothing is to be gained
through the avenues of prejudice and
hate and passion" That's gospel truth;
we knew it all the time. How foolish
the Kirk-Clark organs We're to work
themselves into an absurd passion.
What did their hasty conduct lead them
to do? Simply this-they have flung
mud at men who are not in politics, as
sailed the Boston and Montana people,
ranted about the hill, raved about i'm
aginary ills, frightened a few of the
business men in Butte. That is what
they have done; how idle it all is! 1t is
gratifying to observe that at least the
Inter Mountain gives signs of return
ing reason 1t shall not surprise us if
that newspaper, making amends for its
too-hasty talk, gets around to the sens-
BILE confession, before Saturday night,
that, after all, Mccarthy is, by head
and shoulders, the better man for the
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For PhilippiEa Service.

Washington, March 3d. Governor
Stephens of Missouri called on the presi-
dent to day and voluntarily offered the
entire 9Th Missouri regiment, now at Ha-
vana, for service in the Philippines, to
be re-eniisted under the army organiza-
ton law, The president promised to give
consideration to the offer.
The 9th Illinois and several other vol
unteer regiments have expressed a will
lingness to remain in the service and go
to the Philippines if they be permitted to
retain the present organization intact with
the present officers in command
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Their Angry Passions.

T the city campaign draws to
a close" remarks the Inter
\ Mountain, every intelligent
citizen should lay aside the passions
engendered by Nhe contest"
1t has not seemed to us that the two
Kirk organs have managed thus far to
stir very much whitehead passion, out
side the boundaries of their own col
umns. 1t is possible, however, that
there are readers of these Two Clark
ticket newspa pers who have been weak
enough to take the Miner and the m
ter Mountain seriously. If any such
people there are they ought now to
pay heed to the Inter Mountains al-
vice; as they foolishly followed rha:
newspaper into the realm of unwar-
lanted excitement. their best policy is
to follow it back to the level that will
enable them to accept with becoming
calmness the defeat that will overtake
the Kirk ticket next Monday.
Surely. there is nothing in the pres
ent campaign, on its merits, that war
ranted appeals to passion or to preju-
dice. Sharp rivalry between the candi-
dates is righ. enough: a lively cam
paign in city election is healthful
thing, because it is proof of active in
terest among The masses in the man
agement of local affairs. 1t is true
that the Miner and the Inter Noun
tain have tried to thrust into this spring
campaign a good many matters that do
not belong there, but, as we judge of
the run of public opinion in Butte, this
effort has not been at all successful.
II, however, it is true that the Inter
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Ayers Desperate Fight.

From the Washington Times
Secretary Alger is both indignant and
alarmed. IT is intoleraae that officers I'M
der the control of the war department
should gather facts to convict the depart
ment of SO grave an 5ffense as the issue
of poisonous rations to the soldiers. Hence
this order restraints General Breckin-
ridge and all his suboranates from going
where they are not instructed to go--in
other words. from going where they can
obtain proofs to uphold the charges of
General Miles.
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about the time Mr. McKinley's suddenly
born notions about annexation and inn
perialism become unpopular. The notion
that 1t would be a good thing to acquire
territory in the Orient came like the
mushroom product of i night. There can
easily be reversal If popular opinion
inside of a year.
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Excuse for Another Grail.

Kiao Chou, March 20, via Shanghai
March 31.-The population of village
near I-tscho-fu G-chau-fu), recently at
tackled with guns a German officer
named Hanneman, a dragoman named
Mootz and a mining engineer named
Vorschulte. who were on a peaceful
journey to LtschC-fu. In the fight
which ensued several Chinese were
killed and others We're wounded, but the
Germans finally arrived here safely.
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Petition in Bankruptcy.

New York, March 30.--George E. d.
Todd of this city has filed petition in
bankruptcy, with liabilities of $248, SIG,
of which $15S,6SS are secured, and assets
of S. cash. He was partner in the
firm of l.. c. King & Co., importers of
merchandise and manufacturers of
spirit varnish, which firm made an as
signment a year ago.
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May Stop the Rush Cityward.

From the Kansas CITY Star.
If the formation of trusts continues
there will be rush to the farming lands
of the United States by men thrown out
of work by the combination of varied in
terests. Viewed in the light of the future,
this may not be an entirely bad outlook
for the nation. A laudholder and farmer
is good and stable citizen, largely indie
pendent of the ups and downs of specula-
ton. But the immediate effect of the cur
tailment of employment for the clerical
force of the country is apt to be serious.
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Will Demand Indemnity.

New Orleans, March 30.-Mayor Hunt
left for Honduras and Guatemala to-day.
He will demand So, 900 indemnity for the
Pears killing in Honduras, and the navy
may help to collect it. He will then so TO
Guatemala in the interests of the alleged
flibusters under arrest there. He cabIed
Il request for a stay of proceedings until
his arrival and the request was granted
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Supplies Abundant,

Washington, March 30.-The following
was received at the war department:
Manila. March 3O.-Subsistence supplies
excellent and abundant. Meats deterio-
rating in this hot climate are sold at pub
lie auction at high figures. Considerable
hard bread spoiled. VIII be some loss
Supplies in all other departments good.
Medical supplies abundant. OTIS.
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Need a Helping Hand.

From the Boston Globe.
General Manager Howard, who has
charge of the Cuban relief fund, says
that the condition Of the Cuban widows
and orphans is in the highest degree dis
tressing. There are many thousands of
these poor creatures wandering about
without homes or food or clothes to cover
them. Their future for good or for evil
is in the hands of the American people.
Thus does the white mans burden
broaden.
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The Gear as a Peace Promoter.

From the Minneapolis Journal
The czar. with his hands on the threats
of his prosecuted Finnish subjects, is
nice person, truly, to pose as a peace
maker, especially as he is just now gloat-
ing over the occupation by his troops of
large segment of Chinese territory and is
intent upon Selling more The most that
can be done for international peace at The
Hague is to secure an agreement to sub
nit several kinds of International disputes
to an international tribunal of arbitra-
ton.
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Decided to Ship 1t Back.

Paris, March 31.--The morning papers
publish a dispatch from Havana asserting
that Major General Brooke, governor
general of Cuba. is in a quandary regard
ing the distribution of the S3,C000o0 offered
by the United States government to the
Cuban troops and has decided to ship the
coin back to the United States.
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Ouay's offense uluntly Stated.

From the Memphis Commercials Appeal.
1t Is impossible for Quay to escape the
charge of having ssolen the interest on
the large sums he and his son borrowed.
He compelled the stale treasurer to put
the funds where he desired them put. and
for the privilege OF having state funds
the Peoples bank was to allow him to use
them without paying anything for their
use. The whole arrangement was an un-
lawful conspiracy and the confscation of
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. HE report of Rev. DR.. A. r
Beard, special commissioner of

~ HE report of Rev. DR.. A.. F.
Beard, special commissioner of
the American Missionary asso-
citation, on the condition of affairs in
Porto Rico tells the old old story of the
primitive state of things there existing.
1t is not only that the people are ignor-
ant and poor, they are-that is. nine
tenths of them--so Glow down that it
will take generation to raise them
even to an approximate state of civili-
cation in which moral and mental and
civic responsibility will mean anything
There is says the Philadelphia Press,
''of course no excuse for the absolute
neglect of the people which the Spanish
administration, lay and clerical. has
shown; but with prosperity and freedom
from exactions the United States should
be able to do much to ameliorate the
condition of the peasantry and the half
breeds, protecting them in the first
place from the so-called ruling classes,
and in the second place making men of
them. This will be slow work, but it
will not be FASTENED by indulging in
rose-colored views, and hence the cold
facts, such as Rev. DR.. Beard presents,
are better reading than tons Of gush"
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OUR TROOPS IN MALOLOS
Continued from Page one,

bination refrigerating and ice manufac-
turing plant for the government at Ma
Mia The bid of $195.162 by the Della
vergne Refrigeratinx Machine company
of New York was the lowest. There were
several other bids, including 1905, $40 by
Theodore o. vitter, Milwaukee. and $215,-
Gil by the Frick company of Waynes-
bOrO Pa ,
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WelI-Chosen Plutocratic Rendezvous.

From the Keokuk Constitutfon-Dem
Jekyl island is the most appropriate
place on earth for the meeting of the re-
publican bosses to settle the future course
of the republican party. None but mill
ionares can own a foot of its sacred soil,
1t is the magnificent Fairgrounds of the
wealthy people of the country, principally
of Wall street. It, remains to be seen
what the rank and file of the republican
party intend to do about il.