The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-08-31
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHISGTON, d. C., August eth.

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WAsHISGToN, d. C., August eth
N;r. EDTToE:-If Mr.. Mckinley has no
understanding with the powers operating
| in China, his actions are difficult to cx-
plain Although advised Ivy some of the
longest headed men in his party. includ-
ing the United States Minister to China
/ 70 take adVanta &c Of tue opportunity to
| withdraw our troops from China, now
/ that the American citizens who were in
| peril are safe, and leave those nations
which are hungry for Chinese territory to
settle the squabhe among themselves, he
| has declined 10 do so. Severa! days ago,
when it was announced that all the troops
| now on the way TO China would be sent
| to Manila, il was thought that he nten ded
| to follow that advice; but within forty
| eight hours it has been officially announced
| that the troops i'll China would be kept
| there. and, since then, the significant an
nouucement was made that the troops
which wouid go to Manila would not go
|
home but to reinforce them, and that no
| troops are to be sent home until further
notice. If that doesn't indicate an inten-
ton on the part of Mr.. Mckinley to play
a further hand in the Chinese game, what
| does it indicated
Evidence continues to multiply showing
that Illinois viii be found in the demo
cratic column this year. After expressing
| his opinion to that effect. Mr.. W. II.
| Broad, of Chicago, said: "Thcrc are a
number Of reasons for believing this but
| am convinced that opposition to imper-
! alsm will have a greater influence in the
undoing of the republicans than. any of
the other issues. There is big g, rman
| vote in Illinois. especially in Chicago, and
| the Germans, almost to Il man. are opposed
to the imperialiStic policy Of the present
administration. There is also very bit
ter factional fight among Illinois republi-
cans, and although it doesn't come much
to She surface, the feeling is so strong
that it will be impossible for them to make
! progressive and harmonious campaign
in the State Opposition to the trusts will
also lose the republican ticket good
many votes, and with the labor troubles
| in Chicago ana all the suffering that has
resulted from them the republican orators
will find it difficult to convince the work
ingman there that the country is blessed
with an abundance of prosperity"
That the democratic leaders are thor
nnghly posted on what the republicans are
doing and are meeting every republican
move is made apparent by the following
remarks of one of them: "a gainst the
| prosperity statistics, which are being man
| ufactured by the Census Bureau, we viii
| place some hard facts which indicate that
many classes Of men who have TO depend
Oh their labor for q living are not pros
porous Take, for instance, the anthracite
coal miners. The coal trust has cut down
the number Of work days so that miners
are expected to live on three days wo1k i
| week. This means that they can barely
| exist. In New England, some of the cot
ton mills arc shut down and others arc
running or half time. The silk mills OF
| New jersey are running on short time
| and enc of the big silk manufacturing
companies has, within the last week, gone
| into bankruptcy. We are looking for the
scare which the republicans have init.
mated they viii give the country, that at
tention may be called to the money ques
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small volume If trading in Wall street in
dictates fear there that a money squeeze
may be impending. When the West be
| gins The moving OF its crops and calls upon
the East for money to do it with, and, il
coincidentaiiy. a Russian or any Other
| European loan should lie placed, making
drafts upon our gold supply, very littl,
artificial encouragement would produce
the scare which think the republicans
contemplate"
Representative Eandiver, of Missouri
has been investigating a cost of govern.
ment by Commission, under the Mckinley
administration. Owing to max a systems
Of bookkeeping he has only partially sue
ceeded. but he shows that more than two
and half millions of dollars have been
directly appropriated for commissions
not including the Postal Commission, the
California Debris Commission, or the
Mississippi River Commission. That the
| expenses of these various commissions
have been much larger than the direct ap.
preparations is certain, but the Treasury
gives no details. They are included in
items which appear on the books as fol
| National Defense,' Miscellaneous" and
| Emergency, and which Aggregated total
expenditure for the last fiscal year alone
of within a fraction oftwenty two million
dollars.