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WHAT REPUBL ICAN RULE HAS
DONE FOR THE PORTO RICAN.
He Is S Suspicious of Us and Not Without Good Reason.

strangers. many of them unable to speak
the Spanish language. they had to SHIFT for
themselves. They had to travel at their
own expense and put up with all kinds of
inconvenience and some of them were
only paid a salary of $40 a month. and then
had to wait for their salary because the
people were unable to pay the taxes and
the school fund was therefore short.
There were formerly only two School
Supervisors in Porto Rico under Spanish
rule. They visited the schools about once
every two years, and IL the teachers were
all right politically they held their jobs.
II not the Supervisors reported them and
changes were made. Now there are six
teen Supervisors Of Education there, under
one general Superintendent. My district
contained forty-eight school,. and covered
an area of nearly 300 square miles. My
headquarters were at Vago Boja. an old
Spanish town of 5000 population.
Superintendent Victor Clark. when in
charge Of the schools there. endeavored to
introduce American ideas into the school
work. He introduced coeducation and other
novelties that filed the Porto Ricans with
horror. He was succeeded by George G.
Graw, who leaned more toward the Span
ish methods. Graw's idea was to adapt
himself. as far as practical, to the Span
ish customs in vogue and gradually drift
into the American system. He adopted the
native customs all right, but I have not
seen any of the gradual changing to the
American system"
was favorably impressed with Porto Rico,
but did not like the natives. He speaks
Spanish 1uently and was. therefore. at an
advantage on the island, for the natives
do not take kindly to any one who cannot
converse with them in their own language.
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acquainted with future Governor A. NJ.
pockery. then a struggling young physi-
clan.
Il recall a striking incident Of those days
illustrating Mr.. Dockery's decision of char
acter and capacity to act In an emergency
said Mr.. Wright to-day. while INDUCING in
some political "reminiscences Of a quarter
of u century back. l was a carrier boy on
the Chilllcothe Constitution and would set
type and roll the forms. etc. between
times. Dockery was then about % years
old. A man poked his head into the office
one afternoon and yelled out that Conn
had been shot and killed in one of the
salons. The announcement Of the assas-
%sination of the President wouldn't have
caused a greater furore. Conn was one of
the most prominent citizens of the town.
Everybody knew him, and most people liked
him.. He was of a rash disposition, how
ever, and made some enemies by his i'm
pulsiveness. He was one Of the old-time,
before-the-war Democrats. and had no use
for a negro except as a ervant. 1t seems
that the Marshal Of the town had entered
the saloon In company with q negro and
the two ranged themselves up at the bar
where Mr.. Conn was pouring out a glass
of whisky. Conn regarded the act as an
insult. and picked up the heavy decanter to
hurl it at the head Of the officer, when the
latter pulled out his revolver and shot Conn
dead. Owing to the prominence Of the par
ties to the difficulty and the tremendous
excitement suddenly aroused. there was a
marked hesitation on the part of the au-
thoritieS to act.
The victim Of the ARRAY lay stone dead
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they had corn bread and hard tack to eat,
that was his portion. He shared all their
trials and their Joys. He knew every menu
Der Of his brigade personally and made him
q comrade. This Is why they revere him..
A ~well-known politician who was a class
mate and friend of Eugene Field was a
visitor at the capital this week. Like all
who came closely in contact with the
charming personality Of the poet. he had
much to tell of his early association with
him. Field when a youth attended college
at the State University in Columbia. Mo.
Thu good people of that pretty college town
who remember back as far as the early
seventies can recount many interesting in
cidents of his career there as a student.
Though bright in the classics and a prodigy
in those parts of the college curriculum
that pertained to literature, he always
sighted as a drudgery mathematical and
scientific subjects.
The time that could have been devoted
to them Field spent in planning original
practical jokes, and writing college songs
and ~satirical verse on subjects that he
wished to caricature. Tales of his ready
wit and gift at repartee are often told in
Columbia by those who enjoyed his ac-
quaintance. At that time he was only Is
years old. but the then college paper, the
Missourian, which many students Of the
Missouri University. scattered over this and
other States. will remember, gave him OPP
portunity to exploit the peculiar inherent
genius that afterwards made him world
known. Its olumns each issue bristled with
Eugene Fieldism. Not, to be sure, the
finished productions that came of his ma
turity, but the effervescent boyish ideas
that found vent in verso of no mean order.
Many a college professor who had incurred
Eugene Fields displeasure had his pecu-
l~iarities or shortcomings celebrated in
rhyme in the bogus programme. which
was a feature Of the college life of the
State University years ago. One Of the best
stories 1 nave ever heard of Fields ready
wit was told me by the gentleman in ques-
ton. Field had returned from his Christ
mas holidays with a fine watch, a Gift from
his father. He was naturally proud of the
timepiece and consulted it much oftener
than was necessary. His frequent exhibit
7 ton of it attracted the attention Of all the
members of the class. One facetious young
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Special Correspondence of The Sunday Republic.
Joplin, Mo-, Aug. 24.-The people of Porto
Rico hate and distrust the Americans. ac-
cording to the report Of a Government Of
fetal, a Supervisor of Public Instruction in
Porto Rico, whose duties compelled him to
travel constantly and to mix with the pec-
ple of that island and hence gave aim
ample opportunity for ascertaining the tue
state of feeling existing there. This super
visor of Porto Rican schools Is Mr.. Du val
G.. Crayens, formerly of Fort Smith, Ark,
who is visiting in Joplin. where one CT the
Porto Rican teachers Is spending a Vaca-
ton.
.The Porto Ricans hate us Americans be-
cause they feel that they have been %unjustly
+re.ted NV the American Government" said
Mr.. Cravens. "They do not understand
some of the policies adopted by the present
administration and are very much dissat-
is,ed with existing conditions. The masses
Of the people there, who are initerate. are
opposed to American sovereignty. me pet
ter class of Porto Ricans do not want in
dependence. but full American citizenship
with all Of its rights and privileges. Ihey
want to enjoy equality under our laws the
same as is enjoyed by the other American
citizens, and are opposed to taxation with
out representation. Some of them have said
to me:
"'No one who can see beyond the emu OIL
his nose wants independence. but all want
fair treatment at the hands of the American
Government
"All classes object to a tariff between the
island and the United States. They say
that they were promised free trade with
America. but nave been basely deceived.
When they talk Of this they become fu-
rious. and they hate Americans more Bit
terly than ever the Spaniards did. l have
talked to them, in their native tongue. all
over the island, and 1 know their true
feeling. As a rule, they will talk more
freely to a person who converses with them
in Spanish than when it has to be done
through an interpreter.
1.-The Porto Ricans claim that General
Miles promised them citizenship while he
was on the island. but that instead of that
they are still governed by the old Spanish
laws, modified and changed somewhat by
military laws. A civil government was in
augurated May 2. but the military forces
are still In control under the civil govern
ment, and the people are not blessed with
much Of a change.
THE Spaniards are the big and owners
generally, and they alone get the benefit
Of the tariff which is being imposed upon
Porto Rico. Ever since the cyclone of a
year ago the masses of the people have
been very poor, their coffee and other
profitable crops having been destroyed.
Most of them rave not even been able to
pay their taxes. and with these hardships
crushing them dow they are in a position
to feel more bitter than ordinary because
of the additional burdens which the tariff
imposes upon them.
1.-THE American teachers have had a pref
ty hard time in Porto Rico. Going there as
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pie marveled greatly-they had not
dreamed Of such things being possible.
Men who have found a Republic and
left an Empire live numerously in his
tory. If there is one thing plainly
taught by the record Of past days it is
that Republics are easily betrayed to
Empire. The ease of the betrayal has
always been due to the peoples refusal
TO believe that betrayal was contem-
plated. We should not miss the signifi-
canoe of these teachings, fellow-Ameri-
cans. Events big with destiny and
epochal changes Of policy are coming
swiftly these days.
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A NOT MERITED.

In selecting a workingman's dinner
pail as its emblem the Mckinley ad-
ministration aims t. attract attention 10
the prosperity which has prevailed in
the United States during the past four
years.
Mckinley and his administration did
not cause the present prosperity. Polit-
ical economists declare that periods of
depression occur at more or less regular
intervals, in the most unexpected way.
arising from a loss Of confidence in
business, a boarding of capital and a
disinclination to use it in commerce and
manufacture. There have been such
passing flurries in business during Nc
Kiniey's term, but they have not been
serious.
To hail Mckinley therefore as 1.-The
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miss finally wrote Field a note and tossed
it over to him.. 1t read:
Dear Mr.. Field-Please tell US the time by your
new watch.
Without hesitation Field turned the note
over and on the blank side wrote:
You ask me- the time. I answer in rhyme.
Though the question Is asked in derision:
It's between nine and ten. Don't eek me again
For my watch doesn't run with precision.
Colonel Jacob T. Child of Richmond &C.
casionally makes a trip to the capital. He
was at one time active in Missouri politics.
a member of the Missouri Legislature in
the seventies. and still takes a keen in
terest in matters political. During one of
Cleveland's administrations he was Min
lister to Siam. The Colonel Is known to ev-
cry Missourian, and has q store or rem
iniscences about politicians Of the past and
present that is always interesting. On one
of his visits here not long since, he told
me some stories about Ex-Governor Robert
NJ. Stewart that have passed beyond the
knowledge Of most men, and are not known
to the present generation.
Governor Bob Stewart, Bourbon and
Democrat. was the most picturesque char
acter who ever occupied the executive man.
sion of Missouri. He defeated Major James
8. Rollins for Governor in 1851. Governor
Stewart was from st. Joseph. He was a
New Yorker. but had moved West at an
early age. Inc atmosphere Oh tue eiets
East he had left behind and the sentiment
Of the West and of Missouri. he had thor
oughly imbibed. Many are the stories told
Of this eccentric and erratic Governor.
One of his first acts after his Inaugural
ton was to have his private secretary, Doc
tor Peabody. I'LL out a pardon for William
Lansston, a prisoner In the penitentiary
from St. Joseph, convicted of aiding in the
whipping to death of a worthless character
in that town.. Going to the penitentiary he
called for Langston. TIL old man was en-
ployed in digging a well. Stewart went to
the brink and called him up. AS he stepped
out Of the bucket the Governor slapped him
on the back. exciaiming: Billy, let me
greet you as a free man for all time" and
handed him his pardon. Langston had be-
friended Stewart when he was an invalid
and had no friends.
It was the custom Of Governor Stewart to
question the c~onvicts in the penitentiary as
to Why they were imprisoned. The inyarta-
BILE answer was an avowal Of innocence and
of wrongful conviction. Finally. in his
rounds he encountered one prisoner, who
said he was imprisoned for horse stealing.
Are you guilty" asked the Governor.
"Well, Governor, I guess I am: i took the
horses" rejoined the man IN stripes.
Get right out Of this penitentiary,". Gov
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CANAL ROUTE UNCHANGED.
Nicaragua Anxious for the Water.
way to Be Constructed.

New York, Aug. S.-General P. Alexander,
who was appointed by President Cleveland
as arbitrator in the boundary dispute be-
tween Nicaragua and Costa Rica, has Just
returned from those countries on the COM
pletion of his mission. An interesting feat
ure Of General Alexander's work lay In the
fact that his 1abOrs on the boundary Ques-
tons were the cause of a close survey of
the line Of the proposed Nicaragua Canal.
He said that he did not think the commits
sion now preparing a report would advise a
new route.
While. disclaiming definite knowledge on
the subject. he was inclined to think that a
proposition from the Nicaraguan Govern
ment to ours had already been made. He
believed that rather than not have the canal
built, the NicarasuaI Government would ac-
cede to almost any terms made by the
United States.
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The %ImperfaIixt.

Filled with the greed of gold and lust of land,
OF bloody sway at weaker peoples cost.
With shame's foul stain he seeks the flag to
brand,
And pay in slaves for Freedoms honor lost:
The cry of subject races in despair
Would form our patriot anthems undertone,
And on his own race, breathing Freedoms air,
He fain would cast the shadow of a throne.
Mad with the cream Of Empire. he tears down
The fabric of a government sublime.
Freedoms crown jewel. torn from Empires
crown,
The sign and pledge of Freedom for all time;
Ana on his children's heads he would let fall
The curse his fathers blood from him withdrew
Selling. for Empire. Freedom. honor. all
To which his patrio; ancestors stood true.
RIPLEY d. SAUNDERS.
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Notes of Amusement.

The production of 'Adonis,'' with Henry E.
Dixey in the leading part, which Manager Gum
pertz inaugurated last week at Delmar Garden.
continues its run this week, making the second
v eek of the attraction. The summer garden pub
lie is enthusiastic over DiXey. Taken altogether.
the revival is far above anything the manage
ment of the Delmar has attempted this sum-
ner. Success in past productions has led Mana
ger Gumpertz to try new things in the present
favor. The costuming and mounting are the best
of the season and the work OF the chorus is en-
tiIely satisfactory. Messrs. Clark, Sloan and
3, gley. with their fellow-players. have excel
lent chances for good work. After "Adonis''
comes the Lady Slavey.' with several new peo-
pie in the cast. Manager Gumpertz has engaged
several prominent stars for the production.
Vaudeville continues in vogue at the Subur-
ban Garden. There is an entire change Of pro-
eramme. although two acts, the Nawns and Flat
and Sutherland. hold over from last week. The
service to-day. and offer a new Irish comedy
sketch that is said to be quite as good as lone
Touch of Nature" Flat and Sutherland. sing
ers. dancers and instrumentalists. will find no
difficulty in putting on a new act. One of the
new Corners is jolly Josephine Eastman. She
still has the three little pickaninnies and an
EounCes some new songs for this engagement.
Another good act ID the Everett Trio. jugglers
and hand balancers. Fred Warren stays for an
other week, as does AL Blanchard and his quar-
tet.
The Moullere Sisters. athletes. are retained at
Forest Park Highlands another week. Both Of
them received their training in Europe, and have
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SAYS CARTER OWES HIM,
Former Clerk Attaches Ex-Cap-
tain's Savannah Property.

Savannah. Ca, Aug. 25-Michael A. Com
nally. formerly clerk to Captain o. NJ. Car
ter, now serving q sentence in the Fort
with Government work. has attached the
property in Savannah Of the latter and q.
D, Greene and the Gaynors for an alleged
engineer officer is indebted to him in the
sum of s.. 493.
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Men who have as large a capacity for
resisting subjugation as the Filipinos
have shown should have enough capaci-
ty for self-government to make ground
less the fears which imperialists pre-
tend theY feel.
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Before the Powers accuse the Chinese
Imperial Government Of using the
Boxer outbreak as a cloak for anti-for.
eign operations, they should purge them
selves of the charge that they used their
Ministers peril as a cloak for land
grabbing operations.
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After emptying the water out of the
Compton Hill reservoir and scraping out
the silt and sediment the next step
should be docking the municipal ship Of
state and securing off the barnacles.
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And said ". B. Carr further
that the number of copies returneu 1nIv
ported unsold during the month of July
Was 'i' pt .@ W. B. CARR.
sworn to and subscribed before ine 'N's
s1st day of July, 1900. ,,su
Notary Public, City Of st. Louis. Mo. nay
term expires April 26. 1901.
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When a well-meaning paper says,
'For War, Teddy, Taxation and Trusts,
vote for William Mckinley" it over
looks the main issue. The people OBJ
ject to Mckinley because they object to
changing the Republic into a colony
farming, subject-ru1ing Empire.
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Hanna bleeding the trusts in New
Jersey and Roosevelt attacking them
elsewhere seems to he a real instance Of
changing issues according to geOgraph-
ical eXigencieS.
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Hanna went to New Jersey, the home
of the trusts, in person because Roose-
welt might have frightened them into a
belief that the antitrust plank in the
Republican platform meant what it
said,
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Washington crossed the Delaware to
establish the Republic and Mckinley
seems inclined to cross the Rubicon to
change that Republic into an Empire.
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What China wants.

WI Ting Fang in North American Review.
China does not ask for much. She has
no thought Of territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
of disqualification In any form. All she
wants Is gentle peace, sweet friendship.
helpful exchange Of benefits, and the rem.
erous application of that Golden Rule
which people Of all nations all creeds
should delight to follow.
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U L CIRCULATION.

". B. Carr, Business Manager OF the ~:
Louis Republic. being duly sworn, says tnae
the actual number Of full and complies
copies Of the daily and Sunday RepuoliS
nrinted during the month of July, isuo, an
In regular editions. was as per scheeu'e
AalnH.
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Special Correspondence OF The Sunday Republic.
Macon. Mo-, Aug. 23.-Mr. Joseph X.
Wright. who. twenty years ago. managed
the Jamesport Daviess County, Gazette.
and later the Chillicothe Constitution, is
here this week on business. Before en-
barking as a journalist. Mr.. Wright lived
in Chillicothe. and while a boy there was
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-26

Sending to the Philippines the troops
raised for service in China seems to be
a case Of obtaining troops under false
pretenSeS.
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Columbia. Mo-, Aug. 2a-The Missouri
State University summer school for 1870
closed to-day. The courses consisted Of BIZ
ology. by Doctor George Lefevre; chemistry,
by Doctors w. G. Brown and g. Calvert:
English. by Doctor E. A. Allen; Greek, by
Doctor Newcomer; history, by Professor E.
NJ. Violet, and Latin. under the direction
of Doctor j. c. Jones.
Eighteen States and Territories and sew
e~nty-six of Missouri's counties were repre-
scented in the enrolment.
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LOOK FORWARD. NOT BACK.


st. Louis's growth during the past
ten years, as shown by the 1900 census,
has been that of a good, solid cOnServa-
tive city of homes. This is what ST.
Louis has always prided herself on
being, and no city can have Il higher
ambition.
Few men who. had made a study of
rates Of population increase accepted as
eve tolerably correct the claims made
just before the census that st. Louis
had a population approaching 100000.
This population would have presumed a
gain Of "a per cent since 1890. Nothing
that st. Louis had done during the past
ten years would warrant a belief in
such a gain. There had been no desper-
ate effort to swell population by an in
fiux of new residents and there had
been no anneXations. Chicago made
such efforts and anneXations and yet
her gain was only "a per cent.
st. Louis has given an edifyins ex-
ample to other American cities by her
conduct following the receipt of the CEN
sus eturns. st. Louis did not groan and
tear its hair over the returns. st. Louis
did not, like Chicago, demand a new
count, nor, like Cincinnati, begin a pri-
yate count to impugn the accuracy of
the census figures. \ boom, no col
lapse" has always been st. Louis's
guide to conduct.
st. Louis is now ready to follow the
suggestion made at the recent census
meeting Of the Business Mems League
that attention be turned early and con-
stantIy to the census Of 1910. The next
decade will be important for st. Louis
because it will see the Louisiana Pur-
chase Worlds Fair. If we use judy
ment and foresight during this time re-
suits as lasting as they are important
should follow.
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Advance Agent Of Prosperity" and to
make the workingman's dinner pail his
emblem Is extracting credit from purely
fortuitous circumstances. AS Il matter
of fact, the workingman has not derived
from the prosperity which prevailed
during McKinley's term the full meas
ure of benefit which he should have de-
rived. On him fell the full force of the
blight of the trusts. He was bled by
them at every turn. They robbed him
waking or sleeping, eating or drinking.
working or playing, living or dying, and
a coffin trust waited for him at the
end.
Had not the trusts headed him off and
held him up at every turn in the road
the workingman might in the four Yeas
of prosperity have been able to accumu
late something in addition to his dinner
pail. He might have something laid
away for a rainy day. might have saved
something from the plenty that pro-
duced the seven fat kline to feed the
seven lean kline that We're sure to come.
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BESIDES BEING A CARRIER

BESIDEo bE1HNo
ratified was remarked afterwards. 1t 10
this steady, iron demeanor of his that has
stood him so well in hand during many OF
the crucial tests that occurred In his after
life. 1t made him at hat time one OF the
most popular physicians in the county. and
his practice grew rapidly.