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lle DlllS lHdL nave D6en introduced
into the Pennsylvania legislature for
no other purpose than to be we'll paid
for killing them. Andrews is credited
with being the author of several of
these pinch" bills, and the desperate
efforts he is making to break into the
legislature again makes 1t look as If
he has still more such bills up his
sleeve on which he is anxious to real
ize. Despairing of being able to secure
an election again in his own county
he demands nomination in Allegheny
city, where the Quay element is so
strong as not to gag at anything, no
matter how unreasonable or offensive.
The large number of suicides report
ed among the American soldiers in the
Philippines is evidence that the task
undertaken by the imperialistic Mr..
Mckinley is anything but pleasant to
those who must do the numbering and
pillaging necessary to subdue the lib
erty loving Filipinos. AS many as
three suicides have been reported in
single week, and it Is said that nearly
500 have gone insane. Those who are
responsible for the war in the Philip
pines, those who agreed to pay Spain
$40, 900, 900 for the privilege of complet-
ing the butchery and destruction she
had begun, are the fellows who should
be compelled to shoulder arms and
expose their well fed bodies in the
swamps of Luzon. If Mckinley and
his coterie of imperialists who declare
that they and God are doing a noble
work were called upon to chase Fill
pinos or be chased by Filipinos, the
would n a alnCp N q n n
If the time ever comes when men will
stand on their rights and refuse to be-
come tools to shoot down their fellows
at the command of some so-called supe-
rior, war will forever cease, for the
men who make wars and profit by
them never fight its battles.
The Quay case drags its weary way
through the senate, and will be side
tracked If excuses enough can be
framed for postponing it from time to
time until the end of the session. There
are too many senators who lack the
moral courage to vote as their judg-
ment, their conscience, their constit-
uents and their constitution dictate, If
it come to point where they must de-
clare either for Quayism or against it.
They dislike to stultify themselves il
they can avoid it, and hence would like
to see the case go over without being
compelled to take stand to upset the
precedents of a century. There are
some Democrats who, acting on the
principle that birds of feather are
expected to flock together, will vote
to seat Quay, corrupt as he is known to
be. Several are suspected of having
come under the influence of that potent
argument on which Quay has always
depended to help him out of his diff
culties, criminal and otherwise. 1t is
refreshing to find a senator who looks
at matters from sensible standpoint
and proposes to stand by his ideas Of
right Senator Teller declares it is in
decent to vote one day to deny man
a seat and the next give admission to
another on the same credentials. He
thinks that after all the precedents of
a century on this question it ought to
be regarded as settled. What respect
he asks, can the country have for q
body that has no respect for itself?
A year ago lumber was s12 a 1000
feet; now it is $1S. The increase in
the cost of production is nothing; the
increase in profit to the lumber trust
to the house builder is SO per cent.
Such is the Mckinley plan for encour-
aging people to build and own houses.
Pennsylvania Argus.
Why should we treat the Pacific ISL
ands, 1000 miles from our coast, as
American territory? Why should we
discriminate thus, in defiance of all
precedent, practice, promises and the
constitution of the United States?-
Chicago Inter-Ocean, Rep.
The insults and battling which Mr..
Mckinley had to suffer in his policy
of expansion" show in actual prac-
t!ce what was clear In theory from the
beginning-that protection goes with
expansion about as we'll as strychnine
goes with beefsteak.-New York Even
ing Post.
If the people of this country wish to
get rid of the trusts they must first get
rid of Hanna, Mckinley and Griggs,
who are owned, body, boots and
breeches. by the trusts. With presi-
dent in the White House who will an