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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02
A Disgrace to America.

fFroni the Atlanta CoEsttution-Dem.l
The proposition does not even possess
the merit of honesty The suggestion that
the tax be imposed for only two years is a
confession that it is blackmail under form
of law, holding up of an innocent people
by a highwayman. aided and abetted by
the United States Government. If the tax
were to be imposed as perpetuity, hon
csty might be claimed, but the offer to
make it temporary is full proof that there
is beneficiary held out waiting for the
spells. Was ever a more Infamous raid
made upon the offerings of charity? Were
ever a people more outraged than the ISL
anders who welcomed the. United States
flag? History fails to chronicle such
case, and If the scheme of taxation is car
ried through it will be lasting stigma
upon the American name.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

From the New York Journal)
Suppose William J. Bryan had said six months
ago:
81 had dream last night. l dreamed that
Mckinley revived the Iesd and decayed Clay
ton Bulwer treaty and made treaty CIV
ing all the powers Of Europe the right to use
the Nicaragua Canal to attack our coasts.
dreamed that he signed a Currency bill which
not only established the gold standard, but
loaded it down with an arrangement for making
the bondhoiders a present Of $50, 100000 in cash
and perpetuatins the national debt for the profit
OF the banks Finally | dreamed that he de
clared it to be our plain duty to give free trade
to Porto Rico and then ate his own words at
the command OF the trusts
Would not ais friends have advised medical
treatment for incipient deirium?
No Presidential candidate ever had sucI run
of luck as Mr.. Bryan is having today.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02
The Connecticut opinion.
fFrom tfs Hartford cOurpnt-Rep.l

(FTom the Hartford Courant-Rep.)
There is something very significant in
those resolutions of the New Haven Cham
Der of Commerce, protesting against a
tariff upon Porto Rican products. That is
large and representative body OF bust
ness men. made up without regard to pol
tiles. 1t was widely known that such res
olutions were to come up, and yet there
was not an adverse vote. We must admit
that the sentiment of the New Haven bust
ness men reflects the general sentiment of
the State. as far as we have tested it. The
message of President Mckinley. a recog-
nized leader of protection, advocating free
Porto Rican trade as a matter of justice.
set the drift of thought all that way. and
things are not especially different row
from their condition when the message
was read and received with applause in
Congress. The feeling is widespread that
We owe it to these people not to choke
them to death with our embrace of well
come.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02
The Pre-iden,,. Downfall.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal--Dem)
In December last the Republican party,
speaking through its President. who owed
his Observation-Disclosures may be true Of
his election-to his zeal for protection.
said it was the plain duty of this couu-
try to give free trade to Porto Rico. Now
political exigencies may change. Policies
must necessarily be modified to meet
changing conditions. But expediency does
not change the moral law The Ten Com
mandments will not bulge A plain
duty" in December is plain duty in Feb
ruary. The fear that an honest discharge
of this duty might change the vote of
Connecticut or some other State next No
vember has nothing to do with the obliga-
ton. The President has once or twice
admitted that he has been coerced into
doing certain things by the compelling
force of the Almighty. But ''let no man
say when he is tempted he is tempted of
God; for God can not be tempted with
evil. neither tempteth He any man. But
every man is tempted when he is drawn
away of his own lust and enticed." No
man is tempted of God to disregard plain
duty. Nothing can be clearer than that.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

President Mckinley. his manager. Mr..
Hanna, the oligarchy of the monopolies
which controls both, and the poems in Con-
gress, the property of the combination,
have shown themselves totally unfit for
the task. The Democracy now has a chance
to prove its ability to essay the great and
November it should be the sole ambition
in life of every American who reyeres the
Constitution; who contemns the shameless
alliance between the Republican bosses
and the trusts. publicly exposed on
inhabitants of the colonies acquired as
a result of the Spanish war, shall come
flag as free men, and not as slaves, TO
bring about reform IN existing conditions
in the only way that ii can be accomplished,
namely, by evicting the Hon. William Nc
Kinley from the White House and Install
ing in his place a Democratic President
pledged to defend the Constitution as well
as to execute the laws; pledged to treat
all Americans alike; pledged to exercise
the great powers of his high Office him
self, instead of putting them in commits
sion for the benefit of trusts; and pledged
to be an American first and partisan
afterward. AS matters stand today, no
one need doubt that the man who will be
called upon to accept and assume these
duties and responsibilities is William ].
Bryan.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

(FFom the indianapolis Journal-Rep9
The Journal has already stated the
reasons why in its opinion. the bill should
not be passed. Those reasons relate to the
constitutionality. the Justice, the fairness.
the wisdom and the expediency Of the
measure. All the arguments in favor of it
are based on sordd and mercenary con-
siderations which should have no place in
the policy OF great nation toward the peo-
PIE of newly acquired territory. The bill
should not be passed at all. and the two
years proposition does not help it any.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02
A HARVARD FACULTY DIARY.
The Professors VIII Prepare One tt
Re Read In 1925.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, March During
the month of March all the members of the
faculty at Harvard will be required to
write out. in specially prepared books. in
detail, their daily acts. These records will
consist of a delineation of their literary
and scientific studies. historical. and bio
graphical researches. their personal rela-
tions with the students. the surroundings
of their home life. their individual con-
ception and personal impressions of cur
rent and collegiate subjects: in fact. max
ing their diary a mute confident OF all
their thoughts and actions.
These autobiographies will be collected
at the end of the month and sealed and
placed in the Harvard Library. In 1925. il
any Of the faculty has previously died. his
literary executors may have access to tho
memoranda
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02
THE PORTO RICO INFAMY.

Since the cesson Porto Rico principal
she had long enjoyed and tariffs have been
against e products Spanish sovereignty
Inc markets of Spain closed
~ "h the commerce of ali nations subjected The island
ou "hleh used TO buy her
no" imposes the same duties these products from
any other country entering has
free intercourse with Spain and compensang
DEMENT'S In this market Her coffee
by people, and therefore
of her chief products markets of the United States
should be opened her products plain duty to abolish
all tariffs between the United Porto Rico
her products marke-Pesent M-Kn
lev's to
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02
Colonial Rights.

(From the Baltimore American-Rep)
There should be no discrimination; Porto
Rico should be made to feel that her in
terests are identical with our own. This
cannot be done by raising a tariff barrier
between her and this country. The recon-
mendations made several months ago by
President Mckinley. Secretary Root, and
Governor General Days were made after
fullest investigation and careful thought
They were then the wisest, considering all
conditions. The true manhood of the ma
ton, considering first the good of the peo-
pie of Porto Rico, fails now to comprehend
how in so short a time, those recon-
mendations can be said to have been err
foneous and opposed to the best interests
Of all concerned.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

tFrom the BaItimors HeEaId-Rep.)
In justice to the people of Porto Rico
and in recognition CT their reasonable
claims upon the generosity of the United
States, it is TO be hoped that the Senate
will resist the imposition of a duty. The
population of the island was led to expect
liberal treatment. and was induced to well
come American control by promises which.
if not very explicit. are none the less
binding. Having lost the Spanish markets
as a result of the war, Porto Ricans may
rightfully look to us for assistance.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

An American citizen-that is, citizen
of that part of the United States known as
Hawaii-has begun suit in the Court of
Claims to recover duties on goods brought
having been illegally exacted in violation
of the Constitution. Here is another case
which may constitute a test. But in the
present state of political affairs it is to
be feared that matter may not be reached
before the Presidential election.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02
When Did Spain Do Worse +.

(Frorn the Chicago Jourral-Iad)
What did Spain ever do to the present in
habitants of Porto Rico that was worse
than the things the tobacco ring and the
Sugar Trust. through a lot of servile Con-
gressmen, are proposing TO do to them,
and to which William Mckinley, conscious
of his plain duty to quote his words,
seems willing to assent rather than embar-
rass his party? If that is the spirit in
which Porto Rico is to be governed, what
have the inhabitants OF the Philippine ISL
ands to hope for from submission to Amer
ican rule?
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02
MANSFIELD AT lHE PLAY.
He Witnessed Yesterdays Matinee
Production of .The Storm"

| Production of .'rhe Storm
| strange play. entitled THE Storm"
and based upon curious study in appre-
| hension. absorbed an extra-matinee au-
dience yesterday. afternoon at the Ma
tionai. The author of the tragedy is Alex
ander OstroTsky. and it was presented in
the course being given under the direc-
ton of George Peabody Eustis-
Theme. atmosphere. and programme
alike suggested the Russian training OF
the dramatist- The StorJi is a Gevsl-
opment in the heart of young woman, cut
of a sense of almoS. spCtleSS innocence.
first OF fear, then of temptation. then OF
apprehension lest she yield then OF yield
ing and finally of destruction. II is an
interpretive study of bad growth from
rich. good soil. The atmosphere main
tanned probably is due to many things,
but the chief factor is a curious haziness
or Indebtedness which enereles several
Of the characters. The piece much resem-
bles a drawing for fresco-some of the
figures merely are outlined, while the two
or three chief ones are produced IN de-
tail Only in this production the landscape
is Russian and even the outlined figures
wear carefully executed Russian cos
tunes. As for the programme, it included
three English words and a dozen like
"Ivaniteh" or "kabanova.'
like that OF Hawthorne's elf-chiid in THE
Scarlet Letter" Chance has united her
with a man in whom neither she nor any
one else can find much to admire. In the
neighborhcod is the nephew of a rich
merchant and to him she has given her
love. The author brings these two to-
gether, tears their hearts with an affee-
ton they ought not indulge, compels
them to surrender. and then guides tho
woman to commit suicide by throwing her
self into the river THE Storm" is very
like 'Rodin. the Student" Otherwise it
is like nothing in the world.
Florence Kahn. as the unfortunate young
wife, and Donald Robertson, as her lover.
divided the honors of the presentation.
The former was fitted into part well
suited TO her personality as was that
given her in 'El Gran Gaieoto." Ethel
Chase Sprague at first was warmly well
coined by her fellow townsmen and later
applauded by the entire audience. Others
in the cast who met with favor were Kate
Hassett. William J. Romaine, and Fred
erick G.. Lewis.
In the house were many local students
of the drama large number Of actors
among these Richard Mansfield-and
notable array Of fashionable folk.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02
Politics and Inhumnnity.
CFrcm the Baltimore sun-Dem.)


The purpose of the Administration ia
setting up tariff barrier between the
United States and part of its territory is
very plain. The President holds that Con-
gress has the right to govern our tepen-
denotes without regard to the Constitu-
tion-in fact to keep the territory which
we have acquired by purchase. conquest,
or annexation permanently outside of the
Constitution. From this point of view, as
stated on the authority of Mr.. Henry L.
Nelson. Congress has the power to estab-
fish one tariff system in Porto Rico, an
other system in the Philippines and a
third in Hawaii; or. il it pleases, to i'm
pose duties on the products of Porto Rico
and the Philippines. but to admit the
products of Hawaii to the United States
free of duty. In order to establish this
principle the starving and INDECENT Porto
Ricans will be taxed, ostensibly for the
purpose of raising revenue for the island.
on articles Of food. and deprived of
all the privileges which the Constitution
gives to the people of the country by which
they have been annexed. To maintain this
extraconstitutional theory, therefore. the
party in power has deliberately committed
itself to an act of inhumanity unparalleled
in the history of the United States.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02
The Fu,sIIment of n Promise.

FrOm The BOstOn JournaI-Rep.)
Months ago President Mckinley and Sec
rotary Root pointed out the course which
ought to have been taken. 1t was direct.
Ineligible. fair to the Porto Ricans. just
TO all concerned. Ii was the unqualified
admission of the island within our tariff
system, with absolute freedom of CONNER
cial intercourse. The Journal consid-
cred this proposition at length at the time.
and heartily approved it as the proper full
fillment of our plain obligation TO the
Porto Ricac people whom We had brought
heneath our flag.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02
Petty Larceny.

(From the philadelphia Record-Ind)
The bill in the form in which the House
passed 1t should be dubbed the Petty Lar
ceny bill; and for the credit of the country
and TO save our weak backed President
from the disrepute CT his own neryeless
vaciIlation the Republican leaders in the
Senate should fall foul of it when it shall
reach that body and strangle it in COM
mittee. The people of the United States
stand pledged to a different course of ac-
ton toward the unfortunate people OF
Porto Rico. They should make their
pledges good in spite OF protectionist re-
pudiatiun.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

(From the Portland 0rcgonian-Rep.)
The probability, as the "Oregonian" sup
poses, is that the President. who said a
while ago that it ''our plain duty
TO grant struggling Porto Rico free trade.
has been badgered by selfish protected in
terests into silent acquiescence in this bill.
In the ancient day it was said: There are
three things that. are never satisfied, yea,
four things that say not 1T is enough. -
In the modern day there is fifth. 1t is
the protected CRATER
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1900.
The Democratic Opportunity.

After three years of unconscious but pro-
ductive effort the Republicans have pre-
scented the Democratic party with series
of issues upon which the latter can 90
before the people next November and win.
1t does not matter that the opportunity re-
suits from Republican contempt for the law
and the masses, rather than from Demo-
cratic policy and craftsmanship. The sit
uation exists and should be taken advan-
tage of.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

From the Milwaukee Sentinel-Rep)
If Congress does not do "our plain duty"
by Porto Rico and give her free trade with
this country, if it takes the other term
of the alternative. the Porto Ricans will
be justified in looking with contempt upon
future American protestations OF disin-
terested affection.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

tttOW Ihe 'hiOdSo ihter oVedii mp
Men who are protectionists to the back
bone. whose lives and fortunes have been
devoted to the advocacy of protection as
a policy, will revolt and are revolving
against the proposal 10 exclude IL" peo-
pie of Porto Rico from full and free par
tIcipation in the benefits of national trade
and against a scheme TO debar the people
Of the United States from the advantages
of free intercourse with American terri
tory that has baen won by expenditure OF
their blood and treasure. Cuba and Porto
Rico were not redeemed from serfdom in
the spirit of the cry. Help the trusts"
Nor are they to be administered in such a
spirit
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

(Ffom the Chicago Times Hcrald-Rep)
Whether the Porto Rican tariff is % or
> per cent indeterminate or for two years.
makes not particle of difference with
its Justice II will not be acceptable to
the American people because of the plea
that it is such little breach of our
plain duty" as acknowledged by President
Mckinley.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

From the Philadelphia Loiger-Rep)
The bill is 4 purely selfish one 1t is
directly in the interest Of two Of the most
notorious trusts in the country. If the Su-
gar Trust and the New England Tobacco
Association were out of the way. there
would be no effort to starye the people Of
Porto Rico. under the plea of giving them
a government.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

From the Chicago Record-ind)
1t is the plain duty Of Congress to Pro-
vide for free trade between the United
States and Porto Rico. The advocates of
this policy apparently are in the ascendant
cy. They should not allow themselves to
be induced through a caucus compromise
to forego the fruits of victory. Let the
policy of justice to the Porto Ricans pre-
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

Trom the Chicago Times Herald)
Whether the Porto Rican tariff is twenty five or
five per cent. indeterminate or for two years.
makes not particle of difference with its justice
Il will not be acceptable TO the American people
because of the plea that it is such little breach
Of "our plain duty acknowledged By Presl-
lat Mckinley
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

(From the Philadelphia Record)
The average value OF the mule in the United
States is now greater by - per head than the
average value OF the horse. The demand for mule,
for tic severe service required in South African
campaigning has tended to materially advance the
rice for these tough and useful animals.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

From the Kansas City Journal-Rep)
Even If the bill pass both houses and
receive the Presidents signature ;he fact
will remain that the Porto Ricans are
b,iug treated unfairly and ungenerously
at the hands of the country from which
they had right to expect better things.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

There is an evident and frightened dis
position on the part of some Of the Senate
lanche by so amending the Payne bill that
it will leave the whole question of tariff
and island revenue to the President. Now
that it is too late, the organization
leaders realize what they have done in re-
uniting the Democratic party and giving
It paramount winning issue with which
to go before the country. The Payne out
rage is the finest example of practical poll
tics-for the benefit of the opposition-in
the annals of the country.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

(from the Philadelphia Press-Rep.)
Complete freedom OF trade between the
United States and Porto Rico is the ulti
mate condition of affairs between the
Union and its dependency to which all
look forward. Every step toward this is
desirable.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

(From the Philadelphia Ledger)
sach a sudden and inglorious retreat on the
part of tine Executive from the vantage ground
OF justice, good public policy. sound political
doctrine and plighted faith has scarcely been
paraleled in our political history.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02
Lawyers by Legislative Enactment.


1t is no wonder that the Bar Associa-
ton of New York city and scores of at
toTneys in their individual capacity have
entered indignant protests against the bill
recently raiiroaded through the Legislature
at Albany admitting to the bar, practically
without examination the Speaker of the
Assembly. He has nothing 10 do but prove
to the satisfaction of the Appellate Diyi-
sion of the Supreme Court of the Third
Department that he has been an Assem-
hlyfilan for nine years. is a graduate of
Hamilton College and that "he attended
courses of law lectures while student
at that college" -
So didethe janitor,. perhaps. but it would
hardly be eontended that he was qualified
to practice lin all the courts of the State"
on that showing alone. We have no evil
mentary knowledge of law. except such
as he may have absorbed in public life.
But as the curled darling of a Republican
Legislature he finds that a title OF intellec-
tual nobility has been gratuitously con-
ferred upon him, and when he retires from
the sineeure he holds he may enter the
lists of Jurisprudence in competition with
men who have given TO that exhaustive
science the years of diligent study by
which alone excellence can be attained.
The peerage which comes to each retiring
Speaker of the House of Commons fur
nishes something of a parallel for the ae-
ton Of the New York Legislature. It is
reasonable to assume that future presid-
ing officers in the latter body will invoke
the precedent just established, and, re-
gardless of their qualification. expect an
arbitrary patent admitting them to the
legal profession.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

What is left of the late Grover Cleve-
land must delight in the spectacle present.
ed by his successor. The former, who
once said. and truly, that the whole Amer
lean people regarded him as a cuspidor,
ought to send in his condolences. He has
at last the satisfaction of knowing that
there are persons who have as little ?e-
spect for conscience and the Constitution
as anyone ever prominent in his own re-
CINE.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02
Ringing the Alarm He'll.


Investigate Pennsylvania. Purify the ballot
there. See to il that no bogus return is made OF
;he vote in November. by which the national re-
suit can he defeated. The nation has a RICH.
to protection against the Quaker ballot box
suffer!
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

The members of the Senate who appear
to do more work at the desks in the cham
Der than in their committee rooms are
Senators Cockrell, McComas. and Vest.
They attend to mass of correspondence
while other business is In progress, Though
Messrs. Cockrell and Vest are always con-
scious of all that is passing.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02

Quite number of young women drop
into the committee room of the Committee
on Privileges and Elections. One Of the
first questions they ask is Which is Mr..
Clark" Sometimes they mean Senator
Clark. but more often they mean his son,
Charles W. Clark.