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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-17

Jniyss.s.....i eos SO sos $40
caSh quotations were as follows;
pibnf steady.
Yhlst-No. 3 spring sa9ssc; No.
CHINO. 2; ssste; No. yellow Ssh9
mo. 2, 2s& ealGc; No. 2 white
70 g; No white M926hc.
! flyo-No. 2, 5slsc.
1s-No. 2, 369t @42c,
r. s.i--NO!.1 1, 81 @: No. new 81 81.
thyseed- Prime s. i2M
z Pdff -lfesH, per barrel $40 508u Is.
i.Afd-Per 100 ms IS 9o48 o2lts
Short Fibs-sldes Q0ose) IS s59e 90.
Dry aliea ahoulderS Jboxedl " 964lc.
Short clear sides {boIedl 20 SQSe %,
Whl5lsy- Dlstlllers' finished goods,per
ssStls-cat loaf 696c; graduated
clover-contract grade IS 1905 20.
Bnttef-Anrket easy; creameries lS9
/ bic; diaries l6922c.
& Chnase-Firn at 1291Sc.
EGG8-FiFm; fresh 15c.
NEW YoRK-Flour market was
fHiriy active, frmer and 56i0c higher
~ same grades In line with the strength
81 wheat; Minnesota patent So 1904 90;
winter patents SO e5@S 90; winter
ntF1ights So 46@S 60; winter extras 81 60
o1s5,
wheat spot arm: No. red 7sc eleva-
TOT. No. 3 red 7ek 3S0c (. o, b. afioat; No.
/ Northern Duluth 7s&c Z. 0. b. afloat
6rompt; No. hard Duluth Sic I. o. b.
66af prompt; options opened tirm,
God firm At nc net advance. Close:
ifdreh 7fMc: Nay 73lEc; July 7SSc;
ptlmber 7s1c.
4 toFn,- 1pst Arrn; No. Q, Axe (. o. b.
sioat and &c elevator; options opened
drn. cls1Od firm at q partial &c net ad-
VafJos. Close: Nay exc: July t2Bc.
Oats, RpOt steady: No. 2, 2S&c; No. 3,
a1ife; No. 2 white 92c; No. white size;
track mixed western 2S9SQ1ic; track
white western 915a0S5ltc; track white
state s1ts6S5hc; options quiet but
Bed steady. Cutmeats steady. Lard
arm; western steamed = VI Ma .I!1
closed firm at SO IS; refined firmi conti-
inant sc GO. Pork firm. Butter hrTn.
Cheese arm. Eggs bare Of stock. Tai
low quiet.
Coffee, futures opened at points adj
vance, closed steady at SOLO points net
advance. Sales 2s,oO0 bags.
. Sugar, raw strong; refined firm.
BAITIMoRE-Flour inactive and
| az. unchanged: receipts i, $40 bar
/ 80: exports lis barrels. Wheat firm:
+ SPOT and March 7sN97Sl4e; May 1870
: IKE: steamer No. red G98SSHc; re-
loeipts 1850 bushels: southern wheat by
sample el6IEc;do on grade 7oit9Ithc.
Corn unsettled! and easier: spot March
|, and April lOI6lle; May 1hGnke:
I steamer mixed sOTt 44oc; receipts lll,aVS
bushels; exports 1I1,i2B bushels; south
eTn white aud yellow corn &c. oats
steidier; No. white S0h930$c; NO.
mixed 2S62Shc. Hay firm; Nc. ! dmo-
thy SIC 81 bid. Cheese and butter hrm
and unchanged. Eggs 1I9lsc.
CINcTNNAT1-wheat Arm; No. red
7smO7tc. Corn quiet and arm; NO. z
mixed SSSc. Oats dull; No. mixed
9SHc. Rye steady: No. 2, sc. Lard
quies at IS S565 %, Bulkmeats steady
al Sc Is. Bacon steady at IS 90. Whis-
~ steady at 81 2lh. Butter dull. Sugar
steady. Eggs firm at 14hc. Cheese
steady.
ToLEDo-wheat higher for futures
stFonT; No. 2 cash 7i&c: May 7Sc. Corn
gtpady and higher; No. 2 MIXED SIC.
oata dull; No. mixed 2lisc. Rye mac
ticS; No. 3 cash Eec. CloVerseed active
md arm; prime cash ED IS 90; March
new s. C7Ik; october IS IL bid; No. 2
Epal Il e5Sl 80,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-17
Wool.
NEW YoRR-woOl quist.

EVERY family should have itg
household medicine chest, and the arst
hottie IN Il should be Or. WOODS Nor
way Pine Syrup, natures remedy tor
ceughs and eoldg.-9.
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Petroleum

oMCTTY-Creilt balances 81 0s;ghip-
nenfa 81, lQ7 barrels; aNsraga sS.5iz bar
Tels: runs .lss baEEelsi average 8,eh
barrels
NEW YORK standard on s sos @,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-17

n,.f Iinon1 searor and againlt hug
y Blriaps also scarce and nrmer "a
tone.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-17

Mn. Il. 4. Salisbury. Of Il
Follett srees, PaHtrekst, 3. /,
says:
I" About eight yearB ego, I was
taken with nervous prostitution
which was followed b. partid
paralysis oftho lower limbs. The
doctor called II locemOtor ataxia.
! could not direct my steps, and I
would often fall down. / tried
many remedies but Was not bone-
fted until / began taking Dr..
Williams Pink Pills for Palo
People.
Several doctors had told me that
there was no cure for my trouble,
but my improvement continued
and / took tie pills steadily Tor
two years. At die end Of that
time I had regained fall control Of
mylimbs. The pain LEFT me and
has never returned"
MRS. ii. T. SALISBURY,
= Subscribed and sworn to before
me this a1st day Of August, 1899.
.cA1Ios 1. Rooms,
Nats1 PS5iie.
D.. William Pink PillS ior Pale People
contain, n , eOllonIed faEIn, al ths &c.
men6 leOoillEy y give lOU " G1d EilhnO1
u the blOod Gnd EogtoIo 6lattero4 Aolyel.
Thsy arS - Rfalihg gDoeias fer Guah dc.
OaSoS g looonOtoF a6IiA pAGtiAl D1lolyEil,
81 YfflI' lAAss, DsiatSi, nsugSlClA FhSH.
mAta, neFyoeSA saaOaAe Ne AA,E.sl .lstaef
lARiDpS ValPintiSl e de hea[t PAlS and
nfioV eoSNIaxlaOl, su faIN5 Ot HOAtasl8
ether n HSlO = flmSle.
D.. UlllaRO' PIT Pin iOl lSls PeoDiOlio nOIOs
OSl6 bIlo eSso6 q (uutlsS 81 duilo e pees'
80. Nlll eFU ~, - llleel ~ ~ y: w
u. q ~ t!lSSIb tlAOuP'a1I, I Lss
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-17

OpRny. tExcept Sunday. lSundGyS emily.
Pullman sleeping or ParlOr CarS On All
\. C. BURKE,
City Passenger and Ticket AGENT Wheel.
+. b. UNDERWOOD. D. 2. MARTIN,
GOnOrRl Manager. Mgr. Pass. TH4ade
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-17

IskU q. Elss-G4uy-HVE GAElANkNHAGllf ~
intermediate pointR. ..--.-..
OHIO VALLEY EXPRESS.
1880 a, m.-paily except Bunaay-EoA
NoundSVille, Nav HlEtinGVll0, SIS
terGVilla 81. NArpa, HaFigttls Par
keFabWEE, RAYAnSVOo aillueOd.
PomOrOY, n. Plo8ao1t, ChoFlolton,
K G1lllpOlli, HuRtIlOten, Ro0ORa, Iron.
ten, POFtImouth, 1hl5eoFO, ClAams
natl. and al pOI1t1 cQu1o gl4 Vest.
RunS 0Siii 70 cinolnSsiI. RnF5oR car
KENovA ExPRDsS
II.(5 a, n,-Dally-FoF SigtOFSVtile. gGael.
eta, PAFheB1buFg, RONoTey, Rofno
Pleasant, chBrIoBtOl, QAitlDei1p
auhttngtOu. KonoVai Ala pEfnetnaA
inter- SdIsto p0IntR R8Ihoe Car.
ACCOMMODATION.
O.I5 D. m.-pAny-FOr PGrkOCD1prs ana
intermediate pOlht1.
EXPRESS.
40 =. m.-Daisy except 6un6ay-FoF Sis
tcrSvIlls, u HaFYS, WsySFly, Mari
eta, PlrkOFBburg, and lnCoPmo4tAto
polntS nsrth Of slstOrgvtll0.
l. z. CHALENoR,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-17

The following prices fer tie AeoVo HteeEl
are Furnished BY slHplOn Z Catan' citg
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-17

Electric cars Bridgeport to wheeling,
RellAitO RAd Martins Ferry. Consult
10 Al points. II. g. CARREL,
General Passenger AGENT.
Amador ledger., 1900-09-14

John Jacob Astor to organize the Pac-
ific Fur Company, found trading posts
throughout the northwest, and so hold
the country for the United States.
In those days this vast wilderness,
inhabited only by savage Indians, and
scarcely less savage trappers and traders
of all nations, was farther from WASH
ington than the Philippines now are,
and yet jefferson foresaw that it pos
sessed commercial advantages, and he
did not regard the commercial spirit as
an evidence of inordinate greed as Mr..
Bryan now affects to do.
Not much of lesson can be drawn
from the government of Oregon because,
from 1905 to 1s4s, Oregon had no recog-
uized form of government save what
government the settlers themselves vol.
unfairly formed, supplemented by Ger.
tain governmental functions exercised
by chartered American fur company
ultimately consolidated with chartered
British fur company. A territorial form
of government was organized in 1848
and the next year Oregon became state
in the American Union.
Amador ledger., 1900-09-14

sron TO Tne wnofe pe0ple Jne great 1oresus
situated in our mountain ranges, and
earnestly recommend that our senators
and representatives in congress support
by their votes and influence the estab-
lishment of national reservations, in
order that these forests may be saved
from destruction and our water supply
preserved.
We favor such legislation as will pre-
vent the acquisition of lands chiefly
valuable for petroleum, asphaltum and
other minerals under the guise of lieu
land and forest reserve exchange Sc
lections, and we request our senators
and representatives i'll congress to use
all honorable means to prevent fraud in
that way and secure such legislation as
will protect the miners of the state from
oppression and blackmail.
We demand the prevention of the i'm
portation of cheap alien labor, the con-
tinuance and re-enactment of the pres
ent Chinese exclusion laws, and appro-
pirate legislation prohibiting the immi-
grafton of Japanese and other contract
laborers.
We favor the adoption of the pro-
posed constitutional amendment pro-
viding for the regulation of primary
elections and the enactment of such
laws as will make it effective and insure
fair primaries.
We favor appropriate legislation for
the permanent improvement of our
roads and highways.
We fully recognize the importance of
the great work that the state university
is doing toward the intellectual and
industrial development of the state.
We recognize also that the demands
upon it in both these directions have SO
outgrown its income as to seriously
threaten its usefulness. We therefore
pledge our party to an increase of the
revenues of the state university through
the coming legislature sufficient to main
tain it's efficiency.
We congratulate our state and its
people upon the semi centennial of it's
admission to the union, and rejoice that
our government is making California
the gateway and center of Oriental
trade, developing our resources, creating
market for our products and portend-
ing for our state future still more
glorious than its golden past.
Confident in the justice of our cause.
in the wisdom of our doctrine and in
the ability and patriotism of our candi-
dates, we submit the foregoing declara.
ton of our political faith to the voters
of California for their approval at the
polls.
Amador ledger., 1900-09-14
fairly be presumed Co nave consented to

fairly be presumed Co nave consented to
annexation.
The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, by
which this imperial territory was ac-
quired, provided that Congress should
determine when aud how that territory
should be admitted as states. Several
states have been carved out of it, and
three more are knocking at the door for
admission to the sisterhood of states.
Meantime, they are governed by the
imperial power of the President and
Congress, except in So far as Congress
has especially conferred upon them, in
their territorial forms of government,
certain rights and certain participa-
ton in constitutional powers and privi-
leges which they could not enjoy until
Congress had so acted. They are only
partially self governing. Their COVER
nors and judges may be removed any
day by the President and new ones ap-
pointed in their places, They are de-
pendent colonies, of the grade of British
colonies of the second class. They be-
long to the United States, but are not a
O6If Oh INC OulIou OUbu0ef llldSAuCIl DIS
they have no voice in the affairs of the
nation. And yet their people are per-
fectly free and enjoy the fullest local
self government.
We have seen that up to and including
the annexation of Texas and conquest of
California, the history Of American ex.
pansion has been a history Of Demo-
cratic or Jeffersonian expansion policy.
That'in no single instance, excepting
that of Texas, was the consent Of the
governed ever asked for or rendered,
but that the acquisition Of Louisiana
was directly contrary to the wishes of
the white people living within the pur-
chased territory.
That the essential consideration which
determined acquisition in each instance
was the industrial and commercial ad-
vantage of the United States.
That all these acquisitions were either
by conquest, discovery, or found an
extra-c constitutional warrant in what
was believed to be paramount national
advantage, as laid down by Jefferson in
making the Louisiana purchase.
Finally, that the policy of Jefferson
and the democracy in this regard has
been justified by time and approved BY
the nation
Amador ledger., 1900-09-14
REGISTER REGISTER REGIS.
TER

Registration closes throngout the
State of California September a6. The
man who does not register by that date
will lose his vote inf the coming elec-
ton.
There are over 100000 voters in the
State of California who may express
their political sentiments at the polls if
they comply with the law and register.
California WAS carried for Mckinley
in 1896 by only 1887 votes If two Re-
publicans in the hundred had remained
at home or neglected to qualify the Re.
publicans would have been beaten in
this state.
We want no such chances taken this
year.
You think 80 Well now L must 40
and register" but you don't. The first
thing you know the 26th of September
will pass by and then you can't.
You will feel sorry but your feeling
sorry will not help Mckinley and Roos-
velt to carry the election.
Better have your sorry spell now, re-
pent and go and register. 1t only takes
Just so long, is not much of q job any
how and is a part of your duty as q
citizen.
Suffrage is an obligatio.s as we'll as a
privilege
The Republican party expects every
Republican to do his duty.
Amador ledger., 1900-09-14
A TON OF ORATORY.

Speaking at Chicago on Labor day,
from the same platform with Mr.. Bry-
an, Governor Roosevelt said:
"When we come to dealing with our
social and industrial needs, remedies,
rights and wrongs, a ton of oratory is
not worth an ounce of hard headed,
kindly common sense. The funda-
mental law of healthy political life in
this great republic is that each man
shall in deed and not merely in word
be treated strictly on his worth as a
man that each shall do full justice to
his fellow and in return shall exact full
Justice from him"
And Immediately, nothing daunted,
Mr.. Bryan followed with a ton of ora
tory.
Amador ledger., 1900-09-14

liberty from Spain and retained possess
ion of Texas.
Mexico, in 1929, ordained that there
should be no slavery in Texas. The
southern planters saw in this another
menace to their peculiar institution, as
Florida had been for a generation, and
turned their eyes covetously upon Texas.
They began to settle the country,
President Jackson tried to buy Texas
in 1880, but Mexico refused is sell and
prohibited the immigration of Ameri.
cans into Texas.
That did not make any difference, and
settlement, with slaves, went steadily
on-a conquest by pioneers backed by
the southern sentiment that there must
be more slave territory to preserve the
balance of power of slave states with
free states within the Union.
Texas declared her independence of
Mexico in 1886. Her independence was
acknowledged by our government the
same year. There was war between
Texas and Mexico, and volunteers for
the Texan army were openly recruited
throughout the United States. Texas
was annexed to the United States in
1874 by resolution of the American Con.
gress ratified by the Texas Legislature.
We wanted Texas back again very
soon after we had given it away. We
could not buy it because Mexico was
proud and would not sell, SO we planted
filibustering expeditions in it, fought
eo.f -
conquered it and annexed it, knowing
that such annexation meant war with
Mexico. We wanted that war, too.
The friends of James K. Polk, the
Democratic candidate for President,
openly declared that they wanted war
with Mexico and would make it a war
of conquest. The institution of slavery
wanted still more slave territory to hold
the balance of power with the fast grow
ing free states.
The result of that war was the annex
alton of California, and all between
California and the Louisiana purchase.
True, we paid Mexico 15 million dollars,
and forgave 81 millions of claims
against Mexico, but that was as though
one should rob another of gold watch
and hand back a nickel for conscience's
sake. The money was paid to appease
the north with q pretense of purchase.
The conquest of Texas and California
by the Democratic party in the interest
of an extension of slavery, .and not of
liberty, resulted in the destruction of
slavery, for it aroused and solidifed
northern anti-slavery sentiment.
By reason Of this overruling and un-
intended result that colonization and
conquest have proven supreme bless
ing to the United States and to the
country colonized and annexed. No
citizen Of the Republic now regrets it,
and for the reason that the Republican
party, the party of human liberty, came
into existence and made free the country
conquered from Mexico.
The consent of the 5000 Spanish and
Mexicans in California, the 200, 900 In
dams in the annexed territory, and the
many thousand Mexicans in New Mex
leo and Texas was not asked or obtained.
The consent of the Texans was given by
the Texas legislature and not by the
Texas people, but as the Texas people
came there for. that purpose they may
Amador ledger., 1900-09-14
EXPANDED AMERICA.
No. 4.
The Annexations of Florida and Of Or
egon to the Union.

Florida was menace to the peace OF
the United States. The Spanish and
Indians afforded refuge to runaway
negroes held as slaves in our land Of lib
erty, and an equally welcome refuge for
cattle and horses stolen from southern
planters.
On the other hand our people made
reprisals in summary ways and were
tempted to encroach upon Spanish pre-
serves in making settlements across the
border.
In 1910 there was an insurreotion in
West Florida against Spanish authority,
and the insurrectionists proposed annex
alton to the United States, but our gov
ernment thought there was better way
to do it and so simply took possession Of
that part of the country west Of the
Perdido river, under vestige of an old
claim tket it belonged to Louisiana and
ought to have been given to us anyway.
In 1878 our government ordered Cen
eral Jackson to invade Florida for the
purpose of restoring order, which he did
in most disorderly manner. The next
year we bought all of Florida for S., 600,
900, and annexed it without bothering
about the consent of the governed, and
for the reason that General Jackson had
already put them in willing frame of
mind by the liberal application of cold
lead.
The Spanish were slow about getting
out of Florida, and did not get out un-
til 1921, when their departure was ac-
CELEBRATED by General Jackson, who had
been appointed governor.
And right here the democratic admin
istration of President Monroe afforded
the world a fine example of imperialism.
The only limitations nlaced unnn the
Amador ledger., 1900-09-14
EXPANDED AMERICA.
The Conquest and Colonization of Texas
and California.

We have in the conquest and coloni-
zation of Texas and California, fine
examples Of that imperialism, that mill
tarism and that criminal aggression of
which Mr.. Bryan and his partisans 70
bitterly complain.
Thomas jefferson bought Texas as a
part of Louisiana, but the boundary be-
tween Texas and Mexico had never been
clearly defined, and when Spain oeded
Florida to the United States Texas was
ignorantly ceded to Spain as part of
the transaction.
Shortly afterward Mexico gained her
Amador ledger., 1900-09-14

autocratic power Of General jackson
were that he could not lay new taxes or
grant lands. He continued the Spanish
laws and courts, but overruled their de.
oisions at his will, and, as parting
affront to Spain, tongue-lashed the retir-
ing governor for two hours, in Ian.
guage, the only part of which the Span.
lard understood being the expletlyss,
and then sent him to prison for trying
to take home some official papers which
Jackson thought ought to be left in this
country.
The lessons to be learned from the
annexation of Florida are these:
The sovereignty was transferred from
Spain to the United States without ref.
erence TO the consent of the peoples who
lived, and owned property, in Florida.
The constitutional question was not
raised because that was held to have
been settled in the acquisition of Lou.
isiana by jefferson. AS in that case SO
is this; An absolute national necessity
was the supreme law of the land.
For year Florida was governed by
the most absolute of absolutists, General
Andrew Jackson.
In 1922 a territorial government, sim
liar in form to that of British colony
of the second class, was organized for
Florida which gave it very limited
form Of self.government, the governor
and courts being appointed, and remov.
able, by the President.
And Florida lived under this imper.
ialistic form of government, subject to
the wills of the President and of Con.
gress, until 1S45 when it was admitted
as state.
The story of Oregon is soon told. We
claimed that by right of discovery, there
being an international law which recog-
nizes the right of the discoyerer of the
mouth of the river to all the territory
drained by that river In 1892, Captain
Gray. of the ship Columbia, sailed over
the bar and into the mouth of the great
river to which he gave the name of his
ship, and claimed the whole region for
his country.
That great patriarch of expansionists,
Thomas Jefferson. was so taken with
the report which Captain Gray brought
home that he asked Congress, in sec
ret communication, for an appropriation
to fit out an expedition to explore the
territory drained by the Columbia, and
SO make its annexation sure. AS re-
suit of this the famous expedition of
Lewis and Clarke was fitted out in 1904
and explored the country, bringing back
a report that was invaluable in the dis.
cussion which afterward arose between
our country and great Britain over the
ownership of what is now ,egon and
Washington, Idaho, and part of Mon.
tana and Wyoming.
There was still another claim of right
to Oregon, and it was that when Spain
ceded Florida she also ceded her right
to all country north of California. which
she laid claim to as part of Louisiana.
What Mr., Bryan is pleased to call
commercial greed" had great deal to
do with the acquisition of Oregon.
Captain Gray was fur trader and was
after skins, which were to be marketed
in China. 1t was the influence of
Thomas jefferson, then retired to Mon.
ticello, bnt still the paramount factor In
government affaigs. which .promnted
Amador ledger., 1900-09-14

With one breath Mr.. Mckinley is
accused of being an imperialistic auto-
crat with his eye on throne to be sub
stituted for the presidential chair. With
the next he is accused of craven sub
missiveness to British influence. The
inconsistency of the two contentious
does not disturb the Rryanistic vocifer-
ators. They are as imperturbable as
they are incorrigible.