El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-11
A GREAT STATE PAPER

untll she also had declared war.
GREAT STATE PAPER
Taken all in all, secretary Hays
letter is believed to be one of the great
papers in tbe history OF our govern
ment, not SO much possibly for what 1t
says directly, as for the position in
which it puts Us before the oriental
public. 1t is formal declaration by
republic OF $4,000 900 people to an EN-
pire of 400 900, 900 of what the latter
shall and shall not do Secretary Hay
sc ems to have Inherited from John Hay,
''litterateur,' the turn of mind that led
the latter to remark once "Now, gents,
you may resolute till the COWS come
home, but the first man that lays Q hand
on him shall rastle his hash in hell to-
night, or my name's not Bsnty Tim.
Pm not sure that quotation Ia just
take n from memory-but
it's near enough. The Chinese posi-
ton, analysed, Is that they have power
enought to transports the prisoners to
the coast but haven't power to furnish
them with telegraph blanks or messen-
gers-which to logical u nele Sam SCENE
tommyrOt; wherefore Hay has put his
foot down-put it down hard.
WILLIAMS WARNING.
Emperor William g stiff talk, which
to the western world sounds dis
to be wing q good effect In the
east. China can not believe that any
body is really taking seriously the
murder of few dozen or few
hundred people-the Chinese Legations
are talking about its being possible to
of s. 600, 600 and the heads of some
miscellaneous mandarins who happen
to be out of favor at court-and Will
liam's fierce sermons jolt Pekin. The
emperor is by no means the dodO we
take him for in this country, says
cleverest men in Europe. When he
rants about being a ''warlord" and OF
the I'm allied fist of Germany, The knows
very we'll what he is about. Rightly
or wrongly, his whole country believes
its only safety to rest in it's army, and
where. depends upon the subordinate
officers. These lieutenants aud capt
aims are without exception young men
of social position and good education,
taught militarism as their profession
aud, as q matter of principle, trained
nd he he
strongest, ablest and best organized
body of men in the world; trained to
have as much esprit de corps and vanity
as they can hold without being made
bigger. That's the audience William
talks to, mainly. and though his re
marks fit them better than they would
a crowd of American citizens, they
are good business just the same.
We are all hoping Chaffee has gone
for ward-he was ordered to and he
will If It's humanity possible. There
ia no hope Of getting the miscellan eous
gang at Tientsin to move until some
body breaks away and Chaffee seems
elected. What messages have come
from him recently are still being with
held from publication: if they were
printed they would be at once recalled
to Ii Hung Chang, ct al.
INSTRUMENTATION AND
CONGRESSIONAL FRANKS
went around to the democratic con-
gres sional headquarters here, q day or
30 ago. There were 30 odd clerks
isssminating misin for mation through
out the country. just now they are after
the German vote and have sent out SO
far at least million documents In Ger
man. Some days the mail counts up to
Is high as 100, 600 pieces, oil goi- g I'M
der congressional frsnks-being tran
slated reprints of parts of the Record
but they are all re gistered at the ex-
pense of the committee. Nominallv,
this is TO head off some alleged plot on
the part of the administer alton to steal
those documents and use them for
curl papers, practically it is to
enhance their Importance to the re-
oeiver. II Is q fiattering thing to a
German farmer to get registered
package direct from Washington; fl At
ters his self love and makes him inclfn
ed TO look upon himself as a very i'm
portant man. There are four docu-
ments being distributed, one by Schurz
or 'imperialism"( frauked by Williams,
of Missouri, another by Champ Clark
translated into German OF course) on
monarchy or Republic;" a third by
of Colorado, on the "Boer
War aud the Duty of the United