Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-03-09
SPIRIT OF TIE PRESS
FACTS AND OPINIONS GATHlRtO
FROd CONT6Mp O7A9je5
RsPueL c.Ns AND Pcsro Rtco.


fact will remain that the Porto Ricans
are being treated unf4rlc and ungnn-
erously at the hanis If III, country from
which they hal right 70 exprcr better
things * lnsss C,tv J Du~ntl-R'p.
There should be no discrimination
Porto RicI should be IN ,dc to feel that
her interests ar" Identical ih uur own
This cannot be done ~ raising y tariff
barrier between her AMI his country
The recomm ,nla'ions III ,ie several
months ago bf Pre- -ident Mckinley, Sc.
rotary Root and Governor General Davis
were made after fullest Investigation
and careful thought. They were then
the wisest, considering all conditions.
The true manhood of the marion, consi Ter
ing first the good of the people of Porto
Rico, fails now to comprehend how In
so short time those recommendations
can be said to have been erroneous and
opposed to the best interests of all con
cernei-Baltimore Amercan-Rep.
The journal has already stated the
reasons why, in its opinion, the bill
should not be passed. Tn Sc reasons
lCidtc W Jilt COHaNll w lpHfiltf. Nut JUS
tice, the fairness, the wisdom aud the
eXpedency of the measure All the ar
guments in favor of ii are based on sor-
did and mercenarv consideration which
should have no place In the policy of a
great nation toward the people of a
newly acquired territory. The bill
should not be passed Mt all, and the
two year proposition does not help 1t
ny.-Indianapols JOurnal-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
Eicans will be justified in looking with
contempt upon future American pro.
testations of disinteresteda f,ecton.-Mil-
waukee Sentiuel-Rep,
Complete freedom of trade between the
United States and Porto Rico is the uti-
mate condition of affairs between the
union and its dependency to which all
look forward. Every step toward this
is esirable.-Phiadelph Press-Rep.
Men who are protcctionists to the back
bone, whose lives and fortunes have been
devoted to the advocacy of protection as
policy, will revolt and are revolving
against the proposal to exclude the peo-
pie of Porto Rico from full and free par
ticpaton in the berefits of national
trade and against II scheme to debar the
people of the United States from the
advantages of free intercourse with
American territory that has been won bv
expenditure of their blood and treasure.
Cuba and Porto Rico were not redeemed
from serfdom in the spirit Of the cry,
"IIelp the trusts Nor are they to be
administered in sucn spirit.-Chicago
Inter- cean-Rep.
The probability, as the Oregonian sup
poses, is that the president. who said a
while ago that it was 'our plain duty"
to grant struggling Porto Rico free trade.
has been badgercd by selfish protected
interests into silent acquiescence in this
bill. In the ancient day it was said,
''1'here 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 Portland Oregonan Rep.
Whether the Porto Rican tariff j. - or
5 per cent indeterminate or for TWO
years. makes not a particle of differ
zee with its Justice II will not be ac
ceptable to the American people because
Of the plea that it is such little breach
of "Our plain duty" a acknowledged
by President Mckinley. Times
Herald-Rep.
LORD ROB RrS LACK OF COURTESY.
The action of Lord Robert. at the
time of Cronie's surrender in compelling
the gallant leader to present himself at
Roberts camp and. a il were, to beg the
privilege of surrenderng 10 the British
commander, is the subject of severe criti-
cism in military circles and would seem,
at all events, TO indicate hardly eXcus-
able carelesSness "a to the common
courtesies between conquerer and con
quered. CrOne, after his heroic defense.
surely deserved better at the hands of
the one man who should have been able
to appreciate the position of the
vanqushed and 10 save him from more
humiliation than was necessarily in.
YOlved in the surrender itself
That the British commanders nigh,
have apprehended treachery is no pos
sible excuse. The British were strong
enough to annihllate the whole Boei
army were any violation of the laws Of
war committed. One of the military at
taches at Washington, who has himself
served as a soldier, said in speaking o.
Roberts discOurtesy:
"Crone has been brave foe. Ill
made no discrimination between III,
wounded British and his own people; al
were treated alike, as was shown whei
the hospital at Jacobsdal was captured
two weeks ago. The bitter humiliation
put upon him is stain upon Christian
knighthood. 1t is without parallel.
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