The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-05-06

THE RATCHET has larger regular mailing circulation with one
execution than any Sunday publication Washington and we OeeV Tue
second largest in the District of Columbia
The Dewey increases the Admiral passes through
the country He has the love of the whole people noV"
standing the wseacres may infer otherwise Inc oVauon a
he is meeting heart felt and such as only true
can give to the hero of Manila
The Clark case in the has received check 1t may
not be acted this session Senator stewart from N
promised to read voumns of testimony IN the case u
Senators persisted in pushing it to vote The threat hau
the effect and Senate has been put in cold storage
The Beers boast of Christianity fully portrayed IN the
slaughter of poor native The Beers Christianity Is Oh
49, d ot nrders moor native women and children and all
for Christ sake wonder that all nations OF tne "o
refuse to recognize them give aid to them IN 'he wal
with Great Britain
The War Tax on medicines the manufacturers will make
combined fight to have it There is no cause Tor the
continuance of the with the growing surplus in the treasury
the tax should be removed from medicines
The neone of the country are unanimously in favor OF re-
duction of the war There reason Tor
the tax The effect will reduce money circulation IN e
country and to lock up enormous surplus III tne treasury
and paralyze trade
Gen. Macarthur has been put in command and Ien ou Is
to come home What happy thing this would nave oeeh
Gen MacArthurs friends the opinion that ne VIII
make short of the Flippinos 1t is to be hopeu lie WI"
bear out opinions they express and that he WI" o' prove
a tinsel soldier
Tara is only one way to the Filipino rebellion and that
TO read the riot act rebels and give them thirty days
to come in surrender and after that nme all cag WIN
arms TO be declared gueas and shot at The Fppno
do not understand Americans ways Kindness Will not aVa
with the them but first hang shoot few hundred OF them
and that will end rebellion quicker than anything else ha
be done.
Sxeenoone does to meet with favor from tne
democrats Of the East or When the convention meets
may take and may put other man In AS the
time draws near do not seem to be quite as FAVOR
able for Col. William Jennings Bryan
Massachusetts, is camorng for the Hon John D. Long for
Vice President good people of that state should nave MIN
for Vice President would make first class presiding oce
for the T. s. Senate that about all that there is IN the ONCE
Atast after bitter fight organized labor has and
ped Claude NJ Johnson director of the Bureau of Engrav
ing and Printing to his resignation which promptly
accepted by the Secretary of the Treasury We would suggest
Mr. Meredith a fit successor to Mr. Johnson
Now that Commissioner Wight has been replaced by Mr.
Mac Farand hope that he will close the houses of fame
on thirteen half between and "a Ave- on which the
cars of the Alexandria Mt Vernon Ry The
people riding line relieved of the sight of the
PAINTED faces both and white in the windows of the
houses pass the better will be for the welfare OF
the public
The country as you becoming stronger in the faith
that William Mckinley must be the next President All
things favor his denomination and election to do otherwise
than nominate elect him. the people believe would check
the era of prosperity the country meeting with AS the
peope believe it, be their interest to elect him and
time the good things vouchsaed to hem rather than take
new with untred policy and many more years of
poverty and depression and ruin
We that there unmegaed liars in the United
States than any other country in the world Particularly
ben thew saw that soldiers meeting with the