The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-05
RfTIIER QUIET.

After storm comes a calm. This is
 the case with affairs the world over at
 the moment. There is quet--a porten-
 tous quiet in South Africa. Roberts,
 the dispatches say is silent again,
 which Is interpreted to mean that a big battle is imminent. England has
 grown quiet after her wild, uproarious
 and ecstatic demonstrations of joy last
 week that at last the Boers had been
 given a bad dose of the medicine they had been so literally bestowing upon
 the British, and that the tables had been
 turned at last. With Roberts fine gen.
 eralship and vastly larger army and
 unlimited resources the British will
 have it their own way in the end in
 the conflict. Then there is quiet in con-
 gress. The battle there over Porto Rico
 is over, although the grave and dig
 nified senate has to act on the question
 yet, but there is general satisfaction
 over the fact that the customs receipts | try since the island came into our pos
 session will be devoted to the benefit of
 the people there. The quick response
 of the house to the presidents message
 on the subject is specially gratifying
 and helps to restore political quiet The
 currency and refunding bill comes up tomorrow for action on the conference
 committees report and the national
 banks are bestirring themselves to take
 advantage of the opportunity the bill
 affords of increasing their circulation,
 This time the debate on the currency
 question has been very quiet and tame
 compared with the exciting times when
 free silver senators in array cut such a
 figure in the debates and when the underpinning of our national credit
 seemed to be tottering. There is quiet in the Philippines also No more are fierce battles being fought by our bat talions and our troops seem to have subdued the enemy, and only little brushes here and there by sklrmishing parties are heard of. Let us hope that hostilities will not break out anew. The quiet times in the Philippines are help full to the industrial agricultural and commercial activities of those islands as is witnessed in various ways. and Uncle Samuel is now busy with the problem of governing those numerous far off constituencies with their millions of inhabitants and various brands of people. With the introduction of good government and American products inquiry in the senate as to how many saloons have been established in Mani la since the date of American occupa- ton, the kinds of liquor dispensed, etc, all of which enquiry is to the end of ascertaining if drunkenness has fright fully increased among the American soldiers at Manila as reported, owing to the alleged importation of much American fire water, beer, etc. It ap- pears that the reports of this kind have been greatly exaggerated and those who feared that the Filipinos would learn to drink intoxicants have learned if they have sought for the information that the natives have on tap no end of native made sin, which is "one of the most fiery, deadly and maddening of all intoxicants." Peace and harmony prevailed at the grand banquet of the Ohio society of New York Saturday | night at which President Mckinley ex- pressed the quieting sentiment that There can be no imperialism" in l speaking of our national policy. AL | together these are, for the moment, l quiet hours.