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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Republican Predlcament.


When congress assembled last De-
cember, the presidents message was,
of course, the first number on the
program. In that message Mr. Nc
Kialey declared himself, unrsservedly
for free trade with Porto Rico By
way of supplement to this, the secrs-
tsry of war-one of the most emiRent
and gifted jurists ID the country
urged tho measure IN even more
elaborate terms. While the presi-
dent appealed to ''our plain duty"
Secretary Root remindad US that
Justice and good faith demand" etc
Dolly the most callous and lndurated
congresses could have resisted such
clarion calls, and the congress to
which these illustrious gentlemen
addressed themselves was, notorious
~, q congress of unusual sensibility.
No wonder, therefore, that the ways
and means committee of the house
promptly reported a free trade bill
with Porto Rico, and still less won
der that all the forces of altruIsm
and humanity and benevolence rallied
as one man to praise and commend
the proposition. Right there, how
ever, is where the trouble began and
where the republican party entered
upon q course of qualification, and
moral Rcrobstics, and intellectual
hide-snd-seek which has enshrined it
permanently in the disrespectful
anszement of the country.
Let as be business like!
Explanation 1st. The republican
congress could not grant free trade
to Porto Rice without committing the
party to the principal that ''the con-
stitution follows the flag" Mote: No
legislation with reference to Porto
Rico would affect the constitutional
question, one way or another, pend
ing a decision by the supreme court
Explanation I'd A tariff on Porto
Ricsn products was necessary so as
to create fund which could be sp-
piled to the necessities tnus giving
the Porto Ricans more relief than
would have been afforded in one ear
by the proposed tariff
Explanation 3rd. It was indespen-
sable to uphold the principle of pro-
lection. Lsbor-organized labor
was supposed to demand such a
policy. Mote: This principle had
already been abandoned in the case
of Hawaii and no evidence could be
presented to show that organized
lsbor cared three strsws about Porto
Rioo.)
Explanation 4th. If we give free
trade to Porto Rico We must also give
it to the Philippines and-perhaps-
later-to Cuba. This would establish
q dangerous precedent. Moreover.
the idea of giving Porto Rico q rep
resentative in congress is fraught
with mischief and alarm. (Nota: The
precedent had been established in the
matter of Hawrii. both as to free
trade and representation in congress
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Plain Duty or Plain Perf1dy.

Republicans in Washington still
propose to compromise with Porto
Rico They put forth various schemes
10 silence the protests of the people
on the one side without offending the
sugar and tobacco lobby on the other.
n It oRe of these schemes is more
than political expsdient. Not one
of them pretends to be more, Yet ss
political expsdients they are all
bound to prove absolutely futile.
"Our plain duty is to abolish all
customs tariffs between the United
States and Porto Rico and give her
free access to our markets." said the
president on December 5. These
words have been imprinted indelibly
Ia The national conscience. They
cannot be wiped out by any trick or
subterfuge or expedient. They mean
that Porto Rico must receive sbso-
lutely Stree access to our markets''
without fault or hindrance, or ''plain
duty" must be fouted.
There can be no middle way. no
compromise. Either the republicans
ia Washington break faith or keep 1t.
fulfil their promise or repudiate it,
hold fast to their plssform Or desert
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

p. e. Albaugh has just fitted mp
the neatest and best dining room in
the city and is prepared to serve reg
uIar meals, either by the day or week.
Sunday dinners a specially. Will
also fill short orders. Meals 20 cents.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
He Fooled the Surgeons.

All doctors told Renlck Hamilton,
of West Jefferson, ., after suffering
Is moDths from Rectal Fistuls, he
would die unless costly operation
was performed. but he cured himself
with Bucklen's Arnics Salve, the best
IN the world. Surest pile cure on
earth. 25c box at James & Co.'S
drug store.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

"A man named E Presson, OF
Pressonville. Kan, wrote letter the
other day saying the opinion of every
body in his town who has used Foo
ley's Honey and Tar is, that it is the
very best medicine for la grippe,
colds. coughs, etc. ] L Mccormick.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Do Not NegIect

4 slight cough or sold. The grave
yards sre fall of such people. Pneu-
monis and consumption are cured by
using Bunsen's Pine Tar Cough Hon
ey. Natures remedy. Fisher & Go
or J L Mccormick.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Going Down Hill

People suffering from kidney dis
eases feel q gradual but steady loss
of vitality They should lose no time
in trying Foley'a Kidney Cure. It
is guaranteed j L Mccormick.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

That is the naked truth that no
pretense can veil. that no excuses can
dlstort. On it the republican party
will be approved or condemned next
fall, and all the words that can be
spoken will not bury it ont OF sight.
Plain duty or plain perfidy-which
shall it be?-Chicsgo Inter Ocean.
(Ranl
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

Friends of Hillside cemetery will
meet at that place en- Thursday. April
II, at 1 p m. to clean OF grounds and
transact some business. By order Of
committee, JA1EEs JoEzsox.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Notice.

Prairie dogs killed or no pay. En-
ouire of J. B. STUBERr,
Marvin, Kan.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-07

receive It. 1t was the pledge in the St
Louis platform to secure bimetsllisn
by International agreement that landed
him In the White house. So says Hon.
John M. Thurston. Republican senator
from Nebraska. The pledge of an inter-
national bimetallism held enough sill
yer Republicans in line to give the
election to Mr.. Mckinley"
By what subterfuge Mr.. Mckinley
expects to be reelected in 1900 nobody
seems to know. but even the devil has
persuasive way of quoting scripture
which deceives the children of light,
and it is presumable that some great
fraud, or fake, will be dressed up in
attractive colors like circus posters to
draw the crowd. Forestalling an evil
is better than repenting for its exist
ence, and political evil must be fore
stalled. This is an occasion when the
personnel of Mr.. Mckinley is involved,
and he Is too much mixed up with
grievances that 60 to the destruction
Of the public welfare to make him a
desirable candidate on any platform.
He would betray every plank If he
were told to do SO, and his encourage is
of that suspicious character that COM
pels one to hold his nose while in his
presence. 1t is corrupt, and could not
be its own master IL it Wished to, for
it is in the power of British finan-
ciers.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-07
REASONS FOR SOME WARS.
Apparently Doesn't Take Much to Les
John Bull to Fight.

Apparently Doesn't Take Much to Load
John Bull to Fight
An English paper has the following
to say on the reasons for some British
wars: From all appearances 1t does
not take much provocation to set John
Bull at war. William the CoLqueror
made war on France because King
Philip had made a sighting allusion
to his embonpoint. More recent wars
have been brought about by trivial in
cidents. In 1910 large trade in opium
was done by British traders in China,
and the Chinese government at length
forbade the importation of the per-
nicious drug by our sailors. The edict,
however, had little or no effect, and the
trade continued, till at length the
Chinese imprisoned a number Of Brit
ish subjects and we promptly declared
war. Our second war, in 1856, ought
never to have come about il its origin
is taken into account. A Chinese pi-
rate hoisted the British flag at his
mainmast, and was afterward seized by
his government as a bloodthirsty ad
venturer. Had he failed to run up our
flag his capture would have been re-
garded as good thing here, but as it
was, 1t was taken as an insult, and we
made war on the Chinese for refusing
to apologize. The horrors of the In
dian mutiny will still be remembered
by a minority of our readers, and the
cause which led to 1t is matter Of
history. Cartridges creased with cows
fat were served out to the Sepoys, who
refused to use them on the ground that
the COW was a sacred animal. We in
sisted, and almost without any warn
ing, the terrible massacres followed,
which were only avenged at an enor-
nous expenditure Of lives and money"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-07

Senator Aldrich, in discussing the
gold standard bill from the Republican
standpoint, uttered the following re-
markable thought:
mo sane man believed for an in
slant that the opening of our mints to
the free coinage of silver at the ration
of 16 to would raise the value Of sill
yer bullion from its current CONNER
cial price to its mint price"
When it comes to value" there is
no intrinsic value Of any kind of bull
lion converted into money, not even
gold. In trust circles the value" Of
a thing is the price that can be OBJ
tained for 1t. So the w--ole Of the
senator's argument amounts to the Gu
rious supposition that, with silver bull
lion raised to $1.29 per ounce at the
mint, people would still sell their silver
bullion at 60 cents This is what the
silver producer is now uoing, and it
is what the Democratic party protests
against. If it be insanity to desire an
advance in the price of our most val
liable product, then the sooner we all
become insane the better for the coun.
try.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-07
STATISTICAL LIES.

The ordinary weapons formerly used
by the father Of lies to entrap mankind
are effete and childish. He has, how
ever. invented q new device. which op-
crates upon men like fly-paper on flies
it catches them every time. In sta
tistics" modern man will find his down.
fall. particularly in that branch of sta
tistics known as financial" The dew
il scatters them in our midst. and we
struggle and grasp after them like
drowning men at straws, and every
man seizes upon the wrong fact, and,
OF course, makes wrong application
of it. Anent this new disposition to
get wrong and then stick to it in spite
of the truth, the Louisville Courier
Journal is a living example and
warning.
During the past twenty-nine months
there has been an international trade
balance in our favor upon the mer-
chandise and gold movement of ST.
1sO,OO0,OO0, or about $492 100000. To
this must be added silver exports OF
$25, 1000, 900 yearly. This produces net
apparent value of considerably over
81 200, 100000, but this is subject to the
invisible movement of exchange in
volved in the payment of interest
abroad, freight charges, travellers ex-
penses, and so on.
How much of this has been settled
by the return of our securities from
abroad we cannot say. The amount
is large, but it cannot be figured out
with precision. Beyond question the
debt to us is large, and as we are in
crossing our merchandise exports and
only moderately adding to our i'm
ports, there is no chance that we shall
become embarrassed even by the loss
of $40 900 900 or S50,OO0,0OO on this
movement"
The vinegar in the molasses, the
trap, the pitfall and death blow to the
statistics is labeled with How much
OF this has been settled by the return
of our securities from abroad we can
not say" The truth is, our tremen-
dous balance of trade has been wiped
out by the return of "our securities"
and instead of being a creditor nation,
we are debtor. and paying our debts
in gold. Moreover, our debts are al
ways increasing. We are worse of
than the little Argentine republic,
which actually receives its balance OF
trade in cash and not wind, and what
is paid her in gold is recouped by
drawing on us. We are the scape-
goats. the holders of the sack which
the whole world draws from and gives
us back "our securities"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-07
THEY WILL NOT FORGET.

THE voters of this country will not
forget the multitudinous scandals and
violations of platform pledges, the in
credible increase in public expenses.
and the peril in the tendency of af-
fairs" says the Helena Independent
They will keep their wits about them
from this time forth. There never was
a time when SO many voters knew so
much about the history of their coun-
try, and so much Of the science of
political economy; every year the
number grows. These voters will
know, most Of them know already. that
"booms" are ephemeral affairs, and
that over-capitalization Of trusts and
monopolies must react upon somebody,
and they know full well that the work.
ingmen will be the somebody" upon
whom the reaction will fall.
mot voter will 60 to the polls
next November without having studied
the question of the menace of militar-
ism In a free country, the deception
and treachery practiced by the admin
istration toward silver, the violation of
the pledge to improve the civil service,
the departure from the teachings of
Washington and the fathers on the
subject Of foreign entanglements, the
operations of Gage and the United
States treasury at the demand of stock
gamblers and favorite money clique.
"Panics have been coming so fast
as result Of Republican legislation
that temporary conditions Of boom will
not convince the intelligent voter that
reaction will never come. They will
not forget"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-07

The professions and practices Of the
president have become SO mixed that
the average citizen can hardly tell
whether he is speaking politically,
morally, or just for effect. In his an
nual message he proclaims the fact
that we are at peace with the whole
world, and then he wants a large
standing army. At the last session of
congress Senator Cockrell stood up like
a true American citizen and declared
that no such undemocratic statute
should be engrafted upon our legis-
lature to shame our institutions, bur-
den our taxpayers and menace the
perpetuity of our form of government,
if he could prevent it by the exercise
Of every legitimate resource CT opposi-
tion within his power. The senator
has again declared his determination
to set his face against the schemes OF
the imperialists, and, with his strong
personnel and dogged determination
something will have to yield.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-07
FALSE PRETENCES.

1t is beginning to be made clear that
William Mckinley owed his election to
his pledge of international bimetallism,
which held enough silver Republicans
in line to insure his election. In his
recent annual message he comes out
for the absolute gold standard, thus
manifesting his deceit and duplicity in
1896. Congressman Champ Clark of
Missouri, in the debate on the currency
bill, said:
=" He not only recommends it, but he
urgently recommends. The chances are
thousand to one that had he uttered
that sentiment in the campaign of 1896
he would not now be in position to
send message to congress and there
would be no gold standard congress to
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-07

The Louisville Courier-Journal, in
its issue Of Dec. %, ult., brushes aside
as mere bagatelle our shipments of
gold to England. "The gold reserve
in the treasury" it says, was $241,-
423,427 yesterday, and the total amount
of coin and bullion was but little un-
der 100000, ,00O." This, with $141, ,OO0,-
600 in the banks and about $500, ,000,-
900 in the country, in circulation, is as
sumed to be a splendid showing. and
to elevate the United States to the
front rank as a gold country. But now
comes a circular from the directors of
the mint to the manufacturers of jew
elry. gold leaf supply houses. and all
dealers and manufacturers who use the
precious metal in their work. The
Chicago Tribune gives the substance of
the circular in the following succinct
language:
Lost or strayed-$3o0,O 100000 in
American gold coin. Any person who
has information of It's whereabouts will
please communicate with the director
Of the. mint" The truth is cropping
out that we are short Of our gold cir
culating medium the enormous sum of
$S00,00O.oOo; 1t is lost. Not from the
treasury, but from the circulation
among the people. This means that
there are 5000, 900, 900 short in our mon
ey, and when we add to this shortage
the sum of $241, ,423. APT in coin in the
treasury, and the bullion to make up
$400,000.000. we have a shortage of
$7O0,000,000 of gold coin on our total
stock of gold coin. 1t appears that
Prof. Faulkner doubted whether the
stock of coin outside the treasury was
what 1t was assumed to be, and the
director of the mint has been so i'm
pressed by the professors statements
that he is going to try to find out.
The treasury department knows how
much money the treasury contains, and
the banks certainly know how much
money they hold, but all our officials
have been going upon the theory that
our gold coin in general circulation is
exactly the difference between the
amounts in the treasury and in the
banks, and the public have been fed
with that idea until they have been al
most made to believe that we have
plenty of gold coin. Even the Courier
Journal, usually SO careful in its cal
culations, has been deceived by Off
cial reports. Under these circum-
stances, therefore, it does not make a
vast difference to the public welfare
whether we ship gold coin to
England or not. 1t may transpire that
we are not so heavily laden with cir
culating medium as we have been as
suming; indeed, the recent stringency
appears to demonstrate the fact that
we are short, and short $500, 200, 900.
From this may be deduced the actual
fact of the necessity Of using billions
OF make-shift money, usually termed
"industrials," but all speculative, and
the further fact Of the positive recur-
renee of panics accompanied by the
demands upon the United States treas
ury to rush to the aid of the market
We do not believe that Director Rob-
erts can ascertain the whereabouts of
this lost money, for it does not exist,
except in imagination, unless it be in
old stockings and teapots.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-07

II there is one thing on which the house,
wife prdes herself, 1t is that OF having her
laundering done nicely, so that the wear
ing apparel may be the admiration of all.
The washing is a small matter, anyone al
most can do that, but to have the linens
present that flexible and glossy appear
anco after being irone6 requires fine
quality o. starch.
J.C. Hubinger's new laundry starch,
"Red Cross" and "Hubinger's Best"
brands are his latest inventions and the
finest starch ever placed or the market;
not new starch made by a new manufac-
turer, but new starch by the leading and
only manufacturer of fine laundry starch
In the United States.
His new method OF Introducing this
starch with the Endless Chain Starch Book
enables you to get one large 10c. package
OF cred Gross" starch, one large 1Oc. pack
age OF "Hubinger's Best" starch, with the
premiums, two beautiful Shakespeare
panels, or one Twentieth Century Girl cal
endar, all for &c. Ask your grocer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-07

MILLIONS WOMEN USE CUTcuRA SOAP exclusively
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for annoying irrtatons infammations and chaings or
too free offensive perspation in the form of washes,
for lucrative weaknesses and for many anatve antsepc
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-07

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis
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giving the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much faith in
its curative powers that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that IL fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials. Address.
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Sold by Dru ggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-07

So prosperous has been the herring
season at Yarmouth that the Scotch
fishing girls who have been cleaning,
preparing, curing and packing the fish
were able to accomplish their 500-mile
journey home to Peterhead in q
special train, which stopped only twice
for changes Of engines. The train con-
sisted of two fine corridor coaches and
three comfortable saloons, and at the
rear were four luggage vans. all full
of personal belongings Of the girls.
The ordinary garb of the lassss when
pursuing their vocation comprises
short top boots reaching to the knee
and short skirts, with oily frocks over
them. They wear no hats or bonnets
even in the pelting rain.-London
Mail.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-07
Beauty d blood Deep.

Clean blood means q clean skin. Ne
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banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-07

and it worked like magic. I feel that
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SON, 1876 N. Boulevard, Atlanta, Ga.
Thin, Sallow and Nervous
"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM IL was thin,
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After had taken three bottles Of
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pound and three of Blood Purifier, my
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-07

Little Dick-Uncle Richard, what is
bric-a-brsc? Uncle Richard-Bric-a.
orac is anything you knock over and
break when you are feeling for
matches in the dark-Puck
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-07

F1rst-class passengers in England
have increased only 10 per cent in 10
years. while the number of the third
class passengers has increased Il psr
cont