Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-29

manity having used or squandered its
capital will bhenceforward have to de-
pend upon such current income as can
be derived from the diurna heat of the
sun and the rotation of the earth till in
the sequence of the ages these also be-
gin TO fail With such remote specu-
lations we are not now concerned 1t
is enough for us to take note how rap
idly the prodiglous progress of recent
discoveries has increased the drain up
en- its natural growth of old manlrfar- e
turing countries, and especially Of
Great Britain, and at the same time
frankly to recognize that it is only by
new inventions that the collateral ev-
lis of old inventions can be litigated; !;
that to go back to is impossible; that
our only hope lies in a further ad-
vance"
The practical illustration at hand is:
America has soon to supply coal to the
Mediterranean and western European
countries.
What is our title to the PHILIPPINE
islands? This question is continually
asked by the antagonists of the admin
istration. The title is double-that Of
conquest and that of purchase, the
same as our title to California and the
same as to Louisiana The conquest
came after the purchase. Jeffers- n
bought the land and Jackson demand
ed from the British who attempted
to take the mouth of the Mississippi
river from US nine years after we
bought it. Napoleon. who sold the
mouth Of this great river to us, was
deeply interested in the New Orleans
campaign, and American rifles used in
the battle were sent to him and great
ly surprised him, But his Waterloo
and 81. Helena experiences soon fol-
lowed. Aguinaldo has no title but the
appointment he made himself no one
ever voted for him.
find this delicacy in Democratic
sheet called Democracy as founded by
Thomas Jefferson expounded by An
drew Jackson:"
Come. come. Mr Halstead. tell the
public what you really got for going
to Cuba and Manila at your advanced
years and risking your precious life
BGubtless the Manila archbishoD's
sherry was palatable; so was the willy
cid priests fiattery of Mr.. McKinleys
confidential agent'--even so if he was
also recognized as the most bloody
minded man in Luzon. That's what
a faithful English Catholic said of him
the prest-'while Mr.. Mckinley ;
gOld-lacquered lacky, treated him % i
desquisiu.nn on American 'anarchigs
and wrote Of him as 'sagacious' sta Cs-
man, Birds Of feather flock tose,l-
err, but the owl OF Brooklyn can hnd-
ly claim kinship with the eccles'a-i al
vulture of Manila. But how abouj that
$4,000, Mr.. Halstead?'
There is a coed deal of the same sort
of stuff in the Jackson and Jefferson
paper. 1t might not seem amiss for Us
to mention that Mr.. William r.
Hearst paid my expenses and a very
handsome margin for going to Cuba.
| paid my own expenses going TO Ma
nila with the exception that my war
department paper showing th2t | was
war correspondent Chistorlan) passed
me On the three transports, | me sed
with General Merritt on the Newport.
General Otis on the Peru, and General
Greene on the China, and paid the
regular rates for rations. That is all
l know about the $4,000 except that
the Dominion Publishing company, 33i
Dearborn street, Chicago, sold one
hundred and thirty-four Thousand
copies of my story of the Philippines.
and still did not make $50, 900 out of
1T. My witness fees in an invesuiga-
tion ordered by congress We're paid to
the amount of $35 and that is all the
money ever got from the treasury of
the United States.
MTTRAT Hal ,GTEAn