The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-12-13
NEWS AND NOTES.

tween tariff revision and the porcu-
pine when it comes to laying hold
of them.
Reciprocity is delicate question.
announcement if not dangerous for a
Republican majority in Congress.
Pass it on to the college debating
societies.
The chaplains of both Houses OF
Congress are blind but perhaps
it is just as well. Some congress
ional conduct would prove a severe
trial to a minister of the Gospel if
be had his eyes open.
Mr.. Roosevelt's message will be
accepted as a frank expression of
his sincere views. but in every eco
nomic question he discusses he de-
monstrates that he is permeated
with the fallacies of the protection
school.
Speaker Henderson very judi
ciously made his little inaugural
speech before he took the oath of
ice. He probably does not consid-
err himself bound BY his oath to
keep the promises he made in his
speech.
The report that twelve govern
ment officials in the Philippines
draw aggregate salaries amounting
to $98, 500 has aroused considerable
interest among Republican con-
gressmen who want to know who
has the right to name those Off
Gals if not themselves.
Representative Gaines has brought
from Manila a stenographic report
of an interview with Senior Don
Buencamlno, a former member of
Aguinaldo's staff, in which the
Senior says of Senator Hoar, HE is
oetter fitted and has OWNED the
conditions in the islands better
than any other man."
President Roosevelt says at is
not true that as the rich have grown
richer the poor have grown poorer"
His statement is only partially true.
There is a point beyond which the
poor do not grow poorer. To do so
would be to starve, but it is true
that the aggregate number of the
poor has increased.
1t is announced that Vassill Yer
cstchagin, the famous Russian ar
fist, will devote two years to a
mammoth painting of Roosevelt
at San Juan We respectfully reco-
mend careful perusal of Mr.
Dunn's "Alone in Cuba" as the ar
lists surest means of acquiring the
proper expression, proportion and
perspective for his great work.
Those Republicans who are in
clined to oppose reciprocity with
Cuba should reflect that Cuba is
buying $37, 100000 worth of goods
year from countries other than
the United States; that her
trade with Germany has increased
$564,512 and decreased with the
United States ST, 164, $40 in the past
nine months.
Mr. Roosevelt refuses to pre-
scribe for the trust disease until lie
is in possession OF all the symp-
toms obtainable, and lie even adj
vises a constitutional amendment
if necessary to the complete dis
closure of the facts. 1t will be in
teresting to observe how promptly |
the members of his party in Con-
gress take his advice.
Mr.. Roosevelt's recommendation
tor the application of civil-service
reform rules to our insular posses
sions cannot be too promptly heed
ed. The American people and the
American form of government will
be judged by the people and the adj
ministration which our new possess
sions have the best opportunity of
during the next few
years.
In his annual report the Secreta-
nv Of War recommends an educa-
tional course for the Army officers,
which he says, if followed, will re-
suit in a university system of milf
tary education. His plan embraces
besides West Point, a school OF
instruction for officers
in theory and practice at every
ost, and war college for
the most advanced instruction in
Washington.
Evidence is accommodating rapidly
in support of the Democratic con-
tention that American government
in the Philippines is even more ex-
ira VACANT than was the Spanish
Six American Of
ice holders in Manila draw salaries
that aggregate $63,0OO, an average
IF $40, 500 apiece, 1t is not surpris-
ing that some OF the unenlightened
Philippines regard American owner
ship as an expensive luxury.
The spectacle of the dignified