The semi-weekly messenger., 1901-11-19
CLEANING AND COMMENT.

In Europe the beet sugar crop is very
important. There is an increase of
about five hundred and fifty tons over
the preceding year. The product of
Germany is estimated at 1,979,09S tons.
of Austria 1,094,O43 tons; of France
1,170,332 tons; of Russia $4,000 tons
and other. European countries nearly a
million tons. The crop is increasing in
the United States, and the total output
of the world for 1901, is placed at $780,
900 tons.
Major General John r. Brooke, U. S.
army, is very warm old fellow. He
is certainly hot in the collar" In
recent speech he out-Heroded Herod.
and went beyond General Sir Redvers
Buffers recent imprudent speech that
retired him from the army on half pay,
and probably serves him right. Gen.
eral Brooke is extreme. He is one OF
those gay and festive expansionists Of
whom you may read some times. He
praised England for all her conquests.
He prophesies that the "Anglo-Saxon
throughout the whole world" He sees
no special wrong doing of the British
and Kitchener in Africa, considers the
part played by the United States in the
Philippines of a keeping with that of
the British in South Africa. The Wash
ington Post is an expansion organ and
lashes Brooke for his folly. 1t says
among other things:
But General Brooke spoke, as we un-
derstand it, to Englishmen. He was
under no obligation save that of ten
dering a polite acknowledgment of
hospitality. And yet he went out of his
way to insult the United States army
by setting up parallel between it's op-
erations in the Philippines and the mon
strOuS barbaritieS Of the British in
South Africa
A great many intelligent Americans
and not a few foreigners see much re-
semblance between the conduct of
Britain and the United States in their
two wars.
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That very rich and generous Scots
man, Andrew Carnegie, has returned
from his Scottish castle to his home at
Pittsburg, Pa. He has increased his al
ready large benefactions to that city by
adding on last Tuesday $4,000, 900. He
is planning grandly for the Polytechnic
school for that city. Up to now he has
given away $4,000 900. The Pittsburgh
institute gets $6,OO0.OOO. He came to
this country a poor Scotch boy. By the
huge benefits of a high robber tariff he
built UP his colossal fortune. He says
now-"I am out Of business: I have re-
formed" AS evidence of this he now
actually talks for "a lower tariff" He
opposes the isthmian canal scheme and
declares that a double railroad track
is better. He says: 'I have heard
something of the forming of an English
steel trust. The English are not in
clined to combine. 1t has been said
himself Instead of reciprocity
which will be difficult to arrange he
thinks. he says that the best policy is
to reduce duties. Washington's policy
was the best: Friends of all. allies of
none.'"
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Assassination of rulers has become a
mania among anarchists. After the
Staying of two or three crowned heads
or high officials in Europe, the anarch-
lists murdered the amiable American
president. and now an assassin seeks
the life Of the empress dowager of Chi
na- The assassin killed one of her suite
and was cut down. If he had succeeded
1t is suggested that China might have
had its history revised, as she is re-
sponslble for the repressive spirit that
prevails in that old country, instead of
having the progressive movement of
Japan.
Iammany is very heavy loser by
the political defeat it got recently in
New York city. 1t is placed in dolalrs
at S4S.O00.0 .00G. The officials under its
control contributed a large amount, and
the pay Of many of the chiefs was enor-
nous, many times more than the CORE
spono1ng salaries under the United
States government The officers num-
Der 45,344, filled by many claquers. The
distribution in part of the moneys is
thus given:
Salaries to policemen, SIC, ,S02, ,639:
salaries to overseers and workmen em-
$sSz. 60