El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-26
The Inimitable
ID. OF" Writes of
Washington Affairs

, formerly described as Hale of Spain
said he didn't want any more troops
sent to the Philippines and was in
favor of asking peace of the Filipino
leaders. Hale has never been the same
towards his unfortunate country since
the enforced hasty departure of Senior
Dupuy de Lone, the late Spanish min
ister-and of the Seniors immediate
family. Gallinger, who is thorough
going. all-wool. hardwood, pistol grip
damascened barrel, perfectly-gentle-
misunderstanding hot-water-and
gas-in-every-rOOm, warranted-to-rip
rave-and-ravel crank mounted on &C.
centric bearings, tried hard to secure
an amendment to the bill totally pro-
hibiting alcohol in the Philippine Is
lands. Stewart of Nevada, who is pref
ty sane on everything except silver
which is his business, told him that the
prohibition couldn't be enforced in a
civilized community like Wisconsin.
let alone semi-barbaric one like the
Land of the Goo-Goos.
Accession to 'U. S. Statues at Large. :"
We have an accession to the uni
ted States Statues at Large" as the cur
rent joke calls the potmetal effigies
standing around in the parks. 1t is a
colossal equestrian figure of Logan,
which has just come from Italy where
it was cast When it got to New York
there was trouble. The railroads re-
FUSED to haul it because it was too big
to pass the Baltimore tunnels; the
coastwise steamers couldn't accommo-
date 1t either on deck or in the hold,
and the sailing vessels were not anx-
ious to take fragile freight in stormy
season. Finally an ice-schooner
brought it here and it is, now on the
ground ready for erection. The pedes-
tai has been in place for year or so.
Dedication will take place in the spring
Our parks are gradually filling up
with statues and in a few years more
there will be none so poor as not to
boast one or two. Mostly they are
mounted and I understand that it was
only the threats of vigilance commit
tee which prevented Farragut's being
put on horseback. General Jackson is
down in front of the white house on
a horse perched on two legs, la the
rocking horse of our boyhood For
years it has been regarded as one of the
wonders of the world
on account of the way the sculptor
to balance the figure 1t was
done by filling the tail full of heavy
metal. Gen. Pike and Old Hahneman
were the latest acquisition before Lo-
gan. Why either of them should be
given a government reservation as a
site, gets me. Pike was a prominent
Mason, 1.-THE Masons paid for the
statue), a ninety-third rate poet and
a rebel general of not much greater
caliber. His principal feat during the
war was recruiting a lot of Indians.
They were all right as far as killing
and scalping the wounded went, but
when the federalS opened on them with
they lavanted in hurry.
Musketry they could stand in modera-
ton although they were not yearning
for it, but big guns they couldn't
abide. The Homeops put up the figure
Of Hahnemann which is better artisti-
cally than it is any other way. Hahne-
mann was man who did good deal
for the human race, but not in any
way that he planned. His chief merit
was in calling down the allopaths from
heir lofty stool. OF his doctrines no
race remains in modern homeopathy,
md the next homeopathic doctor you
meet will be ready to fight if you tell
him Hahnemann ascribed about one
bird of human diseases to the itch
Which is nevertheless perfectly true
And SO as 1 before remarked, 1 don't
see why a government reservation
should be devoted to either Pike or
There are plenty of good
lead Americans. patriotic ones, who
ire in urgent need of statues.
Ship Subsidies May Pass.
Ship subsidies may pass after all. if
he reported agreement is true. BY
he terms of this, the Standard Oil
ank steamers are cut out altogether
md the American line steamers put on
he basis of slower boats.
The pOstoff1ce has discovered a game
% beat the government in the annual
lead letter sales. The clerks who put
Up the packages of goods, misrepresent-
ID the contents of certain parcels in
he catalogue and then bid them in for
rate. AS result of which,
here are several vacancies in the dead
etter Office.
Army Men Much Interested.
Army men are much interested in
he West Point investigation, and the |
intention of congress to con-
vert the cadets into sedate and elderly
men by rule and precept. Mostly they
scout the whole thing as a farce As
)ne remarked to me: I've always been
lnder the impression that peppersauce
vas primarily meant. to be eaten. and
can't quite grasp the mental attitude
If man who thinks it is a slow poison
l la Lucrezia Borgia, killing after a
years interval" Also he remarked.
Quite irrelevantly. that the one thing
parliament couldn't do was to convert
man into a woman, and converting
1 boy into a man in a minute came
in the same class. l wasn't talking
about parliament but about congress,