Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-07-05
NOTINGS.

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complement that is single fact-that
if Mr. Mckinley had not adopted a
warlike policy in the Philippines. or
had not, 10 fact, bought the Philip
pines at all, ard if at the same time
the American people had continued to
pay their taxes without murnur,
this country would today have no
public debt al all. Thick Of it. We
might have been the only great coun-
try in the world without a dollar Of
public indebted ess, and therefore
free from the obligation to pay $50,
600, COO year Of interest money. Th is
is the result that might have been
acco nplished with the money that
has been thrown away in killing from
10, coo to loo, 600 Filipinos during the
last three years. Hartford Times.
The high.tsriif papers continue to
belahor Secretary Gage fer his Gus
tons decision against Russia and
Italy. This is unfair and indicative
of the spirit which hunts q scapegoat
for its own blunGcrs. Mr. Gage Is
merely enforcing the lan whicn they
helped promote AMI now Defend
Springfield Republican.
Col James kilbourue of Columbus
eoSily leads in the contest for the
Ohio Democratic nomination for gov.
ernOr. He has far mare pledges
delegates than all others put toget1.
er, but the politicians are predicting
that he will have to he better bar.
monizet with Tom johnson than he is
supposed to be in o.Cer to win. The
Convention comes rpVt geek
The long delayed biography OF John
Andrew, the great war governor Of
massachusetts, who was in Office from
1851 TO 1856, Is in progress of making.
1t was pointed out, the other day,
that the Philadelphians who want
honest municipal government will
have to light 10th the Iarty oragniza-
tinns for it. The one is as corrupt as
the other there isn't pennys choice
between the Republican Ashhridges
and Durhams and the Democratic
Dnnnellys and Ryans. Representative
Paul has icst given public evidence
on this head. He is the only Phla
delphia Democrat who sat in the
Pennsylvania House his year. II
simply want to tell you what | know
of some of your laalers, he says to
his Democratic constituents. "They
have never couneeled me to vote for
one good measure, but always for
measures that coull not honestly
uphold. '-IIsrtford Courant.
The majority report of the committee
on suffrage 10 the Alabama constitutions
al convention favors the "grandfather
plan for solving the problem for negro
and thus follows the |
example set by Louisiana and North |
Carolln.. a strong minority report, |
signed by four members, among them |
being former Gov " Z Oates. opposes |
the plan on the ground that 1.-THE grand
father clause . . violates the federal |
by undertaking, by indirect
means. TO abridge the riaht to vote.
The same objection to the grandfather
clause was urged ia the Louisiana and |
North Carolina conventions but with
ont avail. A decision from the United
States supreme court must be obtaioed
to decide the question of constitutional
ity, and the sooner it is obtained the
better.
The Philadelphia Press is authority for the
that over Sl.0O0.00O was spent in
corrupting members of the last Pennsylvania
'>VEislh'uit> Witch l. ulstlHSll>ntu as the
most renal and INSCRIPTIONS ever known in
hat state, and hence in the Union. Votes on
behalf of quay organization of the Legisla-
lure, and then for the various ripper" ami
ranchise-grab bills. are said TO have COM
handed as hi2h rs $4,000 each in cases, and
$4,000 and 100000 were common payments.
Many of the legislators return home with in
fortunes As a result of the sessions
work.
Prof Johnston of the University of Kansas
ms discovered a means 10y which he expects
o make the negro white. Prof Johnston's
method consists OF inoeulating the negro with
he germs of leuetis, or albinism, harmless
disease which produces those oddities of !
lature- known as albinos. The principle is /
hat il stops the deposit of allowing matter In c
he skin. Prof Johnston recently worked his J
discovery on a negro with success. The ewes
lone did not change their color