Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-03-28

Hanna dates from his failure to jam
the subsidy steal through the Senate.
General Botha does not know
peace when it futters over him He
is not accustomed to the rustic of
white witgs.
The steel trusts capitalization is
bigger than the bonded debt of the
United States, but the latter is not
so highly irrigated.
The Hawaiian Legislature is hes
itating between the native aud the
English tongue, and the Speaker is
not able to keep order in either.
Only trust promoters have SO far
been mentioned as Mr. Grigg's suc-
cessor. The trusts can be trusted to
attend to the reflling of that place.
Imperialism may be growing
danger, but it doesn't at least look
as if the country this year was go
ing to suffer from baseball famine.
Owing to an unfortunate entan-
clement of interests, this distracted
country will have to get along with
out vice admirals for further indef-
mite period.
Andrew Carnegie founds libraries,
and Willie Wallie Astor writes
books that no intelligent censor
would admit to them.
Members of Congress from the
Philippines will not care much who
makes the laws so long as they can
draw the mileage.
A railroad switch is not big enough
to throw two big nations into col
ision, although it may make head
on collusions among a few officials
The politicians who gathered at
Benjamin Harrison's funeral could
not refrain from discussing Fair
banks chances for the succession.
When the Cuban constitutional
convention rejects the Platt terms
of the army bill, what will be the
situation then? Will the next move
be by General Gomez on General
Wood?
This increasing interest in geneal-
ogy and the publication of ancestral
records is proof that when some
now look for their family trees they
don't take to the woods.
In the presumable absence of
other matters for disagreement in
opinion, certain Free Baptists up in
New Hampshire are much agitated
over the pork eating issue.
General Macarthur again assures
us that the war is over in the Philip
pines. Over in the Phili-why, SO it
is. Strange none Of us ever caught
onto Macs little joke before. And
it bids fair to continue over there
| for some time.
What with Senator Morgan defy.
ing Great Britain, Pierpont Morgan
organizing gigantic trusts, and Gun
ner Morgan the central figure of the
Sampson trouble, the Morgan family
have been monopolizing the centre
of the stage.
E'They are the warmest things in
the bunch" admiringly exclaimed
the President as the West Point
cadets gallantly swung past the re-
viewing stand. eyes," they're gen
uine Tobasco sauce" replied Mr..
Cortelyou, and let it go at that.
The length of time the United
States Supreme court has been sit
ting on that Porto Rican case leads
to the suspicion that it is trying to
give the administration chance to
put the halter on Cuba good and
strong before anything happens.
| Not until now did the country
know how well it wrought when il
elected Cleveland President the last
time. But for this Chauncey DepeN
would have been secretary of state
The s.Peach" says SO himself, il
paying tribute to the late ex Pres
ident Harrison.
One of the brightest boys in Wash
! ington bears this name, inflicted c1
him in moment of pride by his ia
ther,a Congressman-Thomas Brack
ett Reed Mudd Before the ssczar
retired from Washington life b
aroused the ire of t.Tommy's" ia