The Washington times., 1901-07-17
POLITICAL COMMENT.

If Admiral Sampson is to be covered
with glory. why not permit him to wear
the entire output of Santiago medais?-
Philadelphia Times
| General Barleycorn is proving himself
more effective outside the breastworks
| World.
1t is worth remembering that the great
dispute between the engineering trades
and their employers in England four
years ago, similar to the strike now
! threatened in America, gave the manu-
featuring interests of England a setback
from which they have never recovered
| Syracuse Post
Some question as to whether Mr.. Pier
pont Morgan intended using England as
coaling station having arisen, we take
| time to remark that Mr.. Morgan will II
he can. Should there be any further
| doubt in the matter the doubters need
! only look at the uses to which he is put
| ting the United States in the same line
| OF business. not forgetting incidentally to
note the prices he Is charging the while
Philadelphia Inquirer.
II McKinleyism is dominant in the Re-
| publican party after the Congressional
elections of 1892. Mr.. Hanna. with his con-
troll of the party machinery thereby
strengthened and enlarged, can probably
] take the Republican nomination for Presi-
dent IL he wants IT.. His chance would
= be better than any mans yet mentioned.
Albany Argus.
7 Did Carrie Nation do it? She said she
would make Kansas dry State, and it
I Is sure enough dry.-Atchison Globe.
! Judge Day asserts that this nation
I should spread abroad liberty and expand
! markets. but should not gather in land
j
/ not look out he will get himself de-
nounced as q small American.-Pittsburg
I Dispatch.
! 1t should be borne in mind that the long
deadlock at Pekin is not due to any re-
! luctance on the part of China to agree
| to the terms of the Powers, but the ina
: bility of the Powers themselves to agree
as to what they want. Months ago the
United States proposed that the differ
The Hague, and there Is an increasing
I probability that that course will finally
+ be taken.-Boston Journal.
! All the other millionaires are giving
! away great wads of money but no hint
of benefactions from Pullman porters is
heard.-Mexican Herald.
! 1t certainly is up to the Mckinley
I Administration to begin decided agita-
| ton to secure a noticeable increase in
our export trade with the Philippines.
VIII the chief orators of the party in
power at Washington see to 1t that this
/ needed work is done without delay?-Bos-
! ton Globe.
| Mr.. Carnegie could make a great hit
with the union labor men of the coun-
| try by giving them a million or so with
| which to fight the Steel Trust magnate3.
boston Herald.
1t is to be hoped that none of the am
! bilious gentlemen who aspire to fame
as the author of that despatch to Dewey
will go so far to put in a claim for
I prize money.-Philadeiphia Bulletin.
! About the worst care Of contempt of
court is that of a Kansas paper which
refers to the Supreme Court Justices as
eminent guys in Mother Hubbard
! gowns. Chicago Tribune.
| The Eastern press Is demanding the
resignation of Willis Moore. Chief of the
Weather Bureau. merely because he can't
predict the weather The very ideal Why,
I that kind OF reasoning, carried to its log
| ical conclusion. would abolish the whole
/ Weather observation-disclosures City
Journal.
In New England they grow wrappers
and good ones, but no filters. In Porto
Rico We grow filters and good ones, but
no wrappers We ought rot to be at
war. we should be friends.-San Juan. p.
r.. News.
| The fifty representative Cinnamon who
are coming to the United States 10 visit
Minister WI will be most cordially re-
ceived- Uncle Sam believes there is much
good in the old Empire, and, in spirit
of kindly justice, will strive to assist it
| to its feet.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The first evidence of the civilizing in
fiuence of expansion is seen in the Oma-
ha bullfights.-Philadelph Ledger.
1t is in labor fights as il is in national
wars. the sinews are dollars and cents
| Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The effect of British barbarity has been
| just the reverse of what was intended and
| expected. The destruction of homes and
desoiation of the country, instead of dis
couragirg the Beers and convincing them
! of the hopelessness of keeping up their
| fight for independence, have only confirm
| ed them in the desperate resolve to die
rather than submit to British rule.-Phila-
| delphia North American