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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-28
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

EMr. Bryan need not have gone TO.
Washington to learn that those WHO
propose to control the democratic.
party hereafter are against hi,u.--fn-
dianapolis Journal.
DGen. Funston is not afraid of tx-
| pressing his opinions any more than
he is of swimming Il river or capt usE sasy
an insurgent general. He appears as.
have natural love of (langer-W VASE
ngton Star.
ESecretary Wilson will continue %.
look after the interests of the farmers
as member of the presidents cabia=s-
1t would be difficult to find a man 90
, do his work as we'll as he is doing it
Cleveland Leader.
u Free traders are perfectly wiling
that the United States shall protect
/ foreign sugar growers, provided il ragz
be done by breaking down the meas
ures protecting our own sugar pro-
ducers.-St. Louis Globe Democrat
GTAlr. Bryan was interviewed sss
Washington recently and is quoted as
declaring that it was impossible to szs
at this time just what the principaa
issue of the democrats next time waeiea
be. 1T may be finance, the trust ques-
ton or that of Imperialism. 1t loaas
now as though this last would be sbe
issue" If Mr.. Bryan is permitted fss
make the platform there will be the.
old issue over again, and that viii he
Bryan himself. : Indianapolis News
Qnd.).
William J. Bryan wants the desR-
ocratic party to make Il fight on '.iai-
perialism" in the canvas of 1902. Suefa
democratic papers as the Atlanta Ca.-
stitution, the Nashville American and
the Memphis Commercial-Appeai tea
their party to steer clear of flag furliEg
in any shape. and to advocate the re-
tention of all the territory we have
On expansion, as well as on nearly ex-
cry great question, the democracy is
split near the middle. Mr.. Bryan is IA
hypnotic man, but he will hardly 3ita
able to commit his party to any sse9s
suicidal policy as the abandonment uf
the Philippines. The republicans habA
the winning side on all the great guess-
tions which will be before the couatssy
tbs year.--St. Louis Globs-D Democrat.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-28

their families, and their otherwise
bare feet We're wrapped imperfectly
in scraps of rags of every color and
description. Other portions of the
body were very thinly covered. 1t is
sight to behold q Mexican doing his
washing at some of the small towns
of six or seven houses on the arid
plains. Water is great luxury and,
fortunately perhaps, its scarcity does
not seem a great hardship. 1t is easy
to believe that many Mexicans put on
a garment and that it is never re-
moved until the wear and tear of time
serves in the capacity of valet. But
sometimes q reason is sufficiently ap-
parent for cleansing a garment, and
the process was witnessed by the
writer during one of those unaccount-
able rests taken by the trains passing
through Mexico, probably caused by
delay in removing drifting sand from
the tracks. The gentleman in question
appeared in the sand from nowhere
in particular with n quart tin dipper
of water and large piece of soap.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-28
Indian Etiquette,

1t was an actual desire for information
and no attempt to be funny that boy in
looking up from reading about 'squaw men
asked If white women who marry Indian
men were caller buck women We could
not answer why they We're not. Such a
name would be no more insulting to a wom-
an than the first appellation is to a man.
All Indian women are no more suuaws
than white women are wenches. The
name squaw emanated from squa,' an In
dian word OF Massachusetts, tribe meaning
woman, but it has since come to be used
commonly by illiterate people for Indian
women OF any tribe. No educated or re-
fined people use the word "squaw'' or
buck, and we advise our students when
we hear them not to pay any attention to
the speaker, but to mark him or her down
in their minds as person OF low breeding
Red Man and HELPER
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-28
SENATORIAL MALIGNANCE.
Efforts of Senator Teller to Cast
Odium on Gen. Funston's Bril-
liant Exploit.

The country has been furnished an
other remarkable illustration of the
contemplate attitude of anti-expan-
sionists in the senate towards our sol
diers in the Philippines. a few days
ago the senate went into executive
session to consider the treaty agreed
upon by The Hague peace conference
relative to the conduct of war on land
or sea. The provisions of the treaty
'elate to the use of expansive bullets,
poisoned arms, the treatment of
wounded, the treatment of flags of
truce, etc. One provision is that "ruses
OF war and the employment of meth
DDS necessary to obtain information
about the enemy and the country are
allowable" a spy was defined as fol-
lows: IAN individual can only be con
sidered spy if acting clandestinely,
or on false pretenses he obtains, or
seeks to obtain, information in the
zone of operations of belligeren..
with the intent of communicating it
to the hostile party" The treaty has
been agreed to and signed by "a gov
ernments. When it came up in the SEN
ate Senator Teller desired to know if
the American conduct of the war in
the Philippines could be justified under
this treaty, and especially whether, if
it had been in force at the time, the
method of Aguinaldo's capture could
have been justified. He quoted the
provision relating to spies. and said he
would like to be informed if under
it the course pursued by Gen. Funston
in the capture of Aguinaldo would be
justitiable. AS the treaty relates only
to the conduct of future wars, any in
quiry as to what had happened in the
Philippines was impertinent, says the
indianapolis journal. The only OBJ
ject of the inquiry was to cast odium
on the American troops and incident
ally to hold up Aguinaldo as MARTYR
The American people are familiar with
Gen. Funston's brilliant exploit, and
the whole civilized world has justified
it as fair act of war and as one of
the most skillfully planned and daring
ly executed military enterprises on
record. Gen. Funston's scheme was
not that of spy, but was "a ruse of
war;" which the treaty distinctly says
is allowable. He was not seeking to
obtain information in an enemy's lines
with the intention of communicating
it to the hostile party. He was after
the chief of the insurgents. and by TAX
ing his life in his hand and by the exer-
else of wonderful skill and daring he
got him. That Senator Teller should
go out of his way to drag in closed
incident for the purpose. as he hoped,
of casting odium on Gen. Funston
shows the malignant animus of those
who are trying to make a political is
sue out of the Philippine question.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-28
LIFE IN OLD MEXICO,
Aztec Civilization Has Left Its Inn
press on the Country.
Why the Natives of Our Sister Repub-
lie Should BE Studied Mt Re-
spectful Distance by Fin
zeal Tourists.
Especial Ell Paso (Tex.) letter.

lSpSCldl LII dSO N4CA.J ACltSA.l
N1OW that the opening up of rail
IN roads in Mexico has become so
much a thing of the past that
tourists have been enabled to write
SO Familiarity regarding the country,
the general reading public is very well
acquainted with the strange land and
its customs. Yet no one who has
known Mexico only on paper is in any
way prepared for what awaits him on
his first arrival upon scenes where the
old Aztec civilization still fingers,
touching everything lightly with
dreamlike suggestions of past of
which little is really known beyond
what tradition teaches and where even
the deeds of the Spanish invaders are
enveloped in the mistiness of languid
southern fancy. Nowhere else has the
spaniard so strangely grated himself
on the ancient population, for on no
other portion of the globe have such
peculiar conditions been present. The
Mexican himself furnishes course of
study not quickly mastered. His po-
likeness, which means nothing, his Sc
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stolidity of the Indian, his fire and
ardor in contrast with his languor and
his almost invariable rule of never
doing to-day what may be accom-
plished tomorrow, his picturesque APP
pearance, and, in the average citizen,
his diet and his peculiar odor lit is said
that even buzzard won't eat a dead
MeXican), together with the way he
takes his religion, which is intense
enough but distinctively his own, con-
stitute queer bundle of contradic-
tions. The women are just little
"more So than the men, especially as
to diet, languor and religion. They
hardly present so romantic an appear
ance, although the younger ones are
often very beautiful. The average
Mexican woman, over 80, is study in
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-28

obtained. The sugar-cane culture was
first introduced into Mexico by Cortez.
The whole surrounding country seems
dotted with patient little burros plod-
ding around everywhere.
Leon is manufacturing center. A
large proportion of the 10000 or TO-
900 inhabitants are engaged in their
homes (not congregated in factories)
in constructing useful or ornamental
articles for which there is good de-
mand. Beautiful costumes, rich SOM
breros, saddles heavily embroidered in
gold, or in colored silks and large guam
titles of gold lace, are manufactured
here. This is also the center of the
shoe trade. Hosiery and blankets are
also made, and rebosas and other gar
ments of wool, cotton or linen The
higher class Mexican women wear i'm
ported clothing, principally from
Paris, but in the country districts all
cling more or less to the mantilla for
the head, which is worn with much
grace. Leon is 100 or more years be-
hind the times. The inhabitants de-
pend for their newspapers upon the
City OF Mexico, "a hours distant. Only
small proportion of the population
can read, and, if they have sufficient
quantity of tortillas and frijoles to sat
isfy hunger, and rags enough to cover
them, they seem content. Astraw mat
or raw hide to sleep on are Injuries
among the poorer classes.
The old customs regarding courtship
still prevail largely throughout the
land. The lady while conversing with
her fiance must be attended by numer-
Gus relatives or pass the time of their
interviews behind grated window
while he stands, often on tiptoe, in the
street whispering his alteration to her
who is to him SO near and yet so far.
Although Leon is the largest town in
the state of Guanajuato, city bear
ing the latter name is the capital and
much more interesting. 1t is difficult
of access, being remote from the usual
lines of travel, but the resident gov.
ernor takes great pride in beautify-
ing his town. 1t contains a very ele-
giant theater, all the furnishings hay-
ing peeh imported from Paris, and it
has never been used because the inhab-
itants of Guanajuato are waiting for
President Diaz to come AMI open il.
Among the favorite drinks of the Mex
leans are aquadiente, poor sort of
brandy, and pulque made from the cac-
tus plant; also wine, beer, tea, coffee.
chocolate and lemonade. The food
does not present as much variety as the
resources of the country would seem
to indicate. Meat of poor quality is
used to excess, when the people are
rich enough to purchase it, at the ex-
pense of vegetables which could he
rendered much more appetizing. Eggs
or hueros form staple article of diet.
usually we'll seasoned With red pepper.
and chilli con hueros is only less popu-
lar than chilli con carne.
EDWARD JULIAN.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-28
FOR AND AGAINST BRYAN.
Democrats Divided on the Question
of the Former Candidates
Leadership.

Two things noted of Mr.. Bryan's
latest visit to Washington are very
suggestive. One is that his recep-
ton on the senate side of the capitol
was less cordial than on the house
side, and the other is that the young
er men of the party are the ones who
seek him out, says the Washington
Star.
Mr.. Bryan was never favorite
OF the democratic members of the
senate, and years seem not to de-
velop any fondness for him in that
quarter. His nomination in 1896 up
set some ardent senatorial hopes and
most carefully arranged senatorial
programme. The rousing young ora
tor from Nebraska was not on the
senatorial horizon when the nominal
ing convention met that year. Mr..
Teller carried the senatorial wishes
The idea was that what had failed
in 1872 with Horace Greeley in the
lead could win "a years later with
the senator from Colorado in the
lead. The republicans were to be di-
vided by nominating an eX-member
of their party for president, and in
that way defeated. But Mr.. Bryan,
with rafting stump speech, changed
the whole face of things. and sena-
tors he then discounted have never
forgiven him.
Mr.. Bryan has from the outset been
the choice of the younger men of the
party. They ''whooped it up for
him at Chicago at the time of his
first nomination. A young man him
self, handsome, confident, and elo-
quent, he appealed to them strong
ly. 1t tickled them greatly to see
him elbow his way to the front, and
displace veterans like Bland and
Boies and Blackburn; and when he
did so they seized the standards in
the convention hall and formed that
marching procession of bowling en-
thusiasts whose demonstration made
the nomination. And the young men
of the party are still very proud of
their young leader. They cling to
him even in defeat, and neglect no
oPpoi tuhitS w NSSlIiS W lllSll ttQlhl-
ration and devotion.
We see then in this the difficulty
under which the democratic party at
present labors. The older members
are anti-Bryan. They have support
ed him twice, but they see his short
comings as Il leader and are not pa
tient under a proposition to try him
again. Time is a great element in
sheir calculations. If they are to
witness the return of their party to
power. it must be soon. The younger
men are not disturbed by this con
sideration. They, too, want to win
but when Mr.. Bryan says that the
party can afford to wait for success
and must meanwhile stick to prin-
ciples, they hearken as to a man of
grit and character. Still, if success
is to be achieved, the older men and
the younger men must get together,
and under Mr.. Bryan or somebody
else work like the nation with but
one end in view. A party divided
against itself cannot win
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-28
He calmly removed his shirt, h,a Il on

He calmly removed his shirt, Hid Il On
a fiat rock, poured tiny and brief
stream Of water upon it and rubbed
the soap on vigorously. Then ha
struck it sharply with another piece
OF stone. He repeated the process TN
til the water in the dipper was ex-
hausted--and it lasted some time
then hung his garment on a cactus
plant and placidly seated himself in
the sun on the rock, which had served
as washtub and board, and rested
while it dried. He was still resting
when the train started, gazing with
dreamy eyes on mirage near the dis
tant horizon.
Many of the Mexican towns are most
beautiful, but of beauty not at all in
conformity with American notions of
thrift and progress. Cuernavaca is
about half days charming ride from
the city of Mexico, through scenery
bounded by mountains and gemmed
with lakes. The narrow streets of Gu
ernavaca, steep and tortuous, are
paved with clear, white cobblestones
over which tropical torrents dasl,
when it rains.
The red, pink, yellow and blue adobe
houses, with red-tiled roofs projecting
in wide caves, are surrounded by riot
Gus vegetation. Honeysuckle, coffee,
mangos and poinsettias fill the squares
and alleys and hide the garden walls.
The mornings and afternoons are de-
lightful and the nights rather cool,
while the midday sun is hot as in most
parts of Mexico. Being favorite re-
sort of Americans, there are Ameri-
can boarding places and hotels, but if
one desire to see more of the 'true in
wardness" of the country, he should
patronize q Mexican hotel where large
cool bedrooms paved with bricks are
lighted at night with but one forlorn
little candle. Most of the Mexican
houses of any pretensions have court.
yard orplazita in the center (the house
being built around i) and many OF
these are perfect wonderlands OF
beauty. Unless he can witness the real
home life of some good family, Wis
itor can never appreciate the true
beauty of Mexico. Cuernavaca, in fact
the whole valley, is portion of an es-
tate bestowed by Emperor Charles V.
upon Cortez. The palace built by the
latter, $50 years or more ago, now
serves as state government building.
Through the grand vistas of it's arched
corridors, magnificent views may lie
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-28

ugliness. The young children, espe-
cially in summer, look like little,
brown, animated statues with very
little effort at drapery. Among the
poorer classes, in some sections, the
children up to ten years old play
around without clothing. After that
age, manila lag or garment rese.n-
bling pillow slip with holes for head
and arms furnishes all the covering
deemed necessary.
1t is seldom that severely cold
weather is experienced in Mexico.
Some time since, however, in pass
ing through railroad town during
an unusually cold season, when icicles
hung from the water tanks, very
strange sight was presented to a
party of travellers. Vendors of fruit
still wore their broad, straw SOM
breros, but these were held down over
their ears by shawls, borrowed pre-
sumably from the lady members of
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-28
MisjudSeI,

"Ah!" said Mrs. Oldcastle, who was being
conducted through the magnificent picture
gallery of the new neighbours, this artist,
| see, belongs to the mpressionist school"
"Oh, no." replied Mrs. Meatenlard, Il
seen him when Thomas bought the paintin'
He don't belong to school, but has a little
room all by hisselt in an old buildin' down
near the river. Chicago Record Herald.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-28
Strenuous Meeting

did YOU meet the head of the house?"
asked the man with the soap samples
Me- sighed the book agent, who had
been booted from the porch, 81 think
must have met the foot Chicago Daily
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-06-26
SOWING IN THE WIND.

Here is a good bit of truth from
the Boston Globe:
"Those who are forcing high
Iprices of living and yet refusing
to pay wages to correspond will
yet find themselves face to face
with the whole American people.
Congress will be forced as things
are now drifting, to adopt drastic
measures. No tariff traditions
will be allowed to stand in the
way. The people will not endure
the strain forever. :"
The above speaks a prophecy
that the Republican party and the
trusts will do we'll to heed. Sow
ing to the wind they will rep a
whirlwind, as the numerous strikes
throughout the country indicate.
The oppression Of the poor by
these trusts in increased prices
on the necessities of life and the
hard exactions and small wages on
the part of the mine owners are
calculated to create unrest and
dissatisfaction which may result
in social upheaval.
The republican party with its
high tariff protects these trusts
ard is party to all the evils that
grow out Of them. The overthrow
of this party at the ballot box is
the only sure way to remedy some
of the legislation that inaugurates
such policies. This will come, or
revolution one or the other.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-06-26
A MELANGE OF
LIVE TOPICS
Penned for Journal Readers
by a Local Scribe.
SETTLED AT LAST.

President Samuel Spencer of the
Southern railway has written
letter to Governor Gambler declin-
ing to become tenant of the state
OH the terms proposed, in the pas
senger station which the last leg
islature passed a law to erect upon
the present site. Mr.. Spencer
gives as one of the principal rea-
sons of his objection to station
upon the present site the fact that
the Central and Georgia railroads
own a part of the station and
some of the land upon which it
stands and that the state cannot
constitutionally act alone in the
erection of the new station. This
is exactly the position that the
writer has taken ever since the
legislature passed the depot law.
1t seems now that the state is to
be spared the useless expenditure
of half million dollars for STA
ton which it would not have
owned and which would have been
abandoned in fifteen or twenty
years. The tax payers of Georgia
have every treason to thank Mr..
Spencer for lifting this burden
from their shoulders provided the
supreme court should not have
given the whole scheme a knock
out blow.
The Southern announces that it
will build at it's own expense a
station to cost 100000 on it's
property OH Mitchell street and
that all the roads entering Atlanta
will be invited to occupy it with
the former system. Work will
begin i'll three months. By the
way did you notice that most of
the enthusiastic supporters of the
railroad bill in the legislature
failed of reelection in the late
primary? Roland Ellis, Toomer
and other prominent legislators
were evidently remembered for the
part they had taken in this matter.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-06-26
THAT SURRENDER.

Evidences continue to accumu-
late that extraordinary induce
ments were held out Ito the Beers
to cause them to surrender to the
British. Up to the present nearly
thirty thousand of the former have
laid down their arms and are
cheering Justify for King Edward
and swearing that they will fight
for him against the French or
Germans. Three months ago it
was stated that there were only
eleven thousand Beers under arms
against the British. In point of
fact there were three times that
number all in a condition to con-
tinue the war Indefinitely. Bourke
Cochran declares that John Bull
realizing that he could not con-
quer the Beers paid them to sur
rendet so as to save his prestige.
1t does seem a little suspicious
that the Beers from being the most
intense haters of the British should
so suddenly develop into such
loyal subjects of King Edward.
However, the writer believes
that if in point of fact they are
bona fide British subjects they are
far better situated than they wsre
as an independent nation.
RADIUS VICTOR.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-06-26
PANAMA IT Is.

Just as the writer predicted six
weeks ago the Panama route has
been selected for the inter-oceanic
canal to be built by the United
States. This is not a party meas
ure though most of the Democrats
voted for Nicaragua and most of
the Republicans for Panama.
Nearly all of the Southern Demo-
Gratis voted for the former route
presumably for the reason that
Senator Morgan is of the opinion
that it would be more favorable
for this section.
The South does not now receive
from the government what it de-
sires where the interests Of the
two sections conflict. AS North
ern business interests are not in
terested in the permanent reten-
ton of the Philippine islands the
writer expects to see them aban-
doned Notwithstanding the bust
ness men of the South seem t.
consider them necessary to the
prosperity of this section. view
which the writer believes to be I'm.
founded.