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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-05-01
IT TROUBLES THE M
The Trust Question begins to Come
Close Home to the Pockets
of the People.

The trust question threatens to re-
solve itself into a national stomach
trouble. And if it does the popular
view of it will be rapidly and radically
changed.
As to iron, steel, copper, tin, wire,
nails and hardware generally, the peo-
pie NAV listen more or less patiently
to the proposition that trusts are
beautiful and heneticent agencies for
lessening the cost of production, rails
ing wages and cheapening prices. But
no argument will avail to reconcile the
mass of mankind to the disappearing
beefsteak, the vanishing lamb stew and
the shrinking ration of pork, says the
New York World. Owen Meredith
shrewdly says of man that
.He may live without love-what is passion
but pining?
But where is the man that car live without
dining?"
The beef trust has done more in a
fortnight to set the people thinking
keenly and deeply on the problem of
monopoly than all the trusts that ma
nipulate unedible things put together
could possibly do. Steak at 25 cents a
pound is the price that staggers hu-
manity." 1t is the anti-climax of "the
full dinner pail" The subtleties of the
economists will be swept away like
cobwebs when people are forced to
weigh them against a lean larder and
a pinched bill of fare.
History abounds with illustrations
Of the fact that whoever and whatever
interfere between man and his meals
invite disaster. The French revolution
began with a cry for food under the
windows of the kings palace. 1t was
the bread riots of half-fed England
that forced a tory government to re-
peal the taxes on corn in very fear of
what might happen if it did not. The
American people, having always been
the best-fed people in the world, will
resent all the more fercely the arti-
fetal dearness and scarcity of food
which the trusts are conspiring to ere
ate.
IL IneTe ls any Pidctlcdl Ieihedy LOT
this piratical raid on the peoples food
supplies in the federal antitrust laws
| President Roosevelt and Attorney Gen
eral Knox cannot o to apply it too
quickly. "The full dinner pail was a
conquering cry. THE empty dinner
plate" would be a still more decisive
slogan. prosperity" will lose all its
s%pell-binding power if the trusts are
able to maintain extortionate prices on
meat, poultry, butter and eggs and put
the people on short food allowance
amid the overlooking plenty of the
most plentiful land on which the sun
shines.
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POINTS AMI OPINIONS.

should the paramount issue i'll
the next campaign be the control of
the trusts and the related questions
of the tariff and the shipping subsidy
steal it will mean victory for the
democratic ticket. 49, Peoria Herald
Transcript.
-Protectionists in this country
who jubilate over the protectionist
trend of the British budget ought not
to forget that the new grain duties
will hit the American farmer in the
corn belt worse than a drought. And
that can be nothing to be glad about.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Unless we read the signs of the
times altogether incorrectly all eff
forts to make anti-imperialism the par
amount issue will fail, although it will
be an important issue. On the tariff
reform proposition all democrats can
get together, no matter how widely
they split in 1896. And when they get
together on a sane platform they will
be reinforced by thousands of repub-
Leans who now see the error of their
protection ways.-Toledo Bee.
"A tariff for protection to "infant
industries and to maintain Ameri-
can wages" is one thing; a tariff that
breeds trusts and empowers them to
take the American people by the throat
and make them pay more for the prod
ucts of their own soil and industry
than foreigners 5000 miles away is
quite another thing. The days of the
tariff for trusts only are numbered.
The people are ready to demand a
share in their own prosperity.-N. Y.
World.
1t is time that congress stripped
the mask of benevolent assimilation
from this administration. Let the peo-
ple have all the facts so carefully con-
cealed and so unblushingly denied by
the war department. Let them see
what really has been done in their
name in the torture of noncombatants,
the murder of prisoners. the burning
unfortunately of all dwellings in
| villages where some few "insurgents'
have been found. 1t is a bad story, but
when the people find out how bad il
is they will also find a remedy.--Bos'
ton Post.
The solution of the trust prob.
lem will be provided once the intelli.
renee of the American people is thor.
oughly aroused to- the necessity OF
graphing with this great evil. 1t is
not to be controlled" because give
the selfish few an ell and they will
take a mile. Give them the power to
organize in Communities of interest,"
and when the people become thor
oughly aroused they will loosen the
screws a bit only to tighten them w
again when the people c more slum'
Der. Destruction, not regulation, i,
the remedy for the trusts - nmahs
! World-Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-05-01
A REL LETTER DAY.
Triumph of the Democrats Over Re-
publicans i'm the Cuban
Tariff Battle.

The democrats in the house of rep
resentatives have scored a signal vic
tory over their opponents.
Standing at last, with a few unim-
portant exceptions. shoulder to Shout
der, the democrats divided and disor-
ganized the republicans, broke the
autocracy Of the speaker and amended
the Cuban reciprocity measure with a
provision abolishing the differential
tariff on sugar.
This is certainly more than the most
optimistic democrat dared hope to &C
complish we weeks ago, and is only a
foretaste of what the minority may yet
do if it shall continue to present the
compact front which it maintained in
the battle, says the Louisville Courier
Journal.
1t had been feared that there would
be serious division among the demo-
Gratis themselves on the proposition to
reduce the tariff in favor of Cuba; but
on the final vote only ten stood against
it. The result is a brilliant victory for
the united party, and whether or not
the bill as passed by the house gets
through the senate. the party victory
remains, and its inspiriting effect is
bound to be lasting and great.
The differentiaI duty on sugar, as all
who are posted in tariff legislation un-
derstand, is the difference between the
duty on raw sugar and the higher duty
on refined sugar. This is the duty
which the sugar trust has always de-
manded and has always got. The dem
ocrats now. in passing through the
house a repeal of that differential rate,
have struck the trust a strong blow
and have taken an important step to-
ward making the sugar tariff more a
tariff for revenue and less a tariff for
protection. while they have forced the
republicans to align themselves openly
in defense of the trust. 1t is from
every standpoint the most telling tri-
umph achieved by the democratic mi
nority in years.
Mr.. Payne, the leader of the repub-
lican majority, says that this amend
rnent to the reciprocity bill carries
with it IA repeal of the countervailing
duty as well as of the d~itferential duty.
If that is true. so much the better. The
countervailing duty is the extra duty
which must be placed upon sugar on
which the government of the producer
pays an export bounty; in other words,
it is the result of that phase of pro-
lection which refuses to allow the
American consumer to get the benefit
of the generosity of a foreign sugar
producers government in partially
paying the American tariff tax. If Mr..
Payne is right, the democrats did a big
ger days work than they were aware
of themselves.
1t is likely that the amended bill will
have rough sailing in the senate. The
sugar trust is very strong in that body,
but even though the measure be finally
passed without the house amendment
the tactical advantage which the house
democrats have won cannot be dimin'
ished. 1t was a red-letter day for the
democrats in congress.
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garrisons had been established in Panay.
Leyte, Cebu, Negros, Samar and other is
lands. Gen. Miller had captured Iloilo on
February IL; Bacolod, in Negros, was taken
by Col. Smith, and on February p Cebu
was taken by Capt. Cornwall, OF the Petrol.
On August "a Gen. Bates returned to
Manila from the Sulu group and announced
the signing Of an agreement with the sultan
extending American authority over the en-
tire group.
Campaign followed campaign rapidly, but
there was little severe fighting for the
American troops. On October 2, 1899, came
the first overtures for peace on the part
of the insurgents, but the attempt was
looked upon by American officers merely as
an effort to gain some recognition of the
Filipino government and was futile OF any
result.
On November l a movement was begun
against Tarlac, then the insurgent capital.
Mabalacat was the first place captured.
and on the following day, November 8.
San Fabian fell into American hands, and
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81, but Aguinaldo had moved his govern
ment to San Fernando, and upon his de-
parture fired the government buildings.
The victory was a signal one, however, as
it resulted in the capture Of subsistence
stores valued at one and a half million dol
lars.
The American troops continued to push
northward toward the new rebel capital
rapidly, and on April 10 was fought the
battle of Santa Cruz, which place was cap
tured on April %, and on May 5 San Fer
nando fell into the hands of the American
troops. The capture of this place prac-
tically closed the campaign to the north
of Manila until the close of the rainy sea-
son. Gen. Lawton's command returned to
Gen. MacArthur's lines on May "a after
having marched a distance of l20 miles,
fought % engagements, taken 2S towns,
captured and destroyed 100000 bushels of
rice, and with a loss of only 6 killed and
81 wounded.
But the intrepid officer, who was later to
lose his life in the conflict, was not al
lowed to rest his troops. He was assigned
to command an expedition against Gen. Pho
del Pillar, who was operating around the
shores Of Laguna de Bay, and from the
third OF June to the thirteenth Of the same
month succeeded in driving the insurgents
not only from the shores of this body Of
water, but from around the shores Of Ma.
Mia bay as well, and soon after had driven
the enemy from every stronghold in Cavite
province.
Gen. Macarthur opened the second cam
paign to the north of Manila on August O.
when he moved against Angeles. Bacolor
was first captured, and on August 10 the
army arrived before the intrenchments al
Angeles. The place was captured with Q
loss of but two killed and IL wounded
During the same time Gen. Young hac
taken the towns Of San Mateo, Balcuag and
Quingua.
While American troops had been fight
ing the insurgents in Luzon the rebellion
had spread to other islands and insurgent
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after his last ship was well past that they
thought to give battle to the daring Yam
KEGS and then sent a few harmless shots
after them.
Day had not yet broken when Cavite was
reached, and Dewey quietly awaited its
coming. When the sun rose in the east
instead of Immediately beginning the de-
struction of the Spanish ships that lay be-
fore him the daring sailorman preferred to
play with his enemy, and SO weighed anchor
and sailed up to the defenses of Manila with
which he exchanged a few shots as a mat
ter of international courtesy, then returned
to give more detailed attention to the Span
ish feet.
1t was carly even when he got back again
to Cavite, so early that it was only 10 min
utes past six, when, with the Olympia $500
yards from the enemy's ships, he uttered
those historic words:
"When you are ready, Gridley, fire."
Instantly the eight-inch guns of the good
cruiser broke forth in smoke and flame, and
began raining a shower of steel projectiles
upon the Spanish ships. Gradually the
American feet drew closer. Submarine
mines exploded in front of them, but they
did not waver. The Spanish gunners an
swered the challenge of the Olympia's guns
with a shower of projectiles of equal size,
but without doing any considerable damage.
As the American boats got within closer
range the smaller guns added their roar
to that of the larger ones, and the terrific
fire was kept up until 1885 when Dewey felt
that he had had enough for a beginner, and
not wanting to spoil good thing too soon,
quit for breakfast, and a pull at the pipe
or cigar.
1t was not until 1880 that he again went
at the Spaniards. He had furnished suf-
6cient sport for his sailormen, and now
intended to finish the job in a hurry and
put the enemy out Of their misery without
further loss of time, and before it could
interfere with his dinner arrangements.
The midday meal would be served aboard
the flagship at one, and it was necessary
that the job be completed and the muss
cleared up before that time. To accomplish
this every gun, big and little, that could
be brought into play, was used, and it was
but little more than an hour before all Of
the Spanish ships were either lying at the
bottom of the bay or destroyed, and at
1890 a white flag run up over the Spanish
batteries at Cavite proclaimed their sur
render.
As they do things on board an Amer
lean man-of-war 80 minutes was ample time
in which to attend to the wants OF the
few slightly wounded and prepare dinner to
which Admiral Montojo was invited, but
declined.
The Spanish loss was II s%hips-their en-
tire Asiatic squadron-and 6lS men either
killed or wounded.
For that little mornings work Admiral
Dewey gave to the United States something
like l25,00O. square miles of territory, and
secured for himself the thanks Of the Amer
lean people and the rank Of admiral in the
American navy-and not an American
sailorman killed or an American vessel seri
cIsly Injured.
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ornaments of silver bullion. OF far more
influence were the priests, an influence that
was much more often exercised for good
than for bad, and many evidences of their
rule are to be found throughout the is
lands in the shape Of roads and bridges, 10
be sure the natives were taxed Tor far more
Of these conveniences than were built, but
it is a question if any would have been built
had it not been for the priests.
The real government OF the islands lay in
the hands of the governor-general, a crown
~anpointee. He was assisted by a council
Of state. The minister of the colonies at
Madrid was the direct head of the gov,
ernment, as he was of all the Spanish col
onies. but he was assisted by an advisory
council for the Philippines, residing in
Madrid, and to this council was specially
lntrusted the interests of the Philippines.
The islands could never be properly
termed a Spanish colony. They were held
only as a military possession. To extort
moneysfrom the people, under the various
forms of taxation that cunning and rapacity
had devised, was the sole purpose of Spain
and the business and object of the govern.
mental officers that were maintained there.
How much these eXtortions amounted to
will never be known outside of Spanish Of.
fetal circles, but there were but few Span
ish officials sent to the islands who did
not return to Spain with a competence.
the greater part of which was the result OF
various forms of bribery and official dis
honesty.
He-"This new table-tennis fad gives mt
a pain" She-"Sort of ping.pong pang
.lt' 0,+,pr
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Resources
of the
Philippines

pnIIlnnInPE AFhNA W -A1bA uha 81
authority on all the
far eastern countries,
says "a richer isolated land or group OF
islands, viewed comparatively as to area and
population, variety of agriculture, mineral
and forest resources undeveloped, in addi-
tion to those already improved, annot be
pointed out on the map OF the world"
That paragraph gives in a general way
the wonderful resources of the Philippines.
The soil of the islands is of phenomenal fer
tlity, but its capacities have been most
imperfectly developed, neither the natives
or the Spaniards seemingly never thinking
OF the future. When even improperly cultl-
waited as it has been it produces bountiful
crops of tropical staples, such as sugar, to-
bacco, rice, cocoa, gums of various kinds,
arrowroot, indigo, cotton, pepper, CO.
clinical, betelroot, areca nut, cocoanuts.
cocoanut oil and the Manila hemp so well
known to commerce. OF this product be-
tween 100000 and zoe, 900 bales are exported
annually, of which practically one-half
comes to the United States. The annual
value of the hemp crop exported is about
$1,000, 900.
The mineral resources of the islands are
as yet almost an unknown quantity. Gold,
copper and coal are all found, but as yet
in limited quantities. Native legends are
authority for the tales of fabulously rich
gold mines, but these lave never been
found. 1t is said that gold formed the CHIEF
product of Luzon as far back as the third
century, and to-day it is mined in sew,
eral sections of the island. Paracale
is the center of the gold mining industry.
and is a village that is but little known
of to the majority of the people of the is
lands excepting the Chinese traders who
purchase the product of the mines and dis.
pose of it secretly in Hong-K Kong or Annoy
1t is so far removed from the centers O
population that even the Spanish officials
ever looking for something to tax, failed tt
seriously disturb it. Cebu, M'ndora
Panaon and Mindanao are all said to b,
rich in gold deposits. .
LuZon produces some copper, but thu
mines, all of which are worked by natives
are not of sufficient value to warrant de
velopment on a large scale, and the indus
try will probably continue a primitive one
There are comparatively few coal deposit
known in the islands. Cebu has a Unite
coal belt of rather inferior quality, and ar
other coal field of some magnitude and G
better quality is located in the island c
Masbate, not far from the coast. Thi
latter field has been worked to some exten
by a local steamship owner who secured fue
for his ships from this field so long as tn
native laborers could secure it by the us
of crowbars only. When the vein ran b.
meath the ground, so that tunneling wa
necessary. the field was abandoned, FRA,
tically all the coal found in the islands
however, is not true coal but Ignite, BIT
experts claim there is no reason why tn
better mineral should not be found in pa.
ing quantities.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-05-01
May / four years
ago Admiral Dewey
won his memorable
victory in Manila bay
Battle
Of
Manila Bay

-A try a new island en-
pire in the far east.
The enthusiasm with which the news OF
that victory was hailed in the United States
has seldom, if ever, been equaled since the
day that marked the close of the long civil
war. So great has been its effect upon
American policies that we can afford to
pause for a moment to rehearse its impor-
tant details.
The admiral, then a commodore, was a
man of action, and no sooner did he re-
ceive the news that war had been declared
than he sailed from Hong-Kong with his
squadron, consisting of the Olympia, his
flagship, Capt. Charles V. Gridley; the Ra-
leigh, Capt. Joseph B. Coghlan; the Balti-
more, Capt. Nehemiah M. Dyer; the Bos-
ton, Capt. Frank Wildes; the Monocacy,
Commander Oscar w. Farenholt; the Con
cord, Commander Asa Walker, and the Pc
trel, Commander Edward p. Wood, for
Manila.
The Spanish feet was lying at Cavite in
Manila bay when the intrepid American
sailor entered to give battle. He was an
unexpected guest, the Spaniards not being
used to such energy as it took to put the
American feet into the Philippine harbor
at so early a date. They had failed to pre-
pare for his reception and he sailed past
Corregidor island, containing what was
supposedly impregnable defenses, almost
before the garrison were aware of his
presence in the vicinity. 1t was not until
phofo Hnprriuht 1N0 bv ClinpdiDgf
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Spain must credit
Some Magellan with her
Philippine i[ppines. That II at bold
History explorer sailed around
Cape Horn, crossed
the Pacific and landed
on the island of Cebu in 1921, where he
attempted to take possession in the name
of Spain, but was killed in a skirmish with
the natives. The ships of Magellan re-
turned to Spain and his companions aroused
an interest in the wonderful lands they
had discovered, but it was not until 1865
that another attempt was made to sub
due the natives and gain a foothold in the
islands. AT this later date a Spanish fleet
sailing from Mexico punished the natives
for the killing of Magellan, and formally
took possession of the entire group in the
name of the Spanish sovereign. Five years
later the city of Manila was founded, and
the different native chiefs in Luzon took
the oath Of allegiance to Spain.
Chinese pirates, who had virtually been
the rulers of the islands for many years
previous to the Spanish occupation, gave
the new rulers much trouble, and disputed
with them the sovereignty. Two serious
ATTEMPTS were Hdut ny lHtse pHdles w
drive the Spanish from the islands, but
both resulted disastrously to them, and in
| time they learned hat the hated Europeans
were too powerful for them.
In 1906 the Dutch attempted to wrest the
control of the islands from Spain, but were
unsuccessful, loosing their feet in the prof
ect. In 1852 Manila was captured by Eng
land. That country intended to hold the
city, and would probably have added the
whole of the archipelago to the British EN-
pire had not political combinations in Eu-
rope prevented. As it was Manila was
again surrendered to Spain upon a promise
to pay a ransom amounting to $4,000, 600.
1t is a debt that England has never been
able to collect.
Throughout the present century rebel
lions on the part of the natives have been
frequent. The first serious one began in
1920, which continued for some months be
fore it was suppressed by the Spanish
troops. Another came in ls4l, lasting
through the following year. The next one
of any consequence was that of 1872, and
this was followed by the one of 1867
which resulted in the Punishment of Agui
naldo and his followers to Hong-Kong.
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Island of

Mindanao Island, from which comes our
latest troubles in the Philippines, promises
to become a veritable paradise for fortune
hunters along various lines. Its soil is prob
ably more fertile than that of any of the
other islands, and its streams and noun
tains are said to abound in liberal quaint
ties of gold and other minerals. 1t is in
habited by the Moro tribes, all of whom
are Mohammedans. Spain never succeeded
in establishing anything like a staple gov
eminent in the island.
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Area
Of the
Philippines

lands Mindanao is the largest with 1851
square miles, and Luzon second with A.
600 square miles. Either of these are larger
than Ireland. Among the others of the
larger islands are Mindoro, Panay, Samar,
Masbate, Negros, Cebu, Leyte, Bohol and
Palauan. These vary considerably in size,
averaging from 5000 square miles down to
less than 5000. OF the more than 1000 is
lands there are only some 800 that are in
habited, or are large enough to support
a population of any size, the majority of
the Others being but mere rocks or reefs.
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School system Established.

A department of public instruction for
the Philippines was established at Manila
on January p, 1901, and rapid progress was
made during the year in the organization
of free public schools. Some 800 teachers
were sent to the islands from the United
States. English was made the official Ian
puage of the schools.