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the Cuban trade treaty. agreeing that Tor
five years no further abatement OF any
name or description shall be made In fhe
duties upon sugar imported from Cuba or
elsewhere, is the price which the ADMIN
lstratIon has had TO pay 10 the beet su-
gar interest In order to prevent It from
defeating the measure. IT Is obvious that
the administration can have no special
rtagor for thus making impossible the ne
eo,iation OF trade treaties with South
America and the West Indies boston
Herald.
"If there is no more Democratic har-
mony next year than there is this, some
Republican will have an easy run for the
presidency. Minneapolis Times.
"The logic OF the figures Is with General
C;rosvenor The logic of events Is with the
Republican party. surely, there Is no rea-
SON To believe at this time that the party
viii, make serious errors or that the peo.
ple who have for eight years done go Wen
under republican rule will suddenly re-
volt and repeat the dreary experiment. OF
the second Cleveland administration -
Philadelphia Inquirer.
will build the canal and pay the French
company the stipulated sum. The susges-
tions that France now takes hold again
and nut the canal through, while the
United states stands back and watches
are nothing but vain wishes for more
than $4,000 900. Chicago Tribune
This IL A. year OF canal victories The
Erie Canal IL to be enlarged and Panama
In ia L
Buffalo Courier
.When Colombia repected the treaty
the Panama Canal people ana emissaIies
doubtless from the administration at
washington, began to work upon the
greed Of the Panamaniacs and show them
that they might al we'll have that $lo,ooo
600 as to let the government at Bogoa
handle II. That this seductive thought
was nut into their heads In established
from the testimony OF one Of the editor
ial reyoiutionists, who traces the change
OF public sentiment In Panama 10 this
very consideration. II was graft begot-
ten Republic, pure and simple. and enure-
Iy lacking In patriot impulse. No conceiv-
able defence OF President Roosevelt
conduct will stand a dispassionate review,
and II ought to result In his impeach-
ment Memphis Commercial Appeal
"vhy should the United states pay the
government OF Panama &10.Wooo0 oonus
for the canal treaty? We are buying moth
ing OF this inchoate republic. We obtain
simply q lease In pepetuity OF strip or
territory ten miles wide across the 18TH
mus. The senate. which has re-
tected or amended the life out OF numer-
Gus honorable and useful treaties, In the
sole interest OF our protected monopolies,
ought certainly 90 strike out this $4,000. 600
bonus IL IL In charity n is unwarranted.
IL Il IL n bribe u In disgraoeful. II IL In
conscience money IL II misapplied. Here
Ia a chance for the Democratic senator's
10 unite. not In obstructing great and
necessary public work. but in protecting
the Treasury from an indefensible grab
New York World.
The less labor mixes with Socialism
the better II will be for the toiling masses
any of it spent In the rainbow-chasing of
irresponsible dreamers. II Socialism has
shown a disposition To ally itself with la
bor movements. the alliance has been In
tended simply 10 serve that party's own
political purposes and nothing else. There
are. no doubt. sincere Socialists. az there
have been sincere champions OF every
species OF political and economic idiooy.
but the sincerity in such cases Is more
marked than the intelligence behind II
Socialism would furnish anything but a
panacea for present political or economic
INEQUALITIES and the American Federation
shows its appreciation OF the fact In re-
buking the attempt to make OF the great
organization n tall TO the Social kite. -
Providence Weekly visitor