The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-19

t not be effective. Washington
Y not really a city but magnificen
S village. 1t has no commerce, n
manufacture, and few facilities 70
either. 1t is a superb dormitor.
] for the country's lawmakers and /
t a social mart and a political me
7 tropolis whose beauty, in dozeI
more years, will bave no equa
among the worlds capitals. Blu
. it does not want the fume and FIRE
! and CRIME of a business center anc
Z its preference is likely to be OBJ
served
In an interview / had the other
day with Governor Taft Just in
; Quoted as Secretary of War, he
said, in reply to a question, ga
guinaldo appears like a very quiet,
decent fellow | was we'll ac-
quainted with him. He is very
shy and timid, rarely goes out of
his house, except in a carriage,
and lives in almost complete seclu
sion, although he is entirely free
to go where ne pleases. He is
very shrewd, perhaps | might say
cunning, and possesses the quail
ties of leader among his fellows.
have often had him to dinner at
the palace with Apacible, Agon-
clio, and others | never knew
anything about Father Augustine
who, it is reported, was tortured
to death by Capt. Brownell 1t
was before | went there. But the
$40, 900 which you say was taken
from him is very likely in the in
snlar treasury, where there are
some 800, 900, taken from the FIJI
lipinos in one way or another"
What Lodge wittily calls the
"World's Fair Industry" is ad
vancing by great strides. The
Senate has now given ten millions
to the St. Louis Exposition; James
town, Va, has asked for three
millions to celebrate Pocahontas;
Senator Mitchell, Oregon, says be
wants two or three millions to eel
citrate the trip which Lewis and
Clark made hundred years ago;
Senator Elkins wants a lump sum
for Wheeling; New Orleans is hold. |
ing up its platter, and the May
flower pilgrims want finger in
the pie, Meantime, the deficit is
increasing splendidly.
Congressman William Alden
Smith, who has risen from a page
in the Michigan Legislature to be
a member Of five Congresses, is
making study of the unfortunate
condition of public schools in this
city. 1t is doubtless stimulated by
the parallel condition of Michigan
where, out of 100000 children of
school age, almost 200, 900 are ex-
cluded from school on account of
the great expenditure of money on
the high schools. In New York
City there are $4,000 young chill.
Jlren who cannot get into school
house, and in this city 5000 to
7 900 are growing up in utter ig
norance for the same reason. This
results from a prevalent idea that
the ''higher education" can be
conferred before the elementary
education has been had; that, if
pupils can be given mere smat-
tering of Latin, Greek, geometry,
trigonometry, German and what
they call literature" so as to be
able to squeeze into college, 1t does
not matter whether they can spell
Or write an English sentence cor
rectly or not This is the diseased
condition of the Washl n Q ON
schools. Thoughtful citizens are
remedy.
The Senate decided that worlds
fairs must shut their gates on Sun
day. Senator Bailey protested and
said he did not see why a great ex.
nibition should be closed on the
only day in the week when work
ing men could take their families
TO see it.
500 Reward, 500.