The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-23

whom tntN nate WITH deadly utllc,.
He must win this time or never. IL
knows that: 50 do his enemies. Ti.::1
| fights for Taft in this contest for the
highest honorS Of the republic, as he
| is sev raj years For;tker's Junior ANA
| Will be young enough for Il first noluI-
nation twelve years hence. Nobody
can blame him If he uses the Hanna
Dick IIrrrick crowd. They have no
! man Of their own big enough to coin
pete with Foraker, so they make Gov
ernor Taft present Of their support.
Once More.
Once again We are Informed by cable
| that the Philippines are pacified. Is
| this the one thousandth or only the nine
hundred and ninety-ninth? Surely the
pacifcation Of the Philippines more
nearly approximates perpetual motion
| than anything else Oh earth. General
Otis first pacifed them some thirty or
| forty times, then General What's His
Name-for there have been 50 many
pacificators that one would need pr-
vate secretary to keep tab on them.
General Jake Smith is the only one not
| likely to be forgotten. The latest peace
maker. and let us hope the last. is Cen
eral Allen of the constabulary. He re-
ports that the uprising among the Pu-
| lajaneS is over and that the majority
of the regulars will be withdrawn. We
| are also Informed that Generals Cor
| bin and Allen are now in conference at
Calbayog regarding measures which it
| will he necessary to take in the future
preparing for the next uprising prob
ably. to be followed by new pacifica-
| ton. How long will the American peo-
pie be humbugged by bogus reports Of
Philippine pacitication? Everybody that
| has read history knows that the only
| sort of peace obtainable in those is
| lands so long as we try to retain them
| is the kind of peace that reigned in
| Warsaw, the peace of death. OF course
| If the people like that sort Of thing that
is the sort of thing they like, but it
would be we'll to quit lying and tell the
truth, and the truth is that the Philip
| pines have not been pacifed.
| Everybody wishes that President
Roosevelt may enjoy his hunting trip
and return safe and sound to the White
House, but everybody does not indorse
the Idea Of the chief magistrate Of q
republic taking such risks to life and
limb. By reason of his lofty Office, as
well as for personal reasons, his death
or serious injury would cause wide
spread mourning, business would suf-
fer, and things would be unsettled gen
orally. Consequently the country will
breathe easier when he gets back to the
capital.
People generally will be glad tc
know that Governor Folk Of Missouri
has appointed ex-Representative In Con
gress Willard Duncan Vandiver to the
responsible and lucrative position OF
insurance commissioner He deserves
it. He was tiptop representative anG
rendered his last night in the hous,
memorable by putting the Republican.
Oh record as favoring the armor plate
trust. Twas skillfully and cou-'.t
geously done That Nandiver Will d.;
charge his new duties fearlessly and
capably goes without saying.
When Hon. Gas Addicks appears il
the Judgment he can without fear OF
successful contradiction claim to lave
prevented an election of a United
States senator oftener than any Other
man that ever lived. By reason of his
ambition and his money Delaware
will have only one senator. This cape1
he has performed twice before. Once
for a period of two years, by reason OF
the Addicks programme Of "Addicks
or nobody" she had no senator at all
Delaware is Republican.
Now we are to have lobster trust
and the people will have to pay higher
for that delectable crustacean. There
seems to be nothing too large or toe
small for the trust builders to fasten
on to. Having by trust methods run
the price of beef and pork up to al
most unreachable prices to the masses
they might have left Holsters alone
as a sort of consolation edible.
One thing prevents the presidential
bee from buzzing in the bonnet of Sec
rotary of Agriculture James Wilson
and that is that he is ineligible under
the constitution. There may be other
reasons, but that is enough.
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