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and after we gobbied them they are
not worth n rush to us. In fact. they
are dead expense, for we are OF
course still letting their sugar in free,
which means that on the 100000 tons
which they send to us annually we
make them present of $3J tariff
per ton, making total of $4,000
900 per year. which we pay them for
the pleasure OF their society, to say
nothing OF the cost of keeping up their
government Now, be II remembered
that letting in the Hawaiian sugar free
does not cheaper sugar to the consum-
er, for so long as the sugar trust has
the differential ON refined sugar 1t has
the American consumer by the throat
and can hx prices of refined sugar to
suit itself, which it does. Why in heav-
ems name were not these beet sugar
exploiters thinking of this when they
lined up solidly in favor of annexing
the Hawaiian Islands? Why did they
not line up with those of us who fought
that grab tooth and nail? II they had
done so they would not now be COM
peting with Hawaii and with the Phil
ippines, for il they had helped us the
annexation job would have been de-
feated and there never would have
been any Philippine problem.
A President, Lost, Straysd or Stolen!
President Roosevelt's "farseeing and
patriotic protege, Carlos Morales, the
bandit president of the Dominican re-
public-God save the marks miss
ing from his usual haunts, and 1t is to
be hoped that he will never return. He
has gone where the woodbine twineth,
skedaddled, absquatulated vamosed,
1t is generally supposed Ut he took
himself off because he could not with
stand the pressure from his beloved
people, notwithstanding his great and
good friend in the White House had
several of our gunboats in Dominican
waters to protect Morales. 1t will be
remembered that President Roosevelt
vendi with Morales whereby the Gus
toms Offices of the Dominican republic
are turned over to Americans, who are
to pay % per cent of custom duties into
Morales Golfers and 45 per cent on
the debts of the republic But IL 1t
had not been for our gunboats Morales
would have been assassinated or sent
on his travels long ago for other Do
minican patriots besides Morales like
money and banker after those same
custom collections: hence this ruction.
rumpus or revolution.
Nowhere on the face of the globe is
there such parody ON government.
To call the monstrous thing republic
Is burning shame, bold abuse of
our yernacular. What is denominated
the government is simply a succession
of bandits. their chief object being to
get possession of the custom houses.
Just why we should mix ourselves up
in this unsavOry and sinking mess is
one of the things that no fellow can
find out. Why not leave them alone to
exterminate each other? The quicker the
better. Who appointed us trustees and
guarantOrs OF the debts of these con-
scienceless cutthroats? Why can't we
go on safely and sanely, as our fathers
did, and attend strictly to our own busi-
ness? Why should we all of sudden
assume the costly and hazardous role
of universal constable and intermed-
dler? What are these Santo Domingo
negroes to US anyway? If we are to
arrange the affairs of Santo Domingo,
why not set up as guardians also OF
Haiti and all the warning, seething,
snaring republics of Central and South
America? Why should we care how
their bonds sell or whether they sell at
all? Whether they pay all their debts
or none of their debts is absolutely no
business Of ours. To poke our spoon
into all their DEVILS broth s to invite
all sorts of trouble, expense and. COM
plicatiOns-perhaps all sorts of wars.
It's high time that a sudden and COM
plete halt is called upon all this swag-
gering, bullying big stick business. We
seem utterly unable to cope with our
own troubles. such as the trusts, insur-
ance frauds, land frauds. etc, vet here
we are going out of our way to assume
burdens which in no way naturally
rest upon our own shoulders.
It's to be hoped that the senate will
knock the Santo Domingo treaty higher
than Gilderoy's kite. That's what ought
to have been done last spring. It's a
veritable Pandora's box, certain as two
and two make four, or all history is a
lie.
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Where are those unwise but hilarl-