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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-23

iment. Your Englishman was im

pliment. Your Englishman was i'm
mensely ill-mannered, abrupt, gruff
and apt as not gave cuff and a kick:
but on pay day he was there with the
cash and discharged every obligation
to the utmost farthing, and that made
England the greatest and most sue
cessful colonizer the world ever saw
though the Dutch are little inferior tc
him in method. Whenever the English
planted colony there were sown the
seeds of liberty; whenever Spain made
colony there were planted the seeds
OF despotism. Hence in Virginia the
seeds of liberty produced order, while
In Cuba the seeds of oppression
brought forth revolution.
Another thing-and an important
factor in the equation-the English
preserved their race purity, and SC
maintained their race superiority. and
that contributed immensely to their
success. whereas the Spanish muddled
their blood by amalgamation with an
inferior, and so licensed vice and
shamed virtue.
Spain! What a history, glorious aud
infamous, is hers! The seat of power,
OF wealth, Of liberty, Of letters, of art
less than four centuries ago, she got
to be the sick man of Western Europe
even when her name was yet a terror
to her rivals in the age Of Richelieu
and Of Cromwell. She dominated the
splendid sixteenth century. and
Charles V was the first personality of
period that knew Francis l, Henry
VIII, Julius II, Leo X, Solyman the
Magnificent. William the Silent, the
Constable Bourbon, Cardinal Wolsey
and Martin Luther. Spain gave Ger.
vantes to letters before England de-
veloped Shakespeare. When Charles
abdicated his crown. the sun never set
on his dominions. At Lepanto Spain
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-23

pablo OF more enormous production.
But the republic We have set up
down there, instead of raising sugar,
tobacco, tropic fruits, and garden yes
etab!es, which can be produced with
prolific abundance; instead of getting
the limitless wealth out of the mine
and gathering the enormous wealth CT
the forest, must needs proceed to raise
that hell that, among the peoples OF
Latin-America, is thought patriotism
and that strangers call revolution.
Thus Cuba is little else than Cuba was
under Spain. The present insurrec-
ton will be put down, doubtless. bit
it will not stay put down, and by and
by the United States will weary of it
and step in and take charge. That IS
what it is coming to.
We have the Plat amendment, the
invention of Connecticut Senator
And what is the Platt amendment?
Nothing in the world but the ''Osteni
manifesto" What was the "Ostend
manifesto?" Nothing in the world but
manifest destiny" as they called it
then. and it was rather good name
for it. And thus time works its mira
Giles. The ''Ostend manifesto" mas
querading in the garb Of the PLAT
amendment" is become the law of
the land and the settled policy of the
party of Abraham Lincoln, Charles
Sumner, William Pitt Fessenden, Sal.
mon P. Chase, Joshua R. Giddings,
Thaddeus Stevens, Gerrit Smith, and
John Brown.
The story of the Ostend manifesto
Is one of the most entertaining chap
ters in cur history. This was a repuj-
lie then, not a nation-far from the
empire it is become This was a PEG.
pie just in the stage of adolescence,
and short of its exultant and exube.:-
ant young manhood. What was called
the slave power had long resolved
to annex Cuba, and the Young Ameri-
cam" of Stephen A. Douglass was the
idol, was red-hot for it, and to that
end filibuster expeditions had been set
on foot. The Little Giant" had Cuba
in his mind when he made the elc-
Quent apostrophe to ''the ocean-bound'
republic. The South coveted Cuba 70
balance the rapidly accruing political
power of the anti slavery North, aud
but for the fact that in the earlier SOS
the only time in centuries-Spain
had a wise ruler, the Spanish war
would have come when Franklin
Pierce was president instead of beng
deferred until William Mckinley was
president. In this we see the hand
of destiny, now apparent to all the
world.
Pierce was president and the South
made him president Buchanan was
Minister to England, John Y. Ma1oni
was Minister to Spain. BucnananI
went to England because he had aban-
doned hope of the presidency, and yet
that venture made him president, four
years later, Mason was sent to France
to give prominent man job. He
was a fine old man a Baron Brandy
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-23

wine, a Squire Western, and yet OF q
very considerable native capacity A
thorough American. he was tiror
ough democrat with little ID and
a thorough Democrat with a big 3D.
In the Senate he had held his own, in
the cabinet he was efficient. A down
right old Virginia gentleman from ski.
to marrow. Old Tom Benton sad he
was never quite happy unless his belly
was full of whisky and oysters, mis-
mouth full of tobacco, and his hands
full of cards. AS a free American
citizen the Hon. Mason was delig 1tful ,
as a diplomat CT the Tal!eyrand-Met-
ternich school he was simply ip.ros'
sib,e.
Scule was one Of the most brilliant
men of that epoch of brilliant men. A
native of France. romantic tradition
had it that he was a natural born son
OF the great Napoleon, and possibly II
grew out of the fact that there was a
marked physical resemblance between
the two, in feature, at least. Souie
was an orator of eloquence and de,
batter of force, and had a wonderful
command of the English tongue. AS
lawyer ne rivaled Prentiss himself. AS
a practical statesman. his wonderful
speech on our merchant marine, made
when he was Senator from Louisiana,
is evidence.
Whether he was appointed for the
purpose or not, Soule went to SPAN
to make a war, and if he had met with
Weyler. or the traditional Spanish
minister, he would have succeeded
Fate was his ally, and fixed the thing
to his purpose. An American ship
had been fired on by Spanish cruis-
er. The usual way of settling such a
matter, according to Spanish custom
was a diplomatic correspondence, Gov
ering a period of twelve months. and
after numberless dispatches had been
exchanged, then apology was given
and, if any, pecuniary indemnity was
exacted.
That was too tedious work for PIERRE
Soule. He demanded immediate and
ample apology on the instant, or his
passport. 'Weyler, as Alva Of old
would have sent the passport, war
would have followed, and Cuba WOULD
have been ours. Not so the fine old
statesman then the ruler of Spain. He
sent the apology. believe Soule mad
a duel with some Spaniard about 1t
Or something else, while he was min.
lister. Later he had duel of words
with Empress Eugene about Cuba
and If he had been Minister to France
he might have more nearly got his
government into war for Cuba thar
he did as Minister to Spain.
But to get back to the Ostend Man
ffesto, Buchanan, Mason and Soule
met at Ostend,. the town made immor-
tally glorious by the siege Spinola
laid to it more than two centuries
earlier, and sat on Inc case of Cuba
All the chancelleries of Europe rub
bed their eyes and looked on with
curiosity. Buchanan wrote the docu.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-23

ment, and it made him President of
the United States. 1t amounted to this
That whenever our people consider il
necessary, in political sense. the
United States would seize Cuba. and
and, IL advisable, would annex Cuba
1t was our government turning fiji.
buster. The North-that is, the anti.
slavery North-was enraged, and at
once created the Republican party.
The subsequent indignation against
the bred Scott decision was not so
virulent as the. then wrath against the
Ostend manifesto. If one would read
as fine a specimen of common sense
and rollicking humor as the world of
parliamentary politics can show, let
him read the speech of John b. Thomp.
son, of Kentucky, in the United States
Senate in 1859, on the subject of Cuba.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-23

saved the Cross from the Crescent.
even as did Charles Martel at Tours
ages earlier. Out of the Asturias
came that immortal and invincible
principle that taxes must be laid and
aids granted by the estates-general of
the realm-that fundamental truth
that gives liberty and vitality to the
liberty you and l enjoy this moment
in free America.
Perhaps it was enough for one ma
ton to achieve to produce and send
forth the germ of republican govern
ment. 1t was more than pagan Greece
or pagan Rome gave to mankind
There is a creed of leading church
OF the protestant faith that man is i'm.
mortal till his work is finished, but
when it is finished he shall die. Pos
sfbly it is so with nations. When Spain
had taught the peoples of Western
Europe the vital principle of liberty,
IL seems that her mission as a great
power ended; but what a grand, a
stately, what a splendid, an ostenta-
tious, application of the pr'macy 1t
was! The France of Richelieu and
the England OF Cromwell dreaded
her; the France of Berwick and Ven
dome, the England of MARLBOROUGH
and Peterborough, the Austria of Eu-
gene, respected her and fattered her.
She gave to Napoleon the blow on
land as fatal as that Nelson dealt
him on sea.
Shall Spain have a renaissance?
use the word with hesitancy and mis-
giving. A certain United States SEN
ator has lately levied contribution
on 1t that the artffcers of our Ian
guage never dreamed of imposing on
it. l doubt il 1t can ever be found in
Addison, though Burke knew 1t, who
knew, everything. III bet neither
John Marshall nor Daniel Webster
ever uttered it in public.
But / venture to predict, as / Ger
tainly hope, the renaissance Of Spain
will come, and that speedily and splen-
didly.
Cuba is the finest Of all the posses
sions Spain planted in the western
hemisphere. Containing, with contig-
uous isles, about 45 900 square miles &.
area. 1t Is the sentinel that stands
guard over the Gulf of Mexico. 1t
has great variety of soil and mucn
versatility of climate In mineral re-
sources 1t Is richly endowed, and they
are Yet almost virgin. The forests are
abundant in valuable woods and ex
tensive In area. There is no other ter
ritory on the globe Of like extent ca,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-23

Time came on apace and the incS
dent OF the battle ship Maine was 4
more fragrant case than the one Souia
had to work on. That brought war
conquest. and the Plat amendmen,
The result was free Cuba. Free Cu1a
Is now revolutionary Cuba. Revolt
tionary Cuba means annexation.
Here is what it means-"Manif' :
Destiny" 1t Is written: And it can
to pass after these things thai Ma,
both the Jezreelite had a vineya'a
which was in Jezreel. hard by tn g..
ace OF Ahab."
That settles 1t. How powerless arg
lien and notions in the rasp OF De''
tiny!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-23

II you like The Journal this norm
ing. tell your neighbor about it.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1906-10-23
ID nNGIe de los i1TlOTi0|pS

Ell sentimentalisn1o periods
tico y la comodidad de la Erase
hecAa, pOnen por comentario a
la muerte premature de una ar
tista cualquiera, ESQ de que los
amados de los doses mueren jo-
venes. Nosotros sentimos IN
profundo respeto por todo eli
che" Ahorra tempo. evita las
molestias del pensar por cuenta
propia, y saliva al lector de las
menguadas ideas que al que re-
cure al "clich6" pudieran ocu-
rrirsele. En- cada frase hecha
va contenida una intenci6n pro-
funda; todos Ia comprendemo 5
sin necesidad de aclaraciones
nj ex6gesis. Es el sentido CO.
nun a grandes presiones, como
ha dicho del talento Echegaray,
seg1n Gasset, seg1n Morote.
jean Finot acaba de arreba-
tarnos I'm "cliche.' Los amados
de los doses, sc mueren GUAM
do Dios qu1ere. Unos han muer-
to j6venes, otros han visto pa
sar los amos en- numero consi-
derable y han conservado hasta
los primeros dias la integridad
de sus fuerZas f1sicas Y men
tales.
Los individuos de la Acade-
mia Francesa viven como ter
mino medic, setenta y dos amos
y ocho meses; los de la Acade
mia de Ciencias Morales, seten-
ia y dos con dos; los de Bellas
Artes, setenta y uno con cuatro;
los de Cienclas, setenta con nue-
We; los de lnscripciones y Be
las Letras, setenta con ochO.
Esto Sc deduce puntualmente
de la estadistica formada por M.
Potiquet, hombre que sabe a
que atenerse. ST los academi-
cos no son precisamente inmor-
tales. andan cerca de serlo.
Anade Finot en- su "Filosoffa
de la longevidad", numerosos
datos sobre la duracion de la
vida en- los grandes poetas Casi
todOs alcanzaron una prolonga-
da existencia. Debe advertise,
en- contra de Ia opinion vulgar,
que la mayorfa de los creadores
geniales han vlvido una vida
metodica y arreglada. Los que
tan solo quis1eron gozar del
placer de cada dfa, han termi-
nado pronto el camino, Y mas
que por ell amor de los doses
por el amor de las mujeres. Hay
mucha seduction en- unos bra
zos abrazadores y blancos, en-
Ia dulzura suave de una boca
juvenil, en- Ell fuego chispeante
de unos oios negros. 9 en- los
claros abismos de unos ojos azu'
les.
Victor Hugo murio a los
schenta y tres amos; Manzoni
q los ochenta y nueve; Tenny-
son, q los ochenta y tres; Be
ranger, a los setenta y siete
Longfellow, a los setenta y Gin
CO; Browning, a los setenta J
siete; Emerson Y Lamartine, {
los setenta Y nueve. Madame
Deshordes-V -Valmore vivi6 Sc
tenta y dos aflos J Andersen, e.
amable cuentista que nos do er
la niflez el maravllloso regalc
de SIT fantasia, deio de vivir
los setenta aflos.
Edmundo de Goncourt llegt
4 los setenta y cinco amos; Cha
teaubriand, alos ochenta; T hier,
a los ochenta; Dufaure, a 10:
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1906-10-23

ochenta y tres; Littre, a los
ochenta Jules Simon, q los
ochenta y dos; Angler, a los
setenta Y nueve; Bulwer, a
los setenta; Alexandra Dumas,
| q los sesenta y siete: Paul de
kock, q los setenta Y uno;
Merimee, q los sesenta Y sic
te; Michelet, 4 los setenta Y
sels; Enrique WALTON, a los
noyenta y tres; Legouve, a los
noventa y seis; Jokai, a los Sc
tenta y nueve; Pailleron, d los
sesenta y cuatro.
7 aqul pondremos la conclu-
sion a que ha llegado, tras lar
gas y penosas investigaciones,
IN se1or Rocoe Thayer, cuyo
nombre eufonico leemos ahora
por primera vez. Segdn este
sef1or, los "intelectuales" alcan-
zan un termino medic de vida
algo elevado, como sc va q yer
en Ia i1Sta S1gu1ente:
Poetas, sesenta y se1s amos;
p1ntores y escultores, sesenta y
se1s amos; mlslcos, sesenta Y
dos amos; novelistas, sesenta y
s1ete amos; flosofos, sesenta y
c1nco amos; historiadores, seten-
ia y tres amos; inventories, Sc
tenta y dos amos; hombres de
Estado, setenta Y IN amos.
Siempre es TN consue1o. Asf,
los que no consigan ser admira-
dos por sus obras, podran exigir
respeto para la nieve de sus ca
mas o para el brillo esplendente
de sus calvas brunidas.
Jean Finot ha destru1do ese
"cliche, como ha destruido Ell
otro, que parece inventado por
algun poeta de juegos aorales,
de lamar sexo "d6bil" al feme-
nino. Finot demuestra en- Ell
libro que nos ha servido para
amaflar estas llneas, todo 10 con-
trario. Pero no queremos pro
longar mas el articulo.
FANTASIA.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1906-10-23
LEYES DE 1905

Sc hallan q la venta en- la Lii
brer1a del BoLETIN las 1eyes de
1905, acompanadas de IN vo
l1men de gran utilidad para los
letrados y el publico en- general,
conteniendo la LEY de evi-
dencia" y IL APPENDICES de leyes
de otras Asambleas references
tambien a la prueba en- 10 civil.
Precio de las dos obras.. S 200
Ley de evidencia, compra-
da separadameate.. -. S $50
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1906-02-14
SCHOOL SYSTEM CHANGED.

The entire reorganization OF
the common school system OF
Kentucky is proposed in bill in
troduced by Education Commit
tee No. 1.
Each county shall comprise one
school district, and shall be con-
trolled by the County Board of
Education. The County Super
| intendent of Schools, County
Judge and County Attorney are
created a commission to divide
their respective counties into
four districts, called educational
districts 1, 2, 3, and A. The
board shall be called together by
the County Superintendent be-
tween September l and October
l 1906, to lay off the boundaries
Of the superintendent, Judge and
attorney the boundaries must be
recorded in a book kept by the
superintendent.
Each district is to be laid off
into subschool districts and each
s u CHI district is to have one
white common school as near the
center of population as possible.
In establishing additional schools
the board is to have the same
power that were vested in the
School Trustees.
When any district wishes 8
graded school the County Judge
may, upon a petition from al
least fifteen resident taxpayers,
order an election.
POWERS OF THE BOARD.
| The County Board has the pow
er to supply teachers for the sub
districts, but no contract shall b
lentered into before the first Mon
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1906-02-14
WAUKOMIS, OKLAHOMA.

Editor News:
am in receipt of several let
tiers from Adair county, since my
first letter appeared in the News,
all of which l appreciate very
much, but however, fear that
cannot answer all of the ques-
tons.
There seems to be an idea in
Kentucky that Oklahoma is a
land inhabited by Indian tribes,
and the riff raft Of all countries.
This might seem true to one liv-
ing in Kentucky, but not to an
Oklahomian. ''Our character is
what we are, our reputation is
what we are thought to be" If
this old adage is true, which ]
believe it is, Kentucky is not so
bad as its reputation is, away
from home. For the same reason
some one might get the wrong
conception of Oklahoma. Par
don me, but the following joke
told here will enable you to get
the impression of Kentuckians.
A gentleman passenger from
the West had left Kansas City,
en- route to Oklahoma; this pas
senger remarked: us there any
Kantuckian on the Kar?" after
repeating it the second time, a
tall, muscular looking young man
in the front of the car rose up
and said, Eyes sir. -
The passenger made his way
to the Kentuckian's side and
said; Il only wanted to borrow a
cork screw"
It is true Oklahoma is inhabit-
ed by people from all states of
the Union, and most all foreign
countries are represented. This
mixture of all has one advantage,
the various and diverse ideas as
sist the farmer, the business
man, and in fact all, are benefit
ed by each other. Where are
you from?" Missouri"
Where are you from? Kansas,
Harper county. Halloo neigh
Dor, where are you from? Ken
lucky. Good morning neighbor,
where are you from? Me talk
ey no English. y Of course he is
from Germany. These are ev-
cry day questions and answers.
we nave had an exceptionally
warm Winter this year in COM
parison to last Winter, and now
the cold wind of the North has
given place to mild wind from
the South. We are surely glad
Springtime is coming. The
wheat fields green and pretty,
and now is the time when home
seekers get struck on Oklahoma.
There seems to be something
very facinating about Oklahoma,
that makes people like it so well.
| have come to the conclusion
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1906-02-14

In Kentucky there are sixty
seven countries entirely under
the law prohibiting the sale of
liquor and thirty-three other
countries where license to sell is
only granted in the County Seat.
The County Unit law which is
before the Legislature if adopt
ed would add at least twenty-five
of these counties to the prohibi-
ton column. The argument
that is made for the county unit
law is that the people in a coun-
ty ought to be allowed to vote it
out Of d town where they 10
business and where they school
their boys. It is also asserted,
with truth, if whiskey is sold at
one place in the county it helps
to render Ineffective the prohibi-
ton laws which prevail in
the rest of the county. Elizabeth
town, News.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1906-02-14

day in May of each year. The
contract shall be made in writing.
Teachers may be removed by the
County Superintendent for inef-
fieciency, immortality, inability
INSTRUMENTATION and for disobey-
ing any reasonable rules of the
County Board.
At their first meeting the
County Board shall appoint an
official visitor in each subdistrict.
He must be an intelligent citizen
and make oath before the magis-
trate of his district that he will
faithfully perform his duties. He
shall supervise the schools and
visit the schools at least once a
month and sign reports showing
that the teacher is entitled to the
salary, and to report such things
as are necessary fer the health
and comfort of the pupils. He
shall hold office for four years,
but may be dismissed by the
Board of Education.
The County Board has the pow
er to buy all the property and all
the appurtenances of the schools
and the titles are vested in it.
Taxes collected from white people
shall go to the education of the
white children, and taxes collect
ed from the colored citizens shall
go to the education of the colored
people, but all railroad taxes that
go to the school fund shall be ap-
portioned according to the census
reports.
The County Board shall fix the
rate of taxation to maintain the
schools, and pay the per diem of
the members of the board. the
present excepted, by the first
Monday in april.
The official visitor is required
to take the school census in his
subdistrict, and the enumerators
also are to receive five cents for
each name reported. Any census
taker who certifes to a false CEN
sus is subject to punishment for
false swearing, and also a fine of
$50.
The County Superintendent is
a tribunal to settle all local con-
troversy with reference to con-
struction or administration of
school law. The right to appeal
to the State Board of Education
is allowed.
Southern railway will spend
S.. 600 for new depot and pretty
grounds at Versailles.
Absolute quiet" in jackson,
Breathitt county. just think of
it. County Judge Taulbee. who
put Judge Hargis out of business,
says it's true.
Paris grocer, who closed bust
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1906-02-14

that it is the rush and energy of
the people. l will close hoping
to hear from some of my Ken
lucky friends.
HATTIE VIRGINIA HENDRICKSON.