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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1893
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COLONUl POLICY.
A new epoch is being marked in the
history ol the United States. On July
18th, the president issoed a proclama
tion directed to the secretary of war for
the government of the conquered pro
vtnce oi Santiago. The military governor
iwiQboonpreme. This is the beginning
'of a government for outside possessions,
colonial. If the trend of events can be
lorseen, tha United States will come oat
- of the present war with several colonies
n her hands. The momentous question
to this country is what will the relation
'be of these acquisitions to the home gov
ernment. On fhe correct solving of this
question depends the success of the col
onial scheme. It is true that Hawaii is
already annexed except some formal
cnatters, but the government has put no
-scheme of control in motion as yet.
Already the political parties are lining
np on the subject as to whether we
tjbould acquire any foreign territory.
The republican party is in control and is
bound to try the experiment. The in
habitants of these prospective colonies
are as different as can be from each
other and from Americans. Will a com
mon scheme work and what shall it be?
Those that heard John Temple Graves
at the Chaatauqua last Saturday will
have to acknowledge that there are grave
difficulties and dangers in putting power
in the hands of an ignorant and subser
vient race.
Spain will lose the colonies and the
United States will, in some form, become
the dominant power in them. We be
lieve that a government akin to that en
joyed by the territories is as far as this
government can go in the handling of
the colonies.
The eyes of the nations of the earth
are upon ns and momentous to us will be
the results of this war. The adjustment
with other nations will be a more deli
cate matter than with Spain.
Thb people of the seaports of Spain
are packing their bag and baggage, pre
paratory to seeking a place of safety from
the threatened attack of Watson's fleet.
6o long long as the war is confined to
the colonies, Spanish people will loudly
talk of Spanish bravery and seek to pro
long the war. They are like Artemus
Ward, who, during the civil war, said be
was patriotic and to prove it, said he
ras willing to sacrifice all bis wife's re
lations in the canse. A few 13-inch
bells from Watson's fleet will add many
advocates to the peace party in Spain.
Thb returns from the Klondike are
snow fat at $10,000,000. The mines will
all soon be in the hands of big compan
ies, as it takes too much capital to work
them for the poor man to make any
iheadwajr.
LESSONS Or TIIK WAR
Governments like Individuals learn
by experience. It Is ' doubtful If
Spain, blinded oy her centuries of in
grained ignorance, will profit by the oh'
joct lessons drilled Into her with shot
and shell, tut it is to be hoped that our
government will be mote amenable to
reason, more progressive in her ideas
and will seek to benefit to the utmost
from the lessons taught by the present
war. '
We have been too self-satisfied, too
much puffed up with our fancied secur
ity and our reliance on Yankee ingenuity
and lankee pluck. e nave been pro-
reeding upon the foolich presumption
that we were to enjoy i erpetual peace,
with an army not Urge enough to gar
rison one seaport and a navy, which in
esprit de corps was commendable enough
in its way, but which in numerical
strength was a disgrace to a nation of
our pretention. We have learned that
we have been pursuing a wrong, not to
sar a suicidal policy. It is true our army
and our navy have been successful
(gainst Spain, but that success has but
shown us what would in all probabili ty
have been our fate had the trend of
events involved ns in a war with a first'
class power instead of bankrupt, corrupt
and degenerate Spain. Our navy wax
recruited at the beginning of hostilities
by the purchase of battle ships and
cruisers, for which we paid war prices,
getting inferior vessels at the very
highest price. Our ammunition and
army supplies have all been pur
chased on hurry-up orders and con
sequently at the very highest prices.
Of course no American criticises tha
government for its outlay in providing
the necessary ships, ammunition and
supplies for the carrying on of this war,
but our congress will be blind indeed
and our people lack patriotism as well
as common prudence should they fail to
back congress in pursuing the maxim
laid down by Washington "in times of
peace prepare for war,"
The want of a fair sited army and a
navy ranking with the first-class powers
ol the world is one of the lessons taught
by this war and we trust our country
will heed that lesson and remedy the de
fect. Another lesson brought to the atten
(ion of the country by this war, as it
could have been brought np in no other
manner, is the pressing need of the
early construction of the Nicaragua ca
nal. The trip of our gallant Oregon,
fortunately successful and timely, has
shown the country the necessity of hav
tng a route by wtiich vessels may reach
our two coasts without the long and peri
lous yoyage around the Horn.
Tbts lesson is one that will surely bear
fruit by the construction of that canal
under the control of our government,
Another, and perhaps the grandest
lesson of all, was to awakea this country
to the fact that we, as a nation, are an
integral part, a living, active factor in
the affairs of the great world. Too long
have we been a hermit nation, satisfied
to exist between our Crustacean shell,
oblivious, apparently to the great theatre
of action going on about us in which the
other nations of the world were playing
the principal parts. Too long bad we
remained inactive while the principal
strategic positions of the world were be
ing armed against us, satisfied to rest
upon the theory of non-acquisition of ter
ritory held by statesmen one hundred
years ago. Governments grow and out
grow like individuals, and we have
grown and outgrown that spirit
and that line of reasoning which
inspired the honorable United States
senator to exclaim that he wished t j
God an impassible barrier were erecte 1
on the summit of the Rocky mountains
with the word finis inscribed upon it.
We have learned that centuries of civ
ilization have not refined the savage in
stinct from man, and that the betu
tiful dream of universal peace will neei
be realized until the coming of the mil
lenium. We have learned that to be humane
and just, it is sometimes necessary to re
sort to war and, that to hold our place
with the nations of the world in peaceful
commerce or in warfare, we must p wess
strategic points in various parts of the
world.
To this lesson the country will ulti
mately be indebted for the possession of
the Hawaiian Islands, the Phillipine
Islands, Cuba and Porto Bico, and al-
though that possession may entail the'""" " , u ; " uuc- 0 application.
loss of thousands of lives and millions of
treasure, tbey will be worth the price.
These lessons bave been learned none
too soon. It was time this country
awoke to its duty as one of the leading
factors in the civilisation of Ihn world
and started on its road to pursue its
manifoHt destiny as the loading nation
of the world
Bryas Is off (or the war and The Ore.
gonian hopes he will have a chance to
show the stuff he is made of. Many a
man whom) bump of political Intelligence
is wanting, hat has the making of a
fighter in him. Our erstwhile actor,
lawyer, correspondent, politician and ag
itator, hat turned soldier. He has en
listed In his country's service and put
himself under orders from the man who
defeated him for the presidency. The
man who puts hinmell between the guns
of a foreign foe and the laud he loves
disarms criticism and estops Inquiry Into
bis motives. Oregonian.
Judos. Burnett dissolved the Injunction
Issued by County Judge Terrel at the In
stance of D'Aroy, restraining the sec re
tary of ttite fiom issuing a certificate of
election to Judge Boise and dismissed
the suit. The election contest will be
tried later.
Well Is Sahara.
Artesian wells sunk m the Suhnra
desert appear to liud au abundant sup
ply of water without going very deep
fur it, and this fact may in timo put a
new face oil desert conditions, involving
important political, climntio and eco
nomical consequcueea. The English have
begun sinking them along the Berber-
Suakin road, finding water there as
abundant as it was in the regions near
the Kilo when their first experimental
wells were put down. Flowing under
the Saburau sands there may be water
enough to fertilize oasea all over its
sterile expanse and rescue it in a meas
ure from its bistorio barrenness and
desolatiou. Some years ago a French
wgiueer proposed to cut a canal from
the Mediterranean to tho lower desert
levels, thus creutiug a uew inland sea,
or, rather, restoring an old one, but for
some reason the project was abandoned.
Local irrigation by means of artesian
borings is a more judicious expedient,
and, the English having pointed the
way in this direction, the French are
quite likely to follow it Only a narrow
desert belt separates their possessions in
north and middle Africa, reuchiug from
the Mediterranean to the Niger, and it
is quite worth their while to fertilise it
and plant it with palm groves and data
orchards if possible, at any rate to pro
vide water enough to supply their pres
ent caravans and perhaps their future
locomotives. Now York Tribune.
French Secret Folic Methods.
I once spent an afternoon in a pleasant
little villa on the bunks of the river
Marne with the former chief of police
in the time of Napoleon III np to tho
proclamation of the republic, No one
would have thonght, to look at the
peaceful figure of tho proprietor, a little
man in sabots, with gray beard a la
Millet, absorbed in cultivating the mag
nificent hortcusias thnt covered his ter
races, reaching to tho water's edge, that
bis bead had been a storehouse for all
the machinations and turpitudes of that
period of decadence w hich ended in a
disastrous war" and revolution. It was
on that afternoon that I learned bow
the fatal Ollivier ministry was decided
upon by M. Thiers and bis political
friends one ev uing iu the conservatory
of a beautiful Frenchwoman living
not far from the opera. Two brothers,
well known in the best Paris society,
meanwhile distracted the attention of
be guests iu the salon by sleight of
uaud tricks and gymnastic fcuts on a
Persian rug, and when I asked the old
man how he knew all this with such
precision, "From afenimedochambre,"
he answered tranquilly. "All person
ages of importance at that timo, at their
own request, took their servants only
from tuy band. " Harper's Weekly.
More Than lie Could Stud.
"Hold np yer hands!"
The citizen thus addressed suddenly
jhot out bis right fitt It caught the
murderous footpad squarely on the nose
and stretched bim motionless on the
frozen ground.
"Tbut was a nervy thing to do," said
tne policeman who happened by some
mysterious dispensation to be in the
neighborhood and had come running to
the scene.
"It was a pretty nervy thing for the
scoundrel to do, "replied the citizen,
scowling at his damaged band. "He
didn't know he was tackling a desperate
man. I had just paid a gas bilL "Chi
cago Tribune. .
If norsnce.
Two country men went into a batter's
to buy a bat. Tbey were delighted with
the sample, inside the crown of which
was inserted a looking gluss.
"What is the glass for?" said one of
the men.
'X'he other, impatient at such a dis-
piuy of rural ignorance, said: "Wbwt
for? Why, for the man who bnys thu
bat to see bow it fits." Pick Me Up.
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THE N
OF THE WEEK
Thuisday, July 14.
General Toral, the commander of the
Spanish garrison at Santiago, Culm,
surrendered to General Shatter of (lie
United Status army. The surrender In
cludes the city of Santiago Its forts and
ammunition. The surrender does not in
clude the ports of Mansanilla and
Holguln. The Spanish soldiers surren
dered by Toral will be transported to
Spain hy the United States.
This war loan of $:tH),000,000, asked
for hy the government at three per cent
was reHndcd to hy the people by the
oiler of $1,300,000,000, or six times the
amount asked for.
An American spy named Fernando,
captain In the Second Texas Rangers,
succeeded in deceiving the Spanish au
thorities, dined with Admiral Camara,
inspected the fleet and the defenses at
Cadis, and eacaed before being de
tected as a spy.
l'reparalions for the invasion of Porto
Rico were commenced today. The ex
pedition will be commanded by General
Miles in erson, seconded by General
Brooke. The expedition will consist ol
3,000 uon supplemented by the navy.
It is not oxpected that the Spanish will
make a very stern resisteuce at Porto
Rico.
Tho territory surrendered by Toral
embraces about 60,000 square miles
About half as large aa tha state of Oregon,
Mrs. Stanford has voluntarily reduced
her monthly allowance from $L'500 per
month to $1000 in order that the en
dowuient lund for Stanford university
may not suffer.
"Admiral Cervera and other captured
Spanish officers have been taken tu
Annapolis. The contract has been
signed subject to approval of the United
States government for a cable from Sao
Diego, Cal., to Honolulu and thence to
Japan.
Two armed and masked men held up
the Central Pacific train, two miles east
of Humboldt, Cal. and blew open the
express car door and the safe with dyna
mite. They took all the valuables and
decamped. They hid on the tender and
covered the engineer and fireman with
rifles, obliging them to stop the train.
Senator McBride and Representative
Tongue succeed in having passed by
congress the following bill :
"That all cases, civil and criminal,
filled on appeal from the district court of
the United States for the district of
Alaska in the United States circuit
court of appeals for the ninth judicial
circuit, and (lending on appeal therein
on and prior to the 30th day of Decern
ber, 1807, of which the supreme court of
the United States would have had juris
diction under the then existing law, If a
proper appeal had been taken thereto at
the time said cases were filed on appeal
in said circuit ceurt of appeals be, and
the same are deemed and treated as
regularly filed on apieal In the supreme
court of the United Slates as of the date,
when filed in said circuit court of appeals.
The clerk of said circuit court of appeals
is directed to transmit to the supreme
court of the United States, as soon
practicable, the records of such cases
and the clerk of said supreme court is
diree'ed to receive and file the same for
bearing and determination iu the su
preme court of the United States when
regularly reached on the docket, subject
to any rules made or to be made by
said court which may be applicable."
Pensions have been granted as follows
Oregon Original Jeffrey A, Wlsner,
Portland, $0 ; Jesse Carey, PortOrford,
8; Charles H. McCausland, Oregon
City, $8. Additional Miles Rowen,
Oregon City, $0 to $8; Thomas Wilson,
Eckley. Restoration and additional-
Jasper N. Iteed, dead, Middleton, $0 to
$12.
Friday July 15.
Ihe people of Barcelona, Hpain, are
panic stricken, fearing bombardment by
the American fleet. They can stand
with fortitude the bombardment of Cu
ban towns, but when the horrors of war
are about to be brought to their very
doors, they awaken to the fact that, as
General Sherman puts it, "war is bell."
Wealthy families are deserting Cadiz,
Seville, Malaga and Barcelona, in antici
pation of the arrival of Watson's fleet.
It is proposed to garrison Santiago with
Cubans. The Americans could not re
tain health in that climate,
The Chinese on Dewey's ships be
haved so. well during the battle at Ma
nilla that he recommends thoy be made
American citizens as a reward.
Two transports, the Puebla and Peru,
left San Francisco for Manilla, with 1700
men.
Saturday July 10.
The Spanish prisoners captured at
Santiago will be sent to Spain July 25.
American operators are placed In the
cable offices at Santiago and Blanco It
v-v-v-v-v-v Cl
thus cut olf from communication with
Spain.
Seventeen
today from
gold.
miners arrived at Seattle
Klondike with $000,000
Advices from Madrid state thai peace
negotiations have been opened.
The Frisco (rain was held up by two
masked men near Wichita, Kan. and
several hundred dollars secured from II
express car, Tho ruhlwri escaped,
By authority of the Secretary of tli
interior sheep are to be excluded from
the national forest reserves.
Surgen-General Wynian says Ihere
not a single case of yellow fever In till
country so far as he knows.
Two masked and armed men hold up
the store of Thatcher Kllng. at
Ixpwai, Idaho. They murdered M
Charles K. Thatcher, but becoming
alarmed left without robbing (he safe.
Private Laweon II. Hushes, Calllornl
Volunteers and private Thomas llohau
First Washington volunteers, were court
martialod at Vancouver. They were
dlshonably discharged and Imprisoned
for misdemeanors.
Near Garfield, Washington, Jap Kid
well and wife were picking blackberries
and their baby was on the round
Hearing a growl Mr, Kldwell went to
the baby and finding a largo she bear
and two cubs about to make a meal from
the child he made a rush and tho bear
crowd took to the woods.
Major T.J. Humes, of Seattle, has
announced nimself a candidate for the
United mates senate.
Sunday July 17.
Sixteen new cases of yellow fever do
veloped among our troops in Cuba, and
one man died. The troo will bo mov
ed to higher ground.
Major Webb Hares, son of Ex-I'resl
dent Hi yes was wounded at the battle of
Santiago.
Cudahy'o packing house has raised
the wages of employees, thus ending
strike.
Tho steamer St. Paul arrived at San
Francisco bringing men and treasures
from Klondike. It is estimated that
$0,000,000 were brought down by tlil
steamer.
Monday July 18.
Captain Kulato of the Viscaya la
offended and refused to sign the parole
because Covera was only required to
give an oral promise.
Camara reached Spain today from
their grand stand parade through the
Sues canal.
Bids have been asked for for Ihe trans
portation of 1000 Spanish olllcers and
24,000 men from Santiago to Spain.
AU mails from the front will be funnl
gated.
Oregon Salmon and
cherries are at
trading a great deal
of attention at
Omaha.
Proffessor Heals, of th University of
Washington was killed by falling through
an open hatch on the Arizona at Seattle,
Tuesday, July 10.
General Miles, with four batteries of ar
tillery, sailed on the Yale today for Porto
Rico, More troops will follow at once.
No troops engaged at Santiago will go to
Porto Rico.
The mines in the Santiago harltor have
been exploded and the Marie Teresa and
Colon examined. Tbey will probably
be saved.
A ugustin refuses to surrender at Ma
nilla aud is trying to form a compact
with Aguinaldo against the Americans
Manzanlllo has been shelled by
tho
re-
American warships with unknown
suits.
1 tie Uerman gunboat Irene was
topped by a shell from tho MuCulloch
The president issues a proclamation
for the government of Santiago.
Bryan's regiment started for the front
today from Nebraska.
Watson's squadron is making active
preparation to leave for the coast of
Spain, probably by the end of the week.
Transportation facilities are such that
a trip can be made to Dawson in 10 days
and back in 12 from Portland.
Soapy Smith, a notorious character,
well-known throughout the northwest,
was shot at Skagway by a man named
Reed, last week.
The torpedo boats building In Port-
and will be given a trial in about three
weeks.
Tl Wednesday, July 20.
A ship load of food has been distribu
ted by the the government to the starr
ing inhabitants of Santiago.
Spanish troops in the yiclmty of Cairn-
endra to the amount of 6000 have surrendered.
Tho A merfcau troops will ho pild in
colli with the plan of driving H mulsh
money out of circulation.
There Is considerable friction ho' ween
tho American and Cuban troops, a the
latter are considered of Utile ludp.
General Garcia refused lo attnn I the
raising of tho American flag.
Samson's fleet has linen order d to
Porto Rico to assist In landing troops,
Santiago's sanitary condition was
found to bo In a terrible state, Ni cw
erage or drainage, with conditions f.ivor
ahlo for an epidemic of fever.
The German admiral was lor I to
aMjoglo lo Dewey at Manilla for Inter
fering with mutters at that port.
Latest news from tho Yukon le i Is to
show that the gold deposits am of i very
wide extent.
A Chinese murderer blew up th p
der works at Oakland to caa .rr--t
and killed himself, five deputy s mnils
and a woman living In tho vicinity.
Captains Heath, Wells, Prescot ami
Lieut. Teller are liable to lie cour.-uiar-tialed
for overstaying time on a len uf
absence at Manilla.
Washington troow at Vancouver have
been ordered to San Francisco,
A hospital ship will be sent tu Ma nils.
Thuisday July 21.
Major General Wilson with th 2nd
and ard Wis. and Kith Pa. and two com-
panieo of the illh III. left Charleston i. O.
for Porto Rico direct. The whole city
saw thuin olfamld great enthusiasm.
General Miles has been dulayo I at
Santiago In his departure for Porto R c(
Dnalneas Is reviving at SantlagM S
peclally In relics of the war and souve Irs.
fawn shops are doing a great Imsm t as,
stores are opened, goods are beint re
ceived and American money is rea Illy
Uken.
Yellow fever is spreading In a mild
form.
The Spanish Steamship Co. was the
lowest bidder for carrying the Spa ilali
troops homo captured at Santiago.
The Cuban junta ia trying to patch un
Ihe trouble between the Cuban and
American forces at Santiago.
Word has been received that Gonsral
Garcia Is dead. This Is as yet unon
firmed. For Ysosr Men and Young rfomea.
There is nothing that will arouse the
re of a young man or woman so quick as)
to have Inferior laundry work put off on
them. They may dress ever so well,
but If their shirt front or shirt waist Is
mussy their neat appearance ia spoiled.
The Troy laundry makes a specialty of
allies' and gentlemen's fine work.
There can be no lie tier work than la
lone at the Troy. Leave your orders at
Johnson's barber shop.
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