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FRIDAY,DECEMBER 2, 1898

And now that McKinley has the Phillipines the question turns upon what congress will do with them.

Since the anti-scalping law has been declared unconstitutional Washtenaw republicans can continue their exercises without fear of judicial interference. It is altogether probable that "Cuba Iibre" and gushing glorification of the Cuban patriot will be conspicuously absent from the next session of congress.

Now that the Philippine question is' disposed of for the time being and the Judson-Moran imbroglio is not in active eruption, things are assuming a condition of unwonted quiet.

Gen. Wood has stopped the boys gambling at Santiago, but he can't stop the larger game which the financiers and politicians are playing for the disposition of the spoils of war.

The republicans claim the glory of the war. Did they alone fight it? The New York soldiers at Honolulu voted Van Wyck 330, Roosevelt 200, and the republican candidate was a soldier hero.

Becanse we have exploited all of Henry C Smiths short comings it does not follow that he possesses no virtues. He does not part his hair in the middle and has yet to wear his first pair of golf stockings. There's hope for Henry yet.

Apropos of the general interest in the anti-scalper bill now pending in congress, the recent decision of the court of appeals in New York declaring a similar state law unconstitutional may afford an indication of the outcome of such legislation at Washington.

A learned doctor at Yale has figured out that whereas in the olden times 92 per cent of the graduates of that institution sought the learned profession of law, medicine and divinity, only 62 percent find an outlet there today while 32 per cent engage in business pursuits.

The son of his daddy business is beginning to thrive on the Pacific slope. U. S. Grant, jr. , wants to be elected United States senator from the state of California. He is probably as well qualified as any other man who travels on the reputation of an illustrious sire. He should be elected - uit.

Andrew Carnegie opposes the annexation of the Philippines on account of the vast body of cheap labor which would be brought into competition with American workingmen. Andrew is like a great many other people whose range of vision is so wide that they entirely overlook evils which lie much closer home.

And now the report is wafted in from Salem that our old friend Geo. S. Wheeler, representative-elect for the first district of Washtenaw county, is going to be a Washtenaw editiou of Pingree all by himself. Vote for Burrow? Well, it is said that George has got his mind "sot" on voting for the oleaginous Julius Caesar, and those who know him know that there are not enough yoke of oxen in Salem to pull him off the perch when he's once "sot. "

The flood of prosperity is so over whelming in the "advice agent's" own state that one out of every 40 of its inhabitants is a pauper fed by the public. It cost Ohio according to the report of the county auditors $1,065, 377.05 to care for its paupers during the year ending Sept. 1, 1898. This is the largest number of paupers ever returned in one year and the largest sum ever raised by taxation in the .state of Ohio for their support. There don't seem to be so much balm in Gilead after all.

"Mr. Choate is out of the question," wrote a critic in regard to possible favorites for the recipient of one of the two plums, the ambassadorship to St. James' and the United States senatorship. But that was written before it was generally known that Mr. Choate, wearing a crimson tie, went to New Haven on Saturday, sat in a pool of water on a Harvard bench and "rooted" with diligence and enthusiasm for the winning eleven, this copper-riveting his claim for popularity and high reward. - New York World.

Seoretary Gage says: "Commercial necessity has compelled territorial expansion." Hitherto people thought Dewey and Schley were the compelling forces. 

The speculation which is rife in Michigan over the election of a United States senator to succeed Senator Burrows is a potent argument in favor of the election of those officials by a vote of the people.

The titled and military classes of Germany and Austria are said to hate Americans with a deep rooted hatred. So long as they don't let that deep rootedness get the better of their judgment no harm will come to them from it.

It might be well to caution some of the anti-Judson republicans of this city that they may stand so close to the governor that he won't see them when he is looking around for suitable men to fill light jobs connected with large salaries.

The Consolidated tinplate company will be in good working order by the first of the year. This trust includes all of the tinplate product of the country worth mentioning. The combination means another advance of tinplate and tinplate manufactures. This is one of the industries fostered by the tariff. It is remarkable how quickly these infant industries pick up the manners of older monopolies.