Show SOMERSAULTS TO 10 ORDER are the or order of f the day It seems sees the ment In Cae Caesars Caesars I sars ears carno camo i The Porto Rican bill bi according to toa toa toa a near contemporary is d sned to give to the te people of ot Porto Rico Ric every II dollar dOlar collected from front the Porto Rico tariff to feed and clothe them and ed educate e educate their children Yesterday this repeated repete that the ob object object object of the proposed tariff is solely to raise a little tUe revenue which the P te RIcans must have in some form Cor or an another other because they are starving g and their children need ne schools If I this be true how does goes it happen that so many Republicans in con congress congress congress gress are re opposed d to it i They Tey object to what what the lOcal Ideal ad administration administration ministration organ designates as a the object of this bill bi would they the If I the bill bi is designed d to do what the Tribune says it I is if I its It object is to re relieve relee relieve lieve lee suffering and restore prosperity why was It that the Tribune said ten days das ago We are sorry that th t the house passed the te bill to t Impose cus cue customs toms tome duties dutes as between and ad the Porto RIcans Rican If I the purpose of the measure wa was what our acrobatic contemporary claims clams for it I why was it I sorry Here are are its It reasons I The people of Porto Rico nico welcomed the American troops as deliverers d lvere General Miles re proclaimed to th them m the rhe e gospel opel or of I liberty and benefits to accrue to them un an under der dec Ubert their new status statU as s protected toted by the United Unite States tates President McKinley In his hi message mesge of ot last December to o congress c stated ste that it I was our plain pl ln duty dut to abol abolish abolish ish all such duties U as far as they apply 1 to hp Porto t Rico The tSe fair 1 proper r thing for forthe forthe the senate to do would be to o amend amend tho bill bi so s as a to carry out the presidents em emphatic emphatic recommendation The slave may lift his head bead and so soliloquize 5 soliloquize when the master mater look looking lookIn lag ing In He may give expression expresIon to his honest thoughts when the te driver sn looking But when the whip cracks he bends bend to his task again agin retracts what he said mumbles an explanation and rubs the scar tat that the lash lah has made And nd so It was wa that our contemporary explained anew a few days das later why It I considered the bill billa bt a mistake We Va repeat are sorry sor the bill blU was ag introduced because It I gives to certain blatherskites an opportunity to air their ignorance or dishonesty in a way wa to o catch but that the he ears of or other blatherskites there erS is anything a n either unconstitutional f Illegal tee or unjust in the measure not one of oC them can cn show These The blatherskites include Its it own staff staf as quotations given show twelve Republican senators a D score of Re Republican Republican publican representatives Harrison and half the Republican newspapers But Hannas most abject serf ser has ha squared himself by turning a somer somersault somersault sault whooping things up for the th bill billand bi billand and black nil all who oppose It |