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Show TSB BEE 2 THE BEE. THE PHILIPPINES. another change In tho plans of tho War department ON TO Unless thero Is the soldier boja of Utah, along with those of Idaho, Wyoming and the Bee a The Published Once Week by Publishing Company. other mountain States, and possibly those of the coast, will bo sent to matter. Entered in the Balt Lake Cit j lontollice t ecoml-cla- a guard the Philippines, to preserve order In tho Orient, to police Spanish ocean lea In tho name of Undo Sam. This will bo a long but a delightful journey, far preferable to going to Cuba with all tho experience of SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 7, 1898. army life and comparatively less exposure than tho eastbound troops will have. Tho sea voyage, tho delightful climate of tho Philippines, OP SUBSCRIPTION. TERMS the lessons to be learned along tho way and during the occupation of . . .12.00 or one Canada Mexico, year, pontage paid. Any part ol the United State, Iho Islands will form a pleasing contrast to tho outlook on the other England, Prance, Germany, and all countrien embraced iu Universal Postal Union, side of tho map. On tho whole, it is a chaugo that should not anger one y ar, jHjMage paid New Subscriptions may commence at any time during the year. any one, for oven those who aro spoiliug for a fight may have all they PUBLISHING COMPANY, BEE THE Telephone 651. require, especially if Franco concludes to tako a hand. In the event Salt Lake City, Utah. P. O. Box 630. of loreign intervention, which, though remote, is always to be counted upon, the fighting would doubtless be In the neighborhood of tho PhilEditor. ippines, for possession of which any of the great powers would willingNOBLE WARRUM, JR., ly give a King's ransom. But whether we liko it or not, if Uncle Sam says Philippines that settles iL Then on to tho Philippines! VICTORY. AN AMERICAN Notwithstanding the odds in favor of the Spanish fleet at the Philippines an American victory was a foregone conclusion from the first. In a cowardly characteristic manner tho Spaniards crouched along tho shore, right under tho guns of tho fortifications, and compelled tho Americans to fight, not only tho Spanish armada which outnumbered our fleet four to one, but tho forts and coast defense vessels as well. Yet Commodoro Dewey never wavered. In fact he seemed to o to Manilla bay and to begin fighting make a from Hong-Kon- g as soon as he got within range, lie displayed the same sort of pluck that lias marked every naval battlo in which this republic has ever Icon engaged. Heedless alike of odds, mines, torpedoes, treachery, forts and fleets the four American cruisers steamed right in and did battlo to superior numbers. For, besides the ten thousand Spanish soldiers at Manilla, there were twice as many marines on the Spanish ships as thero were on those of the United States. Cr, in other words, tho armed Spaniards in Manilla and on the bay out numbered the Americans there twelve to one at least What cared Dewey? He was thrice armed for his cause was just. bee-lin- ! PUBLISH THE PENSION LIST. Senator Cannon has urged tho publication of the pens. on lists, and he asked for tho reason that thero was no other way to stop the greedy rush for pensions. Another war is on, and at its close new pension matters will be up for tho consideration of this Government. Already wo havo a million pensioners and fully two hundred thousand applications on file, thirty odd years after the war. Fifteen years ago It was believed that the number had reached a maximum, and that it But the list has would decrease from that time on year by year. leiightened out. It has never quit growing for a minute. Every election brings renewed promises to put another class on the roll, and it has been only a step from those who suffered injury to those who were afterwards sickly, and then to those who needed help, and then to their families, and widows and other rclatius. till there are not only dewhich are utterly unserving cases receiving attention, bi.t Uioiu-anddeserving. In 1870 it was thought that the ist was about as full as it would ever be, that while new cases might be discovered and relieved from time to time that the natural decrease from natural causes would counter-balanc- e them for a time; that long before 1890 the deaths would outnumber the additions by a large majority every year. Figures of the pension disbursements since 1870 will show the appalling growth of the abuse. In the decade for 1870 to 1880, $326,088,179 was paid for pensions, amounting to 19.99 per cent of the ordinary expenses of the Government. In the decade for 1880 to 1890 the pension payment was $702,232,632, equal to 33.47 per cent of the net ordinary expenditures. From 1890 to 1896 the cost of pensions was $840,363,077, or 42.50 per cent of the net ordinary expenditures. Adding the $140,000,000 appropriated for the last fiscal year, we have the prodigious sum of $2,008,783,908 paid to pensioners in twenty-seve- n years. s to telegraph his Government when the American vessels had withdrawn to their coaling ship for fuel that the enemy had been forced to retreat after a two hours engagement, at the close of which the Spaniards admitted having destroyed their remaining ships to prevent them from falling Into tho enemys hands. People are very apt to destroy their goods and chattels to keep a vanquished foe from getting hold of them. But, however it was done, the famous Pacific squadron of Spain has been swept forever from the sea, and the invincible fortifications which last week frowned down upon Manilla bay and bid defiance to the world are razed to be raised again no more forever. And the hope of Spain as a naval power in Oriental waters is gone with the loss of her fertile Phillipines. For the Stars and Stripes float above the island today and The sum total is enough to cause a man to wonder, and the rapid the heads of the dons are bowed in defeat and sullen chagrin. , increase is enough to arouse his suspicion. No wonder Senator Cannon t asked for a publication of the list. It should also include the names of What is to become of the Philippines? What are we going to do all applicants. During the first five years of the present decade we paid with them now that they are to be numbered among our possessions. out nearly as much as in the ten years between 1880 and 1890. Nearly This country doesnt wrant them. It is not reaching for territory in the half the ordinary expenditures of the Government are for pensions. Orient. It has no military aspirations, at least so far from home. So s of our revenue from customs goes into the pockets of the tho islands will probably be sold to the highest bidder. There should pensioners. Without the pension roll, we should need no Dingley debt. be enough realized from them to pay a great per cent of our law, says a member of Congress and this leak in the public treasury is And there is no danger but several bidders will attend the auction often the price of a members election. He promises to work for a cerwhenever it comes off. The Czar needs them in his business, and so tain allowance in consideration for support received. He does it, and does John Bull. France needs nothing any worse, and the Kaiser has thus the people furnish the bribe money for which he obtained his had his eye on them for some time. Japan will not allow a foreign election. It is a grave abuse, and should be remedied. But the best power, other than the United States to take them, without a menace way to begin, it appears, is to publish the pension lists in full and from her most formidable navy, and this country is tolerated there besoon. cause Japan does not fear American encroachment. But possession of pretty these islands will not be given up until an international board of arbiI love and honor Epaminondas, but I do not wish to be Epami-nonda- s. tration takes the matter up at the assembling of a peace congress, when I hold it more just to love the world of this hour than the tho wrar is over to adjust claims and geographical differences. Then Emerson. the United States should keep in mind those powers whose friendly world of his hour. sympathy has been with her in this struggle; nor should she forget are an invincible pair. The bluntest Perseverance and those powers which have encouraged Spain and made it hard for us to sort of ability will arrive at results accompanied by these two. secure a redress of our wrongs. Great Britain has been our friend. It was also characteristic of the Spanish. Admiral Nine-tenth- w-a- good-natu- re |