Show The CourierJournal quotes G M Currle of New York who says that his business causes me to travel In nearly every Southern State and it is In strict accord with truth to declare that an overwhelming majority of the intelligent I Intelli-gent people of that section are In favor holding on to our possessions In the Eat They look at the question from a tjusincss standpoint and argue that the 1 extension of our Oriental trade Is bound to benefit the cotton plantero and manufacturers of the South But JH addition to tho commercial argument argu-ment they do not take stock In the At kinsonian Idea that we should abandon the Philippines to tho natives after thee the-e of so much treasure and the loss of so many lives The Cour lel Journal Indorses that and warns politicians not to count too strongly on tho South to uphold them In their anti IDemocratic crusade against expansion Dropping the commercial argument altogether al-together the old original argument used do justify the first assault upon Cuba still remains In orce On the score oC Jiumanfty the United States cannot turn over those islands to the rule ort or-t > cuttlii Nft who I1fl eiio deslro except to live at the expense of their countrymen and who Kirnjjcio for pow er only as a means to rob and to enslave I en-slave their own people |