Show THE GROWLERS The last news from Gor MacArthur Is that A great reaction favorable to tho American interests in a regIon heretofore moat hostile has tforfie Other Oth-er dispatches tell of the surrender by the Insurgents of their arms and ammunition am-munition which is i good news for heretofore here-tofore they have managed lo retain their rifles In the face oC all disaster Further news reports that wherever the Taft commission goes tile people are enthusiastic In their icceptlon and the urgency for 3 civil government is Increasing every day We think that the troubles in the Philippines are 1 about over and that the Democracy and the mugwumps will soon haye again to fall back on the old warfare ion Ion i i i-on trusts and charges of corruption on the part 01 Republicans The last morsel mor-sel which the enemies of the Government Govern-ment are rolling under their tongue is the extravagance of the present Congress Con-gress We think it is n fair criticism but ils expected that Utah will receive re-ceive 500000 of the appropriation this year which will be about her proportion propor-tion of the great extravagance A near contemporary finds something over 100000 going for the Improvement of San Pedro harbor and charges that all up to the account of Senator Elklns and Senator Kearns as Kearns and Perry S Heath aro Interested In the terminal road and they are both Republicans The fact that Senator Clark Montana owns ten times as much as either of them In the terminal Is something that our contemporary forgets The fact too that appropriation for that harbor har-bor is simply n continuation of what Congress agreed to do a year or two years ago Is also passed by A warfare war-fare went on for eight years between San Pedro and Santa Monica I was l finally decided In favor of San Pedro In Congress as against Santa Monica and the Southern Pacific railroad Some papers went so far as to say that the defeat of the Santa Monica project was what killed the late C P HuntIngton Los Angeles a great city and wants to be a great seaport town but of the appropriations this year tho Item which is one hundred times greater than tho appropriation for San Pedro is for the lower Mississippi river where no Republicans aro In evidence |