Show VIEWS OF OTHER EDITORS ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES w Altogether Immaterial It Is altogether Immaterial to the country countr whether Bryan Dran and Cleveland Cle stand on one and the sauna same political platform or whether the they prefer prefer pre pro fer or to throw political 1 philosophy and mud mull at each other That Mr lr Bryan Dran will object to any and to everything that does docs not suit him him cannot be denied It is 18 equally an Impossibility to be blind to the fact that he Is one of or the most dangerous men to the country countr ever ever ever-by by some some wonderful mischance mischance- allowed to force himself to the very cry forefront of or a n party once great In all ami that makes a party part great but now so o poor that even en Bryan Dran himself refu refuses e to todo todo todo do It reverence unless it molds Itself to his will pleasure and mad fancies His friends make great parade of or the fact that Mr Bryan Dran Is la at once honest and virtuous So was at nt once hon honest st t and virtuous of virtuous of an honesty and anda a virtue that were as rigid and as ns unyielding un un- yielding as the virtue and Sand the honesty honest of ot Mr Bryan Dran who like IJa Is IJ Isa isa a puller down and not a a. builder up and conceals his dangerous Qualities under the cloak of or his virtues It is Js riot not meant b by by- that to say gy that Mr 1 Bryan Dran Is a hypocrite Neither was a hypocrite A fanatic as Bryan Dran Is Is the premier of or orthe the French Revolution had his opportunity opportunity and neither his virtue nor his honesty stayed stae the work of or the guillo gullio- tine Mr Bryan Bran has not had his opportunity opportunity and never will If It nothing else would stay him the folly folh of or his own party which can unite nothing but opposition opposition opposition op op- op- op position at au all stages forbids forbid the possibility possibility of or his ever r compassing success In national affairs His virtue Is of or the dangerous sort and his hon honesty t that of or ofa a fanatic Cincinnati Commercial Trib Tu I U une flO Deweys Dewcy's Conclusive Testimony Admiral Dewey made a valuable contribution to history recently In his testimony before the Senate committee His Ills chief point was that the United States Slates had never recognized dos do's government and was under no oblIgation obligation obligation ob ob- ob- ob to the tue Filipinos In the capture of or Manila The Admirals Admiral's statement of facts is so explicit as to leave no room to question their accuracy or im Im- Im- Im port Before Defore he sailed for Manila Dewey attached no Importance to the doings of or the Filipinos and co conse consequently se se- gave savo them little attention He was busy getting read ready to fight and Aguinaldo pestered him with In fact the fleet sailed I a trifle trine earll earlier r than It otherwise e would In order to escape bother hother from the little brown men Ills His first Intimation that AguInaldo Agul AguI- gui gui- naldo naido Intended to set up a government was In a n proclamation sent him July The Admiral did not take lake It seriously seriously seri serl and never thought of or recognizing the called so-called republic That the Filipinos Filipinos Fili Fill pinos were not needed In the capture of or Manila I Is shown from the Governors Governor's offer to surrender It to the fleet alone and from flom his subsequent proposal to give J e It up after aCter a n sham battle b to E save gave his honor Whatever hallucinations ma may have had had and and with hl his Inordinate self-assurance self they may have been plentiful It plentiful It Is ls certain that Admiral Dewey representing the AmerIcan AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican Government Go was under no rio obligations obligations obliga obliga- to him and did not recognize his republic So attempts attempt have hlL been made to make campaign c material out of or the supposed perfidy of oC the Washington Washington Wash Wash- Va hInston h- h ington Inston Administration that It is well to have the facts in the case widely known A Tobacco Generation Never since Sir Walter Raleigh h enJoyed en en- Joyed his first pipe ha has the warfare of tobacco anti-tobacco cru crusaders a ers been less effective ef et- ef- ef than It Is now nott To the man about town the problem of oC the con continued contin contin- tin ned existence of oC so o many cigar cl-ar shops becomes more perplexing every year ear In Iii almost every hotel large or small In almost every barroom barrom and drug drugstore store cigars cigar are sold soM Nevertheless In Inthe Inthe Inthe the cities and towns and villages from Alaska to Patagonia In every zone and anel eYer every clime every shop In which nothIng nothing noth noth- in ing but tobacco In one form or another Is sold seems to el eke e out an existence How can such hosts of shops get set a sufficient number of or patrons to keep them going In this city amazing rentals rentals ren ren- for quarters on frequented corners arc paid by the dealers who cater to the tho tastes of or the devotees of or tobacco The ranks of the chewers and the takers of or snuff have been extensively cl reduced Inthis in inthis this generation but the Innumerable host of or men and boys who seek solace In cigars cigarettes and pipes and spend pen a n great deal of or money In the worship of or the nicotine goddess ever every ery year grows brows even more rapidly than the percentage of or the advance In lation Above all other tobacco ing eras ems of or the past this Is sending clouds of smoke Into the air |