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Show I Queen Natalie, the widow of King Milan of Servia, has embraced the Roman Catholic faith. The Salt Lake Tribune's editorial as- i Faults on Senator Kawlins will prove ; 1 a boomerang: for its party, unless that paper throws out the Associated Press I i " news disclosing the inhuman methods 5 or American warfare in the Philippines. The, province of Quebec s the most Catholic section of North America. The ; entire population amounts to 1,648,89$, ; Of these 1.4:'9.1SS are Catholics. There !are some counties in the province, where it is difficult, if not impossible, j to find a single non-Catholic. If we remember aright, the majority ; party in congress defended the ship subsidy bill as a measure that will be of great benefit to the country. If it be of such great benefit, why was it shelved until next winter? Is the party of spcial privileges, excessive protection, protec-tion, bounties and subsidies afraid to 3 before the country with a measure ' so beneficial as tle ship subsidy? Dispatches from France .'tnnouncing the elections are incomplete and un- , satisfactory, but they leave no room for doubt of the overwhelming defeat :f the W'aldock-Itiosseau ministry in Paris, although this statement is coupled with the announcement that throughout the country the present . government was sustained. If the Masons were the controlling influence in the ministry. It is hard to explain I their defeat in Paris, which anyone '.? " must reasonably conclude was the chief ; nest of the secret order. General Arthur MacArthur, testify-3 testify-3 ing as a witness before the senate ' committee investigating conditions in the Philippines, declared that he, and ; not Funston. was responsible for the methods which obtained in the capture , of AguiriaMo. So the "dirty Irisli trick'' ' ivhieh little Falstaff bragged about at imperialist banquets was really the i conception of another and no credit attaches to Funston for his vaunted exploit! Mat-Arthur's testimony makes i Salt Lake imperialists feel like 2 cents. Their Kansan idol turned out to be , a bunco man only. There is no charm in life for Judge Goodwin without a newspaper, the one thing that carries his thoughts into the miner's cabin and into the homes ' "! of the people who stand for the in tellectual west. So. after nearl'- a year's lapse from his editorial work upon the Salt Lake Tribune, Judge Goodwin has decided to start a paper of his own and call it "Goodwin's Weekly." We suspect "Tod" had most to say about naming the paper, as J. - . Tod Goodwin is announced as pub lisher. However, the name is even better than the horse shoe as an object ob-ject of luck, for the writer knows a score of persons in Montana who will carry "Goodwin's Weekly" around in their poeket so as to be able to produce pro-duce it in order io settle an argument. ; Occasionally some trifling ittm of news coming over the wires of the As- , .sociated Press provokes the sense of j hemor along with teaching a lesson. A dispatch from Columbia, Tenn., re- , lates the endurance of a mule, taken ':'';- off his feet during the sudden floods in i j; that state and carried down Fountain I : ' i reck. This happened three weeks ago. ' i f The other day some workmen found him buried in a sandbar, with only his head out, still alive. Spades were secured se-cured and the animal exhumed, when, so the story goes, he ate food offered him and lived till Saturday, when he died as the result of over-indulgence after the long fast. The moral of this story is that while the jack is an example ex-ample of extraordinary endurance, when it comes to eating he has no more sense than the average human. Among the Tartars belonging to Un; cle Sam as a result of Dewey's destruction de-struction of the Spanish fleet in Manila Ma-nila bay Is the Moro tribe of the Philippines. Phil-ippines. These Moros are good people to let alone, but they were thrown in as a job lot with the $20,000,000 purchase pur-chase price paid to Spain. The Moro tribes of the Philippines are Malays and Mohammedans. Their religion forbids for-bids neither slavery nor polygamy, i They have more than one wife when they can afford it and as many slaves as they can acquire. The Moros occupy oc-cupy the Sulu archipelago and the southern part of Mindanao, the island which' ranks next to Luzon in size. They are a fierce, intractable race, often of-ten fanatically religious. The Span- iards, after many unsuccessful efforts I to subdue them, eave un the attemnt. These are the people against whom General Chaffee has sent an expedition and it will take something stronger than "water cure" to make them submissive sub-missive and loyal polygamous citizens. The country of the Moros is a good evangelical field for Iliff and Albrit-ton. Albrit-ton. Pending the consideration of the Chinese Chi-nese exclusion bill Senator Money of Mississippi asked the senator in charge of the measure "to give me an opportunity oppor-tunity to call up the bill to provide for the purchase of a site and the erec-I erec-I tion of a public building thereon at Kiloxi, in the state of Mississippi. It will take about a minute to pass it." The senator was right in his estimate of time. The bill was considered, ordered or-dered engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed in just about a minute, after which the sen- nte resumed rncilrfjt;.-.ii t- v,,T sion bill with no further interruption from gentlemen anxious to secure momentary mo-mentary appropriations. In that minute's min-ute's time Mr. Money obtained $ir0,000 for a postoffice in a town of about 4.000 people. In other words, in one little minute of time he secured an appropriation ap-propriation big enough for a city of over 100,000 people. What he might have got had he asked for two minutes min-utes of time it is hard to say. When it comes to an unnecessary appropriation appropria-tion congress is as generous with money mon-ey as with time. The incident only illustrates the rapidity with which appropriations ap-propriations for public buildings go through. If only they could be built with anything like proportionate speed. |
