Show EDITORIAL 5 the revolt in the philippines furnishes another illustration 01 alie inherent weakness of the spanish colonial method for four centuries those islands have been a source of rich revenue to spain yet spain has done absolutely for them there are very fow spaniards anywhere except in manila the ent is autocratic and harsh and would have been resented by any people less amenable than the peaceable balays malays of late however the chinese havo been pouring in from and the japanese conquest oi formosa has aroused ambitions among the natives ae yet the revolution is confined to a eingle province and would scarcely be noticed but for the weakness of the spaniard it will in all probability be soon subdued but such attempts are contagious and it would not be strange if spain found it very nearly as difficult to keep the philippines as cuba puerto rico is rising also and the spaniards at home can scarcely be blamed if they criticism criticise critic ise their government very sharply for its incompetence the trouble however is radical not merely governmental no southern european race has mado a success with its colonies for the reason chiefly that no one lias furnished colonists to occupy the colonies and help to make them constituent parts of one vireinia chronicle A remarkable arvan meeting waa held at Gilbert 8 a farming dovra ia county new york one last week the meeting place wae the methodist church which was crowded A trustee of the church presided the pastor offered prayer the choir sang a hymn and addie esea were ladeby democrats prohibitionists and the meeting closed an abdrea by the pastor another liyim and abe benediction edic tion the new york farmer to be anticipating mr rey iest anaconda standard wages fall with prices the contracting of balinese ba naturally throws a great deal of labor idle on the in order to find any chance to earn a lahood men anre obliged to take the arst place that offers no matter bow ow the price lockouts lone periods of enforced idleness id lenese and small earnings when employed soon crush tho 0 the laboring people they are made to look on the chaleo in work as a favor and not a ahna the standard of maa hood is lowered and ae abe coffers of abe rich are being tilled to bursting by gains which ariee largely from the direct contribution of the poor in cents inter cst etc the condition of the latter crad bally grows worse io ibia inay be traced most of alio crime and misery in the land the prisons and the lunatic asylums teeming with victim the charity hospitals poorhouses and potherb pott erb fields tilled to overflowing and throughout the country those thousands of homeless won derera known as tramps of course the cold barons will laugh at anyone who says ahai these things are the results of the 0 silver other causes have been at work but this 19 the chief cause i wo have a country of boundless re sources possessing almost every variety of climate and soil capable of producing nearly that the heart or mind of man can desire a land that is blessed AS no other region of abo earth with splendid rivers dense forests mountains and valleys dalees and plains and a seaboard of mar extent beauty and utility with harbors that could hold aalthe fleets of the world it seems impossible to credit that in such a land and under a just and beneficent government there can be women and children wanting for food and cleothas and the commonest necessaries of life and strong men by millions ablo and anxious to work who cannot find the opportunity to earn a for their little but anis condition exists and tharo must bo a cause for it whatever the other cause may be the fundamental difficulty is the currency its insufficiency in volume tha imperfections of its circulation and its dearness through the appreciation of gold john P jones in arena |