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I ! "I VOL V: NO. 24 ASHEVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 8 1900: 'it PEICE 5 CENTS. ESTREICHER i & COMPANY. In order to make room for our new 4 Spring Dress Goods we will put on sale a large number of pieces of dress goods which are in stock at the fol lowing prices: thirty pieces 40 inches in width, half wool goods, worth 35c , this sale 21c. the yard. Twenty pieces ranging in price from 60c, 65c. to 75c. Special 49c. the yard. 100 Skirt Remnants for less than half price. Millinery one-fourth original price, trimmed or untrimmed. OESTREICHER&CO 51 Patton Avenue .MASSAGE.. AND PACKS. Treatment for NERVOUS, RHEUMATIC and OTHER DISEASES. Special: THURB BRANDT MASSAGE FOR FEMALE DISEASES; ALSO FACE MASSAGE. PROF. EDWIN GRUNER, Graduate Chemnitz College, Germany. Formerly with Oakland Heights. Sanitarium.) 55 8. MAIN ST. TELEPHONE 206. Home or Office Treatment. Office hours, 11 a. m. to 1. p. m., 2 to 4 p. m. OSTEOPATHY. E. S. Willard D. O., Osteopathist. Offices over Dr. T. C. Smitn's Drug Store, Court Square. Office hours, 9 a. m. to 12 noon', and 2:30 o 5 30 p. m. THE FEED STORE 39 South Main Street. Has in stock nd daily arriving et very large stock of feed, lU of wMch has been bought to the very best advan tage, for the benefit of our customers. Respectfully, C. S. COOPER. THE WRECK NEAR HALIFAX. Farther Evidence That the Planet Mercury is Lost. Halifax, March 7. A despatch from Harrington says that large quantities of reckage is corroitg ashore there, n cluding life buoys and a section of a 're boat with the name "Pla.net Mer cury" 0Oj them. Several bodies have keen seen on the surface. It is regarded Qs further evidence olf the loss of the a.mship Planet Mercury of the Elder Dempster line. We regret to say that we have no odd ?ck on hand, but will give you any- in Furniture or Stoves niewer Resign and. for less money ithani you -eon trc .1 . " .. .--...-v-k-T STRONG SPEECH BY LODGE In Defence of President Mc Klnley's Philippine Policy, The Islands Ours by an Un clouded Title. Our President's Duty to Restore Order in the Islands. An Honest Administration and, Ulti mately, Home Bale. VALUE OF THE ISLANDS TO AMERICAN COMMERCE INCAL CULABLE LETTERS FROM THE PHILIPPINES THAT INDICATE THE! RETURN OF PEACE. "Washington, March 7. The feature of the proceedings of the senate today was a' speech by Senator Lodge in fa vor the adoption of the Spooner bill vesting in President McKinley power to govern the Philippines until the insur rection is ended and congress confers permanent government. Mr. Lddge de livered 'his speech in his usual master ly style and was closely listened to by members on the floor and spectators in the galleries. He defended the presi dent's policy and reviewed our present duty with regarldi to the Philippines. He declared that the Filipinos are incap able of self-government, and contended that Aguinaldo had never been recog nized, and discussed at length the aid Vantage that would accrue from the re tention of the islands. Previous to Mr. Lodge's speech Mr. Mason gave notice that" be would to morrow request the discharge of the foreign relations committee from fur ther consideration of the resolution expressing sympathy for the Boers, saying it was evident that the commit tee had no intention of reporting it, de spite the fact that 95 per cent of the people of 'the United States favored it. At the close of Mr. Lodge's speech Mr. Proctor read extracts of letters ad dressed to him by officers of the army and navy in the Philippines, telling of opposition to the Americans melting away, and of Aguinaldo being a fugi tive. The death of Congressman Har mer was announced and the senate ad journed as a mark of respect. Senator Lodge said that the bill made no declaration and offers no promises as to a fu'ture we cannot yet predict. The president, under the military pow er which still controls and must for some time control the islands, could do all that thisbill provides. But it is v-rell that we should have 'he direct author ity of congress. It is important that congress should assert its authority. I believe," said Mr. Lodge, "it to be of great importance to define our po sition, so that it may be perfectly un derstood by the inhabitants of 'the Philippines, as well as by our own peo ple. "If we must abandon the Philippines, let us abonkkm them frankly. If we mean to turn them over to domestic an archy or foreign control, le't us do it squarely. We accept the fact that the Philippine islands are ours today and that we are responsible for them before the world. The next fact is that there is a war in those islands, which, with its chief in hiding and no semblance of a government, has now degenerated in to mere guerilla fighting and brigand age. Our immediate duty, therefore, is to suppress this disorder, put an end to fighting and restore peace and order. That is what we are doing. For Rent. Am elegaflltly furnSshed resi dence of 15 rooms; hardwood floors and furnishings; furnace heajt, large grounds, stable, etc., $100. . ' Twenty-room furnished boara- lug house, complete in every par ticular, on beet residence street; large garden and gr-nnds, sta ble etc., $75.00. Ohan-mJing little cottage of six rooms; tastefully furnished; pi ano and library; cosy and com fortable, $40.00. Three furnisftied flats $22 to $32. A mumber of others, city and suburban, furnished and unfur nished. WILKIE & LaBARBE, Real Estate Agents Phone 661. 23 Patton Av$. i BAKER & CO., Scientific Refracting Opticians, No; 45 Patton Avenue. .Examination Free. - I Special attention fiiveai to" r pairing. "I hope and believe that we shall re tain the islands, arid that, peace and order once restored, we shall and should re-establish civil government, beginning with the towns and villages where the inhabitants are able to man age their own affairs. We should In augurate and carry forwarkJ, In the most earnest and liberal way, a com prehensive system of popular educa tion. Finally, while we bring prosper ity to the islands by developing their resources, we should as rapidly as con ditions will permit, bestow upon them self-government and home rule. Such, in outline, is the policy which I believe can be and will be pursued toward the Philippines. It will. require time, pa tience, honesty and ability for its com pletion, but it is thoroughly practica ble and reasonable. CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED. "I believe we are in the Philippines as righteously as we are there right fully and legally. I believe that to abandon the islands, or to leave them now, would be wrong to humanity, a dereliction of duty, and in the highest idegree contrary to sound morals. Our opponents put forward as their chief objection that we have robbed these people of their liberty and have taken them and hold them in defiance of the doctrine of the Declaration of Inde pendence in regard to the consent of the governed. As to liberty, they never bad it, and Tiave none now, except when we give it to them protected by the flag and the armies of the United States. Their insurrection against Spain, confined to one island, had been utterly abortive, and could never have revived, or been successful while Spain controlled the sea. We ihave given them all the liberty they ever had. We could not have robbed' them of it, for they had none to lose. The second objection as to the 'consent of the gov erned' requires more careful examina tion, because of the persistency with which it has been made the subject of heated declamation. "Taking the colonies as a whole, a very large minority, if not half, of the people of whom the continental con gress proposed to govern were utterly opposed to the revolution. Did we ask their consent? Not at all. We crowd ed the revolutionary government on the loyalists at the point of the bayonet, anid when the revolution was over they had to accept the government thus forced upon them or go into exile. Which many of them did. "Jefferson himself was the greatest expansionist IhT our history. He ac quired a vast territory for the United States. Did heask the consent of the 30,000 white men at the mouth of the Mississippi or of the Indians roaming over the wide expanses of the Louisi ana purchase? Such an idea never oc curred to him for a moment. He took Louisiana without the consent of the governed, anid1 he ruled it without the consent of the governed. It was not a question of 'all' or 'some.' He never asked the consent of any of the gov erned, either to take the territory or to rule it afterward. In 1819 we bought Florida from Spain without the consent of the governed, and this crime against the declaration of independence was perpetrated by John Quincy Adams and James Monroe. Moreover, con gress placed in the hands of President Monroe, the principal criminal, power to govern this new territory absolutely, in the very terms employed by a pre vious congress when they conferred a like auhority upon Thomas Jefferson. "If the arguments which have been offered against our taking the Philip pine islands because we have not the consent of the inhabitants be just, then our whole past record of expansion is a crime, ana xnomas jerrerson ana jonn Quincy Ajd'ams and James Monroe, and all the rest of our presidents and statesmen who have added :c our na tional domain, are traitors to the cause of liberty and to the declaration of in dependence. Does any one really be lieve it? I think not. THE FILIPINOS INCAPABLE OF SELF-GOVERNMENT. "The next argument of the opponents of the republican policy is that we are denying self-government to the Fili pinos. Our reply is that to give inde pendent self-government at once, as we understand it, to a people who have no just conception of it and no fitness for it, is to dower them with a curse in stead of a blessing. To do this would be to entirely arrest their progress in stead of advancing them on the road to liberty and free government which we wish them to achieve and enjoy. This contention rests, of course, on the proposition that the Filipinos are not today in the least fitted for self-government, as we understand it. The ar gument on this point is, I will admit, much simplified 'by the admissions of our opponents. The past, present and prospective leader and presidential candidate of the democratic party said in Minneapolis on January 10: " 'I am a firm believer in the enlarge ment and extension of the republic. I don't mean by that the extension by the addition of contiguous territory, nor to limit myself to that. "Wherever there is a people intelli gent enough to form part of this repub lic, it is my belief that they, should be taken in. Wherever there is a peo ple capable of having a voice and a representation In this government, there the limits Of the republic may.be extended. " 'The Filipinos are not such a people. The democratic party liaSTfever favored the extension, of the limits of this re public; but it has . never advocated the acquisition of subject territory to be held under colonial government.' "I do not think the Filipinos fit for self-government as we understand it, and I am certain that if we left them alone the result would be disastrous to tjhem and discreditable to us. The Filipinos have never been either a peo- (Continued on fifth page.) ROUTED BY ROBERTS Boers Forced to Retreat from Their Position. Fighting Practically Confined to Cavalry Divisions. English Critics Complain at the Es cape of the Enemy. French's Mounted Troops ir Pursuit of the Fleeing Federals The Campaign in Natal. London, March 7. The war office re ceived the following from Roberts this evening: "Poplar Grove, March 7, 7:35 p. m We have had a very successful day. We completely routed the enemy, who is in full retreat. The position they occupied is exceedingly strong and cunningly arranged with a strong line of intrenchments, which, would have caused us heavy losses 'had a direct at tack been made. The turning move ment was necessarily wide owing to the nature of the grouni! and the cav alry and artillery horses were much done up. Fighting was practically confined to the cavalry divisions, which, as usual, did exceedingly well. Gener al French reports that the horse artil lery did great execution on the enemy, who are commanded by Dewet and Delarey. Our casualties are fifty." Roberts says that one officer was .killed and two were wounded. CRITICS NOT SATISFIED. London, March 8. General Roberts cavalry under General French have re peated the tactics which drove General Cronje from Magersfontein, compelling Commandants Dewet and Delarey to withdraw the Boer army which had in trenched itself opposite the British at Osfontein. The only detail that can be added to Roberts' account of the movement is that the Boers abandoned one gun, immense quantities of forage and a large number of tents. French's mounted troops are said to be pursuing the enemy and the Boers north of the Modder river are evacuating their po sitions. There is no indication in the reports of Roberts' operations whether his pur pose was effected by the precipitate re treat of the enemy. If his intention was to surround the Boers it obviously fail ed. If it was merely to cut their com munication with Bloemfontein it was so far a success. But the Boer army escaped. The result of the day's work does not wholly satisfy the critics here. The mil itary expert of the Morning Post de clares that the result is most disap pointing. A good general, he says, is not satisfied with the enemy's retreat. He wishes to destroy the enemy. BULLER'S CAMPAIGN. There is no official information re garding Buller's position or movements. His Teporte'di advance in the direction of Harrysmith appears to be merely a reoonnoissance, which did not ascend east of the slopes of Drakensberg mountains. It would be premature to assume that he intends to pass into the Orange Free State. The only news from the Dordrecht neighborhood is contained in a de spatch' dated Marcm 7, in which it has been reported that the British column is going forward with a view of taking a position to the north of that from which Brabant drove the Boers. The Colesberg column has been largely re inforced. It has advanced positions some miles beyond Achtertang, but it apparently has not been engaged since March 3. CRONJE TO ST. HELENA. London, March 8. The Daily News says the government has decided to send Cronje and his followers to St. Helena orth-wlth. The correspondent of the Daily News, captured by the Boers but relejased at Bloemfontein, and who Is now at Sterkstroom, ca bles that paper tnat President Steyn declared to him In an interview that the Boers would fight to the last. He admitted the possibility of Pretoria capituating, but said it would be pre ceded by events that would astonish Europe. He declared that the strug gle in the Free State -would be chirdfs play compared with, what would follow in the Transvaal. "WAR HAS ONLT BEGUN." Pretoria, March 2. The surrender of Cronje, which has just been officially confirmed here, has caused great re gret but renewed patriotic ardor among the Boers. The people are determined as ever to resist to the death. The surrender of Cronje caused Joubert to raise the siege of Ladysmith. The Volkstem says the real war is now only commenced. It declares the Boers have faith in God and the cause of in dependence is irrevocable. BULLER ISSUES AN ORDER. Durban, March 6. General Buller, in a general order regarding the relief of Ladysmith, says: "The two forces, both of which during the las't few months 'have striven with conspicuous gallantry and splendid determination, are an honor to the queen and to the country. The Ladysmith garrison for four months held its position against every attack with complete success, and endured many privations with ad mirable fortitude. The relieving force had to force its way through an un known country, across unfordable riv ers, and on almost inaccessible heights face a fully prepared, well armed and tenacious enemv." The order congratulates both forces! on the martial qualities displayed and thanks them for their determined ef fort. Buller also sympathizes with the relatives and friends of the gallant comrades who have fallen. - Ladysmith, March 5. There are no Boers within twenty miles of here. Plenty of supplies are available and the troops are quickly recovering their strength. Many of the volunteers have been granted furloughs. Boer Camp, Biggarsberg, March 3. The federals have fallen back on the Biggarsberg chain thait crosses Natal south of Dundee. The retreat from Ladysmfth was due to the mistake of ft certain commandant in ordering the men to retire from the key of he posi tion without any reason for the move. On receipt of the bad news from Mod der river Wednesday it was resolved to Bend the wagons back to iggarsberg. KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE WORKING WITH BECKHAM Bills to Fix Freight Rates aDd Organ ize a Militia- Frankfort, March 7. The houee this afternoon. passed the McChord railroad bill, giving the railroad cornmissioners the right to fix freight rates on com plaint being made. The bill fixes a fine 'of $500 to $1,000 for tie first violation and from $1,000 to $5,00 ior eaclh subsequecit violation of 'the law. The measure was passed by a vote of 56 to 42, the republi cans voting solidly against the measure. The hill passed the senate and will be presented to Beckham for signature to morrow. Senator Triplett today moved an amendment to Ms bill to appropriate $250,000 to equip a state miliitia under Beckham and to urder back from Lon don the military stores sent 'mere by Taylor, by reducing the amount to $100,000. The commission appointed under the reward bill held a meeting today and is preparing to announce the reward for the capture of Goebel's assassin. PLAGUE IN SAN FRANCISCO. One Case Discovered in the Chinese Quarters. San Francisco, March 7. The hoarfd olf health last night announced that a case of bubonic plague had been dis covered in Chinatown. A cordon has been placed around the Chinese quar ters, and no one is allowed to leave or enter them. Blue Ridge lodge, number 205, I. O. O. F,. will confer the first degree this eve ning, assisted by the Swannanot lodge number 56. Kim Lozenges for all irritations of the throat, 5c. at Grant's. Tear by year the sales of Camphor line increase. Could this be true of a fake. 25c All druggists. Mrs. F. R. Darby says: "Camphorlime Is not only good for chapped hands but for burns and inflamed surfaces also. My husband would have been badly burned the other day had I not used Caniphorline quickly and freely." I Lenten Dishes. .Robin Brand Salmon a. I Steak, Soused Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, I Findon Haddocks, Kippered Herring, I Selected Codfish, BeardsleVs Shredded Codfish, Star Lobster, Fresh Barataria Shrimp, No. 1 Fat Mackerel J, la tin palls with beads and tail Agency "R0CKBR00K FARM CREAMERY BUTTER. I CLARENCE SAWYER enecceBor to W. F. Solder, NORTH COURT SQUARE. ANGLO-FRENCH WAR CLOUD Relations Reported at an Ex treme Point of Ten sion. France Now Heady to Resist "British Aggression." Stores and Ammunition Accumulated in All Colonies. "'Hi And French Troops to Burn, at Everj Advantaereons Point. NAVY ALSO HAS THINGS 'AR RANGED SO THAT IT CAN AS SIST IN TWISTING THE LION'S TAIL A CHANCE FOR MERCIER. Paris, March 7. The correspondent of the Laffan Bureau learns of ex treme tension in Anglo-French rela tions, and French officials are consider ing the probability of war. An import ant official, who possesses the confi dence of the ministry, told the corre spondent today that it would be useless longer to deny the fact that England aims at -attacking France. Every step England has taken has been met with a corresponding precautionary step by France. It was not weakness that made the French yield in the Fashoda dispute, but moderation, though appar ently all moderation was wasted in England's present temper. France is now ready to resist British aggression. Stores an'dl ammunition have been ao cumulated in all the colonies sufficient to maintain a long campaign. There are thirty thousand white troops. In. Tonquin, fifty thousand in Algiers, ten thousand in Madagascar and more will be sent to the latter place shortly. The French fleet possesses safe refuges from which it would be able to covexj movements against England's -weak points, which are perfectly known, should war be declared. He added that France does not wish war unless it is forced on her. THE RED ASH MINE DISASTER. Thurmond, "W. Va., March 7. The explosion in the Red' A.sh mine yester day resulted in a shut down of all the mines in the Thurmond district. The miners quit work to assist those en tombed. The work is retarded by in tensely offensive gases. Up to 8 o'clock tonight twenty-nine bodies had been taken out and six rescued alive, but with little hope for their recovery. It is believed thirty-five more are still in the mine. SECRETARY ROOT IN HAVANA. Havana, March 7. Secretary Root nnrf fiprpra.1 Wood drove around the city today and subsequently attended a rmhlto reception. Tonight a ammer was given in the Palace in 'honor of Root. Fountain evTinges perfect goods only, a new lot, $1-00 to $2.25 at Grant's. Wood's Songster Food for canary birds 10c. at Grant's. It is money well spent when you buy Grant's No. 24 fcr colds and la grippe 25c. at Grant's. DR. BALLARD'S Barbecue Toaut il lustrated by Fred. A. Hull, is now on sale at all the book stores in 'the city. A choice collection! of Wood's and Manderville and King's flower 6eeds at Grant's. BEOKEES' COMMISSIOIS HOUSE, Murphy Co., Incorporated, 11 Church Street, sheYilltf . 61 Broadway, New York. Our office being connected by private wire enable urn to promptly excut or ders oa tha New York and Chicago Exchanges. Continuous quotations at this office. Church Street. Reference: Blue Ridge National . " -"Hi i'b : v i .. h.' V : ' ' ;. y! V.-: . . II.. . K i .- r ; .' - !; - ,"-.; ' f -' 1 s- -r s. A - ' -' i i --- ewnere. MKS. la. A.:JU.H.INS5xn; Patton avenue. 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