10 DECEMBER 1898, page 2

President Mckinley's Annual Message Which Was Reac To...

Monday, though too long, is a striking and statesmanlike exposition of recent events. After a plain spoken allusion to the ' Maine,' the President deals with Cuba, and states......

We Have Dealt Elsewhere With The President's Announcement...

intends to connect the two oceans with a ship canal, and will only say here that we hail with satisfaction the release of the isthmus from a kind of Anglo-Saxon mort- main.......

The German Emperor Opened The Imperial Diet On Tuesday In

a very long speech, the salient features of which were that the intimidation practised upon workmen by Trade-Unions is to be prevented by repressive criminal laws, that the......

The Times Of Tuesday Publishes A Most Interesting Letter...

by Cobden to Captain Cowper Coles in 1864 on the question of national defence, which shows that his clear and comprehensive brain had fully realised the true nature of the......

The Fiscal Clauses Of The Message Require Separate...

mentioning that there is now in the Treasury some £27,000,000 in gold coin, another £27,000,000 in gold bullion, and about £18,000,000 in silver bullion, the President states......

The Great Interest Excited By The President's Mention Of The

Nicaragua Canal scheme makes it worth while to recall the exact nature of the scheme. In the Republic of Nicaragua, which holds the broader part of the isthmus between the......

The Irony Of Fate Still Pursues The Emperor Of Austria.

Every man among his subjects seems to exalt in his Jubilee, but not one among them will let him manage as he pleases. Bohemia is shattered by the race contest ; in Galicia there......