To speak of the progress of the Peace Treaty towards ratificat in the United States Senate would be incorrect. For, although the measure has been before that body for two weeks and more it has made practically no progress. It has been assailed by the little band of Senators who oppose the annexation of the Philippines to the United States on moral grounds and it has been buffeted about by the politicians, Democrats chiefly, who see in resistance to expansion the most promising issue for the next Presidential campaign. Before this reaches you the fate of the Treaty may have byon decided. It is impossible to make reasonable predictions now. But whether it is disposed of by that time, whether ratified or rejected, the of its course can be written now. And this story explains well the conditions that obtain in this country to-day and gives the reasons for any result.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.