rw,, ', -t r." -' wmsf fcAi'M MimiiwiiinwwwiMwwiWWW-v 4 THE 8CHANT0N TRIBUNE--MONDAY MOItflriNGr, ArRIL 20, , 1897, " 0e gcvanfcm gMBune mily nd WMkijr. No Sunday Edllloo. ' 0y The Trlbunt PuMlihlng Company. WILLIAM CONNLLL, President. 1 1 Yerk IteprnvnUtlvv: Fit AX K a OKAY 00.. noom Tribune nutldlng. New York Cllr. amino at to rosTornci at scrantok. pa. A8 eiCONO-CtAOS U AIL UATTIR. Tlie Tribune receives over n'speclnl wire lending Into u oniro tlio complelo report of the Asioclated J'rcm, the greatest news enl lectlug organization In the world. Tin Tribune wan the first newspaper In North, eastern I'euusylvanla to contract for this nervicc. TEN .PAGES. SCRANTON, APRIL 26, 1897. "N$t criminal but careless" Is the accepted comment upon local school board financiering. Yet carelessness Is often quite as expensive as crlmlnal- ness. Ulysses S. Orant. By common consent the three Amer icans who occupy tho highest place In the esteem of the people are Washing ton, Lincoln and Grant. There are others who have wrought great good to America and to the world: but these stand pre-eminent for political ser vice In times when the nation's exist ence was In doubt. And hero the term "political" Is used In Its fullest sig nificance as having to do with tho na tion's fundamental welfare. Tet Wash ington belonged by character and training to another civilization; and In tho twin developments of the civil wnr, Lincoln and Grant, we have re vealed with fitting background the two great types of tho Americanism of our time and kind. The nearness of to morrow's ceremonial which will dedi cate to the memory of the last named a monument representing tho volun tary offerings of the whole American people suggests tho appropriateness of a brief comment upon the personality thus honored. If Abraham Lincoln's tragic story stands- out ns the great national epic of American humor, sympathy and patience, and presents for the consid eration of future ages qualities cer tain never to appeal vainly for rever ence tempered by love, then the career of Ulysses S. Grant must take place beside it as the embodiment of Amer ican progress, to be forever viewed with admiration and amazement. Gen eral Grant was untroubled with Imag ination; he had only the rudiments of a sense of humor; more than any con temporary he was self-contained. But he had the adamantine will which Is greater than electricity in the achieve ment of the Incredible; he marked out a course and followed It through to the end; there was almost the relentless ness of tho fatalist In 'his unswerving continuation directly to the object of his purpult. He was not without sym pathy, he did not lack the humanizing sentiments his loyalty to friends was proverbial and that death struggle for the family's sake at Mount Mc Greggor would in Itself still all honest detraction but to him success was the end that Justified the price; to win, the behest that admitted no compro mise; and to fall, a term out of place in the soldier's vocabulary. The sharp clamor of his strlfe-ful time that represented him as the demon of Caesarean ambition whose sole nlm was tho aggrandizement of self missed the real key to his charac ter by as wide a space as did those earlier critics who, during the inferno of the "Wilderness, spoke of him as tho butcher without heart. We believe that General Grant valued high his own achievements, but not primarily because he himself had achieved them. The eame frank recognition would have gone from him to any other had that other one done what he did. He was neither a monomanlao nor an egotist. He simply accepted as a trust the po sitions of usefulness which destiny called to him to fill, and went about the work of filling them is a matter of business. He was heioic only In deed. The posture of heroism was ut terly absent from his thoughts. To do the work In hand, as soon as pos. slble nnd as well as possible with the resources at command, was his concep tion of paramount duty. Tho stiff grain of American will-power that has wrought on North American shores the miracle of history had In him a con spicuous exemplification and for this be will live in tho annals of the time to come. Lincoln nnd Grant! Twin heroes of an age of heroism; simple In tastes, poor in origin, plain In manners and In speech! They wrought for humanity to Its uttermost limits; but their equals exist In every county In the re public, needing only the occasion to stand them forth. Pennsylvania's quota or iVnaulates Is but ten, yet there are already 400 Pennsylvania applicants, with many counties yot to hear from. Is It any wonder that patronage, like rank, has Its embarrassments? Cleveland's Latest. The address of ex-I'resldertt Cleve land at the Reform club dinner Sat urday night was meant to be very se rious and solemn and weighty, but In- the light of facts It comes close 'to the humorous. Nine-tenths of It Is de voted to a raking of Bryan and Bry anlsm, factors for which Grover Cleve land Is more responsible than any other man; and the remaining tenth Is a criticism of the McKlnley admin istration for daring to espouse Pro jection contrary to tho Mugwump edict. Especially ludicrous Is this ex tract: Those who believe that a crisis Is at hand can hardly fall to see that the parly In power Is bo joined to its idol of mad protection and Is so completely doomed to popular condemnation that It Is a useless Instrument of defense against the Im pending peril. I do not fear that I shall i)0 accused of sinister designs unfitted to the atmosphere of this occasion If I Insist that tho path of duty and tho best hope of safety lie in an Immediate attempt to accomplish tho lehabllltatlon and tegen cratlon of the Democratic party and Its return to the prlnc'plcs of truo Dwn cracy. This Is the essence of the entire ad dress a bid for a third party wedded to gold monometallism and free trade. It plants Mr. Cleveland at the head of the Mugwump column. He Is still to be the npostle of the Pharisees; the consecrated prophet of the very good. It Is an Interest climax to the evo lution of a career that began In the beer halls of Buffalo and ends In an as BUtncd monopoly of virtue, tmtrlotlsm and conscience. Does Mr. Cleveland think that the American people are fools 7 The Tribune desires prompt notifica tion of the Irregular delivery of pa pers, and will spare no effort that subscribers may be nerved promptly and punctually. It will be (rlatl to be notified when Bcrantonlana out of the city cannot secure copies of The Trib une at news stands and on trains where a Scranton paper ought to be sold. The War's Real Cause. What diplomatists say, for publica tion, and what they say Informally, In tho frankness of unofficial conver sation, often present a wide range of difference. Many versions of "the real causo" of the war between Turkey and Greece have been exploited In print; but It has remained for the Washington correspondent of a west ern paper to put Into blunt English the suspicions of most American students of the Eastern question, and the ad missions of most diplomatists when they are not talking for effect. According to this version, the true "real cause" is the determination of tho czar to crush the sultan nnd seize Constantinople. It has often been In timated, but this time It Is flatly as serted, that the Armenian massacres were Incited by Russian Intrigue, In the expectation that the sultan would become Involved in a religious war and be forced off the map of Europe. This plan miscarried, partly because tho sultan proved too clever for the czar and partly because in their Inner offi cial circles, the other powers saw through Russia's; game, and bottled' It up In a determined "concert." Beaten here, the intriguers of Constantinople .turned to Crete, which had long been an Inviting- field for insurrectionists, and started to play that Inflammable Island as a pawn on the chess-board of Russian ambition. Thus far. the other powers have balked the czar by declining to take sides against the Turk, and if Greece shall hereafter hold her own on the battle field as well ns she has up to this moment. It may be that Russia will a second time be foiled. At the same tlrm, the private expec tation of nine diplomatists In ten, both American and European, Is that Rus sia will one of these days discover a pretext for Interfering; In which event her Interference is expected to take the form of a vigorous drive for the control of the Bosporus, toward which end all of Russia's military and naval plans have for some years been di rected. Such at least Is the opinion which one hears among the well-Informed when the conversation Is not for direct quotation In print. The theory explains many points in the recent history of- European politics otherwise incomprehensible, and espe cially sheds light on tho determina tion with which the British foreign office withstood home public opinion during the awful disclosures in Ar menin. To Governor Black must be accorded the credit for having killed the Ells worth antl-cnrtoon bill. It Is a feat of which he need not be ashamed. Cuba Not Forgotten. The outbreak of hostilities between Turkey and Greece has temoorarllv overshadowed the war In Cuba. whl"h Is nlso Just entering th ra'ny season, vh'n active operations on both sldts nii practically suspend;!. One ef f.' t of this will be to give the McKln ley administration time to acquaint It self with the facts regarding Cuba, and thus enable It to frame a policy with due deliberation. It must not, however, be supposed that popular sympathy for Cuba Is dead. In proof that It Is not, the following letter, writ ten by a physician of Decatur, 111. to the Chicago Record, has timeliness. The writer of It, S. J. Bumsteail Is a man of standing In his community, nnd his expression may reasonably be re garded as .reflecting average public opinion. Dr. Bumstead has always been a Re publican, served three years in the Union army during our civil war and supported McKlnley with enthusiasm. But he Is Impatient at the conserv atism with which the present adminis tration Is proceeding to the fulfilment of the Cuban plank In the St. Louis platform. "All Intelligent citizens," ho writes, "know that both houses of congress, more than a year ago, al most demanded that President Cleve land should lecognlze the belligerent rights of tho Cubans, which, In defi nnce of both houses, he did not do. The supporters of McKlnley believed him to be a man of the people, and In sym pathy with any people who were en gaged In an attempt to shake off the yoke of such a tyiannous monarch ns that of Spain. We therefore had faith in him in spite of the fact that he did not mention Cuba In his letter of acceptance. We further believed that he was not the man to attempt, as president of the United States, to de feat the wi;j of the people who elected him, In evei' the smallest particular. Vet nothing have we ever heard from his sphinx-like lips In favor of the patriots ivho nre so heroically battling with the I arbarous nation for their liberty. We shall still hope, yet a lit tle longer, that President McKlnley's devotion to the cause of liberty and humanity Is not circumscribed by the narrow limits of our boundaries, 'but is as wide as the earth itself. But after all this weary waiting we are to be treated to the miserable farce of n special envoy to Cuba, to ascertain there the facts that have been well known to the people of this country for a year! Let us hope that the day will yet corne when the power of this country will always be exerted In fayor of the oppressed, in whatever quarter of the globe they may exist." It Is unnecessary to point out that while this letter Is creditable to Its writer's sympathies It does not do Jus tice' to' tlie president. How does Dr. Bumstead-know that sllenc on Major McKlnley's part, at tho beginning of his term of office, with reference to Cuba, Is to bo Interpreted ns equiv alent to Indifference? When the pres ent chief executive accepted the Dresl" dentlal nomination he gave written Indorsement to every lino In the St. Louis platform, and among other things pledged himself to carry out tho policy contained In the following prom inent declaration of that Instrument: From the hour of achieving their own Independence, the people of tho United States have regarded with sympathy tho struggles of American peoples to frco themselves from European domination. We watch with deep nnd abiding Inter est the heroic bnttlo of the Cuban patri ots against cruelty and oppression, and our best hopes go out for the full success of their determined contest for liberty. Tho government of Spnln, having lost con trol of Cuba, and being unable to pro-tj-ct tho property or lives of resident American citizens, or to comply with Its treaty obligations, we believe that the government of the lUnlted States should actively use its Influenco and good offices to restore peace and give Independence to the Island. This plank was based upon com mon report. Common report is an in sufficient basis for official action by a great government Involving the hazard of a war. Nor can Major McKlnley, as president, nccept the biased In formation collected by his predecessor In office. That rests under popular susplolon. Before active steps can be taken by the present administration it must collect trustworthy Informa tion through Its own channels. If common report shall thus be verified, action can be taken without dread of the consequences for it will exemplify the unimpeachable advice of Davy Crockett: "Be sure you are right; then go ahead." But In any event, authentic information Is Indispensable to prudent conduct In this matter, and the despatch to Judge Day, or, If his appointment as assistant secretary of state shall Interrupt that arrangement, the sending of some other reliable man to Cuba, ns this government's special commissioner, Is with this fact In view. We will not believe 111 of a man like William McKlnley, whose whole char acter and reputation belle it, until we have to. We, too, are impatient for the United States to help Cuba to its well-merited freedom; but such help will be none the less admirable for being predicated upon a correct and therefore impregnable understanding of the Cuban situation. No more prize-fighting Is to bo toler ated in Allegheny county. The same would be a first-class thing to say of Laekawnnna county also, If it could be said without violating the Deca logue. It is amusing to see how serlouslv Grover Cleveland still takes himself. Evidently his faith in himself Is proof against all vicissitudes. It will need to be borne In mind that the news from the seat of war Is liable to be edited In the nearest headquar ters. Gossip at the Capital Special Correspondence of The Tribune. Washington, April 25. During the llr-t session of the Fifty-fourth congress Sena tor Cannon, of Utah, introduced a icsolu tlon "providing for the appointment of n commlsnlon to report on the practicabili ty of establlshlrg near Washington, D. C, a ground map of the United States." The text of the resolution was as follows: "Itesolved, By the oenate and house of representatives of the I'nlted States of A met lea In congress assembled, that the appointment of a commission of five citi zens of the United States Is authorized to be made In the following manner: Three members to be selected b the president of the United States, one by the president of the senate, and one by the bpeaker of tne nouc or icprLseniativcs; una, tor me following purpose: To examlno Into nnd to report to congiess upon the practicabil ity, advisability and the cost of establish ing nt or near the city of Washington a ground map of t'he United States of Amer ica, on a scale of one square yard of nup surface for each square mile of actual area, or on such a scale ns It mny be possible to comprise wltrln the reclaimed or Poto mac fiats, paid ground map to bo os nearly as may be our country In minluture, re producing in earth and other materials, on scale, tho boundaries and tho topo graphy, all the natural and artificial features of the surface, showing geogra phical divisions; also mountains, hills, and valleys, forests, lakes and streams, cities and villages; and that said ro:u mission Is to serve without compensation." This pnited tho senate on May 13, UM, and was repcrted to the house two days later, whore, for some reason, It never reached a vote, Mr. Cannon's proposition, however, commended Itself to every In telligent and thoughtful mind, not only In congress, but In tho private walkfc of life. It was everywhere recognized as Indicating the best possible purpose to which tho reclaimed flats could be devoted. There Is now a general and strong deFlto that tho n atter be taken up afrebli and pushed to a conclusion. If the scheme bo practicable, and no one seems to doubt It, Its realization would ndd Incalculably to the Instructive and patriotic value of the capital. There Is a lively hotel row over tho en tertainment of tho preildent at the (..rant monument dedication In New York on April 27. The committee of arrangements engaged quarters for tho president's par ty at the Fifth Avenue hotel. Warren P. Leland, formerly of Chicago, pent a per sonal Invitation through Abner McKlnley, who resides nt tto Windsor, of which Mr. Iceland Is the proprietor, to tho president and his cabinet to become his guests, and, before they krew what plans had been made for them, most of them accepted. When tho New York committee discovered this they endeavored to persuade Mr. Ice land to rcmso hln guests, but ho declined to do so, nnd Abner McKlnley camo to Washington again to mako sure that tho president adhered to Ills-acceptance. Thus a double set of rooms havo been engaged for the president's party. In tho pro gramme It Is arranged and announced that he will etart from tho Fifth Avenue hotel. Ho Is also to receive certain dele gation! In his rooms there. Tho nnmo of the Windsor does not appear In any of tho announcements, Tho president Is natur ally very much embarrassed. It Is proba ble tfiat he will go to tho Fifth Avenue and mako that his official stopping place, but Mrs. McKlnley and tho ladles of tho party will go direct from the train to tho Windsor, and their hurbandi will Join them there when their official functions aro finished. Much misunderstanding has arisen over tho reports that have been generally cir culated that tho patronage privileges of senators have been extended, nnd that their Indorsement will bo required on all postofllce applications, This Is erroneous, nnd Postmaster General Gary has had frequent occasion recently to correct this Impression. The policy that has been practiced heretofore In the distribution qt otllces will be followed by this administra tion an! the prerogatives enjoyed by rep resentatives In tho past will be continued. Congressmen will have the naming of postcfllces In their district as a general rule, whllo senators-ran name their home nfllces and some large cities "i :a ami- cable understanding bttween the senator nd representative. When Senator Knutc Nelson, of Minne sota, was a member of the house, he voted for tho Mills tariff bill. In view of the pressure which Is being brought to bear upon tho senate flnanco commlttco to make tho rates of the Dlngley bill even higher than thy wero when that measure pased, tho house, tho position of Mr. Nelson, now that ho will have to vote upon It in the sennte, Is of Interest. The situation is all the more Interesting because the Republi cans not having a majority, cannot nftord to lose a stnglo vote. "1 shall not cross a bridge btrore I como to It," says Senator Nelson, "and, therefore, I cannot say now what I will do In regard to tho Dlliffley bill. I am pre pared to sny, however, that I favor i fair and reasonable tnjrlff. 1 believe that If the rates nro not pluced too high, the bill, which this session Is to become a law, will remain on tho statute books for many years, On the other hand, an extremely high tariff will cause ns much dissatis faction ns one extremely low. I do not claim to bo an expert on tho tariff, but I do know the sentiment of the people in the northwest." The bronze statue of the late Dr. Samuel D. Grow, whoso studies nnd Investiga tions did so much to advanco surgical knowledge In America, has been hoisted to Its granite pedestnl In the Smlthionlan grounds. It will remain In Its canvas covering until .May i, mo unio sei ior mo unveiling ceremonies. Tho programme Is tt. bo urranged within the next few days. Tho statue Is an Imposing one, standing on a pedestal of simple design. Two wreaths of laurel are twined about the name, In plain letters, whllo on a tablet below la tho Inscription; American PhyMclnns Have Eroded This Statue to Com memorate tho Great Deeds of a Man Who Made Such an Im press Upon American Surgery That It Has Served to Dignify American Medicine, "I tell you this makes mo feel good," snld a long-haired son of Democracy at tho Metropolitan hotel when a great crowd had collected to attend a reception In honor of William J. Bryan. "It just mnkes mo feel good, nnd no mistake. Talk about Bryan being dead! Ila, ha! I'd Jfst like to sec congress full of dend men like him. And Democracy It's dead, too, I suppose. Looked like it was dead tho wav wo carried Cincinnati, to say nothing of Canton. And Chicago; Oh, my, what a picnic. A walk-over. Why, if politics was poker, we'd "Win nil the antes and lose all the jack pots," put In a Republican brother stand ing near by. And tho laugh was on tho other man. SIR JULIAN'S PLACE. From the Washington I'ost. It pairs us to observe that In this mat ter of Sir Julian I'auncofote and his proper precedence at all functions and ceremonies, private, public, political, fu netenl and diplomatic, there is a disposi tion In certain quarters to take on a tone of levity and, sometimes, even of Irrever ence. We wish to wrestle with this spirit, to rebuke It, and, If possible, to con veit it to the ways of humility and defer ence. The American people do not seem to understand that an ambassuuor Is nn awful nid peculiar personage. He Is not like a. mer minister, or envoy, simply rep resenting a nation. He stands for ihe sovereign personally. He Is, til fact, the sovereign's alter ego. We all know how much greater and more augvst the king, queen, or emperor Is than the millions of people over whom he or she may reign. Why, then, can we not recognize tho majesty of his or her personal represent ative? Tlil ' rings us, naturally and easily, to Sir . in I'auncefote, the Drltlsh am bassauor, nnd to those frivolous nnd dis respectful persons who mako light of his claims to preference over vice-presidents, cabinet olhcers, supreme court Justices, senators, etc. Wo should like to ask them whether they havo seriously turned this question over In their minds and, If so, what they mean by speaking of It In their ordinary voices. So far ns concerns the Grant Monument cere monies, which have been made the oca Mon of a fresh outburst of precedence excitement. It teems to us that the man agers thereor are in s-au nei ot enngni enment. Not to put too fine a point on It, they nre muddling the whole business. In our opinion, t-o far from objecting to Sir Julian's walking In front of the vice president and th rest of the ottlclal rab ble, they ought to put him In front of Mr. McKlnley himself. If Sir Julian Is, in this country, a more Important nnd august person than tho vice-president of tho United States, he Is a more Important and august pcison thnn the piesldent. If ho can turn down the secretary of state at dinner parties, why does he not tank at funerals and the like with the person whom the secretary of state repiesents quite ns extti slvely and legitimately as Sir Julian does the queen of England? As wo see the matter, Sir Julian should be put nt tho very head of the procession, Immediately behind 'the drum major and tho band. He should be surrounded by tho young gentlemen of his olllclal staff all of them and should thereby Instruct Mr. Bayard's "rude and turbulent" fellow citizens In a true sweetness and light. Any old place will do for Mr. MclKnley and Mr. Hobart, and tho euprcmo court, and ull that sort of thing, but Sir Julian's position should bo at tho head of tho col umn. What are we here for save to testify our recognition of the queen's pre cedence and pay tilbute to her personal representative accordingly? Tho troublo with the American people Is that they are too rude. They do not real Izo their duty to etiquette as It Is fur nished us by foreign practice and observ ance. They do not seem to understand that wo have no right to make rules tor ourselves, but are bound by every obliga tion of decency to get our rules from Eu rope. Somo ot them go so far ns to Imagine that Sir Julian ought to be placed In accordance with their mis guided estlmato of his Importance which would bring him In along with the mem bers of congress. But they aro all wrong and we hero notify them of their error. Sir Julian Is easily tho most magnificent personage on this continent, and the rest of the ambassadors, envoys, secretaries and assorted thlngabobs of the dlplomatlo corps come after him In tho order of their rank and beauty. Let us hope that these remarks of ours will close tho Incident, T01D BY THE STARS. Dnily Horoscope Drawn byAjncchus, Tho Tribune Ahtrologer. Astrolabe cast: 3.38 n. m., for Monday, April 20, J8ff, A child born on this day will notice that surviving relatives of tho victims of thugs aro seldom found In the ranks of the class that clamor for the abolition of capital punishment. Many ambitious young men have como to grief by not being able to draw the line between rascality and business enterprise. It Is evident that tho current newspaper portraits of Ed hem I'asha wero made be fore ho hod been "cured, A soft answer teldom causes sorrow oxcept when glvtn to a bill collector. Obituaries of tho peach crop will form one of tho stock news Items for the press of tho country until the fruit Is rlpo, Jthymcs of Spring. O April showers! now descend from humid springtime .skies, And soak the thoroughfares from whence Comes dust that's in our eyes. 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