'"'f' - T" " 1""' -T-rrrjlJlllimpi, njiidJI.ii THE JSORANTON TRIBUNE-WEDNESDAY MORNTNC, JUNE 9, 189T, 1" -. V ()e l&cranjfon vt6ime l.lljuod Weekly. No Baniltr tytUloa. By The Tribune Publishing Company. WILLIAM CONNELL, President. Ycrk ItepresentMlve- KHANK K OUAY 00.. ' Room 4 Tribune nnlldtng, New York Cltr. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: ' Dally go cents a month. Weekly .,. $1.00 a year. 1M1IRI0 AT TH rOSTOmCl AT eOlUHTOS. M.. ' tlCONO-OLASS tlAtL UATTIR. t ' TEN PA'GES. SCIUNTON, JUNE 0, 1S97. "When Senator Quay Said he couldn't tell whether the Philadelphia Inquirer was fool or knave, he showed ho hadn't read the paper. It takes bralno to(be ft knave. 1 ' ' Nature's Noblemen. There Is no stint to the welcome which Scranton today acoords to the brave men of the Medal of Honor Le Klon vfo aro for the tlmo Its enviable guests. It Is not permitted to any citizen of this republic to wear the artificial titles wliUh in .other lands too often con fer unmerited rank and distinction; but we have yet our orders of true nobility; and this Medal of Honor le gion Is one of them. Its members were not courtiers for favor In the days when their' hohors were won; their mo tive was'posslbly not higher than that of the thousands of comrades in arms who also did their duty bravely as It' came to them; but In the especial case of the men whom we greet today in nate heroism and the fine opportun ity met in inspiring union, and the fruits of that union were deeds which gem the history of our civil war. The medals which these heroes wear in token of a nation's grateful remem brance are fittingly termed "medals of honor;" but not the least of the claims of the recipients upon our con siderate attention Is the fact that they wear their tokens with a modesty which Is 'the essence of genuine brav ery. The comradeship which calls them together In the evening of their days Is as free In Its inspiration from willing pomp or vain glory as their chivalry on the battle field was free from selfishness or the trace of a con scious pose. The gratitude of a na tion, and not any bid of their own for public applause, has made them a class apart. It is with diffidence that they npproach the annual commemorations of their valor, and for this we revere them the more. All honor, then, to the American Le gion of Honor: and may it be long ere the final conqueror calls them to the last engagement! Now will the Pennsylvaniarleglsla ture be good? Quay as a Tariff-Maker. The amendments which Senator Quay proposes to offer to the tariff bill are short, sweet and very much to the point. They are: (I). Eliminating the proposed tariff on tea. The argument that tea might possibly be grown in America In small amounts if protected by tariff from Oriental competition, Is insufficient to reconcile the great bulk of citizens to the duty on tea proposed by the senate finance committee. If the- Republican party should go before the country three years hence pointing to a tariff bill of Its workmanship which offered free entrance to works of art and lux ury while going out of its way to tax the "poor man's breakfast table." it would deservedly encounter defeat. In this amendment Senator Quay newly evinces h'ls sagacity as a politician. (2). Striking out the proposed In crease of the beer tax. It will be held that this Is a surrender to the brewers; and we dare say it is offered with a view to their propitiation. Still," the fact remains tliat beer, with a growing number of persons, Is as much a -beverage, of necessity as tea, coffee or co coa. To single It out for special and Increased taxation would, as a matter of politics, offend more voters than it would please. In this prosaic age it Is yet t.ecessary at tlme3 to consult ex pediency. (3). Providing for the free admission, of Iron ore Imported from mines owned abroad by citizens of the United States for their own use. This has especial reference to tho Cuban ores used at Uethlehem, Steelton and Sparrow's Point. The mills at those places must have this ore If they wish to continue In the Iron and steel business, and Senator Quay evidently thinks It is Just that they should have It duty free. In this view most persons In Pennsyl vania will agree with him. (4). Requiring all articles on the free list to bear a ten per cent, duty until 1891, by which time It Is believed tho finances of tho country will be In sh'ape to enable this emergency provision to be discontinued. This remedy for de ficits Is heroic, but It Is like Its author, "When Senator Quay has to do a thing ho believes in doing It to the very limit. Tho fact that doubt has been cast upon the ability of the amended Dlngley bill to raise tho revenue required by the government suggests to him a very direct way to remove that doubt. There will be no deficits If this provision shall be adopt ed. (6). Restoring the former internal revenue provisions. Changes In the In ternal revenue schedules Invariably beget confusion and open the door to fraud. They are dreaded by tariff makers but in the original draft of thi Dingley 1IU several of them were rendered necessary by the desire to add materially to the nation's current Income. Inasmuch ns this addition would be reached by Senator Quay in another end perhaps a surer way, It ts desirable, If his other amendments arp entertained, that this last one should bo Included with them. It will, we think, be the eeneral opinion that these few amendmenu offer a cleor, simple and straightfor ward way out of the problem. When to , them is added one restoring the Aldrlch sugar schedule to a condition of .public decency, the sum will offer a jriatertal (mprovement upon tho new tr'lff,, bill as it was reported by the senate combiltte on finance. These remarks aro ma'dOkipon. the, assump tion that the Dlngley bill aa it left the 'house cannpt pass the senate. 0 Out in Blair county the Pennsylvania railroad ofllqlals who are summoned to serve assurors generally beg to.be. excused, but on Monday juuge ucu read several of them a lecture and recommended that copies of Supreme Court Justice John Dean's address on bettering the Jury system bo distribut ed among, them nnd their friends. That wouldn't be a bad Idea In Lackawanna also, Pursuing a Delusion. The fact that a conference of all the free silver elements of the country was held yesterday in Chicago, avowedly for the purpose of unifying their forces for tho political contests of the immedi ate future, sugests brief consideration of the propects of the silver standard agitation In the United States. At the present time It Is clearly fair to say that tho ono hope which the leaders in the independent free coinage movement have for the success of their proposition at tho pblls in tho near fu true consists of their prediction that the Republican1 policy 'of protection will, when restored, fall to fulfil the expecta tions. This is obviously not a subject open to argument. We can only await the result Itself. True, protection with Its allied policies has fulfilled reason able expectations In the past, and has, according to Mulhall, been at least co Incident with, If not contributory to the most marvelous era of national de velopment recorded lri modern history. It does not, therefore, seem reasonable that protection should suddenly have lost Its potency; but the reverse of this cannot be proved prior to protection's adequate restoration. Only tho test it self will settle the point. With a little patience that test wll be ready for pub lic scrutiny nnd study. But let us for argument's sake sup pose that the test has been made and that It has proved a failure. Let us as sume that the teaching of the last thir ty years has been shown fallacious; that a tariff which employs American labor and defends for American pro ducers the American market Is wrong; that the proper thing in. tariffs Is a flat revenue enactment adjusted without reference to American economic con ditions. How would that benefit the silver movement? Of course it would stimulate discontent, sap confidence and encourage reckless thinking to gether with still more reckless voting. And that might for a time toss the sll verltes into office. But what kind of a field would they then have In which to undertake the working out of a deli cate experiment In finance? Is It to be believed that ferment and turmoil are the suitable attendant conditions for a successful test of so radical an Innovation In the life-current of com merce? A little thought ought to convince our free silver friends that no less as theo rists than as citizens personally con cerned In the diffusion of substantial prosperity it Is to their highest Interest towoo confidence back; to bankthe fires of sectionalism and class jealousy; and to substitute for the croaklngs of "pes simism the cheery comradeship which befits superior citizenship. "McKinley," says the Philadelphia Record, "will only be with us for four years. We might have fared worse." You might; but don't be too sure about that word "only." Right to Jlie Point. The manly words of Governor Hast ings admonishing the obreperous leg islature of Its neglected uuty and in viting it to finish Its labors and ad journ, nre worth repeating. They ring clarlon-llke above the din of the petty turmoil at Harrlsburg: "At this time, when almost all In dustries are suffering, when trade Is stagnant and whn willing labor can find no employment, economy in the expenditure of public moneys should control the general assembly In Its ap propriations and will certainly control tho executive in the consideration of all measures. When the Individual cit izen finds It necessary to exercise the most rigid economy In order to sup port himself and his family it Is cer tainly a strong admonition to you and to tho executive to see to It that his burdens should not be Increased, but so far as possible should be lessened. "There aro two ways for states as well as individuals to successfully meet such exigencies as the present con ditions impose. The first is to increase the income to meet existing outlay. This is practically impossible for state or individual at this time. The other Is to reduce expenditures so as to live within the' income. This Is good house keeping.' Instead of searching through the crippled business Interests of the state for new subjects to tax, or call ing upon me to point them out, It will be much easier and more In the line of duty, as public servants, to exert our energies In finding where the bur den of taxation may In some measure be. lifted from the shoulders of our people. "Your prompt action upon and speedy disposition of the work remaining be fore you, making an early adjournment possible, will, I am confident, meet with the approval of the people of the commonwealth." If any citizen thinks this dlgn fled rebuke is too severe, let him re "vlew tho session's work and then ask himself If It Is not wholly deserved. "I hear,' says Mr. Wanamaker, "that some who have only been the president's friends felnco election aro skillfully using hie words to make enemies for him." But of course, John, they can't make an enemy of you. m Oeneral Les's Report. The report of General Lee upon the Ruiz case, which Commissioner Cal houn Indorses, has been published in full In advance by, the New York Journal. That report Incorporates no new facts, but Its repressed summary of the circumstances surrounding the arrest, incarceration and assassination of Dr. Ruiz Is eloquent in implied con demnation of his 'Spanish .murderers. General Lee narrates the piteous story at length, but as his version does not materially differ from that given at the time of the tragedy it is necessary at this time only to examine his conclu sions. They are codified by him as fol lows: First Dr. Ruiz was arrested on a faise charge, Second. lie was placed under an Im proper jurisdiction and died before the proper tribunal considered his case, there by giving him no opportunity to provo hU Innocence. Third. Ho was kept "Incommunicado" In a solitary cell for 315 hours In viola tion of his treaty rights, which limits such confinement to seventy-two hours. Fourth. Ho died from .congestion of the brain, produced by a blow on tho top of tho head. Fifth. There are two theories con nected with tho wound on the head: ono that In a state of mental excitement ho ran across tho cell, as described by one of the jailors, and butted his own head on the door in a frantic effort 'to get out; another, that ho was struck over the head with one of the clubs carried by the jailors by the immediate watchman who had probably ordered him to cease his cries for relief and for his children, nnd upon his not doing so, struck him with more force than ho Intended, or It Is posslblo the blow was delivered to make him confess or give evidence against others. General Lee examines each of these theories with what thoroughness ho can, considerng that tho opportunity for proof Is absolutely lacking, and ex presses no specific preference for cither. "But," he adds significantly, "the fact remains that Dr. Ruiz's confinement killed him. Had he been released from Incommunicado by the hand of man at the end of 72 hours the hand of death might not have released him at the end of 315 hours and today tho widow would have had the support of her hus band and the moans of her fatherless children would never have been heard." Upon the strength of this report we may lest assured that our government will exact from Spain such repara tion and apology as are within its be stowal for a crime thus inexcusably fiendish. While It Is true that there Is no possible indemnity we can demand or Spain grant which will wholly com pensate the widowed wife of the four orphaned children, yet so far as human action can avail in their behalf at this late day, this nation will certainly see to it that approximate justice Is done. On this score all fears may be dis missed. The facts are plain; the evi dence is convincing; the papers are flawless. Whether we take General Lee's version or the version of Spain; whether we affirm that Ruiz was beat en to death by a brutal jailor or con cede that he was kept In his cell,- con trary to his rights, until the horror of It filled his mind with madness and forced his revolting frame to beat out its life against the cruel bars, the fact remains as General Lee lias so clo qently expressed It In tho quotation above a damning fact, not only to Spain but also to that president then In the American white house who listened to the Ruiz narrative unmoved, and threatened to recall General Lee for wanting to have a warship at his back. It is well that things at Havana and at Washington are different now. The familiar signature of Marlon Stewart Cann now appears at the bot tom of an exceedingly readable column on the Truth's editorial page. , The Truth and Its readers Jointly deserve to be congratulated; the former for its enterprise In securing so Interesting a feature, and the latter for the oppor tunity to enjoy it. Three weeks more of the present leg islative session will be ample so far as the people are concernd, and at a pinch they could perhaps (spare it sooner. m There is renewed tali? of nn oleo emergency tax. if oleo Is fit to be sold at all, it Is entitled to stand on its merits and without discrimination. When Spain shall give Cuba home rule Spain will give Cuba Indepen dence. The two terms are synonymous as the situation stands. Our new revenue rropo?itlon at Har rlsburg contemplates a C-cent tax on theater tickets. Better say clgarsttes. It will do the legislature no good to grow red in the face. It brought it on Itself. Gossip at tlhe Capital Special Correspondence of The Tribune. Washington, Juno S. There Is not an official of the govern ment, from the president down to the chiefs of divisions, who dees not receive more or less odd communications from rcc-plo all over the country. When Jonn i jiumaker was postmaster general dur- s. the Harrison administration he re i. ied the following letter from a post mbter down In South Carolina: 'I understand that you are a philan thropist, as well as a shrewd business man. I am postmaster here, and want to be reappointed. I enn't, however, fill the place unless you send me a pair of pants. Tho pair I have on has been half-soled so often It cun't be re-Boled any more. In my Intervals of leisure (which Is about all the time; I sit out in front of the of fice on top of a flour barrel, and when ladles Inquire for mall I treat them with tho utmott deference, retreating back ward before them. There is another man here looking for the place. He don't know a blank thing, but ho has a good pair of breeches, and if you can't send me a pair, jou can treat this letter as my resigna tion, and give tho office to htm." While the late Frank Hatton was post master general an exchange draft for some J20.000 needed his sig nature. He was not at the de partment: neither was ho at his home. But old Sol, th? messenger, knew wheie he wus, although no amount of coaxing could make 1 him divulge his secret. He offered, howevor, to tuke anything to the postmaster general that was absolutely necessary. Seeing that the case was hopo less, they gave the draft to' the messen ger, who took It to the placo. Tho game had been pretty stiff, and the chips were piled In a miniature mountain. The post master general signed the J20.000 draft, then tossing It carelessly on the table, laughingly said: "Play to that, gentlemen." The laugh died out, and the game went on, and ended, but tho Incident remained as characteristic of the man whose good fellowship crowded out all superfluous conventlcnalliy. The following was a unique letter onco received by Postmaster Oeneral Wllion from a lady evidently !n the toriBorlal business, which Is hero reproduced by permission: "To the General Postmaster, "Dear Sir: Would you kindly object to forward mo address and names of three or four of tho beet barbers in Washington I mean the moat stylish in location; where, for Instrnce, the ipper class n III be mostly HkeV to frequent during the coming Inauguration. No matter whether hotels or store; half doren If you-would be kind enough. It is business, of course. I would Inclose you a bill for the trouble; but I would fear offending you, and I never was there, ao do not know of the best resorts at all. I may come on for that not sure; kindly excuse my troubling you, and believe me, "Respectfully yours, "Mlrs Madison." It was at the beginning of Posjinas ter General Blssell's administration that the government decided to print Its own tamps. Immediately after the chango hundreds of complaints a nay poured in from nil sides, mainly on account of tho non-stlckable quality of tho mucilage, Whllo the department was racklmr Its brains to solve the difficulty, somo wag sent a letter to tho postmaster general, on which tho stamp was riveted with four braia brads. One day while Mr. Mlnlck, private sec retary to General Vilas, was engrossed In departmental work, his mind was divert ed by a conversation between the two messengers. Ross, wl o has become a well-known figure since, wns trying to in struct Cruso, a new recruit, in tho rudi ments of arithmetic. Tho first example was: "Suppose you were to buy 350 pounds of beef at S cents a pound: what would It amount to?" Cruso scratched his woolly hoad, figured over several sheets of paper, using tho rubber end of his pencil qulto bb often ai the lead, and finally handed the answer In, which proved to bo Incorrect. "No, no," said Ross. "Let me give you another. Now suppose you were to buy SoO pounds of pork at 5 cents a pound; what would that amount to?" hoping to get him by strategy to solve the problem again. "Go 'way, dar, man," said Cruso, "doan y' s'poso any fool's gwlno t' know beefs worf mo'n poke?" And he Tefused, In disgust, to work out so foolish a question. While Don M. Dickinson was postmaster general, he received tho following tele gram from one of his postofllcs: "Have been brutally maltreated by the postmaster. What shall I do?. Shall I corao on? ' Tho postmaster general enjoyOd th( message extremely, nnd after a few pleas ant comments, telegraphed back: "Lick the postmaster first, then come on." (Signed) "Don M. Dickinson, P. M. G." Don't Magnify Calamity. From tho Philadelphia Times. It is alwtiys best to take tho most hopeful view of every condition that confronts us, while looking squarely In the face tho dangers which beset us. There Is now a tend ncy on the part of some of our reclOess partisan Jour nals to magnify the present misfor tunes of the country. They are seri ous enough when considered from tho most unbiased standpoint, but they can bo greatly magnified and their evils multiplied many fold by the systemat ic calamity-howlers who present only tho shadows which cover their great country while rejecting all Its bound less resources, Its tireless energies, Its marvelous adaptabilities, and Its certainty to win prosperity In good or bad administrations. In Vplte of the calamlly-howlcrs the business of this country Is slowly but steadily Improving. The volume of business today Is as large as It was In 1S92, though very much less In profit, and the diffusion of money amongst the people 1s evidenced by the Increase in circulation of more than $100,000,000 during the last six months; but wo yet suffer from tho want of confi dence, and confidence alone, can put us on thd highway of prosper Ity. Those who seek' to mul tiply misfortunes aim their heaviest blows at business confidence, because they well know that It Is the weakest point In tho bulwark cf national pros perity. They seek to multiply calami ty by vastly exaggerating It, Instead of Inspiring all clashes and conditions with tho faith In themselves and In each other that Is necessary to restore 70,000,000 of people to comparative com fort. Let tho calmlty-howlor bo sent to the rear. (He Is the pest of the com munity, and he should be shunned as the enemy of every class and section of tho land. He Is the foe of oeace, of plenty and of prosperity, and his greatest delight would bo to see tho present misfortunes of the country multiplied and sorrow widened In ev ery channel of Industry and trade. There Is much to hope for In the pres ent business condition. Let good citi zens of every political faith stand shoulder to shoulder, and by manfully pointing out the perils which beset them and strengthening each other, aid the varied interests cf the country In the advancement to which we aro entitled by our unexampled resources and the boundless energies that would give thrift even In a less favored land. Don't magnify calamity. SING A SONG. If you'll sing a song as you go along. In the fece of tho real or the fancied wrong: In spite of the doubt If you'll fight it out. And show a heart that Is brave and stout; If you'll laugh at the jeers and refuse the tears, You'll force the ever-reluctant cheers That the world denies when a coward cries, To give to the man who bravely tries; And you'll win success with a little song If you'll sing the song as you go along! If you'll sing a song as you plod along, You'll find that tho busy rushing throng Will catch the strain of the glad refrain: That the sun will fellow the blinding rain; That the clouds will fly from the black ened sky; That the stars will come out by und by; And you'll make new friends, till hope de scends From where the placid rainbow bends; And all becauso of a little song If you'll elng the song as you plod along! If you'll sing a song as you trudge along. 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