TILE SCRATSTTON' TRIBUNE-SATURDAY MORtflNQ, JUNE 12, 1897. IllJnd Weekly. N6 8uodr IbllUod. By The Tribune Publishing Company. WILLIAM CONNELL, Fresldont. tiv, VctkneprsentftUvo: FIIANK S, (in AY 00., Room 4S, Trlbniid Ilnlldln, New York Otr. SUBSCRIPTION PRICUj Dally so cent. a month. Weekly $1.00 a year. miniD at tub rasTomei at bcrantos. ta., as riCOHD-CLAtS MAIL MATTER. TWELVE PAGES, SCKANTON. JUNE 12, 1807. We do not blnme the Telephone com pany or any other company for get ting what It can out of the councils. If the latter are willing to give the city awuy, why shouldn't the corpora tions take itV Celebrate Flag Day. The appropriate suggestion is made by the Sons and Daughters of the llevolutlon that on next Monday, which Is Flag Day, the stars and stripes be displayed from every homo In the land. During the 120 years which have elapsed since the Contin ental .congress adopted the red and white bars with the thirteen white stars In a field of blue as the oftlclal erriblem of the new-born nation the territory over which Old Glory floats has increased five fold; the population giving Its allegiance has grown from 3,000,000 to 70,000,000; the number of sovereign states has been augmented from thirteen to forty-five, and on this hemisphere where then there was only one republic, there is today only one lingering remnant of tyranny, and that, we hope, will soon be extinguish ed, thanks to American influence and Intervention. These six-score years of democracy have not by any means been years of perfection In the working out of the problem of successful government, but they have been years whose annals give confidence In the principles employed and hope for the future. The Ameri can flag has survived two foreign and one civil wars; It has witnessed the successful affranchisement of an en slaved race; the asslmllatlonof millions of promiscuously welcomed aliens rep resenting every tongue and clime; the conquest of mighty wildernesses; the upbuilding of great cities; the harness ing to man's uses of the great forces and resources of nature, and the laying of the foundations for a commerce and a civilization of the like of which his tory affords no record. Nowhere else has such progress been paralleled; no where else, can such institutions be surpassed. It can do us no harm, as appropriate occasion shall arise, to give passing thought to these things. This has been termed a practical age, an age when sentiment must be yoked to utility in order to gain an audience with the busy, hustling throng. But surely here is a sentiment which is of the highest utility, a sentiment without which thesa wonders in human accomplish ment could never have been achieved. If a time should ever como when the sight of the flag will carry to the citi zen of the United States no glorious message from the past, no exhilarating inspiration for the future, then Indeed could it be said that we had reached the declining plane which leads swift and sure to national deterioration and ruin. Some time ago an olllclal of the Scranton Traction company promised to present an argument showing where in a T rail on Mulberry street would bo more "desirable than a flat rail. We are still waiting to hear from him. A Cycle of Social Crimes. Readers of the newspapers can hard ly fall to have perceived In the past few weeks a very noticeable multipli cation In the number of crimes against women. For a fortnight the number of assaults reported In the papers has averaged not less than three a day and If anything this average Is growing larger. We do not possess statistics on this subject covering a period of years, but we hazard the guess that If such statistics are In existence they disclose a steady Increase In these unmention able offences against society. What, if any, reasons can be offered for such a reorudescence of animalism in this supposedly civilized nation and age? The inquiry here Indicated Is manifest ly too large for the limits of this article, but at haphazard we propose to Jot down one or two of the causes which most readily suggest themselves. In the first place. In the matter of literature we have for years been sow ing the wind that foretells the whirl wind. Sensationalism In the press; the verging of writers steadily toward the forbidden line In descriptions of the social relations; the flash picture, the risque play, the indecent ballet and the suggestive dialogue, spoken or written all these things, together with simi lar manifestations of degeneracy In other directions which need not be re cited, have lowered the level of social morality very perceptibly in the last few years and put Into weak minds Juit those germs of corrupting suggestion that have developed into tho mania now displaying itself In outrages and other gross personal crimes. Tho ex tent to which this demoralization In the use of ink and paper has proceeded will be the better comprehended when a glance Is taken through the litera ture of fifty years ago, which, with all its faults, sounds a sustained note of respect for womanhood and of rever ence for the sanctities of domestic life. It Is, we repeat, probable that the modern abuse of the printing press, which has saturated our time with a species of moral skepticism reflected no less In the crimes than In the published thoughts of the people, Is the greatest Blngle Contributor to the prevalent wave of sexual Insanity; but wo regiut to have to add that we cannot hold the women of our 'time wholly guiltless, Those of us who have Inherited old fashioned ideas concerning the sex, .who have been taught to believe In tho paramount purity and honor of the mission of wifehood and motherhood for women, have in recent times been asked by 'certain militant females to surrender these idealities of the long ago and to accept 'in lieu thereof absurd advanced nptlona of a mannish destiny. It would be unjust to say that the new woman nonsense has spoiled any considerable number of the women of today; but It has gone Just far enough In ts influence upon femin ine customs and masculine opinion to Introduce a new irritant in the social problem, which, In our opinion, has contributed not a little to the phenomena-noted nbivc. Illghtly or wrongly, It has for the monicnt weakened wo man's hold upon man's respect;, once the betjtor half, .she has lately appeared to bo desirous of coming down to his unpoetlc level, and until this foolish fancy shall pass out of her mind n sacrifice of her influence for good is in evitable. Wo believe that the present ebulli tion of sexual abnormalities will soon cease. It must. Society cannot longer tolerate such a peril to Its very exist ence. But It Is well to consider what has caused it and to take steps for the prevention of Its repetition. It was a wise precaution to Introduce at Harrlsburg an inheritance tax bill avoiding the constitutional objections raised by Judge Hanna. We think those objections could have been ans wered and consider that the original law had a good chance of being sus tained by the Supreme court. Still, the matter Involved a risk which a new law will avert. Under the circum stances, with the state revenues $3,000, 000 below the probable expenditures, It Is wisdom to make sure of every pos sible dollar of available Income. What Next ? After great uproar, caused by inor dinate greed for tariff advantage, the sugar trust has been beaten at Wash ington and a sugar schedule is adopted in the senate, which, hy general con sent, Is honest and approximately fair. The reputation of the party Is saved; the president Is extricated from the dilemma in which he would have been plnced had the tariff bill reached him for signature or rejection with the Trust's schedule Inserted therein, and for the present all Is well. But shall the matter end here? L.et us review the facts. So far as known, they are that tho American Sugar Refining company' has for years been In the habit of contributing to the campaign funds of both the politi cal parties so as to be In position to negotiate for legislative favors from either. In 1802,. after Cleveland won, It Insisted upon writing the sugar sche dule of the Wilson bill, and succeeded so well In pressing Its claims upon the Democratic party managers that a schedule drafted by Mr. Cleveland's secretary of the treasury, Mr. Carlisle, was sent to the house ways, and means committee with the administration's indorsement. This schedule gave the trust what It wanted. Last year, the other party won, but the trust appear ed on deck just the same. It did not this time try to capture anybody In the cabinet or In the ways and means com mittee of the house. It knew better. But through some means not yet made known it gained the favor of the senate sub-committee on finance which con sidered the Dingley bill after It pass ed tho house, and but for the storm of public censure which this suspicious intimacy excited, it might have put another pet schedule through. Momentarily the trust Is ballled, but shall that be Its only punishment? Is the spectacle tamely to be endured of a giant corporation having In lt3 control a monopoly of the production of a prime necessity of life and willing to buy legislation which will enable It to extort money from the people? Have th'e confumers of sugar In this country no redress? Thus far It must be ad mitted that the trust has had things pretty much Its own way. Cabinets, courts and legislatures have treated it with a degree-of consideration prob ably beyond Its Just deserts. A point must come, though, when the people will rebel. Has not that point pretty nearly been reached? Wo have much respect for the eru dition of the Philadelphia Record, but when It contradicts the assertion of Consul General Lee that under our treaty stipulations with Spain an American citizen arrested on Spanish soil must not be kept more than seventy-two hours "Incommunicado," we shall pin our faith to Lee. "Soft Snaps." The phrase "Soft Snaps," generally considered slang, has by long and gen eral usage almost become incorporat ed into legitimate Anglo Saxon. Tho two words forming It have by them selves always been found In our "Un abrldgeds." Together they form a very expressive phrase and are generally used to Indicate an easy job or way to make money. That the phrase Is an expressive one no one will deny, and we think all will agree that It contains tho germ of much evil. It expresses fully 'the tendency of the times that tendency toward luxury and ease, that desire to gain money without the sweat that alone can make a man energetic, manly and self-reliant and give him power to fight his own way to high positions In business and statesman ship. It expresses forcibly the danger that 4s creeping so rapidly into our social and political systems. Among the serious dangers to future generations none Is greater than the treatment parents often accord their sons. The father has been successful in life by hard work and business Judgment. He has accumulated wealth. The son step3 over the threshold of manhood and may bo just out of school or college. Immediately the father looks for a soft snap for him. He must not struggle as tho father did ho is too deserving for that and straight way a position Is found with a large salary and tho boy is launched with his hand on the tiller of tho good ship "soft snap." Perhaps as an excuse tho father will go through tho form of giv ing him a few weeks' work where un der buslpessprlnclples years might be necessary, and then the boy is lifted and set down in his easy chair. Hence forward his career Is supposed to be assured. But Is it? While the father lives all may go well. His business judgment stands behind and his money can make good a mistake. But when lie dies I The world is full of the unfor- tunate results of "soft snaps," for easo in gaining a livelihood through other Influences than one'B own efforts de Etroys Judgment and self-reliance, nnd when the prop is cut away the wholo thing tumbles. The boy who commences life by ap pearing at tho breakfast table at 8 o'clock In the morning and by saunter ing to his business at 9 or 10, and who Is unwillingly taught that "tho old man" Is behind him, nearly always dtops when the old man "pegs out." This Is one reason why so many of our young men fall and the names mado by their fathers so soon fall away. The laws of nature are Immutable and the one laid down ages ago that by the sweat of our brows iihall we earn our dally bread Is the only foundation of true success. Wo do not mean In this article to deny the practical right of a man to do with his own as he chooses, but 'the future Is heavy, and tho responsibility great. The danger that the boy will become Imbued with this growing Idea of "soft snaps" Is more serious, wo think, than is fully comprehended. Put him In charge of your coal mine, or your store, or your factory If you will, but before you do It make him learn by long work the responsibilities attendant on the positions. Don't send him rolling to his work in a carriage with a coach man and a pair of horses, arid don't let him get tho Idea that 'because he Is the son of his father he Is better than the son of some one else. Another evil does 'this "soft snap" idea encourage. Discontent among our masses is on tho increase. The earn est, intelligent, hard working young man, often of greater ability and Just as often of greater moral character, than tho "soft snapper," sees u. chap put in his easy chair. He wonders if utter all the natural laws are not askew and he becomes morose, dissatisfied and eventually dangerous. Whereas if he sees a. young fellow working earn estly to fit himself for a position kept In waiting, he simply feels that that young man Is working along the lines of honest endeavor, and If he succeeds In so fitting himself he deserves the pDSltlon and is only the more fortunate. From all this it can be deduced that parents make a fatal mistake In going to the nearest furniture store and buy ing the good easy chairs, that so many do, for their boys to rest In. . The talk In Harrlsburg Is of a hori zontal increase In taxation: but before that Is made the legislature must not forget to make a horizontal cut In un necessary expenses. The circulation editors of certain of our esteemed contemporaries are clear ly overworking themselves. Oiitlook fop the Anthracite Trade From the Philadelphia Press. Tho condition of tho anthracite coal trade at this timo Is a nutter of more than usual interest, us It reflects for the first time tho results of tho oollcy of those who have lately acquired full con trol of that trade. It Is more than ten years slnco capitalists who liad had more or less interest in tho pioduction of an thracite coal and in tho 3hares of tho great carrying companies inaugurated a movement to put thoso corporations In a shape to do business and to formulate permanent plans for the conduct of tho trade. The first Important steps were tho rehabilitation and reorganization of the New Jersey Central, Heading and other companies, which latter proved to be a most tedious task. With the conclusion of (tie late arrangement with tho Lehigh Valley company, the anthracite carriers passed Into the cantrol of the Morgan In terest, end accord In the management of all the properties was practically brought about. This stop was necessary to tho business of bringing order out of the chaos that had existed fcr years. There was no difficulty after this was accomplished In agreeing upon a pro gramme as to the conduct of the trade. All interests united in a tacit agreement there were no writings and no meet ingsto keep the production of coal down to tho demands of consumers. For many years, while the producing companies were at odds competitively, coal had been taken out of tho ground and sent" to mar ket without the slightest relation to the demands of consumers. In 1895 more than 4ti,000,000 tons were put on the market, and In 1896 some 2,500,000 tons less. In no other two years of tho trade was the production so large, and It is not neces sary to say that in the condition of man ufactures and general business In those vears the output was far abave consump tive requirements. The result was de moralization, which culminated with the close of the fall season iast year. Since the first of January thcie has been strict attention to tho volume of the prod uct of coal and It has been restricted to the wants of those who use It. The out put has been at the rate of a llttlo more than 2,500,000 tons per month, or bout 15, 000,000 .tons for tho half year. This re striction has been accomplished at some sacrifice to tho producing and carrying interests. From tho producer's point of view It was a necessary measure, as con sumers never buy coal In the first half of tho year, and the coal consumed during that period Is that which Is marketed In tho previous year. Novnuccessful restric tive programme has before been put In force owing to the strong competition which existed between tho carrying com panies and the Jealousy with which they guarded what they considered their ton nage rights. A great deal was accom plished, therefore, when It was developed this year that all the Interests were living up to their agreements at the expense of earnings for morths. The restrictive process has been accompanied by econo mies, and it Is somewhat remarkable that, though tho companies have carried 2, 500,000 tons less coal than In tho same six months of 1895, their monthly reports In some Instances show an increase in net earnings over last year, and no com pany shows any Important loss. The result is that from a producers' and transporters' point of view the an thracite companies are In a better posi tion for a profitable year's business than ever before. It Is believed that the mar ket will take 40,000,000 tons of coal at least In 1897, and this estimate seems reason able, as It Is more than 3,009,000 less than was actually mined and apparently mar keted last year. If this is true there re main to be shipped at least 4,000.000 tons each month during the last half of the year. If there U some restriction on this amount in .July and August, and if the usual light tonnage Is allotted to Decem ber, the monthly output In the other months will be about equal to the capac ity of the mines. In any event, ail en gaged in tho anthracite trade have the promise of fuller work during the next six months than In any other similar pe riod recently, THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE. From the Springfield Republican. Four years ago, at the timo of the Chi cago fair In celebration of the discovery of America, we Americans were very busy absorbing the realities of our own grent ness. "Hero are we," eald all Americans, 'Hho greatest people on earth." This Is the year of Queen Victoria's jubilee, or the Imperial celbratlon of tho royal lady's sixty years' reign; and the contemplation J of tholr progress mado during tho Vic torian eta la llkewlio absorbing tho at tention of British subjects. They, too, have reason to be proud. Their history nnd development are marvels Greater Britain today Is probably the most power ful and efficient combination of forces, either In pcaco or war, the world has seen. In tho Napoleonic wars England was tho ono povor to whom more than any other tho downfall of France was due, yet now her strength Is tenfold greater. And not tho least astonishing part of it Is that to many minds tho fu turo of no other nation Bccms more sta ble and secure. Why Is the British empire today tho most formidable factor In the world's equilibrium? Hero Is tho thing the Eng lish uro going to celbrate. It Is not tho fact that their queen has worn the crown for sixty years, but that their na tion has mado such prodigious progress that excites them to these demonstrations. This progress, so far as It coincides with the last sixty years, furthermore, has not been peculiar to Qreat Britain. Other na tions have been developed wonderfully, even tho most backward. It has been a period of tremendous material growth for the wholo world, with England, perhaps, leading tho way. But why has England led the way? The answer is that she oc cupied at tho opening of the now era a moro favorable position than any other nation. She was already the center of mercantllo exchanges and controled the markets of tho world. She emerged from tho Napoleonic wars' with an undisputed supremacy on tho sea, and her Isolated geographical position afforded her Immu nity from attack by land. Thus protected and thus girded for the race It was natur al and Inevitable that England should be foremost during the sixty years that followed the coronation of the queen. Great Britain's foremost place among tho nations was wbn long before Victoria came to the throne. And how she won It forms tho most fascinating chapters of her history. Was It owing to (he over whelming superiority of the Insular Brit isher as a man over the Spaniard, tho Frenchman and the Dutchman? Sir J. R. Seelcy in his "Expansion of England" lays bare the truth when he writes: "In one word, out of tho five states which competed for the new world success has fallen to that one, England not which phowed at tho outset tho strongest voca tion for colonization, not which surpassed tho others In daring or Invention or en ergybut to that one which was least hampered by the old world." Again he writes: "And further wo have ventured to doubt that tho vastness of tho empire necessarily proves some Invincible hero ism or BUDernatural ennlus for trnvern- ment in our nation. 'Undoubtedly, some facts may be adduced to show natural ap titude for colonization and a faculty of leadership In our rae. But though there Is much to nJmiro in the history of Greater Britain, yet the pre-eminence of England In the new world was not won by 3heer natural superiority. In the heroic age of maritime discovery wo did not greatly shine. We did not show tho genius of tho Portuguese, and wo did not produce a Columbus or a Magelhaen. When I examined the causes that en abled us after two centuries to surpass other nations In colonization I found that wo had a broader basis and a securer po sition at home than Portugal or Holland, and that we wero less involved In great European enterprises (wars, etc.), than Franco and Spain. In like manner when I Inquired how we could ronquii, and that with little trouble, the vast country of India, I found that after all we did It by means mainly of Indian troops to whom wo Imparted a skill which was not so much English as European, that the French showed us tho way, and that the condition of the country (India) was such as to render It peculiarly open to conquest." These facts now read curiouf ly. England was far behind Spain and Portugal In maritime discovery. She did not even show an equal aptness lor the sea, and the new world was discovered absolutely without Impulse from the British Isles. As a colonizer England was not In the early days abreast with tho Spanish, tho Dutch or tho French. The French explorers In North America were penetrating almost the heart of the con tinent before the English began settling on tho Atlantic coast. Tho Dutch first set tled New York and tho Frerch Canada. And so In India It was a daring French man who first learned how to conquer the teeming millions of that vast country by employing and training native troops, and from him the 'English learned tho se cret. Captain Mahan has shown that England finally won 'both America and India from France by superiority In sea power, as sho had already overthrown tho Dutch by tho samo weapon. That is very true. but Why did England have superior sea power? Why 'has she nearly always had it since the Spanish armada? Professor Seeley answers tho question. England's Insular position freed her more than her great rivals from the wars and complica tions of tho continent and that freedom gave her additional strength on the sea. When Franco and Holland have had their energies absorbed by struggles on land they have been weakened at sea, while upon her navy England has been able to concentrate all her powers. Captain Ma han says that France should havo looked across tho sea for her empire rather than In Europe, and should have built up her navy at the expense of her army; but situated as she was geographically It was perfectly natural that France should havo shared all the convulsions of the continent. Tho division of her strength between land and sea so weakened her on the latter that in all the great crises In conflict with England French dominions over tho ocean fell easily before English supremacy In naval warfare. So what does the greatness of the British empire finally rest upon? If we follow Professor Seelcy and Captain Mahan It rests In the lust analysis upon simple geography. At Insular position brought sea power, sea power brought empire, and empire and ea power combined gave England un In comparable start when the world entered upon tho wonderful material development of the nineteenth century, wlrh which tho Victorian era largely coincides. But in pointing out these truths we havo no de sire to disparage the genius of the Eng lish people or to underrate their great energy. While favored with vast dem onstration of greatness and highest title to leadership opportunities embraced to tho full. TOLD BY THE STARS. Daily Horoscope Drnwn liy Ajncchus, Tlio Tribune Astrologer. Astrolabo Cast: 1,11 a. m., for Saturday, June 12, 1837. WD 3E . A child born on this day will be of the opinion that It Is about timo the Ice man had his Innings. The anxiety to get something for noth ing Is so strong In some pcisons that they are willing to tako tho measles. Judging tho world by the standard of one's own morality often makes a man blush for his neighbor. If It were not for the Sunday newspa pers, tomorrow might 'bo Indeed a day of rest. Tho world Is wide but some of tho peo ple In It are very narrow. Ajncchus', Advice. Do not place tco much confidence In tho ability af a liar. He occasionally tells the truth by mistake BEAUTIFUL GIFT BOOKS For Commencement, Wed ding Day, Birthday. 487 Spruce Street, The Itotundu, Hoard of Trado Uiilldlu:. GttSMIIffS SeosaLtfloeal Valines to Housekeepers And' a New Departure for Us0 . . . Monday Morning, 9 o'clock, we will sell in our basement Gal vanised Iron Water Pails. io-Quart Pails at 11 Cents. 12. Quart Pails at 14 Cenfs. ' Price and Pails for Monday Only. The stock may hold out until late in the day and it may These are chanees that our customers have to take. We not will sell them at these prices till every pail is gone, and then, of course, we must stop. . 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