', ."' A THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-TUESDAY. JULY 12. 1898. rzjz k l)e gtvanton CrtBune Puhllthed Dally, Except Bandar, by the 1 rlbune I'ublltblDg Company, at Fifty Uonti n Month. New York Office: inn N'miiii si., H.H. VUKKIiANl), Bole Agent for 1'orolgn Adverlttlng. INTJCRED AT TUB rorrorMCB AT BCHANTOS, rA., AH SECO.VIVCI.ASS MAIL MATTKR. TEN PAGES. BCRANTON, JULY 12, 1898. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. STATU. (lovetnor-WILLlAM A, STONL'. Lieutenant Uovernot-J. P. S. GOUlN. Secretary of Internal Affairs -JAMES W. l.A'lTA. J.u1ro of Superior Couit W. W. FOR- ti:r. ConErcismeii - nt Lnrsc - SAMUKt. A. DAVL'Nl'CRT, CJALUS11A A. GROW. llcisla rn i:. SctllltU. Twentieth Dlst.-JAMUS C VAUOHAN. House. First Dlslrlct-JOIIN It. KARR. Fourth Dlstrlct-JOHN r 1U1VNOLD3. ioi,o.i;i, stoxc's I'l.A'rroitM It will bo my puipcse when elected to so conduct nivbclf n to win the lespcct and Bcod will of those who havo opposed 4 me fib well a.s these who have Riven mo their Mipport 1 shall be the governor of tho whole people of the state. Abuse hae undoubtedly grown up in tho legis lature which ate neither the fault of ona party nor thu other but lather tin growth of cudem Urrccessary Investl patluns have been authorized by commit tees, resultltnj In unnecossiry expense to the state. It will be mv care and pur pose to eoirect thine and other evils In 10 far as. I haw the power It will be my purpose while governor of Pennsylvania, nt It has been m purpose In tho public positions that I have held with God's help, to dlseharse my whole duty. The people aro greater than the parties to which they belong. I am onlj Jealous of their favor. 1 shall only attempt to win their approval and my experience has taught mo that that can best be done by nn honest, modest, dally discharge- of Jiubllc duty. The place for the Ameilcan fleet Is In Santiago liaihor. It Cervcra could come out Sampson can go In. Admiral Cervern. The binve old admiral who Is now a prisoner 1p our hands deserves and will reclw fiom us all the lespeet and consideration due to his age, his i.inlj anil his valor. If Spain had a few men of the mental calibre of Cerver.i In her councils she would not have been reduced to the pitiful depths of humili ation In which she now floundeis. Cer ver.i did his best and mortal can do no more. He went to Santiago, not be cause he thought It best to do so, but because ho vai oulered thete. He endeavored to leae It, because the fame fatuous commands forced him to sail out in the face- of a lleet vastly superioi to hi? own. Let us not forget the part which this old admiral played In Hobson's heroic exploit. llobson and his men weie spaied their lives thiough the almost unparalleled magnanimity of Admiral Cot vera. When Ilobson and his com panions weie lying on the deck of the Mpirlnim and the hall of bhell and bul lets had ceas-ed to piny over them, a steam launrh approached to reconnoi tie tho position of the sunken vessel. As soon as the marines in the launch saw tho ciew of tho llerrlmae still above water, they presented their rifles to lire. Hobson asked If theie was an officer on lionid to accept tho surren der of pilsoncrs of wnr, and happily for lilm and his comiadcs, the admiral himself was aboaid and accepted their surrender at once, if some other Span ih onieer had happened to be on the launch, who did not know English he might have thought It his duty to allow Ills men to fire then and theie. Xor should we foiget. Indeed, wo do not fmget any of these things, that Cer en, true and (hlvalmus gentleman nml hullor that he Is, Immediately In toimcd Admiral Sampson of the safety of Hohsun nn, ,S companions. It will affoid the American people p!amie to show by their ti raiment of thH veneiabln piisoner of wnr that Jus ttce and magnanimity with them ate suptiloi to piejudlce. Of couise the I'nlted Stales will be K-nerous- with Spain. It would be that If It should let one of her lying tulers live. Expert Testimony. Among the papers read before the Pennsylvania Ear association at Dela ware Water Gap last wool? one of es pecial Interest was conttlbuted by Judge Endllch of Betks county, upon tfio use and abuse of expett testimony. It rested upon recognition of the fact that popular dissatisfaction with this form of testimony ns It is habitually offered In modern ooiuts js becoming so Intense that either tho grounds for this dissatisfaction will have to he te moved or that form of testimony Itself wholly abandoned. Three cIrbscs object to prevailing methods as to expert testimony. The public In general, those directly en paged In administration of the law, and experts themselves. The first say such testimony now costs more than It Is worth; the second say It Is bo easily riddled and tangled up on cross-examination that It is of small value In In fluencing Jurors, and the last complain because there Is no protection for gen uine Specialists and too little opportun ity iVrfder tho customary limitations for them to make .their testimony pat and intelligible. t Judgj Endllch considered at length various propositions for icform but finally summarized In this wise his I hLbdbsIbb. ' I views of tho changes now feasible! rirst. the formation of u stricter deli nltlon of. expett capacity. Second, thu rensonnbto limitation of tho number of experts to be called In nny ease. Third, the designation of such experts liy the court upon nomination by tho parties. Fourth, the abolition of the hypotheti cal question. Fifth, the summoning by the ttlal Judge of nn expert of hi own choice to serve as nssesor, or as rt wltneis to review tho expert testi mony niieady In, or as both. Sixth, the payment of experts nut of the pub lic tteasury, nt least In the ilrsl in stance. The foiosoinc; ptograminc will tin-, donbtedly commend Itself to public opinion. Iejnotancc nlone question the value of scientific knowlelgo when ap plied Impartially ntid Intelligently to the determination of Justice. The ex pert witness has his ptace In the court. But Ijo needs to he put and kept in that place and not permitted to flic his knowledge Into the air or use It lather to becloud than to elucidate the points hi Issue. An Independent lallroad outlet for antlnaclto coal may or may not be the needed panacea foi the manifest debil ity of the haid roal trade: opin ions on this point ary ac cording to the self-lnteicst of those who oxpiess them. But it Is wor thy of note and contemplation that the pi eliminates to the road's construc tion aie going llghs on. Spain in the Philippines. The unexpected Intensity and success of the Insurgent movement In the Phil ippine Ulunds after Its re-lnforcement by Admiral Dewey Is explained In a letter from Manila to thu Washington Tost. Here, as In Cuba, Spanish mal adminisltatlon had been supplemented by tho most unblushing Spanish per fidy. Only last December the lnsur icetlon of the Tagals led by Agulnaldo had beeu ended by an agreement be tween Agulnaldo and tho then Spanish governor general, Pilmo do Itlvcia, under whkh the Insurgent leaders were to be recompensed for propel ty de stoj ed to the extent of $800,000 payable to them In bank at Hong Kong, and Spain pledged herself to enact Imme diately the following reforms' First The expulsion or secularization of the leliglour orders, and the abolition of all the official vctos of these orders In civil affairs. SecondA general amnes ty for nil rebels and guarantee for their personal security and from the ven geance of the friars and parish priests after returning to their homes. Third radical reforms to curtail the glaring abuses In the administration. Fouith Freedom of the pi ess to denounce of ficial conuptlon and blackmailing. Fifth Representation In the Spanish paillament. Sixth Abolition of the Iniquitous system of secret depoitatlon of political suspects, etc. No sooner was this agreement signed nnd the in sut gents disarmed than Spain repudi ated It utteilv To resentment of this pross perfidy the insurgents, now ngnin In arms w ith the stimulus of American help, add ic- niembrance of the notoilous unfairness of Spanish lule In general. We have on several occasions mentioned the extra ordinary system of taxation practiced by Spain in the Philippine islands, but this letter in the Post gives the rlist explanation that we have seen of where the taxes went. In the ear 189C-7, a fall sample yen. Spain imposed on the Philippines a revenue huidcn of SG, 000,000 pesetas ($10,770,000), but not a. penny was expended for public works or internal impiovements, "and," says the Post conespondent, "only 30,000 pesetas ($7,G.V) went for scientific .stud ies, Indispensable repairs, xlvers und canals, while the amount set npart for religiour purposes and clergy amounts to nearly 7,000,000 pesetas ($1,363,000). This sum does not include the amounts paid to the cleigv lor baptisms, niar ilajjos, tale of Indulge'nces, papal bulls, scapularles, etc., which exceeds the government allowance. The magnlfl cent sum of 20,000 pesetas ($.19,000) is set npart as a subvention to jailway companies and new projects of lali ways, but the college for Fianclscan monks in Spain and the transportation of priests comes In for 273,000 pesetas ($3.1,323)! Thirty thousand pesetas for all the new Impiovement?, but the choir of the .Manila cathedral lecelves 20,000 ($J,900), and 204,000 pesetas ($37,330) are set apart for the support of the cathe dral' Public instruction. Including na val, sclentlflc.technlcal, and art schools, must be maintained at a gloss expense of 303.3i5 pesetas ($3'..1S7), and fiom this pittance museums llbrailes, the observatoi), and .i special chair In the Unlxerslty of Madrid must be paid Add to this the squeezing and pecu lation of every Spnnlh official from the governor gcneial down to the low est alguacll, and It is no wonder that these people, lobbed right und left of the fruits of thelt toil, hate thn Span lard and will have no more of Spanish lule." It should he udded that the Philippine treasuty had also to pay a heavy contribution to the gen"tal ex penses of the government at heme (Madrid), the pension of the Duke de Veragua (ourr guest during the Col umbian Exposition), nnd that of the Murquls of Lledmar, besides those of the Sultans and native chiefs (datos) of the Islands of Sulu and Mlndamao, to provide for the entire expenses of the Spanish consulates at Peking, Toklo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Amoy, Saigon, Yokohama, and Melbourne; for the staff und mateiial of the Minister of the Colonies, including Iho purely or namental council of the Philippines; the expenses of supporting tho colony of Fernando Po, In Africa, and all the pensions nnd retiring allowances of the civil and military employes who have served in the Philippines, amounting to the sum of 5,800,000 pesetas ($1,131, 000) per unnum. No wonder the edifice of Spanish do minion In these unfottunate islands crumbles with the first sign of a stoun. It will not be Honolulu's fault If Manila surrenders. Honolulu has done her best to put Uncle Sam's soldier hors du conVbut. Heie Is the official list of HonoIulu'B offetlngs to General Anderson's command: Potato salad, one ton; ronst beef, 2,500 pounds, hunv nandwkhes, 10 000; coffee, 1,000 gallons; milk, 300 gallons; joast mutton, 1,000 pounds; tutkeys, 300; chickens, 700; pineapples, 800; watermelons, 800; mangoes, 20,000; various meats, biead ntvl butter, etc., etc, etc, clguts nnd elgntettes, soOh water and ginger ale, 12,0(,0 bottles; etc., etc., etc.; pics, 2,000' cake twenty huMielr, We demand nn Investigation of the entries "etc., etc, etc." A Perturbed Oracle. That sad-eyed oiacle of civilization, Harper's Weekly, Is more lugubtlous than ever these days. The declaration of war nearly shucked it to death. Tho Idea that the United Stntcs would show tho courage of Its pilnclples by putting an end to an Intolerable tyranny at Its doors was something that It had long before dismissed ns Imposrlble, nnd Its surpilse, when this very thing hap pened over its most vociferous pro test, woe complete. For u time It lost Its power of criticism and simply looked on In a daze. Wo will do Harper's Weekly the Justice to suy that after war was actunlly begun It graduallv drew Itself together in support of the government. This support was punc tuated with spirited allusions to the "Ignoiance" of crngreKs nnd to the "teckleasness" of the "Jingo" element In public life, nnd was In this sense somewhat left-handed; but it was nt least nominal. Haipers AVeekly did not go tho whole length of the Mug wump route traversed by the New York Evening Post, which, both before nnd after tho outlneal; of hostilities, has been nn outHj oken ally of Spain. Hut npw that the war is progress ing favorably to American arms and there is little opportunity to work up n rcaetlonaiy sentiment, Harper's Weekly Is easing Us Mugwumpery In another dhectldn. In company with Mr Cleveland, ex-Senator Edmunds, tho voneiablo Senator Mori ill and other men of abnormal conservatism, It has rigged up a figure of straw which It calls "Impel iallsm" and Is pummeling It with far greater pugnacity than seems wholly In keeping with Us pro fessed tidmlration of pence. Harper's Weekly puts no tuist in any assurance that the American people aie capable of evolving n colonial policy advan tageous alike to governors, to the gov erned, and to civilization. Such a proposition would necessitate the ad mission that the American people are fit to govern themselves, and of course It knows they me nothing of the kind. When we say we are going to piotect tho Philippines until tllelr people de velop the ability to protect themselvc, Harper's Weekly is certain that we mean to roT, pillage and oppress, very much ns Spain did, for the benefit of our politicians In power. When we al lege that we are actuated by motives of humanity Haiper's Weekly tells us bluntly we are Impelled solely by avar ice, foolish ambition and gieed. "We are contemplating the taking up of this old and discredited colonial policy," It asset ts, "not, as Is pretended, for the purpose of increasing and enlarging and ennobling our national life, but for purely commercial ends for trade, and all the coiruptlon which Is implied In the Intimate association of trade and government." t Furthermore, we are tunning no end of risks. "The Increase of the German fleet in Manila bay until it outclasses oui own is," It implores us to realize, "an indication of the troubles which this party (the "imperialists") Is Invit ing with European powers by taking a hand In tin European game of grab " We had better recall Dewey at once lest he get ntitt. Also, "the spectacle of France cowed by Its huge army Into acquiescing In a perversion of Justice which constitutes a national dlsgruce Is an Indication of Iho troubles we are pteparlng for ourselves ut home, and the danger we are Inviting for our own Institutions If we prepare tlje huge armaments that arc needed to defend distant possessions." The "cowing" of 73,000,000 American citizens by a standing army equal to that of Belgium, Not way, Sweden, Holland, Switzerland or Persia and less than that of Spain, Italy or Japan would, indeed, be n disheartening spectacle, more especially If there few thousand citizen soldiers and sailors should forget their citizenship, their oaths of enlistment and the glorious tradi tions of both the American aimy and navy, and should suddenly conspire to overthrow the government. But why puisue this mugwump nom senso fuither? Does not that which we have quoted of It make you sick? If the American people are not fitted to govern colonies they must fit them selves. Destiny has marked them for lolonlzlng jesponslbllltles. HEROES Ol' WAR AND PEACE. Ay, that Is a stoiy that takes ones bicath, How tho men towed out In the face of death. i Rowed as calmly as fishermen muy Who haul their nets at the break of day, I Rut never was fish net hauled In the weather That line and cannon and shell together Rained on those sailors who drew from Its bed The wise sea serpent and crushed Its head. Heroes of war are they! Song and sto.y Shall add their names to tho list of gloiy. nut where Is the story and where Is tho song For the heroes of peace und tho martyrs of wrong? Thoy fight their battles In shop nnd mlno; They dlo at their post and make no sign. And tho living envy the fortunate dead As they fight for tho pittance of butter less bread They held like beasts In a slaughter pen; They live like cattle and suffer like men. Why, set by tho horrors of such a life, Like a merry-go-round seems tho buttlc's strife: i And the open sea nnd the open boat. And tho deadly ctiunon with bellowing throat, I Oh, what aro they nil, with death thrown in. To tho life that has nothing to lose or win The life that has nothing to hope or gain Rut ill-paid labor and beds of pain? Fame, where is our stoiy, Hnd where Is our song For Jhe martjrs of pence and the 'vic tims of wrong? -Ella Wheeler Wilcox, What Shall We Do With Philippines? From Collier's Weekly. THE time Is not far off wheh Amer icans of nil pattjes will have to determine which of several meth ods of dlspo'lng of tho conquest, the first fruits of which were ir nereil by Dewey at Cavlte, deserves to be adopted. It linn been suggested, first, that, on the conclusion of the war, we Hhould restore tho Islnnds to Spain, elth'-T gratuitously or In consideration of a pe cunlnry indemnity; secondly, that we should Kell them to Jtipan or to some Eu ropean power; thirdly, that we should permit the Insurgents, who certainly un der Agulnnldo hnve evinced the capacity of fighting, to establish an Independent government; fourthly, that wo should keep them. Let us consider. In their or der, these vnrlous proposed solutions of nn Interesting problem. That wo should restore the Philippines to Spain Is out of tho question. To return them gratuitously would be wicked; to re turn them In consideration of an In demnity would bo base. In cither euse, we should be guilty of exccrablo treach ory and perfidy toward the Insurgents, who havo hailed us as deliverers, and hnvo made our cause their own. If wo could contemplate such nn net, wo should bo estopped from committing It by the humnnltnrlftn professions with which wo began tho war. We proclaimed to Sinln nnd to foielgu powers that our funda mental motive In our reccuiso to arms was the liberation of tho Cubans from In tolerable oppression. Rut, If our sense of duty to civilization forbade us to leave tho Cubans uny longer under Spanls.li rule, wo cannot overlook the fact that Spanish rule has been every whit as In tolerable In tho Philippines ns In tho An tilles. In some respects, Indeed, tho half, cnsles nnd the Christianized Tagnlj, who constitute tho bulk of Aculnaldo's cup porters In Luzon, have had to suffer hard ships more Intolernblo than those to which tho Inhabitants of Cuba nnd Porto Rico havo been subjected. We may, therefore, take for granted that, what ever other mode of dcullne with tho Philippines may eventually find favor with our Government, the replacing of their Inhabitants under the hateful yoke of Spain will never be, for a moment, thought of. o Wo pass to the second suggestion, that wo Hhould sell tho Islands either to Japan oi' to some European power. Here it should bo borne In mind that tho Tagals, wno number some two millions, are Christians, nnd that the more numerous v Isayas. who Inhabit tho Islands between Luzon and Mindanao, are all Christians. Now, with all tlulr absorption of tho nrts of civilization, It cannot bo dented that tho Japanese arc pagans, and does any body supposo thnt public opinion in tnn United States would tolerate tho sale of flvn million Christians to a pagan na tion? The question needs only to bo put to elicit a negative answer. It Is then either to Russia, Oermanj, France or Great Britain that we must sell the ls land1". If nt all. Obviously, wo havo no moral light to make over the archipelago to nny of the powers named without the consent of the Insurgents, whose aid wo have accepted and wlo!C interests wo havo pietended to espouse With tho ex ception of Grcut Britain, there Is not ono of the four powers mentioned to whoso rule tho Insurgents would willingly sub mit for their leaders aie well aware thit, although utmost any regime would bo pieferablo to the Spanish, they could not look to Germany, France or Russia for any large concession of the privileges of self-government. To tho assertion of Rrltish suzerainty the Insurgents might not object, but It Is extremely doubtful whether England would think It woith whllo to pay us a largo sum for n ees slon which would almost certainly excl'o against her a combination of all the oth er maritime powers Interested In tho Far East. Moreover, It Is less for Eng land's advantage to occupy tho Philip pines herself than It Is to seo them oc cupied by us, for she knows that our com mercial Interests In China are identical with her own, and that our possession of the Islands would give us the means of enforcing our wishes at Pekln. We may dismiss, therefore, as Inadmissablo or Im practicable the proposal to transfer tho Philippines to Japan or to any great mar itime power, o Wo come now to the question whether we should not permit the Insurgents un der Agulnaldo to establish an autono mous government of their own either wholly independent or under our protec tion Tho Idea of a protectorato should bo at onco discarded. A protectorato would Impose on us all the responsibili ties of annexation, while withholding from us the power of upholding law and order and of averting provocation to for eign powers. If we are logical nnd far sighted, wo shall either undertake to gov ern the archipelago as a territory, or wo shall leave it at the metcy of aggressors. Tho half-castes and Christianized Tagals, upon whom Agulnaldo relies, could not, without our assistance, maintain their Independence against Japan, or Germany, or France, for they do not control even tho wholo of the Island of Luzon; they nut trudltlonal enemies of tho Vlsayas who Inhabit tho smaller islands south of them; and they could not even pretend to dominate the great Island of Mindanao, or to prevent tho Mohammedan .Malays, who Infest Its censts, from engaging In tho piratical expeditions which used to bo a scourge to tho commerce between Hong Kong and Singapore. It required vlgllarco and energy on tho part of Spain to put down these pirates and their sup pression would out-tax tho power of nn Independent government established by tho Tagal insui gents at Manila. Pre texts, therefore, would be Incessantly af forded for such u demonstration an tho Germans lately inado nt Port-nu-Prlnco, and for such a selzuro of territory as was effected nt Klao Chou. It" must be lemembered that of the ono hundred and fourteen thousand squaro miles comprised In the Philippines, not over n seventli was ever actually occupied by tho Sptinlnids, und that, over the rest, their authority was but nominal. What the Spnnlurds could not do, wo cannot expect tho Ta gals to accomplish Tho establishment of an independent Tagal government 'n Luzon would simply be an invitation to a bciamblo for the rest of the archlpcl ugo on the part of tho gieat maiitluie powers, which would be at no lass, us wo have said, to find pretenses for agress ion. After Mindanao and the Interjacent Islands had been seized, Luzon Itself would become the object of attack. If, therefore, In dealing with tho Tagal In surgents we aro actuated by tho same humanitarian motives which wo professed in tho case of Cuba, wo shall fuither their best Interests by withholding from them tho dangerous boon of political In dependence. Tho duty, which we ahull assume when wo free them fiom the Spanish yoke, can bo best discharged by giving I hem good government, under which thu inhabitants of Luzon itself shall gradually acquit o man) of the privileges of self-rule, while tho blessings of civilization may bo rapidly extended to tho rest of the archipelago. So long as wo undertook the collective adminis tration of the Islands and tho policing of their seas, no recrudescence of plincy would bo apprehended nnd no pretext for European Interference would bo afforded, This is the solution of the problem which Agulnaldo hlmelf and every Intelligent in surgent must heartily desire, o But it may bo said what Is good for the Tagals might bo bad for tho United States. Should wo not, by retaining tho Philippines, definitely i enounce the tia dltlonul nvoldunce of foreign complica tions which Washington Inculcated In his Furewell Address? Tho answer 1h that Washington was speaking to a popula tion which did not exceed four millions; to u people whoso teirltory, even on this continent, wus cooped up by tho posses- GOLDSM nrTr Closing Omit Sale of Prices Cunt Almost in Brocaded Silk Parasols that were ,$1.98, reduced to $1.25. Fancy Changeable Taffeta Parasols that were $2.98, reduced to $1.98. Chiffon and Two-Toned Silk Parasols that were $4.98, reduced to $2.98. High-Class Novelty Parasols that were $7.98, reduced to $4.98. Hosiery Department Special Sale of Ladies' Ox Blood and Russet Imported Hose, very fine guage, high spliced heels and double soles, regular price 25c, Sale Price, 17 cents Ladies' Black Four-Thread Lisle Hose, Hermsdorf dye, usually 40c, Sale Price, 25 cents Lewis, ReMly ALWAYS 1SU8Y. Our Korrect Shape Shoes FOR GENTLEMEN. HAVE 5IOUC FRIENDS THAN ANY OT1IUK KHOKS MADE. Lewis, Mly & Bavies, 111 AND 110 WYOMING AVENUE. slons of European powers: a people whose safety lay in isolutlon, seeing that, only with tho utmott difficulty had it cmerg'd fiom the War of Independence. More over, when Washington wrote, no man could foresee that tho locked up legions of China, Corca and Japan would ever bo thrown open to trade; much less could an one forecast tho present nnd prospec tive Importance of our commercial Inter ests In the Mlddlo Kingdom. As a mat ter of fact. It was by us that Jupau and C'orea were unsealed, and wo have so largely profited by England's opening of China that, noj.t to hci, we have tho larg est fcharo In the commerce of the Mlddlo Kingdom. In view of what wo already possess, wo have a right to look forward through co-operation either with England or with Russia, to an honorable and lu crative participation In the vast Indus trial development which Is awaiting the Celestial Empire. But how can our In terests bo safeguarded, how can our Just claims bo made good, how can our wishes be expressed at Pekln with tho weight which assures fulfillment, unless we aro able, In the last resort, to enforco our demands by arms? How would such en foi cement bo posslb!o In these days of steam, unlets we had, In tho neighbor hood of China, stntlons for coaling and ie pair? Those stations have been given to our hands by the god of battles at Cavlte, and. If wo now surrender them, wo ic nounce tho right to lift a volco hereafter against tho partition of tho Mlddlo King dom and against tho destruction of our Chlneso trade. Keep Manila, and we should bo a precious ully to Russia or to England Give It up, and wo should bo regal ded as of relatively small account. We should havo practically abdicated fieedom of access to over four hundred millions of human beings. Wo should have had our chance to share tho pilzes of earth, and should have missed It. o Tho notion that wo should encounter nny Insuperablo difficulty In the establish ment of law and order throughout tho Philippines is one that will not bear in spection. When we annexed tho huge Louisiana Territory, It was Inhabited by Indians, If we except a few scattered set tlements peopled by vvhlto men und halt breeds, Tho same thine was truo of riorlda. The samo thing was truo of Cal iforula and of the great tracts obtained from Mexico in ISIS. The same thing was true of Alaska and tho Aleutian Islands. What we havo djno In the green tree, we surely can do In the dry. It Is absurd to assume that a nation like ours, which has subjugated u continent, ennnot occupy and assimilate a group of islands like tho Philippines. I TJIEIK QUALITY' ESTABLISHED. Prom the Philadelphia Bulletin. The Rough Riders have shown them selves literally entitled to rank with the bravest of tho brave. Out of 56S men who landed In Cuba, 209 have been killed or dUnblcd in tho lighting around Santiago, leaving only 3'U in condition for service. This Is a jecord which proves tho mcttlo of the men letter than a whole volume of official commendation. Vet Roosevelt's "terrors" are as eager to get at tho en emy as they were on tho days when they tumbled out of the crowded transports at Daiquiri. ' i " ' OUn DUTY ANI DESTINY. Trom tho Atlanta Constitution, Tho moment seems timely for the res urrection of that bioad American poll;y which would Include all whom destiny might place under our (lag In tho bencfi. cent embrace of frco Institutions and gov ernment by tho people. Such, wo firmly believe, la the mission of this republic, providentially planted In the western world, and armed with every resourco that heaven and the Ingenuity of man can supply. . - vv rs HILL & CONHELL 121 N. Washington Ave. BRASS BEDSTEADS. In buying brn Beditead, b sura that yon get the but. Onr br&u Bediteadi ie all made with aeamleas brat tubing and frame work U all of steal. They cost no mora than many bedtteads made of the open leimlni tublmr. Every beditead 1' highly flnlihed and laoquerea under a peculiar method, hotbtnx vr hav ing been produced to equal It. Our new Bpitng Patterns are now on exhibition. HSU & Goiraell At 121 North Washington Avenue. Scranton, Pa. Caecellatioe tamps Made to Orden Reynolds Bros Stationers and Engravers, HOTEL JEKMYN BUILDING. 130 Wyoming Avenue. HAMMOCKS, WATEIR COOLERS AND FIIIEMS, WHITE MOUNTAIN AND OHIO ICE CEEAI IlEEZEItS AT HARD PAN TRICE3 TO SUIT THE TIMES. CLEMW, FEEBEE, 0'MAIXEY Ca 4S'J Lsckawauu Aveunt EAZAAI Parasols Two0 FINLEY wear Our Great July Sale of Ladies' and Misses' Fine Muslin Under wear opens today and will continue for ten days. The style, quality of material and workmanship of our line is too welt known to need any comment further than thut wo are overstocked for this time of the year nnd have to make room for our Tall lines that will soon be leady for delivery. Every garment In stock has been re marked at reductions arvlns from 10 to 23 per cent, below regular prices fop this tale, which will positively last fop Tem Days Only. In tho annexed list are several num bers which we will ilhcontlnue and the prices quoted barely cover tho cost of matcttals. One Lot Gowns, our regular 9So qua!. Ity during the heasron. TO CLOSE OUT AT 60c. One Lot Gowns, nicely trimmed and a. good number for tl.25. SALK PltlCE 90c. One Lot Gowns, extra bles and hind iotr.ely trimmed, worth $1.50. SALE PIUCE $1.19. One Lot UndeisklrtF, plain, and good quality muslin, leRuUr pilce 50c and OCe. SPECIAL PRICE 29c and 49c. One Lot Draw em, neat embroidery trimmed. SPECIAL PRICE 23c. One Lot Drawers, plain tucked, extra quality, were 60c and 6r,c. SPECIAL PRICE TO CLOSE C9c. Our elegant line of fine Trimmed Corset Covers, Chemise, Umbrella Drawers, Night Dresses and Skirts is too numerous to mention, but all are alike subject to reductions for this sale only 510 and 512 LACKAWANNA AVENUE HENRY BEL1N, JR., tlencrol Acent for tba Wyomluj Dlatriclfa; MlQlnt. Dialling, Sportlnr, Bmolcelui and tba Kepauno Chemical Company's HIGH EXPLOSIVES. fcafety Kuie, Caps and Exploders. Itooin 101 Connell Building. Hcrsutoa. AGKNOILi THOS, FORD, JOHN II. SMITH 480N, W. K. MULLIGAN. mutes riymotrth WUkei-Barr MBS 1 Sac IIPIIT'S PI10EK. r. I'
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