HIE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 17. 1898. J (Se .Scwmfon rt6tme Published Dntly, Except .Sundny, by ths Tribune Publishing Company, at fifty Osnti a Month. iew York Office: ino Nassau HL, B. 8. VUKKbAND, Bole Agent for orolen Advertising. iNTrnru at the rosTorriCE at schanton. l'At, AS SECOND-CLASS MAIL 3tATTCIt. PCRANTON, AUGUST 17. iS9S. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. STATE. 'V Governor-WILLIAM A. STONE. Lieutenant Governor J. 1. 8. QODIN. Secretary of Internal Affairs JAJIUS W. LATTA. trudge of Superior Court-W. W. POIt- TEH. CongrtPBmen - at - Larpe SAMUEL A. DAVENPORT. QALUSIIA A. UUOW. LEGISLATIVE. Senate Twentieth Dist.-JAMES C. VAUGHAN. House. First Dlstrlct-JOHN n. TARH. Fourth Dlstrlct-JOHN F. IICYNOLDS. COLONEL STONE'S PLATFORM. It will ha my purposo when elected fo po conduct mjielf as to win the rctpect nnd Rood villi of thoso who have opposed me as well nu those who hae given me their support. I Khali bo the governor of the whole people of the state. Abuses hae undoubtedly Brown up In tho legis lature which are neither tho fault of ono party nor tho other, but rather tho growth of ciHtcm Unnecessary investi gations haa been nuthorlzed by commtt Ues, rcsiiltlrnr In unnecessary cxpenso to the state It will ho inv care nnd pur pose to correct these and other evils In to far as I hio tho power. It will be my purpofo while governor of Pcnrmvlvnniii, as It has been my purpose in tho pub'ic positions that I have held, with God's help, to discharge mv whole duty. Tho people are greater than tho parties io which thev belong. 1 am only Je,ilou3 of their faor I shall only attempt to win their approval and mv experltnco has tiught me that that can best bo done by nn honest, modest, dally discharge of public tlutj. There mnv be some doubt loft ns to who exploded the llnlne but theie re mains none ns to who avenged It. Manila's Tall. The (llffeicnrc between entering Ma nila by h tuo of it protocol end en tering It by virtue of open conquest It mainly pontimentil, et wo are glod that tho soldier boys who braved 7,000 miles of sultry sea In the hopo of bat tling their country s flag to victory on a distant shore weie not cheated nul of their triumph. 'Phey will not now feel that their expedition was In vain nnd the morcl eflect nf their prowess upon tho neighboring peoples In th Orient will be considerable and vnlu nble. Inasmuch as we aro to become permanent occupants of Manila and future competitors for commeicial su premacy in tho hemisphere to which Manila is one of the patewajs it is will to hae an unclouded title. Capture, tco, Is bound to strengthen on- attitude with reference to the na tive population of Luzon. To them tho victorlesat Santlagowhich forced Spain to sign the piotocol are veiy dim real ities, but they can reidlly appreciate the Irresistible potency of Dewey's utnl Merrltt's guns. When they come to learn, as In time they must, that the strength thus symbolized before their wondering eves is not a strength for pillage or oppression but for frodoni and civ nidation the educational effect will be most balutnrv Nor c -in the attendant evils of Spanish rule here after cty our meicy on the plea that Manila wn? yielded without a struggle. The ilctoiy ns it stand? is clean-cut nnd complete, and we assume as a heritage of it no objectionable obliga tions. All praise, then, first to Dewey, the intrepid nnd sagacious, and net to the soldiers and gallon who bached him up. They have added an empire to tha domain of i-fpuhllcnn Institutions and their reward will be immortality. It Is to be regretted that Dewey couldn't i each Pat Is In time to serve on tho Peace commission. As a light ning pacificator he has no equals. Grover Cleveland, Philanthropist. The public learns with pleasuie that Hon. Grover Cleveland has diverted fiom politics sufficient time, energy and money to aid in tho institution near Princeton of a work of philanthropy that seems hopefully founded on a common sense basis. We refer to the farm school for which Mr. Cleveland has given the land nnd Mr. John Henry Vroom, of Princeton University, the brains. In bih?f the plan of the school is this: On the sixty-five acres of good farm land which Mr. Cleveland has placed nt Mr. Vroom's disposal a farm colony will be located, to be made up of boys transplanted from urban slums. Says Mr. Vroom. "The boys will not be herded together In one great building. We shall build a number of cottages, each of which will accommodate from 10 to sixteen boys. In that way individ uality and a certnln dcgiee of home life will be preset ved. Wherever It Is pos sible, the boys will have separate rooms. Not more than two will occupy any department. A matron nnd a man In charge will be assigned to each house. Each boy upon entering the school will have an acre of ground ad Joining the cottage in which he lives. This he will consider his own, and upon it he will raise whatever ho pleases. The separate acres will radiate from the house like the 'spokes of a wheel from the hub. Nearest the dwelling there will be a flower garden, then a tract devoted to vegetables or to poul try, whichever the boy wishes to raise, and at tho outer circle berry bushes. The products of each boy's Uttlo farm will be sold and he will receive the pro ceeds. With this he will pay a certain percentage to the school and keep the balance for himself." In addition, dur ing the spare moments, notably during the evenings. Instruction will be glv-n In the common English branches, mus ic, etc., alto In Industrial puruullH "It Is our theory," adds the projector of this Interesting enterprise, "that good citizens may be made out of many of tho boys whom unfavorable environ ment now Impels toward badness. We want to utilize what might be the wnsto material of society, turning a posslbla disgrace Into an ornament." It tenialns to be seen how this nov Kchomo will operate In practice, but the th'jory of It Is certainly prepossessing.. And we venture to say that Mr. Cleve land will get far more pleasure nnd do far more good while witnessing its development and planning Its enlarge ment than ho hus experienced during tho hybrid associations of his giuc somo political enrcer. It Is reported In various ways from London that tho Hrltlsh Foreign of fice, having played with Russia and China nt tho old stylo game of diplo matic finesse and lost, Is about to adopt tho Vnnkeo trick of plain, blunt speech. There Isn't a particle of doubt that the latter stylo, all things con sidered, is far more illgnlfled, manly and honorable; nnd It Is nlso more successful when you have tho force to back It up. Our Interest In China. In the opinion of tho Philadelphia Press the United States haB less Inter est In the future of China than would appear from contemporary comment. That Journal ndmlts, of course, that our growing export trnde to the Middle Kingdom must bo protected nt nny linzatd against unfair discrimination; in other words, the trenty rights which we now enjoy In China on a par with the "most favored nations" shall not over our protest be abrogated by con tinental European Influences working cither behind dummy Chinese nindnls or in open assertion of suzerainty or dominion. Inasmuch ns Itusshi buys a few locomotives from n Philadelphia manufactory tho Press virtually offers the opinion that so long as our treaty rights aro respected we need not care particularly whether China is Felzcd by Russia or England our duty. It argues, is to preserve a "benevolent neutral ity." Within certain narrow limits this view Is unquestionably correct. Cer tainly no one save an Insane person would contend that the United States ought at this time and under ptesent circumstances to rush In ns an armed Interloper among tho European powers that entertain designs upon China, nnd put our army and navy unsollcitedly and unreservedly nt the command of Great Britain with a view to forcing all tho other Poweis out. Neutrality In the legal sense Is our obvious duty so long as we nte left uninjured by the prospective belligerents. Hut it is idle to contend that as between a civiliza tion lu China dominated by Anglo Saxon principles nnd one laid out along the lines characteristic of the Slav or the Teuton we have nothing to choose. The Russian who buys from the United Stntcs does so because his own civil ization does not yet provide the degree of skill in modern mechanism which lie seeks from ours, and It Is distasteful to him to go to England for It. Rut tho dollar that Russia spends amonir us In a temporary contingency Is not to bo weighed against the tens nnd hundreds of dollars that pass nnd re pass In the contlnunl and steadily In creasing commerce which Is maintained between kindred branches of the Anglo Saxon lace, whose institutions. Ideas and Ideals make lireslstlhly for multi plied ties of trade. If wo view only the commercial aspects Involved In the coming icnascence of the Orient wo must yield to the conclusion that it were better that Englishmen Instead of Slavs gained the mastery of China's new destinv. Looking at it fiom the other stand point of democracy, liberty nnd en lightenment In tho social telatlons and In religion the genuineness of our in terest In tho continued success of Brit ish Influence becomes even yet more apparent. In all essential aspects England's battle In China Is our own. Bltnco says It would never do for a man who has talked war as he has to try to huperintend a transition into peace. Blanco could never rlfco high in American politics. Yellow Journalism. A Miss Elizabeth L. Banks essays to descrlblo tho genesis of American yellow Journalism for English readers In nn article In the August number of tho Nineteenth Century. Tho essay Is In Itself a splendid specimen of tho Journalistic phenomenon which It at tempts to describe. It Is yellow In every line, and between tho lines. She declares that there are at least twenty yellow Journals In the United States. There are two nt most with their eve ning editions, and ono or two other papers which may be placed In that categoiy from one point of view, and In another from another. It would bo wrong perhaps to say that the Nevv York Herald is a yellow Journal, jet the lino of demarcation that divides it from its brace of contemporaries un doubtedly of that huo is in leallty spectroscoplcnl In Its delimitation. In fact the adventitious arts with which the yellow Journalist displays his flimsy wares In the shape of news and pic tures of events Is only vulgar exag geration of what Is quite legitimate in every newspaper. "There can bo no denying tho fact," writes Miss Banks, "that yellow Journalism has become a power In tho United States." So far from this being a fact, It may bo as serted without fear of successful con tradiction that yellow Journalism has had at no time in its brief history less Influence for good or evil than at the present moment. Its object and Its mission have been thoroughly discred ited. Its influence and its propagation have also been grossly overestimated, not alone by the audacious methods of exploitation which it pursued, but by the gratuitous ndvertlsment It has re ceived from thoso who are never tired of denouncing it. Miss Banks believes that an investi gation of tho number of people who have been driven Insane during the past five months by the yellow prints would probably reveal a startling state of affairs. This is absurd. Wo believe that the part yellow Journalism plays as the generator of Insanity or immor ality Is very slight indeed. Tho two yellow Journals best known to the pub lic aro In many respects admirable pa pers. Their ultra sensationalism has resulted in nothing worse than their own abasement and the ruinous finan cial loss at which they aro produced. But this perhaps to their millionaire proprietors means less than Is sup posed. They are In the fight raoro for notoriety than for profit. At the beginning of the war or rather for somo months preliminary to the declaration of war, ono yellow Journal, tho Journal by name, became a public nuisance and It would have been well If It could have been suppressed as such; but no ono could object to its methods during tho actual contest. Sylvester Scovcl when ho attempted to strlko General Shatter struck a blow nt yel low Journalism fiom which It is still reeling. Miss Banks insinuates that President McKInley was forced to war by tho yellow Journals. This is n fair specimen of the chornctor of her argu ments nnd the cogency of her reason ing. The president 1ms had something else to nttend to than the vnporlngs of the New York Journal and tho Nevv Yoik World. It was tho Sklbcreen Eagle, of County Cork, Ireland, that startled tho chancelleries of Europe by portentously announcing that It was "keeping Its eye on the Emperor of Russia" nt n critical moment. No doubt they helped to formulate public opinion on tho Cuban question, but their part In this woik, nfter nil, was very small. Substantial opinion Is not fdrmed by such agencies. Miss Banks trots out for tho thou sandth time the girl reporter who comes to New Yoik to earn her bread as a reporter nnd to clear off the thousand dollar mortgage on the family farm. There, too, stands the wicked city edi tor, with a brimstone thlrsUfor salac ious news, who sends tho innocent rus tic In quest of questionable copy. How familiar It nil Is, nnd how libclously untruthful nnd cgreglously absurd. Miss Banks is ringing the changes for the benefit of English readers on a very antiquated alarm bell. What sur prises us is that a magazine of the influence and reputation of tho Nine teenth Century should be taken In by si'ch fllm Ham. Miss Hanks is presumably an Ameri can. She has written evidently not with a view to state the facts nbout yellow Journalism, which we have no desire to conceal or to apologize for, but rather to sell tho article to a popular perodlcal under tho Im pression that the farther it diverged fiom truth, the more readily it would find acceptance. It is. In fact, as good a specimen of yellow journalism In the guise of a magazine article as we have recently come across. One report from Hong Kong says the Philippine Insurgents arc satisfied with our terms of peace and another says they aro not. But no matter. De cency and civilization have won the biggest triumph In those parts that they have experienced since Spain en tered the neighborhood, and public opinion In the United States Is rapidly shaping Itself to Insist upon the per manent retention of all that civiliza tion has won. Tho president of course cannot force General Leo to accept the military gov ernoishlp of Cuba in view of Lee's pieferenco for a Virginia henatorshlp; but evidently tho place is his if ho will take It. And moreover It Is the public opinion that Leo is precisely the man for the place. Any old thing can bo a senator. Nothing but good words Is spoken by the pr'ss concerning the appoint ment ot Colonel Hay ns secretary of state, but the designation of Whltelaw Reid for the London embassy l events nn unfortunate difference of opinion. What, we wonder, can be the secret of this able man's peisistent unpopul.ar itj.' The first diplomat In Washington to congratulate Presldtnt McKlnlty upon the conclusion of piellmlnary peace ne gotiations was the Italian ambassador, Baron Fava, who once left thesi shores In a huff. Re flection is evident ly good for the Latin tempeiament. The congratulations which aro being received bv the Diocesan Record upon tho excellence of Its ninth anniversary number Issued last Saturday, are well deserved. Under the capable editorial direction of James O'Connor the Rec ord has impioved with every issue. Of course the riff raff in Cuba are no good. They are not much better in the United States. But those have Jumped to rash conclusions who assert that there me few capable or honor able Cubans, as tho sequel Is going to prove. The recent war has been of benefit to other nations as well as to this It haj taught foreign powers that It la dc.nrrerou3 to get In front of Ameri can guns. Tho German admiral at Manila is likely to emeige from this unpleasant nets with nothing but his Spanish friendship for his pains. Those big-talklncr Cuban autonomists at Havana must begin to reallzo now that they drove their waies to tho wrong market. Poor, old Professor Norton. How fato has given to his aspersions a quick and complete recoil. A TALE OP TERROR, The soldier bold on his pillow rolled Hko a. Iob: In u billowy sea, And a closo-reefed sheet beat a slow re treat, To his neck, but nausht cared he. Tho nlsht was hot. but ho knew It not Nor tho sob of tho djlng wind That clutched his hair as he sweltered there With a nightmare on his mind. Par, far away, by a tropic bay Bivouacked In a rank morass. Ha lay In his dream by a blackish stream Tull of yellow fever nnd grass. And a flood of rain soaked body and brain Till, wet to the very core, He framed a curse, that I won't rehearse, Though It died In a mighty snore. Then out of tho gloom of the Jungle or room A traitorous Spaniard stole, And, with a bladi that a Turk had made, Struck tho sleeper to the soul, At tho deadly slroko the sleeper woke With a shriek of wild despair And ulaprcd his side; but the dieam haj mosquito fastened there. Buffalo Enquirer. No Longer fhe Far, Bill fh? Near East. Fiom the Outlook. N PREVIOUS editorials wo have con fldered what national duty nnd honor demand of us In our uttttudo toward U the Filipinos. We have Insisted that mis question snouiu iqko inn prcceu. cucc of alt questions cf commercial Inter est nnd diplomatic expediency; that our question Is not, What can wo get otit nt the Philippines? but, What Is our duty toward the Filipinos? Last week. In ic stating our duty from this point of view, wo Intimated that we would, In a future Issue, consider "tho question of our self interest." To that question wo direct tho thoughts of our readers In this arti cle. A great deal of current discussion In tho press nnd In private circles assumes that tho Philippines belong naturally In tho domain of Eurcpo nnd European In terests, and that In putting our ling up tit Manila wo nrn leaving: our hemisphere, and entering theirs. Tho following ap proximate cstlmtito of dlstunccs should n-rvo ns a suniclcnt correction of this curious but common error: Miles (approximately). Ulstnnco from Philippines to Liverpool via Suez Canal 13,000 Dlsmnco fromPhlllpplr.es to Nevv York via Nlcar- uBUan Cnnnl 12.000 Dlstnnco from Philippines to San Francisco 7,600 In this stntemont wo tako Liverpool as representing tho European Atlantic coaat, Now York city ns representing Iho Amer lean Atlantic censt, nnd San Frnnclsco rs representing the American Pnclllo const. Substituting for thcao Southampton, Kiel, Hnvre, Boston, Baltimore. Seattle, Port land, would mnko some difference In tho distances, but would not vitnlly affect the comparison. Germany, England, and Franco nro moro than half ns far again from tho Philippines ns tho United States; nnd when we have built a Nlcara gunn canal, as wo shull before lone, our Atlantic coast will be, In round numbets. a thousand miles nearer to tho Philip pines than either of those countries. Whether we have nny right in tho East or not, geographically tho East does not belong to Europe. It is not in her hemis phere. o Tho map will give to our readers at a Blanco the relntlon of tho United States to tho several Islands over which our flag Is now flilnc. Cuba and Porto Rico stand near tho Batewny of tho future Nlcnrnguan canal, to protect our future highway from nttnek. Hawaii serves as a half-way houo between our western border nnd tho EuM. Tho Ladrones and the Carolines If tho latter shall be even tually Included constitute other nnd con venient depots, tho former on tho ocean highway to China nnd Japan, nnd tho lat ter on tho hlshvvny to Australia. Th it Cuba nnd Porto Jllco aro to bo either American In fact nnd name, or bound to us by ties so clcso that for all commei cial purposes the may bo regarded ns ono with us, even though they lly a dif ferent flag, may bo taken for Bienil Hawaii Is now a part of tho United States, and will, wo may safely assume, never be sundered from us. The ques tion for tho American people to consider with care and to determine with wise Judgment Is, Shall wo securo and main tain cither American supremacy over or an Amcilenn partnership with the Philip pines? Or shall wo suffer them to laps Into the hands of Spain, to fall Into anrr chy, or to bo divided among tho Euro pean powers? o From a. very remoto tlmo the East has been a source of wealth to every people trading with It. It Inspired the commcico of Phoenicia; made Venice a queen city; laid tho foundations of England's com mercial Brcatncps. Tho reasons for this nro not far to seek. Tho Immense popu lations of tho East demand tho pioducts of civilization, and her wretchedly paid labor furnishes, ut Incredibly small prices, what tho has to give. Civilization will raise her wages, tut It will still moio inplilly Jnciccso her efficiency nnd en laigo her demands. Jt Is not stiango that Germany, France, Russia, and En,? 1 md ato all caBcrly competing foi tho enlargement of this Eastern trade which the dismemberment of China nnd tho crumbling down of her wnll are opening to tho commercial nations of tho world. o Consider. China has a. population esti mated nt 4no,(iO0.O00, sho 1s dominated by a traditionalism which until now has kept her llfo In tho b.une conditions In which it was two thousand yeais a-o Until tho ptesent dccmli slio was without ft"um, electricity, or tho printing-press-her ships still Junks, her most most Im portant land carrlaBo a wheelbarrow This was; this Is; but this Is not to be. Sho Is waking up. Sho Is beginning to build railroads, bho will presently want highways, carriages, eltctrlo rcad-i, steamboats, agricultural tools, carpets, musical instruments all that civilization at once supplies to man and inspires man to demand. But tlrst sho will want more and bettei food. Rice? Yes, we know that she has rice, u.id is fond ot it. But we also know that no reople ever grew great and strong without a diversity of foods. China Is the land of families. America Is tho land of plenty. Look at the map; and then answer tho question, Does not naturo cleaily dsgnnto tho wheat-fields of our trans-MlsslsslppI re gion ns tho supply-Held for tho underfed millions of China? Treaties establlsl ed by far-seeing statesmen huvo secuicd for America a right to tho most favorablu trade condition with China nccoided b her to any people. Neither Germany nor Russia, nor Fianco can shut our products out of Chlneso ports in favor of her own, without violating cur treaty rlshts ns well as tho rights of China. Wo quote from nn article by John Foord In a, re cent Issue of tho New York Times, to which wo aro Indebted for other state ments of fuct Jn this pa'agrnph: "In Hit citizens of the United States wc-o granted tho snmo commercial privileges In China ns thoso of any other nation whatever, and In tho treaty of that vcar It was stipulated that if additional ad vantages nnd privileges of whatever des. crlptlon bo conceded hereafter by China to any other nation, tho United States and tho citizens thereof shall bo entitled thereupon to a complete, equal, and Im partial participation In the same.' Under tho treaty of Tlenstln. concluded In IS3S, It Is declared that should China at nny tlino grant to any nation or tho mer chants or citizens of any nation any right, privilege, or fuvor connected with either navigation, commerce, political, or other Intercourse, which Is not conferred by this treaty, such right, privilege, ani favor shall at once freely Inure to tho benefit of tho United States. Treaties concluded since merely amplify and af firm the statement of tho rights thus pnunclated." o While other nations have been eagerly competing tor tho Chlneso trade, our share of It has sensibly Increased. It has not been specially fostered by our government. It has not been eagerly sought, as yet, by any great mercantile trading company. There Is In the United States nothing answering to the East In dia company ot Great Britain, or the analogous German Trading company. Neveitheless, tho exports to China from tho United States will be this car four times as great ns In 1815. Then they were J3.COO.000, this year they promise to bo about $11,000,000. Somo of tho Items In this increaso are Interesting and sugges tive. Thus, for example, In bicycles, the exports to China for ten months of the present fiscal year amount to t21,b06, against $11,411 In tho corresponding months of last year. In telegraph, tele phone, and other Instruments of this class the exports of the ten months are JJ2.371, against t3,XQ In the same tlmo last vear. Carriages and cars Increased from $1,G32 In the first ten months of last year to J2S.C03 In tho corresponding months of this year; canned beef from 90,081 pounds In ten months of last ear i- 156,718 pounds In the same time this year; bacon from 18,002 pounds to 20,37& These figures COLlSMTffS Price Poiamdiai1 Is popular in this store at all times; It's particularly popular just now; the rea son is an ebbing season. Summer merchandise must move. The harder we pound prices the quicker the goods change from our possession to yours. Profits don't worry us it's not profits we're after. ' A Wrap at Wrappers At a very little cost you can secure a cool, washable morning gown; no sew ing bother for you, no fitting and basting, all beeu done for you by trained ex perts, Figure the goods at retail cost and you have the price of the made-up gar ments as we shall sell them. The material is the best Percales, garments perfect fitting, neatly trimmed Season's price was $1.25. As long as they last you can have them for iee WflinidoWc Always Busy 5UMMER, 3898. Our annual July and August sale of Summer Footwear Is now on. All our Russets must go. You need the Shoes. We need room. Lewis, Rely "& Mvies, 114 AND 110 WYOMING AVENUE. aro taken from an abstract In the New York Times ot a recent "Summary of Flnanco and Commerce,' Issued by tho liuieau of Statistics. National Interest demands that we do all that can bo le gitimately nnd honorably done to protect nnd to promote this growing trade. Our manufacturers no longer llnd nn nde quato market in our own land. Iho ra pidity nnd economy of production due to machinery and to skill In using It glut tho nuuket and cause periodical stoppages of Industry and consequent dlstics. Our Paclllc coast wheat Is sent either across tho continent or around the cpo to havo Its market price determined for ua In Liverpool. Wo havo breadstufts for tho underfed of China; wo have tho Ingenuity which will enablo us to share with Kuropo In furnishing her tho long-needed Imple ment of civilized life; and wo aro from three to four thousand miles nearer to her by sea than any competing European country. Why should not wo share with European countries In competing for her trade? o But It Is not Interest only which sum mons us. In this, as In many other cases, a true self-interest and a true philan thropy plead the same cause nnd gulda in tho same direction. Grant that wo can learn something from China; certainly t-ho can learn much from us. Bibles nnd missionaries und chuichcs are, wo be lieve, essential to nny true and lasting civilization; but Bibles and missionaries and churches nro not alono enough. China needs moro than tho advantages of ma terlal civilization, but sho certainly needs these ud vantages. Let a slnglo Illustra tion hufllce: Charity can ameliorate fa mines, but only commerce can prevent them. If China Is ever to havo tho ad vantages of an Occidental civilization, If bho Is ever to havo what Improvod meth ods of agriculture, commerce, and manu factures confer, sho must obtain them by coming Into tho commercial fellowship ot tho world. And America Is her nearest civilized neighbor. Tho highest humanltv ns well ns our most evident self-interest demand that wo be neighborly, by uniting with England In demanding for China tho advantages of "the open door," and In generously competing with England In entering It with our industrial and com mercial life. o If we nro to do this, we must havo In tho Eastern hemisphere moro than a "coaling-station." Wo must have somo ports under tho American flag and recog nizing its supremacy. Wo must not bo dependent on the courtesy of other pow ers for a right to live In the East. We must not havo again to chcose in time ot war, as wo had when England ilyhlly or dered our fleet out of Hong-Kong, be tween sailing baek to San Francisco nnd wlnnlrg a port for oursolves by our guns. This time wo could do It, because our enemy had a port and wo wcro-btrong enough to take It from bin:. The next time we might have no port convenient, and wo should ho obliged to lenvo Ameri can Intel ccts unprotected. Look ut tho map again. Tut up a flag at the Ha waltan Islands, the Carolines, tho La drones, the Philippines. Put It up also, where It Is now flvlng, at the Samoau Is lands and tho Marianne Islands. What does that flag mean? It means n pro tected highway between America nnd tho far East far no longer and a rea sonable protection to American commerce In its honorable competition with the other Christian nations of tho world, In tho endeavor to give to the half-clvlll.ed populations of tho East tho boon of mod. cm civilization through tho ministry or commerce. REMINDERS. "Wo aro in danger," raid one Bpanlsh statesman, "of sinking Into oblivion; of being almost forgotten by the rest of tho world." "Never!" replied tho other, proudly. "We still havo our debts."-Washlnston Stai. S.ij! 69 MILL & CORNELL 121 N. Washington Ave. BRASS BEDSTEADS. In buying n brass Bedstead, be aura that you get tha boat. Our brass Beditiad ara all made with seamtesj brass tubing and frame work Is all of steel. 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