)!" '45 THE SCR ANTON TRIBUNE-THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1'. 1898. f . -6e Scranfon n6une Z ;!Ci)b1labe(l Dally, Except Sunday, br VTrltmno Publishing Company, at l'lrty 0 ajMbntu. the lontj ,' Haw YorkOfflco: lftONfiMiiuRt., j ni Bole Agent tor Koroljn Advertising. INTEIIED AT TIIK fOSTOFFICB AT SCIIANTOX, rA., AS 8KCOND-CI.ASS KAtL MATTER. BCRANTON, SEPTEMJEn 1, 1B98. .." REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. IK STATE. Governor WILLIAM A. STONE, lieutenant Governor-J. I'. 8. GOBIN. Secretary of lntcrnul Affairs JAMES W. LATTA. Judces of Superior Court W. W. POn- ' TER, W. D. POUTER. Concrcsstnen - at - LarRO SAMUEL A. DAVENPORT, QALUSIIA A. GROW. COUNTY. Conews-WILLIAM CONNELL., ..Ijudgc-F. W. OUNSTER. "Cbroner-JOHN J. ROBERTS, M. D. Surveyor-GEORGE E. STEVENSON. JWW' LEGISLATIVE. Senate. rT'Atleth Dlst.-JAMES C. VAUGHAN. House. Tirst Dlstrlct-JOHN R. PARR. Second Dlstrlct-JOHN J. SCHEUER, JR. Third Dlstrlct-N. C. MACICKY. Fourth Dlstrlct-JOHN I- REYNOLDS. COLONEL STONE'S PLATFORM. It will he my purpote when elected to no conduct myself ns to win the respect mid pood will of those who have opposed mo as well as tho?o who have given mo their support. I ohull bo tho Kovernor of the whole pcoplj of tho state. Abuser )t JJao undoubtedly Rrowu up In the leels lattirc whli li aro neither tho fault ot ono purty nor tho other, but rather tho Browtli of custom. Tnnecessury Investi gations havo been authorized by commit tees, resultirK In unneccpfcary expense to the stale. It will bo my tare and pur CiDfrt.to correct these and other evils In so v7nr As 1 hnvr the power. It will be my purposo while governor of Pennsylvania, nJfr has been my purposo in the public FE2jilons that I havo hold, with God's ""ftplp, to discharge my wholo duty. Tho ji.jvofito arc creator than the parties o which thev belong. I am only jealous of their favor. I shall only attempt to win their approval and my experience has taught mo that that can best be dono by nn honest, modest, dally dischargo of public duty. The press, of the country continues to remove the shrubbery between Alger and the searchlight. A Queer Paper by Whitelaw Beid. In the course of a paper In the Cen tury magazine upon tho territorial problems of the war, Hon. "Whitelaw Itcld, since appointed a pence commis sioner, takes advanced ground in fa vor of retaining the Spanish West In dies, Cuba included, as American ter ritories, and Inclines toward a sim ilar disposition of the Philippines. Mr. Reld elaborates an argument tending to estahllsh that wo should not bo bound too rigidly by the terms of tho congressional resolution pledging us to withdraw from Cuba as soon as wo had accomplished its pacification; his argument resting upon the hypothesis, which he cheerfully (one might almost say eagerly) assumes, that the Cubans can never maintain by themselves a stable government. It Is strange that an honorablo man like Mr. Reld, who would defend tho Banctlty of his personal pledge with his life, Is so ready to counsel his govern ment to violate Its public pledge and so eager to smooth the pathway to national stultification. Mr. Reid has no right to say before the fact that the Cubans cannot learn to govern themselves; It will be time enough to meet this contingency should it pre sent Itself after the lapse of years of unsuccessful tuition. But if it should prove as he predicts that there are not among the present Inhabitants of Cuba enough elements of political and so cial stability to sustain independent statehood, then it may well be doubt ed if we should have any place for Cuba in our political system. We dis like to picture the United States as an international foundling asylum. Another curious feature In Mr. Reid's paper is the impassioned argument which ho makes against thinking of nny of the captured territory as rep resenting possible states. He says in effect that statehood for Cuba, Porto Itico or Luzon must never be consid ered. Not now, certainly. But if we cannot hopo ever to Americanize these islands sufilclcntly to Justify their ulti mate absorption Into tho Union, the same as we absorbed tho territory of the Louisiana and Gadsden purchases, then In our opinion wo had better give up at once tho idea of holding them at all. Statehood Is the ideal of republi can institutions. Toward it, in prep aration for it, our efforts must tend If we would remain true to our political principles.' ' Miles should not hit Alger when ho la down. Joe Wheeler's Way. It does the heart good to see how lit tle General Wheeler is bringing order out of chaoj at Montauk Point. We quote from the Now York Sun; General Wheeler took a band In tho ad mllftratton of hospital affairs today, and he did It In a way that will not soon be forgotten by tho hcrplttil odlcials. Late yesterday afternoon, when Gen eral Wheeler summoned Colonel Korwoul and all of the regimental surgeons to li.s headquarters and told them that he had received a complaint of a lack of medi cine frcm all tides, the principal com plaint having been made by Dr. Woods of General Ames' division, he demanded to know frcm each surseon whether this was true or not, and each and every oi.o replied that it was. Then turnlnir to Colonel Foiwcod, he said: "How about this? Didn't you tell me that there was enough iiedlcino here for everybody?" "I did, and there Is plenty," said Colonel Forwood. "The wholo trouble Is that the regimental surgeons don't send for It. If they send for It they will get It." "Then you have enough for the pres ent," paid General Wheeler. "I have sent for raoro and It vlll ba here before long. Now I want you Burgeons to make out your requisitions day by day and see that they are filled. I want no more com plaints about lack of medicine." At 10 o'clock this mcrnlns General Wheeler again Bvrr.moncd all the sur geons to his tent. "I have brought you here," he said, "to find out If you have done what I told you to do and have got plenty of medicine." All of the doctors said that they had excepting Dr. Woods, who again com Rlalne4 that he could not set medicines, "Did you make, a requisition for what you wantcd7" asked General Wheeler. "1 did," replied Dr. Woods. "Was It honored?" "it was not." "Well, Colonel Forwood, perhaps you can explain." "The requisition was sent, but no trans portation," said Colonel Forwood. Dr. Woods admitted that and said that ho had but ono horse. General Wheeler looked very weary. "How many do you need?" ho nsked. "Three." said tho doctor. "Dr. Woods, didn't it occur to you thnt you might havo sent your ono horso over threo times7" Dr. Woods mndo no re sponse, and nddrcsslrg till of tho phy sicians, General Wheeler said: "Thero Is now no excuse for nny of you com plaining of a lack of medical supplies, Everything you ask for will bo given to you. You know now how to get any thing you want, nnd I will take no excuse for a lack of supplies from nny ot you from now on." Rut that was not nil. The Sun ar ticle continues: After the doctors had dispersed, Gen eral Wheeler said to Colonel Forwood that there had been a number of com plaints from people who were unable to get answers from the general hospital when they rang up that Institution on the telephone. Colonel Forwood said that his doctors could not leavo their patients to answer telephone calls. "Then detoll a man to do nothing but answer telephone calls," said General Wheeler. "And now," ho continued, "why can't thero bo an alphnbfttc.il list mado of all tho patients In tho hospitals as they go out an In? There is complaint of lack of syf-tem," "I cannot do It," said Colonel Forwood. "Well, then I'll show you how," said General Wheeler, and ho 'told the chlf surgeon of the hospltnl to get an Indexed book and put down each patient's name under his lnltlnl when he came In nnd to check It off when ho came cut. Then the general mado some very decided remarks about the wny things were being run in the hospitals. Where thero Is a will thero Is a wny. Joe Wheeler may bo little, but ho has tho will of a giant, more power to It. Tho Havana paper which urges Span lards In Cuba to get ahead of Ameri cans in instituting Internal Improve ments Is hereby assured that If its ad vice is followed Americana will not feel the least bit Jealous. , There Must Be an Investigation. Tho horrible conditions which beset our soldiers at Santlaso aro nscrlbed by tho secretary of war to the acci dental loss of lighters, to tho high surf which prevented tho prompt land ing of supplies, to tho lack of good roada and flnnlly to the climate rind natural drawbacks of the country in vaded. The shortage of food nt Mon tauk Point was due, it seems, to tho bad memory of some ono in tho war department nt Washington, who forgot to notify the surgeons at the various camps that an allowance of 60 cents a day for each sick soldier would be available for the purchase of invalids' foods and delicacies. In fact, every abuse that has thus far been uncovered has brought out a ready-made excuse, together with official reports charging gross exaggeration. This being true, perhaps the war department will ox plain the things mentioned In the fol lowing excerpt from a letter written by Colonel Henry Hall to tho Pitts burg Times from Honolulu, under date of Aug. S: If tho stories told by the soldiers whD leftlast week aro true, and Inquiries mado among scores of them elicited nn almost unvarying response, they woro certainly badly treated, not only on tho tilp from San Francisco, but during their stay here. Tho food served them was insufficient, of poor quality and badly cooked. Tho ves sels were overcrowded, thero being 1,400 on board tho Pennsylvania. On this ves sel, It Is said, tin re was nearly a mutiny. Those In control set out to servo only two meals a day, and the t-oldlcrs would jvot stand It, and threatoned to throw tho commissary overboard. Tho meat, it Is claimed, was unlit to cat. Tho meals consisted of rice, soup, "slum," a com pound made of canned meat and a few ves''tai)les, black coffee without sugar, and hardtack. When bread was scived, It was frequently musty and mouldy. Ono soldier told tho writer that when the vessels came Into Honolulu tho men almost Jumped overboard when they Eaw tho enders on tho dock with pies and cakes and fruits. On tho Pu;bla there were susar and prunes and other things In the hold, but they wcro never served out. Finally, the soldiers broke In and helped themselves, but were soon de tected, and even this method of supply was cut off. Whllo lyir g here tho short ness and poorness of the rations wcro 'ho subject of constant ccmplaint. Of course, there aro always "kickers" and chronic grumbler among any body of men, and If they had received all that they were en titled to In the way of provisions some would still have complained. But when every soldier jou meet, without excep tion, tells you tho same story, thero is ev idently ground for Just complaint. Tho writer talked with dozens of them, honest-looking, decent. Intelligent young men, belonging to different regiments and sail ing In different ships, and all had the samo report. This is the testimony that comes from every direction, publicly and pri vately, but the private testimony as conveyed In letters from soldiers or In Interviews from men returned from tho front, Is even more intensive in its arraignment of the mismanagement than Is anything yet put In evidence in print. General Grosvenor, Governor Black and a few politicians may pooh pooh it or charge it to sensational Jour nalism, but the people from one border of the country to tho other know through the testimony of their own sons and brothers that it Is true and there are plentiful portents of n hur ricane of popular indignation nnd re sentment unless steps aro soon taken to bring about a thorough, impartial and confldence-lnsplrlng investigation. Such an Investigation is necessary ns well for tho living as for the memory of tho dead. The American people de mand to know why their war depart ment is unable to manage oven a four months' war that had but two land campaigns. The National Review's estlmnto of Ambassador Hay la certainly compli mentary. "He has," it says, "spoken well and not too often; he has abstained from being more British than tho British; he has refrained from fulsome flattery; nor Iiob he indulged in post prandial cush, but he has missed no opportunity of promoting friendly An-glo-Amerlcan relations and has been emphatically the right man at the psychological moment." Poor Bayard. How small he appears In contrast. Schley's detachment from the flying squadron probably means that Is to bo allowed to pause for a time to regain his breath. The Los AngelesTimes argues against the retention of captured territory be- J cause It might hurt California! beet- sugar Industry. Tho Times Is loyal to local Interests but the destiny of a nation cannot halt simply In deference to beet sugarltcs. General Coxey Is soon to make a tour of tho country nccompanled by n brass band. Tho programme will embrace music and oratory, and trading stamps will be on sale. If Coxey rcfrulns from discussing territorial expansion he will no doubt bo tolerated. Governor Black accuses the newspap ers of "Journalistic knavery" in deal ing with Algerlsm nnd Us evils. It bo gins to look as though Governor Black Is tired of public life. Notwithstanding tho efforts of tho czar wo cannot dispel the belief that tho white-winged dove of peace rests more securely when perched on top of a 13-inch gun. CALENDAR, FOR SEPTEMBER. 1. Summer falls to tako her departuro with becoming alacrity. 2. Dr. G. E. Hill nits up lato and com poses tho best letter of the series. 3. Editor Lvnett flics exceptions to tho Republican ticket. 4. Admiral Cervera gets a proposal and coyly admits that his heart is another's. C. Members of tho board ot control be gin to preparo affidavits that they didn't do It. C. Two engagements nnd fifteen dlvorco cases aro announced ns the result of tho summer campaign. 7. Tho two doctors dlt.agreo about which shall go to the legislature. 5. Professor Coles predicts more trou bles. 0. Tho Scrar.ton police do not catch tho burglarsi who havo been raiding the towns. 10. Orator Colbcrn receives a laurel wreath by mall and Is afraid It Is loaded 11. Secretary Alter forgets that this is tho luckiest date In tho year for resign ing. 12. Tho schoolboy hastens Joyfully to school nit. 13. Theatrical nnd other chestnuts re ceive a taste of the first frost. 11. Superintendent Howell smiles on tho teachers who attended summer schools. 13. Tho summer boarder pawns his lav ender trousers. 16. Tho nnnunt summer boarding house keeper buys more government bonds. 17. Straw hats aro ordered to the dry drek. IS. Girls refuse to walk on tho street with any man who hasn't been a soldier. 13. Advertisers realize that good times havo arrived and throng around tho Trib une office. 20. Fish Commissioner Stlllwell tries a government fish on tho alligators at tho park and they survive. 21. Charlie Schlacer, continues extend ing tho city toward Elmhurst. 22. That new afternoon paper appears. 23. Tho chost of the old Rowing asso ciation will not down and refuses to con sider Itself dead. 24. Street Commissioner O'Royle con tinues to soak tho middle of tho pave ment and ignoro tho gutters. 23. Another shed 13 built on Welling ton avenue. 2. Summer visitors to tho northward are glad when they strike the old D , L. & W. R. R. and hard coal. 27, Andrew Bedford Is engaged as ad vanco agent for Sousa's band. 25. Secretary of tho Board of Trade Ath crton lands a coffin plnnt. 2D. Judge Gunstcr falls to acquire a swelled head. SO. A large number of Methodist minis ters accede that they dn not Ion? to an nex tho weighty care3 of a presiding ci der. ANGLO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE SPEECH Concluded from Page 1. non-intervention of America in mat ters relating to tho European contin ent. That has nothing to do with American intervention in Asia, nor with legitimate expansion of our terri tory In the Orient. If we are abrogat ing tho doctrine, It must be because tho Orient Is exclusively for Orientals, and not for English and Russians and Ger mans and French and Hollanders, who are all there now, and fast appropriat ing the Orient to themselves. Finally it is objected that we will be Involved in entangling alliances, and depart from the precepts of the Farewell Ad dress: but Spain provoked continuous trouble at our very doors for a hundred years, Mexico and Central and South America havo had revolutions without number. Great Britain bounds our ter ritory for thousands of miles; and yet for a century wo have avoided en tangling alliances, although both pro pinquity and provocation existed. VALUE OF PACIFIC TRADE. The nations of Europe are today con centrating their energies on the shores of the Pacific. England pushed through the Canadian railway to fos ter her Pacific trade. Russia is build ing her trans-Siberian road for tho same purpose. Germany and France want ports and trading areas. Of all the nations struggling for the trade of the Pacific, ours is the only one natur ally entitled to It. London and Paris and Berlin and St. Petersburg are on the other side of the globe, but wo have XJTwC( c co:lst llne of 4'00 miles. Tha Philippines mean our ultimate suprem acy in the Pacific. They aro tho eastern-most boundary of the markets of tho jiast. On ono sldo Is China, on tho other they look across to our own shoies. Stretching 1,000 miles fiom north to south and 600 from cast to west, they form a natural barrier be tween tho East and the Pacific. Scat tered over C?0,000 square miles of the oceans surface, the wholo vast area would servo ns an outpost from which . j,.Uii-i-i u.m ueveiop the interests of America. Facing the Pacific and Indian oceans is moro than half the population of the globe. Excluding North America, tho foreign commerce of these peoples al ready amounts to $2,500,000,000 a year History shows that whatever nation controls this commerce, controls tho trade of the world. The stake at Issuo Is stupendous. Nothing less than nn entire and undivided control of thn Philippines would glvo us a base ade quate for our needs. Manila bay, or even Luzon, for a naval and coallnt? station would be too perilous nnd cost ly a possession, with all tho other isl ands partitioned and garrisoned by European powers. With tho Philip pines, Ladrones, Samoa and Hawaii, our possessions will reach across the Pacific, and Its commerce will becomo the commerce of America in a larger degree than of nny other nation. Tho Pacific itself will bo oura preeminently: our territory will bound It on two sides; our Islands will dot Its surface; and with tho ocean and Us trade in our possession, our political predom inance will be assured among tho na tions of tho world. NO WRITTEN ALLIANCE. Such Is the broad plans of Interna tional relations, upon which alone It Is wise to discuss an Anglo-American alliance, A formal, articulated alli ance, In the European acceptance of tho term, and as represented by Ra Drelbunda and Kalserbunds, Is an arti ficial bond, arbitrary In character, and essentially military In purpose. It Im plies constraint, disregards national conscience, eliminates national Judg ment, and discourages individuality of national action. If defensive only, England would defend us, and we would defend England, against the world, irrespective pj past relations, present friendships or future inter ests. If offensive and defensive, each would be a party to the quarrels of tho other, without the exercise of discre tion or Judgment. Such nn alliance would Increase entanglements; Inter national Impartiality would bo Impos sible; each nation would bo fettered and hampered; discussions of compen sations and advantages and equivalents would follow; nnd friction and irrita tion would finally degenerate Into open hostllty. It was against such alliances that Washington warned us, nnd his advice Is sound today. Wo want none of them. We need no alliances offen sive and defensive; nor permanent nnd comprehensive treaties. Moro powerful than formally articu lated alliances nnd moro enduring than written treaties, Is the bond of Inter est nnd sentiment that unites the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race. Next to giving us the Philippines, the greatest blessing of our late war as to re-dlscovcr England and America to each other. Tho two peoples, now for the first time In a century, earn estly desire each other's friendship. Nor is this a sudden aspiration born of emergencies In the Spanish-American war, but tho result, as we have seen, of economic political and racial forces which have been silently nt work for centuries. The great unwrit ten and natural laws, tho laws higher than human Institutions, are assert ing their supremacy and are drawing the two peoples together with an Im pulse that no human power can safely resist. That alliance Is even now more than a theory. It is fast becoming an actuality,; and woe betldo nny man or party that disregards that fact nnd Eets in front of an Inexorable racial movement backed by 125,000,000 en lightened sovereigns. TRADE NECESSITIES. America contains today 75,000,000 of the most ingenious, Intelligent and active producers in tho world. Pro duction is far exceeding consumption. The result is that we must find addi tional marketB or curtail our pro ducts. Hence our Intense and in creasing interest in the world's com merce, to which we gave scarcely a thought when the country was young. And wherever we go, in whatever di rection wo expand our trade, there we find Great Britain already estab lished, maintaining open markets, forcing wide the doors of commerce, and developing trade Interests identi cal with our own. The area of England and her colo nies Is 10,662,073 square miles, moro than four and a half times the size of the United States; and the popula tion is 361,823,000. These possessions, too, arc constantly increasing. In the past twelve years England acquired 2,600,000 square miles, more than twen ty times the combined nrpn. nf Mm Phil. ipplnes, Porto Rico nnd Hawaii; and all this territory is open to America on practically the same terms as to Great Britain. Even into remote Bri tish possessions nnd markets, we are pushing our commerce and discover ing' untold possibilities. Tho African Capo Colony Imports from British do minions, aggregated last year $38,670, 362; and nearly threo times larger than tho imports from any other coun try were those from the United States, of $13,151,071. Our total exports to Africa in 1SSS were only $3,000,000; but for the fiscal year 189S, they were over $17,000,000. And in China, where Eng land single-handed is opposing Russia, we pass through the doors she forces open, and In her own sphere of influ ence, compete with her own merchants for their local trade. Our commerce amounts to one-seventh of all China's foreign trade. Last year it was three times as great as in 1895, four times as great as in 1890; 50 per cent, great er than that of Germany, and second only to that of England. In fact in England's own territory, as well as in the ports held open by her diplomacy and arms, we aro her chief rival. Our trade ranks second to her own, and often aggregates more than the combined continental Imports. And that trado Is rapidly Increasing, even moro rapidly than the phenomen al Increase in our general export trade, which last year was twice that of 18SS, four times as much as In 1S69, and seven times that of 1865. OUR EXPORTS TO BRITAIN. And what Is the startling and In credible aggregate result of this alli ance of trade Interests? In 1897 our entire exports aggregated $1,030,000, 000, and our exports to the British do minions and spheres of ipfluence were alone nearly 60 per cent, of that sum. During tho same year our exports to Germany and all German colonies were 11.91 per cent., to France and all French colonies 5.74 per cent., and to Russia nnd all her dominions, .77 of one per cent., of our export trade. In other words, our British exports were 5 times as great as our German, 10 times as great as our French, and 75 times as great as our Russian; 240 per cent, greater than our exports to Germany, France and Russia com bined; and 50 per cent, more than our exports to all the rest of the world. These facts need no comment. They establish the corollary, however, that If you curtail British territory cr Brit ish influence, you necessarily curtail American commerce. Our trade in the Orient Is now $33,000,000 per year, and under normal conditions It will soon bo $100,000,000. All along our Pacific coast this new trade Impulse is felt. Our general Increase of exports last year was 17.3 per cent.; but while our At lantic ports Increased 17.61, and our gulf ports 8.6 per cent., tho Increase of our Pacific ports was no less than 25.7 per cent. All that trade Is now seriously men aced by Rursla and her allies in tho East. In the present anxious position of affairs may we not greatly assist England? And incalculably benefit ourselves? What right havo we to stand supinely by and let Great Britain fight our trade battles Is It Just? Is it becoming In a great nation? What if unaided, Great Britain should fall? When tho trade interests of tho two nations are Identical, ns In China, and those Interests aro Imperilled, aro not temporary trnde alliances both Justl- imuie una necessary: AUSTRIA'S THREAT. Last November Austria's minister of foreign affairs used this threatening language: "Tho peoples of Europe must fight shoulder to thoulder against tha common danger, nnd must arm thcmiielvcs for tho struggle with all the means at their disposal." This "common danger" and "struggle" refer to the American Invasion of Conti nental markets. If Joint action should follow Austria's advice, would not n well-defined trado nlllanco between England and America, against Europe, banded for the destruction of tho com merce and Industries of both, be Justi fied on every ground of self-interest and telf-preservatlon? And it the united diplomacy of Great Britain nnd America should not nvall with Russia and Germany and France, to abolish piohlbltivo discriminations in CMncso ports, why should not a trade alliance establUh discriminations against the commerce of these np.tlons In British and American ports? We have a valuable export trade with Germany nnd France; but so have they with us. Besides, every European nation except Russia, Is largely do pendent upon our food products. Sta tistics show that tho slightest disturb, nnce In our cereal exports precipitates bread riots In moro than one Euro pean city. Europe la affected by any emergency that isolates her from our wheat fields; particularly helpless would Bho be If cut oft from the ter ritory dominated by Anglo-American Iniluencc. Even Russia Is not inde pendent, for she is often an Importer of grain. England, Ireland and Scot land grow wheat enough to feed them selves for only fourteen weeks. We furnish nearly all the balance. Usual ly the supply In the United Kingdom, at any one time, will not last two months, and often not one. So serious Is England's situation, that tho Yer- CO USMIIi Drapery Department Derby Curtains at $1.69, $1.98, $2.98 and up, worth double the money. Chenille Curtains, worth $2.50, at $1.98. Chenille Curtains, worth $2.7, at $2.29. Chenille Curtains, worth $2.89, at $2.59, and higher priced goods in proportion. Aline of Scotch Lappets, 36 inches wide, worth 18 cents, at 12 cents. Embroidered Muslins, ir; cent kind, at 10 cents. Embroidered Muslins, 18 cent kind, at 12 cents. Embroidered Muslins, the 20 cent kind, at 14 and 15 cents. A large assortment of Fish Nets at 10c, I2c, 14c, 15c, 16c, 17c and up. Silkolines for Comfortables, nj cent grade Simpson's goods, at 9c, 10c and I2jc Golden Draperies, 123 cent kind, at 7 cents. Golden Draperies, 15 cent kind, at 10 cents. Window Shades, 15 cent kind, at 10 cents. Window Shades (with fringe) the 20 cent kind, at lzyi cents. ' Opaque Shades, in all colors, the 25 cent kind, at 20 cents. One lot in 4 colors, Oil Opaque, linen fringe, were 60 cents, to close at 35" cents Also a full line of Popular Priced Furniture Coverings and Drapery Materials Estimates and designs cheerfully furnished for all kinds of interior decoration. Always Busy SUMMER, 3898. Our annual July and August sale o Summer Footwear Is now on. All our Russets must go. You need the Shoes. Wo need room. lewis, Reilly & lavles, 114 AND 116 WYOMING AVENUE. burgh committee recently advised as a war measure tho permanent storage of 32,000,000 bushels. Each nation In Europe Is today more dependent on America than on any other single na tion. Hence, If we make necessary trade alliances with England, to pro tect our European, Asiastic and Afri can commerce, we can defy the rest of the world to do its worst; and it can do nothing. AN AID TO PEACE. Another unitarian basis for alliance Is tho maintenance of peace. The at titude of the European powers is now best described, not as anti-American, nor even anti-British, but as broadly hostile to the Anglo-Saxon race. They all dread concerted Anglo-American action. And Ensland knows and America knows that all the nations together could never stand against It. Europe will invite no open breach with two gigantic world powers, conscious of their Innate strength and elated by the recent victories of American arms backed by the moral support of Eng land. But peace fosters tradie, and trade demands peace. In short, the em pire Is peace, it means peace, it needs peace; and the same is true of the republic. The Interests of the two peo ples In trade and peace are common and supreme. A mere determination for peace will Impress It effectually wherever the power of tho race ex tends, and such a guarantee ot peace will go a long way to make war Im possible and settle the affairs of tho two nations In conformity with the principles of natural justice. An nlllanco between England and America to adjust their controversies by means of enlightened arbitration have already been introduced Into prac tical politics. The time is opportune for its re-lntroductlon. If the friendly sentiments at Westminister and Wash ington should be promptly utilized to enact a treaty of arbitration, such an alliance would be Justified on every ground of common and reciprocal in terests, would have the-moral and po litical support of both nations, and would establish n more beneficent pre cedent for the International adjustment of the affairs of mankind. If war should give way to arbitration, and under a peaceful primacy one race should dominate, can we doubt for an instant that, irrespective of common Interests, common national sentiments would compel united action and make the Saxon supreme? It Is not con ceivable that England or America would contemplate with equanimity Slavic domination of the world; a Rus sian word language Instead of our own tongue; the despotism of the czar In stead of personal liberty, cherished by our race even before Magna Charta. The grandest thought of the century is this convergence of tho Anglo-Saxon rnce. Th Anglo-Saxon rnco occupies all tho lande, "fair to look upon," In Asia and Africa and America and the Isles of the Sea. It Is 125,000,000 strong. It rules 310.000,000 more. Within all Its borders, human Intelligence Iiob the freest exercise, public conscience Is the most powerful, law 13 tho most re spected, crime meats the swiftest pun ishment, and tho energies of the race are combined in evolving tho highest good of mankind; and Emrland and America; Its two branches, Isolated from the rest of the world and that lso latton Increasing, but no longer isolated from each other, will hereafter In all divisions of the world's affairs be found together, fostering common Interests, cherishing common sentiments, and pursuing- common action, roi; their common good. - noSk iSia1 909 HILL & CORNELL 12! N. Washington Ave. BRASS BEDSTEADS. In buying n brass Beditead, bs sura that fou get tba belt Our bra Bodttoatls are all made with asamlesi braia tubing and framo work la alt of ateel. Ibey coat no mors than many bedsteads mode of tha open seamless tublnr. Every bedstead la highly Onlahsd and lacquercj under a peculiar method, nothing: ever hav ing been produced to equal It. Our new Bprl&s Patterns are cow on exhibition. Hill ft Cooed! At 121 North Washington Avenue. Scranton, Pa. , Tyye?riters9 Supplies, Letter Presses, is, Law Mails aad tie largest line of office sppplies audi sta tionery 11 li E Feama, Reynolds Bros Stationers and Engravers, UOXKL, JEHMY.N UUILDiNO. 130 Wyorainj Avenue. H,3! OS Elmer Sets New, Beautiful Patterns, just opened. Special Prices on same, $29,50 TFfWrT TIE CLEMS, MBEIfc, WALLEY CO, 4"i'i tacltawann .Avenu .. EAIAAi FINLEY- New Fall Our First Delivery of 66 Dress Fabrics" in Black and Colors for early Fall wear is just brought forward and wo invite you to an inspect ion of the same, feeling" sure that after looking them over, you will con- .' sider it time well spent. We duplicate nothing that is shown in Exclu sive Patterns, so you will make no mistake in mak ing a selection now a9 our present line contains many choice things that could not be had later on Black and Colored Tweeds, Cfeeviots, etc, in Bayedere and other effects promise to be among tho leading materials for the sea son and all of them are hero largely represented. Also some very desirable numbers in New Fall Silks all in exclusive Waist Pat terns just opened. 530 and 512 LACKAWANNA AVENUE HENRY BEL1N, JR., General Acent for tho Wyoming DUtrlctfj. Mining, lllastlng, H porting. Bmokelui and tea Hepauno CbemUal Company's HIGH EXPLOSIVES. fcnfety Fuse. Caps nnd Explode, Itooni 401 Connell UmWlaj Boranton, MESS ' GOODS. DUPONTO rain. AGENCIES: Tnoa, ronn, JOHN B. SMITH & SO& Ml. K. MULLIQAxi " " mat PlynKutb i
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