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THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1898.
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REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
STATE.
Governor WILLIAM A. STONE.
Lieutenant Governor J. I. S. UOBtN.
Secretary of Internal AffaiiB JAMES W.
LATTA.
Judges of Superior Court-W. W. TOR-
TEH, W. D. FOP.TKK.
ConKressmen nt - Largo SAMUEL A.
DAVENPOUT, OALUSUA A. Q110W.
COUNTY.
Coneress-WILLIAM CON.NELL.
Judgc-F. W. OUKSTEK.
Coroner-JOHN J. ROBUnTB, M. D.
Survcyor-OEORGE E. STEVENSON.
LEGISLATIVE.
Senate.
Twentieth Dlst.-JAMKS C,
VAUGUAN.
House.
Tlrot Dlstrlct-JOHN It. FAHU.
Second DIstrlet-JOIIN J. SCHEULIl, JR.
Third DUlrlct-K. C. MACKEY.
Fourth DIstrict-JOllN V. l'.EYNOLDb.
COLONEL STONE'S PLATFORM.
It will lie my purpos-c when elected to
bo conduct myself as to win the respect
mid stood will of those who h.ive opposeu
me as well ns Uiom! who have given mo
their support. I rhall be the governor
of the vhole peopl of the st.itc. AbusM
havo undoubtedly giown up In the legis
lature whl h are neither tho fault of ono
party nor the other, but rather tho
growth of custom. Unnecessary lih esti
mations have been nuthorlzed by commit
tees, resultlrg In unneccftary expense to
the state. It will be my tare and pur
pose to correct there and other evils In so
far as 1 have tho power. It will be my
purpose while governor of I'ennsyUanin,
ns It has been my purpose In the public
position', that I have held, with God's
help, to discharge my whole duty. Tho
people nrc etenter than tho 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 done by
an honst. modest, dally dlscbaige of
rubllc duty.
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Secretary Alger writes that he Is sat
isfied. This Is no mntter of interest
from a news standpoint. Secretary
Alger has been satisfied all the time.
The Battle of Omdurman.
The murderous and blighting power
of the Dervishes hns been dissipated
by the great victory of the British nt
Omdurman. The Khalifa and his fan
atical followers have been driven from
this last stronghold In the Soudan.
Khartoum is once again In the occupa
tion of nn Anglo-Egyptian force, and
the vast and fertile regions which it
commands in Central Africa will be
free from the curse of Mahdlsm. Khar
toum has been in the hands of tho
Mahdls followers since 1SS4, when the
heroic General Gordon was treacher
ously slain. After the failure of
that expedition and death of Gor
don, the English government under the
leadership of Mr. Gladstone decided to
withdraw from the Soudan altogether,
and confine the British administration
to Egypt proper. Mr. Gladstone's mo
tives cannot be called In question! but
his policy Involved the natives of Low
er Egypt and the Soudan In moral
death and' material ruin. The Mnhdl
becamJUtne '-Um'poral and spiritual
leader of the tribes on the lower
reaches of the Nile.; he commanded
the Caravan routes of tho Sahara, and
drew his supplies of lighting Dervishes,
slaves and material resources nt the
point of the sword, bringing death,
ruin and desolation wherever he went
and wherever Mb Influence extended.
Trie power of the religious fanatic who
raised tho standard of revolt In 1SS2
In the Soudan, and from whose ex
ample and teaching all subsequent
troubles have arisen in equatorial
Africa, has been retained by two or
more of his generals, the last to have
assumed the leadership of the Der
vishes being the Khalifa whom Gen
eral Sir Herbert Kitchener has Just
defeated.
There have been vague conjectures
over the career and Identity of the
Khalifa. Nothing certain, however,
has been ascertained about him. He
was known to be cruel, crafty, a volup
tuous sybarite even among the Mahdls,
who were not particularly noted for
their abstemiousness or continence. Of
course he ruled by the sword and that
alone. The most fertile regions on the
banks of the Nile were periodically
raided by his chiefs in search of
slaves. They were not content with
their human captures. They burned
and devasted every village or hut they
came across, Smoking hamlets and
vultures marked their path. No one
dared sow rlco or corn because they
became an Index to human life and led
to subsequent slave raids. The natives
of the Soudan, as only an Arab can,
live on their little flocks of goats and
lean cattle, pasturing them wherever
they can find a day's respite from their
pursuers. This has been practically
the history of tho Soudan during the
last fifteen years rapine irregularly
punctuated by massacre.
Mr. Gladstone made a fatal mistake
when he ordered the evacuation of tho
Soudan. There were of course many
severe reverses of the Egyptian troops,
but under the circumstances this
should have fortified him in the deter
mination to subdue the anarchy that
was overtaking the country under the
leadership of the Mahdi. But Mr.
Gladstone was as obstinate as a mule
when he became convinced that a cer
tain line of pollcvwas antagonistic to
his preconcelUinlrrbtlons, notions which
sometimes had no bearing on the sub
ject with which he had to deal. This
was especially the case when the con
tinuance of a war or the possibility of
being drawn Into one was Involved.
Ho was warned over and over again
that the Mahdi and his followers would
not be satisfied with their domination
of the Soudan, and that they would
probably attack Upper Egypt. As a
matter of fact the Dervishes did not
attack Upper Egypt, nor Is It probable
that under the prescience of the
Khalifa they would have done so. But
the Egyptian government desired to
regain their lost provinces south of
the Sahara, and the atrocious govern
ment of the Khnllfa made his rule n
monstrous thine In the eyes of Eng
lishmen who had the power and tho
will to end It. Thus came about last
week's battle.
Tho battle of Omdurman was a ter
rific example of fanatical valor against
tho cool and Invincible discipline of
the trained soldier. To say that the
Dervishes fought bravely is In another
way of saying that they fought with
out the fear of denth or tho conscious
ness of It. To them tho Infidel was the
enemy, and Allah would do tho rest.
Their generals depended upon that
savage strategic movement, the rush.
But they were opposed to a gen
eral who Itnew their stylo of fighting
as well as they knew it themselves.
The Sirdar, Sir Herbert Kitchener,
sent up the British forces, and kept
the Egyptian army in reserve. They
conquered as It was expected they
would. Sir Herbert Kitchener had the
flower of tho British army In his ranks,
tho Cameron Highlanders, the Grenadier
guards, the Hoyal Irish Fusiliers, and
the Lincolnshire and Lancashire light
Infantry. In fact, the honor of this
eventful and decisive battle belongs
solely to the English soldiers. It may
be said that this was not fair to the
Egyptian army. Indeed It was not.
But It Is probable that the government
nt home wished to show that although
England has only a comparatively
small nrmy, It can bo relied upon with
equal fidelity in the ton Id hent of an
African desert ns In an Indian jungle.
Such men are tho mainstay of modern
civilization.
The refusal to allow tho Bough
Riders to parade Broadway before be
ing mustered out seems to be nnother
one of the studied efforts on the part of
the war department to keep the orig
inator of the "round robin" ns.far In
the background ns possible. As gov
ernor of New York, however, Colonel
Roosevelt will probably havo an op
portunity to Indulge tn nn occasional
parade if the people desire to see him,
regardless of Secretary Alger's assist
ants. A Conspiracy of Defamation.
Not a foot of real estate in Penn
sylvania pays a state tax; not a
farmer, laborer or mechanic contri
butes a cent to state taxation; not a
county in tho state, excepting Phila
delphia, pays as much in taxation to
the state as it receives back from the
state; the per capita cost of stnte gov
ernment In Pennsylvania Is lower than
that of any other populous state In
the Union with similar diversity of in
terests, and yet It Is charged by
factional opponents of Senator Quay
that his henchmen have robbed the
people and are unfit to be trusted.
The leader In this conspiracy of def
amation, Mr. Wanamnker, is tho man
whom Quay defeated for United States
senator, notwithstanding that the sup
porters of Wanamaker had nt ihrlr
disposal a campaign funi said to
exceed $400,000, in the handling of
which some of them barelv escaped
the penitentiary. This man Wana
maker proposes to get even with Quay
If he has to smash the whole Republi
can party and to this end he Is rallying
around him every politician with a
grievance, every constitutional sore
head and every enemy of Republican
ism in the state, not for principle but
for revenge.
As a specimen of Wanamaker's argu
ment tnke his assertion that Quay's
machine has the support of tho prin
cipal corporations. Yet It is the cor
porations that pay the giant's share
of the state taxation. Thus according
to "Wanamaker the corporations are
upholding the political regime that
puts on them the bulk of the state
tax burden. Corporations, it need
hardly bo added, are not built that
way. Tom Dolan's corporations, the
Drexel-Morgan corporations, the Wan
amaker gas trust, and the big Trac
tion trust which has its headquarters
in Wanamaker's town are against
Quay to the death and nobody knows
this better than Wanamaker. The only
corporations that are for Quay are for
him for the same reason that organ
ized labor is for him because aa an
influential member of the senate he,
like Colonel Stone in the house, has
stood on every possible occasion for
protection to American industries.
Mills and men that got work when
others had none havo a right to bo
grateful to M. S. Quay.
"But," say the Wanamakerltes, "wo
have put the Republican organization
on the defensive." They have, in tho
sense that every man who values his
character must defend it against false
representation. The Republican party
In Pennsylvania has done a good deal
of defending In its history because of
the habitual lying of those Jealous of
Its vitality and envious of its success;
but tn spite of that it has held Its own,
and In fact grown stendlly. There is
no reason to fear that tho present
conspiracy of defamation will hurt
anybody so much as those engaged in
it.
The reception of the Cuban relief ex
pedition at Havana harbor the other
day must be convincing to all that tho
Spanish serpent Is still able to wiggle
his tall after death.
Can Hold Its Own.
If by any turn in events the United
States and England should be com
pelled to face a combination of Rus
sia, Germany and France In nuns,
which side would be likely to win? In
tho North American Rev'ow for Sep
tember Sir Richard Temple considers
this question at length, with a show of
statistics well worth our notice
The comparison as to population
shows for the European coalition a
total of 221,000,000 white and 61,000,000
colored against 125,000,000 white and
350,000,000 colored for the Anglo-Saxons;
In all, 285,000,000 against 475,000,000. In
area, 13?i million square miles would
be pitted against 15H million, with the
important point to be noted that whllo
the area of the continental powers is
largely over-populate 1, that of Orent
Britain and t'.o United Stctm is (apa
ble of sustaining double or even treble
Its present population. Comparison as
to sea coast and ports shows for the
European alliance an aggregate coast
line of only 17,000 miles with but ona
port Hamburg . tho fint clais;
while on tho other bide there Is a coast
line of 62,000 miles and 19 first Mto
harbors. In Sir Rlolurd Tctuulo'd
opinion thjs In the dctctmltintlvc factor
In tho problem, since If we glvo to
Anglo-America dominion over tho
seas no posslblo combination of conti
nental powers could prevail against it.
But there are other points of com
parison. Russia, Germany and France
havo' but "0,500 mile's of railroad against
258,000 for their posslblo Anglo-Saxon
opponents; their Inland navigation Is
Immeasurably Inferior; their annual
foreign trade is but $5,600,000,000 ngalnRt
$8,000,000,000; their shipping Is but 3,
500,000 tons against 11,000,000; their
fishermen, representing potential naval
recruits, number but 100,000 against
320,000; In tho production of precious
metals they nro hopelessly outclassed,
while of coal they produce but 138,000.
000 tons ngalnst 405,000,000, and of Iron
ore 20,000,000 tons ngalnst 25,000,000; tho
horse power of their mnchlnery is con
sidered to be, on a rough estlmnte, less
than one-third that of their supposed
competitors; In finance figures are not
available but taking all factors into
consideration the continental powers
are believed to be far overshadowed;
In land forces alone do they have the
superiority, with 2,000,000 regular sol
diers on a peace footing against not
more than 1,000,000, Whnt the compari
son would bo on a war footing, with tho
United States and Great Britain both
calling Into service their enormous re
serve strength, can only be conject
ured. In ships of war they stand 381
against 410, but in efficiency the Anglo
Saxon with one ship will meet tho
Latin or Slav with flvo and not feel
outclassed.
Other comparisons might be added,
but these nro enough to show that
Anglo-American harmony is sufficient
ly potential to withstand any opposi
tion. Letters from Manila Indicate that
General Merrltt, like Admiral Dewey,
Is preventing trouble with Agulnaldo
by ruling him with an Iron hand. Be
fore Merritt arrived Agulnaldo had
given orders to his followers not to sell
any horses to tho American troops and
General Anderson was in a pickle.
When Merritt took In the situation ho
ordered his men to seize what supplies
they needed, paying for them afterward
at tho prevalent market price. Aguln
aldo tried to Interfere but Merritt
promptly squelched him, nnd the re
sult is that Agulnaldo now has a whole
some respect for tho American com
mander. In dealing with fakers deli
cacy of sentiment and demeanor is
very often wasted, ns this incident
proves.
One of the items In tho demands of
tho Filipinos aims nt the expulsion of
the Spanish monks and friars. This is
Eald to be the thing above all others
upon which their heart is set. It Is
needless to say that If American au
thority is asserted In the Philippines
there will be no expulsion of anybody
save in protection of the peace. If the
monks nnd friars behave themselves
they can stay; if they don't, they will
havo to go. and that altogether regard
less of their cloth. American rule
knows no sectarian distinctions.
Vermont people have arrived at the
front with proof that Rear Admiral
George Dewey was born in a log cabin.
This Is good news. The fear that
Dewey might have been born tn an
ordinary frame house or even a brown
stone front has been causing his
friends some uneasiness. There Is now
no reason why Admiral Dewey should
not bo a candidate for president.
The weakest theory of the Dreyfus
case that wo have seen supposes Drey
fus guilty but holds that tho history of
his dealings with a foreign government
is such that the high authorities of
Franco are afraid to make It public
for fear that It would precipitate a
gigantic war. Officers of Justice have
no right under any circumstances to
bandage Justice's eyes.
According to Dun's reports the busi
ness of August this year was the larg
est on record for the midsummer
month. But as there havo been no free
distributions of government bonds or
town lots during the month, it is prob
able that many pessimistic persons
will still find cause for complaint.
2Vs war news becomes more common
place. It Is noticed that the lurid cor
respondent of the Southwest starts on
the trail of the "negro fiend," who Is
lynched, roasted and prepared In var
ious ways to suit the taste of the mor
bid reader.
Vommy Atkins only knows one Afri
can whom he dreads. That is Fuzzy
Wuzzy. He has tho instincts of a sav
age and the courage of a fanatic.
The French government probably
made Its greatest mistake In not plac
ing Madame Dreyfus in the cage In
stead of the Captain.
e concert of Europe indicates that
some of tho Instruments aro badly out
of tune.
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Dally Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune Astrologer.
Astrolabe Cast; 3.45 a, m.. for Tuesday,
September 6, 1S33.
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A child born on this day will notice that
one seldom takes tho trouble to carve tho
namo of another on the scroll of fame.
It Is some satisfaction anyway to know
that Wilkes-Barro regiment Is kept In
tho service, too.
Tho barn swcllow builds his nest of
mud, Tho samo material seems to bo
utilized to a large extent In conducting
Swallow campaigns.
Mr. Mcrrlflcld shows a disposition to ro
futo tho Insinuation that he Is a political
Immune,
When the mercury drops the oyster will
also go down.
Labor had a hot time In the old town
yesterday.
When somo one tells ua how to pro
nounca the names, wo will all read nnd
enjoy the accounts of General Kitchen
er's campaign In tho land of the Mahdls.
Ajacchus' Advice.
Peoplo who complain about the heat
should remember that It take3 weatlwr
to produce the Immense crops that havo
aided this year In making tho United
States one of the most prosperous coun
tries on earth.
Home-mad? Uerstis
Imported Slander.
From tho Nev York Sun.
OUR. esteemed contemporary, the
London Saturday Review, has
been making omo of thoso Ren
tlo nnd discriminating criticisms
for which It is remarkable. It ns
sorts, with Its habitual affability, that
this country Is "sordid to the last degree;
Its courts of law nnd all Its civil lnstltu
tlons nro corrupt," and so on. It is only
by snylng something especially zanylah
that tho Saturday Hivlcw succeeds In be
ing quoted nt nil, nnd by unremitting In
dustry on the part of Mr. Frank Harris
and his Juvcnllo choir It Is now often
quoted. It Is without Influence or respect
In England, but commands In tho Unite 1
States the derisive interest wnicn inc
Americans, a rnco of subtle humor, can
not deny to extraordinary manifestations
of folly and tho shrewish tongue. But
suppose that tho Saturday Review were
cnpnblo of knowledge nnd wanted to ac
qulro some nbout the United States and
consulted certain American sources, what
would It find?
o
From tho Mugwump cucklng stools a
shrill chorus of depreciation and nbuso
of tho United Slates, lis people and in
stitutions, Its history nnd Its hopes, goes
up continually. These scolds would con
firm the Review in Its opinion that Amer
ica "has shown the world to what a
depth of publlo depravity civilization Is
capable of descending." Everybody and
everything In the country Is corrupt ox
cept tho Mugwumps. A foreign Inquirer,
Ignorant of tho fact that slander of the
United States has become not merely nn
lrrepresslblo habit but n progressive nnd
Incurable disease nmong a number of op.
parently human bipeds geographically
classified ns Americans, might be led to
accept In good faith calumnies as grcnt i's
thoso which tho Stturday Review emits
for purposes of advertising. Tho Ingen
ious foreign Inquirer cannot bo expected
to know that tho Mugwumps are only a
pcrpetunl querulous whine, not a force;
nnd that the scn'io of their own Impo
tence In politics blackens their bile and
Inflames their language.
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But suppose tho Ingenious foreign in
quirer has come over hero and cut his
cyo ttcth and Is no moro to bo moved by
tho caterwauling of tho Mugwumps. Ho
sees that these are few and that most of
them arc either disappointed politicians,
embittered "reformers," or college pro
fessors whoso world lies within tho tinkle
of the chapel bell. Surely such notions
as theirs must bo confined to them, and
there can bo no political party that cares
cr dares to assail the honor of the United
States. Then tome collector of curiosi
ties puts Into his hand tho platform
adopted by the Teoplo's party nt Its na
tional convention In Omaha, in 192. And
hero Is the surprising way In which tint
Populist declaration of principles begins;
"Tho conditions which surround us best
Justify our co-operation. We meet In the
midst of a nation brought to the verge of
moral, political nnd material rum. Cor
ruption domlnntes tho ballot box, the leg
islature, tho congress, and touches even
tho ermine of the bench. Tho people are
demoralized. Most of the states havo
been compelled to Isolate the voters nt
tho polling places to prevent universal In
timidation or brlheiy. The newspapers
aro largely subsidized or muzzled, public
opinion silenced, business prostrated, our
homes aro covered with mortgages, labor
Impoverished and tho land concentrating
In tho hands of capitalists. Tho urban
workmen nro denied the right of organi
zation for self-protection; Imported pau
perized labor beats down their wages; a
hireling standing army, unrecognized by
our laws, is established to shoot them
down, nnd they are rapidly degenerating
Into European conditions. Tho fruits of
the tolls of millions nre boldly stolen to
build up colossal fortunes for a few, un
precedented in the history of mankind,
and tho possessors of these In turn de
splse tho republic nnd endanger liberty.
From tho sumo prolific womb of govern
mental Injustice wo breed the two great
classes tramps nnd millionaires."
o
In vain you tell the Ingenious foreign In
qulrer that these Populists had rhetoric
on tho brain, nnd that they are, Tor the
most part, prosperous persons, who don t
cut throats but coupons. "Why do they
talk In that way?" ho will ask. "Do they
think that It Is popular to slander one's
country?" Continuing his study of slan
der ho finds In tho Democratic platform
of 1&J6 talk about "tho enrichment of tho
moijoy-Iendlng class nt homo and abroid,
prostration of Industry and Impoverish
ment of the people," "tho profllgato
wasto of money wrung from the peoplo
by opprcsslvo taxation," "arbitrary In
terference by federal authorities In local
affairs," " a new and highly dangerous
form of oppression by which federal
Judges, In contempt of tho laws of the
states nnd rights of citizens, become ut
onco legislators. Judges and execution
ers. Ho begins to believe that either
this Is a pretty bad country or there aro
somo uncommonly nthlollc liars in it.
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Americans need not be Irritated by for
eign mlsjudgment of their country. From
themselves come tho chief slanderers. It
Is notlcnble, however, that slanderers,
bo they Mugwumps, Democrats or Popu
lists, are' not in power.
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INFORMING FACTS.
Switzerland's greatest Industry, tho en
tertainment of tourists, has been offi
cially computed to bring In 113,000,(00
francs a year, 33,000,000 moro than the
whole revenuo of tho Confederacy,
Did tho war Increase crlmoY In the
first six months of last year 42,776 per
sons wero accommodated at the Philadel
phia station houses as compared with 37,
27S In tho first six months of this year, n
decreaso of 5.19S. 7 ho arrests for drunk
enness in that city also diminished from
12,000 In tho first half of 1607 to less than
8,000 In tho first half of 1&3S.
The casualties to tho three general
classes of railway employes caused by
collisions nnd derailments last year were
as follows: Trainmen, killed, 250; In
jured, 1.S27; switchmen, flagmen and
watchmen, killed, 11; Injured, "I; other
omplojes, killed, 42; Injured, 231, The to
tal number of passengers killed during the
year under review was 222, Injured, 2,793.
Ninety-three passengers wero killed and
1,011 Injured In consequence of collisions
and derailments. Other than" employes
nnd passengers tho total number of per
sons Klleu was 4,wj; injured, 6,283. in
cluded In theso figures aro casualties to
perrons classed nt trespassers of whom
3,913 wero killed und 4,732 wero Injured.
From summaries showing tho ratio of
casualties, It appears that one out of ev
ery 4S6 employes was killed and one out
of every 30 employes was Injured during
tho year. With respect to trainmen, in
cluding engineers, firemen, conductors
nnd other trainmen, It appears that ono
was killed ror overy 163 employed, nnd
ono injured for every twelve employed.
Ono passenger wts killed for every 2,204,
708 carried, and one Injured for every 175,
115 carried. Rasing ratios upon tho num.
bcr of miles traveled It appears that f.5,
211,440 pjbsenger miles wero accomplished
for each passenger killed, and 4,3f5,309
passenger miles for each passenger in
jured, It costs between $5,500,000 and $0,000,000 to
construct, arm and equip a battleship
ready to go Into commission, Last year
it cost $323,695 to maintain the Indiana In
commission, $290,435 for the Massachusetts
and $391,065 for tho New York. These fU
ures Include pay, subsistence, coal, ro
pairs and everything that Is chargeable
to the vessel. It cctts about $70,000 to
equip a regiment of Infantry with uni
form, arms, ammunition, etc, exclusive
of cam? outfit, and to maintain a regl
ment of 1,000 men for one year would
entail an expenditure approximating $400,.
000 4n round numbers, depending upon tho
amount of travel and the location of the
command.
The records of tho Union army during
the civil war show a mortality list of 11
per cent, of the entire force, or 313,000 In
all. Of these P3.443 were killed In battle
or died subsequently of wounds; 1S8.2KJ
died of dlseate, tho cause of deatb '- M
coLDSMrnrs
Forty Per Ceet,
U aider Actual Vata
Is the story on the finest lot of Imported Hosiery that was
ever offered at such a sacrifice. This is a stocking value
that your own eyes will tell you that there is no mistake
as to its honesty.
79 dozen 40 guage high spliced heels and double toes,
colors ox blood and russet, sizes 8 to 10. Everybody who
sees these hose will marvel at the stupendous bargain.
That they will move quickly goes without saying. No
better stocking was ever sold at 25 cents.
While they last,
Always Bwisy
iCHOOL shoes
AND
FALL
FOOTWEAR
'or Every Member of tho Family.
Lewis, Rellly & Mvies,
114 AND 110 WYOMING AVENUE,
remaining cases being for tho most part
unknown. Tho hospital records show
that 6.049.61S cases were treated during
tho civil war, tho mortality list being as
follows: Gunshot wounds, 33,343; diar
rhoea, 33,127; dysentory, 3,576; typhoid, 29,
S30; typho-malarlal fever, 5,360; remittent
tover, 4,813; Intermittent fever, 4,161; In
flammation of lungs. 13.971; small-pox,
7.05S: measles, 5,177. During tho war Lii,
2)3 men wero discharged for disability,
classified as follows: Gunshot wounds,
34,203; consumption, 20,903; diarrhoea. 16.
457; debility, 15.010; rheumatism, 12.65J;
heart disease, 10,797.
POLITICS DID IT.
From tho Buffalo Express.
Tho United States has not kept faith
with Its citizen soldiers. They enlisted
for the war, prepared to take the chances
of bullets and bayonets. They believed
that tho government had provided for all
other contingencies. They supposed that
they would bo prepcrly housed and fed
and lodged In sanitary camps. They
thought that Undo Sam tnsured their
lives when not In notion. They wero not
undeceived until after thev entered tho
service. It would be much harder to raise
a volunteer army now that It was six
months ngo. Tho peoplo havo not so
much confidence In their rulers.
Yet tho rulers are not to blame not
this generation of them. They merely
carried out a system they found in force
tho Infernal sybtem of politics. Politics
dictates appointments In tho regular and
tho volunteer armies, in tho staff and lino
thereof, in the medical nnd commissary
departments. Politics is In tho navy. too.
but not so much as In tho army. It has
always been so slnco tho foundation of
tho government. It Is so with the cheer
ful ncqulescenco of tho sovereign people
except In such times as these. There will
bo a howl or indignation now, nui u win
bo directed against Individuals and not
against tho system, and presently It will
bo forgotten snd the peoplo will remem
ber only tho glories of tho war.
WOMEN AT THE FRONT IN WAR.
Interview with Corporal Tanner.
"From tho standpoint of tho patient I
think I know hospitals about as fully as
any veteran who survived tho civil war. I
know them when tho sodden ground was
tho couch, and tho only canopy tho starlit
heavens from which It seemed that tho
angels' tears camo down In tho pitying
dew. I knew hospitals In all their grada
tlons, and I tell tho surgeon general that
not under the power of tho Inflnlto God Is
thero anything so Inspiring to tho shot
torn and fever-wrecked frames that lie
there as tho swish of a woman's skirts
through those aisles of pain, the tender
gleam of her pitying eyes, und tho helpful
touch of her gentle hand. The true wo
man will prove all her womanliness In
field or other hospitals. Wo can't havo
too much of her ministrations when wo
aro suffering."
A PREDICTION.
From the Providence Register.
Somi day tho taxpayers of this city will
realize that thero Is scmelhing wrong In
tho way tho meney of this city Is spent
and then thero will be trouble.
THE BEST OF ALL.
From the Washington Post.
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ji
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