THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1899. rnbllnticil lilly, Kicept Slintlny. hr the TrlbitnePublUblnj Company, ut Hfly Cent, .Month. Istw YotkOtUce: 1M) Nummi st K H VllKKl,ANt tole Agent for lorolgn Advertlilni. IMMtU AT THE rOSrorFICB AT DTKANTO!, r., AH euo.tMum JIA1I. HATTUn. SCH ANTON, rCDUUAUY 3, 1859. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. MayorJAMES MOIIt. Trcacurcr-TIIOMAS It mtOOKS. Controller 1 J. WIUMAYKH. School Directors JOHN COURIEIt atonms. at:otoi3 11. (murks. Assestors-OW1LM JON11S 1'lllLU' R1N8LAND, C. 8 FOWLUK Election Da l'ebruary 21. a muss of testimony not to bo Implied usltlo. It Is possible Hint the war do tmrtmont was Imposed upon by the meat contractors but It Is not nitP" posnble that all these olllcers ami men, constituting tho lirnlnn of tho tie- tnnt Secretary Forum. of Btato IIIU In the The case of Mrs. ermule, the fair rhllntlelphlnn who has recently Rained notoriety In New York courts, reads cIMve military campaign of tho war. I Wie n. modern paper-bound romance are concertcdly lying. Neither lfl It , turned wrong end on. Mrs. Vermulo ' v hen a mnldun of 1C scorned the suit or. Tho Democratic senators who think opposition to tho peace treaty Is Rood politics will tlltcover their mistake When too late. Bright Itopublicnn Prospects. In notable contrast with tho turbu Imico which chaiacteilzed the recent Pemoeintlc city convention and which has left soi es Impossible to be healed, the "ltuntlnii on the Republican Bjcjo mis and l si-it'iii'. Tli prlmi-iles ot tered nn ipi n flumip ind their result lias been lien fully nctiulesced in Tho ticket ri'unlnnUtl under the Cravv luid rountv FNSteni bv cood luck hap pen'? to bo well distributed freogr.rphi i ilh nnrt t;vciilj nnportloned in other itpcits. It is well calculated to poll the pnit;- sttonKth and unite Inroads on the ciienis Captain Sloli fm mnvnr bis been for Iiuinv M'nis liefote the people III the capacity of u cuuncllmnii and his ot llrlul rt enrd Is open for eiminntlon. Tlmnns 11 Urooks foi city treasuier Is ii pupulai rep rsenlathe of tln vniinfter ileinunt of tl'e inrl a thorough bust nen man tirtl tnuneh njOil 'allow whom tic Pc mounts i tinnot hope to beat I'ik! J, Wldmnvi for controller liHids no intuiduetlon to Kcrartonlain after his tlrt intt iidmlnlstratlon of that otllee from WS to 1S00. Morris and Khliew for school directors nre ex perienced and trustworthv students of m Itnol inobleiTis and their Republican ism Is beyond challenge. Jonc., Ttins Kiml and Kottkr for assisors are a ti to measuilnj up to eveiy lequlre nunt and their election Is assured The tlclx't as a whole Is gieatly aided b the tfuicr.il consciousness that t-eninton has been under Democratic contiol lorii? enough. It matters not who weie responsible for foisting the piessnt tnaloi'orous administration upon the citv, the thing to do now is to coriect the misfortune as quickly and as thoroughly as possible. When the president dealt with Gen cial Gomz dlictly through an uutlror izd agent an understanding on disputed points was : cache J easily and immedi ately. It should be a lesson. Election Contests. The bill of Senator Vaughn bearing on election contest j lfl received with faor b the press of the state. It represents an admitted necessity In legislation. It piovldes as our icadus will re call, that witnesses in contests whose otes are shown to be illegal shall re ceive no fees or mileage, and it spec!-1 fles that in contested elections of presi dent or additional law judges and of tounty, boiough, township, municipal oiliceis or school diiectois or school lontiolleis. If the contestant or con testants fnll to establish his or their light to the office to which he or they claimed to have been elected, the peti tioners and each and eveiy one of them shall be Jointly and severally liable for all the costs and the same may be collected as debts of like amount are by law collectable, or payment theieforc may be enforces by attach ment. Thlo provision has been objected to on the ground that a contest might be begun In good faith nnd et end in lalluic, but even so the petitionee should pa the costs. Their mistaken good faith should not be charged upon the- public No law enn be fi amid with reference to contests which might not In some iaro case v.oik conceivable haidship, hut the aim of legislation should be tho gteatest good for the greatest number, and this principle Is the basis of the public's cry for relief from speculative election contests. It Is safe and just to lay down the rule that a deieated candidate who contests and Is beaten should, either personally or thiough his Indorners, bear the expense of his failure to win. To ask the com munity to bear It Is to put a premium on contest speculation and to Invite rontlnuous nnnojancc nnd expense. No county In the state knows this bet ter than Lackawanna. Miles' fault that the meat vvaa poor Ounntng for his scalp will not strike at the root of the trouble. Of course the president regrets keen ly as do all his friends these outcrop pings of scandal and 111-fccllng In the military eeivlce. Tho public has Its own Ideas ns to the responsible cause of tho major part of this friction; but regardless of any personal prejudices here Is a matter calling for thorough Investigation. Alger, Miles, McKlnley, congress and everybody elso ought to be of ono mind as to tho need of going lo the bottom of thla beef scandal and detei mining beyond any question who the guilty persons are. A conservative estimate places tho cost of the senatorial deadlock at Ilar llsburtf to the principals alone fo" ho tel tent and ted fire at more than 11,000 a day, not to mention the thousand rind one ' evtras" which contribute to the excitement of politics The cost to the state has not been estlrnatui but It Is iiotoiiouly heivy. It Is a big price to pay fot .John Wunamnlier'H vlndlc-tivemsb. a rich man who had been selected by her mother as a husband for her, nnd lan away with a penniless llotneo who had tho bearing of tho sad young man who lescues tho heroine of ten-cent dtama fiom tho 'villain who Is about to foreclose the mortgage on her fath er's furm. Tho young husband did not prove to bo a prince In illsgulso. In fact ho had no relatives connected with any of the Important trusts in this or nuy other country. After a brief wed ded cxlstenco tho husband has disap peared and tho wife, known ns Mrs. Vermulo, Is In Jail for swindling. This Is a romance In real Hffi that senti mental girls will do well to study. Tho Business Outlook in Cuba. Uncle Ram has not been In control of Tuba for more thin a month, and In that time miry velng problems hnve ailtin to creite disturbance on tho sur lace of aftalrs, yet the Information at hand tells of a very perceptible Im provement In the business conditions of the Island, and of course this Is only the beginning. Charles M. Pepper, per haps the best qualified of the Ameri can correspondents now In Cuba, de votes a recent letter to this subject and gives a report which, while not overdrawn, Is certainly cheering. Mr. Pepper sees no portents of a boom in the American sense; the pov erty of the masses of tho people, the consumers, forbids this until such time as normal conditions re-appear. Neith er are then? large fortunes to be picked up by strolling Americans off hand. Business customs In Cuba are exceedingly conservative. Business is orr a cash basis; proprietors of stores pay cash when buying stocks nnd ex pect to receive it when making sales Moreover, there Is little or no cutting of prices; when a merchant cannot see a profit there Is no sale. It will, In Mr. Pepper's Judgment, take time to change these customs and until they are changed Americans striving to do business In Cuba must bo willing to conform to some extent to native ways. Yet despite these drawbacks he finds that a great deal more attention is now being paid by tho people of Cuba, the better clnsses, to business problems than was true three months ngo, and correspondingly less to politics. Bright Cubans are looking about for trade or investment opportunities, and this sign impresses Mr. Pepper favorably. Ho discovers, also, that a good Held Is open to Anteilcan bankers who are willing to loan money on crop mort gages and be content with an average Interest rate of 7 or S per cent., as against 13 to 20 per cent, charged by Spanish barkers prior to the revolu tion. "With tho dlslnndment of the Insur gent troops capital is expected to be released In unusual abundance, and profligate nnturo, plus a little work, will do the rest. Cuban soldiers evidently do not be lieve in cheap labor. Tho Federated Women's club3 of Tekln, 111., havo adopted resolutions asking the legislatures to suppress tho use of pictures of women as advertise ments. The resolutions are directed more particularly to the manufactur ers of cigarettes, liquor dealers, and advertisers of the class that Intro duce high art In calling the attention of tho public to their wares. No ob jection seems to havo been made to the faces of women who have been cured by the various patent medicines In most Instances the society probably believes those portraits Incapable of exciting other interest than that ot speculation as to what the subject must have been "before taking." General Miles continues to Insist that certain Chicago meat packers have discovered the principal lost art of the ancient Kgvptlniw,. Tho manner in another proof of excellent generalship In piovldlng an ample supply of am munition before going Into a fight. It Is to bo feared that Senator Pllnn has entered the Incipient stage of polit ical tremens. It Must Be Probed. It Is announced In a number or news papers close to tho administration that tho president Is being urged by Secre tary Alger to discipline General Miles for making public evidence bearing on the unfitness of the prepared meatH supplied last summer to tho army. The discipline sought Is trial by court mar tial. It Is also said that the enemies of Miles want the president to remove hlnr from the command ot tho army. What truth thero is In theso reports we do not know. If Mllce has broken any military rules ho should not be moro exempt from punishment than any other soldier, for discipline Is fully as essential among generals as among subordinates. But if his offense consists simply in making public Important Information which his opponents were trjlng to conceal, the president will bo likely to pay little heed to their requests. On the face of the case tho man to discipline Is not Nelson A. Miles but the person, whoever he may be, re sponsible for trying to feed the army on unfit beef. Miles has published reports from thirty different olllcers and over eighty civilians which sus tain his RBsnrtlons as to the unsavory character of this meat. These reports represent, wa believe, ovory regiment and almost tivery oompany at Santiago and in Porto Blco, and they conutltuto A "War for tho Extension of Civiliza tion. "The moro closely we subject tho matter to analjsls, the more closely wo perceive that we have been waging a war not of conquest, but of civilization. There are two ways of neutralizing Its normal results and of repudiating its animating principles. One of these is to employ the methoda which we have succeeded in destroying; the other is to drop tho whole enterprise in its etate of Incompletlon and to confess our er ror In having undertaken It. Kqually with the so-called 'imperialists' If any really exist the 'anti-Imperialists' of fend tho principles upon which the United States has thus far acted. That principle has been expressed ns the right and duty ot our government 'in the name of humanity, in the name of civilization' to enforce the end of strife and to secure a rule of Justice. "To abandon In a critical moment tho populations emancipated from thesover elgnty of Spain may seem moro re ppectablo than to exploit them, but neither the one nor the other Is in har mony with tho conception of national duty which Inspired tho prosecution of the war. Thero aie only tlnee possible positions to be taken upon the ques tion of our proper relation to the lato colonies of Spain: (1) That Spain had a right to exploit them, and, since wo have defeated her, that we have succeeded to that right; (2) that Spain was wrong la the treatment of her col onies, but that we had no right to Inter fere; and, (3) that Spain was wrong to an extent that justified our Interfer ence and our substitution of u better order. Those who accept tho last pos ition must admit that our duty has not been fully performed until we have substituted a better order than wo found In truth, the best order that wo are able to Hccuro. "Having invoked 'humanity' and 'civilization' as tho watch words of tho war, they now clearly prescribe our task In Imposing peace. Tho current course of events has beerr described by Its enemies as 'Imperialism,' and by Its friends as 'expansion;' but neither of thee terms quKo accurately meets the case. Tho purpose of our govern ment has not been the subjection of foreign peoplo for tho sake of empire, nor the enlargement ot our territorial limits for tho saka of expansion. Both of these words Imperfectly express the ultuatlon, and, thus far at least, are not true to history. A more fitting phraso to designate the alms and achievements of the nation is, perhaps, "the extension of civilization; for it expresses tho mo tive and controlling principle of tho war nnd of tho treaty by which, when ratified, it is to be concluded." Assls- duced much mischief, have already In jured the United States In tho eyes ot tho world, and if successful In prevent ing ratification next Monday would do nn nmount of Inrm to our standing ns a nation, to our relations with other pow ers, to the people of tho 1'hlllpplno Isl amic, and to our vast flourishing business Interests, which It. would be hard to cs tlniato or measure o Tho sennte of tho United Stales la tho most powerful single chamber In uny representative government In tho world. Us adjustment Is tho only thing In the constitution which cannot bo changed ex cept with the assont of every state. Amendments may come and go, but they cunuot change the representation of tho states In tho noimte. Nothing but a com plote revolution can touch that greet pro vision. Tho combination of legislative and cxccutlvo pswers carries tho author ity of tho sonato into every branch ot the government, and by tho mistakes nnd shortsightedness of the house of repre sentatives the legislative powers of the senate have Increased and multiplied. Foremost among tho great powers con ferred upon the senato Is that which associates it with tho executive In the making of treaties. With tho memory ot days when the influence of Trench minis ters was felt strongly, and, perhaps, cor ruptly, In tho continental congress fresh In their minds, tho framrrs of tho con stitution mndo a two-thirds ote of tho senato necessary to tho ratification of a treaty. Uppermost la the thoughts of men whose politics had been part of those of Kuropo was the deslro to guard as strenuously as possible against tho peril of entangling alliances and dishonoring agreements brought about by foreign In fluence and foreign corruption To us such reasoning seems Impossible. In 1787 It was real and valid But In this effort to protect tho United States from foreign Intrigue tho framcrs of tho constitution Involved thempolvts In a strango con tradiction. They gavo to a majority of congress the power to declnro war, and they enabled one-third of tho senate to prevent ptaco and continue a war onco entered upon. It probibly nover oc curred to tho fi amors of tho constitution that one-third of any senate could evci be found to refuse to ratify a treaty of peace In opposition to tho wishes of the country, of tho president, nnd of the ma jority of both houses. Such a proposition would have been deemed by them too monstrous and too fantastic, to bo con sidered as a scilous objection to tho pur- which the general has met all efforts I l'osea they were seeking to carry out. at bluff on part of the mmMIES'Sl'IS?! an abuse of the treaty-making power of tho senate could ever bo attempted; et tho wisest of men cannot foreseo every possibility of human nature, and It is that very abuse of 'he treaty-making power of tho senato which menaces tho country today. o Tho president, in fulfillment of tho pow ers with which tho constitution clothes him, has concluded a peaco with Spain, hopelessly beaten by the United States in war. We have wrung no Indemnity from our defeated foe, but havo compelled her to cedo nnd relinquish to us her colonial possessions, over which she tyrannized, nnd which wo havo conquered and tiken. By tho treatj, and by tho treaty alone, can wo tako finally from Spain tho peo plo whom we havo freed. By the treaty, and tho treaty alone, can wo end tho stato of war and re-establish peace. The treaty binds us to r.o policy in the future, but leaves the destiny of the islands for us alono to determine. But If tho treaty binds us to nothing, our own honor and our international obligations bind us In tho strongest way to give peaco and or der to the islands whero wo havo thrown down tho government of Spain, which we aro bound to replace, ana we mo equally bound not to permit anarchy and desolation to spring from victories wo have won By tho treaty, and the treat alone, can wo reach a position In which wo can fulfill theso high duties and meet these solemn obligations. A refusal to ratify tho treaty on Mon day next would mean putting it over to the next senate. Delay was never more dangerous. To refuse ratification now means encouragemont to tho udventurcr Agulnaldo nnd his bands, and blood shed in tho Philippines. That bloodshed will bo due to tho opposition In the sen ato, and the Democratic p-rity, which furnishes most of the negatlvo ote. will sink deeper than over under thit red burden. Iho refusal to ratify mea-is disorders in the Philippines and compli cations with foreign powers. Jealously eager for an excuse for interference It menns tho humiliation of the United States, nnd would Justify civilized man kind in saying that we aro a people un fit to play a part in great affairs, and unworthy of our own high destiny. It means alarm, anxiety, suspense, uncer tainty and the contlnuanco of tho state of war, bringing a check to business, and menacing our prosperity. Tho sonators who 'vote "NO" next Monday will make themselves directly responsible for all theso results, and tho country will hold them to their responsibility and not suf fer them to escape. CO USMIT 'S .J)J ' BAZAAI A GlMBSC if Spriag New Woo! Dress Goods0 New Silk amid Wool Dress Goods New Black aed Colored Crepoos Henri Wattcrson la not at all dis couraged by tho little drawbacks en countered In his effort to boom Ad miral Dewey as the Democratic candi date for president. He pioposes, If Admiral Dewey will not Join tho Dem ocracy, that the Democracy shall join Dew ey. m TOLD BY THE STARS. Dally Hoioscopo Drawn by Ajacchus, Tho Tribune Astrologer. Astrolabe Cast: 4 1G a. m , for Friday, Pcbruary 3, 1SXI. &? A child born on this day will notlco that many persons experience the great est difficulty In preventing tho moss from collecting upon a prcud ancestral name. When the bojs of tho Thirteenth re turn there is no question that all will Join in the chorus indicating that there 11 bo "thermal temperature In tho ancient municipality this evening." It begins to look as though many of the coming men" at Ilarrisburg had engaged passago on the slow freight. Blissful Ignorance is often better thin tho knowledge that prompts one to nt tumpt brush whiskers from tho moving buzz-saw. Tlmo can bo moro piofitably spent in a giavejard vault than in tho society of a man who has lost faith in woman. Ajacchus' Advice Do not waste tlmo setting woodchuck traps during the coming six weeks. To the S?naf? of Ihe United States New Wash Fabrics Exclusive styles in both foreign and domestic produc tions, including Piques, Madras Cloths, Ginghams, Ox fords, Mousseline de Soie, Etc., Etc. (Mr Great HMerwar Sale Has received such amazing acknowledgements of praise and apprecia tion on the part of the ladies o? Scranton and vicinity, and the opening sales have been so enormous, that we feel deeply grateful to our friends for their appreciation of our efforts in this dir-. 'Lion. ALWAYS BUSY. SlllUjllItt, OCR (canJlffnlr! N.". M I I I I 1 X.X ' uuiyjik EOTS! Stand more kicks than any other shoes made. INLEY'S W IF You cannot think, no matter how iniru jou try, oi a more convenient and better equipped stationery store than ours, in addition to the largest line of ofTlco supplies In Northeastern Pennsylvania. We have Blank Books of every description, Typewriters' Sup plies, Draughting Materials, Ietter Presses. Postal Scales, ptc. We are agents for Bdlson's Mimeographs and supplies, nnd the famous Wernlckl Sec tional Book Cases. A complete line of Kauffman's Cor poration Books In stock. Goods Peaco or war. that Is the Issue and the only lssuo Involved In the vote on ho treaty now Ulng on your table. Tho country demands Its ratification. WE 1IAVB A NUMI1EH OF riNII III Aire that we will close out At Cost This is a chance to get a rrom tho New York Sun. A treaty of peace with Spain lies upoi jour table. On Monday, Bob. t, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, jou will vote upon It. The war which this treaty brings to an end was one of unbroken victory, and tho treaty accords with tho war. On this statement alono It would seem that the ratification of such a treaty could bo nothing moro than a form, and that not u blngle vote could posblbly bo given agaliibt It by any senator. Such, how ever, marvellous as It may appear, Is not tho catec. There Is opposition to this treaty, an opposition violent, passionate, extremely cal, and, sad to say, with votes behind tho voices. Treaties of peace In the past have often called out op position, discontent and criticism on tho winning side, but ulwujs upon tho ground that they havo not been commensurate with tho deserts of the victor. This treaty ha3 the unique distinction of meet ing with opposition among tho represen tatives of the victor nation because it is too triumphant and has taken too much from tho vanquished. No objection is made, or can bo made, to the instrument Itself Tho treaty is drawn with the ut most skill; it grants every American de mand and commits the United States to nothing. It Is as creditable to American diplomacy as tho battles by sea and land wero to the Eallors and soldiers of tho United States It is assailed cololy on the ground that it Is too toiccessful and matches too completely the work of tho American army and navy. o . Tho position of the oppoi ents ot tho (rood lamp for little money. frtntv nml thn diitrlhoq with whlrh Ihnv I o F J sustain It aro difficult to comprehend. In genuity has been strained to show that tho constitution limits tho ordinary pow ers which pertain to evory sovereign and Independent nation, and to invent overy kind of possible and Impossible sit uation ns a barrier to constitutional ac tion. Tho declaration of independence has been pressed Into tho servtco and made to do duty ns a statement of or ganic law to bo construed like a statute, In a manner which would niako tho au thor and signers of that greatest of rev olutionary manifestoes start with amaze ment ami surprise And all this heated Invocation of the declaration and tho constitution Is betldo tho mark and with out any relation to the question In band. At the best it Is academic, and at tho vvorbt It is Insulting to the American peo plo for It implies that they are not to bo truUcd to live up to tho principles thoy havo themselv et- enunciated and to In terpret arlfcht the constitution which they revcrenco and for which In past tlmo they have given their lives and spent their treasure Onco off tho ground ot the constitution nnd tho declaration of in dependence, the opponents of tho treaty depart entirely from tho practical ques tion and plunge Into a future which they cannot rcadand fill that futuie with chim eras dire and with tho vain things of overheated Imaginations, AH they fay can be summed up'ln one short sentence, that tho American peoplo ie not to be trusted with the fate of th Philippine, and aro too feeble, too dishonest, too biutal to undertuko the tnsk. Lewis, lellly & Mvies, 114 AND US WYOMING AVENUE. ma mm k cwMEix ca Heating, Plumbing, Gas Fitting, Electric Light Wiring, Gas and Electric Fixtures, Builders Hardware. 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Zephyr cloths, Wfelle aifll C3oreol Pigmies, Etc, With Laces and Em broideries for trimmings. 510 and 512 LACKAWANNA AVENUE OTSTra Ei FORSYTH, 325 and 327 PENN AVENUE: The boss of the repair department in a Massachusetts watch factory says : " I used to be a good deal of an ath lete and was in the habit of taking lots of out of door exercise, but since I've been shut up in this shop I began to have terrible bilious headaches. I stiH did enjoy an occasional bout at boxing, but after a few lively rounds a tendency to get as bick as can be seemed to take posses sion of me. The exercise appeared to stir up the bile an the next day I would have a ciacking good headache, M druggist recommended me to try Ripans Tabules as .. possible cure. He said they seemed to be the latest cure all for stomach troubles. Well, he just hit it. I have not used more than 25 cents' worth, but I exercise now as much as I please and don't know what a bilious headache means any more." HENRY BEL1N, JR., General Agent for the Wjamloj District fJ." wroiri POliERo id. rtrt MdK eaaUlatur iu wrik tisclu la a pa;r c.rtu (without irlkm) Ii now (or ula it tarns 4raffiim- 11A rim cnt 1 hi low prliul wrt Ultnidt fer il p"m l lh roonnmlmJ oixilotui of tt. ft nr.t f.yiimnfi iak.iL-Mt mn hrt hmd b, ULAll br UDdtMT fftv-tht oeuu to the linimsuMiiL w'runr)l.aractkra4,Jtw Yrt- daili CMUmtnui rucuuJwUlUeuJIorftra lllulnc. bunting, Bporllnx, SuioltelMl unit tbo KcpiuiiiQ CbeiuloA. Company' HIGH EXPLOSIVES. bufety rutc Cnp nnd Ktplojtri. tloom 401 Coauell Ualldluj. Bcrantoa. AaENGlttl mos routs JOUN II. SMITH &dO:t W.K. MULLIGAN, Ptttiti Plymouth VUtet-Barr I y
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