THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1899.
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SCIIANTON, FliBIlUAIty 13, 1893.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
Mnyor-JAMUS MOllt.
Treasurer-TllOMAS 11. HROOIvS.
Controller-V. J. W1DMAYEH.
Bchool Dlrectots JOHN COUUIkH
Monnis, ononan n. smiiiES.
AsvMors-lNVItAM JONHS, I'lllUP
IUNSLAND. C. S roWLKR.
Election Day-February 21.
Itcccnt events havo again EtiBRfStcd
tho iiec.l of a paid lire department in
Hcranton. Tho conflagration of Satur
day morning fully demonstrated that
material for a tlrst-flnns paid fire de
partment can be obtained right here In
J-'etnnton and It is a disgrace to the
flty that lli'W bravo men arc allowed
to rNk their live without remunera
tion In the work of protecting property.
For City Controller.
Under the law the powers of tho city
controller are nlmost absolute within
the ppheic of hla duties. lie Is the
witch dog of the city treasuty; not a
dollar of cltv funds can be paid out ex
cept upon his Indorsement. "While It
lm not hitherto been the custom of
rontiolleis In this city to go far behind
tho face of Hi" bills and vouchors sub
mitted fur their examination, yet if the
couti oiler should suopect crookednes
or extravagance in u given direction his
authority would be ample to bring out
Iho facts and protect the city ngalnst
loss. The value of tho olllce to tho
community depends entirely upon tho
c haracter, ability and experience ot the
man In it.
The Uepubllcun party offers for this
position in the person of Fred J. Wiil-
maycr a highly respected business man
Mho. in addition to his personal quail
tlcatlons, Ii'cludii'B shrewd good judg
ment, untpjchttoned integrity and firm
ness ot character, has the marked ad
vantage of practical familiarity with
tho requirements of the office. Ills
three years' iormer term of service aa
controller was in tho nature of special
prepaiation. IJmlng that period tho
administration of the municipal gov
ernment was on a higher plane than It
has been since, and tho need of lgll
unce In the controller's olllce was not
ro marked, yet there was not a mo
ment that air. Wldmayer did not keep
his eyes open. lie made sure of every
item of expenditure that ho approved
and no kind of outside irfluence could
swerve him a hair's breadth.
The condition of the city government
at this time will make extraordinary
demand upon the next controller. If
the abuses under which tho city stag
gers are to bo corrected and virtual
bankruptcy averted, there must be at
the safety valve during tho next three
years a man of clear mind, ripe experi
ence and Inflexible back bone. Such a
man is Fred J. Wldmayer.
A bill to put a rtale tax on beer
has appealed at Harrlsburg. It will
doubtless disappear With equal sud
denness. Unanswerable.
Says Whitalaw Held, discussing the
work of tho Paris peaco commission
"Tho only complaint one hears about
it is that we did our duty too well
that in fact wo mado peace on terms
too favorable to our own country. In
all tho pending discussion there teem'"
to bo no other complaint, on no other
point Is the ttcaty h.iid by any one to
be seilousrly dofectle." This com
plaint may Influence a few nervous fellow-citizens
but it is not calculated to
make a deep Impression upon tho com
mon bouse of the country. Mr. Hold's
defence of the commission's woik, glv
n In Ills speech bofoio the Iotos club
of New York on Satin day evening, was
not neccfcsary but it Is interesting. For
example:
"It loyally carried out tho attitude
ot congress as to Cuba. It enforced the
enunciation of Spanish sovereignty
tlieie, but. In spite of the most earnest
Spanish efforts,, it refused to accept
Amciiean sovereignty. It loaded neith
er out selves nor the Cubans with tho
bo-called Cuban debts, Incurred by
Spain In the r fforts to subdue them. It
Involved us In no computations, either
In the West Indies or in tho east, as to
contracts or claims or religious estab
lishments. It dealt liberally with a
fallen foe, giving him a generous lump
Hum that more than covered any legiti
mate debts or expenditures for pacific
lmpnncmontE; assuming the burden
of just claims against him by our own
peoplo; cairylng back the nrmlcs sur
lendered on the other side of tho world
U our own cost; returning their arms;
even restoring them their artillery, in
cluding heavy ordjiance in field fortifi
cations, munitions of war and the very
cattle that dragged their caissons. It
necured alike for Cubans and Flllplnoa
tho release of political prisoners. It
scrupulously reserved for congress the
power of determining the political Ftat
us of the Inhabitants of our new pos
sessions. It declared on behalf of tho
most protectionist country in tho world
for the policy of the open door within
tho Asiatic sphere of Its Influence.
"With all this tho senate and tho
country seemed content. Hut the treaty
tefused to return to Spanish rule one
foot of territory over which that rule
had been broken by the triumphs or
our arms. Were wo to be reproached
for thnt? Should tho senato have told
us, 'ou oveidld this business: you
looked after the Interests of vour own
country too thoroughly. You ought to
havo abandoned the great archipelago
which the fortunes of war had placed
at your country's disposal. You aro
not exactly unfaithful servants; you
are too blindly, unswervingly faithful.
You haven't seized an opportunity to
run away from soma distant results of
the war Into which congress plunged
the country before dreaming how far
It might spread, You haven't dodged
for us the responsibilities we Incurrpd'
After breaking the only organized gov
ernment In the Philippine archipelago,
tho only security for life and property,
native nnd foreign, In great commercial
centres like Manila, Hollo and Ccbu,
against honks of uncivilized pagans
and Mohomotan Malays, should wc i
then sotittlo out und leave them to
their fato? A band of old-tlmo Norse
pirates, used to swooping down on a
capital, capturing Its rulers, seizing Its
treasuie, burning the town, abandon
ing the people to domestic disorder and
foreign spoliation, nnd promptly call
ing off for another piratical foray; a
band of pirates, tired to that sort of
thing, might, no doubt, havo left Ma
nila to bo sacked by tho Insurgents,
and might have fled from the Philip
pines. Wo did not think a self-respecting,
civilized, responsible Christian
power could."
Put In this light, tho case for tho
commission is unanswerable.
Failure to provide a place in tho line
ot tho Garcia funeral cortege for tho
Cubnn guard of honor and tho escort
of Cuban troops has caused an es
tranged feeling to prevail in Havana
between the Americans and the na
tives. Many of the best Cubans have
taken scilous umbrage at this affront
and It is difficult to blame them. Gen
eral Garcia was the greatest Cuban of
his time; his funeral was peculiarly
u Cuban ceremony and General Brooke
had no moral right to monopolize tha
occasion for a spectncular display of
American military force. One or two
more mistakes of this kind will destroy
his usefulness in Cuba and necessitate
the selection In his stead of a man of
tact nnd talent, like General Wilson
or General Wood.
A Battle Royal.
Persons familiar with auch matters
say the court of Inquiry called to in
estlgate tho embalmed beet scandal
will be in session for several months.
So much tho better if thnt time shall
bo required to get to the bottom of this
case. Thoroughness Is far preferable
to haste. The country demand and
tho professional honor of tho eminent
soldleis constituting this respected tri
bunal requires the development of all
the facts.
The civilian commission of inquiry
which has just concluded its labors had
no standing In military circles because
it was not provided for by law and did
not have power to enforce its alleged
Jurisdiction. But the court of Inquiry
created by the president on Feb. 3 Is
a body which every soldier is bound to
respect. It is regular and lawful and
it has plenary powers. There Is no
secret of camp or battle lint which It
cannot probe and conquer if It will. In
the line of military duty its present
assignment is of the utmost Import
ance, since upon Its Investigations, de
liberations and conclusions tho whole
future of the American army depends.
Let us bear in mind the nature of the
case.
It Is affirmed by the conoral In com
mand of the army that among the foods
supplied to the soldiers of the nation
duiing the war with Spain were meats
In large quantity utterly unfit for
human ue. lie affirms that some of
these meat.i weie doctored with chem
icals until they were poisonous as an
army latlon, while others were stile
Mires from which prartlcally all tho
nutilment hnd been extracted, in this
nfllrmatlon ho is coiroborated by a host
of witnesses who saw and tried to eat
the meat. Denial is made by conti act
ors, politicians and pu.'onul enemies,
and tho crv Is raised that no matter
what kind of meat was palmed off ou
our suffering troops, nothing should bo
said about it lest our export trade be
Injured.
There has been a lot of silly mud
throwing ut General Miles tending to
discredit him as u witness in those
premlHos and to convict him of un
worthy motives iu bunging these
charges to the knowledge of the pub
lic, but the people haw not peimltted
it to obscure in tholt minds the Im
portance of ascertaining, first of all,
whether what Miles sas Is or Is not
true. If it is not true, his finish Is not
n matter of uncertainty. IIo will bo
kicked out of tho unlfoim so quickly
that ho will not know what stiuck him.
But It It ls true; if thcio is even ap
proximate truth in It, then not Miles,
but the contractors who gold this stuff
to the government nnd the politicians
or war department officials who bought
It on the government's behalf w 111 havo
to toe the chalk mark and explain
It Is not supposablc of any honest
man holding an office In gift from the
peoplo that In his mind the welfare of
the export trade is held to be of greater
alue than the welfare of the men
fighting In tropic lands the battles of
their country. This being true, the
court of inquiry will consider the situ
ation of the soldier first nnd leave the
export trade to sustain itself on Its
own merits.
The prospective new librarian of
congress. Representative Samuel ,T.
Barrows, of Massachusetts, when
young, was a messenger boy, a tele
grapher, a stenogiapher and a re
pot ter. Later ho was a theological
student and war correspondent, and
subsequently he occupied a Boston
pulpit and the editorial chair of a
denominational paper, being success
ful in each calling, finally landing in
congress. Such a career is a pretty
good recommendation.
The Democratic senators who have
banded together to fight the army re
organization bill are welcome to all the
glory they can get out of such a
course. Public sentiment demands
that tho president who conducted bo
successfully the amazingly triumphant
war with Spain shall have put In his
hands tho means to discharge its rec
ognized and ratlfiodresponslbllltlesand
tho party or tho public servant who
would rob him ot his power simply
compotes a dishonorable obituary.
It is good but not unexpected news
that the government has decided to
modify the regulations governing the
admission of travelers' personal effects
through tho New York custom house.
Thoso regulations in their original form
could not stand in any country hav
ing freo government nnd a self
tespectlng citizenship.
Has hysteria usurped tho place of
reason In the editorial sanctum of tho
Chicago Times-Herald? That Journal's
shrieking appeal to the- government at
Washington to buy oft tho Malay trait-
or, Agulnnldo, with an ofllce would bo
ludicrous if coming from a leas Im-
portnnt source, Tho only office this in
state, Incendiary nnd sneak is lit for
Is tho custodianship of a coilln.
The oldest Inhabitant is convinced
that there must have been something
wrong with tho thermometers during
tho past few dayo.
The army "embalmed beef" is prob
ably like butter coloring material,
harmless if taken In smalt doses.
As.botween Agulnaldo and Jack Frost
the Americans at Manila are probably
to be congratulated.
Gomez has reached Havana. Now let
tho spheres move oil
TOLD BY THE BTAR3.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune Astrologer.
Astrolabo Cast: 4.03 a. m., for Monday,
Febiuaiy 13, ISM.
& &
A child born on this day w ill notice that
the ex-ofllco holder who novcr expects
re-election makes the most active and
sincere reformer;
Persons not too lazy to take exercise,
will notlco a chango for the better In tho
temperature.
Tho present definition for mercy seems
to apply to tho guilty only. It Is soldom
that mercy Is accorded tho Innocent.
Tho man who cuts no Ice those days is
not taking advantage of his surroundings.
Definitions
Price Something that depends entirely
upon tho depth of a man's conscience.
Luck That which baffled many a man
In the catch-as-catch-can struggle with
fortune.
Hope That which prompts man to fig
ure a bad account in his colmun of as
sets. The Reclaiming
of Arid Land
Spcii.il CoiicsptiiHlenco of Tho Tribune.
Woshlngton, I'cb. 12. A now nnd dls
tllitt policy la being stiongly advoiated.
for giving to tho arid states and tturlto
rles which have no harbors of great nav
igable rivers, their proportion of the ex
penditures under the rler nnd harLor
bill. Tho senate commltteo on commerce
bus Just hcai d arguments In lavor of
tho construction of a comprehensive sys
tem of storage reservoirs In tho urld
west as a part of tho established na
tional policy of Internal Improvements,
us urged by the national lrugatlon con
gress and recommended In a report of
Colonel II. M. Chittenden, of tho engi
neer corps on reservoirs in Colorudo and
Wyoming.
o
Senator Carter, of Mont mi, addressed
the committee in behalf of his proposed
amendment appropilatlng $5,000,lQ for tho
construction of a, sjstem of reservoirs in
ull the a! Id states and territories, this
being the proportion of the entlio rior
and harbor appropriation which tho Chit
tenden leport suggests should be devoted
tn this purpose. The senator uiged that
such a policy would store at the head
waters of the Missouri and Its tributar
ies in great natuial rcsmolr sites, tho
ry waters which now go down to do
destruction on tho llsers far below. Then
the reserve could be Utawn from tlieso
lesenolis, when needed in tho dry season
for irrigation nnd navigation ard bo be
rlUcs preventing trtmenUoua dam lge from
erosion and overflow, would rnlse Ilia
.atir for navigation, find irrlgntc and re
rlilm vjyt uie.is of I. rtilo lands, now
liv and wortlib ,s, but which, unlet Irri
gate n, would sii port i rtene ard prou
povjiis population. "Suth a policy," ho
-.lid, "would lastly brut-fit .ill btctloiu
of tho country. A new market would bo
ciotted for ta nTn manufacturers in
theso western tornmunltlfs, while tho
agricultural pioduetlons of the western
"Kinds would not come Into competition
with those of the east but would be ab
soi bed by tho wipidly growing tlemands
of the Aslntlc trade for western farn.
products A new empire in the west
would be created by riving to the country
the wealth that would como from the
bcnellclnl U-e of thcp witors, which now
go to waste in tho tlcn.i seasons and causa
only damage and destruction.'
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Crnutor Warn n of Wyoming, through
whosr elTirls tin- Chittenden report was
made, iireued In favor of tho project,
stitlng tint ho had submitted an amend
ment to the river nnd harbor bill provid
ing rprelfleallv for the construction of
rtervoit in Wyoming und Colorado, but
that ho earnestly advocated the adop
tion of the broid policy of the construc
tion of ix romiuchenslve svstem of res
ervolis In all the aild states und terri
tories, believing that It would bo a sound
national policy and it suit In enormous
national be.ietlts. "Such a system,"
Senator Warren sild "would not only
thickly settle great nreas of the west
when now are nothing but stock ranges
or deseits. but It would do vastly moro.
The girat west Is now adding untold mill
ions fiom her mines to tho nation's
wealth rath J tar, but there are great
mineral drpoiiits which as jet havo not
been profitably worked incident to the
lack of transportation facilities and tho
hlfch cost of living In many of tho min
ing regions. Create densn agricultural
population in these mining states," ho
said, "by making tho waters available
for Irrigation, una you wouia cheapen
food and compel transportation facilities,
with tho result that there would bo an
enoimous increaso In tho output of tha
mines, which would bo exchanged for
supplies of manufactured articles from
eastern factories."
Georgo II. Maxwell, of California, rep
resenting tho national Irrigation con
gress, wns also heard In advocacy of tho
policy. IIo urged that the broad ques
tion was whether the gteat region known
ns Arid America, which would, If re
claimed, sustain a greater population
than thero Is now in tho whole Unltea
States, should remain n desert forever, or
should bo transformed into prosperous
communities by conserving tho flood wa
ters for beneficial use. Mr. Maxwell
showed that the experience of irrigated
countries has been that whero the waters
wero taken out of tho streams and car
ried through a system of irrigating
canals the soil after a period of years
becomes permanently saturated with wa
ter, and thereafter a very large proportion
of tho water so used finds its way
back into tho natuni stream chan
nels. Tho result of this condition
would bo that the enormous quan
tities of water stored In winter under
tho proposed policy would flow back Into
tho streams after being used for Irriga
tion and raise tho water for navigation
at tho tlmo most needed for that purpose.
In other words, this storage of water
would, tn addition to furnishing irriga
tion, act as a river regulator, prevent
ing Hoods in winter and low water in
summer.
o
Tho great flood of 1BS1 on tho Missouri,
could havo been controlled, Mr. Max
well stated, as shown by the government
reports, by a storage reservoir capacity
of C8 squaro miles In area and 31 feet
deep. Tho Chittenden reservoirs provldo
for 47 squaro miles, 31 feet deep at a coat
of J2 500,000. Storage water In Colorado
In the headwaters of tho Arkansas river
would restore to IarsaB the waters di
verted by Colorado appropriations, over
which Intcr-stato litigation Is threaten
Ins?, and storage on tho Flatto river would
prevent tho Nebraska Irtlgators on thnt
Btream from losing their supply from di
versions n Colorado and Wyoming. Mr.
Maxwell urged flnnllv that this policy
went to tho root of a gieat evil and re
moved tho cause of floods, whllo It saved
the wat&rs, first for Irrigation nnd then
for navigation.
AMERICAN RAILROAD RATES
From the Now York Sun.
Not quite, but very nearly one-half of
tho railroad mileage of tho world is in
North Amcilca. If to tho railroad mlle
ngo of North America bo added that of
Brazil and Argentina In South America,
18,000 miles collectively, tho total will
exceed tho mileage of nil tho rest ot tho
world Buropo, Asia, Africa, Australia
and tho other South American countries
included. Moreover, railroad building Is
being catrled on much moro rapidly In
tho United States than eUowhcre, But it
is not only in respect "of the extension
of their rallrtad system that tho United
States tako precedenco, for somo recent
computations show that tho United
States furnish to travelers and shippers
tho best servlco at tho lowest cost.
o
In many states of tho country thero aro
laws fixing tho maximum chargo for pass
engers at 3 cents a mflo, whllo In somo
European countries, notably Franco, tho
nvcrago rato charged Is In excess of that
figure. Tho minimum of somo Kuropean
countries is higher than tho maximum
allowed In tho United States. According
to tho computations referred to, tho av
orago rate charged for passenger servlco
In the? United States is 2.15 cents a mile,
and tho fact Is that In many eastern
states whero railroad system havo been
long established a rate of 1 cents a,
mile Is tho general rule. It is southern
and far western railroads chiefly which
keep up the average rate. In Missouri,
for instance, 4 cents a mile is a lawful
charge, and in Arkansas tho maximum
is 5 cents. Some Colorado railroads
chargo 6 or 7 cents a mile, and 4 and 5
cents a mllo on local tmrTtc In tho south Is
not unusual, but, taking tho country
through, tho average rato, as stated, is
2.15 cents. In England, where tho me
chanical obstacles in railroading aro
comparatively few, tho avcrago rato Is
2.20 cents a mllo; In Belgium, a country
in which thero aro practically no mechan
ical obstacles, tho rate Is 2.25. In Ger
many it 1b 3.01 cents, In Austria-Hungary
it is 0.0", In France it Is 3.3G and In
Spain It Is 4.C0.
ci
In no other country in tho world aro the
facilities for passengers so many as In
tho United States, and the increaso of
theso facilities and conveniences Is con
stant. On many western roads seats in
chair cars, corresponding with parlor cars
on eastern lines, are furnished gratuit
ously. Tho sleeping car service Is moro
general and better In the United States
than in any other country, nnd light and
heat, two essentials of up-to-dato rail
road travel, nro better furnished hero
than in any other country.
Tho freight charges, too, estimated on
tho basl3 of carrying a ton of freight a.
mile, nro lower hero than In other coun
tries. In England tho average rate Is 2
cents. In Belgium It is 1.C0, In France
1.5G and In Germany 1.35 cents. In tho
United States It Is 0 97 cent, or less thnn
1 cent a mllo per ton of freight moved,
taking the wholo country through. If tho
average ot American freight rates was
as high as it is in Germany tho peoplo of
this country would hnvo paid tho rail
ways last year about $3:0 000,000 moro than
they did. If the rates had been as high
as they are In England the people of this
country would have paid tho railways
about Jl-,0,000 000 more than they did. An
Illustration of tho excellence of the ser
vice on American railroads Is furnished
by tho fact that although thp collections
from freight nro larger in Europe than
they aro In tho United States and tho
number of passengers carried is material
ly greater than In this country, tho ex
pense of maintenance of American rail
roads Is J100 0iX,000 moro In a year thin
for thno operated In Europe. And tlv
American railroad svstem Is Improving
all tho time, the freight and passenger
rates aro being reduced and the charac
ter of the service given luxurious pass
enger travel and quick freight Is bettor
every year.
RESPONSIBILITY.
From Whltolaw Beld's Speech at tho
Lotos Club Dinner.
I was not one of thoso who wero eager
to begin this war with Spain; but I pro
ttst against uny attempt to ev.ido our
Just responsibility In the position In which
It has left us. Wo shall havo trouble In
tho Philippines. So we shall have troublo
In Cuba nnd In Porto Rfco. If wo dawdle,
and hesitate, and lead them to think wo
fear them nnd fear trouble, our troublo
will be great. If on the otner hand wo
grasp this nettlo ddnser, If wo net
promptly, with Inexorable vigor, and with
Justice, it may bo slight. But the graver
the crisis tho platne- our duty. God give
us courago to purify our politics and
strengthen our gov-rnmont to meet thc3e
new and grave duties.
THE REMEDY.
"I am In favor of giving tho Filipino?
indt perderce," said ono debater.
"So nrn I," answered tho other. "And
I'm satisfied that tho United States con
trols tho only tellable brand, and that if
wo can get them to hold still and try It
they will like It." Washington Star.
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EXTRAORDINARY.
illss Fltraee E. TMtle,
The Expert
Demonstrator of
Will fill a special one week's
eugagemeut at our store com
mencing MONDAY, February 23th,
and ending February iStli.
Miss Tuttle will be glad to
explain the merits of this
Celebrated Corset and give
fittings, thus illustrating its
superiority over others.
Engagements can be made
with Miss Tuttle by mail or
telegraph.
We desire to be distinctly
understood that ladies will
not be expected to purchase
a Corset after a fitting is
made nuless they so desire.
aIer Majesty's Corset''
Is Not the Cheapest
But the Best.
"Her Majesty's Corset''
in Fit, Wear and Comfort is
unsurpassed.
It is worn by well dressed
women.
Endorsed by physicians
and modistes,
P. B; FINLEY,
Scranton, Pa,
HENRY BEL1N, JR.,
CcnenU Ageut far tha Wyouilut
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Mining, l!laninK,Sportliis, Hmokalail
taut Ilia ltcpuuno Cuomlci!
C'ouipiiiiy'H
HIGH EXPLOSIVES.
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JOHN II. SMITH i40N
W.K MULLIGAN,
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Plymouth
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"Her
Majesty's
. Cirset"
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