TrFi. I'. THE SCRANTON TRIBUiN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2G, 189D. VW ffy pfw Published Dnlly. Kxcpt Sunday, by Tho Tribune Publishing Company, at Fifty Cents a Month. New York Oftlcoi ISO Nnssnu St.. H. S. VHEEI.AND, Solo Agent for foreign Advertising. Entered ot tho Postofflcn nt Scranton. Pa., ns Second-Class Mall Matter. When space will permit, Tho Tribune 1s always slad to print short letters from Us friends bearing on current topics but Its rule Is that lliesp must be signed, for publication, by tho writer's real name. TEN PAGES. SCHA.VTON, OCTOHEIl 26, 1899. BEPTJBLICAN NOMINATIONS. State. Justice of tho Supremo Court J. HAY HUOWN, of Lancaster. Judtfo (if the Superior Court JOHN I. MlTCflKM., of Tlosn. Btalo Treasurer- LIEUTENANT COL ONIC, JAMES K. BAKNETT, of Washington. County. Comml'.sloners-JOHN COIJRinn MOR niS. of Scr.inton; JOHN PENMAN, of OI plirmt. Auditors- WII.I.IAM K. JOHNS and ASA K. K1EKEH, both of Scramon. Election clny, Nov. 7. Tho Joy of people who nro inclined tr crow over tho victories of tho Boer will he short-Uvcd. With evorytlilns In their fnvnr In vesnrd to position, and vlthn force nf troops outnumber In the nrttlh throe to one, It would Indeed he a surmise If the Dutchmen did not make n trnml ;hrivIiiK In th" way of resistance Thlni;s may be dif ferent n. few week hence. Questions for Creasy. -jr hilt: a portion ot the Tlnmnnrjitlr! nress In Pennsyl 'an a Is irsort- Ing to niallc'mis libel In its attacks upon the Republican nom inee for slate treasurer, endeavoring to spatter mud upon his record as a soldier, for ,utnf3 ' t confnii'. It It Interesting to observe how the Repub lican paity Is treating his Democratic opponent, Mr. Creasy. This gentle man occupied two positions of great Importance In the last legislature. Jtle was the ranking Democratic memborof the appropriations committee and he held tho same rank on the ways nnd means committee. These two commit tees largely determine how the rev enues of the state shall be raised and how they shall be expended: aid Mr. Crensy's actions as a member ot these two committees are proper sub jects for public Inquiry and discission. Mr. Creasy Is not attacked by any Republican In his private character; a monopoly of that form oi! argument Is freely conceded to his Democratic supporters. But he Is asked by a lead ing Republican Congressman Olm sted of Harrlsburg to expla n some dubious features of his legislative career. We reproduce In another col umn Mr. Olmsted's letter covering these points and bespeak for It the most attentive consideration of our readers. The letter Is a proper and piivlleged communication of deep interest to every tax-payer of Penn sylvania and unless Mr. Cieasv can squarely satisfy Its Interrogatlilts h must stand before the people as thor oughly discredited In his lole of poli tical icformer. Viewing the prepartlons made for the war with the Hocrs It looks as though Great Hiltaln was also making ar rangements to attend to any side Issue that may r,me to the surface during the difficulty Where Common Sense Fled. -TpHD NATIONAL convention of the Women's Christian Tem- JL perance Union did not place Itself In a favorable light when It adopted resolutions denouncing the war in the Philippines. Mere de nunciation amounts to little at any time unless there Is substantial argu ment and leason back of it: but wnen It Is put forth in sheer Impure in a manner to embarrass the government of our country while the soldiers of our country aie In front of an enemy's guns, the diffeience between It and treason, the blackest of crimes, is more In Intent than In effect. The Women's Christian Temperance Union htm done a great deal of good In this country, for which It will al ways be held In grateful remembrance; but It would vastly Increase Its useful ness and the respect in which it is held If It would not try to go beyond Its proper sphere of activities (namely, thj promotion of tempeiance) In order tb mix Into politics In various directions often without understanding of the issues Involved and ofttner still In an Impulsiveness which betrays It Into Illogical conclusions. There nre few agitators who are not likely at some time or other to fly away on a tangent from common sense, and wo have ob served that this tendency Is very marked In the case of the worthy wo men who Imaclnc that they have re ceived a' special command to turn things upside down In the Interest of political regeneration. Their Intentions nro Irreproachable but their equipment for meeting practically the rough con ditions of pvery duy political strife is absurdly Inadequate. In the present lnstunce wo confident ly assert that there is not a woman among tho delegates at the Seattle convention or anywhere else, who can offer a single substantial reason , for denouncing the war In tho Philippines That war, like all wars, Is to bo de plored and the conditions precedent, as well as the sufferings Incident, to it may properly he lamented. Hut to de nounco n war which has for Its chief purpose the protection of the wealth, the enterprise and tho intelligence of the Island of Luzon against the chaos threatened In Agulnaldo's bandit up rising; nnd which, In its highest sig nificance Is, as much as was any struggle ever fought,- a war for hu manity, for tho salvation of the higher against the menaces of tho lower order of civilization, Is to exhibit either nn IndlfTeionce to facts or an Inability to weigh evidence and motives which In either case .unfits the national con vention of Ihe Woman's Christian Tern- X w w pcrance Union for tho tonic of censor ing the government. . Scrnnton l dlstlnptulshed for a num ber of rensoiiB beslde tho production of coal and conventions. From pres ent Indications It rather nppears that In her list of star performers will be sovcml of tho beBt golfers In the coun try, til thet yenrn of tho past this city has scarcely hud time to devote much attention to anything but the most se rious mntters of life. While Rolf, to n cup winner, may be about the most serious thing In the world, It Is scarce ly regarded with u much gravity by the unlnltluted spectator who watches the efforts made to get a very small ball Into a tomato can. However, If Scranton awakens to tho fact that young men reared In Its confines nro arousing the admiration of not only tho stnnrt set In the chief cities of tho east, but also tho honest respect of people generally who enjoy athletics and appropriate proficiency In health till outdoor sports, n due recognition of the abilities put to a test this week at tho Country club links will bo nc corded our players, who do other things besides play golf. Desperate Tactics. H AVINO WAITED until the election was only a few days distant, the Philadel phia Record now proclnlms that Lieutenant Colonel Bnrnett was a coward while serving with the Tenth regiment in tho Philippines. It con temptuously calls him a "cold foot," nnd accuses him of having lingered behind In the shelter of a rice dyko when the men In his command took their places on tho firing line. It brings these charges upon the anony mous authority of privates in the regiment, neither revealing their num ber nor their Identity. ; The peculinr thing about this accu sation, apart from Us malignity, Is that it was withheld until Colonel Harnett was a candidate for political otllce so near to election as to render impossible a military investigation In time to dispose of It ere the vote Is cast. The average man, viewing tho matter without prejudice, immediately asks himself why it was, If Hainett was a coward, that his fellow ofllcers did not. at the time, call him to ac count, as It wus their duty to do. and thus rcninvo a gross icflecllon upon tho honor of the regiment. The rec ords of the Tenth regiment are not cited to show that there was at any time any official question raised as to Harnett's conduct as a soldier. It was not until he had become a candidate for political office that this, charge was brought and then it was put for ward simply in the form of bitter abuse, without a particle of sustaining evidence. Under these clrournstances we ara not surprised to learn that a wave ot sympathy has ailsen throughout tho state In behalf of the soldier thus ma ligned, which threatens to bear down upon his accusers with crushing force. The people, regardless of party, hold to the doctrine of fair play even In pol itics; and especially do they resent with swift indlgnntlnn the djrty tactics of the defamer who, thinking to gain a political point, will circulate slander which does not bear upon political con duct but seeks to rob Its victim of the most precious part of his reputation as a citizen and a man. Unless the accusers of Colonel Barv nett produce in support of their gross accusations proof absolutely final In Its overwhelming establishment of guilt they will deserve to bo refuted on election day by a majority In Harnett's favor Including every Republican vote In Pennsylvania and that also of every decent Democrat In the commonwealth. Mr. Markham of "Mar. and Hoe" fame, has written another Doom in which words of encouragement are of fered to tho man whose upper apart ments are not properly Illuminated. It Is entitled "The Muse of Brotherhood," and comes "To take tho toiler from his brutal fate Tho toller hanging to the Labor-Cross." If Mr. Markham Is the father of a scheme whereby we may obtain a good living without work, he Is entitled to u hearing. firne to "Call" Canada. I T REMAINS to bo seen what at titude our government will as sume toward Canada's latent proposition for a settlement of the Alaskan boundary dispute; but If the general opinion of those Ameri cans who have most carefully studied the matter shall be considered, tho reply ot tho United States will be a polite but emphatic negative. Bear in mind that when Canada of fers to concede bkaguay and Dyea to the United States In exchange for Py ramid harbor her proposition Is ex actly as If she would say to the United States: "We will not dispute your claims to Buffalo and Detroit provid ed you let us have Sault Sto. Mnrle and the American 'Son' canal." Un der the explicit language of tho ex isting Meaty tho United States, as Russia's successor to the title to Alas ka, owns today, absolutely, not only Skaguay and Dyea, but also Pyramid harbor and every other harbor or "pos sible harbor In the neighborhood. This ownership rests not alone on the unmistakable language ot tho treaty of 1825, but upon seventy years of un disputed possession, the counter clnlm having been born in Canada's anxiety for a Pacific port to accommodate her trade with the newly discovered Klon dike gold region. To bo told, then, that we can keep two towns already ours by every right known to Interna tional law and custom provided wo will surrender a harbor equally our's, and BUbmlt to arbitration tho rest of our land titles In the territory which wo have paid for but which Canada now wants, Is, to say the least, an Interest ing experience, wol' calculated to test the tensile strength of American pa tience, Tho proposition relatlvo to Pyramid harbor Is Impudent to the point of exasperutlon; but tho demand for ar bitration of a title clearly our's is al most equally as offensive. To a rep resentative of the Philadelphia Ledger a prominent nflioial In the' stato do- Lvartmoat at Washington recently re- marked very pointedly that the Alas kan boundary dispute would not be fcuhmltted to arbitration; and tho rea sons given for Hint remark were not only that there was nothing In this particular case calling for arbitration but also that the close political nnd . family relations existing between tho monarchs of Kurope, ns demonstrated in sad experience, would not permit an unbiased decision In any matter In which European Interests camo into conflict with the interests of the Unit ed States. It Is charged that a con spiracy to defeat Justice existed in tho Venezuelan tribunal, which was de feated In part only by the firmness of Chief Justice Fuller, nnd a gentleman who was connected with the Bering sea tribunal of 1S93 has admitted to tho Ledger correspondent that; he nnd his American colleagues In that tri bunal underwent a similar experience. He asserts that the arbitrators select ed by tho powers of Europe were sub jected to personal, social and political pressure In favor of England, which was brought so strongly upon them that they could not resist, nnd that If It had not been for tho firmness of Senator Morgan and Justice Harlan, acting as arbitrators on the part of the United States, the decision would have been much more one-sided than It was. These are phases of International ar bitration which do not receive much exploitation In print, but they havo received careful consideration In offi cial circles nt Washington, where the objection to Jug-handled arbitration Is strongest; and It Is believed that the state department, In whatever reply it shall decide to make to the latest Canadian overture, will Include a repe tition of its former respectful refusal to consider any proposition looking to arbitration which Includes as a con dtlon tho selection of adjudicators from among the ..inabltants ot Europe. To this reasonable precaution should be added a postscript notifying Canada that the United States is disinclined to continue further the discussion of American rights Impregnably ground ed In law nnd custom and therefore gives notice that the dispute, so far as It Is concerned, Is now at an end. This Is the frank way of putting the dominion at once to the necessity of dismounting voluntarily from its high horse or running the risk of a mighty bad tumble. Anti-expansion, acca 'dir.g to the talk of present advocates, means that the government of the United States must throw up Its hands and back out of Manila, leaving the country to anar chy, disruption and the devil. It Is scarcely possible that the most effu sive Hryanltc would really like to have this state of affairs come to pass. Some of the Pennsylvania antls s-cream against the unholy war on the Filipinos In one breath and in the next find fault with Colonel Barnett be cause he does not return to Manila nnd fight the Filipinos. This Is char acteristic of the party of unreasonable opposition. Bradford newspapers are Just now in a quarrel over tho condition' of the county Jail. From descriptions by those who advocate Improvement, It would seem that the Bradford county jail Is an Institution that all good citi zens should try to keep out of. Tho special correspondents several thousand miles removed from tho seat of the Transvaal war are liable to get the map of South Africa tangled up to such an extent that a new survey will bo necessary when the trouble has been adjusted. m The Philadelphia Record Is making votes for Colonel Barnett rapidly by throwing mud at his record as a soldier. We are surprised that the Record should bo bo lll-advlsed. Some of the British "aunties" act as though they thought the victorious despatches from South Africa had been censored by General Otis. General Funston probably thinks that he will be in less danger In front of the Filipinos than In the hands of Kansas politicians. It Is reported that LI Hung Chang Is back In power again. Hut he does not seem to bo working at it. Tho Boers evidently have an eye to the distribution of prize money at the Klmberly mines. LIFE INSURANCE. Editor of Tho Tribune. Sir: Your edltoilnl on "I.lfo Insurance" is aimed In tho light direction, but that It may not stimulate undue prejudice In the minds of thoso who delight in scor ing tho tegular life companies nnd their business I will call jour attention to some statements therein that Miould be toned down and nro rnlsleutilng. First The life Insurance business Is not tho first In magnitude. It Is excelled by the railroad business. Second As to tho expens-es of manage ment, the item you mention ns the ng grcgato expenso In the year 1SJS of the three glnnt companies Includes taxjs, le palrs and expenses on leal estato owned by tho policy holders of these companies, who uro benefitted thereby, as nil real estato holdings aro In truVst for tho policy holders, und amounts to many millions of dollars. Third In tho reference to lnp?ed Insur ance In which you state that "It shows that new blood does not nbldo long enough to bo of any practical benefit to the persistent policy holder." the infer enco Is mUlcndlng, In that tho lapsed In surauco Includes matured endowments or paid-up policies, and policies that havo been In force more than ono yeur. (See the report of tho superintendent of In burnnco of New York or Pennsylvnnla.l In this connection r lli to mako sev. eral statements which, Mf challenged by any ono, I will prove. They aro: That tho regular companies referred to aro fur nishing protection nveraglng less cost than In tho past. That there has neen a constant progress In this direction. That considering the volumo of business, tho avcrngo per cent, of expenso to tho policy holder Is less than In nny other business, That It Is very much less than In the average assessment companies. That It would bo Impossible to meet your fug gestlon nnd reduce the expenses one-half. Tho business Is now being conducted on very conservative methods. When you tako Into consideration tho total amount of premiums secured by tho ngrnts for these companies, they nro tho poorest pnld of nny class of solicitors, If I am correct tho management of these companies Is not "discreditable'' but very creditable to tho ofneers and directors of tho companies referred to. Yours truly, Charles L. Rice. CANDIDATE CREASY ASKEDJ EXPLAIN POINTED QUESTIONS AS TO HIS PUBLIC RECORD. Did He Prepare a Revenues tllll Which Ingeniously Offered Induce ments to the Standard Oil Trust nnd tho Copper Tubo Trust, While Purporting to Bo In tho General In tel est of tho Taxpayer? Hanlsburg, Oct. 23. Congressman Marlln E. Olmstoad, of this city, has addressed the following communication to Stute Chairman Rceder: Harrlsbuig, Pa., Oct. 2.1, 1S03. Hon. Frank Rceder, chairman Republican, State Committee, 1231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. My Dear Sir: I nm In receipt of your In vitation to speak upon tho issues of tho campaign ut New Cnstle, Lawrence coun ty, on Oct. 2ti, und should bo very glad to accept but for tho fact that 1 havo an Important engagement to fill ut Lynch burg, Va., upon the same day. If It wero possible, for mo to bo present nnd speak I should not hesltato to discuss local or stato Issues with Mr. Creasy, tho Democratic candidate for stnte treasurer. Mr. Creasy occupied a very Important po sition In the last legislature. Ho was tho ranking Democrat upon tho appropriation committee, which had chargo of tho bills providing for tho expenditure of tho stato's moneys, Ho was also tho ranking Democrat upon the ways nnd means com mittee, whose duty It was to provldo rev enues to meet tho nnDronrlatlons. It would bo Interesting If ho would ox pluln what port ho took as a member ot tho appropriations committee to keep down tho appropriations so that they would come within tho estimated rev enues, and It would be still more Inter esting If he explained what real efforts ho made, as a member of the ways nnd means committee, to provldo revenuo so that tho public school and other appro priations made by the legislature might all bo paid. Did ho try to pats, or did ho help defeat, the direct Inheritance tax bill, which would havo raised largo revenues from tho estates of tho wealthy without burdening tho living poor? Tho Democratic party nominated Mr. Cieasy under the Impression that ho had fathered a levenuo bill which, had it not been defeated by the senate, would have helped the farmers and bene fitted the state and permitted the pay ment of tho full appropriation of $5,59?, 000 per annum to public schools. A cor rect understanding of his bill must put him In a very bad llsht with tho tax payers of tho commonwealth generally nnd show that ho was nominated under fulso pretenses. THE QUESTION OF TRUSTS. Upon the stump Mr. Creasy has been declaiming against trusts,. At Lehlghton, on Saturday evening last, ns reported In tho Philadelphia Press, ho said: "Have you over thought of the small oil pro ducer, how ho has been wiped out by tho great oil trust becauso the laws havo been made In favor of this gigantic monopoly? Havo you ever thought how tho Individual coal operator has been put out of busi ness by allowing great corporations and combines in tho commonwealth to do a business contrary to the purposes of our constitution and directly against tho in terests of all tho people?" Of course, ho refers to tho Standard Oil Trust, which, as everybody knows, holds tho stocks of many Pennsylvania oil, gas and pipe lino companies. The so-called Creasy bill, read In place by Mr. Creasy Feb. 21, IXft, which passed tho house but fulled to pass tho senate, was a. very long bill of fifty-three sections, purport ing to provldo an elaborate schemo for the taxation of corporations, persons nnd things, even Including horses, mules and cattle abovo the age of 4 years. Now, Isn't It a little singular that If Mr. Creasy has such an antipathy toward trusts and so bewails the fact that laws have been mado In their Interest, ho for got to tax them In his boasted revenue measure? I was thoroughly familiar with his bill at the time, and have Just read It thruugh again. It does not tax trusts In any form, and the word "trusts" is not mentioned anywhere In Its fifty-threo sections. Tho Standard Oil trust, under his bill would, therefore, have gone entirely tier of taxation, ns would also the great Cop per Tube Trust, which, ho says. Is oper ated In hU own county. Furthermore, tho corporations whoso stocks the oil trust owns would havo had their taxes very materially reduced had tho Creasy bill become a law. They now pay a tax ot flvo mills annually upon a valuation of their capital stock, which tho Supremo court has declared means a valuation of their property, assets and franchises. Tho Cieasy bill repealed that tax and im posed a stato tax of five mills upon n taluatlon of their property alone. True, It provided that In valuing the property the value of the funded debt should bo added to tho yaluo of tho shares But nono of these Standard companies has any funded debt, so, ot course, there would bo nothing to add, and the live mills tax under tho Creasy bill would not amount to any more, ll In deed as much, as tho five mills btate tax they are already paying. Hut in addition to tho flvo mills state tax on capital stock, the pipe line com panies owned by thu Standard trusty aro, now under existing laws, paying a state tax ot eight mills upon their gross re ceipts. Tho Creasy bill as it passed the house. Increased the gross receipts tax from eight mills to ten mills, or 1 per centum, but limited It to corporations ' not sublect to tho tax hereinbefore Im posed." As tho Standard's pipe line com panies were subject to tho live mills property tax Imposed by tho third sec tion, they were thus expressly relieved by the fifteenth section of the gross re ceipts tax of eight mills which they now pay. But worse than this, Mr. Crcasy's bill, In Its third section, after Imposing the above-mentioned state tax of five mills on the valuo of the property of corpora tions, expressly declares that "hereafter tho propel ty, when Indispensably neces sary to tho exercise of a public franchise, and tho shares nnd tho funded debt of every company taxable under this Lec tion, shall bo taken or construed to i x empt to much of tho real estato owned by any company! as shall not bo necessary to the cxcrcUe by such company of Us corporato franchise." TAXATION OF CORPORATIONS. When tho commonwealth grants ta nn oil or natural gas company the franchise to own oil or gas lands und to produce oil or gas therefrom, or to a coal com pany tho right to own coal lands nnd mine coal therefrom, tho ownership ot these lands Is essential to tho exercise of tho frai chlse. These lands aro now subjected to tho same county, city, bor ough, road, school, poor and other taxes us ure paid by farmers or other Individu als owning similar properties. It Is within bounds to my that at least one-fourth, In value, of all the real estate In tho commonwealth Is owned by cor porations nnd Is essential to the cxercl.ie of their corporato franchises. Mr. Creasy's bill relieved theso oil, coal and other corporations from all local tuxes In consideration of their paying a state tax ot five mills, which Is no more than tho capital stock tax that they are al ready paying. How this could bo helpful to tho far mer or Individual clthcn. It Is difficult to see. This loss to the local treasuries Ihe bill piopnsed to mnke up In part by diverting to tho local treasuries tho one fourth of the personal pioporty tax, the mercantile licenses, tho tax on writs, wills, deeds, etc., which now go into the Htutu tic-usury. Coupled with the loss of the gross receipts tax from transporta tion companies, this dlverdon would huve left the state trensury nlmost bare. Tho bill then uttempted to help the state treasury by adding tho funded debt of certain corporations to tho taxnblo valuation ot ihclr properties. In many In stances tho funded debt was owned en tirely by non-rcsldnnts. Tho Supreme court of tho United States decided In 1S72 that bonds held by nnn-rcsldonts can not bo tnxed In Pennsylvania, and that In nny event debts owing by corporations cannot be treated nnd taxed as property of corporations. Thn case may bo found reported In lBth Wullacc, commencing nt pago SOO, nnd Is absolutely conclusive. EFFECT OF CREASY BILL. In short, Mr. Crensy's bill would havo reduced existing V tm.es of thu oil trust and tho great coal corporations, ngnlnst which ho publicly Invelghi, nnd would not, and was lut Intended to, increase the taxation of nny of tho wealthier dividend-paying corpoinltons. It wus Intend ed to Increuso thu burdens of a certain class of tho poorer, smaller, nun-dividend paying corporations, but tho character of the tax Imposed was plainly In violation of tho Federal constitution, ns already determined by the Supreme court. Even had tho taxes proposed by the bill been constitutional and ucqulosced In at once by all tho corporations ot the state, her revenues would not have been Increased; but, on tho contrury, largely reduced, nut tho taxes wero not consti tutional, nnd would not havo been paid. Tho bill repealed tho cntlro corporate system of taxation under which tho stato Is now deriving largo, sure nnd certain revenues from corporations, In nddltlon to somo which nro still In dispute. Tho new system proposed would havo thrown tho whole revenuo Into litigation, which It would have taken Bevcral cars to de termine. Not only would tho public Mihoois have lost tho half million dollars which tho governor vetoed, but for sev eral yenis at least the stato treasurer would havo been without funds to pay nny considerable portion of tho 15.000.000 per annum which tho governor approved. In nn argument before the scnato com mlttco I opposed Mr. Crensy's bill on behalf of certain poorer and smaller cor porations, but It was defeated upon tho showing, by the str.to ofllcers, of Its un doubted damaging effect upon tho stato trensury. This was mado so plain thnt a leading senator said thnt Instead of he lng called tho Creasy bill It ought to bo called tho "Decreasy bill." If Mr. Creasy knew tho effect and op eration of his bill, ho Is hardly sincere In his statements upon the stump. If ho did not know, ho Is hardly tho man tot stato treasurer. OUR MUCH-ABUSED SOLDIERS. General Funston. Wo hear talk about mismanagement In tho Philippines, and thoso who are doing the talking know the least about It. I want to tell you tod'iy that our army over there Is better clothed, better fed nnd better cared for than any army that ever fought In nny country under uny Hag. Tho hospital arrangements there nro so perfect that within two or three hours after a man Is shot, csi eclally If along the rnllroud, he Is delivered to the hos pital In Manila. Out of l.KXl wounded men sent to that hospital not a stuglo primary amputation was performed, nnd but threo cases of ultimate amputation, During tho Civil war nt least SOO men among tho 1,500 would have been subject ed to amputation nnd rendered perman ent cripples. This Is nn Important fact to bear In mind In face of Irresponsible criticisms of the campaign. A Safe Guess. "Why do you think this man who al most drove over you wus Irsh?" "Because I threatened to lick him." "Well?" 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