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THE SCRANTONTMBUJN!-THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1900.
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8CIUNTON, PEUUUAIIY 1, 1900.
REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET.
SCHOOL nmUCToiliC. C. rcrbcr, u.
1). rciiovs.
Tlic mi if v.ho 111 c booming Coljn 1
Itoosuwlt for tin? !. pio.-Iiloncy have!
letiiniH'd woiU: but the fact i, in litis
that the piopn iinilltlnti Is I'uiiiis)!
Minla'H iiuvilcuH lepit-seiitiitlvc In the
lublmt, Hon. Clmili'H l.'tnoiy Knilth, a
)('Llinpn of lioio liillll.int niiitoiy va
tneneiit cIhl'uIuio.
An Unjust Suspicion.
I
T Ci:TA!NLY it unfair to thu
New Yoik State Itnllio.tel cum.
inlf-luu to Intimate, us ceitilu
New Yoik jollin.ilg ilo, tlmt Ihu
puvnii' befoio tlie rnmmllon of n
urn of Senator Piatt us an atloiney foi
mmiiu nt the Inlertstrt nppot d to tlio
granting of pet mission to the Uelawat j
Valley and Kingston Hallioad eoni.m.
to build a line of lulhwiy fioni Iai'ka
wiixuli to KlnKston foieeasts an nd
ete tltflsloti upon the pendlnK uppll
cation. Mr. 1'lntt Is u member of the
law III m thai nunihurx unions tt.s tegu
lar ellentK the New Yoik, Onttulo and
AVt stein ltallifnd company, one of til"
parlleH hostile to the piopostd new rall
lond. Ills appeaiaiKo foi that com
pmy was In the oullnaiy com so of
piofevhlonal business.
It Is habitual with some newepapeis
and a fault common to many people
outside nt nowspapei elides to give
undue .slKiilllcance to the .sllKlite.'it In
cident which might eem to east I
Mm tic of nispli Ion upon men oecupj lir
otlklal positions; and this, tendency Is
isptcl.illy in.li keel with iifereneo to
Htate boards halng some measuic of
juilsflictlon over e oi pot. itlons. Itegaid
less of the fact that the gieat majoi
Ity of men appointed to memheishlp on
boards oi commissions aie men of line
ippututlon and iet.sonally aboo ie
pioaih, their acceptance of a public;
trust puts them immediately within the
cone of a lolentless ciltlial fire, and it
is not long until nn iinpiesMon is
eteated that they aie "owned" by this,
that or the other political coipoiato
Influence and have no longer minds and
wills of their own
Just how far tho geneial public takes
stock in tills pel verted view of ofllelal
honor we cannot say. We cm only ex
piess our belief that the New Yoik
I'ailtoad commission W a conscientious
body of men which will give to the
anplicatlon before It Its best thought
and judgment and leach a conclusion
upon the nieiits as It sees them.
Lack of Intelligence as to tlie wheio
abouts of Aguinaldo still permits Mi.
Hi j an to monopolize the center of the
stage.
Better Go Slow.
X COMiMHXTIXCS upon the un
animity of Jov vvhl.-h pievalU
among the continental nations
I
over Oieat Hijltiln's mll'tary
leveises In South Africa, tho CMcago
Times-Herald un find no mound In
hluorv for tho belief that it nilses
I. -oni honest sympathy vlth the Goeis,
in neither the couits nor tbo people
lUiinV" have ever shown sympnth;"
or a weak nation stiuggllng. as they
Hi-tend the Roeis nie, "for liberty."
"ui contempoiaiy n-niliuls its nudera
rial In our own time Huiope fiddled
whll" tho Tuik slew more Aimenlans
than there arc Hons of mllltaiy agj
lu the Transvaal.
'The Hue i enroll for European jubi
lation over 3:itlsh dlsasteis Is to ba
found," It continues, 'in hatted of ie
publlcan Imgland, envy of commercial
Kugland and jealousy of colonial Eng
land. Theie is not n coatt in Huiop--where
tho English system ot a gov
ernment responsible to the people,
which lejects the idea of the Divine
light ot kings and derives its nut hoi -lty
to iiilo nnd to tax from the peo
ple. Is not held in ollliial abhoiienie
For nioio than a century Englai.d has
been the sanctuaiy fiv tho oppic-ssed
ufugees of Euiopo and Its fuo pns
luiH"helfl the torch cf llbeity and iopu
lir government before the eyis of the
ovei taxed helpless mllllors on tho eon--tlnent."
- As showing the commeulal envv
lichi '1 back of much of this nut!
English fiilljig s-o torus the cmtinpn
tnl.powels are concerned, the Chicago
paper pilnfs a t ible of the lommerce
of the British empire as compared
vvltti hc commerce, of all the other
HUropuD povvPis. Tne year of com-
pirfron t li9d; and tho total for Gieat
,Hiltain ($fi,U18,000,000) Is neatly tluec-
ouiths of the total of the en-
tlie continent ($8,LO5,0OO.000). That
a power cmtueit In a little
gioup of Islands hai illy large
enough to make a lcspeotable showing
on 'the map alongside the immense
stioUhcp of contlm ntal teititory
should be aide not onlv to command
the seas but lrtuolly to control by far
.the largest commeice of any single,
Euiopean power Is enough lo caus
envy to sink deep Into the breas'ta of
Euinpean statesmen, whom, we know
'from hlstoiy, are not exempt irom
"that evil feeling.
nut the TIines-Heiald is una bio ti
'discover nny reason why the t'nlted
Static should shate in tho continental
.attitude "Tho government of tin
I'nlted Kingdom cannot," it says, "ba
too republican to suit the lilt us of In
telligent Americans. Its commeico
cannqt bo so eMenslvu us to exclto
'our envy, because we profit by thi
'lien's shaie in that commerce. Us
colonial conquests do not move us to
Jealousy becnuo our relations with
British colonies 'ire nlmo-t nk pioilt
jiiilo us Ungland'n own. In 1398 neatly
one-fifth of the commerce of the Unit
ed Kingdom was with the t'nltid
States and nearly ono-foutth of Its
Imports woro bought ltom us." Tim
name proportion obtained In the flsc.il
year last ended. Then our Imports
from Clreat Hrltaln wercs $J97,1S-uS$,
or only $JS,210,J6S lest) than veto our
Imports fiom continental J3tuoii;
while of our cxnoits tlieitt Hrltaln
putiliase'd $t52,'.!74,l1& while the e-onel-nental
countries bought only $124,004,
(S4, It was not long nc that the con
tinental powers were soiloiiMy conpld
ri lug an Internattonal trttelo combina
tion against ti, Just us, dining tin
.Spiiilsh-Anieilcm war, they ttlcel to
affect a diplomatic "icmbltie" against
us. In neither of tlieo projects would
ntiglaud take nny part. Tim latter Blie
llatly prevented.
We ugne with our t'lilcngo content
poir.ry that "imj thing nppio.it.hlng a
woiId-convulliiK c.ttastuphe to ling
Usll power and piestlge In South Af
llca would bis felt in eveiy IiuluilrKl
f inter nnil agilcultuinl cltilit In lliu
I 'nlted States," and for this liwson It
behoovea the Anuileaii pi oplu to go
slow in llielr nagglni; at u. friendly
power in trouble.
Senator Hilly Mason seems to bo In a
slate of ituoei talnty as to whether
he has tho gi cutest dislike for the Hilt
sh nation or the administration at
Washington.
A General Need.
I
X AX ADDItnss befoie tho Moth-
odlst ministers of I'lill.ulelphl i,
dcllveted on Monday in behelf of
the "twentieth centuty thank
offeilng" of $20,000,000 called for by the
bishops of that religious denomination,
Hev, l)i. Oeorge 12. Heed, piesldent of
Uie.klii.son tollege and llbiatlau of
l'ennslvanla, descilbed lldly the
leasons why the American peopb
should be Increasingly llbeial In good
w oi ks.
'The gain In the woild's wealth from
1S.-.0 to 1S60 was fifty times the gain of
the fit Ht lifty yeais of this eentuiy," he
said, "and the gain of those- Hist fifty
eais i'ciiai'il the gain of the eighteen
tenturks that piecided them. The
gain slnie 1S60 has simply been phe
nomenal, and the gain of the next flvu
oars no man can estimate. The on
tilbutlons to chailty, iducatlon, etc.,
In this fountiy In ISP", weie ovei 2,
000,000; in lSyil they weie over $l.:,00o,
000; In 1SSS they weie over $.' :,00,00'i;
and In 1890 they leached the magnifi
cent sum of $7!),749,000, and gifts of less
than $1000 and the conttlbutlons
tluotigh the iiRiil.li' channels of the
chin ill are not included In this amount.
In these sK yeais $?flO,OoCO00 wetccon
U United, 80 per cent, ot which went to
the cause of education. This gives us
some Idea of the icsouiees' of tlu
people."
Applying himself dltectly to Method
ism, he pointed out that wheie therj
was one trained man in the past tlie
times demand fifty now, and he added.
"Xot $!,000,000 have gone Into our col
leges the past sl yeais. We did not
have a single college until 1S11. In
UJ0 wo did not have three colli ge
bied men In the whole chinch. Out
people did not appiecjate higher educ i
tion then. Only in the last thlity or
foity vears have we come to toleiatc
the theological spminary. What we
sully need Is a levlval of tho sense of
financial responsibility among our peo
ple." That need is vety geneial.
The fuilous ado made In the senate
the other day by Shouting Hilly Mason
over ceitaln ciitlclsms of him alleged
to have been uttered by a British vie a
consul at Xew Oilcans, turns out to
be a cube of much ado about nothing.
It Is another Instance of ellow Journal
ism culminating in ellow statesman
ship. The British vice consul never
said it.
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Spelling refoim nt Washington has
changed Pueito Hlco back to Poito
Hlco In some of the departments. Tf
tho names of our now possessions au
to be constantly twisted to suit the
whims of cveiy new otlklal, thev will
soon be as confusing to the aveiago In
dividual as the Nocabulaiy about tho
Tower of Babel.
Xow that Governor Roosevelt has
had his way in the matttr ot the In-suiance.-
commissioner without a dls--rntlng
vote, the opponents of Boss
Piatt may possibly begin to wonder If
Piatt Is, after all, such a gieat boss ns
they have plctuicd him.
Tho exhibition given by Ptof. Scheilc,
the poison-proof expert at the Mollneu.x
tiial, who drank bromo-scluer and
cjanlde of meicitiy and did not die,
looks vet j much like a tilck. Somo
one ought to take a shot gun to Pi of.
Schcele.
Bourke Cockian's offer to suppott,
Bijan If Buan will dtop silver hi-;
been declined with thanks; nevuthe
less It Is safe to pi edict that Bouiko
will soon be found on the fiont Stat of
tho Hiyan band wagon.
The compailson ot Splon Kopje with
Majuba Hill has it-moved from tho
minds of many on this side of the At
lantic the Idea that a kopje was some
thing that was loaded with smokeless
povv eler.
m
TOLD BY THE STABS.
Dally Horoscope Drnwn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune Astrologer.
Astiolabo Cast 1.10 a. in, for Thais
day, Kebiuatv 1, lain).
KS8 & '&
A child born on tblr day will be happy
when tho Xlcauuua cnmil and thu West
1-cckuwMiiiui. avenue viaduct nro com
pleted. Tho nnnouiicenn.iit that straw ben Iph
and cream aio in market fcounds like tho
mu.sln of an Iildescent dream to tbn
boauler who exists upon dried tipple
s uico and oleoniargurlne.
Many a man's back has been broken
endeavoring to pull the ropo In a vva
to inuko both ends meet.
Poverty Is too often tho unvard of hon
esty. Tho most successful newspaper mm Is
alwuja the one "who wiltfs Just as wo
think.
There is alvvas one couiloit left for
the small man. If ho bus any friends
they may bo relied upon as genuine. '
Ajacchus' Advice.
Du not resent with Idle word the Insult
of a neighbor. PrcM-nt his wife with a
ticket to the cooking school
American Trade
BoUnd to Expand
BHI-'OItE THE I'nlun l.cngue club of
Philadelphia on Tuemlty cvcr.llif,
IViEtm isfcr (leneral Charles Em
oi y Smith dellvcicel an nddress
uttijii "file Philippines" which was III
leipietcd as having otllelal significance.
Mr. Hinlth'n aiidriss was a statement or
the eeimlltUMis and forces which hive
within thu list lorty tais placed thy
t'nltid Slates at the head of nil the na
tions of tho earth In ngi (cultural and
Industihil products, and of tho events
vhk'li nt a bound laked this nation In
tho estimation of tho woltd from a .hli'd
It.tu power to the -very Hist. As a clim
ax to that puitlon ot his atdress be
spoke of the prompt and full neceiitunra
of our govoiiimini'a demand for an
o'k n dooi to China for our piodurts,
which bad been retusid to England. He
ii'garded thp Philippines us the gateway
to China, tho abandonment of which
would lcs-ea our Iniluenco Willi Euro
pean liatleus. Ho bald:
;oi
llio United Stiite.i has reached a
tuinlng point In Its history. The coming
bkinrlm v. ill d ito a new cia Irom tho
SptiiiNh war jutl tho changes Immedl-ut-ly
growing out of It. That war was
coincident with tho culmination of a m i
tcrlal dovilopment which Is unparalleled
In the annals ot time. The first and
piianiinmt obligation connected with
the war lu tin- iiionil duty growing out
of It. It was purely and solely a war
of huinatiltv. Thu moral M-ntlniPtit and
conviction which impelled us to tnke up
aims niiiht rule the settlements of tho
war, and 1 do not hesitate to say tint
they have guided the president In cveiy
step be Ins i ikon. A government less
bonoiablo nnd scrupulous would have
totalm-d tho powir which events ijavu It
met Cub i, but In our inse the pledge
of indt-ptiidcnic Is respected and the will
of the Cubiin people will be decisive.
'I hut mrely meets the moral stand ud
In thu Phllli pines thou- was no alterna
tive but the assumption ot American
control. Tlie niceptanee of that icspon
sltilllty was the dlctala of moral duty.
:o:
"But when we have nn-t the hlghert
leeiulietuent ot that standird there Is
no code of ethics ard no uilp of states
manship which demands that wc shall
not consldei the continental aspects. It
Is tho obligation of the government fltst
of all to be right; it Is als-o Its obllsa
tlon to piomoto the advantage and vv cl
inic of Its own people-; nml when tho
two fully coincide and harmonize, when
thu moial m indite nnd the m.itciial In
tel eU completely blend. It Is eloubli
strong and foi lunate, Such Is out
piotf-nt position. Our eountij stands
pie-eminent among the Industilal povv
eis of tho world. The Ameikan policy
which, with only n single bilit brt.il:,
has been Readily puisueil during fortv
cars since Abraham I.lniohi licam;
piisldcnt, his brni ght us to a position
of manufacturing suprenney which Is
iiniiv.iled and unappro icbcd. Wc Unit
mado geod our second Dei l.intlon of In-
dopi nilenee a ilecKiution of eonipli-tc
Industilal Independence. We built up
oui own fijievs niid ft.e torles and in is.
tend our own m irkets. And then,
win n wo hail fullv iwics-cd oiitvelvcs of
our own domain, wo weie ready to go out
into the nimki-ts of the worfd.
:o:
'Our grov.th Is the wondct of mm
kind. In 1S70 the alue of our ni.inu
f.ietiues v.a $"5 7 CO0,nJ : In l"s0 It was
ne. uly $12,mVxi,iijo. The amu7lng advance-
can best 1 c- realized bv comiiari
son. lu ls7( the manufuctuies of the
I'nlted States Just about equaled tbo"e
of Oreat Biltaln: In ls'i't they were two
and a half times ni great i.s tno tot it
volume ot liiltlh lr.anufacturtH and
eepiakd those ;( Great Biltaln, Get main
iinjl Prance put tocelhcr. Tho Increase
In the iiiiuuil Aiiic-rlrnn product within
tlilitv j tars has been double tho com
bined Increase of thete three gieat ra
tions of Europe. In other words, It you
nwtcb the United Stales r.gulnst Great
Biltaln, Germany and Trance together,
our manufactures ure- now equal to all
tbelis, nnd are giowlrg twbe as fast
We aro manufacturing neatly two-thirds
as muth as all Europe, with its 370,uOOO'
people, and mote thin one-third of till
tint Is manuf.ictiiied in the world. If
ou take the whole langc of Indus
tiles. Including agriculture, mining, trans
portatlon nnd even tcmtncice, wherein
alono wo nro behlrd, the pioportlons
stand about the same. The aggregate
valuo of American Industries Is more
than double that of Great Biltaln, three
times that of Franco nnd two and a half
times that of Germ my. It Is one-lnlf
that of all Eupropo combined. With
this enonnous industrial expansion tho
nation it wealth of tho United States
glows propoitloimtelv. In ISoO our ag
gregate wealth was but little more than
half Hint of Great Biltaln, less thnn half
tint of Prance, and only about hilf that
of the nations th.it m ide up the Gi rman
Empire. Xow it is a tbiid greater thin
Great Britain's, double Geiman's and
uc.illy doublo that of 1 lance. Within
fortv vears the United States has gained
ovei CT.OOJ millions In wealth, while Great
Britain, Kinnco nnd Geimanv togethei
lmvo gained less than 10,0ml millions. Our
prevent annual gain Is about S.OuO mil
lions, and every working day sees the
United States over KCoO.OiO better ott
than It was the day before."
:o,
Mr. Smith outlined the paitlcular fac.
tois in America's mnivclous Industilal
development, saving that whereas fifteen
veils ago tho United States m.ulo only
half as much pig lion as Great Britain,
wonuw make nioio than SO per cent, more
than either Gieat Britain or German),
and nioie than one-thlid of all the Iron
mado In tho world; tint we mike half as
much steel us all other nations put to
gitbei; that in our piaetically Inexhaus
tible, iniuicd ichouiceh of lion mo ami
eoal, we possess the elements of tutuie
supiein.il-), that our piedominance will
be ciiine as signal in textiles as in metals,
as Is all tad) Indicated In the develop
ment ot the cotton mills of the South.
Ho rmphasUed tho supe-iloiltv of Ameil
c.iu genius and lnveulluu and adaptabil
ity which, be i.ild, lu IVi', gave to the
Ameilcan opetatlvo a pioductlvu power
tour times is gieat at, tint ot tho
Euiopenn operative. Ho ic feu oil to a
tuither advantage In tho fact that tho
United States Is tho one country tint
m pplles Its own find and l.ivv m itc-rl.il,
tho one gnat n itlon that sells nmn
thin It bii)s, the one woild puwer that
is eqnipletcl) Independent in Its re
souites and wliollv self-sustaining. "Wo
u to guat ltoth In land and industry," ho
toiitluutd. "Oui ngileultuie and munit
facturts woik togttbir for tho common
welfaie. A eentuiy ago M-ilthus point
ed out tho lueslstlblo sticngth of such a
combination, He f.ild: 'According to
general principles. It will finally answer
to most lainlid nations both to manu
facture fin themselves and lo conduct
tin Ir own commerce. That nuv cotton
should be shipped lu America, can led
sumo thousands of miles to another
couutiy, thcro to bo manufactured and
shipped ugnln for tho Amerkan market,
is a state of thlngn that cannot bo per
manent. A puitly eoiiimercliil stuto
must always bo undersold and driven
out of the nnrket bv thce who possess
tho nttvantage ol land.' That predic
tion, so far as it relates to Amerkan
m.iuuiai tilling giowth, has been splen
didly vci tiled. H l e mains lo be seen,
and It is a p.ut of this discussion, whe
ther tho prophecy shall not also bo
leallzcd that this great lauded nnd
maniifactuilug nation shall 'conduit Its
own commerce," That Is a vital ques
tion for Ainu lean stuttsmanshlp and
tho Ameilcan pcoplo; the time mid tho
oppoitunlty hnvo come, and If we .no
truo to ourselves we shall gain tho triplo
ciown of ngi (cultural, Industrial nnd
commercial supremacy.
"Put If wo are to gain that mlze. If
wo aro even to hold our prtrint ii'ccnd
nney, wo must fully undui stand the con
ditions which confront us. Wc lmvo
seen that tho growth of tho United
Hl-ilps In manurac-tuns has been phono.
in-Mial' that Its Industrial product n
now it,uil to that of the thno great
ludustrlnl nation of Kurope combined:
that it in one-half the product of all tho
rest of the world put together, nnd Is
growing twice ns fasti tbnt wo nro Im
measurably ahead of all rivals In raw
iiiacrlals and resources for future! devel
opment, und that, with our superior ap
pliances, wo fur excel them In produc
ing powei man for man. Blnco ls;o,
whllo our population Ins doubled, our
minuficturt lmvo quadrupled. Our
producing capacity Is up to and beyond
the nieistiru of our consuming nblllty,
and Is Ine renting faster. Though wo are
foremost In tndustrl il growth,, yet all
tho great nations have been advancing
lipldl), nnd, It Is estlmntid that, under
tho application of moduli forces und of
Improved machinery, the producing ca
pin 11 v of tho world Is such that If etp
orated to Its full extent ten hours a day,
enough would bo produced in six months
to mipply the world's demand for a year.
Just now with the gieat revival of busi
ness following the depression and tho
depletion which went on from 1W3 to 1M7,
thu production ma not tutrun the de
mand. But It Is the pnrt of prudence to
deal with broad and lasting conditions,
and to preparo today for the requlie
meats of tc morrow.
:o:
"What, then, arc wo to do? Aro we
to icstilu prodiictlc-nV Are wo to run
mill and factory on reduced time, vlth
the nccessniy sequences of lower wages,
smaller profits and wide discontent? Or
are we to piovldo for this enormous und
expanding output by supplementing our
own iist but unequal meaBtite of con
sumption with new outlets and maikets?
Under this stress and In this rivalry tho
other great nations mc struggling for
empire and making opportunities tor
trade. The United States has no ned
to engage in this territorial rivalry with
the object of commercial opportunity
Wo have made an opportunity larger
than nil these In securing the open door
in China. There wo find the greatest
ixitcntlal new market in the world. The
accomplishment of tho open door In
China with tho consent and pledge of
nil 'the great nations, nnd without the
necessity of entering Into any territorial
division, Is t!ic greatest of -nil recent
achievements of diplomacy. It secures
for the United States a commciclal op
portunity which is Invaluable. It pio
vldes one of the great outlets which
our Industrial supremacy and our enor
mous producing capacity require. And
that achievement Is tho great rnd mng
ntliient fruit of cur triumph at Manila
and our possession 0f tho Philippines.
I do not dwell upon the value of the
Philippines themselves. I say nothing
of the opportunity which Is cffeicd In
their own fertllltv and their own rlch-i-ess
when once brought under the peace
ful sway of good government nnd of
civilizing di ve-lopmont. Their highest
slgnllkance Iks In tho fact that tl.cy
plvo us a foothold in tho Oilent and
i onstltute a commurel.il and naval base
at tho veiy vestibule of China for a
commercial oppoitunlty and expansion
which wero far bejond our wildest
dicum two jenrs ago. If wo were te
falter In the policy we should snerillro
all that we have gained as Its pieelous
fruit.
... o;
"In the prosecution of this policy of
commercial expanlon tho next great
step Is the development of a merchant
marine. If we would successfully carry
on thu work upon whlih we have en
tered we must earrv our products in our
own ships." Mr. Smith empbnrlzed the
Imperative necessity of a policy of pro
tection on belnlf of American shipping
and said In conelu-don: "We have only
one of two courses before us, Either
we must bait our growth, limit our pro
duction, bank our fires and stop our
spindles, curtail our labor and restrict
our capital, with all that this Involves,
or wo must find broader maikets and ex
p uided consumption. There may bo
some cost In tills ocean-wide extension,
but Is there not greater cost of loss in
a paral)zlng restilctlon? Thero may
bo some perplexities In this policy of
commercial expansion, but aro there
not great perplexities and dangers In
a policy of Industrial contraction? And
just as this Imperative necessity pre
sents Itself, there comes a remarkable,
uiifoi.seen, undreamed of, It Is not too
much to say Provldmtliil, opportunity.
We aro dilvcn by humanity Into a war
with Spain; wo strike an Instant and
clashing blow by taking the Philippines;
we aro planted at once at tho ery
threshold of the new and promising mar
ket of the Oilent; wo are able, through
this sudden and mnrvelous Increase of
American influence, to command the
open door In China; and immediately one
of the great outlets we need Is brougnt
within our reach. What Intelligent and
thoughtful American, lcvlewing tho
whole situation, can hesitate at the pol
icy before us? In extending the sway
of our flag and our commerce, we shall
carry civilization with them. Wo shall
rescue rudo peoples from tho darkness
and the onprcdon In which they havo
been enthralled. We shall give them
enlightenment nnd freedom and aspira
tion; and tho Ami rlcan name, which Ins
bicomo the svnonyin of strength and
power In the East, will become equall)
the token ol liberal, humane and uplift
ing rule."
-.
CONCERNING REV. MR. CRAFTS.
Editor of Tho Tribine
Sir: lu )cur ls-ue of .lanuarv C2, theio
rppeared tho following article. "The
Hev. Wilbur V. Crafts, who accused tho
president of drinking champagne and
sharply scoied him for it. has learned
that tbn allegrd champagne was onlv
Mineral water. Whether ho has also
learned to govern his accusing tongue
will ttpear lieieafur." In jusilee to the
abovo named and honored clergyman,
who bus, and is now doing a noble work
la connection with tho reform bunau,
Washington, D. C 1 icquest tho publica
tion of tho above, la connection with the
following lettoi lecelvcd by mo from this
much slandered seivnnt ot Jesus Chi 1st
"So many false repents have been ent
out on tho above matter, some of them
made tho basis of unjust c-dltouals, lint
1 nk your aid In conectlng them.
Speaking In Boston eight months ago on
tha nullification of the autl canteen law
by the executive, I ac'ded, as a bit of
circumstantial evldeneo as to the pres
ident's relations to temperance, that a
ceitaln icllablo wllntss whom I named
that all might estimate for themselves
tho value of tho testliitcnj, had told mc
of seeing n lot of champ igno bottles
bi ought out of tho piesldent s loom at
the capltol on Mulch t. Tho doorkeeper
Is denying that hid t lilt g but nppolonarls
was used, and this 'guut' may well bo
waived It Is so small compaied with tha
'camel' of the canteen which no ono de
nies tho president might abolish In tho
army by such an outer us that by which
Secretary Ee ng suppressed It In tho
navv. How sllfcht wus the Importaneo
I attached to those bottles may bo In
ferred from the fact that In all tho eight
months slnco that one slight refcrenco to
them In Boston, the) wcro never again
mentioned by ino In public or private
until tho president's friends called up the
stoiy, and so Inadvertently called up also
the larger and really Important discus
sion of tlie pieslelent'h unquestioned rec
ord us tho dispenser and defender of
Ilqums,
"If tho one reference to this secondary
circumstantial evldeneo Is an eiror, let
that editor or speaker or lnw)er who
has never once used u testimony which
was unlmpoitaul, or ufterwards denied,
cast tho tlrst stone. Tho groxly lnac
cuiate leports of this 'gnat' sent out by
Washington correspondents, who might
easily bavu had my side of tho case, and
tho uulust editorials carelessly built on
suih oiie-slibd repoits, come Just In tlmo
to furnish 'horrible examples' of tho need
of Sheldon's 'Capital News.' "
Veiy respectfully,
-J. U. Williams.
Pastor Forest City Baptist Church
lit would seem that the He v. Mr. Crafts
might dovoto his talents to a nioio profit,
ablo pin pose than repealing tho back
door gossip of the national capital con
cerning liquids consumed In the whlto
house. What the president of the Unite t
States chooses to tat or drink Is none of
the public's business, so long ns he Is
trmperato and decent, as William Mc
Kinky Is.-Hilltor Tilbunc.
ooooooooooooooooo
o In Woman's Realm I
ooooooooooooooooo
THE AI'AItTMKXT of domestic sci
ence recently established In ion.
hpcllon with tho Young Women's
Christian association as a perma
nent featuro Is a long step In practical
advance- nnd Ber.intun Is nmong tho few
progressiva towns that havo Instituted
such an Innovntton within reach of tho
innese. Another branch of such a s)s
tern offers a lino field for somo inter
prising company or organisation. U is
u rtlelitlflc kitchen something after tho
fnshlon of tho adorable ono de plctcd in
Bellamy's novel, "Looking Backwird."
His kitchen was artauged on thu co-op.
erallve plan und simply to road about it
was a Joy to tho housewife.
N
EW HAVEX, Colin , Is about to es
tablish such a project. It Is to be
backed by prominent business men
who will put money enough Into
the undertaking to secure Its-success If
there Is such n possibility. , The chief
objection which has nlwnva stood In tho
way of tin1 practical operatloa of the
theory has been obvlnled. It was that
of eonvolng food for miio dktanco nnd
still have It retain tho new ss irv de
gree of beat. A device has been fecurcd
which will keep hot a pinto of soup or
a roatt of bef ns long as seven hours.
Tho Xew Haven people propose to uso
the latest scientific metlirds and It Is
clnlmcd that by cooking large quantities
of food as delicious results can bo ob
tained as are famed nt De-lmotiko's.
Tho chief Idea Is to furnlh private
families with food, hot nnd ready to
servo at the same rates paid by Indi
viduals foi the iuw materials It Is
claimed that the poor man will ba pro
vided with luxuries under the new s)s-t-m
and tbee at low cot,
SCIENTIFIC MEX say that onlv 10
per cent, of tho food consumed is
prepared so that It Is really fit to
cat, as the otdlt.nry cook destrojs
the nouiishlng qualities by carelessness,
consequently living Is ubout live times
ns expensive ns It should be and the
meals eaten nro vastly unsatlsfacforv.
If tho new scheme Is found practical It
will produco a revolution In domestic al
falis. With cooking largely eliminated
from tho household economies tho de
pendance of tho average American wo
man upon servants will bo only a bad
dream of the past. That the outcome
of such an experiment as that to bo un
dertaken In Xew Haven Is awaited with
Interest, Is assured
W,!
AI.E talk about the good times.
It Is a great delight to see so f t w
kilo men on tho streets and to
hear the bum of the mills nnd
shops, but while the laboring man has
more money than he bad two jears ago,
ho can buy but llttlo inoro for It than
bo could with his narrow means at that
time. The average man on a salaiy tlnds
that living has Increased to an appalling
degree, w bile his salary is the same-. The
necessities are so much higher in price
us to make 11 Impossible to save but a
very small portion of his income, and the
outlook fot Improvement of conditions
Is not encouraging. The cost of meat1-,
svgir. eg( tables, milk, butter and eggs
Is a dally source of consternation to tin
housewife with thrifty piocllvltles. A
scientific kitchen which would enable her
to dismiss the cook nnd procure food nt
cheaper rates In far greater Mirlcty nnd
prepared In a more appetizing fashion
will bo to her the herald of a mlllenlal
dawn. Whv should not such a plan be
taken up In this city?
"S
HE ISX'T a lady." tcmirkcd the
young man In a Fedora bat, with
decision In his tones.' "You can
see tho entire solo of her shoe as
she
T
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she walks down the street."
HE SCRAXTOX KERAMIC CLUB
will hold n regular monthly meeting
next Wednesday at 5 o'clock In Mls
MacXutt's studio.
HEBE IS a probability that a prom-
lnent charitable organization win
soon organize for a big affair in
which F. Hopklnon Smith will be
tho star performer.
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