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TWELVE PAGES.
SCHANTON, MARCH 17, 1D00.
Renicinbe'r" the hours of thin iifler
noori's loslslHtlxo iirluiurtes 4 to 7
o'clock " s
Today's Primaries.
NUMEROUS attempts haxr
been made to ionfunc thu
nilndo of the rtppubllcan
xotors. hw to the Issues In-volx-d
In today's primaries In the Klit
and Second IrjrlMlatlxc dlhtrictf. t'er
Willi candldatrH have, fur example,
tldhned to le "antl-machlne" xxhen, an
matter of fHct they c their exist -rnce
mi candidates to the machine poll
tMaiiw who forrlous loaon?, mainly
jrronlnf- out of political disappoint
ment!", arc now waging a guerilla xxar
i'ji the regular Republican orKalilza
lion. VoteiH who think tlut from this
miuicp may be expected purlflng lu-flueiii-es
In l'ennsylvanlH politics take
a gieat. deal for granted.
The .so-called "untl-machlno" eandl
ddtes.. nlio aie also pollt-lllng votes on
the .vticngtli of their alleged uUxocacy
of the Ctuxxforil county syhteni, oxer
look the f.iel that the author and
m.in of the cailicbt advocates of the
part) rules which - established the
".'law fold county system In this coun
ty .ire umniig the foremost supporters
of fanilldates Kurr and Scheuer and
the regular party ticket. The Craw
lord lounty sstem Is not at Issue In
these legislathc primaries. No one Is
pioposlng to do away with it. The
canvu&s has beeu made In strict com
pliance with It. It ought to I13 solf
cxidciil that the Crawford county sys
tem, so far as It affects Lackawanna
county, can neither be saved nor lost
at Harrlsburg.
The real Issue to be decided by the
Republicans of Scianton today Is
whether they can afford to take
ihances by sending to represent them
in the legislutUM" two men who are
without expel fence in legislative af
fairs and whose factional associations
would deprio thcni of the opportunity
to be of the best service to the city.
We arc about to become a second class
city. This will Involve a host of new
problems requiring to be bolved at
the state eapltol. Is T. Jefferson Rey
nolds equal to Speaker l'arr for this
difficult and delicate purpose? Could
Frederick Connell, without experience,
hope to do ab well as Representative
richeuer? The calls upon the legisla
ture in behalf of our hospitals, schools
and other benevolent Institutions arc
xlully Important. Could Inexperienced
"Insurgents" attend to them success
ful IvV
Now and then we hoar of a Republi
can who says he Is going to hit at
Karr and Scheuer because he is op
posed to "Connellism." Just what
these two gentlemen have to do with
"Connellisirf" or why they should be
marked for slaughter on its account
does not appear. To those who have
i his in mind wc otfer the suggestion
that "ConnelliBni" in the person of Its
namesake and alleged chief offender
may not long hence bo up for ofllce
and leady to take without flinching
all the hammering that is In store for
it. This tight which Is to be settled
tonight is a tight for experienced and
effective representation at Harrisburg,
and oveiy Republican who wants to
sec his city properly represented should
xote today for Karr or Scheuer.
If thiu is winter's last gd3p, all must
admire its lung power.
Root to the Cubans.
IN TIIK COURSE of a weeks per
sonal study of conditions In Cuba
Secretary Root has collected and
stated,, in an interview soiuc' In
testing information, to which lie adds
borne very pertinent udvlce.
Of the Cuban people us a whole tho
opinion which lie gives Is fax ui able.
J'he spirit in which u great majority
ef them have, after the ravages and
i-ufferlng of the past few years, gone
to work to rebuild their ruined homes
and to make again productive the
waste lands impresses him as admir
able. He is convinced thai they aie
tired of turmoil and want a chance to
take up again peaceful habits of life.
He fa sure thut as long as they re
pelv'( Just treatment from a govern
jrien determined to keep its promise
tb give them a liable government in
(be shortest time possible they will not
permit themselves to be misled by un
scrupulous leadeis, who are to be' found
(j every, country.
STlie" United Stales is sluceio in its
Intention 'to prepare Cuba for Inde
pendence, but Secretary Hoot einpha
tilzet) ,th aytf that the lesson of eelf
frverjir?h4., iVuot to be learned in a
mlnuie.rt!n'ithVUiifud States,' where
tie communities have beeu self-governing
for' more than a hundred years,
?. wbertjiiost of the people had
wipy years of experience in self-government
before independence was de
clared, the problem Is still a big one
with all the machinery approximately
perfect. In Cuba not only the machin
ery but also 'tho experience have to
be built' Uf from the ground. The start
Is" -soon to be made In autonomous
municipal systems about to be Intro
duced, but tbe secretary docs not en
courage tho theory that this start will
constitute, the Immediate solution of
the whole problem. Cubans must learn
by experience what they need and what
they want. 6ucces will not come un
til tfee Vest side of tbe Cuban chart
a'cUr shall ,be actively enlisted In thfe
constructive .work; tho men .who
amount. to tomethlng must offset by
their political energies the loud-talking
men who carry machetes and threaten
at intervals to take to the woods.
The secretary bear wilting testi
mony to the thoroughness with which
the Cuban people living In the cities
have In a short time, mastered the need
of clean streets and clean homes. Krom
this he Infein that the capacity to
learn other needful lessons In govern
ment will rapidly develop. But he cau
tions the natives against cultivating
ii disposition to pick at minor mistakes
on the part of the Intervening power
and tries to Impress them with the
fact that the more thoroughly they
shall co-operate with the American
officials In the grout constructive tasks
which have, to bb completed before In
dependence can be durable and safe,
the sooner will the period of their na
tional existence begin.
Kor the moment these prudent words
of counsel seem to have made a good
Impression. But the great necessity is
patience.
Neither Hyde Tark nor Providence
can afford to throw away prestige and
Iniluenco by turning down the nfUn
who has ilsen by met it to the speaker
ship of the house. In order to end to
the legislature in ills stead a candi
date whose qualities are unproved.
Congress and the Militia.
tl'jom tho rhlladclihla Inqultcr.)
TIIK APPEAL, of the adjutants
general of tho several states
to congress for an Increase
In the annual appropriation
for tliemalntenauceof the lnllllla should
be given heed by the -national legisla
tors. The appioprlation for all the
ntllltla of tills great country tor ncaily
h century was but ?JOO,000 per annum,
ii ml only a couple of years back it was
lalscd to tho sum of $400,000. Now con
gress Is asked to give $15,000,000, and
that sum should be granted without
question.
For 'sonic leuson cveiy bill for the
betterment of the militia meets with a
stiong tiiideicuireut of opposition
around the national legislative halls.
H has been Intimated that u regular
army clique Is hack of the efforts to
stllfo the encouragement of the state
troops, in order that the regular es
tablishment shall be kept upon its
present basis. Those legislators who
have fallen In with the clique should
read President Washington's message,
in 1791, wherein he said: "The
devising and establishing xr a
well regulated militia would be a
genuine source of legislative honor, and
a perftet title to public gratitude."
We should have, indeed we have got
to have, a regular army of 100,000 men.
but that fact need not interfere with
the militia. Very recently a most not
able essay upon the National Guard,
as the organized militia is now-most
generally designated in the several
states, was read before the Military
Service Institution of the United States
und the essay was awarded the iflrst
prize of a gold medal. Tho essaywas
by Colonel Edward E. Brltton, of the
New York Guard, and is a most clever
and exhaustive exposition of the pres
ent condition of the state troops and
of what should be done to better the
service. An outline of a bill to accom
plish the establishment of a proper re
serve to the regular army is sketched,!
111 ,, lliv illciC I.T 1IIUIH IIIVIIl.
To put it briefly, he shows that the
manner in which this country should
maintain a proper reserve is by the
enactment of laws making an appro
pi latlon among the states and terri
tories which have an organized force
of not less than three soldiers per 1,000
of population. Under the census of
1S30 this would give a total force for
all of the btp.tcs and territories of 1SS,
6M officers and nun. Tho appropriation
should only be paid to those slates
and terjitories which maintain the re
quisite number or men and 'have their
soldiers organized, uimcd und equipped
in exact accordance with thc-regular
establishment. hi addition there
should be a requirement that the ap
propriation would be payable only after
a competent oflleer of the army, de
tailed from the Inspector general's de
partment, had inspected and found the
force sufficiently efficient to come
within thu spirit and Intent of the act
Such n a crude outline of what
should be had In the way of legisla
tion, and the quicker something of that
sott is accomplished the better for the
nation. With our great interests scat
tered over a bl? part of the globe, we
need something more than a regular
at my and an inelllcieiit: force of state
troops, the latter organized, armed and
disciplined in almost as many styles
as there aie states. The military spirit
of the nation should be fostered, and
It can only be led Into the proper chan
nel through wUe and intelligent legls
latlon. The parsimonious method of
the past years must be cast adrift.
How ridiculous It sounds to learn that
the great United States actually has
appropriated a sum equal to 3M per
soldier enrolled In the organized and
equipped forces of the states and terri
tories, while those 'suti-divlslans of
the nation have beeu appropriating an
average of $22.60.
Tho state troops should torm the
ilrst reserve ready to re-enforce the
army at any time, and the only way
In which this can 'be had is through a
sufficient appropriation and proper or
ganization. Tho refusal yesterday of the princi
pal of some of our schools to permit
the holding of but one session, on ac
count of the snow, which the little
pupils in the lower grades could hardly
wade through, suggests that there
should bo a more stringent enforce
ment of the ordinance compelling prop
erty owners to sweep their sidewalks.
Then tho holding of two sessions of
school on feuch a day as yesterday will
not work hardship.
Two weeks from next Tuesday Hie
senato at Washington will voto finally
on the Quay case. This means that
M. B. Quay will be seated and that
Pennsylvania will not afterward be de
prived of the complete representation
which Is her constitutional due. Even
those who are hostile to Quay must
admit that the cenate does well to fix
u time for a decision of the matter, one
way or the other.
Hon. John Scheuer Is fairly and
bquarely entitled tfj a re-nominatlon.
Common Sens? UieuT
of National Duty
l'rom thft Speech of Judgo Morris, hellv
cred In Congress February 6.
THE QUESTION of the policy of our
recent acquisitions 1 think It Is too
lain to discuss. That the circum
stances and conditions surrounding
thriu. at least so far as Vho Philippine
islands wero concerned, wcro entirely dif
ferent from thoso which wero presented
In the acquisition of Louisiana and the
adjacent territory must bo admitted. And
It may also bo admitted that had tho cir
cumstances been different wn should not
havo.sourht them ns we did Louisiana.
To my tnlnd It la plain. In tho fuco of tho
conditions picscnlud, that wo ought not
to, that wo could not, have acted other
wise than wo have done. And I have not
the slightest doubt that It wo had wo
would now bo hearing from tho other
sldo of this chumbcr oven fiercer denun
ciations than those to which wo have
lately become accustomed; that we
would bo told bow wo had basely be
trayed thoso who had trusted us; how
we had left them to their former Inhuman
oppressors or to the selfish greed of other
European powera; how wc had failed, in
tho moral obligation resting upon us
amongst the nations of tho earth, to re
store peaco and order when we hud de
stroyed their only safeguards; how wo
had fulled In tho highest duty which wo
owed to civilization und progress; how
wo had failed to grasp and hold that
which to us Is tho commercial opportun
ity of the centuries; and they would then
be extolling tho splendid achievements
of Jefferson and his party In seizing ev
ery opportunity to extend tho boundaries
of our dominion find the blessings of our
civilization us loudly as they now vaguely
proclaim the doctrloe of tho consent of
tho governed. Hut the questton 'whether
wc could act othciwlse or not passed
beyond tho domain of discussion, at
least to far as congress Is concerned,
upon the adoption of tho treaty and the
appropriation for, carrying it Into effect.
By that action they became a part of the
territory belonging to tho United States,
und the only thing left for us Is to go
forward In a manly and straightforward
way, with hope and confidence and cour
age, to tho performance of the duties
which liavo devolved upon us.
o
No otio could take any exception to the
course of any senator who, when tho
treaty of Paris was under consideration,
opposed its rattllcatlon or of a member
of the house who, when tho appropriation
for cairylng It Into effect was being con
sidered, opposed tho grant of tho neces
sary lunds, believing In his heart and
mind and conscience that we were doing
something which wo ought not to do.
But tho treaty having been ratified and
carried Into effect, not only can no good
bo accomplished by criticism and fault
llnding with what Is beyond recall, but
no sen so of duty can command such a
course. On the contrary, every impulse
of patriotism ought to prompt every citi
zen to stand squarely behind those
charged with tho administration of the
government and lend every ald'toithu
correct und successful solution of -the
difficulties by which wc aro confronted.
And not only ought he to do this freely
and with all his might and main, but to
do less is little short of treason. The
treaty being rutlflcd'and carried Into cr
fect, what, then, la tho duty of Ameri
cans? It seems to me there could be but
one answer. I ask myself what I would
do if I had been amongst those opposed
to these acquisitions. I have been ablo
to find but one answer. I would say I
have dono my duty; I hao spoken and
voted against this courso of action; I
have warned my colleagues and my coun
trymen; but they have not heeded my
advice or my warning. They have
thought otherwise. They have deter,
mined otherwise. The die Is cast, and
now I stand for my country and wttn
my countrymen against all who would
strike at the flag, who aro in arras
against our authority, wherever thev
may be. This was tho spirit of the brave
men who, although, opposed politically to
Mr. Lincoln, answered his call to arms
in IStit. This should be the spirit of the
patriot today. There can bo no mld
dlo ground. "Choose you this day whom
ye will berve." If your country, shall
you not. do It fully, unreservedly, un
btlntedly? Should jou not do It In word
and deed? 1 do not wish to sit In Judg
ment on any other man. I would not
be one of those who have found no
words but those of condemnation for
our government and praise for those In
arms asainst us for all the wealth of
all the Indies.
c
How admirable the course of the presi
dent of the United States in comparison
with that of his critics and detractors.
Docs anyone who knows his pure und ex
alted life, public and private, suppose for
uu instant that he is any less actuated
by a sense of duty than aro they? Can
anyone who rcmembera his w.iriinouc in
other days to offer his life for tho cause
ui irceaom ana numanuy suppose that
he loves liberty any less than these
nursery statesmen, who talk about his
intention to subvert it and bet up a
monarchy? Can anyone suppose that ho
has not aa complete and ever-prcbent re
alization as they or tho arduous task
which Is sot before him and usV Ah, no,
Mr. Chairman. He sees all, feels ail,
understands all, as well as they, and with
no less profound sense of duty, with no
less stem realization of the magnitude
and delicacy of the responsibility, with
no less ardent love of liberty and Justice.
But ho approaches that duty with no
sign of shirking or evading. Ho sets
about tho task slowly and cautiously ami
tentatively, as well becomes so great an
undertaking, but hopefully, courageous
ly. Ho Indulges In no Ill-timed, acudeinlw-,
und axiomatic deliverance:: about lib
evty. but goes stcudlly on with tho work
of establishing and extending, not its
theoretical shadow, but its practical and
enduring substunce. Ho ought to suc
ceed; h will succeed. He ought to be
supported by tho American people; ho will
be supported by them. And when the his
tory of this administration, this brilliant,
thU wonderful administration, conies to
be -written, llko those of Washington
und Lincoln, It will stand out bright and
shining und glorious In the onward march
of tho nation; "great in the aiduous
greatness of things accomplished," re
membered, ever for Its splendid uchloxc
uients and noble sacrifices, while those
who. Instead of supporting and assisting
It. aro censuring or taiplug and caviling,
will be forgotten, or, If remembered, re
membered as to this nat of their public
careers only with sorrow and regret. For
my purt. I place myself under tho flag,
behind the administration of my coun
tiy, by the side of the American soldier in
whatover land he may be. I believe In
my country. I bellevo in the sincerity
of those, whom tho people have called to
guide Its destinies. I do not believe there
throbs a tyrant heait umongst them. I
do not believe there exists anywhere any
sentiment or hope or aspiration that does
not mako for the lifting up of .these peo
plo whoso destiny we- have made a part
of our own. Believing thus, I look
forward, not backward. I ask myself,
not what of the past, but what of the lu
luro? I would wipe out no footprints that
havo been mado, but mako more certain
and sccuro tho steps that aro yet to be
taken,
o
The power to acquire being admitted,
and acquisition being accomplished and
complete, wo then approach that subject
with which wo liave to deal, tho only
real, practical question which now ie
mains, the question of their, go ernment
and control. And we here meet with1 prob
terns totally different from any which
have ever confronted us before, and in
deed different from any with which any
other government has had to deal. Prob
leins more complex, even, In these Isl
ands, with their enormous area and 'In
some of them their savage or semi-savage
population of many millions, and In
nil of them u people totally unaccus
tomed to our Institutions, than any ever
presented to England In all her broad
eruftlre. "It should bo our endeavor-to
mako no mltakes,.oras few as .possible.
That' wo hvA mado some mistakes In the
past when tor) fronted by now conditions
1 think few, will now deny and .with the
warning of these beforn us It be
hooves us to,' moxc and act cau
tiously ami slowly, and Inspired by the
feeling that what wo do now may affect
not only tho present but many genera
tions to come; And wo should bo gov
erned not by any spirit of purtlsanslilp
or party advantage, hut only by that
of tho loftiest patriotism and the most
unselllsh devotion to the principles i of
liberty und humanity.
o
Thete Is much talk uboul a protector,
u to for these Islandr. To mo this would
seem to bo thn wldfbt mid most Inex
cusable departure from tho settled policy,
upon which wo have acted for more than
a century, of minding our own business.
It is truo that wo havo undertaken a
limited, qdnsl jirotcetornlc us to our
neighbors In this hemisphere, going to
tho extent of forbidding any European
nation to acquire, and extend the Euro
pcan system to, any part of their terri
tory;' but this wo havo done for our own
protection, not for theirs, and as essential
to our own peace and security, not to
theirs. In other words, thn Monroe doc
trine Is in the strictest senso a minding
of our own business. Wo can llnd no Jus
tification or excuso for extending It to
tho Philippine Islands. To attempt to
do so, would only make us absurd and ah
solutcly destroy tho tcnabillty of that
doctrine. If wo attempt to extend to
them ii protectorate In tho real meaning
of that term, wo shall be meddling not
only with their afralis, but with tho af
fairs of every other nation with which as
Un Independent sovereignty they may bo
brought In contact, and thus we shall
bo obliged to tako practical contiol of
their affairs or else constantly expose
ourselves to the danger of being em
broiled with other nations about matters
which they may Justly say arc none, of
our "concern. Surely there cull be. no
question In the. minds of thoughtlut men
that If we am to havo the responsibility
of them, It would bo lcst to have at
onco power equal to that responsibility.
But If we mako them our own, call them
our own, treat them us our own, they
and nil nations will know to whom to
look and with whom to reckon, and what,
ever we may do with them or In them or
about them will be our own business and
nobody else's. We have not yet gone Into
the business of actirg as general guard
Ian for all the weak and incapable tribes
and peoples of tho earth, nnd I hope we
never shall. But wherever our flag floats
there It Is tho symbol of our protection,
our power, and our responsibility.
o
Holding thein as our own, thcie ought
to be no question amongst icuonablo
men as to our duty to their people. The.
spirit of our government, the gcnuls of
our people, point tho way and tell us that
wo should lead them to civilization and lit
them for sclf-govcrnmont; that we should
at tho beginning confer upon them such
measure of self-government as 'their
character and past and present environ,
ment will admit; that wo should grad
ually from tlmo to tlmo increuse that
measure of self government; that In the
years to come wo should bring them. If It
be possible, to that condition of practical
Independence enjoyed by Canada and
Australia with refcienco to Great Biit
aln; and for my part I hope and look for
tho day to como when, reserving to our
selves only such points of advantage as
shall be 'necessary for tho maintenance
of our commercial and International In
terests, we shall grant them actual In
dependence, If they shall deslro It and
shall prove lliemsehcs lit for It und able
to maintain It. How far oft that time
may be no man can now determine. That
they will ever, after they have for a time
enjoyed in the fertile and prolific soil,
and In tho soft air and under the brilliant
skies of their beautiful climate, all the
blessings of liberty and law. after they
have found under the flag of this great
republic a safety and security and sweet
ncss in lifo of which they have never
dreamed before, desire to depart from
Its protection and set up an Independent
government and flag of their own I do
not believe. But that wo should, ir It bo
possible, guide and lead them to the ca
pacity to 'do so, If they shall wish to, Is
to my mind our clear duty, m it should
bo our unceasing endeavor. Some people
seem to talk, about holding theso pos
sessions as dependencies or colonies as
though it was unworthy of us und dc.
grading to them. They seem to forget
that right upon our northern border- there
are a people, as free and as liberty loving
and brave as we are, who occupy that re
lation to Gicat Britain. They seem to
forget that for nearly two centuries we
were In that condition ourselves, and thut
but for that apprenticeship wc probably
would not have been fit for thn task
which we have had to peiform. But the
business In hand now Is to goxern and
control them as we find them. It is tor
us to meet our esponslblllties and leuvo
thoso who como after us to meet thciis.
o
Thut we shall abide by and enforce
those great principles of llbeity and nat
ural Justice and right, which are, as It
were, bred In the bone of our race and
Inseparably a part of our traditions and
of our habits of thought and action, I
do uot think any will deny, unless It be
a rare one here and there who, having
found under our institutions a liberty and
freedom unknown elsewhere, Is now en
gaged In the self-imposed task of teach
ing us how to presorvo them. But that
wo shall bo obliged In tho outset to cstab
llsh In these Islands a government In
some respects different from any we have
over before adopted for any portion of
our territory. I do not doubt. Tho Judi
cial system will probably have to be in
some respects different from our own.
No people can bo lit for that partlclpa.
tlon In the administration or Justice to
which under our system ex fry American
is accustomed, without years, pet haps
generations, of training In the habits of
freedom und selfrestialnt and In that
spirit which stands, above everything,
for law and order, and which dreads,
aboxe all else, tho pollution of the foun
tains of Justice. Tho rcx'cnue laws and
commercial regulations may havo to bo
different from our own. There may bo
other things as to which we may have to
adopt different principles and policies
from those heretofore pursued by us.
Surely at first wo will 'haxo to govern
with a linn, strong hand. Let us, then,
approach this prnbli from this stand
point and with the objects to which I
have refened In view,
LITERARY NOTEd.
The lirth voluino of Piofcssor J. B. ilc
Master's "History of tho People of the
Unlttd States," which Is to bo Issued im
mediately by 1). Appleton & Co.. covers
a period of our history between 1S21 und
JM0, which In many of Us phases has re
ceived but scant attention. Tho closo of
Monroe's term, tho administration of
John Qulncy Adams, and tho stormy
opening years of Jackson form an' epoch
of peculiar Interest in view ot the de
clopment of the democratic spirit, the
manifestations ot a new Interest In social
problems, the experiments In banking
and finance, the Improvements In tho con
dltons of city life, the changing relations
between tho east and west, und tho au
thor's full and striking presentation of
the literary activity of the countrv nt
that time. Tho volume opens with the
uregon nispute. and truces tho growth
of the Monroe doctrine. After reviewing
the important foreign relations of Mon
roe's second term. Professor McMastrr
returns to domestic affairs, discussing
tho breaking up of the Republican party,
and sketching certain social, political, lit
crury' and Industrial conditions which
paved the way for tho triumph of Jack
son and Democracy. Socialistic move,
nients and labor reforms, problems In
city gox-ernment, the Introduction of gas
and anthraelto coal, the opening of the
Erie canul, the early railroads, thu negro
problem, the Industrial revolution, the
tariff and the states-rights doctrine of
Calhoun, a study ot the common schools
In our first half century, and a striking
survey of British criticism ot tho United
States, ore among the themes vividly
presented hyalite historian. Then follow
chapters on political Ideas and foreign
complications, and un account of the
prevention of the freedom Of Cuba by the
United States In the Interest of slaxe
holders, and finally a plcturo of . tho til
umpli of Democracy In the election of
Jackson, which yWas followed by the
sweeping removals from ofllce, the at
tempt to buy Tcxus, and Ilia rise ot ques
tions concerning tho Indian, the surplus,
tho public lands, und the right of hull!
Ilcatlon. Many phases of our history
treated In this volume hi-c now adequate
ly presented for the first time, and sev
eral of them arc of peculiar und timely
Interest.
Tho four bundled uud tlility-llllh thou
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