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THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1900.
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SCRANTON, MARCH 23, 1900.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
Legislature.
First Dlstrlct-T. JEFFERSON REY
NOLDS. Second Distrlct-JOHN SCHEUER, JR.
Tho net result of the legislative pri
mal les thus far held thtoughout the
state Is it decided stiffening of party
lines. We do not know of an Instance
In which a candidate for the legislature
bus hud the hardihood to announce In
advance his Intention, If elected, to
bolt the caucus of his party; but on
tin- contrary we know of several any
Quay nominees who are under pledge
to nblde tho will of the next senatorial
caucus, and It Is not to be believed
that ninny of these will break their
word. All this represents a gain for
legulnr methods and tends to minim
ize the possibility of another deadlock.
Untie the Foraker Knot.
A PROPOSITION Is soon to be
submitted to the president
by Sir William Van Home,
formerly president and gen
eral manager of the Canadian Pacific
railway, which on Its face looks rea
sonable and satisfactory. Sir William
has secured the active interest of a
number of wealthy Americans, includ
ing such men as Pierpont Morgan, Mr.
Itockufeller, Mr. Flagler, John W. Mac
kay, D. O. Mills and Granville M.
Dodge, In a project to Invest $23,000,000
In tho construction of a complete rail
way system In Cuba.
"They propose," says our informant,
Mr. W. E. Curtis, of the Chicago Rec
ord, "to buy and consolidate all tho
existing railways, which have a mile
age of about 1,200 miles, divided up
into short lines running from the prin
cipal seaports over the sugar country,
and extend them until every province
shall be well supplied with transporta
tion facilities. They first propose to
construct a 'vertebraterial' from Cape
Antonc, the extreme western tip, to
Cape Mais!, the extreme eastern tip of
the island, which is about "60 miles,
running as near the center of the island
as economical engineering will permit.
From this main stem, or backbone,
they will construct a seiles of ribs
from convenient Junctions north and
south to the accessible ports, thus giv
ing an outlet to the products of the
central portion of the Island, which
now have no roads and arc beyond
reach."
Tho aica of Cuba is 43,000 square
miles and only about one-fourth of It
has ever been cultivated, although
there is hardly a square mile of land
on the Island Incapable of some profit
able use. These men who are propos
ing to build this railroad recognize
that for a number of years they would
not get back anything like a reason
able return on their money, but they
have faith In the Island's commercial
future; they realize that the develop
ment of a profitable transportation
business Is only a question of time;
and they are willing to accept the risk
and ask no bounty, subsidy or special
concession beyond a guarantee that if
they build the road their property
rights In It will be satisfactorily pro
tected under whatever government
shall finally control the Island.
To Americans who oppreclate what
their own country owes to the trans
continental railioads In the develop
ment of their great interior resources
the Idea here presented, even though
It bo a htrlctly business proposition
looking to the ultimate reimbursement
of its promoters, will appeal as In
volving Incalculable benefit to Cuba.
What Its legal status would be under
the Foraker resolution forblddlntr the
Amei leans to grant any churteis or
concessions during the period of their
control of Cuba we do not know: but
It seems to us that It Is time that reso
lution were amended so as to permit
the entrance Into Cuba of outside
capital on missions of commercial and
Industrial development, under reason
able safeguards and restrictions. Men
like William McKlnley and Leonard
Wood ought to be permitted to exor
cise some measure of direction In
flieso mattei s. If they are not to be
trusted, who are?
, i.i.
.It is not literally true that Colonel
Henry Watterson will not support
Uryan If he is nominated. But it is
reasonably safe to 'reckon that the
Courier-Journal editor will not ex
Waust his health in Bryan's behalf.
The Jftlgh't Kind of Censorship.
TrjVWE. DISPOSITION made by
1' Justice Fur'sman, of the New
I L York city Supreme court, of
, the celebrated case of some
of the people versus "Sapho" must
wln'ttior approval f the Judicious.
Have .Miii Nethersole and her asso
ciates, in, the production of this play,
maintained a public nuisance? If
Oiey have they should be punished.
If they haie not, tlxjy should go fiee.
:The question, said Justice Fursman,
Is almost entirely one of fact. Is the
play of such a character and so pro
duced'SB'to outrage the sense of public
decency which is common among edu
cated, modest, right-minded, fair
yilnklng men and. women? The ques
tion Is not wljqtjier this individual or
that-Individual takes offense, but
whoVhcrtJTa KatUre bf tho production is
uch asjtpsnock or offend the aver
age -8linL.and Conscience, Inasmuch
its the'tMaUer is eo clearly one resting
first cgt all uponj the determination of
rtie facts, 'the learned Justice promptly
took 4t-out of tta band of the petty
magistrate: who was about to act as
judge, Jury and lord high executioner
rolled In one, and remanded It to the
general sessions. This means that
the rase wilt go to ttlal regularly
before a Jury. "These Juries," re
marked the Justice, "ure composed of
men selected from the great mnss of
citizens of the city and county of New
York, to perform their very Important
duties, because of their good citizen
ship, their high moral character, their
Intelligence and their approved integ
ilty. If such a body of such men are
able to draw the Inference from the
production of this play, that It Is an
offense against public decency, It
should be condemned and tho defend
nuts punished for having produced It!
but if such men are able, on tho other
hand, to draw the Inference that the
play Is not Indecent, within the fair
meaning of section SS5 of tho code,
tfien the defendants should be dis
charged and tho play allowed to pro
ceed." This Is a form of censorship to which
there cannot be righteous objection.
Wo hear a good deal about tho liberty
of the stnge. Tt Is entitled to no more
liberty than tho press; and when tho
press prints obscene literature It Is not
permitted to use the malls and when,
In the opinion of a jury, it libels a man
its responsible agents have to pay a
line or go to Jail. This Is the difference
between liberty and license. The dif
ference Is one which must occasionally
be emphasized for the public welfare.
The report Is current at Washington
that Great Britain has been won over
to an acceptance of the senate amend
ment to tho Hay-Pauncefotc treaty
which, In clumsy language, provides
that in case the United States should
become engaged In war with any other
power we could lawfully close tlw
Nicaragua canal to the warships of
that power. If this should prove to be
correct, It Is to be hoped that before
tho treaty Is finally ratllled Its thetur
lcal crudities will bo combed out. We
owe that much to the English lan
guage. Trusts.
u:
NDER A resolution now pend
ing in congress, another
amendment Is proposed to
the constitution of the Unit
ed States. This amendment, known
as the Ray amendment, from the name
of Its author, Representative Ray, of
New York, chairman of the committee
on the Judiciary, would, if adopted,
cause an Article XVI to appear in the
constitution, reading as follows:
Tho congress shall hao tho power to
regulate and repress n,onopolles and com
binations; to create nnd dissolve corpora
tions, and dispose of their property; to
make all laws necessary and proper for
tho execution of the foregoing powers.
Such powers may bo exercised by the
several states in any manner not In con
flict with tho laws of the United States.
It has been represented in some
quarters that this Is a campaign trick
of the Republican party to make a
show of hostility to the trusts suffi
cient to carry It sufely through tin
coming presidential campaign, bv
which time the proposed amendment
will have died a natural death and
be ready for quiet burial. Wo do not
think that this Is a fair view of the
subject. Tho Republican party Is not
under the necessity of resorting to
clap trap In order to win the next
presidential election; and If It should
have to compete with the Hry.i'i type
of politician for the suffrages of those
who ore Influenced -by clap ftp we
would consider that Bryan co'i'd give
it cards and spades and still beat It
out.
Tho fact Is that the" Republican
party Is ready to go as far In the di
rection of regulating the trusts as It
can go with the approval of fair
minded men and In the wholesome feir
of the United States Supreme coutt.
It Is willing to take federal control of
corporations It the legislatures of
three-fourths of the states are willing
that It should do so; and If that con
trol shall bo given to It under the con
stitution It will guarantee to use it to
the best of its ability in the interest of
the public welfare and for tho correc
tion of abuses. This Is the plain mean
ing of tho Ray amendment, and the
introduction of that resolution carries
the matter up to the Democratic party.
China's Imports today are less than
30 cents a head, or about the same as
Jnpan's were ere Japan opened its
doors to modern civilization. Now Ja
pan Imports $6 worth per capita; and a
similar gain for China would supply
the biggest new market on the face of
the earth, of which the United States
ought to secure the lion's share.
Great Lake Prospects.
A'
NUMBER of facts of wide
spread Interest In connection
with the development of In
dustry and commerce on and
around our Inland seas are embodied
In an exhaustive forecast of the lake
marine outlook for 190u which appears
In the Chicago Times-Herald.
Last year the gross tonnage of ves
sels entering and clearing Chicago nnd
Calumet harbors was io, 000,000 tons.
This year it will exceed 17,000,000 tons,
notwithstanding that many largo boats
have been withdrawn from the grain
and merchandise trado to carry ore
and coal. tn the Calumet last year
2,650,000 tons of ore were handled. This
year 3,600,000 tons have been contracted
for, and In other ore-purchasing cen
ters a similar Increase is anticipated.
In general merchandise, canned goods,
dry 'goods, hardware, groceries, green
fruits and miscellaneous cargoes the
quantltes handled bv lake and river
this year will, it is predicted, increase
from 10 to 20 per cent, ns compared
with last year, the esttmato being
based on a comparison of orders last
March and this.
The best evidence that a busy lake
season Is in prospect, however, Is to
bo found In tho arrangements which
are being made to handle the rush.
One year ago tho value of the ships
under construction in lako shipyards
was $3,200,000; this year moro than
$0,000,000 worth of vessel property Is
being rushed through. In 1S96 on
Lakes Michigan and Superior there
were twenty-one docks for handling
Iron ore. These docks had 4.43S pock
ets, with an aggregate capacity of 617,
250 tons. When navigation opens thl3
spring there will be twonty-thrco docks,
with a total of 5.061 pockets and a
storage capacity of 834,082 tons, a net
gain of C23 pockets and l5,S32 tons
storage 'capacity, or about 40 per cent,
increase In storage capacity in four
years.
A through pas'senger service from
Buffalo to Chicago by boat Is one of
the promised novelties of the coming
navigation season. It will constitute
a liberal education to those who have
not ridden over the great lakes a Jour
ney which every American citizen
should make at least once in his life
time. It may not be generally known In
Scranton that our former fellow-citizen,
Tallle Morgan, Is president of the
Ocean Grove board of trade. Indeed,
there Is a prospect that Tallle will yet
become a greater man than was ever
Founder Bradley in the palmiest and
most voluminous days of his linen
duster monarchy. Tallle Is now devel
oping a monumental idea. He fancies
that perhaps Philadelphia will be un
able to secure the Exposition building
for the national Republican convention
and therefore no building will be large
enough for that great event. Hence
his proposition to allure the conven
tion to Ocean Grove by means of the
big auditorium" which can hold 12,000
persons. Tallle Is to lay his plans be
fore Mark A. Hanna and the result
will be nwalted with interest. When
It comes to real originality and enter
prise it 'takes a Scranton man every
time to be in the lead.
Why Expansion
Was Foreordained
and IneuifabI?
From an Address Delivered at St. Louis
Last Week by Postmaster Oencral
Charles Emery Smith.
THE OVERMASTERING fact In tho
material development of the world
during the pat quarter of n century
is tho marvelous Industrial expan
sion of tho United States. The moment
our manufactured exports exceeded our
manufactured Imports, that moment we
passed beyond the possession of our do
mestic Held to the demand of foreign
morUcts. Tho pregnant hour when our ex
ports nr manufactures passeu our im
ports came in 1S9S, and In the striking
march of events that are not ruled by any
mere churce, that very year witnessed tho
wur with Spain, which, us Its unexpected
and unavoidable result, brought us tna
gteat opportunity of commercial outlet
for which tho princes of business had u.1
readv begun to look, but which the keen
est. vision had never foreseen. The first
and paramount obligation connected with
tho war Is the moral duty growing out
of It. Above all other considerations are
the moral responsibilities of our new
position. Hut when we have met the
highest rqulrement of the moral stand
ord, there is no code of ethics and no
rulo of statemanshlp which excludes con
sideration of tho commercial interests
Involved In our public policy.
o--Let
mo ask our attention to our re
markable position of economic superior
ity and to tho Imperative demands which
grow out of It. Familiar as we are with
the legend of our national growth, we
do not realize Its stupendous proportions
until wo analyze and measuro it by com
parison. In 1ST0 the nnnu.il value of our
manufactures was $3,"0U,wO.0on; now It is
about $12,000,000,000u For hulf a century
England had been the workshop of tho
world, and. wo had only Just begun. Still
wo had got such a start that In 1S70 the
manufactures of the United States ,1uet
about equaled those of Great Britain. But
slnco then our growth has been so pro
digious thnt now our manufactures
amount to two nnd n half times tho total
volumo ot Britain's manufactures and
equal those of Great Britain. Germany
and France put together. Tho Increase
In the annual market product within
thirty years has been double tho com
bined Increase of those three great na
tions of Europe. In other words. If you
match the United States against Great
Britain, Germany and Franco together,
our manufactures nre now equal to all
theirs and are growing twice as fast. We
aie manufacturing nearly two-thirds as
much as all Europe with Its n.SO.000,000
people, and moro than one-third of all
that Is manufactured In the world,
o
If you take the whole range of Indus
tries, including agriculture, mining, trans
portation and even commerce, wherein
nlouo we aro behind tho proportions stand
about tho same. Tho aggregate vnluo of
nil American Industries Is moro than dou
ble that of Great Britain, three times
that of Franco and two and a half times
that of Germany. It is one-half that of
all Europo combined. With this enor
mous industrial expansion tho national
wealth of tho United States grows pro
portionately. In ISm. our aggregate wealth
was but little moro than half that of
Great Britain, less than half that of
Franco and only about half that of tho
nations that mado up tho German em
pire. Now It Is a third greater than
Great Britain's, double Germany's and
nearly double that of France. Within
forty years tho United States has gained
over Jt 7,000,000,000 In wealth, while Oreat
Britain, France and Germany together
havo gained less than JtfO.OOO.OW.OOO.
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Tho figures of our national earnings
dszzlo tl o Imagination. Last year wo
earned about $1 4.500,000, 000, of which mora
than one-half was tho wages of labor.
'I ho enmities of labor In the United
States today aro greater than tho com
bined earnings of capital and labor to
gether In Great Britain. Labor was
never so well rewarded as In this pros
perous year. As compared with tho
ears 1S93, 1894 and 1&93, the average earn
ings of lnbor now aro In the ratio of 127
to 81. Thnt Is, they are nearly 60 per
cent, grerter lhan they were five years
ago. '4 no wnoio country is striuing ror
ward by leaps and bounds. The J.'O.OOO.
(W0 granted to Spain In connection with
tho Philippines was paid by what tho
country earns In half a day. The na
tion's earrings In a tingle year like the
present aro equivalent to moro than one.
half Its entire accumulated wealth in
ISiTO: thnt is, to mote than one-half of all
that it had saved and put Into nil forms
of piopeity riming the first eighty years
of its existence ns a nation. Our annual
gain is about $2.noo,000,v0i. and every suc
ceeding working day sees tho United
States over $G,000,KV better off than It was
tho day before. Wo havo multiplied our
capital more than thieefold slnco 1S70. and
to Its present vast proportions we sliall In
the next ten years add as much as the en
tlro capital of the nation was In 1870. With
this rapid and tremendous expansion of
capital and ot the product of lnbpr, is
there to bo no expansion of Its oppor
tunity and Its outlets?
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When wn.pass from these broad out
lines to tho particular fuctrro. tho aston
ihhlng grow tli and tho superior position
of the United States are emphasized. Iron
and steel aro everywhere recognized us
tho basic fabrics and the surest index of
industrial pow. r. F'tteen ye.ui ago
tho United States mado only half as
much pig iron as Great Biltaln, and only
a nttio moro man nermany. witnm
that bhort peilod our gain has been equal
to tho combined gain of tho two great
Iron nations of Europe: wo uuw make 50
nor cent, more than cither: and we have
leaped to far .to tho front that wo mako
moro than one-third of all the Iron that
Is mado In tho world. Tho baino thing
Is true of steel. Last year wo produced
twico as much steel as Great Britain,
though llftecn years ago our product was
less than hers; and, whllo Germany has
outstripped Great Britain, wo uro W) per
cent, ahead of Germany. Wo mako half
ns much steel as all ether nutlons put
together.
Not only do we hold the present mas.
tery, but wo command the future, be
cause wo possess thii elements of contin
ued industrial supremacy. Our unused
resources uro oven more lemarkablo and
lgnlttcant thun our present achieve
ments. Coal and Iron ore ,nre the raw
material and tho foundation of Iron and
steel production. 1'ho coul ilelds of Great
Britain embrace 9.300 square miles, and
t those of Germany 3,0W square mile. But
how mighty seem tho potentialities of the
United States when wo remember that
our total coal area covers 200,000 square
miles, nnd that, oven when wo limit It
to the quantity of cont which enters Into
tho manufacture of Iron, It still reaches
tho stupendous llgutes of more than 70,000
square miles, or 20,000 square miles more
than the entire nica of England! Our
coal production has rapidly advanced, un
til wo now mine as much ns Great Britain
and nearly one-third of nil that Is mined
In tho world. Great Britain exports
40,000,000 tons, or one-fifth of her entire
product, while wo consume practically all
of ours and export only 4.0OJ.000 tons. As
our llllmltablo Holds are opened and for
eign fields aro reduced, our capability of
supplying tho world will become more
und moro marked. Even now wo are
reudlng In tho public press of tho coal
famlno In Europe, and of the gteat de
mand for American coal,
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Tho facts as to Iron ore aro much the
same. Great Britain used nbout 18,000,000
tons In 1898, but sho had to Import one
third of It, or 6,000,000 tons. On the other
hand, tho United States produced 19,000,000
ions, ana used an or it wunin ner uwm
borders. In tho lake regions we have
a wealth of ore beds which nro practically
inexhaustible and which, with our bound
less coal Melds, assure our Increasing and
ondurlng supremacy as an Industrial
power. Wo havo not vet gained the
sumo lend In textiles. But, though wo
began fifty years ngo with a valued pro
duet onlv one.seventli of Great Britain's,
only one-fifth of France's and only one
half of Germany's, we have now caught
up to Great Britain, and nearly equal
Franco and Germany combined. Our
predominance will become as signal In
this Held as In metals. English author
ities point out the fact that there Is a
serious depreciation in cotton mills at
Manchester; that no new capital enters
the trade, and that employment Is de
creasing. But In South Carolina alone
twenty-six new cotton mills havo been
established within tho past year, many
more being doubled In capacity, while in
the whole South COOo.OOO spindles havo
been set up, standing for an investment
of $123,000,000.
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Nor does Amcrlcnn superiority end
here. When Enplnnd was rising to her
Industrial leadership she had tho ad
vantage of new mechanical forces. The
continent was paralyzed and prostrate
for a quarter of a century under the
blight of the Napoleonic wars. While
thus freo li m all competitive rivalry
England, through the skill of her Vatt3
anu Arjcwrigns ana Etevensons, appnra
new mechanical power to the productive
processes, and became the unchallenged
workshop of the woild. It was estimat
ed at that tlmo that ono pair of hands In
England, with these efficient agencies,
had tho productho energy nnd value of
ten pairs of hands on tho continent. The
United States has n similar, though less
signal, advantage now. American genius
and Invention and adaptability have given
our Industries a completeness and perfec
tion of mechanical equipment which
greatly multiply their productive power.
A single broad fact demonstrates the su
periority. In Europe 43,000,000 operatlc3
and artisans were employed In li93 In
producing tho annual aggrcgato of manu
factured articles valued at $17,000,000,000,
or $3S0 apiece. In tho United States at
the sumo tlmo G.OflO.000 operatives produced
goods woith $10,000,000,000, or about $U8S
apiece, or more than four times as much
as an operative In Europe.
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This superior equipment and producing
power, man for man, explains why wo
can pay higher wages nd still competo
with the nations of the Old World on
their own ground, and in their own mar
kets. It Is tho secret of the comfort of
American labor, tho key of American ci.
terprlse, and the talisman of American
expansion. It explali s why, within a
few months, American shops have placed
a goodly number of locomotives on Eng
lish railways. It explains why we nio
sending American machinery to Sheffield
and Birmingham, and wl.y our rails nro
found In Manchuria and Siberia, In In
dia and Africa, The antiquity which en
shrines the Pyramids looks down through
forty centuries on the American electric
load that carries troops of visitors to
their base, and tho mystery of the Bilent
Sphynx must now wellnlgh yield Its se
cret in wonder at the new riddle of the
youngest civilization and people peace
fully Invading and conquering the oldest.
The British government needed a great
steel bridge, nearly a quarter of a mile
long across the Atbara for Kitchener, and
needed It at or.ee: tho British manufac
turers required seven months to build it;
American constructors asked seven
weeks, nnd Philadelphia sent the bridge.
This superior alertness, adaptability and
equipment distinguish general American
enterprise. It has a plant which beats
the'world, and It must find the market for
Its product.
o
And even all these striking facts do not
tell tho whole story of American advan
tage. England Is dependent on the out
side world for her food supply and her
raw material. In less degree the same
thing is true of France and Germany.
Tho United States, on the other hand, is
the one country that supplies Its own food
and raw material, the one great nation
that sells more than It buys, the one world
power that is completely Independent and
wholly self-sustaining. Wo havo seen
that tho crow-th of tho United States In
manufactures has been phenomenal: that
Its Industrial product Is now equal to
that of the three great Industrial na
tions of Europe combined; that It Is one
half tho product of all the rest of tho
world put together, and Is growing twice
us fast; that we are Immeasurably ahead
of all rivols In raw materials and re
sources for future development, and that,
with our superior nppllances, wo far ex
cel them in producing power man for
man. Since 1870, while our population has
doubled, our n anofuctures havo quad
rupled. Our producing capacity Is up to
and beyond tho measure of our consum
ing ability nnd Is Increasing faster. What,
then, aro we to do? Are we to restrict
production? Aro wo to run mill and fac
tory on reduced lime, with the neces
sary sequences of lower wages, smaller
profits and wide discontent? Or are we
to provide for this enormous and expand
ing output by supplementing our own
vast but unequal measure of consumption
with new outlets and new markets?
Our pathway Is determined by our re
quirements. Commercial development la
the Inevitable necessity of our agricul
tural and manufactuiir.g supremacy. The
demands ot cur industrial position com
pel us to enter upn i ommerclal expan
sion. With our surpassing power of pro
duction, with our farms nnd forges and
factories turning out more than we can
consume, with our matchless inventive
and mechanical genius steadily Increas
ing our pnoductlvo energy, with our
wealth of yet untouched resources which
must In tho fututc put us still farther
In the lead of all nations, we havo only
ono of two courses before us. Either we
must halt our growth, limit our produc
tion, bank our fires and stop our spin
dles, reduce our labor and restrict our
capital, with all tho hardship that this
Involves, or else we must find broader
markets and expanded consumption. Do
you tell mo there is cott and possible
difficulty In this extension abroad? But
Is there not greater cost and loss In a
paralyzing restriction at homo? Do you
tell me there aro risks and perplexities
In this policy of commercial expansion?
jnit are tnere not greater ana graver per
plexities ana dangers, which may only
bo suggested, in a policy of industrial con
traction?
o
Let us fully realize the mighty facts of
our national situation. Had there been no
war with Spain, had tho new and glorious
May morn of American liberty never shea
its lustro over tho bay of Manila, had no
victory at Santiago brought a brilliant
triumph of peaco charged with great re
sponsibilities, we should still havo been
compelled to look beyond our continental
bounds, It was inevitable that we should
advance out of our isolation and turn
our faces outward to tho worlu. Our
transcendent Industrial growth and Its
Imperative need of outlets demanded It.
If the Immortal history of tho past two
years wern blotted out, wo Bhould mako
that commercial effort with no such art
antuges und no such re3plendent possl
bllltlet, as now beckon us onward. There
would be no prestige and Impress of an
ever-floating lias In the Orient. Thero
would be no kev to Asia In our hands.
Theio vculd be no open door In China,
But even ha there been no such glitter
ing chapter, our continued material ad
vunccu'cnt would havo required us to ex
tend tho nrms of our commerce across
the seas, and commerce means a uuvy
and outposts nnd defense. Tho futuro
historian, In portraying the magnificent
progress of the republic, will dwell upon
tho manifest guldnnce of a power higher
than nny chance lp the great and preg
nant fact that just us it reached the
stage of Its development where Its Indus
trial upbuilding needed to be crowned
with commercial extension, tho unforseon
nnd mighty events of the Spanish war
suddenly lifted the curtain and unveiled
the new prospect, tho wider horizon and
tne unexpected and immeasurable oppor-
J tunity.
ooooooooooooooooo
I In Woman's Realm
ooooooooooooooooo
A MAN OUT west has gone Insane bo
cause his wife nppeurcd before him
with her hair chemically bleached. It
was a Bomewhnt ttrange procedure. If
tho woman had gone mad from the ef
fect of the bleach on hor brain wo should
have not been so surprised. Indeed If It
had beer discovered that sho was de
mented all the tlmo and that the hair
bleaching performance was but a more
malignant symptom of her mental utata
It would not have been amazing, but to
have her hlifcbnnd suddenly become a rav
ing lunatic because of tho change In her
appearance Is really singular.
The average man who hi's lived long
enough with a wlfo to have her lench
i ho nan where hair bleaching would seem
deslrablo In her eyes, or where she would
be capable of employing It would natur
ally have grown so used to hor vngarles
that nothing could surprise him. At any
rate nobody would expect him to tako It
so hard even when she arrived at the in
termediate "groenery-yallery" stage,
when the bleach begins to wear oft. Oi
course tho public doesn't know what
woful experiences ho may have had prior
to seeing his wife resplendent In yellow
hair. Probably she tried dyes and tactal
massage and neck gymnastics, and skin
foods and other abominations to the m.13
cullne mind. Maybe tho had tausht him
the Intricacies necessary to become an
expert masseuse.
SOME MINDS seem unable to grasp the
Idea that a woman can bleach her
hair unless sho desires to please or
attract somebody besides her husband.
Now this doesn't necessarily follow.
Thoro aro women who would do almost
anything In tho world to still seem young
and beautiful In their husband's eyes.
Poor dears, often they can't seem to real
ize that their lords aren't observing
enough to know the difference. Thcro
actually aro men who aro such bats as
far as their own families aro concerned
thnt thev wouldn't notice If then wives-
hair had suddenly turned gray In a nl3ht
from worry over tho lack of attention
thev received. It would be a great pltv
to tako the trouble to bleach one's hair
to please such a husband.
.
IT IS PROBABLE that most women
who worry lest their husbands may
be attracted .by a younger face are
borrowing trouble for nothing for,
strange us It may seem to some peo
ple, the average man just the gen
eral, decently conducted sort Isn't
going round with a single Idea, that
of looking for pretty girls. Perhaps his
wifo may be sort of elderly and faded,
but he probably doesn't note It particu
larly and has something elbo In hi
blessed head than trying to discover
beauty In tho streets or at his office. Be
give him credit for that. As you see him
on tho train or tho hotel dining room or
meet him In business, he appears to at
tend to his own affairs rather well and
Isn't watching out for a chance to flirt.
Bleached hair, at home or abroad, Isn't
likely to ensnare his fancy. So far ns a
rather close observer can Judge, the wo
man who bleaches her tresses In order to
he mnro nttractive to any man on the
face of the earth falls short of her mark.
Out of a list of twenty-five Scranton men
who were Interviewed on the question
yesterday not on expressed himself us
admiring It but on the contrary all made
moio or less strong rematks to the ef
fect thnt "If my wife" or sweetheart, or
sister, as the case might be. should
bleach her hnlr "I'd have her drowned"
or 'I'd chloroform her," or "I'd pull It
all out" or jieavo her," or wreak some
other dire retribution upon her.
.
ACTRESSES often find It necessary to
bleach their locks to hide the ravages
of tlmo or render their stago make up
moro easily urrnaged, but why a respect
able woman Is beguiled Into so doing Is
mystifying in the extreme, although there
havo been many to do so. It Is not really
Immoral any more than powdering the
hair by the stately ladles of other days,
was Immoral. It Is probably not more
harmful except after the streaked and
startling hued eflcct has disappeared and
tho natural color has been allowed to
resume Its place, but bleached hair has
never had tho cachet of elegance and
tasto that attended tho coiffure making
of the colonial dame. It Isn't to bo re
gretted that what small voguo It had Is
disappearing und that women reallzo
tho great attractiveness of beautifully
cared for gray hair whether tt comes
early or late In life, bringing tho Inevit
able touch of dismay to tho feminine
heart. .
IFFl
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