SS'V'W :w?jWfnmism jrrw.. vjw.l v j ,..., jjhwh iT J ,vy w IM.-ll v. v i, t',Br sy ."I i. , ., ', , VI.'.- .,',." ,- . ,; i '' -H THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-MOiYDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1002. pWWWrK P'Tr??$&lm .7 . .. C0e fbtxawton Ittitmt Fnblliktd Jfcllf Kiwpt Sunday, by Th TrlbtiM PublUhlnf company,! Fifty Cento Month. MVV B. HICrtAnD ....... KMTO. O. T. BYXBUK BtuiMKM Makaoik. KnUrsd t ths rostofflc t Sersnton, m Recond CIum Malt Matter. When apnea will permit, The Tribune la ftlTMM glad to print ahort lettera from Ita friends bearing on current topics, but Ita rule la that these must tie signed, for pub Mention, by the wrlter'a real nnrne) ami the condition precedent to nocoptnnco la that nit eontrlbutlona all all be aubject to editorial revision. TnB FLAT BATE FOB ADVJEKTISINO. Tha following tublo shows tha price por Inch each Insertion, space to ho used within one yttri m.Diiv nun of al!'n Pull H13PIAY Vtvn ttoonw ros10n i.m than 60 Inches . .80 .61 .o tolnche ) .Jt . loo " so .M M 510 " SG .575 .30 M0 " 20 .55 .54 1000 " 18 .! .18 For csrili of thanks, resolut lon of condolence, and similar contributions In the nature of advertising, The Tribune tnnkes a charge of 5 centi a lino. SUlt ANTON, BEPTKMBBn S, 1001'. REPUBLICAN TICKET. State. Governor-S. W. PEN'N'YPACKER. . Ucutpmint Governor W. M. 111UWN. Secretary of. Interim! Affnlra-ISAAC B. BROWN. County. ConBress-'WII.LTA M CONN EM. jikibc-a. a. vosnuna. ,n Cnniiiilsslonnrs-JOMN f'OURIElt MOR RIS. JOHN PENMAN. Itlnp Ilisncc-tnrs-LLEWELYX M. EV ANS, DAVID T. WILLIAMS. TjOgiolntlve. First Illtlrlct-JOSKPII OLIVER. Pocoml Dlstlirt JOHN SCIIEI'IIIt, JR. Third DIstilct-KDWATtn JAMES. Fourth Distrlct-P. A. PIIILBIN. Election day, Nov. 4. Tf the politicians litul been slnccro In their nnxloty to Hcttle the strike, wliy rtltl they put off their Intervention until fo near election? False Prophets. STRUCK Is n popular nfllictlon. Within thi nuliiis of lis ac C. jk. tlvlty evrrybotly suffers, those engaged In it nr. well ns those who arc merely passive, helpless on lookers of the struggle. There are few raloom'ns features in a strike. Ita po tential gain. If any, Is sharply dis counted by its Immediate loss. Its in trinsic, inevitable accompaniments are waste, rancor and demoralization. What cannot he alleviated must In the nature of things he borne. In the meantime It is wise to accept the dis pensation of the strike as philosophic ally as we can. There Is one feature of the present situation which is a cal lous aggravation of nil Its other mis fortunes. There are few strikes on record In which the Issues have been more clearly set forth, In which there lias been less need for newspaper Inter pretation, less justification for journal istic vaporing and Ignorant declama tion. Those who are parties to the struggle know pach other and under stand each other. They have met and discussed the matter In dispute, and have definitely decided to fight them out to the bitter end. This strike will not last forever, even if those who . liave the misfortune to he engaged In It are all dead before the end of It. There Is always consolation In knowing the truth about things, even the un palatable truth. Every day lying reports are circu lated from New York which It is nec essary for President Mitchell on the one hand or for the operators on the other to contradict and refute. John J'lerpont Morgan has had four months in which to Intervene In this strike if he had the mind to do so. He lias shown no disposition In that direction and Mr. Mitchell lias given no encour agement to the striker's or the public ftencrally to suppose that ho would. If Morgan remains an hour later In his office than usual forthwith a cock-and-luill story Is Hashed across the wires that the great man Is succumbing to the "pressure that is being brought to bear upon him from the outside." If Mr. .Mitchell calls the district presi dents around hlni for consultation it follows of necessity that there must be something abnormal In the wind. Wo do not know whom Senator Piatt has obtained his Information thnt the Ktrlke would end In n "week or at most two." We do not know why he in sists that it will cud soon. If he Is merely giving expression to a general ization founded upon personal obser vation he is as likely to be mistaken as any other pernio. Ho far as those can observe who are living through the .strike there Is to-dny as little appar ent probability of tills despot-rile struggle coming abruptly to an end as there was on Iho day on which it be gan. Ther Is the formulated deter mination oft each side that the fight will continue to n finish. As Superin tendent Itose says, all the predictions that have been made have been fulsi llcd iby the Implacable course of eventfc. It IsilueUo the miners to own that Ihelr'leaders havo given little or no cojintenanco to Wall street rumors. AVe oj-eV'nll Inclined to accept as genu ine pognoatk-u'tions that fit In with our pYeposHesslQiis apd. ,de?res, Sutl)cien7 foe the day and "ion? than Burtlclrnt Is the avll fact that the strike will enter Its fifth month without nny clear foresight of the probable extent of Itsieontlnued duration. The threo-to-one vote by which the British trades union congress rejected u resolution calling for the creation of a plan for, pompulsory arbitration sug uests ;that, compulsion Is most popular when proposed for the other fellow. j:,',' - ThtJ President and tho Trusts. y""HEUK ARR renewed rumors I; of organized opposition from !; within the Republican party , to President Rooseyelt he . cause of his attitude concerning the 'trusts The New York Herald yesteri day repeated with synthesized detail the rumor for some tjmo current that the real secret of the reported Inten tion of tho IC-ew York Republican con vention not to endorse the president as a candidate In 1S04 is tho determination of rVnator Piatt and certain influential Wall street cuptalns of finance to dis connect themselves politically from the lloospyclt programme and to let tho public know that this programmo Is being pushed nguhist their Judgment and ndvlco. Tills may or may not be true. As yet It Is nothing more than rumor. The fact that It Is credible and natural ac counts for the willingness of mnny peo ple to accept It, The president has doubtless calculated the chances and nutdo up his mind to accept them. Nat urally the men whoso livelihood Is de pendent upon tho construction and con trol of trusts, or whose chief ambition lies In the direction at acquiring the vast power Inherent In the magnates of Immense Industrial combinations would be likely to look with disfavor upon a programme designed to limit their opportunities or curtail their au thority. This Is merely human nature, of which, of course, the trust makers have their slime. Tim old saying that "no rogue e'er felt tho haltKr draw with added reverence for the law" ap plies In this Instance the same as In any other. Not all trust makers or managers are rogues, by any means; but It would be natural that all should look with suspicion and distrust upon tho attempt to substitute for their per sonal wisdom the supervision of a gov ernment tribunal empowered to keep a watch over their alms ond methods. But the obvious politics of the situ ation Is with the president. Those who fight him will have to do so under cover or stand committed to the de fense of Illegality. What the president alms to touch, if possible, ure the evils not the virtues of trusts. Those who shall oppose him will have to establish either that there are no evils a task they would likely find uphill work or that tlie president's way of reaching tho evils would do more harm than good. He lias the distinct advantage of Initiative, of public confidence and re spect and of the conceded lack of a selfish personal motive. His speeches confirm the public Judgment that he Is actuated solely by it sense of duty, and they are so rapidly establishing him in the good will and enthusiastic respect of the American people of all parties that tlie men who hope to sidetrack hlni will need to get to work and work hard if they are not to have their labor for their pains. Ordinarily one is tempted to sympa thize with almost any revolution which can break out In South America, pre vailing government conditions being usually so vicious as to justify forcible revolt. But In the case of Venezuela there does not seem to be much call for preference between the Ins and the outs. Both are insufferably vlctouB. Rudolph Virchow. THR GLORY of tho nineteenth century has been in its scientific discoveries, and Rudolph Vlrcliow was one of its greatest scientific men. He was a German, and his nationality connotes the largest expenditure possible of hu man effort in the pursuit and systom izatiou of knowledge. Vircliov'a name has become synonymous In tlie popu lar mind with certain theories on here ditary transmission. He was supposed to oppose the evolutionary view that acquired parental traits are transmis sible to the offspring. If this view Is or can be maintained, the biological foundation of the Darwinian theory of evolution would be rudely shattered. But Vircliow's deductions have been exasperatlngly exploited by men who have accepted ills provisional negation of hereditary transmission in the clini cal theory of life for an absolute denial of the evolutionary process. Virchow was ns firm a believer In evolution us Darwin himself. He denied that pro toplasm is modified or conditioned in Its biological development by Its en vironment. He believed that heredity has Its ramifications stretched so far back In tlie genesis of animal ond vegetable life, and that Its largo char acteristics are so permanent that neither his own researches nor those of others satisfied him that hereditary traits were Immediately transmissible. So far as Vircliow's views bore upon man in his social development, they were far Indeed from being consola tory. If heredity Is as static as he con tended, the hopes of the moral and physical progression of the human race are despajrlngly small. Virchow has made very few disciples to his theories on heredity. His fame and ills work rest upon another und a broader busts. It is as a pathologist that Vircliow's claim to tlie gratitude of mankind will rest. It was he who established the principle that the laws working in disease are not different from those in operation in health, but that they are subject to different con ditions. This fact Is Infinitely more Important as a practical discovery than his views upon heredity. His specu lations and investigations have not changed tho trend of scientific thought, nor discouraged the acceptance by the men of science of the fundamental principles of evolution as they were formulated by Charles Darwin. Ho has accomplished much by his con scientious and laborious investigation of ono of the most obscure and Intri cate divisions of the phenomena of life. Virchow, as well as Darwin, knew that organisms vuried. Darwin claimed that these variations have gone on from the beginning of life, nnd ure now us at all times leading to the formation of species, They ure consequently hereditary or transmissible. Virchow could not find in his morphological in vestigations that hereditary traits are transmitted with the detlulteness claimed for them by tho modem school of biologists and embryologlsts, who, of course, base their conclusions upon tho Darwinian hypothesis. Criminolo gists, for Instance, assert that utav Ism and degeneration ure tho heredi tary legacy which the sins of the father visit upon tho children, Vir chow would be the last to deny that sins of tho father are visited upon the children In the Biblical sense. The child of a -convict or a drunkard suf fers from a parent's sins in a very real and tangible way. But Virchow did not recognize the sins of the parents as tho biological fountain from which the child's evil development was pre determined, Virchow was a man who had large nnd practical views of life. He was no recluse. Ho took a citizen's part In all that concerned tho clv)c welfare of his countrymen nnd tho larger social probtcins that occupy the best thoughts of the best men nil countries. Colonel Wnttcrson's assertion thnt the Four Hundred are utterly rotten morally Is of course Pickwickian. Fun damentally human nature Is pretty much the same In all levels. If it were not popular these dnys to rail nt wealth the gallant colonel would be more char, Itabla. Has Had Enough. TUB REASONS given by tho Nestor of Pennsylvania Jour nalism, Colonel A. K. Mc Clure, for deciding to cut loose from tho piebald "reform" move ment ns represented by Pnttlson, CJuf fey & Co, arc certainly convincing. He says: "I shall heartily support Judge Pcnnypncker for governor. His pollti cal environment Is quite ns healthy as that of his competitors nnd his per sonal Integrity nnd udmltted ability give tho best assurance of honest state administration. I have known him per sonally and well for thirty years and have never found a blemish upon his political or private record. He was not a party to his own nomination and he is free to accept the duties of tho high office and perform them with eminent credit to himself nnd with the largest benefits to the people of our great com monwealth. If only questions of state policy were Involved In the present contest, I would most heartily support any state ticket that gave reasonable promise of state and city reform, but thera is no party leadership on either side in the present struggle to give such assurance. Character and quali fications of Individual candidates thus become vital and I accept Judge Pennypacker as the most worthy of the trust and support of the people. "But there are other und most vital questions Involved In the contest which were not in nny degree Involved in the contest of last year. The country is en joying a degree of industrial and com mercial prosperity unexampled In our history and our honored flag and bene ficent institutions havo been extended Into distant lands to illustrate to the world the grandeur of our free gov ernment and its ability to command tho markets of every clime for Ameri can labor. All these great achievements have been attained against a censori ous and quibbling minority marshaled under the banner of Democracy and It has stumbled and floundered in fitful opposition until it stands before the country and the world today as bank rupt nllke In leadership and principle. National issues of the greatest moment are involved in the election of 1902. With such conditions presented in the present exceptional and substantial progress of patriotic advancement and material prosperity, I cannot vote for candidates whose party hope of suc cess is in disasters to our army in the field, in convulsed business and trade and in the silent temples of Industry, with breadless homes for American worklngmen." . In Mr. Bryan's opinion, President Roosevelt's attitude on the trust prob lem Is "weak nnd puerile." He will have difficulty in making the trusts believe that. We dare say that munlc war was worth its cost; but there ought to be a time limit on the rag-chewing concern ing It. Why is it that it Is our navy which seems to have a monopoly of running aground on uncharted reefs? Bryan scorlig Roosevelt for playing politics with tho trusts recalls Satan rebuking sin. The United States of th? Orient W11KN engaged in a new business venture the prudent man pauses occasionally and takes note of the results so far achieved, with a view to future efforts along sure lines. Apart from the eminently justifiable mor al grounds for our acquisition of the islands of the Philippine urchipelago.there Is a commercial side, which we must re gard as u now business venture, What have we accomplished commercially in the "I'nllcd States of the Orient," since 1S03? Let tho figures testify: Increase In 1S90 l'KJl 1 C? Imports $19,000,000 $30,000,000 ' tiO Kxports 15,000,000 21,500.000 01 Customs duties.. 4,411,S0 b'.lOI.-IUU 51 Spain's custom revenue was from three to thtTo uud onu-lmlf million dollars an nually, Comparing our trade with that of other countries, with "those far off Isles of the sea where day begins," the following fluc tuations nro significant of tho progress we nro making. We, quote the per cent, from the countries named, of Ilia total Imports, in tho years: 1809. 1900. 1901. United States 7 9 12 United Kingdom 17 1!:! 18 Spain II 8 i Germany 5 7 7 Franco i i a China, Including llnng Kong 31 10 British Bast Indies -I 7 U Japan 12 4 All other countries 7 10 I'O Completion of tho harbor Improvements at Manila will divert to us a largo share of tho trado now done by I long Kong, as Manila Is by nature located for tho dis tribution of tho Imports uud oxports of Eastern 'Asia und Oceania, By countries the exports fluctuated as follows In percentage of the totul: 1S90. 1900. 1901. United States 27 13 1!) United Kingdom L'l 35 45 Germany, less than Ill France 'A 11 6 Spain ,,,,,, ...... .,,,,, ,,,., 7 7 7 Japan 7 3 0 British Bast Indies ;i 4 a All other countries 10 4 Tho large Increase to tho United King dom was mululy for hemp, a large part of which eventually reached the United Stulea,, It Is gratifying to note that our direct importation of hemp In 1901, was one million dollars over 1S90. Wo oro making headway In that, our sales to tlie Philippines luiya risen from barely 3 per cent, of tho total Imports of tho tslunds In tho lust yours of Spanish control, to 12 per cent, in 1901. Wo ship there, chiclly, and In the following order of Importance, malt llnuora, wheat (lour, Iron and steel and their mamifuctures, papor In Its various forms, distilled spir its, Blasswuro, curs, carriages and bi cycle, cotton goods, wood nnd Its manu factures, leather and its manufactures, and watches and clocks. The Islands bought wheat Hour In JS9J to tho amount of 3S:',S01. and In 1901, $553,809. Our percentage of 17 in 1899, rose to M n 1901, If wo can supplant tho rice of tho Enst Indies and China, with our wheat flour, as an artlcto of food, tho gain to us will bo enormous. , In 1901, wo Bold 40 per cent, of tho clocks nnd watches, 43 per cent, of tho $7,000,000 cotton goods, 41 per cent, of tho $700,000 stone, rhltiti and Rlnss ware, lit per cent, of the $.',0.12,901 Iron nnd steel, only P per cent, of the $:t2.90S boots nnd shoes, 88 per cent, of the $700,000 mnlt liquors. Jnpnn-sent M per cent, of tho $270,301 watches, but tho new watch factory at Manila, equipped with American machin ery, will soon cut Japan out. When tlie Filipinos raise their own rice, they will save several of the millions of dollars now paid out to foreigners, for thnt chief article, of tho Filipino diet. When our ex perimental farms tench them how to do truck farming they will also savo tho half million dollars paid yearly to China for vegetables. They will largely IncrotiBO their consumption of canned goods, lit this lino wo compote successfully with tho world. In loot, they bought steam nnd Balling vessels valued nt nearly $1,000,000, but wo do not (Inure In tho list. Turning to the export side we nnd that hemp constituted nearly two-thirds ot tho 915,076.640 total exports, We took M per cent, direct nnd a good deal more, indirectly. London Is the controlling hemp market of tho world. Tho recent change In export duties will likely divert tho Philippine hemp direct to us, Instead of through London, Tlie hemp trade of our "branch In the Orient" Increased 80 per cent. In quantity between 1809 und 1901, and 100 per cent. In value. Tobacco ex ports show a good Increase, being $1,931, 2.V1 for 1893, against $2,131,901 for 1901. Of tho $2,500,000 sugar exported in 1901, wo only took 12 per cent. Japan took 49 por cent. Other exports ure copra, straw hats (?Panama) mother-of-pearl, copal and cattle hides. Tho exportation of valuable, woods, means million upon millions of dollars for the islands, ns soon as transportation Is provided, and saw mills erected. Now we have reached a most humiliat ing record: Of the $37,183,093, Including gold and silver, Imported Into tho Philip pines In 1901, only two per cent, was car ried in American vessels. Why? Simply because, for want of protection, ship sub sidy, or whatever we choose to call It, we havo only "an apology for a fleet" ot ocean going steamships. Great Britain carried 03 por cent, of our goods, and Oormany, 10 per cent. On the export side our humiliation Is still greater only ono per cent. In Ameri can vessels only ono per cent, of $26,000, 000. Great Britain carried all her own goods and seventy-five per cent, of ours. Are we "moving, heaven and earth" to build up our trade In the Orient, simply to provide .profitable business for foreign vessels? Educational, army and navy, and other government supplies are not included In these figures, ns published by the Bureau of Insular Affairs. Our "branch in the Orient" Is doing well. Walter J. Ballard. Schenectady, N. Y., Sept, 6. NO TROUBLE TO HELP SEARCH. A woman stopped at a cloth counter In ono of the largo department stores re cently and asked to be shown some dress patterns suitable for eaily autumn wear. The salesman began on tho lowest row of shelved compartments and pulled out and opened box after box until the coun ter on either side of him was plied as high as his head with goods. Three times he climbed a ladder ro the upper rows and staggered down under a weight of box patterns until, when tho woman took a survey of the shelves, but two .patterns remained unopened. Then she said, very sweetly: - "I don't think I'll buy nny today, I'm sorry to have troubled you; but you see I only came in to look for a friend." "No trouble whatever, madame," he re plied politely. "Indeed. If you think your friend is in either of the remaining two boxes. I don't mind opening them too." Philadelphia Times. ADVERTISING DID IT. Every one knows how great the con sumption of oatmeal lias become- on ac count of its promotion by advertising. To indicate how other food products may bo promoted Mahln's Magazine for Sep tember says: "The consumption of oat meal has Increased six-fold in ten years. What would happen to cornstarch If ex ploited In a manner to create newer and more frequent habits of use?" THE MOSQUITO. In tlie marshes where tho bullfrog sings his mellow serenade, In the swamps where booms the bittern in the gloomy cypress shade And the cheerful alligator lurks within the everglade; In tlie cistern, where rnln water pours and trickles down the spout; On stagnant pools, In grasses, and 'most everywhere about, The bloodthirsty mosquito from tho egg is hutching out, And once hatched, lie comes anions us with ids pesky llttlo bill. And ho settles on our persons, very much against our will. And, Inserting his proboscis, he proceeds at once to drill. And when through our epidermis ho has managed for to bore, Ho tills up his little carcass to the burst ing point with gore, This Is strictly true, though doubtless you suspected it before, t You think that you havo got him and find out thnt you have not, For ho keeps ono eyo wido open to elude tlie sudden s,wat. And knows just how long It's healthy to remain upon tho spot, You may screen up all your windows nnd hang netting o'er your bed, It doesn't keep hhn out because he stays inside Instead, And you wnko up In tho morning and find that you've been bled. Similarly you may smear yourself with evil-smelling stuff That Is guaranteed by druggists on mos- quitoeB to bn rough, But they scorn to quite enjoy It, though It does smell bad enough, So bo breaks our summer slumbers, robs us of our needed rest; So ho drives us from our porches, wlioro tho vines ho doth Infest. And ho spoils tho fun of fishing, does this sanguinary pest. But upon tho brute's demerits we'd en deavor to ho dumb; Wo'd foralvo hlni nil his faults no in considerable sum If he'd simply go about his bloody busi ness and not hum. Lowlston Journal. SUMMER RESORTS Atlantic City. , Th temperature at the AGNEW, On the Beach, In Chelien, Atlantic City, Saturday waa Sj, Every appointment of a modern Hotel. 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