'V- H?J " ' ri I "V"! if - J. -- ' - -0 v ., ' ' c M".. ' THE SGRANTON TRIBUNE-SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1902. f s! r'0evanfott fcrifjune Vubltahed Dally Etcrnt Biindny, by Th Tribune rublUhln( Companr.at Fifty Cent! a Month. I ' r.tvv a. iiinitAlin r.DtToa. 0. P. llYXlini: Ili-fltMui Mahaohh. Xntrd t thaPostofflca l Scrnutoii, ai Becond CUm Mill Mutter. ( r I When pnet -will permit, Tlia Trtbnne it J slimy Bind 'to print ihortlottera from III frlvnrl hearing on current toplci. but tie ' rule li that tlioio mutt tie elcned, for pub I Mention, by tho writer' real nnmet nnd '"thVcondltlou pWKodcnt to Acceptance li thnt nil contribution! lliall be eubject to editorial revlilon. ' " ' " ' " ' ' TUB FIAT KATBFOK ADVERTISING. Ttie following l()le ihbwa the prlco per Inch cacti Insertion, epaco to bo uieil within ono year: " ..hp, AV Tltunof Mil" .mil Leu than 60 Incliee . .ao -V .8U (Olncliei 1 .44 .41 100 30 .31 ,!M 0 "...;. .56 . .80 M i ,. ,.!0 .Zl .U 1(100 "....., .Ill 075 .18 - Aaa ..r.h.nlr. rnanliitlntifl nf rnnrlnlfttire. anil ImllM'conttlbUtlon. In the nature of advertising, Tho Tribune1 makes r. charyo of S conti n line. SIXTEEN PAGES. HUUANTON, JJKfiKMHKIt 20. 1110-'. Our evening eon temporaries, tho Times un'd Truth, have Issued interest ing holiday numbers, the former com prising forty and tin: latter thirty-six pnges,. liberally bestudded with senson- 'able ntlvertlsiiiR. Wi offer to these con Vein.tjorarlps tin; compliments of tho season. , Interstate Commerce. TIIK KBPOHT of the interstate uinniorce commission, sent to congress on Wednesday, Is a document meriting at tention. Its contents inny, for con venience, bo divided into two depart ments: Statistical and administrative; Hie former showing results during tho )uL llscal year, the latter suggesting measures of legislation. We shall con sider the results 'first. Kailroads with 10.",3S5 miles of line, or ninety-eight per cent, or the country's whole mileage,-earned during the year it tet profit, not counting tuxes, of $3, 100 a mile or $606,(ilG,79.i altogether, an increase of $51,000,000 over '.'he year be fore, and more than $112 000,000 more than the net earnings in 1S97. Divi dend!! on stock paid during the year ($IS0,tiS3,93l) were $30,000,000 more than in 1901 and nearly twice as- much as in ' 3S97. Total gross earnings were $1,073, .:!13,76S, a sum equal .to nearly $21 for every inhabitant of the United States. .For every $1.2,"i received by tho ra.Il loads In passenger fares, $2.73 was re , celved in freight fares. The safety-appliance law passed In 1S93, by which hand coupling of cars was forbidden, is shown to have work ed beneficent results. The number of persons killed and injured In coupling and uncoupling cars during the year ending June 30, 1902 the first entire year reported since the law went into full effects shows a diminution as com pared with 1S03, tho year when the law was passed, of sixty-eight per cent, in the number killed and eighty-one per cnt. in tho number injured. In 1893 the 'number of casualties from tills cause was 11,710, of which 433 were killed twtd 11,277 were injured. In 1902 tho total number was 2,256, of which IIS were killed ,nml 2,113 injured. This hliows a t eduction of 9,4."4; and it is to bo borne in mind that the number of men engaged in this work Is much greater now than it was in 1S93. With regard to collisions and derailments, the figures of the commission show approx imately 2.." collisions and l.S derailments per 100 miles of railroad for the year; nnd the losses by accidents, not includ ing damage to freight or sums paid to persons for bodily Injuries or on account of death, average, roughly, $3,S00 per 300 miles of road annually. So much, briefly, for the mathematics uf the report; wo como now to its eth ics.. Although we have the automatic coupler, there are dangers against , -which it does not lully provide, such as cars moved while not in complete run ning order; poorly constructed coup lers; cars falling; to couple except by violent impiiot, leading to breakage, de lays and annoyances; men going be tween the cars to prepare for a second coupling trial; defective levers or rod? ' nnd their connections. To promote . more general compliance with the spirit of the safety-appliance law in llu' usr uf air brakes, th commission recotn ' mends the passage of an act forbidding 1he tunning of trains in which less . than ouo-hatf of the oars are- equipped with power brakes,, In operative condi tion, and suitably connected to the en iKlni', and empowering the commission to issue a general order or orders, re (lulling the "use of power brakes on more than fifty per cent, of the cars In ,.it i train an and whenever It .shall find 'ouch- Increased usu to -be practicable; ti'f'jT'A)? l'Jfi'n'Jttlng. Hie commission, u , ,Uie'.cnse uK any particular road, after Mlienrlng and Investigation, to permit, jo- a 'sledded" period, the running of Jk''nJ'V?..vCI'"!0er. lrtiUp ti in use on less -than rt'ety pep, cent, ."Mho envs. therein, Hiioli "orders '. to prevent any- possible hhi'dshlp) lUo' td unforeseen exlgenclns, 'hp 'c'ginmls.slon further" recommends that th'e provisions lelatlng to auto- matlo couplers, grab Irons,, and height 'JrjC'drawbam be made to inpply' to all v,"pmojlyo jeiicers. ,cars, nnd 'similar tvehloles, both those Ubed In interstate 1 rbm'irftrco and thoso In connection therewith, except those trains, cars, and , locomotives! "exempt under tho present ' tH', and ,fnat 'the, stye, length, and lo- r catkin of grab irons bhiili be prescribed bythe commission. All this relnten to Jtlte 'better prelection pr railway e'm- '" jiloyes, ho deserve it; but . larger v uiuestlon is the. better protection nf tho 1 entire American public from dlscrlm- :,M?N,on nna liWst enaction, and with U.'.tlio report deals at length. ' Tho tendency to combine, t points 'outVcontlnuea to bo tho most significant feature of rallxvqy development, t It ,uJnisj its, advantages, insuring, among Vffthor things, stability of rates and fjrfr&rnptcr npd better servipe. BUt it .,4?.a?'!ts perils Jo Ue pulihc'jfud '.'a ,la.w .which might have uuswered the tfurpose when competition 'wus relied -'ijpon, , to ' secire feasonubli? rates? is ' tleinonstratably inadequate vyli'nn 'i$wt conDetitlpn Is dUplaced by the most J ii fefcWt&& . ..jnd - fnr-rencliliiB ami powerful comblna "llons. So great a chnngd In contlltlons wills for correBponilliiK chruifre in the regulating stntuto." The interstate commerce net was passed sixteen years tifftt nml has not been matcrlatly uinciuled In thirteen years. Not only have new conditions arisen which were not within the vision of Kh authors, but Biiet'csBlvo court decisions have stripped the commission of power unlit todny lift functions arc chleMy clerical. The report earnestly appeals to con jjress to enact supplementary lefrlsla tlon, Riving the commission and tho federal courts power siilllclent to pre sent tinronsonnblo charges and undue discriminations. This need Is ono of tho greatest ntnoiiR those now pressing for congressional nttentlon. The benefits of tho strike, except to the dealer, cannot yet bo determined, but the misery it has caused is apparent in every telegraphic item from tho dis tricts suffering from fuel famine. Urgent Need o! Currency Reform. (Comptroller Hldgely.) A-W-.1113 OHEATEST demand for I Increased currency comes JL when It is required for moving crops in tho farming states. If this can be supplied quick ly nnd automatically as required by tho banks In those states, and if, after performing Its duty, it is returned to tho banks nnd retired, it will mark n great advance In the Improvement of our lactones lor iuiikiiiiik me vubl turn rapidly growing business of this coun-1 try. In the latter half of each year the problem Is presented to the banks lo furnish currency needed to handle from 2,500 to 3,000 millions' of bushels of- grain, 8 to 10 million bales of cotton, and n corresponding quantity of other farm products. The totnl value of j these products for the year 1902 will not , be far fram 5,000 mllions of dollars. This calls for the use of a vast sum of money. Much of it is done on bank ' deposit credits, by means of checks, and the increased number of banks and better means of communication en able the people in country communities to handle more and more in this way, or we should not bo able to transact such an amount of business "at all. So much of it, however, must be handled with currency of some sort as to make a demand ,for currency in large amounts, and every year there Is a great deal of anxiety, and often ser ious disturbance in business, until tho crop season is over and the money re turns to those who have had to furnish it. This is a matter of more importance to the man who needs tho money than the man who furnishes it. When in terest rates advance it is the man who pays the higher rate who suffers the most, not the man who has the money to lend. The people in the country who do this enormous business and produce this great wealth are entitled to better ser vice than they got, are in fact entitled to the very best facilities which can be devised nnd 'supplied to them. It can not be an undue inflation of cred it to supply these people who have just raised such quantities of the most read ily salable staples the money they re quire Jn that form of bank credits rep resented by circulating notes. These people own land worth 13,674 millions of dollars, farm implements worth 761 millions, live stock worth 3.07S millions, and raise over 4,000 million dollars' worth of products. In tho farming states there are banks with over COO millions of capital and 70 millons of surplus. They have on hand in cash 370 million dollars, and due from other banks SO- millions. Here are agencies enough to oerform this work and abundant bases for the credits if the law permitted it. We place no limit on the loans they make but that sup plied by reserve requirements on the deposits; why should they not supply a limited amount of notes secured by two-thirds their value in bonds and made absolutely safe to tho note hold er I.y the guarantee fund raised by the tax on circulation V Such n, change in the currency would not only -oupply tho roods for crop moving, but also tho currency needed for other business. Each bank could supply what it found was necessary for its own cus tomers. The demand which generally begins in the Into summer months would gradually be met as it came. In eery community the supply would be In the hands of men who are familiar vltli local needs and conditions, and the ilNtrlbut'on would bo made where nnd when needed without reference to con ditions elsewhere or dependence on the money markot In tho reserve cities and financial centers This would bo of great benefit, not only to the people In farming districts und those handling farm products, but lo tho vast number of business men en- gaged In mining, manufacturing, mer-1 rnntlle, and commercial lines. Instead of tho whole business public dreading the approach of the crop-moving time for fear thero might como some strin gency in tho money market to upsot their calculations and interfere with their financial arrangements, tho banks would bo in position to furnish the cur rency needed for tho crops when and where it was to be used without dis turbing business In other lines. In times of panic tho power to Issue additional notes would bo an element of great strength to tho banks und not of weakness. It would enable tho banks to protect themselves nnd their customer's when protection Is most needed, Tho increasing number of empty stockings presented for the consider ation. of Santa Claus Quay this session is enough to Impress the good sen ator with the idea that ho may bo up against a political centipede. t .Mr, Darrow should not be too severe on Lackawanna county's crop of au thors, lie has wrltteu a book or two himself, i According to accounts our minister- to Liberia does not need warships to pre serve lils dignity as an official. lie is accompanied by a revolver und razor at all times and has already left lasting Impressions upon some of the dusky Af J.WJJtaUtaft.arfbfckJiM w JkiML citizens with whom ho has had diplo matic; relations. '- Minister Uowen has the most dldlcult proposition ' before him that over con fronted ono of the blessed peacemakers. The coal merchants of Schenectady ate disposed nlRo to assist In giving tho clly an undeslrnb'lc reputation. i.i m The nolo submitted by Prance to the government of Venezuela Is almost too polite to bo effective. Public Schools of the Philippines GltAPl'MXG with difficult problems is an essential feature of Atneil cnnlsin our duty is to ovctconiu difficulties, not to shir'c thorn. Tliu history, of tho United States is ono of pioblems achieved. Wero It otherwise, tills nation would not bo tho world-power it is today. When Thomas Jefferson miido the l.oulHtana purchnso ho brought us, for the first time, fnco to faco with more than territorial expansion, and set the pace at which our nation has travel ed over Blncc, and must continue to trav el, whllo thero are dllllcultlcs to no over come, probloms to bo solved, and de pressed peoples to bo benefited and lifted up. AVIien wo came into possession of tho Philippine Islands, less thnn fivo years ago, the chief problem wo had to solve, was not tho pacification of the islamta, but tho education of 7,000,000 people, com paratively few of whom knew even tho meaning of tho word education. Wo hud to deal with three distinct races tho Ne grito, with 21 lijbcs; the Indonesian, with iti tribes, and the Malayan, with 47 tribes, making a. total of SI different tribes. The task was stupendous. Uvea in tile same races many of tho tribes differ very greatly, not only in tho degree of civil ization, but in language, manners, cus toms and laws. Transportation, or tho want of It, lath er, was (and is) n serious obstaclc.Only one railroad in tho islands, and that only 120 miles long, a few small, dirty steamers ninnlng now and ngnln, few good roads and not a slnglo good bridge this Is all the facilities wo found for traveling over hundreds of Islands, whoso total area is equal to tho combined aras of the live New.,England states, with New York add ed. Immediately the military government was established, our bravo soldiers, of ficers and men, began to do what they could towards teaching these mixed peo ples that the Stars and Stripes had not coma to tho Philippines to conquer and enslave, but to set free and uplift. Then came tho call for A met lean teach ers, and nobly they responded, men and women. wltli""Dr, Fred W'. Atkinson at their head. It was no pleasure excursion, but a self-expatriation for tho sake of depressed humanity, and for tho honor of Americanism. Theso loyal men and women knew beforo they started that they would not find In tho Orient, "all the comforts of homo," but a difficulty was in front of us, and ns true Ameri cans, lliey sot forth to overcome that difficulty. Are they succeeding? Let the facts answer. Number of school divisions in opera tion, 1. Estimated total area, square miles, 111,792. Number of American teachers, 1,221. Number of Filipino teachers, all Hi at taught English by tho American teach ers, 3,400. Children enrolled In day schools, (more than) 200.000. Enrollment in night schools (mostly adults) 5,000. In addition to tho difficulties already named. Dr. Atkinson and his corps of American teachers have been hampered by tho church and religious affiliations of tho natives, tho seasons of harvesting, the customs nnd notions of centuries and the natural inertia of tho people. Wo can form a further Idea of tho dif ficulty of this work from tho fact that when Spain acquired tho islands over SCO years ago most of the Philippine 1s anders could read and wrlto their own languages; when we took Soaln's place tho mass of tho people could hardly do more. Wo hnd to begin wlieie, and in tho way, Spain should havo begun three cen turies ago. It is to bo regretted that, owing to im paired healing. Dr. Atkinson whoso work has been so faithfully and ably done, has been compelled to resign tho general superlutendoncy and return homo for special medical treatment. To coneludo this article I quote from his bust report: "Tho history of education In any country, (.represented graphically, would show certain sudden departures from previous conditions, and theso momentary changes would bo found to colneldo with events of great political importance. Spain ex perienced such at various times, but. In my opinion, it lemalncd for tho Spanlsh Amoiican war to bting -about a thorough awakening to present needs nnd a now In terest In matters educational in tho Phil ippine Islands." To succeed Dr. Atkinson as general superintendent, Governor T.ift has ap pointed Elmer n. Bryan, of Illoomlngton. Intl., at present superintendent of the city schools of Manila. Tho Filipino teachers petitioned for Mr. Bryan's ap pointment. Tho educational work in tho Philippines is a weighty contract, but tho outlook Is bright. ' Walter J, Ballard. FAIR PLAY FOB THE NEGRO. Editor of The Tribune: Sir: I have been thinking all the time your paper was n clean, honest one, but now 1 know your paper should bo rend by over honest citizen in tho world, when you stated In your .ditorial on Monday morning, tho 1.1th, In giving tho nogio a chance, f think that is what ho needs a "chance," They have been educated, but tltoy havo boon deprived of nn equal ohanco to muko n mark along nil lines. If I weio nblo I would send a copy of that Issue to every colored man In tho 1'nlted States. Whcr. the black man was freed, tho question was asked, "Can tho negro learn anything?" I would like to know If they have not answered that question satisfactorily to America, lint lifter they uro educated they havo noth ing to tlo, Why don't they buy land nml havo Industries of their own? may bo nsked but thoy can't buy when they can find no property for sale, or when thoy must pay all down, when their brother whites havo had all tho reign for over 2W) years and thoy can secure the same property by paying n llttlo down. And so I thank you, sir, and I hopo tho day wll come when wo will not bo looked on with amazement because wo are black but when wo provo to bo lawabldltig cit izens wo will bo treated tho same as othor citizens. I am yours for my rnco and people. J, II. Doddle, Pastor Shiloh Itnptlst church, THE GERMAN-AMERICAN. Andrew Carnegie In tho World's Work. Tho German us we know him at home and In the United States Is a valuable man, steady, sober, methodical, thorough, self-respecting, of lino domestic tastes, und admirable workmun and superinten dent. Thanks to the conscilption of Ger many, among other causes, wo had many thousands of Goimans In our service, of whom ut leabt four whom I recall becume partners and earned the millions of dol lars they obtained. They fled from tho conscription of their sous, and to-day the son of a German who loft his country largely for tho same reason is ut tho head of tho gicatest manufacturing cor poration in tho world. Wo owo a valu ablo invention to ono of theso men. Tho valuo of tho German olemenj in America can scarcely bo believed except by thoo who, like myself, know it by experience. ,Mk4kP I ALWAYS BUSY. 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Our reputa tion for quality, style and correctness has been well established we are living well up to it this year. REYNOLDS BROS. Hotel Jermyn. .la j Berry's TalK: $ : The Truth isi a Nutshell. A Bis Fact in Little Type Our elaborate Holiday stock is ready and was never better in our recollection. Artistic Designs in Brooches, Cuff Buttons,' Scarf Pins, Lockets, Signet Rings and Fobs. Pearl Opera Glasses are appropriate Xmas gilts. These are only a few articles for you. V sit our store, an. 1 convinc yourselr you buy from a Reliable J welry Store. 1 s $ Jo Si QTty9 Tlnejeweler 423 Lackawanna Avenue. 99999'999999999f$$$99??9999r999t- Do You Want a Good Education? Not short coursea nor an tuj course, nor a cheap course, but the best education to be had. No other education Is north pending: time and ' money on. 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The College of Medicine One ot tho oldest In the state, has four years' course. Tho late Chan- cellor Upson, of the ltegents, un solicited, said: "It is admitted by all competent judges to be unsur passed In this state." The College of Law Gives Instruction by text-book and enso system. On its faculties aro some of tho greatest lawyers of New York. Over Forty Of the leading universities and col leges of this country nnd Europe uro represented by maturo and progressive beholara on tho faculty of tho College. Only tho highest talent to bo found ut home 'uml abroad Is permitted to glvo In Htruetlou In Kino Arts. Tho work Is so ni ranged that students taking both tiielr Collect! nnd Medical or Law Coursea 11 1 Syracuse, save 0110 year's time. Pedagogical Courses have been estnbllshed, giv ing our students tho advantage of Hist elntfH leaeliera' certificates, formeily gi anted only to graduates of Stuto Noiinal Schools. Liberal eleetlves. lloth soxes aro ndmltted, Tuition expenses nro so moderate that they aro less tlmn tho fees In homo colleges whoro free tuition Is given. Send for catalogue, Jimss Roscoe Day, S. T, D., LL, D. Chancellor, Syracuse, N. Y. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. EAST STItOUDSBUna, PA. Regular State Normal Courses and Special Departments of Music, Elocu tion, Art. Drawing. Stenography and Typowtltlng; strong College Prepara tory Department. FBEB TUTION. Boarding expenses J3.M per weak. Pupils admitted at any time. Winter Term opens Dec. Kith. Write for cata. ,0BUe' E. I. KEMP, A. K, Principal. 60EANTON CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS SCRANTO.f, lA. T. J. Foster.Prcs. Elmer II. Lawall.Treas. It. J. Foster Stanley P. Allen. Vice- President Secretary, im f if 1