Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, May 24, 1900, Image 4
FREELAND TRIBUNE. Establiifaol 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited, OKITICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Months 25 The date which the subscription is paid to is cm the address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date becomes a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Report prompt ly to 11MS office whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription ks discontinued. Make all money orders, checks, etc., payable to the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. FREELAND, PA., MAY 24, 1900. ADVERTISING. Nothing, except the mint, can make money without advertising.—Gladstone. 1 would as soon think of doing busi ness without clerks as without adver tising.—John Wanamaker. When you pay more for the rent of your business house than for advertis ing your business, you arc pursuing a false policy. If you can do business, lot it bo known.—Benjamin Franklin. It is a question whether tho convic tion of Shamokin's councilmanic bribe takers and bribe-givers will have the effect it should have on men filling similar positions in other towns. The crime they have been found guilty of should bo followed by severe punish ment, as their action in accepting money in direct violation of their oath places them beyond tho pale of mercy, and not only for that reason but to serve as a warning to others who are engaged in the same nefarious practice elsewhere they should be dealt with as they deserve. Tho belief that officials aro elected to office to get "all they can out of it," which is openly held today in several Pennsylvania towns, does not receive the condemnation it deserves. The public closes its eyes, or has them closed by the trickery of the rogues, too much for its own good, and, unless a more widespread interest is shown and public officers' acts are more closely scrutin ized, the day is not far distant when direct plundering of local treasuries, as shown in the Shamokin case, will be as calmly countenanced as the indirect stealing of public money is glossed over today. Before the new rules adopted by the Republicans of the county have been tried, there is fault found with them. The ward boss fears that his influence will bo lessened when voters go to the polls and cast ballots direct for the men they desire nominated, the boodle dele gate sees his occupation gone under the new system, and the makers of slates find it harder to sway 12,000 or 14,000 men to their way by viewing tilings than it was to corral a majority of the delegates. Even the candidates are somewhat restless and don't like the in novation. However, if the Crawford county system of making nominations will lessen to any extent the use of money in politics, it is preferable to the methods that have disgraced Republi can county conventions of the recent past. Cuba seems to bo rotten with corrup tion. It is now ofiicially admitted that the military authorities at Havana liavo charged up over $342,000 for building a railway six miles long over level ground through public streets, paying no duties on materials and no price for right of way. This is nearly SOO,OOO a mile! And the war department excuses it by saying that tho United States has been compensated from the island revenues! Moro than half tho population of the Klondike is American. It is understood that when Great Britain learns of this fact sho will hasten to adopt tho laws on which she insisted in the Transvaal and permit them to vote and hold office without becoming naturalized. Everybody should bo ready for tho census enumerator and should help him all they can. His job is not an easy one, and tho information he collects is of importance to the country. The Boer envoys are in Washington, and Secretary Hay is studying their credentials to seo whether he can re ceive them without giving offense to Great Britain. The Rockefeller octopus has used Gome of its pin money to purchase the surface railways and light com panies supplying New York City. Standard Oil is subsidizing church es and universities with millions to bribe submission to the benefits and blessings of the trusts. The next place to hold an anti-trust conference is at the polls. WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, May 22. KMX). Unless Mr. McKfnley stopped his ears, he heard the enthusiastic cheers given to the Boer envoys and the voices of the senators and representatives, who spoke in behalf of the two republics, now en gaged In a death grapple with the world's mightiest empire, to an audi ence which the largest theatre in Wash ington would not hold. The speakers at that reception pointed out the fact that from all over this country there was a demand that this government should save the lives of those little, republics, which all the world knows could he done by a word from Mr. McKinley to the British government, and yet that word remains unspoken. Instead, the mouthpieces of tho ad ministration are saying, "hush! we know that England intends to wipe out those republics, but it is none of our business; we have promised to remain neutral and we must not say a word." A president who is afraid of England Is a novelty in tills country, and a de cidedly unpleasant one too. But the remedy lies in the hands of the people. Next November they can eloct a presi dent whose lirst act will bo a dissolu tion of the partnership between the greatest republic and the worst land grabbing empire on earth, and If pres ent signs are not misleading they will do It. t t t Sonator Morgan threw a bomb in tho right direction whon he offered a reso lution directing the senate commlttc un interoceanic canals to investigate the two canal trusts organized under the laws of New Jarsoy, and report whether the object of thcso trusts is to control any canal built across the isthmus, or In default of such control to embarrass this government, and to prevont tho construction of a canal. Senator Mor gan says that In asking an Investigation of the new Panama Canal Company, ho did not Intend that the action on tho Nicaragua canal bill, which was favor ably reported to the senate last week, notwithstanding Boss Ilanna's opposi tion, should be delayed, but to "enable the president of tho United States to check, escape from and destroy tho con spiracy, founded In fraud and corruption and arrogance—against the highest rights and privileges of tho puople and government of the United States." Mr. Morgan will try to got a vote on the Nicaragua canal bill this week, but success is doubtful, owing to Republican opposition. t t t Secretary Root's second reply to a senate resolution asking for a detailed report of receipts and expenditures under our military government in Cuba, was only a little more satisfactory than the first. The details are still lacking, but the report makes it plain that the charge of extravagant expenditures in Cuba Is well founded. For Instance, the civil salary list of tho Cuban government for last year, exclusive of $1,377,000 paid on what the report calls the "labor pay roll," was $4,330,587. Adding these totals together and more than one-third of the total receipts— slo,ooo,oo0 —are shown to have been paid out for civil salaries, not to men tion the cost of the military establish ment, which is, of course, paid by the United States government. How long could a political party remain In con trol of one of our states which spent one-third of the state's receipts for salaries? t t t Hon. J. I). Campau, Michigan's mem ber of the Democratic national com mittee, has been in Washington to consult with Chairman Jonas on the work of the campaign. He is conlident that Michigan will go Democratic this year. Speaking of the matter, he said: "Even tho Republicans in Michigan admit that the Democrats have reason to feel encouraged. The opposition Is in bad shape. The Ropublicans have given a very bad state administration. It cannot all bo laid at the door of I'lngrea, because the legislature was as bad as the officers ho appointed. If there was ever a reason for turning tho government party out, It exists In Michigan. It is not a matter of politics, but of common sense with regard for the interest of tho stato. The Demo crats will have a united party with a strong organization to put up a good fight." t t t The Republicans in congress are afraid to adopt either of the resolutions offered by Democrats in the sonate and house for a congressional Investigation of tho Cuban stealings. The total of those stealings, already known, and the number of officials already implicated, makes the Ropublicans fear that an investigation participated In by a few fearless Democrats might trace soino of the stealings to Washington, and im plicate bigger officials than those now known to have been in tho conspiracy at the Cuban end of the line. t t t A number of Democratic senators and representatives have launched a boom for Representative McClelland, of New York, a son of "Little Mac," the Demo cratic candidate for president in 1884, as vice president on tho ticket with Colonel Bryan and are pushing It activoly. In the case of J. P. Correll, publisher of the Hasten Call, charged with having violated the act of 17114, by printing, publishing, soiling and offering for sale on Sunday his newspaper, the defend ant was sentenced to pay a fine of 84 and costs of prosecution—ln all, $17.32. The Knights Templar of the state held their annual parade at Wllkes barre on Tuesday. PUBLIC OPINION. Opinion* From Vnrloun Sources OA Unmtlomi of the Day. The attempt to make three-quarter citizens out oY the Porto Ricans is cer tainly original.—Ex-Speaker Reed. General Whaelor's estimate that only one-sixth of 1 per cent of the popula tion of the Philippines has been fight ing us is dreadfully unkind, unless it is humlliattngly true. —Chicago News. Teddy Roosevelt does not want the vice presidency. Of course not. But then Teddy Roosevelt was never yet caught running away from an office — unless mere was another office in sight. —St. Louis Republic. In this mattor of recognizing polyga my President McKinley is for once consistent. He has given his official sanction to this practice in Sulu and is equally liberal with regard to it in Utah.—Chicago Democrat. Has none of the Hapublican man agers in Kentucky any knowledge of the mysterious Brutus who came out of the mountains to assassinate Goe bel? Or are they all 'honorable men?' —St. Louis Post Dispatch. Porto Rico under the American flag will enjoy the same privileges and the same immunities as the citizens of the United States and territories of the Union.—From General Miles' procla mation on invading the island. I believe that the Porto Rican tariff bill is clearly unconstitutional and vio lates all our agreements with an i pledges to the Porto Ricans. If I were in the senate I should certainly vote against it. —Ex-Senator Edmunds. Hon. William McKinley In the Phil ippines and the Marquis of Salisbury in South Africa are the twin evangels of Anglo-Saxon civilization, and civ ilization of that type is not concerned with past pledges. It is out for the stufT.—Chicago Chronicle. Senator Hanna, the keeper of the president's conscience and interpreter of the oracles (duty, destiny and the various trusts), also favored the house bill, and especially the tariff provisions. He said that "from a party point of view the tariff ought to remain."—Bal timore Sun. Presidently McKinley ought to give more attention to the Porto Rican pa pers. They are telling the truth in a frank, manly way, and are making Americans who are not "in politics" and not dependent upon campaign con tributions blush with shame at the in justice of which Porto Ricans are the victims.—Baltimore Sun. McKinley, Foraker and all the rest of the imperialists are agreed as to one thing. And that is that the people of our new acquisitions have no rights under the constitution of the United States; that the only rights they have are those which congress in its sover eign pleasure may be pleased to grant. —Chicago Chronicle. The people of lowa are unalterably opposed to the establishment of any tariff between the United States and any territory acquired as a result of the Spanish-American war the people of which accepted the sovereignty of this government without resistance and voluntarily passed under the Ju risdiction of its legislation and laws.— lowa House of Reps, (unanimously). To borrow a Bible quotation, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Paraphrasing Lincoln's dec laration, I may add that this nation cannot endure half republic and half colony—half free and half vassal. Our form of government, our traditions, our present interests and our future welfare all forbid our entering upon a career of contest. —W. J. Bryan. "Our plain duty," said President Mc- Kinley, "Is to abolish all customs tar iffs between the United States and Por to Rico, and give her products free ac cess to our markets." It is not Repub licanism to defend the denial of plain Justice. Neither is it good morals. Nor good policy. It can least of all by American exprfhsionists. It is rank imperialism.—Philadelphia North American (Rep.). The secretary of war acknowledges 29 suicides among Roldiers in the Phil ippines in a period of leas than one year, and it is the Judgment of careful observers that this has been nearly doubled, If the full truth were known. Many deaths reported as accidental gunshots or drownings were in reality suicides. The fact Is such a life, whether in the regular army at home or in the Philippines, has a depressing demoralizing effect. Separated from the influences of home, mother, sisters, friends, men grow coarse, brutal, reck less; life becomes unbearable to the better grade, and thus a larger propor tion of officers than privates commit suicide. War is horrible, army influ ences degrading and too much cannot be said in its condemnation. The leaders of the two great Christian na tions have an awful record of crime to answer for. And these are but few of the attendant curses of militarism. — People's Advocate (Meadville). The Republican state convention In Ohio, notwithstanding Mark Hanna was manager, gagged at the Porto Ri can dose, and refused to indorse it in words and repudiated it by implica tion. It declared in its platform that congress has full power over the terri tories of the United States, but—mark you—"in harmony with and subject to the fundamental safeguards of our free institutions, for liberty, Justice and personal rights." What are the "fundamental safeguards" but those of the constitution of the United States? Therefore the constitution applies to the territories, which is the very thing the Republicans in congress and the administration have asserted the con stitution dots not do. Of course all this is a Juggle with words; but it is significant that In the president's own state McKinley imperialism has to be hedged and sugar coated with phrases that virtually repudiate it. Evidently there is alarm and aprehension In Ohio.—Pltt&burg Poet, IN LABOR'S REALM. The Bricklayers and Stonemasons' Unions, of Grand Rapids, Mich., are considering; amalgamation. During the past year the member ship of the Georgia trades unions have been more than doubled. Little Rock (Ark.) trades union men have organized a Central Trades Council in which all crafts are repre sented. A perfect network of underground tunnels is proposed for Paris, France, which will rival in cost and extent the famous sewer system of that city. There are about 12,500 persons on the pay-rolls of the city of Boston out of an estimated population of 550,000. The Atlanta (Ga.) City Council has passed an ordinance requiring the use hereafter of the Printers' Union label on all municipal printing. The great works of the Cambria Steel Company at Johnstown, Penn., are to be enlarged on a gigantic scale. The cost of the proposed improve ments has been estimated at $2,500,000. The new scale of the locomotive en gineers on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, as recently adjusted, gives the men $4 per day of 12 hours. The settlement is very satisfactory to the engineers, although many wanted the time limit made 10 hours. Thomas A. Edison, Jr., is said to have succeeded in inventing a miner's lamp that is absolutely safe. It has been subjected to severe tests which have proved satisfactory. Nearly 12,000 car loads of coke are now sent out weekly from the Con nellsville (Penn.) field, and when the new Klondike field in the same region is put in operation, the output will be Increased nearly 20 per cent. A Pittsburg foundry has Just com pleted for the Lukens Iron and Steel Company, Coatesville, Penn., the first three-high universal plate mill ever constructed. It is a 28-inch mill. The Amalgamated Wood Workers' Union, at its recent convention at Grand Rapids, Mich., decided not to admit gilders, upholsterers or varnish ers into membership. The Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers are considering Denver, Colo., as the location for the proposed Home to be built for disabled and superan nuated members. The largest trades union in Minneso ta is that of the Minneapolis carpen ters, with a membership of nearly 1,000. A Cleveland manufacturing concern has introduced in its factory the sys tem of awarding, semi-annually, priz es for valuable suggestions made by the employes. Prizes will be awarded as follows: First prize, SSO; second, S2O; third and fourth, $lO each; fifth and sixth, $5 each. A New York paper has compiled a series of interesting statistics illustra ting the progress and growth of the trust movement in the United States. The statistics, which are claimed to have been compiled very conservative ly, show that since 1860 the aggregate capitalization of industrial combines and consolidations actually incorpora ted exceeded the enormous sum of $4,- 000.000,000. Recently compiled statistics of the glass industries of the United States show that Indiana has made wonder ful gains in output, and has surpassed Pennsylvania in the window glass pro duction, and now stands the latter's equal as the greatest glass producing center in the entire world. The figures show that there are now 104 glass plants of all kinds in the State of In diana. The working force of these es tablishments is stated to be about 15,000 men. The most gigantic alliance of labor organizations of any city In the Union has recently been formed in Philadel phia. It is known as the Allied Council of Building Trndes, and Includes 33 lo cal unions. The United German Trades Association was represented at the meeting at which the council was formed, In order that the German and English unions may work together. The council comprises all branches of the building trades excepting bricklay ers and slate roofers. The Mayor and City Council of Ma con, Ga.. have entered Into an agree ment with the local Typographical Union that hereafter all city printing shall bear the union label. Milwaukee coremnkers have agreed with employers upon a scale of 25 cents per hour and time and a half for overtime. Foremen coremakers are not to be members of the union. Five plants of the National Enamel ing Company (the bath tub trust), it is stated, will be permanently closed and their capacity transferred to the four others in the combine. The estab lishments to be abandoned are those located at Sheboygan, Mich.; Chicago, Rome, N. Y., and Elwood and Aliquip pa, Penn. REFLECTIONS. God sees self us a vanishing point in his scheme. If labor is godlike, why is the work man a slave? Self is the storm centre from which all disturbances breed. Man is a savage, either brutally or politely, until Christianized. The least cash account has all hu manity for debtor and creditor. Some have ventured to call God cru el; no one has dared to call him mean. "Bear ye one another's burdens." Well, well, what next? says Mammon. Sociability is of the soul; the cat and the mouse are together, but they are not social. There are human swine so sleek and smooth that we must admire them in spite of ourselves. The caravan of life stumbles with out compunction over the bleaching bones of former pilgrims. GREAT MEN. Bolivar was a druggist. Mehemet All was a barber. Virgil was the son of a potter. Milton was the son of a scavenger. Horace was the son of a shopkeeper. Demosthenes was the son of a cutler. Robert Burns was a plowman of Ayreshire. Shakspeare was the son of a wool stapler. Cardinal Woolsey was the son of a pork butcher. Oliver Cromwell was the son of a London brewer. Whitefield was the son of an Inn keeper at Gloucester. Columbus was the son of a weaver and a weaver himself. John Jacob Astor once sold apples in the streets of New York. Broken-down Women weary from pain and the torture of over-taxed nerves, it is but natural that you should be low-spirited and de jected. Worn-out by the care, the worry and the long suffering from weaknesses that have baffled the best efforts of your family doctor, it is no w onder you have become discouraged, and think there is nothing left for you „ cnn 2 an d misery. Do not give up all hope, do not lose all courage. Remember Dr. Miles' Nervine has helped thousands of despondent wom en to regain their lost health and fail ing strength. It quiets the irritated nerves, rests the weary brain and drives worry and care away. It gives the failing appetite, invigorates the digestion and adds new strength and vigor to the whole system. Don't forget the name. DR. MILES' Nervine. "Chance of life left me a total wreck and I suffered nervousness, rheumatism, heart trouble and dropsy. When I commenced taking Dr. Miles' Nervine last December I was thought to be in the last stages of nervous pros tration and was scarcely able to move about the house. I began to improve almost from the first dose, and in a few months I was enjoying better health than I had before in fifteen years. I am now able to walk ten or a dozen blocks without feeling in the least fa tigued, and I bless the day I first heard of Dr. Miles' Nervine." MRS. DR. NORRIS, Rock Rapids, la. Sold at all druggists on a positive guarantee. Write for free advice and booklet to Dr. Mile* Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. SALT LAKE. It la Gradually Disappearing Through Several Causes. The popular outing and picnic grounds of Salt Lake City Is the Great Salt Lake. Thither they start Satur day afternoons, In flue weathef, which Is the role here —every Saturday in droves. Hut what if Salt Lake should disappear? Already the lake, through evaporation and other causes, is great ly reduced in size, uud tills, too. with in the memory of men still living. What effect the ultimate disappear ance of this body of water will have upon the wonderfully rich and fertile valley which the original Mormon em igrants pre-empted, settled and made to blossom as the rose, It Is too soon to prophesy, hut Its gradual disap pearance Is regarded with forebodings ami dismal apprehension by landhold ers In that neighborhood. To one who has never lmthcd In Its waters the lirst experience Is niiiiiiic. At Gnrtield Beach, where you can make n dive or jump from a considerable height, you naturally. If you have not been fore warned, expect to enter the water all over, hut in the Great Salt Lake, so brackish is it, that it is all hut impos sible to go in over your head, or. If diving, over your feet. When you first strike the water you have the feeling of having landed head ou against a pneumatic cushion, for the further In you go the greater becomes the force opposing your entrance. Not the least wonderful thing In connection with this lake is Its altitude, lying as It does 4,1200 feet above sea level. Compared to the waters of the Dead Sea. those of Salt Lake are compara tively fresh. All water carries a per centage of salt, and in both the eases of the Dead Sen and the Great Salt Lake there Is no outlet to the lakes— uud they mniutaln their levels through evaporation. Through the countless centuries during which they have ex isted this salt, since it does not evap orate, has accumulated until these bodies of water have attained their present brackish condition. Bathing in the Dead Sea is really fearful. Iu the lirst place, you are so buoyed up by the water as to literally lie on Its surface, and after a hath In it you are almost as sticky as you would have been had you taken a plunge Into a hogshead of molasses— a state you must en.lure for some time, as fresh water does not lie near It. It is only to lie able to sn.v after ward that you have bathed in the wa ters of the Dead Sen that induces you to take that nauseous plunge. The Dead Sea, as you look from its bor ders, Is seemingly surrounded by lofty hills, hut when once you reach their summit and your eye again roves over the level stretehs of plain, you come to a realization of the filet that the sea lies below the crust or surface of the earth, and what you had taken for hills were simply the sides of the In dentation or cup in which it Is sunk. But even Salt Lake bathing is an ex perience as delightful as it is novel. It is impossible to drowu iu Its briuy waters. What Ailed the Dog. Marjorle was spending the night away from home. As evening drew neur the 111 tie maid struggled bravely against the feeling of homesickness that oppressed Iter. She was diverted, however, by the dismal howling of old Fido. "What can he the matter with that dog?" some one exclaimed. Marjorle looked sympathetic. "I s'pect he wants to see his mam ma," she said though' ftdly. Drs. Moore and Hamilton wero 011 Tuesday elected bishops by the Metho dist conference, anil women won tlio r fight for admission to lay electoral and general conferences. Host Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use W| In time. Sold by drugglsta. pfl READY FOR RUMMER! If not, come to our store and let us supply you with warm weather needs. . We have complete lines of j Summer Underwear, Stiff Hats and Soft Hats, Fedoras, Alpines, Straw Hats, , All Kinds of Caps, Plain and Fancy Shirts, Beautiful Lines of Neckwear, Men's, Boys' and Women's Shoes, and Many Other Summer Goods At the Very Lowest Prices. # McMeiiainin's Gents' Furnishing, Hat and Shoe Store, 86 South Centre Street. AMANDUS OSWALD, dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries and Provisions. Roll Butter and Eggs a Specialty. A celebrated brand of XX flour always in stock. Latest Styles of Hats and Gaps. All kinds of household utensils. N. W. Cor. Centre and Front sl*.. FreelanA. Condy 0. Boyle, dealer In Liquor, Wine, Beer, Porter, Etc. The finest brands of Domestic and Imported Whiskey on sale in one of the handsomest sa loons in town. Fresh Koch ester and Shenan doah Beer and Youngling's I'orter on tap. [PATENTS^® ► ADVICE AS TO PATENTABILITY PIIPP 1 ► Notice in " Inventive Age " Hi HK mi Hi 4 ► book "How to obtain Patent*" | IIIHEH 1 f Charges moderate. No fee till patent is secured. J [ Letters strictly confidential. Address, 1 G. SIGGERS, Patent Lawyer, Washington, D. C. j hkMdd* 50 YEARS' I EXPERIENCE DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS 4C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain oar opinion freo whether an Invention Is probably pat cut able, Coniniunlcft lions strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Muim A Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely Illustrated weekly. Largest cir culation of any scientific Journal. Terms, S3 a TE.R: four month., L Sold bjrall new.dwlen. The ; Philadelphia Record . after a career of over twenty years of uninterrupted growth Is justified in claiming that the. standard lir.H es tablished by its founders Is the one true test of A Perfect Newspaper. To publish Af.f, THE NEWS prompt ly ami SII.-I-I notl V and In the most readable forin. wlthnnt elision or partisan bias: to discuss Ms signif ied. c>- will, frankness, to keep AN EYE OI'EN EOH IT IILIC ABUSES, to give besides a complete record nf current gin, fancies and dis coveries In all deparlnienlsof human activity In lis DAILY EDITIONS of from 10 to 14 I'AUES. anil to pro vide the whole for lis patrons at the nominal price of ONE CENT—that was from ilia outset, and will con tinue to be the aim of "THE I5E OOBD." The Pioneer one-cent morning newspaper in llie I nlted Stales. "The Record" slill LEADS WHERE OTHERS FOL LOW. Witness Its unrivaled average dally cir culation. exceeding ISS.OOO copies, I and an average exceeding 14.1.000 copies for lis Sunday editions, while Imitations of lis plan of publication . In every important city of the cupn • try testify to the truth of the assnr -1 tlon that In tlicquantlty and quality I of Its contents, and In the price at I which It is sold "The Record" haa J established the standard by which ] excellence In journalism must bo j measured. I The Daily Edition of "The Record" will be sent by mail to any address for $3.00 pr year or 25 cents por month. The Sunday Edition at Oc per copy or SI.OO per year, together with the Dally, will eivo Its readers the best nod freshest Information of all that Is going on in the world every day In the rear, including holidays, will he sent for #4.00 a year or 35 cents per month. Address THE RECORD PUBLISHING CO., Record Building, Philadelphia, Pa.