LIES OF CIVILIZATION THE GAME OF OUR MONOPOLISTIC AS3IMILATORS. They Mock the Ahplrntinn* of the 1 Liberty LOVIUK, Say* Ella Ormshy, and Labor l*nyn the Bill* In Sweat and Blood. (Special ( orr spondence.] Judge Sewell of Boston was one of those stern anil learned judges who fell In with the temporary craze of his time la the condemnation of witches. In his diary is found an account of his excur sion to the burying ground "where," he says, "I was entertained with a view of and converse with the cotlius of dear Father and Mother Hull, Cousin Quiti cy and six children. It was an awful yet pleasing trial." The spiritual descendants of this judge arc credulous of any movement which looks as If it tended to the con fusion of wicked or foreign looking people, and even to be entertained with a mental view of and converse with coflins filled in the interest of Duty, Destiny and Dollars, nnd the confu sion of foreigners is an awful yet pleasing trial. The designers of benevolent assimi lation In 1,300 faraway islands are the same class whe have imported so much contract labor, and they are used to working on race prejudices and credu lity. When their agents have Induced foreign laborers to come here after steady work nnd high pay and Invest their savings in homes, when lines anil supplies rise higher than wages until strikes or lockouts occur, then our compatriots, the capitalists, being bet ter dressed, more skillful In the use of English, more popular with newspaper men, nearer to the governor, the mili tary or the court, more cunning withal than employees, they take occnsion to point to the destitution us a common instance of the well known thrlftlpss ness nnd lawlessness of worklngmen, especially of outside barbarian work lngmen, who have no right to come to this country and he dangerous to her Institutions. The credulous, being thus honored with the confidence of the law hreaklng gnat, would do anything to aid them against people who look as if they might break the law. It Is Ihe same wolf who dons sheep's clothing only when necessary whose correspondence with the I'aris peace commissioners Is just delivered to con gress, except a part which, in the judgment of wolves, would be "inimi cal to public Interests." The wolves' cool calculation of the consequences of "criminal aggression" (as one wolf called it when he had on sheep's cloth ing > is there revealed. Credulity has been worked during two years to an extent which one would have supposed impossible by be nevolent assimilators and dissimulators and lias cost the country a quarter of a billion dollars directly and some G,OOO men in killed and wounded. As in times of lockouts, the poorest people have been compelled by sympa thy to contribute to starved fumbles, while great directors of those assimi lations have paid nothing, so now the directors have declined oven to pay the cost of the ruin which they are deter mined shall go on in the islands. By methods best known to themselves they force us to pay. As monopolists or assimilators reduce wages by iigbtiug laborers with the natives of some country where lower wages prevail—Americans with Irish men, Irish with Italians, Italians with Asiatics or Africans—until they find la borers who can't be unionized, so in their new army bill their Philippine agents are authorized to employ 10,CM)0 of the cruel subjects of the sultan of Sulu to fight what late reports of Gen eral Mac Arthur confess is a united peo ple. In liia speech on the army bill Con gressman McCall of Massachusetts said: "We have from these two sources, the direct war bill and the pension ap propriations, a total of about $200,000,- 000 a year, which is vastly greater than tlie similar charges of any other nation and greater even than the combined military charges of France and Ger many, who are armed to the teeth against each other. It has been sup posed that wo enjoy immunity from the warlike burdens which crush Eu rope, but the point is already reached where we have far outstripped every other nation iu the elements of military cost and where at the speed with which we are forging ahead it is not •unreasonable to expect that our an nual outlay will equal tlint of three or four of the greatest powers of Europe combined. We were practically invul nerable from any European attack. But with 1,300 islands 10,000 miles from ouY capital city and on the other side of the greatest ocean iu the world, if any nation should see fit to deal us a blow, nil that would be necessary would be to seize some sand reef iu the Asiat ic tropics and run up its flag, and then the honor of this nation would demand that we expend billions of dollars and the lives of tens of thousands of our boys iu order to again get possession of that strip of saml. It is no more ex pansion or growth than is the horrible cancer which swells the bulk of the body and saps its vitality." Mr. McCall also showed that the ehcclis airily drawn by campaigners on the stump for $100,000,000 worth of trade were bogus. The yearly imports from all countries into the Philippines have amounted, on a gold basis, to about $10,000,000. We have secured but a small percentage of this trade, and that percentage has not much in creased except for the supplies to sol diers and articles which to Increase de mand for does us no credit. If the for eign purchasers In the Philippines could be increased three times and the per centage of their purchases of us as many times, allowing 20 per cent of our sales for profit, estimates which iif. McCall believes to be visionary. there would be a profit of not more than $5,000,000 per year. Most of the things which these people need they are apparently able to purchase cheap er of nearby neighbors, and, "so far as trade is not governed by price, but by sentiment, It is difficult to see how our trade prospects have been advanc ed by a policy which, according to the report of our commanding general, has produced for us a hatred which is wide spread." Awhile ago especially privileged peo ple said they saw a panic coming, and to avoid this panic, which would cause great misery to the masses, the secre tary of our treasury deposited large suuis in large banks. Afterward he did not collect Interest on these depos its, official courtesy seeming to require that interest be paid to the especially privileged aßslmilators and dissimu lators, but never required by them. Hut after the panic had by such financial wisdom been averted the secretary made still lurger deposits and made them permanent; this probably in the Interest of the permanent averting of panics. With similar assurance, when the farsecing wisdom of these assimilat ing monopolists who control our ad ministrative alTairs has involved us in a war without American precedent, which includes in Its effects no end of shame and suffering and loss to liberty and national honesty, those who have inflicted the Injury do not offer any reparation whatever. Even little chil dren know that it is dishonorable not to apologize or pay for what one breaks, that a fuult denied is twice committed, but the asslmilators lob bied during the whole session of con gress for the removal of the smallest inconveniences to themselves, even in the collecting from their patrons of war stamp taxes, and at the same time they lobbied for the continuing of the infliction of the injury and making the Injury permanent, with a standing army three or four times the former size. The un-Christian missionary impulse so quickly developed reminds one a lit tle of the crusades, only those were against the unspeakable Turk, who had done harm, while this Is against fellow Christians with cruel Moham medan aids, under some impression that their foreign Christianity needs Americanization, which only an Amer ican army can accomplish. In those old crusading times thrifty landlords who staid at home quietly profited by the rise of farm products and the tem porary fall of the price of land, ena bling them to get possession of much laud. When the enriched landlords heard that infidel blood made deep riv ers in the holy city, he was able to say, "It is the Lord's will." Now the one among our rulers whose pen could have brought every crusading soldier home points at destiny. The American flag during a tempo rary national aberration floated a few days over Mexico. Buchanan favored a declaration that "we must fulfill that destiny which Providence has in store for both countries." Common sense prevailed over destiny at that time. "Destiny," says Professor Sumner of Yale, "has nothing rational in it. To invoke it in public affairs is a refusal to think or to be governed by reason, * * * the empty and silly talk of the last two years about destiny." A study of "the law of the crowd" is in The New England Magazine for Feb ruary in the account of the destruction of the Charlestown convent by a Bos ton mob in 1834. "This law," it says, "causes men in masses to act either much better or much worse than they would as individuals. Over and over ugain history has shown that when a number of persons are gathered to gether, whether in an ordinary mob, a convention, a legislative assembly or an audience of any kind, or when other otherwise unrelated persons are held together by religious, political or sociul beliefs, forming them into par ties, sects or castes, the action of men so formed into a crowd is in many cases entirely different from what one's experleuce of them as individuals would lead him to expect." When a hypnotic operator goes too far in his demands, he wakes up cer tain sensitives, and gradually opposing cries change the current of thought. The revolting character of this war 011 liberty is awakening a new class of people to the character of their leaders —the monopolists. Many draw the line at actual murder. Lawyers know the danger of precedents established in evading the constitution. Literary people, acquainted with history, see striking coincidences between many recent acts and acts occurring when republics were changing to empires. Professor Sumner says: "McKiuley will not wear a crown and congress will not introduce uni versal military service next winter. Derision of such fears is cheap since nobody entertains them. It is the lit tle beginnings which tell." It is said that ex-Speaker Reed being invited to speak in the interests of the Imperialistic and military beginnings replied, "No, my conscience has been seared enough." It was advertised, without his knowledge, it is said, that ex-Speaker lteed would attend the din ner given on the arrival In New York of the young nobleman imperialist, novelist, war correspondent, lecturer, general adviser, member of the house of lords, great son of the great lady of American birth, who was a promoter of the great Anglo-Saxon alliance against little nations, Winston Spencer Churchill. Mr. Iteed, being asked about the din ner, is said to have replied: "No, I'm not going to that dinner. What need have I to go to dinners? I don't know anything about the young mail." W. D. Howells declined and Mark Twain accepted, but instead of giving eciat to imperialism used the occasion to he sarcastic about it. We may imagine how the courteous Howells looked on his Invitation from a remark of hie In his "Easy Chair" In Harper's for February. "When we get a hero of national proportions," he Buys, "we worship him for things that the person of ordinary make would he turned out of clubs for, or put In state prison, or sent to the guillotine or gallows or electric chair. We seem to he more ready to do tills than to Idolize or Idealize some men of national proportions In the good things, the things that really honor n people, fur above bloodletting, as pa tience, kindliness, humility, the love of humor, the sense of human fellow ship." A naval hero returning home, flatter ed and advertised by the great, forgot obligation and, displaying a quality the opposite of heroism, took back all that he had said which the flatterers desired should be unsaid. America's greatest humorist, return ing home, praised by the great, re ceived into the heart of imperialism, stung his way out. The people of all lauds are deeply indebted to Mark Twain. In the February North American Re view Mark Twalu explains to the per- i son sitting in darkness who would be puzzled by our "mixture of greed and godliness:" "They look doubtful, but iu reality i they are not. There have been lies, ! yes, but they were told in a good cause. ' We have been treacherous, but that j was only in order tiiat real good might ! come out of apparent evil. True, we j have crushed a deceived and confiding ' people; we have turned against the weak and the friendless who trusted us; we have stamped out a Just aud Intelligent and well ordered republic; we have stabbed an ally in the back and slapped the face of a guest; we have bought a shadow from an enemy who hadn't it to sell; we have robbed \ a trusting friend of his land and liber- I ty; we have invited onr clean young men to shoulder a discredited musket and do bandits' work under a flag which bandits have been accustomed | to fear, not follow; we have debauched j America's honor and Slackened her face before the world, but each detail was for the best. We know this. The bead of every state and sovereignty In Christendom, and 90 per cent of every j legislative body in Christendom, lnclud- I ing our congress and our 50 state legis- | latures, are members not only of the church, but also of the blessings of civ ilization trust. This world girdling ac- j cumulation of trained morals, high principles and Justice cannot do an un tight thing." "The ordinary epithets cannot be : fiuug at him," says the New York Post. "Mark Twain is no bilious, white 11 v- j ered, wall eyed hermit of n timid little American. He looks at this question with a world perspective. He has stood before kings. He is not dazzled by rhetoric about the American empire. Growth of our soil and traveled ob- j server of other nations, Mark Twain comes home to tell our daunting impe rialists that he sees through their hy pocracies." The order suddenly to change front and agitate for a standing army of 100,000 after boasting of a finished up ( war made some editors feel like nin- i nles, it is said, but Mark Twain's laughter made them feel like changing the subject of their editorials for a few days. "Shakespeare was of us; Milton was for us; Burns, Shelley, were with its." And so are all honest people who un- j derstand the old tricks of the new ar- | Istocracy. Eli.a Ormsby. i New Salem, Mass. Ilitn New York Labor Hard. The prevailing rate of wages law has j been declared unconstitutional today \ by the court of appeals In a decision j handed down in the case of William J. 1 Itodgers against Comptroller Coler of New York. Rodgers secured a contract on street improvements in New York city, and payment was refused by Coler on the ground that Itodgers did not pay his employees according to the rate fixed by law for municipal work. The appel late division declared the law unconsti tutional, aud the court of appeals has now affirmed the decision. Tlie prevailing opinion was written by Judge O'Brien, who declares the prevailing rnte of wages Inw unconsti tutional because in Its actual operation it permits and requires the expenditure of city money for other than city pur poses. "It denies to the city and contractor the right to agree as to payment for services and compels the payment of an arbitrary rate. Furthermore," says Judge O'Brien, "it virtually confiscates all property rights of the contractor un der his contract for breach of his en- j gagement to obey the statute and at j tempts to make nets and omissions pen.nl which in themselves are harm- 1 loss. In effect the law Imposes a pen alty upon the exercise by the city or by the contractor of the right to agree with the employees upon the conditions of the employment." Two of the judges dissented. A I. ii I for Victory For Patcmon. It seems that the strike of all the weavers In Paterson, N. J., has been ; averted. The demands of the weavers employ- ; ed by the Meding Manufacturing com- j pany, who were out on strike, have . been granted. The firm made a com- | plete surrender, agreeing to the raise ; asked for. The advance is more than j 25 per cent. It is based on the highest regular wages ever paid in Paterson— the scale of 1805. St. Pnnl Carpenter*. The union carpenters of St. Paul have signed an agreement with the master builders the terms of which provide for an eight hour day at 32',6 cents an hour, Instead of 30 cents as heretofore, and the employment of j union men exclusively on contracts i controlled by the builders' exchange. ' PEOPLE OF THE DAY. Twice Carter H. Harrison has been elected mayor of Chicago, and now for the third time he has received his party's nomination for that office. At j the recent Democratic city convention he was selected by acclamation. The CARTER H. HARRISON, convention also adopted a resolution favoring municipal ownership of pub lic utilities. Mr. Harrison since bis first election as mayor of Chicago has been a pronounced advocate of munici pal ownership and operation of street railways. The Kaiser an an Orator. "I have often heard the Emperor Wil liam II speak in public," writes one of his subjects, a professor in Bavaria. I "He does not hide the fact that on | many occasions lie lias had cause to re- I gret his words of the previous evening. ! No matter, he is a brilliant orator. , He ■ knows it too. Ideas crowd in ids mind, and phrases to express them abound in his mouth. Ills voice appears sharp. | It is not that really, but simply what one might call schneidlg (decisive, de- I termlncd). lie speaks in abrupt sen ' tences, which he punctuates regularly | with a gesture of his right arm, ages- I ture without either grace or elegance, | but jerky and energetic. Ills left hand i invariably remains riveted on the hilt ! of his sword, and his arm. not fully de i veloped, is closely pressed to his side. ; When the emperor is going to speak, his physiognomy reflects a succession of impressions curious to watch. His features, immobile and even rigid at first, relax immediately he opens his | mouth. Lightning, as it were, plays i over his energetic face, his eyes spar kle \fitli a fascinating radiancy, and his upper lip, so beautifully formed, re veals every other moment two rows of dazzling white teeth. Everything he j says has such a profound sense of con- I viction and breathes such zeal that his i listeners are worked upon completely." j From ItiiHHln to France. It is announced that Charlemagne ! Tower, United States embassador at j the court of St. Petersburg, is to be ! transferred to the United Stales eni i bassy at Paris. General Horace Por ter, the present embassador at Paris, "" CHARLEMAGNE TOWER desires to retire. The climate of St. j Petersburg does not agree with Mr. Tower's health, hence his change to Paris. Charlemagne Tower was appointed minister to Austria in 1597 and was advanced to the embassadorship at St. Petersburg in 1899. He is a native of Philadelphia and is 59 years of age. Helen Could'o Ilacdnhnke. I Miss Gould has an Interesting little i handshake, says one who knows. She has evidently learned that to protect and preserve her own hand when glv- I lug it to hundreds of others she must do most of the shaking herself. She : takes the proffered hand firmly in her ! own at about elbow level, holds it there | for an instant, then raises it quickly in | an almost exactly perpendicular lino, then suddenly releases it. She looks directly into the eyes of the person she j Is meeting, and probably not one In a ! hundred passes on without carrying I with him the conviction that the jolly | faced young woman he has just left I sincerely enjoyed the meeting. ! The Klondike Is proving a valuable ; source of income to the Canadian gov ernment. Last year the revenue of the Yukon territory amounted to $1,201,- 81G. 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Trams leave skieppton for Oneida, Humboldt Koad, Hui wood lioad, Oneida Junction, Hazle ton Junction arid Kuan at 7 11 am, 12 40, o tit p in, daily except Sunday; and ill a m, 3 44 p in, Sunday. Trains leave Sheppton for Heaver Meadow Koad, Stockton, Ilu/.le Brook, Kckley, Jrddo and Dritton at f2 p ni, daily, except Suuday; and S 11 a in, 3 44 p ni, Sunday. Trains leave Huzlelon Junction fer Beaver Meadow Hoad, Stockton. Hazle Brook, Eckley, Jeduo and Drifton at 540 y m, daily, •xcept Sunday; and 10 10 a m, 40 p m, Sundaj. Ail irauiH connect at. iiazteton Junction with tectric cars tor Hazleton, Jeanesville, Auden ried and other points on the Traction C'om oany'M line. Train leaving: Drifton at 600 a m makes connection at Deringer with I'. H. K. trains lor Wilkeubarre, Sunbury, Harris burg and points west. LUTHER C. SMITH. Phipwiintwndfwit. LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD. Match 17, 1901. Akkangkmknt of Passenger Trains. LEAVE PKBKLANIi. 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