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.
Skin troubles, cuts, burns, scalds and
chafing quickly heal by the use of Do-
Witt's Witch Hazel Salvo. It, is imitat
ed. Be sure you got I)oWitt's. Gra
ver's City drug store.
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RAILROAD TIMETABLES
HP HE Dfcl AWARK. iSCBQI'KHANNA AND
1 £CM ylkill Railroad.
Time table In effect March 10, 1001.
Trains leave Drlftou torJeddo, Hekley, Hazle
! Brook, Stockton. Heaver Meadow ltoud, Kouu
and Hnzlctoii Junction ui iUU a in, daily
except Sunday; and 7 07 a m, 838 p m, Sunday.
I 'L'nii in-lea\ e Driitou for Hai wood, Cranberry,
T< luhicken and Derinaer ai t.O a in, daily
except Sunday; und 707 a m, 238 p m, Sun
day.
1 rains louve DrUton for Oneida Junction,
Harwood Hoad, Humboldt Houd, Oneida and
I beppton at 100 a iu, daily except Sun
, day; and 7 07 a m, 2 38 j> in, Sunday,
j Trail it* leave Hazleton Junction I'orHarwood,
Cranberry, Toinhicken and Deringcr at 035 a
ji, daily except Sunday; and A 53 a in, 4 22 p in,
| Sunday.
| Train* leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida
j Junction. Harwood Itoad. Humboldt Head,
Oneida and Sheppton at li 32, 11 10 a m, 4 41 p m,
daily except Sunday; and .37 a m, 3 11 pm,
Sunday.
Traiiiii leave Deringer for Tomhlcken, Cran
berry, Hai wood, Hazleton Junction und Koan
at SOO p to, daily except Sunday; auu J37
a in, 5 07 p ui, Sunday.
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.
'3 12 h in for Weatherly, Munch Chunk,
Alleiitown, Bethlehem, Huston, Phila
delphia, New York and Delano aud
Pottsvillc.
7 40 a m tor Sandy Hun, White Haven,
Wilkes-Hunt*. Pit tat on and Scruntoii.
5 18 i ni for Hazleton, Weatherly, Munch
Chunk. Allenlowii, Hethlehrni. Easion,
Philadelphia, New York, Delano and
Pottsville.
9 30 n ni for Hazleton, Mahanoy City, Shen
andoah,aat. I'armel, Slmmokin.
1 20 P tn for Weatherly, Munch Chunk, Al
lentown, Bethlehem, Huston, Philadel
phia and New York.
6 34 |> ni for Sandy Hun, White Haven,
WUkes-llarie, Scruaiou and all points
7 20 P in for Hazleton, Delano and Potfcs
▼illo.
ARRIVE AT FREELAND.
7 40 n in from Weatherly, Pottsvilla and
Hazleton.
9 17 n tn from Philadelphia, Easton, Bethle
hem, Allentown. Maucb chunk, Weath
erly. Hazleton. Mahanoy City, Sheuun
doab, Mt. Caruiel and Slmmokin.
9 30 am from Scranton, Wilkes-Bar re and
hite Haven.
1 12 1> m from New York, Philadelphia,
Huston, Hcthlchcni, Allentown, Mauch
Chunk und Weatherly.
6 34 P m from New York, Philadelphia,
Huston. Bethlehem, Allentown, Potts
ville, Shtiiuokin. Mt. Curmel, Shenan
doah. Mahanoy City und Hazleton.
! 7 29 i m from Scranton, Wilkes-Ham* am-
White Haven.
For further Infnimation inquire of Ticket
\ trot! 18.
UOLLIN 11. WI I<TH.TR, General Superintendent,
2d Cortlundt street. New York Clt3*.
CHAS. R. LEE. General Passenger Airont.
■■M Cort'andt Street New York City.
G. J. GILD ROY, Division Superintendent,
Hazleton. Pa.