Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1900, Page 13

* THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1900-16 PAGES. SSS eee 7 {A TALK WITH OTIS Clearing the Counters at the Men’s Store. The extraordinarily low prices o— One-Third Off ROGERS, PEET & CO’S j Perfect Clothing. a at which we are offering our entire stock of Boys’ Winter-Weight Garments is rapidly clearing the counters. Many of these Suits are medium weight, suitable to wear until early summer, but they are all to go to make room for the new stock. All the $4.50, $4.00, $3.50 and ery description, sailor, $4.48 vestie and blouse style, All the $ro.00, $9.00, $8.50 finest and best Chil- dren’s Suits made. To Friend Laundered both white and goc. kind, to close then Ot. 2.35.2... $3.00 Short Pants Suits of ev- to go at and $8.00 Suits, the 56 close: only... ..0+2<. per: the 75c. and AS* Here are the new prices: All the $7.00, $6.50; $6.00 and $5.00 Suits, including the Rogers, Peet & Co. a a garments, are offered BE acieieiae nociasisieaieicie Also a few small lots of $2.48 Suits, in vestie § 7] .48 and sailor style, sizes 3 to Io years, only.. Boys’ Separate Pants, posi- tively all wool, neat mixtures and plain blue chev- Cc. iots, 75¢. and &5c. 4 values, for...... All Winter-Weight Top Coats and Reefers are ONE-THIRD OFF of regular prices SPECIAL PRICES on Underwear, Hosiery, Boys’ Hats, Caps and all other wearables. All Men's Winter-Weight Sack Suits, Separate Trousers and choice of hundreds of Overeoats, and all Men’s and Boys’ Shoes, at ONE-THIRD OFF. The new Spring Hats for Men and Boys are now ready. Chery & Moran Co., The Men’s Store, sil Penna. Ave. So Seeded teeendeteteentetenteteteteeteteteteieteetetntepetetetes : 7 $2.50 2 i ° ° > 3 9 $ A guaranteed germ-proof stone filter at such a low price as ES $3.50 is enough to make everybody buy one. The Acorn Filters are = just as good as those that sell for triple the price, only they are 3 smaller and don’t have so much ornamental work—the stone is the very best that is made. Don't risk sickness by drinking the unfil- tered muddy bacteria-laden Potomac water. Get an Acorn Filter to- morrow and have pure drinking water, penitent Small Gas Heaters... ...$1.25 - $2.00 «+ $2.75 Calovit Gas Furnaces. . 4-col. Gas Radiators Handy Heaters. Gas or Oi! Heaters are the bandiest—tarned on or off at will—no waste of fnel—just the thing for spring—when it’s cold one day and warm the next. Reflector Gas Heaters. .$2.75 Puritan Oil Heaters from $3.50 up. PERTINENT POINTERS Weather gaaeeten abo EOO Se: Pump for cleansing teeter s 2 Should other store. price tags are marked in the plainest kind of figures. You will find that it is most econom- Ey- quality we sell is person- ical to buy here on credit. ery ally guaranteed for satisfaction and durability. can best spare the money, free of cost. mb1-T5 Between H aa a a a te ee ee detetetetedetetetetetetetetetpeletetefeletectetvetpeeieetieh GROGAN’S cravat, 617-819-821-823 7th Street N. W FOR HOUSEKEEPERS. Poreelain Enamel Batt, Tub Paint....50e. Black Lustrous Stovepipe Enamel. G-foot Step Ladders. Dog Muzzles......... Japanned Coal Hods. Furnace Scoops. Covered Ash Sifters Soe, OSS, llth & G Sts. elena Furniture Buyers Read! If you are getting ready to buy some furniture or car- pets, we would like to have you make a comparison of our credit prices with the lowest cash prices you can find in any It will be no trouble to do this, because our ———_—e You are always welcome to credit—welcome to pay the bill a little at a time—weekly or mont hly—as you All carpet made, laid and lined Mammo and I sts. “OPEN DOOR” IN COWMERC Address of Charles R. Flint New York Audience. Charles R. Flint, the head of the ex- use of Flint, Eddy & Co., of New ivered an address before the St. evening at the Savoy door” in commerce. ing his address, de- -n door” policy in China, accompanimen' ited States, d absolutely from that of } Blaine’s policy of reciproc- { s that discrimination. | por’ is equalit Af Before M David So Hotel om Flint that vantages and advanta 1 traders, Mr. Flint continued: intemperate oriticism of aggresa- of capital by would-be political l unsound as the proposition to pay American wage-earner in fifty-cent dol- hing short of an attack upon American prosperity at home and an at- cmpted embargo upon our export trade. ny of trade, supposed to be guaran- and Constitution of this y The combina- ons inveighed against F lone the combinations of capital, but is of more importance, they rep- resent aggregations of intellect and indus- try “centralization of manufacture and of distribution brought about by these great : Proved Priceless. Ruby coats sud cinnamon flavor. Dr. Liver Pills are household favorites. Impurities rave the syatem. ‘The nerves are toned. The blood is purified. The complexion is bright and rudy. Headaches vanish and perfect health fol- lows thelr use. 40 doses, 10 cents. WILLIAMS, 9th and F IAMS. 3€ and Pa. ave. Agnew's combinations of property and intel enly secures the advantages of the Ree evelopment of spectal machinery, but’ ow. ing to the enormous production, the’ por. centage of general charges is largely’ ro. duced. The condition of the American wage serners today is vastly superior to what it has ever been before. Their homes have more comforts than had the palaces of the nebility in centuries past.” Continuing Mr. Flint said: “The progress of the world toward hi, hings means always the readjustment oy old conditions disturbed. The struggle for human existence ts the story often repeat. ed of the survival of the fittest. To ate tempt to stay that progress toward its high est evolution, which is to benefit the many. is to run counter to the highest law cf progress, and the highest law of progress is the highest law of man and God. “Now, I am not here tonight that the Ideal has beon reached in neces Sanizations; that the law should not exer- cise a reasonable supervision over their op- eration; that some of these corporations are not overcapitalized. Perhaps, having in mind some such capitalization, the wit of the Wall street wag was justified in de- scribing the syndicate as ‘a body of men en- tirely surrounded by water.’ But the se- curities of the corporations with inflated capital promptly find their level, and Wall Street tells the story of many an enterprise with a pretentious capital and an empty treasury, which starts upon a career of re. organization before organization has been fully accomplished. “Let us welcome the open door, bat tet not our political living be such as to sap the vitality of our industrial growth. Let it be determined once and for all that the flow of our commerce shall free from unjust or unwarranted restraint. Then let us be commercial expansionists-and we will be the imperialists of trade.’ ao or Edwi ard S. Dreyer, former president of Chicago bank, has-been sent to the penitens (Continued from First Page.) Wherever and under whatever condition the enemy is struck he fs scattered. The military campaign is working itself out slowly but Surely to an inevitable conclu- sion. In Luzon, north of Manila, there is no longer any organized army of insur- gents; the outlaw element of that army is dispersed in small bands, whose offenses of murder and robbery against their own peo- ple are bringing them under the ban of Filipino public sentiment and are causing information to be lodged against them by the natives so that their destruction or conversion into permanent ‘Amigos’ is a matter of course in a reasonable period. “While I may not speak definitely of pro- jected military movements, it is certain that during the dry season the same pro- cess of dispersion and compulsory disinte- gration which has been app‘ied to the In- surgent forces north-of Manila will be ex- tended to the entire island, including Ca- vite and adjacent provinces, where the last considerable concentration of fighting Tag- alogs is being effected. American People Should Be Patient. “Patience should be a prominent feature now of the public attitude towatd ‘the mil- itary campaign. A very trying period both for the soldiers and the people has been reached. A misunderstanding of eonditions iy lead to unreasonable criti- cism. It is to be remembered that the Fili- pinos no longer face the American soldicrs. If they are in danger of being cornered they hide their arms and appear in peace- ful white asthe most conciliatory of ami- gos. The Spanish method was not only to Kill Insurgents caught in arms, but to de- vastate the offending district and tp shoot down on suspicion these nominal non-com- batants. American public sentiment would not permit a duplication of this method. Filipinos captured while bearing arms are relieved of their rifles and after a period of detention are released. It does not pay us to keep them and care for them. The Filipino military need is not men, but arms and ammunition. Tagalog armed opposi- tion séems to dissipate as our force ap- proaches, but as that force passes by or withdraws the Filipino bandit reappears, and if our soldiers return to the starting point Instead of pushing forward he cele- brates a victory. This kind of warfare is exasperating to the soldiers and from its apparent unproductiveness of results arouses the impatience of the public. Two or three regiments could march anywhere in Luzon and destroy everything which Aguinaldo could oppose to them. While the real war Is over the need of a large and vigilant army here has not passed. The process of weeding out the robber bands will be slow and tedfous, but the result is sure. + Native Confidence Increasing. “With an increased cavalry force, with a steadily enlarging knowledge of the topog- raphy of the islands, with a vigorous pushing policy on our part, and with a de- crease of Filipino sympathy for the rob- ber bands, which flying before the Ameri- cans have brutally turned their weapons against their countrymen, the pacification of the islands will be hastened. Whole sections need only to be convinced of the permanence of American protection against the local banditti to co-operate heartily with us. They have been deterred, and are still to some extent, by the fear that after a while the American soldiers will be removed to some other point and that they will be exposed to the murderous fury of the cutthroats who are threatening with death all who show a friendly spirit toward Americans. The contrast between our con- duct toward the people and that of Spanish or insurgent sold is appreciated and confidence fn us 1s steadily Increasing: In- surgent leaders themselves while in the field have placed their families in the se- curity of American protection at Manila. Military Problems Misunderstood. “Misunderstanding of the conditfons here and lack of knowledge to be obtained only by presence on the ground and by a general view of the whole situation have caused criticism of the apparently purposeless pol- ley of capturing and abandoning towns many times in succession. The vital point of attack was not the town, but the con- centrating Filipinos, and not so much the Filipinos themselves gs the arms and am- munition which they carried. Our com- paratively small force occupying a long thin ne could not afford to permit the enemy to concentrate at any adjacent and threat- ening point, and was compelled to take the initiative and to strike wherever he showed a disposition to assemble in force. If the concentration movement was prevented, if the Filipinos were dispersed with losses and arms and ammunition were captured the action was successful, even though through lack of garrisoning force or on account of the undesirabflity of its occu- pation for military purposes the village of nipa huts at which the engagement oc- curred was not held after the Filipinos were chased out. With the increased force of soldiers now in the Islands it will be possible to garrison and hold all points of strategic value.” “Must civil development await the com- plete destruction of the robber bands?” Civil Government Need Not Wait. o. The military operations have al- ready reached. the stage where their prob- lems are surpassed in 'mportance by those of civil administration. It ts mutn to be desired that Cohgress should act promptly upon the President's suggestions in this re- spect, to the end that ordor may be evolved from chaos. The problem Is to build up a structure republican in form upon an inad= equate and unreliable foundation. The start upon substantially self-supporting municipal governments has been made, and at many points these are groping toward the light. The outline of a simple form of lecal government has been framed and put in practical operation wherever feasible. There is a steady, though slow, increase in the degree of Filipino co-operation in su¢h’ governments. The mass of Aguinaldo’s fot-*| lowers are young and Irresponsible. ‘Prop "| erty owners of intelligeuce already sympa- thize with the Americans, but, as I have already said, they are in many cases tetror- ized by the Aguinaldists, who promise death to them as soon as the Americans retire. With the garrisoning of the towns this fear will be dissipated, and the progress of civil government, of education and of the reign of reasonable and fixed law will then be hastened. American protection, schools and local self-government wi!l go hand in hand. There are many intelligent Filipinos, in whom I have the fullest confidence as the developers of the future of the Philippines under the protection and with the inspira- tion of the spirit of the great repubilc.” Trade to Be Fostered. “An important civil problem has been to preserve and foster the trade of the islands so far as consistent with successful mill- tary operations. All of northern Luzon, in- cluding the tobacco region’ tributary to Aparri, is now open to trade. and today the embergo has been removed from many ports of Importance in the southern islands, including a few hemp ports. Pacification of Luzon south of Manila through military movements. will soon open up. this’ section also, Every effort has been made to inter- fere as Httle as possible with the naturai flow of trade, but military necessities and the demands of commercial activity and y are frequently at yartance.”” At this point in the interview a dispafeh, was brought to Gen. Otis which stated that Agumaldo's wife and sister had just been made prisoners in north Luzon, ‘and’ that Aguinaldo himself was being chased from rancherio to rancherio with some prospects of his capture. Practically all of Aguinal- do's people are Row %n custody, and only his presence | ds.seeded for a happy family reunion in Manila. Many of Agul- naldo’s cabinet Officers and his civil and military leutengnts pave also been cap- tured. in response to a aie ion concerning Agul- naldo’s character. influence and the importance of his asmeciates, General Otis said: “oi % Aguinaldo’s Character and Influence. “Aguinaldo’s prestige and influence with the Filipinos have been very great. Even now the lowest class endow him with su- perhuman attrilgrtés, yincluding. immunity trem bullets, bu: is hold has weakened among. the mo telligent Filipinos. and he has-been denougeed among them: as a mountebank. From the time that he re- turned to Cavite in May, 1898, and became subject to Mabini's inspirations he had never the {utention of co-operating faith- fully with theUniled States except in so far as the republic would be: useful to him in holding Spain helpless while he worked his scheme of self-aggrandizement. Some of his associates were mere mercenaries, others were ambitious for power. Mabini was the master syirit, able, radical, un- compromising.- He! fur: ished the brains which made Aguinaldo’s cabinet formidable. He was brought before me recently, para- lytic and a prisoner; 1 offered him his free- dom on parole *hdt to stir up trouble; he hesitated and said, ‘I have not changed my convictions. > * “I told him that I'did not respect him the less on that account, and repeated the offer. “I have no Sa i af support; I cannot put my freedom to fany use,” he replied. “Buencamino Is q, professional turncoat, everything in turnjand nothing long. He has been an officer fn the Spanish army and was secretary. of state in Aguinaldo’s cab- iaet when he Was:captured. “Paterno, whois not yet in custody, has played a eurjous role. He arranged the treaty by! which Spain bought off Aguinaldo and bis associates in the rev- olution ef 1806, He demanded from Spain money and a title of Castile, prince or duke, as the price of his achievement. After the United Stgtes intervened he again appeared as the agent of Spain in a proc- lamation which pronounced*monarchy the fitting government for the Filipinos, and advised them to side with Spain against America, recognizing Spanish sovereignty. Luna, Pilar and Arellano. “Next after this tribute to monarchy he appeared as candidate for president of Aguinaldo’s revolutionary congress and was elected. Luna was a strong, determined character, an unyielding fighter, a general of considerable ability. The others were attraid of him. He was building up a power distinct from that of Aguinaldo. He was assassinated at the latter's quarters. Pio de Pilar is a robber. Leader of a gang of bandits before he become one of Aguinal- do's leading generals, he is now back in his old and’ congenial Hccupation. One of the ablest of the Filipigios is Arellano, who was Aguinaldo’s first secretary of state, but withdrew, after a short service, an unbe- lever in Filipino Independence. He is now the respected president of the Filipino supreme court established by the American government in Manila.” “Is it necessary or désirable to permit the Chinese to furnish the labor required to de- velop the Philippines?” Chinese Labor Undesirable. “No. The Chinese would flood the is- lands, and destroy the opportunity for the development of the Filipinos which would arise from preserving for them a - wide range of industrial, employments. Though many thousands of Chinamen are settled in the islands, conducting business enter- prises both wholesale and retail and em- ployed ‘also in the hardest form of manual labor, and though. there has been consider- able intermixture of the races, there ex- ists an old hereditagy prejudice between them, resulting often in bloodshed, The Chinaman can outwit ‘the Filipino as trader; but takes his chances of being robbed and’ murdered by the latter when the appeal is to brute force. This active Ta¢e enmity is to be taken into account. But above all in the interests of the Fill- pinos and of their development and ma- terial prosperity the Chinamen should be prevented from coming here in large num- bers. If our workingmén In. the ‘United States need this protection, mugh more it is required by the prospective working- men among the people who-ewn the soil of the American islands in the Pacific.” a The Monastic Orders. One of the most important questions to be dealt with here is that of the relations of the monastic orders and the Filipinos. The charge against the former by the latter is that they have acquired large real estate holdings by fraud, and that as the absolute masters by usurpation of the life, honor and property of the Filipinos they have so used their power that they became the primary cause of the Philippine revolution. The Filipinos demanded and secured from the Spanish governor general in the agree- ment of Biac-na-Bato the promise of ex- pulsion of the monastic orders from the islands. This is their primary aspiration. The indications have been that until this should be attained they would fight, whether Spain, the United States or Ger- many held the sovereignty of the islands. Gen. Otis said in reply to a question on this point: ‘i “This will be one- of the most difficult questions .ef all to settle. wisely and satis- factoril, Insurgent leaders, in order to keep dlive hostility to Americans, have pic- tured us to their followers as the allies of the friars determined to restore them to power, and have inaccurately represented me as an ardent Remanist in.the power of the priests. F Gen. Otis and the Friars. “In pursuance of instfuctions I tried to secure the release of the friars imprisoned by the insurgents, and IF was accused on that account of béing in partnership with the archbishop. ‘Phe question of titles to real estate in the’ Philippines, whether claimed by ecclesiastics or laymen, will 4 re I believe, to.be very thoroughly! aint is xhaustively examined and studied, fd’ . Ghis will be no quick and easy task,./¥ go hot believe that there will be confiscation by the government .@f any property held by the monasti¢!orders or by anybody to which record tfflé Is’ perfect. So far as the return Sie tary is concerned, the matter would ‘seam to be really in the hands of the Filipino Catholics themselves. The friars are? how =practically expelled, and unless thée~‘Piliptnos, undergoing a change of sentiment, assent to their re- turn it would that the Roman Catho- Me Church in itstown' Interest as well as for the welfare $f thé Filipinos would see to it that the & ‘8 recognized repre- sentatives in the islagds were not violently distasteful to the pegple whom they seek to guide.” ag OE An Active Campsige in South Luzon. Before my departure. from the palace | further informatten wes received concern- ing the concentration of insurgents in Luzon south of Manila, and an additional regiment was at once ordered to the point affected. A general: movement southward, Planned before Gen. Lawton’s universally 18 Just a Minute of Your Time to explain something that every housewife ought to know. The manufacturer who sets out in these days to make anything but an absolutely pure cream of tartar baking powder is little short of a fool, for peo ple—that is, the people whose trade is worth hav- ing—can’t be fooled nowadays about pure food. Now, the fact is—and it is plain to everybody —that any one who wants to can make an abso- lutely pure cream of tartar baking powder or an ab- solutely pure anything. The real question is not can it be made, but can it be MADE and SOLD to the advantage both of the consumer and the pro ducer? We think it can. doing with That is what we are SOLAR o 5 It Rises Everywhere. | There is no purer baking powder made. A purer baking powder could not be made, because this one is absolutely pure. That was the very first consideration. : Then there is the second consideration of price —a most important one to millions of American housewives. SOLAR BAKING POWDER is NOT made by a trust. Not being made by a trust it does not demand from the consumer trust prices. In fact, it sells . be for 8 CENTS A POUND LESS than trust baking powders, which do not cost so much to produce as it costs to produce SOLAR. There it is as clearly as we can set it forth. If our manner of tell- ing the facts does not appecl to you, do not the FACTS THEM- SELVES carry conviction’ Washington,600FSt.N.W. CUSHMAN New York, 78 Hudson st. BROS. CO., Boston, 34 Central st. Selling Agents Philadelphia, 125 So. Front st. '9 Pittsburg, McCance Block. (is = = = of us. wear, and We Tomorrow we shall place on Sale man stand back ' Good shos-news: | Although leather is much higher in price, your Spring Shoes will be better than ever and are not going to cost you any more than formerly,—provided. you buy them Lots of stores may promise you the same thing, but we know there is no other i! House in Washington that will, or can, do as well for you as we. Wi We contracted for the entire output of several factories to get our buying-price down uh} —and we're going to divide profits with you, in the expectation of thereby greatly creasing our Spring Shoe output. 3 of every Pair new Spring Styles and will also dispose of HHH a number of excellent Shoes at Reduced Prices which are very suitable for early Spring ~ we sell! i in- Spring Styles for Women: Guaranteed Patent Leather Dress and Walking Boots, the Queen of all Dress y break thro’ 53-50 Shoes and dest out, — we'll give you a new pair free! oe . ‘The “Wi - mo - dau - sis” Oxfords for Health and Shoes in orig the 15 new Styles hand-made Kid Boots, with welted extensionedge S'es or turn (extremely light flexible 50 i Soles)\—others charge $3.00 QDs for these. 365 Pairs $2.50 Vicl Kid patent-tipped Laced Shoes were secured us at a special yours ce, — they hile they Inst by S$] -69 kept 8- for us prationt ict Kid Saket $]-50 may be at whole factory i: on ite foet “sad” tS under styles at. 725 Pairs Ladies’ soft and durable Kid at......2... Here are prices for your attention: | Spring Styles Spring Styles for Children: Misses’ fine hand-sewed patent leather and black Surpass Kid Lace »71 Button Boots, the preitiest and best $2.50. % s Boys’ new Tan Russia Calf and tlack stout Vicl Kid Shoes, the softest. dressiest and most dur- sere Spring Shees we evet $]] -50 ad at... =e : Sains black Kid ea and Button STS et ever sold for $1.50. - Little Boys’ new black and tan genuine Viel Kid) Spring-heel strictly solid La Shoes, — Sizes to 15%, — well ‘worth $1.25, $] -00 Girls’ and Boys’ black and tan Laced and Button, the only genuine Viel Kid in town for the tee. every wait ‘sie 7B Ce Pair guaranteed. to 275 Pairs Boys’ und Girls’ solid-sole celal for tomorrow only. eg ee for Men: aranteed Patent Leather er bought at Palr free ur famers “Triple Wear” $4.00 binck de and Tex Titan Calf, hand kid-lined, le-sole $2.89 New Spring Styles of hand-sewed Vict Bit can or Si with fexibie The best tun and lack Viel Kid and Calf Drees and Everyday Shoes es or de fer the 2-00 ing Styles. $ Reed's Sons’ § $5 and $6 famous Fne Score oe 120) Pairs left on Tth Sireet Store. 1- es) as 51-95 Here are the best and most « Satin Calt Shoes and Galiers satisfaction WM. HAHN & CO. 3 Reliable Shoz Houses, === 9 CORNER 7TH AND K SIs. 1914 AND 1916 PA. AV! 233 PA. AVE. S.E. —— —— mourned death, is about to be carried out | He has just performed the diplomatic feat, under the immediate direétion of Gen. without firing a gun, of pacifying tempora- Bates. who is to succeed to Gen. Lawton’s | rily, and during a crucial period, the south- command. There “ate three or four thou- sand Insurgents now, assembled and in-| targely by the Mahometan Moros. A like: ern islands ofthe archipelugo, peopled trenched in Cavite province, and jt is hoped, | result. reached by different means, in South but hardly expected, that.they will make a} Luzon will mark the end of war with stand and give battle there. It is more | the Filipino people and reduce the inme~ Ukely, however, that the American sword will cut through g, spectral, ilusive figure, striking nothing substantial. Gen. Batos,. who is-known &hdadmired #* a lender by whe weaee close t6-him at Santiago, is as diate use of armed American force largely. to the protection of the Filipinos them- | selves against scattered robber bands, This proclamation -will doubtless prepare . the officers and soldiers’| Way for earnest and probably successful efforts on our part to remove the spirit-of respected bere as in Washington. | distrust and hostility toward us from the 7 = Filipino heart by meeting and satisfying | cases. Oxalic acid will a the reasonable aspirations of the people for relief from the burden of Spanish misruie, ecclesiastical and political, under which they have groaned for centuries, and against ‘which they have revo'ted. ‘THEODORE W. NOYES. SESE SST To Remove Fruit Stains. The simplest method of removing these is Place the stained part of the cloth over’a bow! and continue ‘pouring bolling Water through until the stain disappears. If this-is done soon after the article is stained iso. remove fruit Stains. Put three ounces ef the crystals in & bottle with half a pint of water and have the preparation ready for use, When stains are to be removed have a large pail of was ter anda bottle-of household ammonia ou hand. Wet the stained parts with the acid and then rub, When the stains have dis- appeared put the articles in the waver. Wash thoroughly in -several waters and wet the parts with the ammonia that. ail trace of the acid may be-removed, Finally rinse again. . —_-.— oa Phousands of situations have been «b- tained through the want columns of The