Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 10, 1899, Page 3

ESTERHAZY GUILTY] Bt) CoNtissEs ‘TO TO HAVING WRIT- TEN THE BORDEREAU. Says He Was Ordered to Do So by Sandelhr—Charges the Chiefs of the Army With Disgracefully Abandoning Him—He Has Proofs } That They the Whole i ‘Thing and Shared the Responsi- | bility With Him—Chiefs Have | , Made Him Seductive Offers Keep Silent. Knew to | London, June 4.—The Daily Ghroni- cle says that Maj. Comte Ferdinand sterhazy called at its office ast evening with a confidential friend and, after declaring the time had ar- rived when the truth should be told, Ithough hitherto, owing to induce- ments, he had kept silent on the es- itial points, made the following | atement: “The chiefs of the army } gracefully abandoned me. | ‘ full and I shall abeas out. Yes,” ra } } have dis- ing his voice and glaring a round, “it as L who’ wrote the bordereau. = I wrote it Upon erders received from Sandel: Esterhazy, the ‘Chronicle says, then proceeded to explain that for months before 1893 moral prcofs had been ob- 3 sd of leakages which were only possible through officers belonging to the ministry of war; and it was neces- to catch the guilty party by ma- al evidence. Hence the bordereau. asked what tlie chiefs of the French government staff would say to this statement, Esterhazy, shrugging his shoulders, disdainfully replied: “They will lie as they know now to lie, but I have them tight. I have proofs that they knew the whole thing and share the responsibility with me, and I wili produce the pr He denounced the chiefs as a “se scoundrels, who have abandoned me ) and added, “but at one time used to come to thank Mme. ys for he tance.” d that quite re- sent McLaguerra . to London, with i to him to keep s y they are using threa’ ad, “but I will not be deterred. ‘hronicle got Esterhazy to sign notes of the interview. PATY DE CLAM’S ARREST. sary the He Is Charged With the Forgery of the Dreyfus Papers. , June 4.—The arrest Thursday eve < of Lieut. Col. Du Paty de Clam, who in 1894 was commissioned investigate the’ charges made Krantz, had con- M. Dupuy. ned in the is Cherche Midi and utterir It is not yet known wheth d before a court-martial ry court. ill be t a disciplin: — or bocoeooe-- NEW TRIAL FOR DREY Court ef Cassation Hes Virtually Arrived at a Decision. June 4. — The Ec s that the court tually finished its n with the Dreyf: s that after tl mecti had upor the pres z to shorten pro- which threatened to be la vote by ‘ tion Six were then taken and the result n will be deliv Ip will sen THE MARK i> atest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. 4. — Wheat — Tse; No. Paul, June e, $1; September, 98 1-2c; June 4.—Wheat — July - opened at 743-8¢ and closed at 74 1-2c; September opened at 723-4c and elosed ». On track — No, 1 ha 73 5-8¢; waukee, Wis., June 4: — Flour is higher; No. 1 Northern, 76 1-2c. Oats 1-2c. Rye lower; No: rley mendes No. 2, 41¢; Wheat — No. 2 No. 3, T5@7Te; No. 2 hard ; No. 3, T3@74c; No. 1 the: 2 spring, aa 2@79 1-2c; No. 2, j 3 0. 3, 72@76 1-2c. Corn $ , 821-2c. Oats— 24 1-2@25e; Ne” 8, 24@24 1-2c. Chicago, June 4. — Hogs — Light, 75; mixed, $3.60@3.80 heavy, 4 5 .65, Cattle ‘4 Beeves, $4.50@5.70; cows and heifers, @5; Texas steers, $4.25@5; stock- ; $3.75@5.10. Sheep— Jambs, $4.50 @ Iowa, June 4. — Hogs — v weep! vans eae 5.10; » $3. ngs, $3.T5@5. South St. Paul, June 4. — Hogs — @ 3.70. +Cattle — Steers, $4.90; $4@6; Lows, $2.30@4; stockers, heifers, $3.70@3.85. Dont Like{ the Appointment. Valley City, /N, D., June 4.—The ap- pointment of ... Berg of Grand Forks as captain of Wompany G of this city, W. Gitehell, to{succeed Capt. Mudgett, yecently dischaiged for disability, is an unpopwtar actiofa here and Gov. Fanch- er is sLarply erfitieized. My cup is- now in Manilat over First Lieut. Chas. | NASH IS A WINNER. ' att aS, : Nominated for Governor by Ohio Republicans. Columbus, June 4.—The Republican state conventicn nominated George K. Nash, the favorite of Senator Hanna, for governor, and ex-Congressman John A. Caldwell, the favorite of Geo. B. Cox, for lieutenant governor, with the other five nominations distributed among those of other distinguished political affiliations. What was generally called the Han- na-Cox combination controlled a large majority of the 813 delegates, but it did not air its power beyon:1 the nom- inations of Nash and Caldwell. The conference at which Senator Hanna, Mr, Cox and others reached a mutually satisfactory understanding did not conclude until 9 a. m., an. hour before the convention assenbled. It was over then with Mr. Daugherty and ndidates, and known that the J ou would conclude its work without any such protracted session as had been anticipated. Guilbert and Huffman were nominated for second terms without opposition. When some of the delegates raised the ery of “slate,” George B. Cox himself was the first to break the slate by changing the es of Hamilton county which he t on the first and second ballots for Judge Hall for attorney general, to James M. Shee Judge Hall had been generally considered a sure win- ner, as he had been slated. In this case the anti-trust as well as the ti- slate element cut quite a figure. The attempt was then made by the field to combine Against the “Slate” and there was opposition to any one being a candidate for two places on the ticket, and Judge Hall was de- feated after a very hard fight which oc- cupied more time than any other busi- ness in the six hours that the conven- tion was in session. The only other place in which the slate was broken Was in the nomination for supreme judge. The incumbent, Judge Brad- burn, was a candidate for a third term and he was opposed on that ground as well as on the ery of “slater.” Outside of the usually animated con- tests for the nominations the feature of the convention was its universal in- dorsement cof President McKinley. When the plank in the platform “com- mending the | _bre ident for the ju- DUS ions of the civil rules recently promulgated” read there was a very enthusiastic demonstration, In presenting the name of Mr. Daugherty, Mr. Holcomb of Cleveland sa he hoped the convertion would toler no dictation. And when Mr. Daugherty was called out opr the nomination of Judge Nash the ‘eated candidate said, among other things, that he hoped he would at least be al- lowed to live as a private citizen in the Republican ran Outside of these utterances there were none of the stings that are common at conven- tions, and that wi on previous. d private utter es of leaders nounced that there will be a fication her that the frequently heard n beth public and It is an- CEDED TO GERMANY, Away Three Batches of Islands, June 4. — The queen regent yesterd: the nd in the speech nnounced that the dL nds the late 4 the course of Spain Gives Madrid, opened the co 1 1 ceremon by J of the cortes all the that have wrenched our ough the disasters which d our country are reawak- We must serve sadness in y to derive e: ace therefrom, > woes of 0 try are of nature th at icence and vail complaints, d States troubles et and the formed. Under ed to me to z it before as concluded pa ed a change 0 sent cabin et was most of the Mar‘anne But the former cabinet believe eless for Spain tor in such minor appendages of our ¢ t empire and signed with the German emperor a convention of right to cede these territories under the which would be submitted immedi- ately to the chamber. Our foreign re- lations are cordial ani friendly. We specially owe to the pope recognition for the many times he has given us his moral support. The most important, most urgent and most difficult task be- fore you is to balance the budget and liquidate the debts resulting from the war through ordinary and permanent sources of income.” Surprise at Washington. Washington, June 3.—The announce- ment at Madrid in the speech from the throne to the cortes that Spain had ceded the Caroline islands and Palaos and the Mariannes was received with surprise here. The cession marks the relinquishment of Spanish possessions in the far Bast save the island of Fer- nando Po and dependencies on the African coast. The dispatch concern- ing the news was shown to the Ger- man embassy officials, but Ambassador von Holleben said that he had received no information as to the ‘cession, re- ports having been current from time to time that Spain was figuring on a transfer of sovereignty of the Carolines aud that Germany had made overtures looking to their acquisition to her colonial possessions, Buffalo, N. Y., June 4.—The freight handlers, housemen and dockmen re- sumed. work at all the docks and the work is proceeding as usual, Kitchener's Reward, London, June 4, — In the house of commons the government leader, Mr. Balfour, presented a message from the queen recommending a grant of £30,- 0U0 io Maj. Gen. Lord Kitchener, the sirdar of the Egyptian army. Crash in Montana, Missoula, Mont., June 4.—In a head- end collision between an east-bound passenger train and a fast freight on the Northern Pacific, seventy miles west of here, one man was killed and another badly injured. AT IT AGAIN. FELLOWS WHO ONCE RUINED KANSAS AGAIN IN POWER. Want to Re-establish the Heresies That ‘Left the State in an Almost Hopeless Condition Ten Years Ago—Throttling the Truth, The Republicans of Kansas are at- tempting to regain control of the eco- nomic teachings in the agricultural college of that state, It will be re~ membered that about two years ago the Fusionists, who were in the ma- jority, revised the course of instruction at the agricultural college by enlarg- ing the courses dealing with the dis- tribution of wealth, changed the pres- ident, and employed as professor of economics Dr. Edward W. Bemis, who had been discharged from the Univer- sity of Chicago for publishing facts concerning monopolies. They employed in the department of political science Prof. Frank Parsons of Boston, whose exposure of monopolies had done much to open the eyes of the American peo- ple upon this question. Prof. Thomas E. Will, who was at the head of the economic department, and was equally outspoken against monopolies, includ- ing the money power, was elevated to the presidency of the college. To oust these men from their posi- tions as professors of social science, and to restrict the courses as to the distribution of wealth, is the avowed object of the Republicans in Kansas. They have preferred trivial charges against two of the regents, and the governor appointed a “packed” com- mittee to try them. This committee has returned a verdict of guilty, and the governor will. proceed to remove them unless the courts interfere. As to the condition of the agricul- tural college under President Will's management, it appears in the inves- tigation that’ this year’s attendance in the preparato.y department of the college is 24 per cent more than during the year preceding the change in the management, and in other depart- ments is 14 per cent greater. That there has been freedom of thought in the university was testified to by Prof. Bemis during the investi- gation. He said that when employed he told President Will that he was not a believer in Populist doctrines, and not an advocate of freé silver at a ratio of 16 to 1; that if we had free silver at all it should be at a greater ratio. To this President Will replied: “We guarantee you four years’ work, and no muzzles.” “No one,” said Prof. ever attempted to dictate should teach.” Commenting upon the college inves- tigation, the Manhattan Republic says: “Disguise it as they may, the real purpose is to depose Prof. Will and to discontinue the teaching of liberal economic science at the college. Why these attacks? Because his assailants do not want such a presentation of political and economic science. “Few people, comparatively, have any conception of what is involved in this attack upon the college. It is commonly understood to be more or Jess of a local nf&tter, with some state politics in it, and more seriously af- fecting the purses and the future of the parties directly interested than any one else. Far from it! It is one bat- tle in the great war which is waging throughout the world between plutoc- racy and democracy, the dollar and the man, the capitalist and the wage earner, the master and the slave, the rich and the poor, the politicians and the people—between bondage and lib- erty, error and truth, sin and: right- eousness, Mammon and God! What higher honor could President Will have than to suffer for the freedom of sci- ence—for conscience’ sake—with such men as Herron and Gates of Grinnell, Commons of Syracuse, Andrews of Brown, Canfield of Lawrence, Ely of Johns Hopkins, Adams of Cornell, Be- mis and Small of Chicago, and others? Martyrs are they allin a battle royal, no less significant than that which be- gan on Judea’s plains, with Peter, Paul and Jesus, and whose final victory is no less certain.” The Courier-Democrat of Seneca, Kan., says: “President T. E. Will of Manhattan College, it seems, is about to be con- demned as a heretic, for teaching facts instead of orthodox goldbug doctrines. The days of religious persecution are buried with the dead past, but at the opening of the twentieth century we still find college professors persecuted for refusing to sacrifice historical and scientific truths to the gods of finance.” The third charge against the two regents who were “investigated” is as follows: “The said Regents Limbocker and Hoffman, with others whose terms have expired, inaugurated a plan of government and system of education by which the Kansas State Agricultu- Bemis, “has what I ‘ral College was perverted from an institution where the teaching of ag- riculture and mechanic arts was by the Jaw made the prime idea to an insti- tution where so¢ialism and political doctrines were taught as the first great object; that in pursuance of such plan college funds were used to print and disseminate socialistic and polit- ical doctrines and theories, and the Industrialist was transformed into a monthly magazine wherein were taught socialistic views and political doctrines and political heresies.” To this the following answer was made: “So far from changing the aim of the- college away from agriculture and me- chanic arts, the present management has very greatly increased absolutely and relatively the quantity, and im- proved the quality, of fa work on thesp lines. “Within two years the college Kas risen from one of the lowest to one of the highest rank in-amount of ag- ricultural instruction offered and re- ceived. It has established a dairy school, engaged in valuable experi- mental work, published pamphlet bul- letins which have won highest praise, and inaugurated a system of weekly Press bulletins which have been wide- ly copied. It has trebled the number of farmers’ dgnstitutes, and divided their cost by three, and has received an institute appropriation which will enable it to visit every country in we state twice annually or more frequent- ly. It has fired the students with an interest, hitherto unknown, in agricul- ture, and has so won the good will of the state as to secure for the agricul- tural department a legislative appro- Priation of $34,000, against a biennial average since 1890 of one-seventieth of this amount. The horticultural de- Partment, like the agricultural and other departments, has performed ex- periments a single one of which would, if utilized, pay for the total cost of the college since its foundation in 1859. The veterinary department has estab- lished a laboratory, experimented widely on practical lines, produced and distributed blackleg vaccine, whereby cattle raisers have saved many thou- sands of dollars; and, despite greatly increased college duties, has attended to the work of the state veterinarian. The mechanical department has risen from a mere manual training school to a high-grade department of mechanical engineering, has increased its attend- ance over 30 per cent, and has then been compelled to turn students away; it has adopted an apprentice system popular with students and valuable educationally and pecuniarily to tue department and college, and has_re- ceived legislative appropriations eleven times greater than the: average al- lowed this department since 1889-90. “The domestic science department has secured a building and earned a foremost place among similar depart- ments west of the Alleghanies. The departments of agriculture, mechanics and domestic science have each been given a special four years’ course of study. These departments and the horticultural department are pre- pared to offer short, highly practical courses next year to students able to attend but three months annually for two successive years, “The political and economic depart- ments have been much improved. Pro- fessors have been employed who are able and willing to open to the stu- dents the whole range of thought, new and old, in their departments. They do not seek to impress their own opin- ions upon the students, and pupils often say that they cannot tell from the college work which side of a dis- puted question these professors be- lieve in. “They present ths arguments pro and con, give the students references to high authorities on both sides, urge them to investigate for themselves and express their own views in class and out. These professors are noted among the students for inculcating the idea that the student should not accept the conclusions of others, even those of the most famous text book writers, without carefully testing them. The students do investigate for themselves and express the most opposite conclu- sions with entire freedom, remarkable force, and for the most part perfect courtesy toward those of differing opinions. “Great as has been the improvement in these departments, the increase of time and attention has been very small compared to the increase in the agri- cultural and mechanical departments. For economics one hour is taken dur- ing two terms, with some scattered work in a third term and some indus- trial history which can hardly be called economics. For political science no more time is taken than before— five hours a week for one term; that is the whole time devoted to the science of government and citizenship, against a four years’ course in agriculture and mechanics. Is that deserting agricul- ture and engineering for ‘political doc- trines?’ The claim has been made, and with much show of justice, that the one term in political science is too lit- tle—not a fair share of time for the study of state and national constitu- tions, organization of national, state and local governments, discussion of the problems of government and rea- sonable preparations for intelligent performance of the duties of sovereign citizenship. Both the federal and state laws relating to the college expressly authorize ‘scientific’ studies as well as agricultural and mechanical studies, and both declare the, object of the whole institution to be to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes.’ “As for the charge of teaching and disseminating ‘socialism and political heresies,’ considering the source of the charge and its companions, there appears to be an unusual amount of truth in it, since it is a fact that ‘po- litical doctrines’ are discussed in the civics course and ‘socialism’ is one of the topics dealt with in the economics course. The text book used on this topic of socialism is Prof. Ely’s—a yk which is used in all the leading colleges, because it contains a very fine and impartial statement of the reasons for and against socialism. Prof, Ely’s conclusion is against socialism, but he is fair-minded enough to consider its advantages candidly and state clearly the claims of its advocates. Can any- thing further be asked of an economics teacher than that he should present both sides of disputed questions and leave each student to decide for him- self? Can he ignore one of the lead- ing topics of economic thought of to- day? He would be recreant to his duty to the pupils under his care, if he dld not open to them all the cbief ' doors of thought and discussion; he | ABSOLUTE MONEY. would be just as wrong to omit so-. We are told that if free coinage is cialism from his class work as a teach- | adopted the gold will disappear, and er of philosophy would be to omit the writings of Comte or Plato or Kant. * sf “Political heresies’ are something we know nothing of, but we suppose they consist of such ideas as are con- trary to the interests and sentiments of the aforesaid local politician, or such as happen to be unknown to him; wherefore it 1s probable that they in- eude nearly the whole body of polit- ical science. A man who talks of po- litical heresy today has outlived his usefulness. He might have gotten a job with the inquisition in the dark ages or in the eighteenth century with King Louis or George III.; but he is out of place in the American repub-* lic, where every man is the equal of every other before the law, and has as much right to form and express po- litical opinions. The man who cries ‘heresy’ is the fossil who does not want to get out of bed though the sun is up and shining in uis window; he won't listen to the Copernician theory —the world does not move, and he knows it; he has no use for Luther— what the priest tells him is good enough for him. He can’t find natural selection in his catechism nor the platform of his party, sO he has no use for Darwin, although his own person and conduct may furnish ample proof that men-came from the lower ani- mals, and that some of them have not come very far.” Silver Republicans. From the Chicago Democrat: Repub- licans in Utah are sorely pressed by Hanna, who demands loyalty to the ad- ministration, gold standard and all. Now, there are very few republicans in Utah who are not silver men, and they find it exceedingly difficult to fol- low the dictates of the national repub- lican boss and to remain true to their convictions on the money question. In discussing this peculiar situation the Salt Lake Herald truly says: “The only hope of silver ties in a national organization. The party that declares for free coinage is entitled to the sup- port of every silver man. The repub- lican party declared for the single gold standard; the democratic party de- clared for bimetallism. ‘An advocate of silver coinage, fly- ing a silver flag, marching in a bat- talion of the goldbug army, firing shots of misrepresentation at the men in the trenches of silver, a silver knight rid- ing with the hosts of gold is an ob- ject of suspicion.” Nothing could be plainer than this. No man can serve God and mammon at the same time. No man can vote with the administration party and also be true to his faith in the money of the constitution. The platform adopted by the republicans at St. Louis in 1896 is now repudiated. That platform was constructed for the purpose of fooling friends of silver with the promise ot efforts in behalf of bimetallism. Tnere was some slight excuse for sil- ver republicans who voted with the regular republicans in 1896, but no such excuse exists now. Every yote cast for a republican can- didate is a vote for gold. If silver re- publicans have not a distinct organi- zation of their own, they should vote with the democrats, who are loyal and earnest friends of silver. What Anderson Says. From the Rock Island Argus: Gen T. M. Anderson, just returned from the Philippines and placed in charge of the military department of the lakes, with headquarters in Chicago, said in an interview yesterday that last summer, before Aguinaldo assumed the aggressive against the United States, he asked Anderson what course this country proposed to adopt with refer- ence to the Philippines, and on being told by Anderson that he was not at liberty to say, Aguinaldo replied that he had read the constitution of the United States carefully and had failed to find any power in it to establish col- onies, And in this Aguinaldo had the absolutely correct interpretation. Gen. Anderson states that at that time he cabled this government that the Fili- pinos were determined upon absolute independence. Yet it was after that time that this country bought them at | so much a head and denied them that independence, Corporations in Control. From the Kansas City Times: The opinion of the attorney general of the United States is that the government doesn’t care who pays the stamp tax. All it wants to know is that the tax is paid. A more atrocious attack upon the rights and well being of the people has never been made by any adminis- tration. It is not an indirect, but a most direct and open justification of the schemes of the great trusts and monopolies to force the public to pay their taxes for them. It is the first time in the history of the nation that an administration announced the doc- trine that might makes right. It is the first time the government has pushed the people back when they asked for common justice. Unavaliling Noise and Denunciation. From the Springfield, Mass., Repub- lican: The friends of an imperial and colonial policy will rejoice in the Chi- cago crowds and enthusiasm, and they have a right to do so. But the debate ‘will go on, the facts will be presented and the arguments marshaled. “Un- settled questions have no mercy for the peace of the nation,” said Garfield. It will be now as it always has been. De- nunciation often falls short of argu- ment, and noise is not converting or } conclusive in itself. It does not con- clude the matter to cry “traitor” upon the opposition and censor the mails. that the currency will be contracted to that extent. That is all for scare. The same threat was made in 1878, but our then patriotic congress passed the bill in the face of the threat, and passed it over the president’s veto at that. Gold and silver then came into competition with each other, and pros- perity followed, and will do so again when the country shows itself greaver than the great money-loaning power, whose headquarters are in London and whose hindquarters are in New York. Let this country restore ali silver as well-as gold to its full money legal- tender functions. ‘That being done, let this United States declare that so long as gold is used as money 23.22 grains pure or 25.8 grains standard gold shall not be worth more than one dollar in the United States. It is well known that England enacted that an ounce of gold shall never be worth less than £3 17s. 9d. sterling. That law fixed the price of gold in England. Now, this great and grand United States of America, with its great resources of wealth, and with its fireat enterprise, ean, by law, establish and maintain that 23.22 pure or 25.8 grains of stand- ard gold shall never be worth more than $1 so long as gold is used as money by any nation. England's standard of money ac- count is pounds sterling; the United States’ standard of money account is dollars, Now, is it fair to ourselves, the people of this United States, that We should take only so scarce a thing as gold of which to make our legal- tender dollars or on which to base our legal-tender money? I would say not, and especially when nearly all the gold of the world is now owned by people in a foreign country and the great bulk of gold production coming from for- eign soil. Would it not be far better for us to enact that 371% grains of pure silver or 412% grains standard silver shall never be worth less than $1 And es- pecially so inasmuch as so large a proportion of silver is a product of our own soil? Were I to make it dif- ferent to that I would say 359 grains, or a ratio of 15% to 1. Every voter should lay aside party prejudice and all differences, and look into this ques- tion, for the very life of our nation depends upon the rightful settlement of our money question. I will put the following proposition to any man advocating a single gold standard for our country: Suppose that every banker who had gold on hand had been as patriotic as Mr. St. John of the Mercantile National bank of New York, who, I understand, turned over to the government $500,000 in gold and requested only that any kind of paper money be sent them with which to do business. Now, had the whole $625,000,000 in gold which is said to be in the United States been turned over to the government in like manner, then the government would not have had to give interest- bearing bonds to get the gold. Now, had the government let all of that 625,000,000 out to pay on debts owing in England, it would simply have gone where it belongs, where it is owing, and interest would be stopped on the $625,000,000. In that case the United States would not have a dollar of gold. Now, should we advocate the chaining that $625,000,000 back with us by giving an interest-bearing bond, or take and use the resources of our own country to prosper on and pay our debts in our own products as fast as we can? If it would be better to chain it back with us, if at only 3% per cent inter- est, the next day we would be over $500,000 worse off (the one day’s in- terest). Now, the fair-minded man, who wants to be honest with himself, would certainly say trat it woud be better to use the resources of our own country—the products of our own soil. Very well, then. A part of the re- sources of our country is money metal —gold and silver. Then let us have . this all coined into legal-tender money —legal-tender dollars with which to transact our business. It then comes into competition with that English gold, and we will not need to buy it back with an interest-bearing bond to that great money-loaning power. We want and we need competition in money. One United States dollar is just as good as any other United States dol- lar. Then let us vote to have more of them. Let us vote to have all gold and silver metal free to be coined into legal-tender money, good for taxes and all debts, It would be just as reason- able for the people of the United States to sell their gold bullion for 50 per cent of its price in the stamped coin as to sell their silver bullion for 50 per cent of the money price in the stamped dollar, so long as other na- tions use silver as money and raise cotton and wheat in competition with ug oF manufacture goods in competi- tion with us. The time has coffe when men with hearts and brains Must rise and take the misdirected reins ‘Of government, too long left in the hands Of tricksters and of thieves. He who stands And sees the mighty vehicle of state Hauled through the mire to some ig- noble fate { Ang mabes. 208 Oe ae ea he can, ' ‘Ys no American. ; + en NRA hana