Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 15, 1899, Page 7

wen 4 e* aiesttoy RAISING THE MEN ORDER FOR ENLISTMENT OF VOL- UNTEERS PUBLISHED, i Seven More Colonels to Command the Regiments Are Appointed, i) \ving Two Yet to Be Desig- wted — Recruiting Stations Will Be Opened in Every State and ‘Territory, and as Fast as Men Are Enlisted They Will Be Sent to the Regiments — State Lines Obliter- ated. ‘Washington, July 8—The order for the enlistment of volunteers for the service in the Philippines was pub- lished yesterday and seven more colonels to command the regiments Were appointed. There are yet two Eight ina- » named. The recruiting until some time next act date not having been Recruiting stations will be state and. territory, ‘ast as the men are enlisted will be sent to the regiments to ‘signed to companies. State lines are obliterated and the men first en- listing will be first to be mustered in. The assignment to componies will be ‘av the ofticer commanding, and he #fll-be at liberty to organize a com- “puny compcsed of men from one state if he finds it convenient and practica- ble. The organization of the ten regi- ments in th country will not make any difference to the organization of regiments in the Philippines by Gen. tis. His regiments will be in addi- Hon to those hereafter to be known as ‘the Twenty-sixth to Thirty-tifth, in- clusiy nd will be numbered Thirty- sixth upward. It is expected that colonels to be designated. Jors also we will not b week, the e fixed yet. three r nents will be organized in the Philippines. The regiments or- ganized in the ited States and the Philippines will increase the army by 650 officers and 17,667 men if there should be three full regiments formed by Gen. Otis. The colonels appointed under -orde to proceed at once with the org: tion of the regiments. Some cf the offi s are now in the city znd have been consulting the different bureau officers with regard to equip- ment and supplies for the men as the v join regiments. COLONELS. Dell, Pettit, Hardin, Gardiner, Craig, Hare, Kobbe. Washington, July 8—The president SEVE)D has appointed the following colonels of the volunteer regiments: Maj. James M. Bell, First cavalry; Capt. James S. Pettit, First infantry, better known as colonel of the Fourth immunes; Capt. Edward Hardin, who was colonel of the Second New volunteers in the war with ; Capt. L. A. Craig, Sizth caval- Capt. ‘Luther R. Hi Seventh ry: Maj. William A. Kobbe ana Nineteenth pt. Cornelius Gardiner, infantry, The assignment of the volunteer colonels to regiments will be as fol- lows: Twenty-sixth, Rice; Twenty-seventh, ghth, Pettit; Twenty- Bell; Twenty ninth, Hardin; Thirtieth, Gardiner; Craig; Thirty-third, fifth, Kobbe. ssignated for the lieuten- of the Thirty-fifth regi- ment nize it and take it to the Philippines when Col. Kobhe will assuine command, POPULISTS WILL NOT FUSE. Will Hold Their Convention One Month Prior to the Other Parties. ite, Ind., July 8.—Mortimer akin, chairman of the Populist national central committee, was inter- viewed yesterday afternoon in regard to whether the Populists would form a fusion with the Demo for the coming campaign. Mrs. Rankin t they would not, for the t the Populists will hold their na- ticual convention cne month prior to that of either the Republican or Dem- ocratic conventions. On this account the Populists will prepare their own pl orm and nominate the ¢ own can didates. The time for the national Pop- ulist convention is not determined yet, and cannot be determined until one of the big political parties names the date for its convention. Mr. Rankin stated that the party was split up in its Ws but it was hoped that every one would be brought to one course before the convention met. The Populists are tired of fusion, for they have found at whenever they entered into a ion with the Democrats that the jatter party received the benetit, while the Popul were there merely to All up. ap Rankin stated that the JYirty t up on the matter of tolding the Philippine islands. YELLOW FEVER. \ A Transport From Santiago With Three Cases — Miss Clendennin Is Stricken. New York, July 8. — The transport McClellan arrived from Santiago and was detained at quarantine. Her sur- geon reports that three of the passen- s have yellow fever. Two of these re cabin passengers. One is Miss endennin, daughter of the surgeon in charge at Santiago, whose death om yellow fever was reported a few ago. Miss Clendennin told the surgeon of the transport that she had her father for some tine sailing, but two days after the eft Santiago she was sen With the disease, which is i in character. The patient is im- Storm Does Damage. rks itville, Iowa, July 8.—A vio- in of wind, rain and hail dover this place, doing great » to property. Plate glass was l and shingles beaten from Damage will, be heavy. § the roofs — Becker Is Guilty. Chicago, July 8.—August Becker, the stocly yards butcher, was found guilty of Ye murder of his first wife. His punishment was fixed at death. he jury was out only a short time. He showed apparent indifference. i: GEM OF THE OCEAN. Columbia Vanquishes Defender in the First Race. New York, July 8.—Over a triangular course of thirty miles in comparatively light winds the new Iselin-Morgan yacht Columbia yesterday vanquished the Vanderbilt yacht Defender by a margin of three minutes and thirty- three seconds, and convinced those who saw the’ royal struggle that she was worthy of. defeuding the precious trophy which Sir Thomas Lipton and his merry tars hope to take back with them in the Shamrock next fall. The Coiumbia’s forestay sails and club top sails are anything but perfect, and in a general way she will need a good deal of tuning up. Yet, based upon the showing she made as a better boat than the Defender, under adverse con- ditions, the nautical sharps are strong- ly corvinced that Sir Thomas will sail home without the cup, the possession of which has given us the yachting supremacy of the world since 1851. But yesterday’s race was an unsatis- factory one. Shifting, baftiing winds and a bad lumpy sea, with rain squalls made the conditions anything but ideal for yachting. The billows of mist which enshrouded the Jersey shore prevented the crowd on the Highlands of Navesink and Sandy Hook from sceing the race, but the enveloping haze only added picturesqueness to the contest for those who went outside in fancy craft to see it. In windward work the Columbia, with sails drawing badly, demonstrat- ed her superiority, and in a long reach with sheets eased she outfooted the Vanderbilt boat. Sudden shifting of wind prevented a trial running with spinnakers. In light weather, close oauled, therefore, it can be sdid that she is undoubtedly the Defender’s su- perior, but what she can do in a piping breeze remains to be seen. Capt: Barr had the tiller of the Columbia, and aboard with him were C. Oliver Iselin, Mrs. Iselin, Newbury Thorne, William Iselin, Herbert Leeds and Woodbury Kane. Capt. Rhoads had the helm of the Defender. William Butler, Dun- ean and John Beresford were aboard of her. Herbert Leeds, on behalf of Mr. Lse- lin, said, after the race, that the friends of Columbia were well satis- fied and hoped to do better when their sails were mace more trim. He said there was no accident of any kind, and the yacht would leave for New RKo- chelle to-day. Butler Duncan said he had nothing to say for Defender. Evy- erything had been satisfactory. The race was an informal trial for a cup offered by the New York Yacht club. The of 1 trials will cecur in Septem- ber. RELEASE OF PRISONERS Practically Arranged Between the Spanish Commissioners and Aguin- aldo, Manila, July 8. — The Spanish com- missioners who went to Tarlac for a conference with Aguinaldo regarding the surrender of the Spanish prisoners in the hands of the Filipinos, returned here last night. Chairman Delrio, of the commission, said the release of all the prisoners had been practically ar- ranged for, but it will be necessary to consult the Spanish government be- fore an agreement could be ratified. He declined to give the terms of the arrangement or to say whether these contemplated a ranscm. He asserted, however, issued a decree for the release of the civilian officials and the sick soldiers, The commissioners, with the remnant of the Spanish garrison of Baler, on the east coa: nm, and a number , Were escorted by Filipino soldiers om ‘Tar to the American outp at San ernando and came to Manila by the night train, The heroes of the long defense of Baler, where the Spaniards’ resisted an insurgent siege for more than a year, formed a_ picturesque band, Lieut. Martin, the only surviving of- ficer, marched them through the streets. There are only twenty-two, and most of them are mere boys, in faded blue cotton uniforms and red& shirts. They are barefooted. _ A crowd of Spanish men and women embraced them, weeping and shouting their praises. They tell a remarkable story, It appears that the captain several times proposed to surrender, but the soldiers refused. Finally, some months go he tried to raise a white flag. x herenpon Lieut. Martin killed him Tie food supply e out entirely a week ago and they surrendered to the Filipinos with all the honors of war. They were al lowed to keep their arms and they say they marched from Baler, with a Filipino escort and carrying guns, through several insurgent camps, ey- erywhere being cheered and feted. IN STRONG CONTRAST. Two Extremes in the Search for Gold in Alaska Pursued. Seattle, Wash., July 8.—The two ex- treme results of the search for gold in Alaska were presented in strong con- trast yesterday when the steamer City of Topeka arrived from tke North. Miners from Dawson walked down the gang plank trembling under the weight of the gold dust they carried. Miners from Copper river followed staggering from weakness and disease contracted in the terrible North. The Klondikers wore new suits. Those from Copper river were still in the blanket clothes they wore when they left civilization. The Topeka also brought details of the drowning of four men at Five Finger rapids. The Copper river passengers number fourteen. They say the gov- ernment relief party sent Abercrombie into the interior did a great deal of good and doubtless saved many lives. Earthquakes in California. San Francisco, July 8. — An earth- quake shock was felt here and reports from other sections of the state show that the vibrations were general. No damage has been reported. ‘he vibra- tions were from east to west. Dismissed From the Service. Washington, July 8.—The presidént has approved the sentence of the court-martial in the case of Capt. John M. all, Fourth Cavalry, and the of- ficer has been ordered to be dismissed from the military service. that Aguinaldo had already 4 by Capt.’ . | SWEPT BY TORNADO ANOTUCR TERRIFIC STORM VISITS WISCONSIN. a Owing to the Fact That No Village or Town Lay in Its Path Prevent- ed a Repetition of the New Rich- mond Horror—There Was No Loss of Life, but Everything in the Path of the Cyclone Was De- stroyed —Loss of Stock of All Kinds Is Heavy. Manawa, Wis., July 9. — A tornado passed over the town of Union, five iniles north of this city, at 8 o’clock last evening. Owing to the fact that no city or village lay in its path pre- vented a result equalling the New Richmond horror. The storm struck the township at the Western boundary and plowed a furrow across it six miles long and from fifteen to forty rods wide. Practically everything in its path was destroyed. Conservative estimates place the loss at $50,000 to $75,000. Many farm houses, barns and outbuildings and miles of fencing were wrecked. There was no loss of life, however, and so far as can be learned no person sustained injury. A. Finger was one of the heaviest losers, a fine new barn and all his outbuild- ings being destroyed. One wing of his house was carried away and the rest of the building moved from its founda- von. A binder was landed on the house of Frederick Winter, cutting the buitd- ing in two. Barns belonging to G. Tuettjohn, G. Dumphe, Otto Baeser, Otto Patrick, Fred Hanson, William Tundt, Henry Scbroeder, Fred Wheel- er, N. Perkins, Christian Belot, G. Warg and William Hinchet were de- stroyed. The tornado struck the upper end of Union mill pond and scooped ont the water until it was nearly dry. All grain yet standing or cut and tied in the field, in the track of the storm, was destroyed. ‘The loss of stock of all kinds is heavy. CYCLONIC. _- ° Section of Country in Wisconsin Is Badly Damaged. Rhinelander, Wis., July 9—A cyclone passed through the country ten miles west of this city late yesterday after- noon, doing great damage to farm bvildings and crops. Many saw the arproach of the storm and took refuge in cellars. The path of the storm was about eighty rods wide and not a stick of timber was left standing. IN BAD SHAPE. Col. Ames, of the Thirteenth, Is a Very Sick Man. San Francisco, July 9.—Col. Fred W. Ames, of the Thirteenth Minnesota, who recently arrived from Manila on the steamer Coptic, is very sick and it is doubtful if he will ever be fully re- covered. He suffers constantly from rkeumatism and the effects of mala- rial fever contracted in the field near Manila. His retention of the command of the regiment is problematical. He expresses a willingness to go back to the Philippines if his health improves and the war department so orders. But it is probable that he will await the return of the regiment at San Francis- co and be mustered out with it. His wife and children are now with him. NO DIRTH OF OFFICERS. Ten Thousand Applicants for Com- missions in the New Volunteer Army. Washington, July 9.—It was stated at the war department yesterday that almost every officer who served in the volunteer army during the war with Spain, and who had been honorably mustered out, has again offered his services to meet the needs of the Phil- ippine campaign. Altogether no less than 10,000 applications for commis- sions in the new volunteer army now forming have been received at the war department and have been placed on file. Yesterday alone the applications pumbered 480. LUNA’S SLAY: ERS. They Are Acquitted on the Ground of Self-Defense. Manila, July 9. — The trial at Ca- bunaluan of the slayers of Gen. Luna, the Filipino leader who was assassin- ated by the guard of Aguinaldo’s res- ‘idence, is ended. The accused were acquitted on the ground of self-de- fense. The testimony showed there was a conspiracy upon the part of Tuna and other officers to kill Aguin- aldo and make Luna dictator. Luna’s death seems to have strengthened Aguinaldo’s leadership for the time. Luna’s supporters are now outwardly leyal to Aguinaldo. PHILIPPINE SITUATION. Absence of a Report From Gen. Otis Denotes No Change. Washington, July 9.—Adjt. Gen. Cor- hin says that no word has been ‘:ad from Gen. Otis for the past two days, whence it is inferred that there has been no fighting and no change in the Philippine situation worthy of report. Killed by Lightning. Cleveland, Ohio, July 9.—A stroke of lightning fell near a motor car on Orange street. Mrs, Joseph Painle, a passenger, sprang from her seat and fell into the street. She died an hour later. Joining the Squadron. New York, July 9. — The Unitea States cruiser Brooklyn left port, bound for Newport, to join the fleet of the North Atlantic squadron under Capt. Taylor. Beach Is President. . San Francisco, July 9¥—1n the con- vention of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, the section in botany and horticulture elected the following of- ficers:. President, S. A. Beach, New York; secretary, P. H. Rolfs, Viorida. Ordered to Manila. Washington, July 9.—Lieut. Lawson N. Fuller, ates bureau, U. S. A. has been ‘ordered to the Philippines as chief ordnance officer in the field of the army operating there. Ee COLLAPSE OF A, TENT. Storm Struck Ringling’s Cireus While Exhibiting at Crookston. Crookstor, Minn., July 8.—<A territie sicrm arose last night just after the opening of the performance cf Ring- ling Bres.’ eireus. The main tent col- lapsed, injuring sixty people, but none of them fatally. John Goyne and Miss Adams of Crookston, had their legs aud arms broken; J. H. Johnson of McIntosh and Erick Bergman of St. Ililaire, legs crushed. There were but 2,000 people present, many having been Kept away by the approaching storm. The tents and cireus equipment were badly damaged, occasioning a loss of -$10,000. The accident came during a temporary lull in the performance, and no actors were hurt. The menagerie canvas was lowered and the elephants driven on the center of it. No animals escaped. The management gave per- sonal attention to the injured. NORTH DAKOTA WHEAT RUINED. Destructive Hail Storm Visits Parts of the State. Valley City, N. D., July 8—Keports from the country bring intelligence of a destructive hailstorm in the north- ern and. southwestern portions of Barnes county, near Rodgers, in the northern portion. The streak was over siz miles wide and came from the northwest, sweeping all wheat clean. The hailstones are said to have been even larger than -hen’s eggs, breaking in and demolishing shingle roots, Southeast the storm formed into fun- nel and swept east twenty miles, un- roofing houses and uprooting trees. No casualties are reported. Redweod Falls, Minn., July 8. — A very severe hailstorm passed over the central section of this country, travel- ing from southwest to northeast. Farmers residing in the path, about four miles. wide, say, that the heads were cut off from nearly all headed grain,,and that the damage will be quite large. The western line seems to have been in this city, where the stones fell for only a short time, while the eastern line was through the Gil- fitlan farm, where very little damage, if any, was dene. LOVE AND SUICIDE. Girl Breaks the Engagement and the Lover Shoots Himself. Fergus Falls, Minn., July 8. — Burt Ophus, a young man of Pelican Kap- ids, attempted to commit suicide while attending a picnic near that place on the Fourth. Miss Sigrud, the young lady to whom he was engaged, was with him, and had informed him that their engagement had been distasteful to her. She returned the ring he had given her. He secured a revolver and shot himself in the breast, but the bul- let struck a rib and glanced off. The crowd attempted to interfere, but he held them at bay and _ took anotler shot. This time the bullet entered be- low the heart, and may prove fatal. The young lady has repented and is exdeayoring to nurse him back to life, and will marry him if he recovers. SAW A TORNADO, One Is Said to Have Swept Over a Sparsely Settled District. Armour, S. D., July 8. — Telephone communication from Bowington states that a tornado was seen across the river in Gregory county last night. Particulars of damage done have not been received. Lightning struck the house of E. W. Shuck in Charles Mix county, completely demolishing one half of it. Four members of the fami- ly had just left the destroyed portion of the house. BRINGS CAMERLAW DOWN. Man Whose Mother Was Shot at Kills the Shooter. Sioux City, lowa, July 8—Near Salix, this county, John Camerlaw was killed by a young man named Johnson, the son of a neighbor with whom he had had trouble. Camerlaw, it is said, fired a shot at Mrs. Johnson through a window where she was sitting. ‘he son returned the fire with fatal elfect. He was arrested. Electric Cars in Cuba. Racine, Wis., July 8.—Mathew Slush, A. W. Bishop and other officers of the Milwaukee, Racine & Kenosha Wlec- tric Railway company, have an option for six months on $750,000 worth of land at Matanzas, Cuba, upon which, if it is purchased by them, will be erected a large electric lighting plaut and a warehouse large enough to hold the produce of the surrounding coun- , While a system of elec‘ric railways 1 be built from Matanzas to the surrounding towns. Killed by a Baseball Siouz Falls, S. D., July 8—Levant Hartwick, an eighteen-year-old resi- dent of this city, was found dead among some willows near here. Death was the result of being hit on the head by a baseball in a game at Beresford on the Fourth. The deceased returned to this city on a train which he !eft in a somewhat dazed condition, ‘his was the last seen of him until found dead. Mysterious Fire. Luddington, Mich., July 8. — Wire started last night in the Flint & Pere Marquette Railway company’s ele- vator, causing a loss of $120,000. The origin of the fire is a mystery. It is thought the sweating vate caused it. Accidentally Shot. Estherville, Iowa, July 8—A. Bixby was accidentally shot through the left hand. Mr. Bixby runs a market here, and in opening the money draw- er, in which was a revolver, the weapon was discharged. Intent to Kill. Neillsville, Wis., July 8—The exam- ination of James Lowe for the attempt- edsmurder of his wife occupied nearly the entire day. Lowe was bound over to the circuit court inthe sum of $1,500 on the charge of assault with intent to kill. ~ Wrecked by an Explosion. Indianapolis, Ind., July 8.—A frame puilding occupied by T. M. Wis, drug- gist, and the Whitehead laundry, was wrecked by a gas explosion. Six peo- ‘ple were injured, two perhaps fatally. GOLD AT ITS WORST. RUINS OUR FOREICN COM- “ MERCE IN EXPORTS. Gives to Sllver-Using Countries a Vast Advantage—Something About Value as Related to Money — Pointers for Producers. “In the trade of silver-using coun- tries among themselves there is still a standard of values of remarkable sta- bility, but the value of. gold coin has become so unstable, both in com- modities and silver, that there is no longer a standard worthy of the name for gold-using countries or the world at large. This may be good for gam- blers, but means loss and sorrow for men of business.”—Toledo News. There is no one point involved in the silver controversy quite so umaccounta- ble as the idea which is lodged in many minds that the gold standard is based upon this fundamental error. The color of a gold dollar is always the same, its weight. the same, the marks upon it the same, the number of cents in it the same; and therefore the illogical and absurd conclusion that its value is always the same. Time and again the mistaken and even ridiculous character of the claim has been exposed, and in almost every imaginable way, only to have it re- peated whenever the silver question is the subject of debate. The difficulty is to get people to understand that, commercially speaking, “value” is merely a term of relation or exchange. The “value” of a thing is what it will exchange for. Whether the article be a gold dollar, a pound of putty, or a bushel of clams, makes no difference. Its value is what it will exchange for in other things, A man can take a pound of, gold to the mint, have it stamped into coin, and get in return all the dollars that it will make, but this proves nothing with reference to the value of gold. He simply gets the same thing back in a different form. Or the mint may give him other coin, already struck, for his gold. In such case he exchanges one pound of gold for another pound of gold, and hence it throws no light upon the question of its “value.” If the government should establish public bakeries and stand ready to bake all the wheat flour offered into bread, without delay and without charge, it is perfectly plain that 100 pounds of flour would be equal in value to all the bread it would make, but it would give no in- dication whatever of the value of either flour or bread compared with pork or beef. That would depend upon how much flour there was, how much of the other things, and the relative demand for each. Just so it is with gold. The government coins it, free of charge, and a pound of crude gold is for that reason of the same value as the same gold in the form of coin. But how much it is worth of other things depends upon how much there is of it, compared with the quantity of other things to be exchanged for it, and the strength of the desire for each. If there were only a thousand gold dollars in the world, any one will admit that a gold dollar ‘would buy or exchange for more of other things than it will now. If gold should be- come as plentiful as coal, 28 8-10 grains of it would still be worth a “dollar,” because it could be coined into a dol- lar, but it would require a great many of them to buy a hundred pounds of flour. A “dollar” is purely the creation of law. Law makes the dollar, and de- termines the material of which it shall be composed. But after it is made its exchange value depends upon the law of supply and demand, the same as other things. It is the cir- cumstance that money is always ex- pressed in fixed denominations that mystifies so many people and leads them to the conclusion that when the prices rise or fall the change is in the commodity alone; that the money stands still, They overlook the sim- ple fact that an excnange of money for goods involves exactly the same principle as any other exchange. No matter what kind of money may be in use, this idea is always prevalent. In greenback days the paper note was the universal money, except on the Pa- cific coast. At that time gold and silver were regarded as doing all the fluctuating, and were always quoted at a premium. But in California; where gold and silver were used exclusively, the greenback was said to be at a “discount.” | Every _ silver-standard country today regards gold as being at a premium—that is, as having ap- preciated—and there can be no ques- tion of the correctness of that view. Their silver money will buy as much as it ever would of most things, while gold will buy twice as much. The ex- tract given at the head of this araicle states the situation as it actually. is. Gold has fluctuated wildly, but always with a general upward movement, un- til it has doubled in value, thus cut- ting prices in two, doubling the bur- den of the long-time debtor, ruining the producer for the benefit of the annuitant and interest gatherer, and giving silver-standard countries, with their stable measure of values, an in- calculable advantage in the world’s commerce. When the masses of the people come to understand this sim- ple proposition, they will be perfectly amazed at their stupidity in not gei- ting their eyes open sooner. Not only this, but they will see that the mone- tary question in the United States is by far the most economic and indus- trial issue that ever confronted any people. More Money and Less maseur . From the Democracy (Nashville, Tenn.): Representative Champ Clark a ’ of Missouri says that nearly the en- tire theory of Democracy as to the financial conduct of the government may be condensed into the short, terse phrase: “More money and less taxes.” Champ Clark is right. There is more than that in the Chicago platform on the subject of finance, but not very much more. The Chicago platform de- clares for an income tax. The propo- sition is: More money and less taxes; taxes to be levied upon surplus wealth instead of upon the needs of the poor. An overwhelming majority of the vot- ers are for that proposition, Only the bosses of the Republican party, who are controlled by the great moneyed interests, are opposed to it; and those bosses, and their newspaper organs, do not dare to openly oppose the in- come tax doctrine of the Chicago plat- form Democrats. The following, from a Republican paper, is about the way Republicans handled the question in congressional debates: “Whatever may be said as to the abstract merit of an income tax, it cannot be had without an amendment to the constitution, and that is a very remote possibility.” Well, what obstacle is there to a constitutional amendment, except the Republican party? The people will not hesitate to destroy the Republican party, if that is the only way of get- ting what they want. Another and easier way out is to elect a Demo- cratic president, who will appoint un- Plutocratic justices of the United States supreme court. Next year wil] be a good time to try this plan. Abuse of the Pension System. From the Kansas City Times: Thir- ty years ago General Grant said the demand upon the government for pen- sions had reached the highest point and that it would steadily decrease thereafter. When the expenditure reached $50,000,000 General Garfield felt constrained to assure congress and the country that while such extravagance might be justified by the needs of dis- abled soldiers, no excuse whatever could ever be offered to add one nickel more to the pension appropriation. In fact, nearly every one of the Repub- lican leaders of a third of a century ago is on record as protesting against ever letting the appropriation pass the $50,000,000 mark, and not a few of them said immediately after the close of the civil war that the expenditure should not exceed $25,000,000 a year. But in spite of all that, the pension list has grown to nearly $100,000,000, and the annual expenditure to $150,000,000. There are on file right at this time 625,000 demands for rerating and orig- inal applications, which is an increase of 425,000 since December, 1897, eight- een months ago, and all this thirty- four years after the war closed. Over 16,000 names have been added to the list by the present commissioner, and he is the worst-abused man that has ever been at the head of the depart- ment for not adding new names faster and for not expediting the work of giving those already on a rerating so that they may draw more money. This statement may seem incredible, but it is fully substantiated by the official records of the pension bureau, Republican “War” on Trusts. From the Philadelphia Record: At- torney General Monnett of Ohio has brought suit against the sugar trust on the ground that it is a corporation carrying on business in Ohio in viola- tion of the recently enacted anti-trust law of that state, but there will be many wet and dry days before the sugar trust will be brought to judg- ment under that law. Even if judg- ment should be ultimately rendered against the sugar trust, the monopoly could afford to pay the fine of $50 a day which the law imposes for doing business in its violation in the Buck- eye state. The only way to pull the claws of this monopoly is to repeal the discriminating duties in its favor in the present tariff, but the recent Re- publican convention of Ohio indicated in its resolutions that the party has no intention of changing a tariff policy which renders the most effective sup- port to the monopolies in trade. While the Republican representatives in con- gress from Ohio will vote for no re- duction of the protective duties behind which the dragon of monopoly is se- curely ensconced, they will let the at- torney general struggle on in an abor- tive attempt to enforce the anti-trust law. This is what the Ohio Repub- lican politicians call “making war on the trusts.” Democracy and Current Issues. From the Kansas City Times: The Democratic party is in favor of com- mercial alliances with all countries, but it does now and always will set its face against political entangle- ments with other nations or engaging in their broils. In the matters of mili- tarism, a colonial empire and all that sort of thing, including slave contract Jabor in the colonies or at home, the Demoéracy will take such a decided stand against them that there will be no room for doubt as to the kind of a fight the party will put up. Keeping It in the Family, From the St. Louis Republic: _ There is something decidedly repugnant to the American people’s view of the fit- ness of things in the fact that Abner McKinley, the president’s brother, is the representative in Cuba of the North American Trust company, which is the fiscal agent for the United States in the island, and that a Mr. Miller, a relative of the president, is the resi- dent agent in Cuba of the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, which bonds the government employes.