Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1900, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 5, 1900 THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Editor, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBACRIPTIO Dafly Bee (without Bunda: Daily Bee and funday, One Year... Illustrated Bes, One Year.. Bunday e Ghe Year aturday Bee, Ona Y6 Weekly Bee, One Year. e OFFIC aha: The Bee Building, South Omaha: yuulfi‘nulldinm Twen- ty-Nfth and N Street Councll Bluffs: 10 Pear] Street. Chlos 0%, 1640 Unity Buliding ork: o Court. Washington: 1’ Fourteenth Street. 8Sloux Clty: 611 Park Btreet. & CORRESPONDENCE. = ‘ommunications reiating to news and edl- torlal matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. “dness letters and remittance L be addres) The Bee Publishing Com- R REMITTANCES. A dor emit by draft, express or postal order, payable ty The Bee Bubllshing (ompany onl mps accepted in payment cf 'ersol cheoks, except on n_exchanges, nut accepted. BLISHI CTOMPA. .Y STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION State of Nebraska, Douglas County, 88, l)mrfin B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing’ Company, being duly sworn, #oys that the actual number of full and smplete copies of The Daily, Morning, Evening and SBunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1900, was as follow 80870 168, 84,005 17.. #1010 Less unsold and returned coples. Net total sales Net daily average, GEO. B. TZECHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to betore me this 1st day ot December. A; D., 1900, . B, HUNGATE, Notary Publie. Omaha extends a cordlal welcome to General Fitzhugh Lee and trusts he will make himself fully at home while stationed here. The Jacksonlaus are still walting pa- tiently for ex-Senator Hill's response to that invitation to joln Mr. Bryan at their banquet table. The World-Herald has not yet ex- plained why it has taken it six years to discover that the garbage contract was an obnoxlous meusure from the start. Congress opened amid a bower of floral designs. The next offering of flowers will come when the 4th of March sounds the session's death-knell. e——— The Bee Is the only Omaha paper to give its readers the full text of the pres. ident's message. When it comes to get- ting all the news, the people must look to The Bee. President McKinley may as well make up his mind now that no important va- cancy he will have to filt for his second term will fall to have one or more Ne- kans among the applicants. The democrats In congress have filed a protest against Senator Dolliver’s resignation from the house just to make sure that they belong to the opposition party. No matter what comes up they propose to be against ft. Of course the president's message fails to meet the approval of the popo- cratic papers and politicians. It was not written to please them, but as a statement of republican accomplish- ments and future policy. As a general rule when a corner forces up the price of any product the stock In sight has passed out of the control of .the producers. The egg cor- ner 18 no exception—the hen Is short and the storage houses have all the fruit. — The quarrels of the different base ball organizations are becoming about as wordy as those of the pugilists. Al though it Is too cold to play ball at pres- ent the magnates are bound to keep the game before the public in some man- ner. The duke of Manchester has been de- clared fneligible to sit in the English House of Lords on account of the fact he is a bankrupt. As it requires only $125,000 to square up his accounts Senator Clark of Montana would con- sider the seat cheap. If the Douglas County Agricultural soclety has been reorghnized simply to perpetuate a graft upon the county treasury the taxpayers will be better pleased with its disbandment. The day of the county fair has been passed. The twentieth century demands something newer, E— Towa people account for the small increase in the vote this year when compared with four years ago on the theory that the result was so certain that many republicans aid not conslder it worth while to vote, It would be interesting to know how large a ma- Jority the republicans could roll up In lowa If they really made an extra effort, — The popocratic state officlals since the election have dropped what little pre- tense there was of conducting the state’'s affairs on business principles, Contracts have been let without com- petition and even without asking the contractor to fix the price Le 1s to charge for his work. Fortunately the state I8 about through with that brand of “reform.” The obstructionist members of con- gress, who recelved permission from their constitueuts to remaln at home after March 4, have already given indi- cation that they propose to make all the trouble they can during the short time that remains of thelr congres- slonal career. Years of experience do not appear to sharpen the perceptive faculties of a \mu(bon. FAVORS THE The report of the Isthmian Canal com mission favors the Nicasngua route as the most practicable and feasible, Its advantages over the Panama route are stated to be the shorter distance between | Atlantic and Pacific ports, the fact of its belug more favorable to sailing vessel the development of the country through which it passes and what is perhaps of chief Importan the fact that the United States can have complete and exclusive control of the route, while the Panama concession held by the French company prohibits a cession of rights to any nation or foreign government. It I8 also provided in the concession that the canal shall pass to Colombia after ninety-nine years. This is perhaps not an irremediable objection, but only very great advantages on the side of the Panama route would warrant negotin- tions for its removal. The principal fact set forth fn favor of the Panama nal is that the cost of completing it would be considerably less than the cost of building the Nicaragua canal, if the latter should be built with the tn- creased dimensions which the commis- slon regards as desirable. It Is safe to assume that no serious consideration will be given by congress to the Panama route. It appears that the French company has shown no de- sire to dispose of its property, though asked by the commission to name terms on which it would do so. Possibly it Will submit an offer to congress, but no proposition that does not carry with it absolute and perpetual control of the canal by the United States can be con- sidered. This government will enter into no arrangement as a stockholder in an enterprise for which a foreign company holds the concession and that coucession limited. There Is no doubt respecting public sentiment as to this, The greater cost of building the Nlcaragua canal will not welgh when the question of absolute ownership, control and management s concerned. Meanwhile, in order to clear the way for congressional action, our govern- ment has entered into agreements with the governments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica under which it secures the exclu- sive right to construct and operate the canal between the Atlantic and Pa- cific across Nicaragua, including the free use of the San Juan river and of Lake Managua as part of the water course. Nicaragua s also to rid her- self of any outstanding treaties that would tend in any way to abridge the privileges to be acquired by the United States. It s also understood that Nicaragua concedes to the United States full authority to police the canal. These agreements will probably be promptly ratiied by the senate. An understand- ing is sald to have been arrived at with Colombla covering the same rights and privileges for the Panama route as are conveyed by Nicaragua and Costa Rich in the case of the Nicaragua route. The Nicaragua canal bill {s the special order in the senate for next Monday and it Is proposed that it be continued as unfin'shed business until disposed of. The general opinfon in the senate is that ratitication of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty Is & necessary preliminary to the pas- sage of the canal bill, so that the treaty will probably receive immediate con- sideration. BRITISH COMMENT. It was not to be expected that the views of President McKinley in re- gard to China would recelve the un- qualified commendation of the British press, but the comment is in the maln not unfavorable. English sentiment, as volced by the newspapers, has been strongly in favor of Lae severest puni- tive measures in China, but it would seem to have undergone a modifica- tion, credit for which ts due in no small degree to the manifestly reasonable, Just and humane position of our gov- ernment, which {s undoubtedly approved by the best oplnion of the civilized world. Hence the present comment of the London press on the Americap Chinese policy is in more judicious and tational terms than when that pollcy was first announced. It is one thing to insist, as President McKinley does, upon the proper punish- ment of those who shall be shown to be gullty of the outrages in China and another and very difterent thing to de- mand the summary execution of princes and others who may be accused by the representatives of the powers. The president says the gullty must be pun- ished, but this should be done “within the rational limits of retributive Justice.” He does not want any condo- nation of the crimes agalnst the civilized world, but on the other hand he does not desire a policy that would cast re- proach upon our clvilization. GERMANY AND THE BOERS. The German people generally unques. tionubly sywpathize with the Boers. There is a very strong antl-British feeling In the fatherland which the latest developments of the military policy of Great Britain in South Africa bhave Intensified. But there ought to be no surprise at the attitude of Emperor Willlam, who is gulded not by sentiment but by consideration for the International obligations and inter- ests of the nation. Germany has ob- served, In common with all other na- tions, strict neutrality in respect to the South African war. She is on terms of cordial friendship with Great Britain, there being an agreement be- tween the two governments which s understood to relate to the South Afri- can contest, Manlfestly Germany would have nothing to gain by a de- parture from her positton of neutrality and the kalser is sufiiclently practical uot to take any step which he thinks would not result to the benefit and ad- vantage of the empire. To have granted an audience to Mr. Kruger would certainly have offended Great Britaln and might have brought about annoying and embarrassing complica- tions, but in any event could have had no good results for Germany, According to semi-official German opinion, Mr. Kruger made a mistake in seeking an Interview with Emperor Willlam In the way he did, It was | an offense to court etiquette, aquite enough In itself to justify a refusal of [ the request, but had he not committed this mistake the fact of his being on a distinctly political mission would have precluded him from being per- sonally received by the emperor or securing any official pecognition. As it is, it would seem that Mr. Kruger may as well cease his efforts to Interest a Buropean government in his cause, for If there was ever any chance of his doing so the attitude of the German government must have destroyed it. NO APPOINTIVE JUDICIARY. The conservative tendencies of J. Sterling Morton are manifested again in his paper, the Conservative, In which he declares without disguise or quib bling that he does not belleve in an elective judiciary. The Conservative leads up to this expression of opinion by noting, as an argument for changing the constitutional framework of our Judiclary, that there is nothing so ex- pensive and dangerous as an inferior lot of lawyers upon the bench, and that, as a rule, lawyers who can earn more than $2500 a year in practice are not elected judges In Nebrasia. Continulng along this line, it insists that judges nominated by the governor and con- firmed by the senate would average much better as to bralns, character, acquirement and reputation than those nominated by pglitical conventions and elected by partisan votes. If this question Is to be raised in con- nection with the proposed constitutional revision it Is doubtful whether many of our legislators would be found taking sides with the eminent conservative, to put our judiciary upon an appointive basis. The pro and con of the elective versus the appointive judiciary has been threshed over and over since the be- ginning of the republic and the drift has been rather toward reliance upon elections than toward their abolition, The advantages of a stable Judiciary and of removing the judges s far as possible from the induence of public clamor are conceded, but the dangers of absolute independence are gen- erally regarded ms fac greater. It Is scarcely less Imperative that we should have governors of bruins, character, acquirement and reputstion than it s to have judges possessing the same qualifications, hut no woe would pro- pose that we give up the election of our executives because, occaslonally, nom- Inating conventions make mistakes or the ballot box goes awry. To give the naming of judges to men themselves named by political conventions rather than have them named by the conven- tion direct, gives no assurance that we would have better, abler or more con- scientious judicial officers. In revising the constitution, therefore, 60 far as it relates to the make-up of the state judiciary, we will do well to leave the method of selec- tion and the term of office undis- turbed and to confine our efforts to the enlargement of the number of the Judges, and, possibly, the creation of an Intermediate court of appeals, with & reasonable increase of judicial sal- arles, without inviting a storm of con- troversy over the elective principle. e—— The president's message sets out clearly the financial strength of this country. In spite of the military ope- ratious in the Philippines and in China there s a surplus of revenue amount- ing to $70,500,000, while every other country engaged in the military opera- tions In China has been forced to bor- row money to carry them on. 'The public debt of the United States is re- duced in times of peace, while foreign countries manage only to keep even and every disturbance piles up their debt still higher. —_— The novel plea that the mayor of a city 18 not subject to the statute provid- ing a penalty for the acceptance of bribes, raised in the case against the mayor of South Omaha, would certainly produce a legal anomaly if it had been sustained. If the only way to punish a bribe-taker were to get him out of office first, there would be no restriction at all upon corrupt officials. Every officer ac- cused of bribe-taking owes it to himselt and to the public to prove his innocence, without taking refuge behind legal tech- nicalities. E———— There should be no trouble in provid- Ing the necessary warehouse for an In- dian supply depot. As soon as the gov- ernment indicates what kind of accom- modations it requires the Comwercial club stands ready to perform its part of the agreement, so that if the authorities at Washington have gotten to a point where they mean business the supply depot will be in working order in a very short time, The official announcement of the vote cast on president in Nebraska at the late election has been made and those misguided mortals who bet their money that the popocratic figures were nearer correct than those given in The Bee are due to kiss their money goodby, Preclous Little for the Lasy. Portland Oregonian. Too many are hustling for prosperity to leave any over for the man who doesn't hustl Washington Pos The fool never acknowledges his mistakes, By the application of this process some people hope to keep the democratic party in Pass Up the Shekel Baltimore American, re indications that the Sublime Porte 13 80 delighted with the Kentucky that the long-standiug debt may be paid to compensate for the pleasure given. No Oce for M, ‘ Brooklyn Eagle. 1t*1s not very good taste for the repre- sentatives of the United States to fnsist on a declaration of Cuba's relations to this country before there is such & thing as an independent Cuba. People may be too eager. Walt! Buftalo Express. 1t Is & pecullar brand of civilization that the so-called Christian powers are intro- ducing into China. 1In fact, it differs from Orlental barbarism only inf degree, not kind. The powers have fallen fnto the short-sighted error of trying to fight the devil with fire, Holo Returns Coming In. Globe-Democrat Twelve hundred hungry bolomen fu the Philippines have surrendered in a body. They can sell their cutlery as souvenirs and settle down to the best time they have ever had Probably they had just heard Of the result of the election. Party Control e South. Philadelphia Record The shrinkage of the republican vote for McKinley in| 1900 as compared with the vote In 1806 in the southern states, where negro disfranchisement has been accom- nlished or is in process of accomplishment leaves the democratic party in those stat In & yesition of great danger. There othing so necessary in a country where government s carried on by means of party organization as a well equipped opposition to the party in power. Unquestioned con- trol s corrupting and demorallzing. A Significant Admission, Chicago Chronicle The bureau of immigration Has admitted free a number of laborers from Porto Rico. The reason given by the bureau officials 18 that these laborers are American citizens. It the action of the bureau be inspired the Inspiration must emanate from Wash- Ington, whence forecasts of supreme court decisions are at long futervals on im- portant national questions sometimes sur- amised. The surmise in this instance indi- cates that the supreme court is not pre- pared to reverse its long line of precedents. The forecast means that in the opinion of the court “the constitution follows the m in the Orient. New York Tribune. An American bank with large capital and strong men behind it is about to be estab- lshed lu Calcutta to meet in part the re- quirements of our rapidly growing trade With India. One commereial firm in Phila- delphia interested in the enterprise hus over 100 agents in British India and at All times goods to the value of nearly $1,000, 000 in transit. America’s role in the bu Inews of all the Orfental countries is hence- forward to be a leading one and as one of its incidents the banking house will fol- low the flag and the cargu wherever they €0, expecting generous and not churlish riv- alry from interests already in possesston. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT, The will of the late Robert B. Grigham of Boston disposes of an estate of $2,250,070, nearly all of which will eventually go to charity and most toward founding in Bos- ton a hospital for incurables. Gerhart Hauptmann, the German poet and dramatist, has of late years made his home at Gruenwald, a suburb of Berlin. The Aif- ult dlalect used by the rusties in his “Fubrmann Henschel” is the language he first heard in his’youth. It 18 stated that ex-Attorney General Wayne MacVeagh has changed his resi- dence from Pennsylvania to Washington and has leased a house in the capital, in- tending to make it his permanent home. Some Pennsylvanians think he may again become attorney general. Negroes aro attempting 4o establish a line of steamships between Philadelphia and the Republic of Liberia, to be known as the West African Trading company. Rev. Willlam H. Heard, formerly United States consul gencral at Liberia, heads the move- ment. A meeting for organization is called to be held in Philadelphia January 10, John Brice, son of the late Senator Calvin 8. Brice of Ohio, has decided to study law. This {s the, young man who about a year ago created @ sensation by marrylng a r1'in’ Philadelphia. Much to every- surprise, the match has turned out and tow young Brice has determined to make name and fortune for himself. Mr. Plowden, the well known police magistrate of London, who completed his 56th year recently, was born in Meerut, India, where the mutiny broke out. He once on the bench decided that the pos- sesslon of three halfpence onstituted “‘visible means of support,” a penny belng larger In size than a sovereign, and so more “visible.” BOERS IN THE SADDLE. San Franclsco Call: It begins to look as though Mr. Bull was a trifle premature in celebrating the conquest of the Boers. The cause may be a dead one, but the corpse is still vigorously kicking. Springfield Republican: Lord Roberts, they Wag 100 soft-hearted; Kitchener is expected to “wage war. Just what re- mains, outside of the methods of a cannibal chief, for Kitchener to do Is somewhat puzzling. Chicago Post: Having officlally ended the Boer war according to one method, England is now sald to be contemplating an effort to end it by another. Apparently it realizes that it made a grievous mistake in not se- curing the indorsement of the burghers on its peace proclamation. No war can end while one side continues fighting. Philadelphia Press: The blunders of the British In South Africa read like last year's accounts of thelr “victories,” which proved 80 disastrous. The surrender of the De- wetsdorp garrison fs accompanied by the usual statement that the British were out- numbered by the Boers and were surprised, all of which recalls the dispatches of Lord Methuen, Baltimore American: A London paper is advising the speedy adoption of peace nego- tiations with the Boers. It fears that the tmpression that England s unable to bring the struggle to a satistactory close by mili- tary means is gaining ground. Some such 1dea 18 perhaps entertained, but it was never expected that an Englishman was gifted with such extraordinary penetration as to suspect that it existed. hington Pcst: The Cubans rebell against thelr own government—a govern ment of three or four centurfes of unbroken and universally acknowledged supremacy. The Boers are not rebels—they are freemen. resisting the most wanton and cruel Inv slon of the age. We gave our sympathles to the rebels—why do we withhold them from the vietims of a piratical and sordid and detestable British conspiracy? Is it be- cause we then thought Spain was weak and now think England strong? Are our humane impulses regulated by the base standard of expediency? Are we foaming advocates of human liberty when the adversary Is feeble and servile fawners iu the face of power when the same issue is at stake? New York Tribune: Weeks ago we ven- tured the judgment that General Dewet was the real hero of the South African war. More than one day's tidings since then have confirmed that judgment, none, perhaps, more than those of yvesterday. There have been countless raids, harryings of British posts, cuttings of telegraph lines and cap- tures of wagon and railroad trains, But the biggest stroke of all thus far has been r served for an opportunity of exquisite fit- ness. Lord Roberts made General Cronje surrender on the anniversary of Majuba Hill. Geueral Dewet has selected the very day on which Lord Roberts was starting home, the war ostensibly ended, and on which returning troopers were being exult- antly received in London, for striking one of the most amazing blows in the whole course of the war. He has swept down Into the southern part of the Orange River col- ony, captured & fortified town of much im- portance, taken 400 prisoners with all thelr cannon and supplies intact and so menaced the Cape Colony ftself that the British make it a matter of boast that, by desperate ef- forts, they succeeded in heading him oft trom crossiug the Orange rive There Is objection In some portions of the south, and naturally, to the proposi- tion that the representation In congress of those states which have eliminated the colored vote be reduced correspondingly Collectively as well as individually men do mnot relish the idea of having their power diminished In this case, however, the reduction In representation is an altersative which many southerners have recognized and welcomed. To them the active participa- tion In political affairs of the negro popu- lation 18 Intolerable. They have not de- sired loss of prestige in national affairs, but they have been manly enough to ad- mit that of the two evils they preferred a curtalled sphere of Influence away from home to the perils and annoyances which the possibility of negro supremacy in their own states would Inevitably present to them The situation Is a diffcult one and it should be considered with fairness and honesty. The negro is a citizen and pos- sible voter through no desire of the south- ern whites. He was clothed with citizen- ship at the close of the war by men who did not know him and who were in some degree actuated by a spirit of revenge. The experiment was a reckless one and it has resulted in failure. Whatever may bo in store for the negro in some of these states, however much he may fmprove In- tellectually and soclally in time, it is cer- tain that he Is not now fitted for the sut- frage, and, under the circumstanes that exist, he is not likely to be fitted for it very soon. In three states he has been distr chised by the operation of laws which may or may not be constitutional. In several other states he has been denfed the ballot by intimidation. In eight or ten of the southern states there is, therefore, a sup- pressed vote equal, and in some cases su- perior, to the vote which finds its way to the polls. The representation of these states in congress is based upon the sup- pressed as well as upou the unsuppressed voié. It is a full representation of a citi- zenship one-halt of which fs silenced. There can be no doubt that a recognition by the natural government of the situa- A Democratic Protest middie classes luxuries to which they know they can never aspire Is to create heed leesly soclal distrust. Bishop Lawrence ¥ | has also no sympathy with the claim of the Chicago Chrontele (dem.) tlon in these states by a reduction of the representation would be a desirable thing for the whites, for the blacks and for the country at large. Over and above all this the reductlon of this representation would be right. It would be fair. It would be honest. It would put an end to the absurdity of glv- ing the white population of somo states twice as large a representation in congress and consequently In the electoral colleges and in the national conventlions as is en- Joyed by a similar population at the north It would, in point of fact, restore to those states a republican form of government, which, under the wildest flight of the im- agination, 1t would not now be possible to say serfously is to be found there. A few of the whites In each of these states rule all of the whites, many of whom do not take interest enough in the matter to vote. A few of the whites rule all of the blacks, most of whom are not per mitted to vote. Hence It Is Incontrovertibly true that a few of the whites in eight or ten southern states, though an outra- geously unfalr representation, may and often do rule milllons of people elsewhero unfairly and unjustly. We have heard a great deal of late about the “consent of the governed." Nobody ever gave his formal consent to this sort of thing. No northerner has consented to a condition of affairs in which a south- erner exercises twice or thrice as much po- Itical power as he does. No democrat has formally given his consent that southern- ers In national conventions, who are twice numerous as they have any right to be, should barter or fool away his party prin- ciples to the populists. No republican has Biven his consent to the proposition that a periously large proportion of his na- tional conventions should be made up of venal carpet-baggers and negroes who are not permitted to maintain a public organ- ization at home. The thing 1s & monstros- ity and it should not last. The reluctance of the republican party to take up this question 18 unaccountable. Few domestic problems are of greater im- portance. No one lies nearer the founda- tlon of decent and orderly representative self-government. LIFE IN THE PHILI INES, Facta About the Liguor Trafie in Manila and Other Localities. The official report of Lieutenant Bishop, the officer in charge of the liquor trafe in Manila, for the first half of the year, con- tradicts the sensational reports put in circulation by temperance fanatics at various times since American occupation. The report shows that the number of licensed saloons in Manila on June 30 was 165, instead of 410, as given by yellow correspondents. The city is divided into two license districts—the firat compris- ing the walled or fnner city; the secon includes the residence portion and the im- medliate suburbs. The license feo for saloons selling beer, whisky and other in- toxlcating liquors is $600 (Mexican) In the First district, and $260 in the Second. For saloons selling only beer and light wine, the fee is $100 In the First district and $50 in the Second. These licenses are all limited to a period of six months, and strictly for- bid the sale in the saloons so licensed of the native wine, commonly called “vino antsado,” and other intoxicants usually known as native drinks. Additional and stringent police regulations are provided and special provision made for hotels. Lieutenant Bishop states that the effect of stringent regulations now in force, be- sides decreasing the number of saloons from 224 on January 1, 1900, to 155, made the barrooms more orderly and saloon keepers in every way more careful in complying with the terms of thelr licenses regarding sales to drunken persons and sales out of hours. The report showed that of the 155 saloon licenses sixty-six are held by Spaniards, twenty-three by Americans, twenty-six by Filipinos and mestizos, two by negroes, elght by Chinese, three by Japanese and twenty-seven by persons ot unknown nationality. ~ None of these lcenses are held by soldlers discharged trom the army in the Philippines. With regard to the native drinks the re- port says: ‘“The sale of native wine 1s not regulated by any set of ryles referring to it alone. Licenses for its sale come under the head of general business licenses. It must not be supposed that a native wine shop is anything like a saloon or conducted as & wine shop alone. The sale of liquor s invariably connected with that of other articles, usually native groceries or food; the stock in hand will rarely exceed $10 in value, being usually & half dozen bottles of the various brands and an equal num- ber of glasses of different elzes. “Tho wine is known by various names— anisado, vino, beno, tuba, etc. The per- centage of wood alcohol is extremely high. The natives drink It moderately and it appears to have no deleterious effect upon them. An American drinking large quantitios of it, s he would €0 much Whisky, s speedily rendered temporarily insane, and then passes into & state of coma untll the effects have worn off. “The regulations regarding its sale to soldiers are very stringent, involving fine, imprisonment and forfeiture of license. Licenses for the sale of native wine are {ssued only to Datives, mestizos and Ol ihe natives have drunk this llquor for generations and it has not been thought best to prohibit the use of it by them. ther reckless accusation against Al:::k:m- in Manla, concerning drunken- nees and immorality, is pronounced a shock- ing exaggeration by Rev. Ollver C. Miller, chaplain of the Fourth cavalry, and who sorved under Lawton, Young and Bates in the Philippines. Chaplaln Miller says, in a report to the War department, that dur- {ng General Lawton's campalgn Intoxicating liquors were pourcd out wherever found; that the only persons accused of rape were two boys of 14, camp followers, who were tried by military court and sentenced to five years' confinement In prison, and he denles the statement that 800 abandoned wemen had come to Maflila during the first year of American occupancy, but, on the her hand, says: O Attor making, in company with the sec- retary of the Young Men's Coriatian asso- clation, an exploration by night of the city of Manila, to find out i the drunkenness and impurity that existed were due to the presence of soldlers, the facts compelled us to state that we did not see more than a halt dozen drunken soldiers. In a secluded part of the city we found about forty-five houses of prostitution, with from three to four female inmates in each, patronized by our soldlers, but we falled to see, as stated by Mr. Willlam E. Johnson in the Dally Volce of Chicago, the American flag dishonored in the decoration of these re- sorts, To my personal knowledge these houees have not been licensed by the gov- ernment, nor are they in many cases ¢ nected with the saloons.” Chaplain Miller says that a drunken sol- Qler 18 & very rare sight on the streets of Manila; that there is mo city In the Unlited States where there is so little crime or where crime 18 followed so quickly by punishment; that thcre is no city in the Inited States where, for the same number oldlers assembled in a given place, there 1s #o little drunkenness and immorality as in the cities of the Philippines. The War department has taken gvery pri Lcaution to preserve the effects '.z soldlers | invective. | wer who die in the Philippines, and wherever possible deliver them to relatives. A large quantity of unclaimed effects have been ac- cumulating at Manila and San Francisco. Some of the materiul has not been prop- erly marked for Identification and it is understood that oftentimes articles and papers of value are included In the list Orders have been given which will insure the safety of such property with a view to Its transmission to relatives of the dead soldlers, Unclaimed effects of dead soldiers arriv- ing on transports from abroad, or now in hands of depot quartermasters in San Fran- cisco, Cal, will be sent, caretully packed and marked and accompanied by an official copy of the inventory, or a certified list, to the commanding oficer, Fort Mason, Cal. Unclaimed effects will be held for a period of two months from the date of their arrival in the United States and all reasonable efforts will be made to communicate with the relatives. Pphotographs, letters and valua- such as certificates of stock, found among the effects of the dead sol- dlers, will not be sold, but will be for- warded direct to the adjutant gemeral of the army, — PLAIN TALK TO THE RICH, How Bishop Lawrence Talked at a New York B t. Boston Globe. After the utmost has been sald in the at- tempt to show that the. churches have largely outlived their usefulness and that the clergy are afrald of the wealthy pews, it 1s none the less true that the clergy are the only class of moral reformers that ever get the ear of the very rich, and it must be acknowledged that they often utilize thelr high privilege with very telling effect, The rich do not read very largely papers which scold at them and denounce their practices and the ordinary labor reformer never gets a chance to belabor them with But the poor and neglected classes now and then have the satistaction of hearing real abuses of wealth handled without gloves at the hands of prominent clergymen before listening and respectful audiences of millionaires. A noteworthy instance of this {s seen in the case of Right Rev. Willlam Law- rence, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Massachusetts, who was invited to addre the New York Chamber of Commerce Tues- day night at its 132d annual banquet. Here were gatherd 400 of the richest men in the world, whose combined wealth exceeded $1,000,000,000. If they were expecting to !\ulnr Tich that they have a right to do What the common people have not. Those Who have read Carlyle's graphle description of the excesses of the French aristocracy in the times just preceding the revolution will find & shadow of the same pleture in Van- derblit's automobile rides over New Eng- land roads last summer in deflance of the law, as they have also found it in some of the fox-hunting depredations of the rich |upon honest farmers' fields. It matters 1it- tle that these lordly people pay the local [fines and refmburse the injured farmers, {The mere notion that a rich man can vio Iate the law If he is “willing to pay for 1t 18 wholly at war with American democra Hardly less reprehensible, thinks Pishop Lawrence, 18 "“that spirit of commercialism which would test the value of character by money, or gauge social position by fortune, nor i he so much afraid of the rich man in politics as of the poor and weak man in politics and the rich man outside. It dies one good, too, to hear a notable prelate ifke | Bishop Lawrence telling money bags that he has “no sympathy with that cheap, showy but dangerous expenditure of money that offends the common sense of the peo ple,”” and that “wanton waste is the privi- lege of no man or woman in this democratio country.” 1t would fare better with the churches and with the cause of religlon among the people if there were more men like Bishop Lawren-o ready to tell the truth at $20.q plate dinners of the rich—not In the spirit of bitterness and malice, but in tte real spirit of Christianity. What a privilegs to be able to say to 400 multi-millionaires, ns did Bishop Lawrence at the Chamber of Commerce banquet: “Light and action—herofc action! There are men today waiting and wanting to act to throw oft the shackles of the modern bandits, but they dare not alone. What s wanted 1s a group of men, high in position, great in power, who, at great cost, If nesd be, will atand and say, “Thus far, up to the Ines of the nicest homor, shalt thou ko, and no farther.' ** LIGHT AND LIVELY. kers Statesman: Foote Light—1 see a has written a play and called it ceination!" Bue Brette—I'll bet it won't take, Chicago Tribune: Acquaintance—T can't understand if, You are widely known and ful. Yet nothing unusual ever hap- pens to you Distinguished Aoctr That 1s what advertises me. -1 know it. Pittsbur, announced the_pe Chronfele: “I'm you oyster!" the convivial individual, whom man had requested to be ‘quiet replied the intelligent officer, “you Washington Star: “I can’t be quite sure," sald Miss Dolly Cumrox, “‘whether Cam- panini was a tenor robuito or a tenor di graza. “My dear.” Interrupted her mother with some dismay, “Campanini was a human belng; not a ‘musical instrument. Indianapolis Journal has more lovely china woman 1 know 1Of ‘course; she belong clubs ahd sometimes playi “'Adelaide Bkiggs and silver than any to seven euc! s twice a day. Detrolt Journal ful orator? Why, when he &poke of the abyss that confronts our nation, the people yawned!" Certainly. He made the people actually see the abyss yawn, and you know how in- fectious yawning is." Smart Set: Wife—What shall we name the baby, John? Husband—I have decided to leave that entirely to you, my dear. Wife—John, you've been drinking again. Indianapolis Press: Mra. Tushforth—I'm §lad to hear that one man has resolved to lo better. Mr. Lushforth--Whotchu talkin' about? “I was reading about a man that joined t the age of 2. the 8ons of Temperance “Bhu"“ m'deaer, when I get to 82, I'll do same thing m'self.’” Harper's Bazar: Nodd—How do you Itke your country home? Todd—-It's a greeat place. The only draw- back Is that 1 can't sell it. Indlanapolis Journal: she belleves she'll hunt “Goodness; what for?" “She says 'If she had a beau she'd got a present of a good box of candy now and then.” THE MIGHTY HUNDRED YEARS, Edward Markham, in Success. “One, mighty gleam, and old horizons roke ! All_the vast, glimmering outline of the Whole Swam on the vislon, shifting, at one atroke, The anclent gravitation of the soul. “All things came circling In one cosmic dance, One motion older than the ages are; Swung by one Law, one Purpose, one Ad- vance, Serene and star, steadfast as the morning “Men trace the spacious orbits of the Law, And_find 1t is thelr shelter and (hoif friend; For there, behind its mystery and awe, hear nothing but sweet-scented compli- ments to wealth and its organizations by the head of the Episcopal church in Ma chusetts they were sorely disappointed, for the reverend gentleman went straight for illegal combinations of capital, even to the extent of referring to the tru ‘modern bandits.” One need bear no Il toward wealth to find satisfaction in the straight- from-the-shoulder treatment of the subject, Occaslons do not offer themselves every day thousand millions are compelled to thus listen to the truth, Nor s this all. Bishop Lawrence also dealt unsparingly with what he termed “‘the vulgar show of wealth, flaunting itself before the people.”” We all know what this means. It s sometimes seen on the boule- vaids, in the theaters and in public places ‘where the luxurious classes are found. 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