Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 4, 1901, Page 6

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Taschick, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, bays that the wctual number of ful complete coples of The Daily, Evening and Sinday Bee prinited the month of June, 1901, was a8 {0110 20,050 1600000 26,41 1 25,860 18 1 E. ROSEWAT w 1w 1w ty mittances should be ublishing Com- pany, Morning, during 25,750 ®6,170 Less unsold and returned ¢ Net total sales .. 200 Net dally average GE Subscribed fn my presence and sw betore me this 30th day of June, A. D). %9 M.OBHUNGATE Notary f —— PARTIES LEAVING FOR SUMMER. i te Parties ieaving the clty for the summer may have The Hee ment to them rexularly notifying Bee Busine office, in on or by mull. The address will be changed as often desired. Keep cool. keep If you eannot keep cool, 18 cool as “The man behind the gun” isn't in it with the boy behind the firecracker. Philadelphlans object to a Chinaman as the Fourth of July orator, yet China gave us the firecracker. Well-detined rumors dipped In slander sauce make a most dalnty dish for political gossip mongers. The weather burenu gives every as- surahee that the small boy and the big man will have a hot time on the Fourth. Now {8 the time for firing off well-de- fined rumors. A well-defiped rumor will create as much nolse as a bunch of firecrackers. The deputy game warden has taken up headquarters in the state house and we would warn woodchucks to keep out of the range of his gun. This 1s the morning when Young Amerfca awakes early and he takes good care that his elders do not lose any time in unnecessary slumber. Is the sphere of the Municipal league to be circumscribed by the city bound- aries of Omala? Are there no reforms needed In South Omaha? Mr. Bryan informs the Virginians that he would rather be right than be elected to oftice. It is tough, however, to be wrong and also wiss the office. Of course there Is no machine to be tolerated in the Municipal lengue, but machine methods were adopted at the outset in the nowmination of the ofticers by the nominating committee. — Involuntary benevolence should be discountenanced whether the contriba- tions are solicited from persons em- ployed In the public service or in the service of corporations or individuals, The proposed activity of the police among the tenantry of South Sixteenth street makes our sham reform journal scream with delight over this virtual admission on the part of the minlons of Mayor Moores that the town s al- most as bad as it was painted by the yellow artists. One of the prominent physicians of the country Is out In an article in which he condemns the frequent resort to the knife by a large portion of the profes- sion, Modern surgery has undoubtedly accomplished some wonderful things, but there are thousands of their mis- takes buried in the graveyards. Before the parllamentary commission Investigating the subject Lord Roberts testified that the removal of foreigners from the Transvaal was a necessity, owing to the Intense hostility of this class to the British. And it was for the ghts" of these uitlanders that the British government undertook the war. As an (llustration of the Increase in the value of land in the west the sale of a tract of 7,200 acres In lowa by ex- Governor Larrabee I8 In point. The land Is still In its original condition, never having been cultivated, but used for pas- ture and hay, The purchase price was $250,000, The ex-governor bought it in the early day at a slight advance over the government price--§1.25 peér acre, Kvents move rapldly in this age. Deadwood is now celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Black Hills to settlement. It seem# almost impossible that all the vast enterprises of that section aud all the improvements visible should be the work of such a short space of time, There are many now living' In that section, how- ever, who can remember only too well what it has cost in hardships and effort | and destroying the health of the soldier, to work the change. ' Personal checks, except on | 171 | | plore and | [ 1abor. OMAHA DAILY R INDEPENDENCE DAY The one hundred and twenty-fifth an niversary of the Declaration of Inde pendence finds the republic that lieralded to the world July 4 still | firm on its foundations, still strong in | the love and patriotic devotion of the | people, and still presenting to mankind | the highest and best example of free fn- | stitutions the world has known. [ e of this anniversary ap- | 15 to the patriotism und the loyalty of | y citizen and its influence sbould | give strength and vigor to these sentl ments, What a mighty natlon we have grown to be in the century and a quar ter since It was proclaimed to the world | that the united colonfes “are, and of | right eught to be, free and independent | states.” In that period our free institu tions have heen subjected to the severest tests and lay strengthened and | firmly established by every trial, | our material development Las dership amoug the nations, We have become the greatest industrial | nation of the world u com- | merce, foreign and domestic, equaled by | no other country, nnd we have wealth | and resources unsurpassed. We are a world power whose influence is every where felt. Knowledge of this must stir the pride and stimulate the pateiotism of every Amcrican citizen, It there conditions which are not satisfactory | and which many regavd with fear and distrust, Vast aggregations of 1th | controliing transportation and produc tion are felt by not a few of our people | to a serlous menace to republican government. ‘There is contliet between | those who labor and those who employ Sociul conditions are not all that could be desired and political corruption 15 still to be found. Il this is to be de , but shall it cause us to despair of the security of free institutions or the | permanence of the republic? Distrust of | the suceess of our political old us free lnstitutions. The simism that can see naught but disaster alead s not peculiar-to our time. Al | ages and all countries have had their prophets ot evil aud will have until the | willennium, The Awerican people, with | a century and a quarter of republican government, maintained through toreign wars and civil strife, and with a marvel- ous progress in wealth and power, have abundant reason for faith in the perma- nence of the republic and for looking hopetully to the future, While we celebrate this anniversary and honor the great and brave men who proclaimed the independence of the American colonies, pledging thereto their lives, their fortunes aud their sacred lonor, let us not forget the ete truths of the Declaration of Independ- ence, was The recurren pe been more whil given us le we have is true wer THE SOUTH CAROLINA EXPUSITION, Preparations for the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian exposition, to be held at Charleston from December 1, ). to May 31, 1002, are being pushed with vigor and the promise is that the exposition will be fully ready at the date fixed tor the opening. The enterprise is highly creditable to its projectors aud the people of South Carolina are most active and enthusiastic in its promotion. The plan of the exposition is compre- hensive and if fully carrled out will make this the most attractive exposition ever held in the south. It is contem- plated to have an exhibition of the in- dustries and resources of the south on a very extensive scale, while a number of porthern states will of course send exhib- its, but it is expected that the chief and crowning feature, that which will be most interesting and instructive, Wwill be the West Indlan exhibit. Great efforts are belng made to have this as complete as possible aud the prospect is tavorable for a very large and thorough display of the products and resources of the West Indies. Central and South American re- publics will also participate and the leading countries of Europe will be rep- resented. It will thus be seen that the South Carolina exposition has been planned and is being projected on broad lines, It 1s not a mere local enterprise, but is designed to command national and even international attention and interest. Its chief purpose, of course, Is to show the marvelous development of the south dur- ing the last quarter of a century, but this will by no means be its only at- tractive, interesting and instructive fea- ture. The undertaking merits hearty encouragement, THE VOLUNTEER ARMY. The mustering out of the last of the volunteer army, which was accom- plished within the time limit fixed by law, suggests some consideration of the splendid service rendered by these sol- diers. An official of the War depart ment, speaking of the passing of the volunteer army, sald the country can well feel proud of the record that army has mad It is just about two years since the first recruits were enlisted and the months that ensued were filled with exciting scenes that tried the new sol- diers to the utmost, but there Is no re ord of cowardice to show agalnst even a corporal's guard of the volunteers, They met every duty assigned them with zeal and valor, fully sustaining the high character for courage, fortitude and dis- cipline of the American soldler. The army was organized by act of con- gress of March 2, 1800, one of the last acts of the Fifty-oifth congress. This act gave the president authority to ralse twenty-five regiments of volunteers to serve in the Philippines, to be mustered out not later than June 30, 1901, Pres)- dent McKinley did not exercise this au- thority until July 5, 1899, when orders were Issued to raise ten of the twenty- five regiments. Subsequently at differ- ent dates orders were issued for recruit- fug fifteen more reglents. As rapidly as they were recruited the volunteer regiments were sent to the Philippines, the first reglment reaching Manila on Octodér 11, 1809, aud the last ou January 25, 1900, Their etliciency dispelled the fears of a long and bloody war and the condition in which they returned has effectually silenced the tales of horrid diseases decimating the army's ranks | equally { upon | part the army show the soldiers when mus tered out at 8an Francisco to have been in better health than when they enlisted to go to the Philippines. For the part they have returned to their homes stronger and better men than when they left them. At the War department, says o Wash ington dispateh, the record of the volun teer army is exhibited with pride and atisfaction. The volunteers shared with the regulars the arduous work of the Philippine campaigns and did service, meetin iy and faithfully every demand made better or braver men v wore the American uniform and so s this republic has such sons to most meritorious them long defe its flag it army. will not need a great regular EUCLID MARTIN'S THREE CLASSES. According to Mr. Fuclid Martin there are three classes of men opposed to the Municipal league: (1) Those who weak and ily that they would rather suffer than try to change existing conditions; (2) those who are %o seltish that cannot conceive of oxeept for per- sonal gain, or from ulterior motives; (3) those who fear the league may inters fere with their business; that is, those who ave now at the public erib and able to take care of all the swill in it and who do not want to be pushed usi Mr. Martin known all « e sagacious politician, He been chalrman of the democratic state committee in several campaigns aud has cut n figure in lonal politics. are 8o cow is er this las even | Mr. Martin has algo enjoyed the fruits of political labor Owmalia, and henee about political pap. But Mr. Martin lnbors under a delusion when he as- sumes that anybody I8 seriously opposed to the Municipal league. © s an apparent reluctance on the of U9 per cent our citizens to afilinte with the league for fear it would prove just such a lamentable failure as the municipal league organ- 1zed in Omaha some years ago. In othe words, people who arve familiar with wunicipal reforn , sham and real, do not want their nawes conuected with a movewent that Is premature and lacks virility and sincerity of purpose. There Is no considerable number of people, either, so weak and cowardly that they would rather suffer than to try to change existing conditions, but there are thousands of people that have no faith fn the ability of the Municipal lengue to wmaterlally change existing conditions. There is no considerable number of people in Omaha who are so selfish that they cannot concelve of other men dolng anything except for personal gain, and there Is just as great a proportion of people belonging to that class in the Municipal league as there is outside of it. Last, but not least, the men who are now at the public crib do not care a rap about the Municipal league one way or the other. Most of them feel secure In Lolding thelr Jobs until the first Tuesday in April, 1903, and all of these men ave willing to risk thelr chances on the future with the members of the Munici- pal league who hope to take their places at the swill tub. us postmas of knows something With the approach of harvest there is an unprecedented demand for farm labor in South Dakota. Kansas has just passed through such a condition and Ne- braska is struggling with it. There 1s labor enough in the country, undoubt- edly, but the present surplus is in the clties, and with characteristic inertla it refused to wove to the country to supply the demand. Just what there is about ¢ity labor which not ouly holds the men who labor there, but attracts thousands yearly from the rural districts, Is difi- cult to deterinine. It is certalnly nelther soclal advantages nor a betterment of fivancial condition, for the city laborer as a rule lives a hand-to-mouth exist- ence. The executive committee of the Mu- nicipal league Is wrestling with the fol- | lowing amendment to the constitution of the league: “Any officer of this lengue or member of its executive committee who accepts a municipal nomination or membership In a campalgn committee thereby resigus his office in this league.” Inasmuch as two-thirds of the pushers in that remarkable aggregation of polit- fcal reformers have been either man- agers or mewbers of campalgu commit- tees in every campaign within the last twenty years, the proposed amendment is a poser. When the prohibition wave swept over Sloux City some years ago there was not a single saloon visible In the town, but signs, bearing this legend, were conspleuously posted inside all refresh- ment resorts: “If you do not see what you want ask for it” By the same sign visitors to the South Omaba street fair widway will be able to procure what they are looking for. If, for ex- awple, they are looking for the tiger they will tind him in full blast in the louse that Jack built, behind the sign: “For gentlemen ouly, admission fre The ministers of the powers at Pekin are almost as slow as an English chancery court. They are now unable to agree upon the question of accepting the acceptance by the Chinese of the con- ditlons these sawe ministers imposed upon the country. The powers should at least come to some definite conclusion as to what they want before asking Chiua to comply. The Cuban constitutional convention is now holding its sessions in secret. If such methods are an indication of the future government of the island its peo- ple are not destined to enjoy any great measure of liberty. The business of the public should be transacted in public. When the doors are closed all kinds ot schemes are liable to be bhatched. The railroads and express companies have assured the state game warden that they will comply with the condi- tions of the new game law. If these same companies had complied with the lT)u records of the wedical branch 0flnm law regarding the sbipplng of gawe i its Fights and honor and uplold | it would not have been decimated it has, If they have really repented of their sing those who take an interest in me preservation will be thankful. It would be advisable for the game warden to keep awnke, however, sleep on the promi pling Annesation. as sn Minneapolis Journal The first thing General Maximo Gomez called for after he landed in this country was a glass of beer And yet there those who col ad that the Cubans a ripe for annexation Enervating Suspense. not Portland Oregontan Edward will be crowned next | then he will know he Is king worse susy it anything than our presi dential candidates suffer between nomina tion and notification June and This is Resenting n Washington Pos A South Carolina man killed his father In-law the other day because the lat obfected to his disinclination o work fc his lving. There are times when one compelled to go to extremes in order maintain the position of gentleman cesstul Financier| Journal the annual interest o . Indiunap At the close of 18y charge of the government was a little over $40,000,000; now it s a little less than $30,000,000, which is largely due to the re- funding into 2 per cent bonds. The debt has been reduced §61,000,000 in two years, Assertion and Action, Brooklyn The assumption that England was the birthplace and has remained the pre- serve of political virtues and religious tol- eration entered on its third century of reiteration. It has more foundation in assertion than in action, but folk are too lazy to explore history to find out the real truth about it, and hence the failacy which its persistence to fluency undisturbed, | Intell unl Grentness, | Loston Globe. | Says Pres. Sherman in his Cornell com- mencement address: “Let me speak with the utmost frankness. Apart from the domain of politics and invention, America has not produced a eingle man or woman whose name will shine in the intellectual firmament with Raphael, Shakspere, Cop- | ernicus, Newton, La Place, Goethe and Darwin." But then we have such mighty | financters! Out for the Staf, Minneapolis Journal It i8 awful to behold the way in which | the corroding dcsire for riches is demor- alizing the ranks of the erstwhile calamity | howlers. Towne and Bailey and many | others have dropped politics for Texas oil. | Now comes 'nator Marion Butler, en- route to Alaska on some wealth-making scheme and eays “D—n free silver.” Ac- cording to Mr. Butler's remarks incident to the wise observation Jjust quoted, these are times above rcproach. All the ! popullsts wanted was plenty of money; | now they've got it or are getting it. Popu- lism was an expression of economic dis- | coutent. WIith ihe passing o the discontent the expression disappears. owes Shy @ Retizement of General Shafter. Chicago Chronicle, In the retirement of Major General Shafter the active army loses a vallant and useful soldfer. Never spectacular and | sing abgofutely no capacity to im- | himselt upon the people, he has not been a' popular here, although his services have been much more noteworthy | than those of many a man who has su ceeded in winning the applause of the masses. In the civil war, in long and try- ing operations against the Indians and in the Cuban campaign General Shafter proved himself at all times an eficlent commander. | He retires as a brigadier general of the | regular establishment on a salary of $4,125 | per annum Steam Veraus Elec New York Tribune. This 18 the age of electricity. Everybody admits that and the Inventions for the most extensive use of this mysterious power are almost innumerable. But who is the Inventor whose genius will discover a way to prevent the occasional breaks and in- terruptions in the currents which are now at the front of ‘modern progress and are changing the face of the world? Up to this time steam is still & more docile and tractable servant of mankind than elec- trielty. Electric lights, electric engines, electric systems sometimes betray those who trust them. They may not fail fre- quently, but they do fail at times. Steam never disappoints its users. Who will make electricity a slave that will never rebel? ity One Reault of F Ashland Gazette: (rep.): The people of | Nebraska are beginning to see the results of the cholce they made At the elec'ion last fall. The Omaha World-Herald gives it out that $3,000,000 of eastern capltal is about to be luvested in the new Platte river power plant and publishes the pre- diction that the population of the city will bo doubled in & few years. The last bar- rler to the prosperity of Nebraska has been removed and with the return of the party of prosperity to power, a continuous march of commerclal and industrial development may be expected. If the population of the city of Omaha should be doubled, consist- ing of happy, prosperous workers and busi- ness men and their families, what an im- | mense amount of populist agitation and elo- | auence it would require to convince them | that they are all paupers, one of the pre- | requisites of their voiing the populist ticket. 1f $5,000,000 of eastern money fs invested in Omaha and vicinity and the population is doubled by new industrial enterprises, the populist party of Nebraska is doomed. Prediction in Natl 8t. Louls Mirror. Here's a prediction. The next national democratic convention will dodge silve will oppose the administration’s “colonial” policy, will hedge and straddle on ever. thing and try to sneak into power. Need- less to say the party will not succeed. The candidate in the last two campalgns will lead a bolt and insist upon the Chi- cago and Kansas City platforms. The perity. olit nothing else and they will be strong This is the plan that the radicals have in mind, though they have mot explicitly formulated it. To offset this ganizers will put a southern man on their ticket, to hold the solid south in line, but it 18 thought that the radicals, even in defection to defeat the regulars petual editor-candidate and his are determined to destroy the party It they cannot dictate its policy are strong enough to do it. The editor- candidate will be a candidate again in 1904, it he llves, but not on the regular democratic ticket. The regular democrats want none of him and he will before long declare he wants none of them. The situa- tion {s now being shaped up to this end The democratic politiclans are preparing to turn down the fanatics and the fanatics are preparing to defeat the politiclans Both will succeed in thelr design. Only after 1904 will there be any possible chance for a harmonious realignment of the forces The per- followers | that were ouce the democratic party, and not go to| radical democrats will all be populists and | enough to defeat the regular organization. | the reor- | the south, will be strong enough in their | democratic | They | JULY 4 AN EVENTFU Happenings of Historie Importance on \atal | To the American, of course of July means one thing and only 1s the national anniversary and as celebrated with fitting enthusiasm. The Declaration of Independence, however, though by far the most important is not the only important event of which that d is the anniversary. Among the nota vents of the day the Brooklyn Eagle r alls the following Of July 4, 1754, George Washington, t colonel in command of the Virginia troops sent by Ge or Dinwiddie to oppose the French at Fort du Quesne—now Pittsburg met with his first defeat at Great Mei On the very same day Benfamin I outlined to the Albany congress his plan for a more harmonious and concentrated action of the colonies for defense against the In dians. Even at that date there was i vaguc sentiment in favor of a confederation of the American colonies and Franklin's plan pro moted this idea, but the entirely separate | colonies were mutually jealous and the plan was not favored. Many students of history | belteve that the adoption of his ideas would have given the colonies sirength to have mastered the Indlan question unaided by England and therefore given the mother country no pretext for quartering troo here or for enacting and trying to enforce the odious stamp tax—two leading griey- ances that brought on the American Revo- lution. the Fourth one—it n “uch is Another incident prior to the Declaration and doubtless one that had great influence in ripening the sentiment that made that | document poseible, deserves more than passing remark. On July 4, 1768, John Dick- inson's famous “Liberty Song" was pub lished in the Pennsylvania Chronicle at Philadelphia and that day sent by him to James Otis, one of the leading patriots of | Massachusetts, through whose infi it was published in Boston and given wide vogue in New England. It was also re | printed in the patriotic newspapers in New York and other cities and was soon sung throughout the colonfes. Its popularity was unprecedented. It was parodied and imi- tated and the effect it had in rousing and raising the spirit of opposition to England cannot be estimated. The following is the song, sung to the tune of “‘Hearts of Oak," then universally popular: Come, foin hand in hand, brave Amerlcans all, rouse your bold hearts at Fair Lib- ert call; No tyrannous act shall suppress your just claim Or stain with dishonor America's name In freedom we're born, in freedom we'll live, ence And Our purses are ready, Steady, friends, steady— Not as slaves, but as frec men, our money we'll give. Dickinson was ono of the committece that assisted to draft the Declaration, took an active part, both as a soldier and a states- man, in the Revolutionary War and was one of the framers of the Constitution. On the Foutrh of July, 1826, the fittieth anniversary of the country, Thomas Jeffer- son and John Adams, who, though they wero political antagonists, had both been promi- nent in the labor to emancipate and bene- fit their country, dled within & few hours of each other, Jefferson at his home in Vir- ginla and Adame in Massachusetts. The civil war began in April and con- gress met to devise ways and means for its vigorous prosecution on July 4, 1861. An- drew Johnson, then senator from Tennes- seo and afterward president, was the only senator present from the states in secession and only two members of the house from that section attended. It was upon that day that Lincoln, seeing the {mpossibility of closing the struggle in three months, had been anticipated, asked congress to vote $400,000,000 and 400,000 men for that pur- pose. While congress was in session the battle of Bull Run was fought and the de- teat of the union forces stirred congress to vigorous action. Lee invaded Pennsylvania and upon the first three days of July, 1363, the battle of Gettysburg was fought. This was the only fighting of any importance on union soil, and on July 4, 1863, Lee retreated into Mary- land. After this date union successes were constant. On the same day another declsive victory was gained by General Grant, to whom General Pemberton surrendered Vicksburg and his army, after severe fight- ing during & long siege. On July 4, 1870, the Spanish government tssued its edlct abolishing hereditary slavery in Cuba. Prior to that time the children of women In bondage remained in slavery. The decree also gave freedom to slaves who had hepled Spain against Cuban insurgents On July 4, 1898, the Hawallan republic was proclaimed and the reign and power of Queen Lil ceased. On July 4, 1898, the American soldiers in Cuba were suffering so severely from fevers of one sort and another that a few days be- fore an abandonment of the Santiago cam- paign was discussed. During the three days preceding San Juan and El Caney were taken, and the day before Cervera's fleet was destroyed, and reduced though the American strongth was, by disease, the Spanish were even less well prepared for resistance; and though on the futile, Gen- eral Toral firmly refused to surrender the city aud province, the stars and stripes floated over the official palace on the 17th. Several famous men were born on this dny, ameng them Nathaniel Hawthorne, n 1804; Alexander Duma, pere, n 1802, and Garibaldi, the Ttallan patriot, in 1807 PERSO NOTES, The polar bear, floating about on his ice- floo in the Arctic sea, i3 a pleisant thivg to think of. Switzerland beats the world in its com- merce per capita and it hasn't had to in- crease its navy to protet it Lord Dufferin, who has recently com- pleted Lis 75th year, once referred to him- self, on account of the numerous officcs he hag held, as “maid-of-all-work to Brit- ish governments." Mrs. Nation, whose husband was com- pelled to give up living with her, expressed pleasure over his abandonment to the con- sideration of others. *He bothers me and God was her comment, At Forest City, Ill, according to the News of that place, “a crowd of men and boys ply the vocation of pitching horseshoes from early morn till the little birds tuck their heads beneath their wings and go to sleep.” A Jjudge In Philadelphla has found it necessary to inform two policemen, tricd for killing a man attempting to escape ar- rest, that the law does not confer on them the right to execute a criminal when his offense is not a capital one. General Lew Wallace, who is at work upon his autoblography, recently made a trip to Kentucky to confer with some veterans, from whom he gathered data for a description of the battle of Shiloh. An account of that battle will be included in his work. Nat Goodwin, the comedian, has a brother who 1s known as J. A. Carson. He travels for a machinery house. He changed his surname, “because,” he says, “If I traveled under my own 1 would be unable to trans- act business. Nat has swarms of friends all over the country and whenever one of them finds me out it's goodby to business for the day.”" Before becoming a drummer he was on the stage with bis brother, ALL THE VOLUNTEERS Ot Closing the Records of Gallant and e Boston ‘Transcript With the mustering out of the three reg iments at the Presidio, San Francisco, the volunteer army raised after the war with Spain, under the act of March, 1589, turns in colors and passes into history. It was a comparatively small force, its maxi- mum belng 35,000, but it was gallant and effective in its gervices in the Philippines ective Serviee, | | 1t aiffered trom the other volunteer armies dows. | okiin | gqot | | he done #o the in our history in that It was not composed | of state regiments, but was raised and offi ed directly by the United States. The eld” of these regiments was made up of officers detailed from the regulars. In ef- these regiments short-service regulars, congress having thought it nee sary to “sweeten' the increase of the army by calling them volun a sort of sop were | thrown to sentiment Though theew regiments did an immense amount of work In the Philippin yet the distinction between them and the regulars was ineffaceable. A name does not make a great difference after all and the volun- teer regiments accordingiy felt the distine- tion serfously. Yet this sense that they were set apart from regiments that they equaled at least in zeal and eMclency never affected the courage and energy of the vol unteers. They performed good service. Perhaps the most distinguished aingle feat of arms performed in the Philippines w:s the herofe defense of Catubeg by a detach ment of the Forty-third, which fought dog- gedly and successfully against tremendous odds. The volunteer regiments were hardy | and Intelligent. These qualities, regulated and directed by oficers of the regular army, | professional soldlers in great measuro for the slight by diseace suffered by the volunteers, The prophets of pessimism said that h of the volunteers would never come home #ave fn thefr cofns. But the climate of the Philippines did not have such terrible effect on the stamina of the volunt these prophets predicted. The very third regiment we have mentioned, vhich | did a great deal of “hiking,” fighting and | sweltering, lost only sixty-nine oficers and | men from all causes out of the 1,300 it took | to the Philippines. With the mustering out | of the last of the volunteer reglments nur‘ military establishment Is almost 30,000 smaller than |t was a year ago, which does not look much like militarism. account losses t UNION JACK AT SKAGWAY, Some Remarks on Cutting Down the British Flag. Washington Post, We make our compliments to Mr. George Miller, attorney-at-law, Eugene, Ore. Mr. George Miller seems to be the kind of man we need along our frontier—especially that which touches British America. We need abeit 75,000 of him, stationed in small de- tachments at very brief intervals and so equipped as to be able to shoot down Brit- 1sh flags instead of resorting to the com- paratively respecttul method adopted by Mr. Miller. | We have needed such men in large num- | bers for some years past. We need them more and more urgently with each new demonstration of the Anglomantac policy of our government, with each new modus vivendl and each additional recrudescence of the High Joints. We have been dwelling | in an atmosphere of affectionate interna- tional gush, under cover of which British encroachment and American groveling have gone steadily along with government ap- proval on either side. England has buried our seal fisheries rights fn the tomb we call the High Jolnt vommission; it has acquired | a slice of our Alaskan territory about the size of the state of Rhode Island in the name of a modus vivendi; it has resur- rected, with the eager assistance of our State department, the long dead and thrice dishonored Clayton-Bulwer treaty of 1850; it has put our whole official establishment under a spell of flunkeylsm—and we have recefved in return for all this the banquet- ing of a few American tradesmen and poli- ticlans, some inexpensive guff in the Lon- don newepapers and a puddle or two of British slobber signifying nothing. But the American peopls ought to have something to say to this. Thelr rights are at stake. In the Porcupine district, where our frontier was pusbed back 100 miles Americans by the thousand were expatri- ated against their wills—to thefr shame and indignation. And now we have from the Skagway News an account of the Brit- 1sh aggression and systematic insolence which provoked Mr. George Miller to check the march of England's pirate flag last week. It will repay perusal “The question which bids falr to assume International proportions as soon as the news of It can reach Ottawa and Washing- ton 18 belng discussed today, with the mass of sentiment in favor of the man who hauled down the fiag. On this strip of land which the United States has occupled undisputed since the days of tramsfer in 1867 the Canadian officials have gradually encroached, unrestrained by the American government. “By leaps and bounds the Canadlan cus- tom house advanced toward tidewator. From Taglsh to Bennett, then to Log Cabin and lastly to the summit, and when the custome ensign of Canada was holsted at Skagway It Is small wonder that some John Brown would not walt for the action from Washington and eut down the flag.” Upon the whole, it was well he didn't walt for “actlon’” from Washington. Had | British flag would have moved proudly on to tidewater without let or hindrance. Action from Washington, when it interferes with any of England's schemes, has not been a_ feature of our na- tional policy since Cleveland trod upon the | ring_wns made by non-union labor. I advancing foot and called, “Stop, thief!” in & tone that made Great Britain gasp What we want and must have, unless we propose to eurrender everything that Eng- land is action of the kind Mr. George Miller gave us at Skagway., We want Just such men all along the line—want them armed not only with good guns, but with the knowledge that a tew millions of fikhting Americans are behind them. They cannot too soon meet this insolent Britich encroachment with the shot that will lead to a rehabilitation of our frontier and our self-respect _— SMILEMAK covets Marine Journal: “Just a few firecrackers for the Fourth of July,” sall Neptune, as he handed the box over'to the dellghted mermalds. “And, girls, be sure you put them where they won't get wet, he added, dryly New York Detroft Free Pro for poverty? thunder tones He paused for a reply, and during the pause a man in the rear of the hall calied out & “What e th remedy emanded the lecturer, n the gold cure.” Brooklyn Life: Mrs Jasper—Mre, bubs 18 too mean for anything sper~Why do you say I hinted and hinted for she let us have her baby boy has outgrown You might try Hube month that which her Han't notice, bught one had mine. ha and but as goon as I went sald, ‘Why, you might have Cleveland Plain Dealer: The strawherry to the prune: “Hello, old purple back, whera are you ne The prune to the taking a lttle vac, forget, old red face, year ‘round.” strawberry tion. But that I'm I'm ni “The legless man fe alwiys puttl s foot in It observed the Living Skeleton to the SnaKe Charmer “what has he done now? “Last night we were having a frendly Bame Baltimore Amerl, little and he asked the armlcsy wonder to take a hand.” Roston Transcript Harry—Wonder why It was that Frank and Bertha broke " their engagement? [ understood {t was all arranged, even to the marriage day Dick--1{ was discovered that the wedding ®0 the clergyman refused to perform the cercs mony, and no other minlster n town dares o do'it Post: The hobo settled himself and Jit his pipe n' a good deal remarked Chicago comfortabl “1'm Shori h easfer great now, bur'en hat burden?” asked Shorty uttin’ revenue stamps on checks." Cleveland Plain Dealer: #ald to the husband of the “ig the woman of the hour. ‘Indeed she is,'' he respond, with a tinge of sadness In his volce: “she (s ‘hs woman of the hour and a half when she is dressing for the theate “Your wife," we reat authoress, OUR BIRTHDAY. W. J. Lampton, in New York Sun, Ban, Boom Get out of the way And klve us room: Watch us spread; Watch the Red, White and Blue' rise THI the staff that bears it Touches the skies, And its folds, unfurled, Bweep round and hug the world To Its swelling bosom, And what a bosom that fs! Hroad as the land and seas are, We are It We are the grandest family Old Ma’ arth Ever gaveé birth To. Think of it, please, These Are they Who celebrate this day; Uncle 8am, the strong man who Swings in his hand Over this land And beyond {t, over two seas, With_the greatest ease The Red, White and Blue Banner of Liberty, Beacon of light, To unnumbered’ millions Yet in their night. The American Kagle, Glorious bird, Whose scream of Freedom I everywhera heard. The Yankee Nation, The Doodledoos Whose soldier boys And sallor crews Are setting the pegs of valor higl Over agalnst a_smiling sky For the new-come milllons To pattern by There are they Who celebrate this day, The Glorlous Fourth, The day when we Whoop it up For the Land of the Free With pandemonium’s artillery. Let 'em bang And boom Let the flowers Let ‘em fzz, And whiz, And slzz; of fireworks bloomj And crack Let ‘em rip, nort, ear; m foose everywhere, t the guns ring the bells; cry one its story tells; And the story Is the glory Of a nation with a hand Full of blessings, Which expund And Let 8ho A As the glorlous nation does, That's why The Fourth of July I} THE FOURTH OF JULY! Oh; my! If you feel run down, are casily tired, if your nerves are weak and your blood is thin, then begin to take the good old standard family medicine, Ayer's Sarsap rilla. A splendid tonic. S All druggists. 4. C. AVER CO., Lowsll, Mass. 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