The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 5, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESD , JULY 5, 1898. TUESDAY.... 8 S ynLy: bR IS NOT A B@NK. WHY A NATION ITHOUT making any argument for our na- | tional bank system in its present condition of nadaptation to the credit and currency needs JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. NAddress All Communications to W. S. LEAN}(\E, Manager, PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month | 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. -Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE..... C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. SRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clook. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open unthi 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk_ street, opem untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, Columbia—*Fort Frayne " Californla—*TUncle Tom's Cabin.” Alcazar— Frederick the Great Morosco’ Held by the Enemy.” The Mikado.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. Sutro's Bathe—Swimming. El Campo—Musie, daneing,boating, fishing, every Sunday. Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By Bullivan & Doyle—Wednesday, July 6, Horses, etc., at 827 Sixth street, at 11 o'clock. '} VIEWING THE PARADE. HE people of San Francisco witnessed yester- day a parade which to many of them was unique. of soldiers, but never before had there been seen here | thousands, armed as for war, marching with banners | and drums, with all the precision and alignment of veterans. A few weeks ago these volunteers ar- rived from different States widely separated, yet one purpose among them all. For love of the common flag they had left the pursuits of peace. That the flag might wave unstained they had offered their lives. They were undrilled, ununiformed. The parade showed that there had been a transformation. The boys marched with such military bearing that the civilian looking on could not distinguish between the seasoned regular and the untried volunteer. There were other features connected with the parade, but every eye was for the soldiers. To see them pass, regiment after regiment, was an inspiriting spectacle, not wholly a mere show. There interesting must have been in the minds of those who watched the thought that these soldiers were of the same blood as the ones who died so bravely on the torrid heights about Santiago, and that as willi and blithely would they, too, go to a grave in alicn soil. It may fall to them yet to face perils as appalling as Cuba has offered, but everybody who watched them knows that whatever betide, these boys will not shrink. The nation is aroused to fighting pitch, and they repre- sent the nation. They are our people. We feel for them the bond of kinship. With victory crowning our arms by sea and land, with each day producing a hero, each hour heavy with fate, a parade in honor of the Fourth could not have been an ordinary event. But when we hear the tramp of armed men, and the note of the bugle which will soon call them to die; when the flag which is the emblem of the Union floats over those who will to mark the advancing outposts of civili- zation, emotions are stirred to their deeps, and love of country thrills the American as the love of mother and-home. l them several hundred thousand dollars’ worth of gold, will have the effect of recalling to the de- velopment of the rich resources of Alaska the public THE ALASKAN TRADE. HE arrival of the first company of Klondike attention, which of late has been distracted by the | war. While it is by no means desirable that there should be a renewal of the “Klondike craze,” it will certainly be of advantage to all parts of the Pacific Coast to have full consideration given to the possibilities of the country along the Yukon. We have there a promising field for a remunerative industry and a large commerce, and it is gratifying to learn from the reports of the returning miners that the promise is not likely to prove a deceptive one. According to the statements made by the men who have come straight from the gold fields the estimate made by our correspondent, Sam W. Wall, that the output of the Klondike for the season would be in the neighborhood of $28000,000, is correct. They report comparatively few bonanza strikes, but that the average output of the claims has been sufficiently remunerative to make the further exploitation of the region a safe venture for those who are strong, in- dustrious and enterprising. This gives a reasonable assurance to the hopes of those who contemplite undertaking the enterprise this year, and also con- firms the belief that in the gold fields we shall find a market of increasing profit for our manufacturers | and merchants. ‘Whatsoever advances any portion of the Pacific - Coast is directly beneficial to California, the chief center of the population of the coast, and to San Francisco its commercial and financial metropolis. In the development of the resources of the vast ter- ritory of Alaska lie some of the best possibilities of our trade. This is the outfitting point for the people who go to Alaska and the best depot of supplies for the country. Our interests in the Yukon gold fields are therefore great, and in more ways than one we | shall find a profit for ourselves in the gold dust and nuggets the newly returned miners have brought with them as a proof of the richness of the Klondike placers. There will be regret if Butcher Pando ever sur- renders. There might be no good military excuse for executing him, and he needs killing almost as badly as does Weyler, whose understudy he has been in the profession of murder. Blanco wanted Cervera bounced. Well, the gen- tleman_has been bounced, and before long some Yankee with a lot of guns and men will remark to Blanco, “Next.” Ll Linares is said to have a serious wound. If he still clings to the idea that there is a ghost of a chance for him, the injury must have affected his brain. This is just the opportunity for Weyler to say it would not bave happened if he had been there. Marquette Building | The city is becoming accustomed to the sight | miners of the season at Seattle, bringing with | of the people, we desire to present again the reasons why the United States Treasury cannot serve the pur- poses of a bank of issue. All paper currency is credit money, not primary money of intrinsic value equal to its nominal value. Nominal value means the value named, or printed or stamped on its face. All currency to have its nominal and actual value ;‘the same must have an intrinsic value equal to its | nominal value, or must be redeemable at its nominal | value in something of the same intrinsic value. Now, when the Government issues paper currency, unless it is redeemable at its nominal value in something of equal intrinsic value, it is subject to just the same | vicissitudes as like currency issued by an individual, lor by a corporation of individuals. Papers, notes, | bank checks, drafts, bills of exchange and letters of credit are all of the same character., They are not money. They are merely titles to money and pass as commercial paper or currency at their nominal value only as long as the taker is sure of the ability | of their maker to redeem them at their nominal value. ‘We hear it said often that behind the greenbacks is | the credit of the United States. That is true, but the credit of the United States is subject to the same | fluctuations and vicissitudes as the credit of an indi- | vidual. The United States has no means of get- ting money except by taxation of the people. The United States has only this power of taxation as a means of keeping its credit good. When taxation does not yield money enough to pay its current ex- penses and redeem its outstanding promises to pay, in greenbacks and other forms of demand obligations, its credit is in danger and can be maintained only by borrowing money on bonds, or bonded obligations. These bear a stated rate of interest, and are due at |a fixed time in the future. As thelr maturity ap- proaches the United States provides for their pay- ment by laying taxes on the people to meet them when due. Here, now, we have the difference between the ! United States’ promise to pay a greenback on de- | mand and its promise to pay a bond at maturity. The greenback is due at any time. The bond is | due at one time only. Under the law the green- back when redeemed has to be immediately reissued. Under the law the bond when redeemed is destroyed. Therefore, whenever a greenback is redeemed the credit of the United States is weakened. ~When- ever a bond is redeemed the credit of the United States is strengthened. Now, as the value of paper currency depends upon its redemption at its nominal value in intrinsic value, if the United States engage in business as a bank of issue of such paper currency, it must have on hand all the time sufficient money of intrinsic value to redeem on demand its paper at its nominal value. It is entirely possible that the whole sum of $346,- 000,000 outstanding greenbacks, due on demand, may be presented in one day to the treasury for redemp- tion. The treasury is just now in unusually good condition, having on hand a gold reserve of $166,- 000,000, for such redemption purpose. But it might pay that all out and fail for $180,000,000! What then? Some of our political leaders would say “Redeem in silver dollars.” The moment that was done the silver dollar would appear at its in- trinsic value, 50 per cent below its nominal value, and gold, or money of equal nominal and intrinsic value, would disappear. Suppose, now, that there are no greenbacks or demand obligations on the United States outstand- ing. If its obligations are all time obligations, due at different fixed periods, so that the taxing power can be operated to provide for their redemption, they will not only be always at par, but usually at a prem- ium This will be because of the certainty of pro- on for their redemption at maturity by taxation and because of their safety and convenience for use as collateral in raising ready money, and the ever present ability to sell them for actual money at their | face value, and usually at a premium. } Now if the law authorize a corporation to buy | $100,000 worth of such time bonds, deposit them in the treasury and receive in return $90,000 in bank | notes to enter into circulation by being loaned as bank capital, it will be seen that 9o per cent of the national bonds may be represented in circulation by | paper currency, and that if such a corporation fail the bonds deposited by it in the treasury are simply can- | celed and the $90,000 in notes are redeemed by the treasury at their face on presentation and the treasury | has wiped out $100,000 of its bonded debt, has $10,000 | left on hand to pay its expenses in the transaction, and the noteholders of the broken bank have not lost a penny. The notes were worth their face before the bank failed. They were worth the same after, and the only losers would be the stockholders of the banking corporation, who lose their original invest- ment of $100,000 in United States bonds which se- | cured their circulation and made their noteholders | safe. | The difference between basing a bank of issue on ! national time bonds, sure of payment at maturity, and ‘ using the treasury as a bank of issue, will be seen to | lie in the necessity of all sound issue banking; that it | shall be founded on a form of securlty that is imme- | diately convertible into money which has an equal and nominal and actual value. When such money has to be raised by taxation | the slow process and uncertainty of the amount that may be demanded by the noteholders make it impos- | sible to keep an exact amount on hand for such purpose. It ties up money in the treasury that ought to be in circulation and keeps the public credit in | continual jeopardy. | The other process ties up no money, withholds | none from circulation, but secondarily converts the national bonds into currency. It would seem that a perfected system, expanded to the credit and cur- | rency needs of the country and based upon public securities, is preferable to the uncertainties and known | insufficiency of a direct treasury issue. T r———— Doubtless the war correspondent is a brave man, | but he should let the reader take this for granted. People want to know how the tide of battle raged. | They are not pining to learn from the correspondent all his personal acts, and receive an analysis of his emotions. The reporter at a fight ought to remem- ber that he is not the fight. So that his account be accurate and vivid, his individuality cuts no figure, and when he projects it into every situation he creates the impression that he has a case of that malady vul- garly known as swelled head. Nobody will deny that the Spanish fought bravely. They did the best they knew, and they died with an enthusiastic energy. It is too bad that to people of | such courage there has been denied the gift of com- | mon sense. There are evidences that Correspondent Creelman has been wounded. He does not send the report himself, or it would naturally be regarded with sus- picion. That some miners should have arrived from Alaska + with gold and full stomachs is a refreshing change. CAMARA’'S FLEET NEXT. AMPSON'’S destruction of the Spanish fleet at S Santiago, which served to infuse the Fourth of July with the glow of present victory as well as past glory, not only leaves us free to prosecute the campaign in Cuba at whatever point we please, but allows us to send at once a fleet to Europe to operate | off the coast of Spain and another to seek out the flying squadron of Camara and destroy it wherever found. The extraordinary character of the victories achieved over the fleets of Spain at Manila and at Santiago leaves not the least doubt as to the result that will follow the meeting of an American squadron with that of Camara. At Manila not a single man was lost during the action, and at Santiago only one, while the losses of the Spanish were terrific. It is clear that the Spaniards, however brave and patriotic they may be, are incapable of handling the mechanism of modern naval armaments. They were able to buy battle-ships and cruisers with big guns from the British, the French and the Germans, but they have not been able to handle them with any effect what- ever. In both contests our gunners have battered the Spanish ships to pieces with as much safety to themselves as if they had been engaged in target practice. Under these circumstances the much debated ques- tion whether Camara’s fleet is making its way toward the Philippines with the intention of attacking Dewey will not be seriously considered any longer. To fight an Americar fleet is perhaps the last thing Ca- mara thinks of doing. He may probably direct his course to the islands, but if so it will not be with the intention of confronting Dewey. There will doubtless be a repetition of the tactics of Cervera. The Spanish fleet will cruise and dodge about in the archipelago as long as possible, and when out of coal, or when closely pursued, will take refuge in some fortified harbor and wait the inevitable end. There is a chance, however, that as soon as Ca- mara receives the news of the defeat of Cervera he will hasten back to Spain as rapidly as possible. There are good reasons for believing that his fleet was dispatched toward the Orient only for the pur- pose of deluding the Spanish people into the belief that the Ministry is prosecuting the war vigorously and intends to recover the Philippines. The move- ment, in fact, is more likely to have been one of politics than of naval strategy, and in the present emergency it may appear to the bewildered Cabinet at Madrid that it would be better politics to bring it home than permit it to continue its way to the East. Whatever course the Spaniards may pursue there will be no question as to ours. From this time on our fleets will seek Camara wherever he may go. A fame like that which has been won by Dewey in de- feating Montijo and by Sampson in defeating Cer- vera is to be gained by the fortunate commander who overtakes Camara, and it is scarcely necessary to say he must steam far and fast if he escapes the Ameri- can fleets that will soon be on his trail and moving as rapidly as their engines can drive them. e ———— W and has freely given its sons to battle, glory- ing in their triumphs, and weeping proudly when some have fallen, the women have been as keenly patriotic as the men. They could not take up arms, buf they could send their sons and brothers forth. And in the unselfish intensity of their awak- ened emotions, every boy wearing the garb of a sol- dier became as a son or a brother. Faithfully and lovingly have they worked for his comiort. They have fed and clothed and sheltered him when _thc Government he served had been slow in provldmg. They have given him comforts and dclicac.ies, medi- cines, bandages. They have cared for the sick. .Tll:y have proved to the soldier that he has a pl_ac; in ic common affection, cheering him and sustaining lu.rn‘ Ii they could they would go to the front to nurse him on the field of battle. The women of this State have been particularly active, for here the soldiers have gathered by thou- sands, and from here they have started over sea. In all the regiments gone there is not a soldier who does not remember with gratitude the kindly, unos- tentatious ministration of the gentle women. To accomplish its great work the Red Cross has. re- quired large sums. Money has been freely given. For the most part, people have been so anxious to give that the offerings poured in unsolicited. To have to record that there are exceptions, that some hearts have not been touched, that in some breasts there is no impulse of patriotism, is not pleasing. Among others, the saloonkeepers of the city started a fund for the benefit of the Red Cross. The pro- moters believed that\not one of the fraternity would withhold a contribution. They were disappointed. An instance was when they sent to “Pop” Sullivan a blank for the recording of subscriptions. Sullivan runs a large place on Market street. Where a smaller déaler might afford to donate a dollar, he could easily afford a hundred. Yet he did not give a cent. The blank was returned to the committee, as blank as when it reached Sullivan’s hands. Such an act was a slight and a slur. Worse even than this was the response of Frank Garcia of Montgomery street, who to his declination added a ribald insult, aimed at the organization, but only serving to show his own character. The women of the United States believe in the flag. In such way as is possible they resent an'af- front to it. When France expressed hostility they said they would do no more purchasing in the marts of Paris. Already France feels the withdrawal of their patronage, and vainly laments. ~When a sa- loonkeeper assumes an attitude as unfriendly as that of France, the women are powerless to similarly re- sent it. Sullivan probably did not think that from a business point of view he was making a mistake, but he was and it will probably cost him more than a trifle. There are men who are doing all they can HILE the nation has been stirred to fervor, A CANADIAN POSTAL CARD. The accompanying illustration is a reproduction of a postal card, printed in ‘William Bell of Winnipeg to Wilbur Tibbils. colors, sent by On the the message, “How is this for a Canuck postal card?” D. Greene received no substantial recognition, perhaps through oversight, for there were many conspicu- ously brave and active officers in the \\‘%r of 1861-65, not all of which, received the attention their services merited. The present war is young vet and there may be many opportunities for officers to dis- tinguish themselves. 5 ————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. HOBSON—J. S. A., Oro Blanco, Ariz. If Lieutenant Hobson should be advanced ten it would bring him in the line of com- manders. DEWEY—J. F., City. Rear. Admiral Dewey was born at Montpelier, Vt., De- cember 2, 1857, His father was Julius ¢ vey, M. D., who was born in | ted in’ Montpelier, and in 1825 he was mat- | Fied to Miss Mary Perrin, a native-of that': | State. The hero of Ma ne -of. four Jim Jouett and S. a2 is o children, Charles, Edward, George:’ and Mary. . R o FOR THE NAVY—Shop, City smiths in the navy are paid $ y plumbers are paid $45. Tinners are not’ o e list of those employed in. the: navy.’ ;;’Lah:([vp;crtsr‘mlh or plumber is shipped: for the navy he will be assigned:to any | vessel that his services may ‘be required: If he is assigned to a vessel and back wes | flat v y-yard he may.bs for a time transferred to shore duty. IN ACTION. When the blue-black waves are tipped with white, and the balmy trade winds blow, When the' palm-crowned coast In the offing lies, with sands like the driven snow, When the mighty huils of the battleships—the nation’s strength and pride— And the ghost-like little torpedo boats are lying side by side; f When all is still save the screaming gulls, as they circle high o'erhead, When naught is heard on the steel-bound decks vatcher's measured tread, ndward a tiny cloud floats up from the grim old fort, Then the piercing scream of a shrapnel shot, and the ten-ton gun's report. Then armored decks are alive with life, and the calls to quarters blow Then the gun crews stand beside their guns and the stokers sweat below; Then the jingling bells in the engine room clamor and call for speed, And the thousand tons of hardened steel shake like a wind-tossed reed. Now the guns of the fort are belching flame, and the shot and shell fall fast, Now three are down by the forward gun, and six in the fighting mas Now the ships rush on in ms gunners hold their bre: And pray to thelr God to spare them still esty while the to help the Red Cross, and who, aware of the course of Sullivan, will accept the rebuff as personal to them- selves. They will keep away from a place so un- American. They have no tolerance for the sort of citizenship that declines to aid a cause so worthy, and so dear to patriots. But perhaps there is some excuse for Sullivan. A man whom the Government recently compelled to pay an annoying fine of $700 may have had his en- thusiasm for Uncle Sam quenched by the process. Still, it is not fair that he should hold the Red Cross responsible. The ladies of this organization have nothing to do with the regulations concerning the rectifying of liquor The indications that General Miles sought to throw cold water on the achievement of Shafter’s army are not pleasing to contemplate. Surely if the com- manding general of the army does not like the way things are going at the front the President would not deny him the privilege of getting there himself. —_— Soldiers who desert from the army just now will find that in war times military authority views such an act with disfavor, Chile needn’t sell her old O’Higgins. We don’t have any use for it. from the harbor's hidden death. Now a string of fluttering signal flags from the bridge of the flagship fly FAviNG Andiiw ¢s low o'er the shot-torn h lurks in the air, h de: 5 And never a word by the guns is said,” while wave, dark they spit and boom and flare. The fleet steams up in battle array, and the broadsides crash and roar, While the rumble and rip from the enemy's guns reply from the smoke-hung shore The once white decks run red with bloo: while the surgeons worl below, Ana fort and fleet, with shot and shell, back each blow for blow. pay At last a flag of truce i through the drifting And the havo where a inch shrapnel broke: At last of the fleet are still, now from far and near Are heard the shouts of a victor's crew as they answer cheer with cheer. and The shrill call of the from quarters pipes And the dead are s e 's mate the crew on ars sinks In the quarter and Stripes; the west, a a battle n's desire, fought, and the carnage of n Republican. THE BOY IN BLUE. A Tribute from a Red Coat. Under the trees of beautiful Gate Park, characteristic of your unique energy, I watched the future conquerors of Spain going through the complicated movements of company drill. To me, as an Englishman, there was something particularly refreshing in the easy gait, the alertness and surprising good nature with which these lads, recruits of only a few weeks' standing, performed the ntricate evolutions. I passed and re- passed the squads and companies which are, iIn reality, but raw b and wondered, as the world is g, at this display of single- the life strings of a 9 nor yet in revenge for the dastardly act that engulfed the Maine and her gallant crew in the waters of Havana harbor. but as a great and generous nation’s bonse to tne far-off despairing cry of vn-trodden people, gripped in the iron hand of a tyrant who grips to the death. Such thoughts as left the sunlit terr: o these filled me as T s to where inviting shade promised rest and reflection. I came a one of “our boys,” an af- fectionate cognomen which has more of honest love than any other title his merit has ned him. Let it always be so, “Our Boy It savors so much of a mothe love, a father's pride. ‘Whether from ranch or workshop, office stool or college hall, to me it mattered not. The ma the hour was before me; let that ce. He has become a perso of which every detail is known, every action noted, pears presumption in me to endeavor to make a faint sketch of the man which the whole of America, ay! and for that and it ap- the Anglo-Saxon race speaks of with pride and dubs in admiration “The Boy in Blue.” He had watched me cross- ing the green sward and I opine natural- ly understood my motive, and conse- quently we met as strangers do in like circumstances, with a shy nervousness of each other. He had taken off his felt hat, identical ith that worn by the troopers in Australia and South Africa, and arranged the rrow slip that does duty as a band which truthfuliy needed no arranging, while I found a sulphur match is not one of the best means of lighting a cigarette. But soon our mu- tual reserve wore off and we talked long and earnestly of many things. It is not meet I set down here of what our conversation consisted, ex t to say ke destroyed none of my happiest opinions. There may have been a boyish entha- siasm of the glory and panoply of war, a love of adventure, but underlying it all, deep and strong, the true nature of a real man was apparent, firm In purpose and indomitability of will. So we shook hands and parted; he go- frg his way, I mine. 1 watched him long and earnestly as he threaded his way thiough the throngs of people campward. six feet ol stalwart manhood, souad of limbe, upright in - beari thought, cherishing above aught else tire flag which his national courage and strong arm will uphold always. Happy the nation that produces such a son, and happy the son that fights for such a flag Good-by, then, my “boy in blue.” We'll meet never again, but I'll cherish ever this slight memory of you and when sheuts of joy g0 up from a people's heart for a victory gained, or a nation's pride rejoices in brave deeds accomplished, I'11 remember an afternoon in the Golden West and you. “To keep his flag a flying he’s a doing and a dying; Every inch of him a soldier and a man.” ———— e OUR CUBAN ALLIES. We are now getting some practical ex- perience of the effectiveness of our Cu- ban allies—the people we went to war for. Upon the whole, they present an agree- able surprise. We were prepared to find them untrained and undisciplined, and so they are to the lamentable extent of handling rifles in a manner dangerous to the lives of their American friends and filling the ground full of holes. On the other band, the Cubans seem fully sensible of what we are doing for them, are amenable to discipline, eager to fight, sufficiently brave, and have such a whole-souled hatred for the Spanish as to compensate for the many lacking quali- ties of the ideal soldier. It must be re- membered, too, that for the first time in years these refugees are now properly fed and thoroughly equipped. Taking all this into consideration, there seems a good prospect that in fighting side by side, or at least, in harmony and sympathy, with steady, well seasoned troops and with a knowledge that power and wealth are at last actually behind them, the insurgent force may prove to be a very valuable adjunct to our con- quest of Cuba.—New York Herald. Golden | s squadron as a reward for their gallant | services at Manila has given rise to un- | favorable criticism by the friends of offl- | cers who have been jumped, and the most | decided objection is made to the advance- ment of Captain N. M. Dyer of the Balti- more over the head of Captain Charles D. Sigsbee, late of the battleship Maine. It is argued that it would be better to walt until after th officers who have distinguished themselves and that it is unfair to those who through no fault of their own have had no oppor- tunity to render conspicuous services to | be jumped. to have any weight with the administra- tion, for in ad for services in time of war it follow customs of all naval powers and to walt until the war terminates would enable wu certain ¢ of politicians and wire pull- ers to defer f perhaps the extent of indefinite postpone- | ment. Captain Gridley having died, Sigsbee 1s still number 35 on the 1 meritorious :.,\ftu‘ the Io: [ below Frank Wildes fortune to insult a N in 1876, for which offense he was suspend- ed for one year and lost fourteen num- PROMOTION IN THE The advance of seven officer: var has endes This_argument ancing officers recognition for aptain Sigsbee's of his ship ‘bar Captain Dyer's advance liful fighting at Manil n Coghlan, his original pla % vy Depas bers. luck sinc of his head is particular] Sigsbee's frien Dyer being only a volunteer officer taken | into the regular navy lant record of tI the rebellion. it n unjustly treated in the matter of standing | 4 in"the Register, but without suc tember, entered in Septemt been going on for a couple of years before thes in which Evans, ticipated, and in which wa ed, the Na- escaped unsca thing to do with the promotion of Evans Captain Sigsbee has been in rather hard i ctive member | st jump over | aggravating to | he became an and this th he na on account in 1868 Si ing for the D nce Congres ve been tr to tting back to t ands and bee lemy in 1859; Evans, her, 1860. e young men were detach demy and entered o second attack on the seve wound Evans and an now s, which,_ br x numbers below Si r above him. It has rted that either Robl flin acted with grea i and_the f: hed had prok and Coffin. Boards of admirals and committees ot the Senate and Hou P G e recom: atedly that the zed wr for some reason not made a graduate. B criticism. advanced about fifty numbers and war Cong alleged m. over the heac For many years after the 5. Only s No acrimony was caus Winslow and Worden The gallant W. B. and but he had the mis- mber s and Coghlan | The war had headed the first class : umber 17 and Sands was | n the galiantry than | “wounded while the lattex s, Sands and Sigsbee be remedied, but ses were not adjusted, and now as crowning disappointment officer jumps a regular Naval Academy was importuned to rectify akes made In jumpi of others in 1§ xteen out of forty: plaints were favorably acted on and they were nearly all of higher grade officers. d by the r promotion of David D. Porter, who w lieutenant in 1861 and vi Neither did the promotion of Rowan, Rod- e admiral in 1865. RED, WHITE AND BLUE—E, N.'W: Oakland, Cal. The colors of the ‘Unite States are red, white and blue, and in:: arranging them for decorative purposes the leading color, which is red, should bé.: placed at the top. In France, where tho Rational colors are blue, white and red. the blue always takes the lead in decory tions. In the United States, when striped: cloth having stars in the blue is used for such purpose, then blue goes to the top, because the decoration represents: the American flag, and the blue fleld of the flag is always at the masthead, except.in & case of distress, when the biue field 18 down. : —_————— z THE REVOLT OF DOSHISHA. The movement of native Christianity:in Japan toward Unitarianism isso . rapid that we feared the recent action of -the Japanese in throwing off the missionary control of the college known as: Doshisha might be s¢ -tioned by our missionary superintendent, the Rev. Clay MacCauley.. But his open letter to.the Boston. Tran- script shows that he is not implicated in that breach of trust and-condemns . ths transaction. We have lal;\_ uloukm stablishment of this college as :p;)r‘llis‘(gfuf but it was a blunder whieh, once for all, had to be made. Orthodoxy undertook to Christianize Japan.. It wias hospitably received, because the . empire was 1onkin;'1f0xr = Dewirel ich vould bring it into line W o ations. ' But the Japanese-ars eager learners, and they quickly discovered that modern science was a factor in .modern civilization, and _that it was independent of orthodoxy. They learried. that Unita- rianism offered an alternative, and:that; to be both scientific and religious; it ‘was not necessary to be orthodox. . To head off. the rush of Japanese students toward Darwin, Spencer and the doctriné of eve- Some one conceived the ‘idea -of ‘a istian college, where science should be edited, taught under censorship, and adapted to the wants of the - Heathen. The scheme was absurd, but those -who believed in it gave their morey and their s to the enterprise.- They stilk:live; they still wish to control the- application of the money, and they. alone haveé:.:a moral right to decide what shall be done with it. But the conditions.of —holding property in that country have given the' | Japanese legal control.. When they dis- covered that modern science and ortho- NAVY. s in Dewey's d to rewara is not likely as a re bravery to however conduct was should not ment for his s for Cap- e was next o rtment clerk of Captain | for hi he positions | entered_the and Sep- ned from the n active s of 1 vas number 11 and | doxy are incompatible, they ought to. _ha\_'r) cond class. | surrendered the college. “What' they did Fort Fisher, | was to take advatage of their- technical Sigsbee ! | rights. They have turned out orthodoxy, while keeping science—and the Property.—. 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