The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 16, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1898 THE HAWAIIAN COMMISSION. T is proposed that the Chamber of Commerce en- lte.rtain the members of the Hawaiian Commission as they pass through this city en route to Hono- lulu, This is well. California hospitality is of world-wide repute, and its established reputation should be sus- | tained. The members of the commission all favored the } policy which, when accomplished, has given them the position they hold. They do not come to us needy. THE GAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND S8UNDAY) 1s | A large sum is appropriated out of the public treasury served by carrlers In this clty and surrounding towns | for their benefit. The tendering of public hospitality rscsrclesnct:.md djweak [ By mall Yeles s st isen 0oL 0)) to them should have among.its objects an impression THE WEEKLY CALL ;)f tl;e interest of California in the work they have on hand. DA ANDIPIRC The three American Commissioners, Cullom, Hitt NEW YORK OFFICE.. Room 188, World Building | and Morgan, are in an environment which prevents SRR, L BN S LR | experimental knowledge of the industrial problem | WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. | which is presented in Asiatic coolie competition with C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. I N elinbor CHICAGO OFFICE Marquetto Buafldlag | Freeport, the principal town in Mr. Hitt’s district, C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. [ probably never saw an Asiatic coolie even in transit, YRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | for it lies off the trunk line for Pacific Coast travel. open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untll | In Senator Cullom’s town, Springfield, there is one sfz?‘,&.f}?l;' L?:k":::::l:::' ;p::n;n:n‘;flz"::.'dz?: | Chinese washhouse, but it? principal patrons are ne- 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market ' groes and its competition is not felt. As for Senator street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 \[organ, environment and experience count for noth- :I:I’ii:nn:;:‘ee‘t‘,n:?z; ::fllk,g |§;5‘°;§]k'finilzv:::= ing, and none of them will get any knowledge of our untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | |abor situation at a banquet which will be devoted to SR T MO gush and boasting. Will some one tell them that | | California asks something for all that she gives? | | She is even denied the right to have one of her regi- | | ments sent to Hawaii on garrison duty. That is | given to New York, and soldiers are transported 3500 7J6HN D.V SPRECKELS, Proprietor. R YR E RS I YRR I SRRSO TR T Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1888 EDITORIAL ROOMS.. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 ...One year, by mall, $1.50 veeeess.-908 Broadway AMUSEBMENTS, theory or as a temporary expedient nobody knows. If Maguire accept the nomination of the Populists he will have to indorse this plank. The platform con- cludes by saying: “And to the support of this plat- form we pledge each and every candidate nominated by this convention.” Furthermore, if Maguire ac- cept the Populist nomination and the Democrats in- dorse him they will indorse this part of the Populist platform. Thus the Democracy will, in addition to becoming a Maguire party, become a single tax party. So after all single taxation is an issue. How do the owners of land in California like that? THE FREE-MARKET EXPERIMENT. Y the adoption of a resolution setting aside the Jackson, Washington and Clay street wharves for the use of a free market for perishable products coming into San Francisco the Harbor Commissioners have afforded a foundation for the most important experiment that has been undertaken in this city for a long time. The results of the move- ment will be watched with close interest, for they will not only affect large and powerful interests, but will in a marked degree concern the people at large. As was set forth in the report of the free market committee of the Producers’ Association, the object of the free market movement is not alone to provide some special facilities for farmers to sell their own products, but to concentrate the entire trade from first hands in perishable products upon the water front, separate it from all other trade, subject it to regula- tion by State authority, give to farmers desiring to sell their own produce equal advantages with those preferring to sell through commission men, and per- eville and Cannon, the 618-pound Man. ason and Eddy streets, Specialties ning. ng.boating, fshing, every Sunday. 11 this afternoon. on Coursing Park. : C ng Park. Butterfield By F ank W. 0k p. m. Horses, at corner Market CK. EVADING THE WAR TAX. ’]"E{A\l‘ corporations should be evading the war tax is to be regretted on more than one ground. | That the Wells-Fargo Express Company should be 1g the flagrant offenders is a matter for sur- corporation, it has always been liberal. ed to appreciate the fact that it enjoys f the Government. Yet, when there f revenue, this corporation sneaks nd tries to make somecpody else pay ess has laid upon it. The clause of ue bill governing the matter is so clear given: iuty of every railroad or steamboat ¥, carrier, express company, or corporation occupation is to act as such, to issue r consignor, or his agent, or person goods are accepted for transporta- ding, manifest, or other evidence of ling for each shipment received n1d transportation, whetner in bulk or ges, bundles, or not so enclosed ere shall be duly attached and celed, as in this act provided, to each of such bills ladj, manifests or other memorandum, and to | prise. A e war tax was so devised as to reach people in every walk of life. t was intended, and with entire that each citizen, according to his means or ion, should contribute to the common | To submit without grumbling was the sim- a course suggested by patriotism and a It had not been expected that would shift the responsibility. t tly what the Wells-Fargo Company empting to do. It forces its patrons to pay h it should itself pay, as the law provides, justic his occ duty, st able to e whic ion under consideration has in this city e of business. Most of its stock is t. The profits come out of Cali- its princ held at the osition is being practiced, and Instead of doing so he 1 put the blame for the ungenerous and repre- course the corporation upon the vice sident of New York. In words apt ar, this is too thin. The wicked partner 12s been worked to death. Mr. Valentine cannot permit a subordinate to override him and then assert that the is something the burden of which does not rest with himself. Plainly enough the provisions set forth that the express company shall supply the stamps, and there is no hint that it can make the patrons of the concern 1 for the stamps Yet Wells-Fargo, after ex- acting the regular tariff, charge the price of the stamp for which the Government has said it must pay. his borders on theft, and is wholly indefensible. The patron has already paid the extra tax. He has paid it on wine, tobacco, chewing gum, the daily prevent checks he has written; on necessities and luxuries of Pfusion platform, though in some respects there all sorts. The law was not framed to strike him and permit the fat and prosperous corporation not only to escape the payment, but actually to exact from him the money it should advance without question or demur. He will not submit. He is willing to be good for his share. He objects to robbery for the benefit of a protected and powerful corporation. For the sake of its fair fame, Wells-Fargo should desist. It is injuring itself, irritating the people, and lending to the denunciation of agitators the shadow of justification. It is such exhibitions of arrogant superiority that cause corporations to be hated, an- archists to rant, and Coxey armies to spring into ex- istence. The Wells-Fargo Company is recreant to the country from which it gains support, under whose statutes it finds opportunity to do an immense busi- ness. It r s to pay a just and reasonable tax made necessary by war with a foreign foe. Yet this war has brought to it thousands of dollars of reve- nue. The company has carried tons of powder and munitions at the high rates charged for such ma- terial. To pay the tax would be but the relinquish- ment of a fraction of added profit. The Wells-Fargo Company extorts money from private citizens, not under the pretense of having a right to do so, but because it can. It deserves the severest rebuke, prompt awakening to the limitation of its thrifty ar- rogance, and official information that it must pay its share or be haled into court like the small offender. But, regardless of fines, very shame should force it in this instance to the honest and fair methods by | which it has heretofore been guided. e ——— Pugilism might as well acknowledge itself dead. | The only fighter this country cares about now is the | one who carries a rifle and commits comparatively little havoc with his jaw. Sampson and Schley can afford to divide the glory in the middle and would have glory to spare then, | mit any one to buy there who so desires. | A committee, composed of Major Harney of the miles across the continent to go to Honolulu, while S | Harbor Commission and E. F. Adams as a represen- °8 to-day. | . B 1 this af |all the sacrifices required for the benefit of Hawail | and gets nothing in return. | should be told that we want something. | AUCTION SALES. | , July 18, Idbrary, at corner | T California troops rest in camp or are shipped to hard duty and death in the poison fens of the Philippines. As the matter now stands, California is called to make These Commissioners | We demand the prohibition of lll; Asiatic coolie immigration to Hawaii. We demand the deportatiom of all coolie labor now in the islands. We demand the extension thereto of the | Iabor laws of this country, with the eight-hour day. We demand that the sugar planter of Hawaii be put on an equality with the sugar planter of California. | needless to say that the work to be done by this | its success. The present method of handling fruit and tative of the producers, was appointed to formulate regulations to govern the proposed market. It is committee will largely determine the success or fail- ure of the proposed enterprise. If rules can be adopted which will assure the transaction of the per- ishable product trade at the market under conditions that will yield to the producer better returns from his product than he receives under the existing system, the great plan will succeed beyond doubt. If, how- ever, the producer does not obtain that benefit it will not be possible to make the free market a perma- nent institution of the city. The undertaking is so full of promise to all con- cerned there will be a well nigh universal hope for The interests involved are not felt in Illinois, which | State has two members of this commission, nor in | Alabama, which has one member. They are inter- | ests as to which Hawaii, with two members of rhc: commission, destructively antagonizes California, with no member at all. | We have been delivered over, bound hand and foot, | But while we are bound we are not gagged, and therefore should not leave our demands unvoiced. Much has been said about coolie competition in manufactures. Unless the coolies in Hawaii are deported we will see | that competition set up in Honolulu under the Ameri- | can flag and the American tariff. The opportunity to do this is one reason why Mr. Thurston thinks Hawaii an excellent place for men with money. Cali- fornia demands that men with money be put on an equality as to the wages they pay to labor, here and | in Hawaii. | to our competitors who live on coolie labor. SINGLE TAX AN ISSUE. s | HE attitude Judge Maguire is bound to assume ‘ in this campaign will, we think, finally stamp | him as an office-seeking politician without prin- ciples or convictio On his behalf his organ an- nounces that his acceptance of the gubernatorial nom- ination of the Populists does not make him a Popu- list. “It is seldom,” says the $30,000 railroad con- tract sheet, “that a party goes out of its own ranks to find a candidate for its most important nomina- | And then it adds, in order to clinch the idea: “Mr. Maguire is a Democrat, and not a Populist, and | if he accepts the nomination it will doubtless be as a Democrat.” The political morality disclosed by the policy out- lined—the acceptance of a party nomination with a repudiation of the party—is not likely to strengthen | Judge Maguire in the estimation of intelligent people, | nor make him votes among such Populists as are not | entirely devoted to conferring a fatandinfluential office upon a Democrat. But if Maguire is a Democrat he will conduct a Democratic and not a Populist govern- ment. Therefore, in nominating him, the Populists | have placed a political enemy at the head of their ticket who will do what he can, should they elect | him, to destroy their party. But all this concerns the machine and not the peo- ple. The real test of Judge Maguire's sincerity, and the one by which he will be estimated among non- machine voters, is the platform he will be.compelled to indorse when he accepts the Populist nomination for Governor. In this platform, unless we are mis- taken, will be found the evidences of his office- | seeking propensities already referred to. Prior to} his nomination Maguire telegraphed the delegates | that the Oregon fusion platform would suit him. The platform adopted at Sacramento is not the Oregon tion.” is a resemblance between the two. The Oregon plat- form does not indorse the single tax theory; neither does it declare in favor of any other theory. The Sacramento platform squints at single tax and at the same time indorses a new theory which is entirely at variance with anything Judge Maguire has ever pro- posed or advocated. What could be more definite and indefinite than this: We demand a reform in our system of taxation, to the end that taxes shall so be laid as to secure as far as possible equality of sacrifice. We favor the repeal of all poll taxes and demand exemption from taxation of small homesteads and personal property, the amount to be fixed by the Legislature. We also favor a graduated State, income and inher- itance tax. We also favor the submission to the people of a constitutional amendment which’ will give to counties and municipal corporations the right to adopt such a system of taxation for local purposes as the people of such locality may desire. Judge Maguire has already told the Oregon Popu- lists that the single tax theory is the great issue of the day; that until it is put into practice the masses will never escape the thralldom of the classes. He has also written the Democrats of California that single taxation is not an issue of this campaign—that the time is not ripe for an agitation looking to placing all taxes upon land, and that he will not attempt any-* thing of the kind should he be elected Governor. In view of these declarations, what does the plank above quoted mean? It is well known that local option taxation is a single tax method of achieving results. The exemp- tion of personal property—bonds, notes, money, horses, carriages, works of art, silks and satins—is another method the single taxers adopt for. reaching the ultimate taxation of lands alone. Henry George did not favor income taxes, but Maguire has done so; whether, however, as an amendment to the | not ask his consent, but makes him jump. vegetables entails a vast waste of such products, im- poses a heavy cost upon consumers of them, and yields a small and insufficient return to the growers. There have been times when hundreds of pounds of good fruits and foods were thrown into the bay for a lack of a market for them, while at the same time hundreds of families in the city would have been glad to purchase them at fair prices. The producer and the consumer have, in fact, both suffered to a large extent from the lack of closer relations to one an- | other, and this loss may be eliminated to a consider- able extent by the free market. Bright as are the expectations raised by an enter- prise that promises so much of good to both con- sumers and producers, while at the same time carry- ing a benefit to honest middlemen also by ridding them from the unscrupulous competition of more or less dishonest dealers, it is not to be overlooked that | many obstacles are in the way of the successful ac- complishment of the plan. An oversanguine expec- tation now may lead to a disappointment that might cause a hasty conclusion that the scheme is imprac- ticable. The free market, having been launched, shculd be given a thorough and a prolonged trial be- fore it is condemned, even if at first its machinery should not work well. It has been undertaken for the general welfare and should in its operations have the support of all. MONKEYING WITH FATHER TIME. titioned Time to turn backward in his. flight probably did so under the impulse of poesy and without an idea that Time would do anything of the sort. The Examiner is different. When it wants Time to jump backward, forward or sidewise it does £ | “HE excellent lady who in rhythmic pathos pe- Sauntiago fell at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, General Shafter The Examiner boasts that it bul- letined the information at 11 o'clock in the morning. How it could have done this without going into the realm of prophecy, where it has often been before to its damage, is a little hard to figure out. There is the easy and natural solution that it has lied some more, but as a matter of fact the bulletin was in evidence with the promptness claimed for it. It was on dis- | play announcing an event which had not yet occurred, and the transgressor has the pleasing nerve to brag about the deception. The difference in time between Santiago and San Francisco is 3 hours 6 minutes and 6.58 seconds. To simplify matters let this difference be regarded for the oresent as exactly three hours. Then at Santiago’s 3 o'clock San Francisco was hearing the stroke of high noon. But, taking into account the parts of the hour, at Santiago’s 3 o'clock it was in San Francisco precisely 53 minutes 53.02 seconds past 11. This is near enough 54 minutes to be considered as really so. When time is being monkeyed with we can afford for convenience to throw aside the small fraction of a minute. In other words, the Examiner bulletined the fall of Santiago 54 minutes before Santiago had fallen. There must be on the staff the seventh son of a seventh son of a gun, both born with a caul, seeing visions and dreaming dreams. As to the message from Santiago, there were neces~ sarily delays. These calculations have been made without considering this possibility. It is hardly reasonable to suppose that the news was on the wire as soon as it reached the understanding of those who beheld the white flag, or that in the vicissitudes of transmission it did not experience an occasional de- lay. Yet we give to the Examiner the benefit of the dcubt. If the news was an hour in reaching this country, instead of coming ds in the twinkling of an eye, the Examiner lie gains in magnitude. We do not press the point. Toward the erring and representa- tives of the genus Mephitis humane instincts counsel kindly correction rather than rude buffets. There is no hope of reforming the Examiner, but it might be taught to work out its fabrications on a mathematical basis and thus once in a while escape exposure. If we have misjudged the yellow sheet in this in- stance there will be'no hesitancy in saying so later. We think it lied, and thus frankly affirm; but per- haps Hearst sneaked up on the beleaguered city and, together with Headsman Laine, took it himself, thus scoring a scoop on the Amerxn army and laying the foundation for acquitting hig bulletin board of having been too soon. Sagasta must be a queer old man. He laments AROUND THE ;§ COMMISSIONS g gazi has helped o HE 3 across the ocean, | if brought to- | < DID NOT GET‘g Sl READ NEXT SUNDAYS (ALL —~——JULY 17,1898 — Wiki= CONTAIN AN 4 By Henry Norman / Ton DISCUSSED BY SUCCESSAsa TRAVELING By HENRY W, CHAPMAN THE NEW NICARAGUA CANAL By (HAS. R.FLINT TIAGOS BATTLEFIELD. By 5Eecla| CALL Corresponderifs FCRET \ERVICE CHIEF EscRIBES HuNTING (Panist §piEs. ANGLO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE. -(ommissioner |ondon (hronicle WHKIE SALESMAN By Crantrion Jimmy Hicnaer WHAT SHOULD BE DONE WITH INCURABLES PROMINENT THINKERS. N CORRIDORS. Dr. B. B. Cory of Fresno the Grand. A. B. Leslie of Melville is at the Occi- dental. Thomas H. Willlams arrived yesterday from Japan. H. R. McNoble of Stockton is stopping at the Grand. Major F. C. Lord, a mining man of Ne- | vada, is at the Russ. ‘W. H. Topley, a druggist of Vallejo, is staying at the Grand. Mrs. J. A. Sargent of Sargents is stop- ping at the Occidental. John McMullin and wife of Fresno are guests at the Occidental. Alice Neflson returned yesterday after a two months' vacation in Japan. F. M. Nickell, a railroad man of Los Angeles, is registered at the Grand. C. F. Montgomery, editor of a Martinez paper, is stopping at the Occidental. T. F. Fitzgerald, Pacific Coast passenger agent of the Texas Pacific, is stopping at the Occidental. SR ARNGGOOY The number of | ¢ men John F. Fu- is at o v form an army of ROUD RO O 0 nitude, He furnishes tickets for the transporta- tion of Mediterranean people to the old | country, accepting as a compensation for | his labors commissions which are alw: | diminutive, but pretty nearly always just. His friends know that this occupation is remunerative and they do all they can to steer the Europe-bound passenger in the way of Fugazl. A few nights ago Fugazl, his breath leaving his lungs in panting ex- pirations, rushed up to the desk of the night clerk of the Palace and, in a most expressive manner wanted to know in | much less time than a minute where T. K. Stateler was. Stateler, it seems, had promised Fugazi a bundle of prospective | passengers and the latter was itching | at the palms to pack that bundle off. Fu- gazi's impatience developed into a frenzy. ‘Where was that trifler Stateler and why was he not there. In the midst of these mental churnings, the telephone bell rang and Fugazi was called to the phone. Stateler had called him up. This is the | way the negotiations went: Stateler: ‘“Hello, Fugazl. I have the whole bunch, but before you get them you must divvy up on the commission propo- sition. You can bet your sweet Italian life that I am not going to work my feet off for pure affection.” Fugazi: “Oh, that's all right, I will give you a good percentage. You know I| wouldn't cheat you for the world. I will | glve you a fifth of what I get for the deal.” g Stateler: ‘“What do you take me for? You must think I am a good thing. I want a half or you don’t get them.” Fugazi: *“Oh, you break my heart, but T guess it will have to be. All right, I will give you a half. Now tell me, Statty, old man, who are they and how many in the gang.” Stateler: “There are 30,000 in the party, and they want to go to Spain right away.” There are things that would better be left unsaid. Rev. H. H. Wyman and Rev. W. E. Hooper left for the East yesterday by way of the Canadian Paclfic. Adolpho Zelaya, a cousin of the Presi- dent of Nicaragua, arrived yesterday on the Gaelic and is ‘staying at the Occlden- tal. The Gaeuic brought in & number of tour- | ists, missionaries and prominent business | men yesterday. At the Occldental are: | G. F. Northcote, Assistant English Post- master of China; A. B. Huelbert; James Scott of Honolulu; Mr. and Mrs. F. Gatte of England; C. G. von Freutler, wife and | child. At the Palace are: K. 8. Wal- | bank, connected with a large Canadian tea house; W. C. Tyler, who has been | selling locomotives in the Orient; J. N. Boyd, a buyer .or a New York matting house; Dr. J. Jaison, a celebrated Korean who has made a special study of bacteri- ology; Hugo Greisenbeck and wife; Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hulbert; Mrs. William P. Hulbert and Miss C. B. Hulbert; Alfred | thus: “Had we our fleet the situation would be very different.” Well they had a fleet once, and all they managed to do with it was to get it in front of some big guns. However, there is no doubt, as Sagasta observes in effect, that if things were not the same a variation might be noted. ‘Wenz, connected with an Australian wool | establishment and_now on_his way to Paris; James A. Selby, a clvil engineer, who went to Manila to build a drydock, but was prevented by the outbreéak of the war. ————— CALTFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 15.—Charles C. Moore | and comfort, but w! | of san Franctsco 15 at the Impertal. .| W. Bradley of San Francisco Is at the Hoffman. Lawrence Van Wyck, Henry Payot and wife, S. Bugbee and wife, of | San Francisco, have gone to Paris. Mor- itz Meyerfeld, president of the Walter Orpheum Company, is 4n the city making arrangements for the fall season. ] THE OLD ARMY HARDTACK. | How dear to my heart are the war-time me- mentos, | I've cherished {n mem'ry of sorrows and joys, In the days when I tramped through the dust of Virginia, | Or splushed thirough its mud with the rest of | the boys; There's a rusty old saber I never will part with, A faded old cap and a jacket of blue, A battered canteen and a haversack holding | Some squares of the hardtack we all had to | chew! | The iron-bound hardtack! The moss-covered hardtack! The old army hardtack we all had to chew! There was hardtack from wars of a past gen- | eration, Which remained unconsumed till about "63; | It was rumored that some, which defled masti- catlon, Was _marked ‘“Vera Cruz’ or was lettered What a trilumph Was this for the skill of the baker! Indestructible product, defying time's tooth! | But it could not resist the assaults of our grinders, The grinders we had in the days of our youth. The Bunker Hill hardtack! The 1512 hardtack! | The old army hardtack we ate in our youth! | Oh! youth can make feasts of the coarsest of | viands, And never again shall we veterans feel Such a zest in our lives as "way back in the | *60s, When hardtack sufficed to create a ‘‘square’’ | meal. Though now we may dine at more sumptuous ‘ tables, | We'd gladly exchange all the daintles they | yiel | For the hearty enjoyment, the youthful diges- tion, That ;eflsoned the hardtack we ate in the el The bullet-proof hardtack! The iron-clad hardtack! The old army hardtack we ate In the fleld. —Charles E. Sprague in Mail and Express. \ \ ANSWERS TO CORRESPONLENTS. E LIGHTHOUSE EXAMINATION — M., | Boulder Creek, Cal. The time for receiv- | ing application for examination under the | civil service rules in the United States | Lighthouse Department closed on_July | . The next examination will be in the | fall, and due notice_will be given through the'daily papers. Watch the papers, MODERN MORTARS—J. P. C., City. A modern 12-inch rifled mortar in which eighty pounds of powder is used gives an initial pressure of 28,000 pounds to the square Inch and gives a muzale velocity of 1200 feet per second to a shell of 630 | pounds. This insures a range of about six miles at an elevation of 45 degrees. | NAVAL APPRENTICES—-H. S. R, | Dixon, Cal. At this time no apprentices | are being taken on the Independence at | Mare Island, and none will be taken un- | til it {s time to put the training ship in | operation. At that time there will be | published all the rules and regulations governing the admission of boys on board of the vessel. | 5 ————— | OUR VOLUNTEXRS. The blographical history of th the First Volunteer Cavalry whe oo | their ll.‘lvi's Inh\he '?rst advance on Santi- | ago shows what kind of stuff - | ments;are made of. S ey s no exaggeration to say thas | is no army in Europe in wmgh metn t?v?{}e“ Lhe‘ slardnleuad‘{‘antages o{) fortune and of | social distinction could be f T | In the ranks as privates. U0 fehung ) n the little republics of anclent 2 or later on In the earlier days of tro it republics of Italy, when every citinon | was a soldler, some such roster of the | dead may have been possible, but not at any other time or in any other coun. | tr¥. | he Roosevelt regiment was exce | in the number of recruits it found m’:;‘;! the men who might reasonably have ox- pected commissions, but the difference s | only in degree, not ‘in kind, | ere is not a single regim: 1 in answer to the call for %lollxe{?tte::fil!lfgg does not contain a goodly proportion of men of a class not to be found in the ranks of the European armies—of men | who might have sl‘?yed at home in ease 0se only thought was that expressed by voung }}nmllmgn Fish, | when he said: “The Government wants | blg. s!:rong cm;.ps like me.” } uch men give to an army a special character. It is the higher pe};centa?;e of | brains, of education, of capucity, which | differentiates our army from the armies of Europe. It is an army of “thinking | bayonets,” such as Europe considers a peril, but which is to us an assurance of strength and safety.—New York World. ———— WHY PUNISH THE NAVYP The introduction of a bill restoring the grade of lleutenant general invites again an Inquiry into the discrimination which Congress Sgems so persistently to make against the navy. If a lieutenant general, | specs, 15¢ to 40c. 65 4th, Look o Wwhy not a vice-admiral, and if, as report- ed, this great official honor is’to be held open for the officer most distinguished in land operations, why should an equal in- centive not be given the sea officers in- trusted with the fortunes of the fleet? No reward can be too great for our suc- cessful officers, but, above all, let thera be fair play. At this moment the navy is asking Congress to make its pay equal, grade for grade, to that given the army! Many sinister rumors are afloat that this bill will pass the House, but be killed*in the Senate. 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