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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1904 HAS NOTABLE CONCREGATION Archbishop of Canterbury| Preaches Stirring Sermon in Open Airat Washington | 25,000 PEOPLE ATTEND| Christian Unity His Thcmeé and Primate’s Eloquence | Commands Rapt Attention i WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Most | Rev. Thomas Randall Davidson, Arch- | bishop of Canterbury, sounded a stir- ring appeal for Christian unity at the open-air service held in the Cathe-| dral grounds at Mount Saint Albans| this 1oon. Not since President ! , McKinley was present at the erection of the Peace cross on the same spot after the war with Spain, have as many people gathered at the plc-| turesque spot. The crowd was esti- | mated at from 20,000 to 25,000. Mrs. i vidual ldrgess, but from national jus- Democratic Candidate for Presidency in Formal Letter of Acceptance Reiterates His Belief in Gold Standard and D Continued From Page 1, Column 6.] Only upon the issues of the Philip- | pines and on pensions does he deviate from his attitude of “standing pat” on Republican policies. Regarding the isl- ands in the far Pacific he says: “I am in hearty accord with that plank in our platform that favors do- ing for the Filipinos what we have al- ready done for the Cubans, and I favor | making the promise to them that we | shall take such action as soon as they | are reasomably prepared for i ! Veterans of the Civil War will be es- | | | pecially interested in his declaration that, if elected, he will revoke the age limit order on pensions recently issued by President Roosevelt. He explains | that he will do this, not because it was not founded upon right and jus- tice, but because such order is a usur- pation of legislative authority by the | President. Once revoked, he promises, | his attention will be deveted to secur- | ing legislation in accord with order, ; his theory being that such pensions | should not of right come “from indi- T said that tariff reform is “demanded by the best interests of both manufacturer and con- sumer.”” With equal truth it can be said that the benefits of reciprocal trade treatles would cnure to both. That the consumer would be helped is unquestionable. That the manufac- turer would receive great benefit by extending his markets abroad hardly needs demonstra- tion. His productive capacity has outgrown the home market. The very term ‘‘home mar- ket” has changed iIn its significance. Once, from the manufacturer's point of view, it meant expansion; to-day the marvelous growth of our manufacturing industries has far ex- ceeded the consumptive capacity of our dome: tic markets, and the term ‘‘home market’” im- Diles contraction rather than expansion. If We would run our mills to their full capacity, thus giving steady employment to our workmen and securing to them and to the manufacturer the profits accruing from increased produc- tion, other markets must be found. Further- more, when our manufacturers are dependent | on raw materals in whole or in part imported it is vital to the extension of thelr markets abroad that they secure their materlals on the most favorable terms. Our martyred President, Willlam McKinley, appreciated this situation. He pointed out in his last address to the people that we must | make sensible trade arrangements if *‘we shall extend the outlets for our increasing surplus. He said a system which provides a mutual exchange of commodities is manifestly essen- tlal to the continued healthful growth of our export trade. * » * The pericd of exclusiveness is past. The ex- | pansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problerp. Commerclal wars are un- | from the pockets of all the taxpayers. eclares, of All Issues, Imperialism the Most Vital ghould ever remember that the idea of doing a wrong to a smaller, weaker nation than we, that even all mankind may have a resultant good, is repugnant to the principles upon which our government was founded, Under the laws of the United States the authority is im- posed upon the executive to proceed with due diligence to the construction if the canal. That duty should be promptly performed. Our commerce in American bottoms amounts to but 9 per cent of our total imports and ex- ports. For forty years prior to 1861, when the Republican party came into power, our mer- chant marine carried an average of 80 per cent of our foreign commerce. By 1877 it had dwindled to 27 per cent. Now we carry but a small fraction of our exports and imports. American shipping in the forelgn trade was Ereater by almost 100,000 tons in 1810—nearly a hundred years ago—-than it was last year. In the face of the continuous decline in the | record of American shipping during the last forty-three years, the promises of the Repub- lican party to restore it are without encourage- ment. The record of the Democratic party gives assurance that the task can be more wisely intrusted to it. It is an arduous task to undo the effect of forty years of decadence and requires the study and investigation of those best fitted by expe- rience to find the remedy—which surely does ; not lie in the granting of subsidles wrung | Recent disclosures, coupled with the rapid augmentation of Government expenditures, ehow a need of an_investigation of every de- partment of the Government. The Demo- | crats in Congress demanded it. The Repub- lican maljority refused the demand. The people | canal rights and to the state of Panama, the expenditures of the last fiscal year exceeded the sum of $532,000,000, being more than double the expenditures of the Government for all purposes during the first year of Mr. Cleve- land's administration. The expenses of the first four years succeed- ing the last Democratic administration amount- ed to the enormous average of $511,000,000 per year. This large expenditure was due to a considerable extent to the cost of the Spanish- American war, which occurred during that pe- rlod; but the termination of that war brought no rellef to the Treasury, for the average an- nual expenses of the Government during the three subsequent years ending June 30, 1904, were about $519,000,000, which is the largest sum hitherto reached during a like period since the close of the Civil War. The draft upcn the revenues of the country has had the effect which might have been an- ticipated, and now we have presented the re- verse of the situation, which led to the famous observation, It is a condition, and not a theory, which confronts us’’; for, although the incumbent found at the ciose of the first fiscal year, during which he assumed control of the administration, a surplus of re- ceipts over expenditures of more than $9 000,000, there was an excess of expenditures over receipts at the close of the last fiscal year of $41,000,000, and the officlal monthly reports made by the Treasury Department show that the expenditures are continually and rap- idly increasing, while the receipts are dimin- ishing. In this connection it is interesting to mnote | the recent administrative orders forbidding Government officers from making public any | LONDON: TIMES BOLTS MARKS port a Conservative Can- didate for Parliament A i MAKES BITTER ATTACK Former New York Reporter. Now in British Polities, Seeks Seat in Commons LONDON, Sept. 25.—An extraordinary element has been introduced into Eng- lish politics in connection with the can. didacy of Harry Marks in the pending bye-election in the island of Thanet Marks, who from 1871 to 1383 was a newspaper reporter in New York and | who now is the wealthiest owner of the Financial News of this city, has been adopted by the local Conservative As- sociation as its candidate. This action caused a disagreement, several promi- nent local Conservatives refusing to support him on account of his failure in 1890 in a criminal action which he Thunderer” Refuses to Sup- | ;nomn’! OWN RELISHES, 3 —OPPOSITE PRAGERS— i '8 DAYS’ SPECIALS. 19 1bs. FINE DRY GRANULATED CANE SUGAR --.81.00 (With orders only.) sacks of FINE TABLE SAL MOCHA AND JAVA COFFES... (Fine flavored. Reg 35¢ Ib.). tles 25 (Largs botties. Reg. 35c each.) - 7 1bs. FANCY WHITE EEANS . . Se | 6 Ibs. 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A Democratic Congress and ex- If a2 man of ordinary intelligence and pru- investigated privately and declared that e ith Mrs. Duviason Gonmeer || The full text of Parker's letter fol- | times; meamres of retaliation are not. ecutive will assure it. dence ehould find in the operating expenses of | Marks was a fit person to return to u S Durand, witl rs. vidson, General | Jows: his argument was made in the interest of | ARMY AND NAV s business such a tremendous percentage of | o yioont where he sat in 1895-1900. | “h3 n . | our manufacturers, whose products, he urged, A £ A Y. increase would he not promptly set on foot ament, 8 . . and Mrs. Chaffee and Mrs. Hitchcock T",,..‘{::,“f;:f"“""‘ Clark and ofherd, 0ol- | oty ve "so multiptiod (hot the problem of more | We are justly proud of the officers and men | an Inquiry for the cause of the waste and | The agitation, however, increased and had seats to the right ef the platform and joined heartily in the service. On the platform were prominent laymen, including J. P. Morgan of New York, Secretary Hitchcock and President G n of the Carnegie In- stitute and clergy from the various Protestant churches in Washington. Bishop S ee, after thanking the Archbishop for his presence and for ross the water to show and earnest desire for T n , presented the primate, who made a brief address. The Archbishop’s salutation follows: alled upon and privi- s great oocasion—at the paper in your I give it to you name of him nces we serve, our Jesus Christ. me o be allowed you here—here at the of a national life ed and thirty years had word and has for more rerywhere striven to make n rises before our eyes ng, with all that it as been given to us in the manifold de- life, to realize in er men the true liberty wherewith that such knowledge n a splendid be deter- the to the glory of ood of man. For here the heart of sends its pulse keep raised over- has_taught Jesus Christ. The are ours because they that a man's life con- wh work for men, must comprehend anely by raising souls. Christian trae. We We from in the en- accomplished iming at and the bettering are every cme of w the great- have an ideal f worship and h that; we are ose for whom for him among her period ¢ with n the sibilities ch > other part of ve, can do for side of the sea God give us ing call. er the / bishop’s blessing the es closed with the recessional “Onward. Christian Soldier. 'he Arct p _celebrated holy nunion at St John's Protestant in the morning. tinguished gathering ans present, including The President was General Gillespie of The sermon was prached by Bist Brent of the Philippine Islands, t text being “Liberty ————— WRITES LOVING LETTERS, THEN DECEIVES SPOUSE represented by the army. | tity protective taxes, and which in large amounts are exported. Such duties have been and will continue to be a direct incentive to Woman Married in Manila Relates Troubles to Court and Gets Divorce Decree. SANTA ROSA, Sept. 25.—A divorce as granted Saturday to Christine J. | O’Brien from Edward P. O'Brien. The | couple were married April 14, 1900, in Manila. With her husband’s con- sent the bride embarked the day fol- | Jowing on a vessel bound for San Francisco. She was to come to this State for the benefit of her health and return to her husband later. Loving episties came from O’Brien until his wife announced her readiness to re- torn home. Then he wrote her to re- main here for a time, as he expected o leave the islands for good. This ended the letjers from Manila and shortly afterward the husband came to this country. He failed to seek his wife, hence the divorce action. | —————— FEARS LOSS OF SECRET AND DESTROYS MODEL | Inventor of Attachment Enabling One | 10 See Person Using Telephone Breaks Apparatus. i PORTLAND, Sept. 25.—Fearing| that he would be robbed of the profits | of the invention on which he had| labored for a score of years, J. B.| Fowler has destroyed his telephone at- tachment, by which it was possible for one to see u person while conversing withk him by ordinary telephone. very part of the wonderful apparatus ihat has been on exhibition in Fow- Jer's home in Albina has been totally | destroyed, not a vestige remaining by | which most scientific student | could trace Fowler's process. TFowler says that years ago he in- vented 2 glass engraving device which was stolen from his trunk and sold for | $60,000 . —_—— SLAG EXPLODES, CAUSING 1LOS S OF $175,000 Arizona Smelter Destroyed as Buult‘ of Failure of Workmen to Stop | Metal's Flow. ! PRESCOTT., Ariz., Sept. 25.—An ex- | plosion of molten slag last night caused the total destruction of the Val Verde smeiter, twenty miles east of | Prescott. The smelter employes were | engaged in drawing slag from the fur- nace and were unahble get a plug into | stop it. When the molten mass ran | on the wet floor an explosion fol- | Jowed. The building and machinery | were destroyed. The loss is estimated | at $175,000. - | dertaken, on_ scientific principles, to the end | !%hat there should not be an immediate rev- _amon weal, { abuscs, | admit’ in their platform that the Dingley tariff Gentlemen: In my response to your com- mittee, at the formal notification proceedings, 1 referred to some matters not mentfoned in | this letter. I desire that these be considered incorporated herein, and regret that lack of space prevents specific reference to them all. | 1 wish here, however, again to refer to my | views there expressed as to the gold standard, to declare again my unqualified belief in said standard, and to express my appreciation of the action of the convention in reply to my communication upon that subject. Grave public questions are pressing for de- cision. The Democratic party appeals to the people with confidence that its position on these questions will be accepted and indorsed at the polls. While the issues involved are numerous, some stand forth pre-eminent in the public mind. Among those are tariff re- form, imperialism, economical administration | and honesty in public service. I shall briefly consider these and some others within the necessarily prescribed limits of this letter, While I presented my views at the notl- | fication proceedings concerning this vital issue, the overshadowing importance of the question impels me to refer to it again. The issue is oftentimes referred to as constitutionalism vs. imperialism. 1f we would retain our liberties and consti- tutional rights unimpaired, we cannot permit | or tolerate, at amy time or for any purpos the arrogation of unconstitutional powers by the executive branch of our Government. We should be ever mindful of the words of Web- ster, “Liberty is only to be preserved by maintaining constitutional restraints and just divisions of political powers.”" | Already the national Government has become | centralized beyond any point contemplated or | imagined by the framers of the constitutio How tremendously all this has added to the | power of the President. | It has develoj ear to year until it | almost equal: monarchs. Whil the growth of our country and the magnitude of interstate interests may sesm to furnish a plausible reason for the centralization of power, yet these same facts afford the most potent reason why the executive should mot be per- mitted to encroach upon the other departments | of the Government and assume legislative or other powers not expressly conferred by the constitution EXECUTIVE POWER. The magnitude of the country and its di- versity of interests and population would en. abp a rmined, ambitious and able executive, unmindful of constitutional limita- | tions and fired with the lust of power, to go | far in the usurpation of authority and the aggrandizement of personal power befors the situation could be fully appreciated or the peo- ple_be arcused The issue of imperialism which has been thrust upon the eountry involves a deciston whether the laws of the land or the rule of indivicual caprice shall govern. The principle of imperialism may give rise to brilliant, start- 1 of ling, dashing results, but the princigle democracy holds in check the brilliant exect tive and subjects him to the sober, conserv tive control of the peodle. The people of the United States stand at the varting of the ways. Shall we follow the footsteps of our fathers along the paths of peace, prosperity and contentment, guided by the ever-living spirit of the constitution which they framed for us, or shall we go along other and itherto shunned by all, follow- | ideals, which, though appeal- | ncy to the imagination and am- sve a will o' the wisp, leading us into difficulties from w it may be im- ssible to extricate ours without lasting injury to our national character and Institu- ew ing with brill bition, may ff reform is one of the cardinal prin- es of the Democratic faith and the neces f-- it was never greater than at the pre time. It should be undertaken at once in_the interest ob all our people. The Dingley tariff is excessive in many of its rates, and, as to them at least, unjustly and oppressively burdens the le. Tt secures to domestic manufacturers, singly or in com- bination, the privilege of exacting excessive prices at home and prices far above the level of sales made regularly by them abroad with profie, thus giving a bounty to forelgnars :t the expense of our own people. Its unjust | taxation burdens the people generally, forcing | them t; pay excessive prices for fool, fuel, clothing and other necessaries of life, It levies duties on many articles not normally imported in any considerable amount, which are made extensively at home. for which ths most extreme protectionist would hardly jus- the formation of huge industrial combinations, which, secure from foreign competition, are enabled to stifie domestic competition and practically to monopolize the home market. It contains many duties imposed for the ex- press purpose only, as was openly avowed, of furnishing a basis for reduction by means of reciprocal trade treaties, which the Republi- | can ‘administration implied, or at least prom- ised to negotiate. Having on this promise, spurred on by protected interests, defeated the treaties negotiated by the executive, mow these same interests cling to the benefit of these duties, which the people never intended they should have, and to which they have no | mecral right. TARIFF REFORM. Even now the argument most frequently urged in behalf of the Dingley tariff, and against tariff reform generally, is the neces- sity of caring for our infant industries. Many of these industries, after a hundred years of Justy growth, are looming up as 4industrial In their case, at least, the Dingley invites combination and monopoly, and justification to the expression that the tariff is the mother of trusts, For the above.mentioned reasons, among many others. the people demand reform of these abuses, and such reform demands and should recelve immediate attention, The two leading parties have always dif- fered as to the principles of customs taxation Our party has always advanced the theory that the object is the raising of revenue for sup- port of the government whatever other re- sults may incidentally flow therefrom. The Republican party. on the other hand, contends that customs duties should be levied primarily for protection. so-called, with revenue gs the subordinate purpose, thus using the power of taxation to bulld up the business and property of the few at the expense of the many. This difference of principle still subsists, but our party appreciates that the long-con: tinued policy of the country, as manifested in its statutes, makes it necessary that tariff re. form should be prudently and sagaciously un- | olution in existing conditions, In the words of our platform, we demand *‘a revision and a gradual reduction of the tariff by the friends of the masses, and for the com- and not by the friends of fits its tortions and discriminations. In my resjonse to your committee 1 pointed out the method under which a gradual reduc- tion of customs duties may be accomplished without disturbing business conditions. I de- sire again to express the opinion that this method should be followed. It ie true that the Republicans, who do not necds the slightest alteration, are likely to retain a majority of the Federal Scnato throughout the next Presidential term, and could, therefore, if they choose, block every attenpt at legisiative relief. But it should be remembered that the Repubiican party includes many revisionists, and 1 believe that it will shrink from defying the popular will ex- pressed unmistakably and peremptorily at the ballot box. The people demand reform of existing condi- tions. ~Since the last Democratic administra- tion the cost of living has grievously increas- ed. Those having fixed incomes have suffered | keenly: those living on wages, if there has been any increase, know that such increase has not kept pace with the advance in the cost of living, including rent and the neces- saries of life. y to-day are out of work, unable to secure any wages at all. To alle- viate these conditions, in so far as in our power, should be our earnest endeavor. Ao my address to the notification committes | even [for the benefit of homeseekers. markets requires our urgent and immediate attention.”” He had cgme to realize that the so-called “stand pat” folicy must give way— that there must be a reduction of duties to enable our manufacturers to cultivate foreign | The last words of this President— | markets, who had won the affection of his countrymen— ought to be studied by every man who has any doubt of the necessity.of a reduction in tariff rates in the interest They present with clearness a situation and a proposed remedy that prompted the provision in our platform which declares that “We fa- vor liberal trade relations with Canada and peoples of .other countries where they can be | entered intc with benefit to American agricul- ture, mining or commerce.” The persietent refusal of the Republican ma- Jority in the Federal Senate to ratify the rect- procity treaties negotiated in pursuance with the advocated policy of Mr. Blaine and Mr. McKinley and expressly sanctioned in the fourth eection of the Dingley act is a discour- aging exhibition of “bad faith. As already mentioned by me, the exorbitant duty im- posed on many an imported erticle by this section of the Dingley act was avowedly in- tended by its author not to be permanent, but to serve temporarily as a maximum from which the Federal Government was em- powered to offer a reduction in return for an equivalent concession on the part of a forelgn . President McKinley undertook hon- estly to carry out the purpose of the act. A number of reciprocity agreements were nego- tiated within the prescribed limitation of two . Wwhich, if ratified would have the two- fold result of cheapening many imported prod- ucts for American consvmption and opening forelgn markets. Not one of these agreements s met with the approval of the Republican masters of the Senate. Indeed, they did not permit their consideration. In view of the attitude of the present executive, no new | agreement under the general treaty power need be expected from him. can platform contain a favorable reference to one of the suspended treaties. of the Dingley act stands forth as a monument of legislat:ve cozenage and political bad faith. TRUST REMEDIES. ted out in my earller response the which, in my judgment, can effectually be applied against monopolies, and the assur- ance was then given that if existing laws, in- cluding both statute and common law, proved dequate, contrary to my expectations, I favor such further iegislation within constitutional limitations as will best promote and safeguard the intcrests of all people. Whether there can be applied and enforced by the Federal courts cannot be determined by the President Nor does the Republi- | or_ by a candidate for the Presidency. The determination ef the question was Jeft by the people in framing the legislation to the judiciary and not to the executive. The Su- preme Court of the United States has recently considered this question, and in the case of the Western Union Teiegraph Company vs. the Call Publishing Company, tc be found in the one hundred and eighty-first volume of the United States Supreme Court reports, page 92, t decided that common law principles could be applied by the United States courts in cases ving interstate commerce in the absence d States statutes specifically covering e. Such is the law of the land. In some quarters it has been assumed that in the discussion of the Philippine question in my response the phrase ‘‘self government” was intended to mean something less than inde- pendence. It was not intended that it should be understood to mean, nor do I think, as used, it does mean less than independence. However, to eliminate all possibility for conjecture, I now state that I am In hearty accord with that plank of our platform that favors doing for the Filipinos what we have already done for the Cubans; and I favor makinz the promise to them now that we shall take such action as soon as they are reasonably prepared for it. 1f independ- ence, such as the Cubans enjoy, cannot be prudently granted to the Fiilpinos at” this time the promise that it shall come the mo- | ment they are capable of recelving it will tend to stimulate rather than hinder their development. And this should be done not only in justice to the Filipinos, but to pre- serve our own rights; for a free people can- not withhold freedom from another people and themselves remain free. The toleration of tyranny over others will soon breed con- tempt for freedom and seli-government and weaken our power of resistance to insidious usurpation of our constitutional rights. AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP. The pledge of the platform to secure our citizens without distinction of race or creed, whether native born or naturalized, at home and abroad, the equal protection of the laws and the enjoyment of all the rights and priv- ilezes open to them under the covenants of our treaties, as their just due, should be made good to them. In thé accomplishment of that result it is essential that a passport issued by the Government of the United States to an American citizen shall be accepted the world over as proof of citizerishin. The statute relating to the civil service is the outcome of the efforts of thoughtful, un- selfish and public-spirited citizens. Operation under it has frequently been of such a char- acter as to offend against the spirit of the statute, but the results achieved, under a partial enforcement of the law, have been such as to both deserve and command tae utterance of the Democratic party that it stands committed to the principle of civil serv- ice reform and demands its just and impartial enforcement. A vast expanse of country in the West, portions of which are to be found in each of the sixteen States and Territories men- tioned in the law, is directly affected by the national statute—the outcome of intelligent and persistent efforts of leading citizens, pro- viding for the reclamation of the arid lands During the years of the development of the measure which finally received the vote of every member of the upper house of Congress, it encounters op- position based to a laege extent upon the views that the aim of its promoters was to secure the benefits of irrigation to private owners at Government expense. The aim of the statute is, however, to enable this vast territory to reclaim its arfd lands without calling upon the taxpayers of the country at large to pay for it. Whether the purposes of the bill will be fully accomplished gust depend in large measure upon the abilit briety of judgment, independence and §bn- esty of the officers of the Interior having this great work in charge. the main canals and ditches in the region affected aggregate more than 09,000 miles and the work of reclamation is but in its infancy. The total cost of construction of the necessary headzates, dams, main canals, ditches, reser- voirs and pumping stations was at that time a little over $93,000,000, which of ftself sug- gests the hundreds of millions that may eventually be invested In the territory cov- ered by the statute. The magnitude of the conception and the enormous expense its carry- ing out involves makes us realize the over- whelming importance of a broad, capable and honest administration of the work authorized by the statute if effect is to be given to that part of the plan that relieves the country at large from ultimate lability. PANAMA CANAL. An isthmian canal has long been the hope of our statesmen and the avowed alm of the two great parties, as their platforms in the past show. The Panama route having been selected, the bullding of the canal should be E;‘fl.l'led to completion with all reasonable ex- tion. The methods by which the executive ac- quired the Panama canal route and rights are a source of regret to many. To them the statement that thereby a great public work was assured to the profit of cur people is not @ sufficient answer to the charge of violation of national good faith. They appreciate that the principles and healthy convictions which in their working out have made us free amd great etand firmly against the argument or sreeestion that we shall be blind to the nature ©f the means employed to promote our welfare. “They hola that to es, ‘whether it works tnrmodorfll.m. more . beneficent effact on our future- destiny than all our material upbullding, and that we of the manufacturer. | their dependents ou the ground that they de- | serve liberal treatment. | power of Congress to legislate on that subject. of our army and navy. Both, however, have suffered from the persistent injection of per- sonal and political influence. Promotions and appointments have frequently heen based on favoritism Instead of merit. Trials and court- martials have been et aside under clrcum- stances indicating political interference. These and other abuses should be corrccted. The National Democracy favors liberal pen- sions to the surviving soldiers and sailors and 1t pledges by its plat- | form adequate legislation to that end. But it denies the right of the elecutive, to usurp the { Such usurpation was attempted by pension | provision making the imposition is not pointed | out | ite, Which so incapacitates them from the per- | formance of manual labor as to render them | unable to earn a support.” | Bills to that effect were introduced in Congress, This section | | it read that when a claimant had passed the | is any common law_which | | order No. 78 and effect has been given to it by a Congress that dared not resent the usur- pation. It is said that “‘this order was made in the performance of a duty imposed upon | the President by act of Congress,” but the The act to which the order refers, which is the one relating to pensions to civil war veterans, does not authorize pensions on the ground of age. It does grant pensions to those “suffering from any mental or physical dis- ability or disabilities of a permanent char- acter, not the result of ‘their own vicious hab- This specified requirement of incapacity is in effect st asidc by order No. 78, as to all per- sons over 60. The war closed nearly forty vears 2go. In the meantime many of our sailors and | soldlers long s ed the age of 62 and passed | eiving any pension. Skillful hunting through the statutes failed to find there a provision giving a pension to all who had reached 62. Many prominent eterans urged the justics or Congressional actlon glving a service pension to all veterans. | and not untfl March of this year did any one <ver claim to have made the discovery that the President had power to treat the statute as if age of 62 years he Is necessarily disabled and only half able to virform manual labor, and therefore entitied to a pension, The president of the Civil Service Commis- | sion, General John C. Black, formerly Com- missioner of Pensions and commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Repubilc, indicated his view of the order when, in a recent address, | he thunked the President for what he had done and advised Lis hearers to use their influence that a law might be passed to the same effect. Full confidence, after all, seems not to have been placed on ‘the defense of justification, for it is pleaded in mitigation that'a former Demo- cratic President did something looking in that direction. Even if that were so—which is not admitted—our present duty would be none the less olain and imperative. Our people must never tolerate the citation of one act of usurpa- tion of power &s an excuse for another. The first ay possibly be due to a mistake; the sec- ond, being based on the first, it cannot be. In explanation, however, it should be sald | about i7" nt In 1902 that the order relied on simply provides that the age of seventy-five years should be re- garded ps evidence of inabllity to perform mwanual labor, Few men are able to perform manual labor at that age, but nearly all men are at sixty-two. The first order is based on a fact that experience teaches, the other is based on the assertion of that which is not true as a general rule. “The old inquiry ““what are you going to do iz not stated in a new form. It is said by the administration, in reply to the public criticism of this order, that ‘it is easy to test our opponents’ sincerity in this matter. The order In question is_revocable | at the pleasure of the executive, If our op- | ponents come Into power they can revoke this order and announce that they will treat the veterans of 62 and 70 as presumably in full bodily vigor and not entitled to pensions. Will they authoritatively state that they in- tend to do so? If so we accept the issue.” THT BATTLE OF BALLOTS. s s at least, that an {ssue—that < strong strategic ballots. But I go «eme, I will con- * enactment of a ses of Congress o that will give wce to disability, Civil War, and ¢ which a pension’ may bechuse of the con- just due from cliosen representatives and not as largess distributed by the chief executive, The forelgn relations of the Government have In late years assumed speclal impor- tance. Prior to the acquisition of the Philtp- pines we were practically Invulnerable against attacks by forelgn states. These tropical pos- sessions, however, 7000 miles from our shores, have changed all this and have in effect put us under bonds to keep the peace. The new conditions call for a management of forelgn affairs the more circumspect in that the re- cent American invasion of foreign markets in all parts of the world has excited the seyi- ous apprehension of all the great Industrial peoples. It is essential, therefore, more than ever ta adhere etrictly to the traditional policy of the country as formulated by the first President and never, in my judgment, wisely departed from—to’ invite friendly re- lations with all nations while avoiding en- tangling alllances with any. Such a policy means the cultivation of peace instead of the gratification of war and the minding of our own business in lleu of spectacular inter- mingling with the affairs of other nations. It means strict observance of the principles of in- {ernational law and condemns the doctrine that a great state, by reason of its strength, may righttully appropriate the sovereignty of territory of a smaller state on account of its weakness. It means for other American States that it clalms no rights and will assume no functions save those of & friend and of an ally and defender as against European aggressions. It means that we repudlate the role of the American continental policeman; that we re- fuse to act as debt collector for ‘foreign states or thelr cifizens; that we respect the independ- ence and soverelgnty of each American state and its right to preserve order and otherwise regulate its own internal affairs in its own wa, and that any intervention in its affairs by limited to the single office of enabling its people to work out their own political and national destiny for themselves free from the coercion of any European state. Twenty-elght years have passed since the Democratic party of the State of New York, in convention assembled, recommended to the National Democracy the nomination of Sam- uel J. Tilden as its candldate for the Presi- dency and declared it to be “'thely settled con- viction that a return to the constigutional principles, fruga! expenses and adminMtrative purity of the founders of the republic is the first and most imperious duty of the times— the commanding issue now before the people of the Union."” This strong expression was called forth by the national expenditures for the year 1875, " which amounted to $274,000,000 —a situation which, in the opinion of a ma- jority of our people, justified an imperative demand for reform in the administration of public affairs, As the expenditures of the last fiscal vear amounted to the enormous total of $582,000,000, it Is evident that a thorough inve req jon of the public service and the immediate abandonment of usele: a extravagant expenditure are more nec- a:-dlry now than they were then. . ASTOUNDING INCREASE. This astounding increase is out of all pro- portion with the Increasc of our population, and finds no excuse from whatéver aspect we view the situation. The National Demo- cratic platform declares ‘“‘that large reduc- tions can easily be made in the annual ex- nditures of the Government without impair- f:. the efficlency of any branch of the public service.” Can there be any doubt of the ac- curacy of this statement? Between the ex. 1886, B320067030."and those of CRETBY W P BV © GBY @ G5 © WSy € IR O ED © take immediate measures to stop it, especially when trusted employes have been found dis honest and convicted and a widespread im- pression exists that a thorough investigation may dlscover other cases of malfeasance? When the chief executive reported to Con- gress that “‘through fravds, forgeries and per- juries and by shameless briberies the laws relatinz to the proper conduct of the public | service in general and to the administration of the Postoffice Department have been no- toriously violated,”” “ * ¢ there was a gen- eral popular demand for a rigid, sweeping investigation by Congress, in addition to that undertaken by the chief executive himself. Such an investigation the Republican majority in Congress would not permit, although the minority insisted that the interests of good government demanded it. And the minority was right. The liberality, patriotism national pride of the peopie should not be made an excuse for waste of the public funds. OFFICIAL EXTRAVAGANCE. Officlal _extravagance is offictal crime. There is not a sentence in the Republican platform recommending a reduction in the ex- penditures of the Government; not a line suggesting that the Increase in the cost of the War Department from $34,000,000 in 1506 to $110,000,000 in 1904 shouid be inquired into; and not a paragraph calling for a thor- ough investigation of these departments of the Government in which dishonesty has been re- cently disclosed. The people, however, can by their votes, if ¢ destre it, order such an investigation and ugurate a policy of economy and retrench- ment. It is safe to say that this will not be accomplished by indorsing at the polls the Republican majority of the House of Repre- sentatives, which refused the investigation and made the appropriations, nor by con- tinuing the power of the administration which made the disbursements. Reform in expenditures must be had in the civil, military and naval establishments in order that the national expenditures may be brovzht to a basis of peace and the Govern- ment maintained without recourse to the taxes of war. I have put aside congenial work in which I had expected to devote my life in order to assume as best I can the responsibility your )nvention put upon me. 1 solicit the cordial co-operation and generous assistance of every man. who believes that a change of measures and of men at this time will be wise, and urge harmony of endeavor as well as vigorous action on the part of all so minded. The issues are joined and the people must render the verdict. Shall economy of administration be demanded or shall extravagance be encouraged? Shall the wrong doer be brought to bay by the peopl>, or must justice walt on political oligarchy ? Shall our Government stand for equal op- portunity, or for special privilege? Shall it remain a Government of law, or be- came one of individual caprice? Shall we cling to the rule of the people, or shall we embrace beneficent despotism? With calmuess and confidence we await the people’s verdicet. If callel to the office of President, I shall consider myself the chief magistrate of all the people and not of any faction, and shall ever be mindful of the fact that on many questions of national policy there are honest differences of opinion. 1 believe in the patriotism, good sense and sbsolute sincerity of all the people. I shall strive to remember that he may serve his party best who serves his country best. If it be the wish of the people that I under- take the duties of the Presidency, I pledge myself, with God's help, to devote all my powers and energy to the dutles of the exalted office. Very truly yours, ALTON B. PARKER. —— e The winnings of the bank at Monte Carlo, Sir Hiram Maxim says, amount to about $6,250,000 a year—not far from 25 a minute. The bank gets 90 per cent of all the money the gamblers place on its tables. | editorial | political | says he Is ignorant of the facts in re- was much ventilated in the press, and in ty ties and declared it was “better for the Government to lose a seat than be associated in the cause of Unionism with a man who gives no public ade- quate refutation of such charges as | have been publicly made against Marks. There are incidents in his career which, | so long as they are not explained, ought | to debar the electors of Thanet from | conferring the honor and trust of Par- rity ‘\ liament upon him.” The Times’ unusual action in advis- ing the Conservatives to vote against the Government candidate on such grounds created a sensation in political |and other circles and attracted public | interest in the contest to a degree and in a personal way that few bye-elections ever call forth. Many persons thought Marks would withdraw, but, on the con- | | trary, he retorted with a bitter personal | attack upon the Times and Walter, its declaring that the asper- due proprietor, sions on his honor were entirely | to the alleged exposure by the Finan- cial News of the “dishonest methods™ | employed in the sale of the Times’ edi- | tion of the Encyclopedia Britannica. | “For some years past,” says the Fin- ancial Ne “Mr. Walter has been en- gaged, in company with an American gentleman named Hooper, in the sale of an out-of-date encyclopedia. For the first time in its history one of the greatest of English newspapers has been employed for the furtherance of a personal feud.” Both from the election platform and in his newspaper Marks challenges the Times to bring a libel suit against him for his characterization of the Times’ encyclopedia methods as “‘dishonest.” The matter, to which lengthy edito- rials have been devoted, gained further interest by the publication to-day of a ) letter from the Archbishop of Canter- | bury to the vicar of Margate, replying {to one In which the vicar said he felt he must oppose Marks on “other than grounds.” The Archbishop lation to Marks and therefore must not be understood as expressing an opinion in this particular case; “but,” he adds, “I am firmly persuaded that if our pub- | lic life is to be maintained at its high level and our public men are to justify | the confidence we have been accus- tomed to place in them, voters must see to it that political or partisan en- thusiasm does not lead them to record votes for men whom they do not trust or respect. 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