Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 27 January 1899 — Page 10

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 27. 18C9.

UP to January 1, 71,816 Spanish troops had evacuated Cuba and 45,000 are awaiting ships at Matanzas and Gienfuegos. The estimates of an immense Spanish army in the island were not exaggrated.

THE treasury estimate of the population of the United StateB last month was 75,330,000, and the amount of money in circulation was 81,897,301,422. The figures speak well for the expansion of the past.

A BILL has been favorably reported in the Indiana house prohibiting the Bale of cigarettes. The bill should become a law, but it will prove ineffective unless it includes the materials with which cigarettes are made.

COLONEL BRYAN declares that he "will live and die on the Chicago platform." He is already politically dead under it, having been crushed by its weight but apparently he isn't aware of the fact, and keeps right on talking as though he was the funeral director instead of the political corpse.

THERE is every indication that we shall have reason to be proud of our representatives in the legislature when the session ends. Messrs. Scott and Artman seem be voting on the right side of every motion and they do no dodging. On Friday they both voted against killing the bill designed to prevent judges from accepting railroad passeB.

WHILE the country is showering condemnation upon the head of General Eagan, and very properly so, it will not do to forget that there was some provocation, if no excuse, for the language he used. And it will do no

TT[m to remember that this and other scandalous episodes might have been avoided had General Miles been able to restrain his disposition to cast aspirations upon his associates and subordinates in and out of season.

GEN. OTIS and Admiral Dewey, who certainly ought to know better than anybody else, do not expect a conflict with the Philippine insurgents. In their official reports to the government, they say they have perfect control of the situation in and around Manila, and that they are gradually succeeding in making the rank and file of the insurgents understand that Americans are their best friends, not their enemies, as Aguinaldo has recently been trying to make them believe. AB Boon aB that task is accomplished, the rest will be easy. Things will move faster over there after the treaty has been ratified.

THE senate will this week amend and pass the Morgan bill for the construction of the Nicaragua canal, and if the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce would drop the bunch of canal bills it is wrestling with, and report the Morgan bill, even with a few amendments, there would be a reasonable certainty of itB becoming a law at this session. But, if that committee reports an entirely new measure, as all the secret opponents of the canal wish it to do, and as it seems liliely to do, the chance of getting it through will certainly not be encouraging. It is either the Morgan bill or no bill at this seBsioD.

THE exports of agricultural products have steadily increased ever since the inauguration of President McKinley until in 1898 they reached the unprecedented figure of 8789,607,394,This increase says Wm. E. Curtis in the Chicago Record, is largely due to the assiduous and intelligent manner in which the agricultural department has been pushing American farm products in foreign countries. As Boon as Secretary Wilson came into the department he organized for a campaign of commercial missionary work which he has pushed with great vigor, and the resultB are naturally gratifying to him and to those who have been watching his operations. Beef, pork •nd dairy products have been especially looked after,but he has also done a great deal to encourage the export of horseB, cattle and other live stock and fresh and canned fruit and vegetables. Wherever he has seen an oportunity to sell a pound of butter or A barrel of apples he has sent competent men

to make an investigation,

and has published the facts for the 'benefit of the farmers.

TIMELY TIP TO DEMOCRATS. The Evansville Courier, Gil Shanklin's paper, is a Democratic organ in nowise second to the Indianapolis Sentinel, and the following article from its editorial columnB is therefore peculiarly interesting: "There is a vast amount of

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twaddle printed in those papers that violently oppose what they are pleased to term the 'expansion policy' of the government, as if it had already been determined to immediately annex the Philippine Islands, confer full suffrage upon their inhabitants and open wide the doors of both houses of congress to their representatives. One paper has this to say upon the rights and powers of the President in the present emergency, when Dewey and Otisare doing all that can be done to quiet matters on the islands: 'The President of the United States has no right to make war. By the constitution the power to declare war is vested in congress. The President has the constitutional right to use the forces of the United States to repel invasion, to use such forceB to make invasion to attack any people unless empowered explicitly to do BO by congress, by the power that alone may decree war and peace, he has no right. And against the Filipinos congress has not declared war, has not authorized the President to make war. Therefore, if he orders the United States troops to the Philippines to attack and make war on the Filipinos he is exceeding his power.' "What all this wisdom in construing the constitution has ,to do with the case in hand is a difficult problem. Congress did authorize the President to make war against Spain, and one of the events of that war was the capture of the Spanish colonial possessions in Asia. It may have been wrong for Admiral Dewey to go to Manila, capture the island of Luzon and destroy the Spanish ileet, but he did so while acting under the direct orders of the government. In concluding a treaty of peace Spain surrendered the possession of these islands to the United States. The islands by capture and surrender thus became as much a part of the United States as iB Arizona. The people are subjects of the United States as actually as are the people of British India subjects of Great Britain. "What our government may do with the islands is another and undecided question, but so long as present conditions exiBt the President has the same right, authority and power to resist the insurgents in Luzon or Iloilo as he would have to put down a rebellion in Illinois or Massachusetts. The people of the Philippines now owe allegiance to this government and to no other, and they will continue to do so until it has been decided what disposition we shall make of the islands. "If Manila should be attacked by a German or French fleet Admiral Dewey would be derelict in his duty if he did not resist such an assault, and if Aguinaldo or any one else regards General Otis as an interloper be is liable to find himself as much a rebel as if he carried on his revolt in America itself. The constitution gives the President the right to repel invasion anywhere in the Philippines, Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico or whatever else the legal jurisdiction of the government extends. "Until some definite policy is decided upon it is idle to criticise or praise. The administration has many difficulties to facean the Philippines and the future policy as regards the islands must depend upon the solving of those important problems in the quickest time possible. The public must be content to wait until the situation in the east is clearer."

MR. SCOTT'S ROAD BILL. Representative Scott, of Montgomery county, at the baginning of the session introduced a road bill designed to secure a better system of road rerepairing. It was referred, at Mr Scott's request, to the committee on roads. That committee has reported the bill back to the house with the recommendation that it be indefinitely postponed. Does the present legislature intend to indefinitely postpone everything that is proposed for the public good? There is no other subject upon which wise legislation is so mush needed as our wagon roads but it seems that there is nobody in our legislature who cares to deal with BO commonplace a matter. Montgomery county wants some BenBible reform of our road laws, and wantB it bad.

WASTAGE OF ROAD FUNDS. Mr. Conner, the state statistician, has secured the figures from nineteen counties of the state, showing the amount of money paid to road supervisors, and it is startling. The total sum for the nineteen counties is over 841,000, and on the theory that these nineteen counties show a fair average of the cost of supervisors, the state pays out annually for road supervisors the enormous sum of nearly two hundred thousand dollars, every cent of which might be saved by a sensible system of road repairing. And this enormous sum of money is but a fraction of what is wasted on our roads. The present legislature has the power to provide some remedy for this outrageous wrong, but so far it has shown no disposition to take hold of the matter.

THE TROUBLE WITH THE AKMY. The Washington Post has probably sized up the army situation about right when it says: "From the military point of view, General Eagan's extraordinary attack upon General Miles would prove a blessing in disguise if it could arouse the President and congress to a realization of what the real trouble with the army is. Every military text book of any value lays down as the fundamental theory of army organization a system of accountability by which every soldier and officer is subordinate and responsible to some one else, up to the commanding officer, upon whom rests the final responsibility for the army's efficiency and value as a fighting machine. This vital principle, never fully carried out in this country, because of the peculiar position of the civilian secretary of war, haB practi cally been abandoned ever Bince President Grant reduced the position of the commanding general to a mere Bine cure, gave the secretary of war powers never intended for him, and made the adjutant general really the most influential officer of the army, instead of merely the military secretary of the commanding general, as he should be. As a result of thiB we have the present situation, in which staff generals like Eagan, not only pay no attention to the commanding general, but actually declare themselves totally independent of his authority. One need only to think of what would happen to any large dry goods house which let every chief of department run his part of the business independently of the others and of the firm, to see how utterly preposterous it is to try to run a great national department, let alone a military one, upon such principles."

NO OCCASION FOR PESSIMISM. Hartford Courant: Don't worry about the treaty. Its ratification will not transform any of the islands into American territories and embryonic American 6tates. It will not transform the islanders into voting American citizens. It will not give the island products a right of free entry into our ports. After it has been ratified, the American people and their servants at Washington wili decide at their leisure the questions of duty and policy which the war has left behind it. They will not have to decide these in a hurry, nor all at once. There will be plenty of time to consider them carefully, one after another. And time (like sleep) brings counsel. More than that, it brings knowledge, light, illumination. The treaty is going to be ratified that, we think, is already as certain as anything that has not yet actually occurred can be. But don't pat on sackcloth and ashes when it occurs. Don't imagine calamities. Don't despair of this very robust and vigorous republic. Rather brace up on tbe cheery encouragements of the good old hymn:

Te cheerful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread, 'I Are big with mercy and shall break ...

In blessings on your head. &§sf

GEN. BLANCO estimated the annual revenue of Cuba at 826,359,050. The members of the American evacuation commission believe that the administration of the island will not cost over ,000,000. Where the enormous margin went to is no secret. More than 810,000,000 a year was required to meet the interest and sinking fund of the so-called Cuban debt. The captain general and his multitude of subordinate officials called for 87,000,000. By the time all Spanish salaries and exactions were met only 84,000,000 was left to be spent on Cuba itself. As soon as the Cubans Bettle down to industrial pursuits the surplus revenue, on a much reduced scale of taxation, will be large. Thanks to American intervention, they begin the new area without a public debt and without the power, at present, of contracting one Financial abuses and unfair burdens of the past are 6wept away. The condition is ideal, and the assurance that money now reaching the treasury will be honestly accounted for and intelligently applied to home improvement ought to give great pleasure to the Cuban people.

ALL sorts of arguments are being advanced in all sorts of ways to arouse opposition to the acquisition of the Philippines by the United States. One of the most unique being the offer ot Mr. Andrew Carnegie, to pay from his own bank account, the 820,000,000 the treaty of peace calls for, if President McKinley will withdraw our soldiers and war ships and allow the Philippines to govern themselves. That offer is buncomb pure and simple. There are no circumstances under which the offer could be accepted, and nobody knows that any better than Mr. Carnegie. By the treaty of peace, the Philippines pass from Spain, their recognized owner, to the United States, which will be held responsible by the nations of the world for the protection of the interests of their citizens in the islands. Whatever may be decided upon, after we have learned more about the islands, the assumption of sovereignty over them by the United States, is a present duty that cannot be shirked.

CAN'T be perfect in health without pure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters makes pure blood. Tones and invigorates the whole system.

FROM CUBA.

Beecher Troutman Writes of the Country and ol Army Life.

The following letter has been received by Robert Troutman from his cousin, Beecher Troutman, of the United States army:

SANCTI ESPERITUS, Santa Clara Province, Cuba, Jan. 9,1899.—Dear Cousin: —Your letter written on Dec. 7th and addressed to Knoxville, Tenn., was postmarked at the latter place Dec. 8th, and Washington, D. C., on Dec. 9, Cienfuegos, Cuba, on Jan. 6th, being in transit thirty days. Am glad to know that e"«»rvthing in old Montgomery is O. K. We had a nice trip on water to this island, being on shipboard fifteen days, on account of the boat being stuck on a coral reef. The boat's course lay around the eastern end of Cuba from Savannah to Tunis, on the southern coast, the ordinary time being about four days, but the waters around the Cuban coast are very shallow and treacherous and a large boat drawing about thirty feet of water can hardly get along with safety. Had the Manitoba been making more than six miles an hour when she struck I might not now be writing this but the captain, realizing the danger, was running at a slow gait when we struck. The 4th Tennessee regiment boys were panic stricken for a time, but soon cooled down. I stood upon the hurricane deck at that time awaiting developments, and should any attempt be made to lower any small boats I intended to nail a life preserver and pull for the shore, about five miles away, aB there was not a tenth part enough of small boats to accommodate the passengers.

The first land sighted after leaving Savannah, Ga.. was San Salvador, on the second day out, and the next was Cuba. It took two dayB to reach our destination after sighting land. We passed Santiago harbor and sighted some wrecks of Spanish war boatst After being stuck six days we were finally pulled off, landing at Tunis, where we took the cars for Sancti EsperituB where our headquarters will be for the present. This town is typically Spanish in every respect, is over 300 years old, has large cathedrals and was a concentration point for CubanB by Spain and many thousands were starved to death and died for want of medicines. You cannot imagine the condition of these people after years of misery. They come to our camp and on their knees beg for crumbs from our table. Brigadier General Snyder our commander, who was appointed military governor of Santa Clara province, telegraphed to Washington for permission to issue some rations and received an affirmative answer and last week issued about five cars of hard tack, bacon and canned goods to the ceserving ones. But this year they will raise many eatables and will be in better condition by next fall. The climate is excellent at this time, the thermometer registering at the warmer part of the day 85 degrees above zero and at night 60, this being the average for three weeks past. Wild flowers and the beautiful palms are every where making everything beautiful. Wild sweet potatoes are in abundance and may be had for the digging. Fruits are scarce at this season but may be had in a wild state in sixty days At present we are able to get lemons and lime fruit and a few bananas but most native fruit ripens during the rainy seasons, beginning in May. Sancti EsperituB is an old Spanish city, being 300 years old and laid out in old Spanish Btyle with Spanish winding streets and low one-Btory buildings with gardens of flowers and palms in the center and on the whole is very picturesque, but the rate of mortality is very high now on account of the unsanitary condition of the city. Our camp is near the cemetery and the number of daily funerals is about ten. The hearse is a square box on two wheels and frequently the corpse is carried by six men two miles to the burying point and yesterday I saw a man and pony with the coffin of an infant across hiB saddle. They have to pay rent for the ground to Spain from 50 cents to 83 per month and if the rent is not paid the body is exhumed and the bones placed in a large pile. But now 6ince tbe island is out of the hands of Spain, land may be purchaoed very cheap for agricultural purposes, but there is one drawback to the rapid settlement, especially by Americans and that is yellow fever which is ever present and which SB much feared by Americans. Yellow fever at this season is very light and not considered dangerous at all by native physicians. This is to me a very beautiful country. We are situated in a valley about ten miles wide. Plenty of good water and beautiful groves of palms, mahogany and abundant wild flowers everywhere. I am now commissary of tbe brigade hospital, having been taken away from yellow fever and detention hospitals where I was acting in the same capacity. There is much clerical work connected with my position. All men in hospitals sick draw 60 cents per day commutation, which amount is expended in delicacies and which dutieB fall upon me. I am gradually picking up some Spanish language which enables me to drive a sharp bargain at

native storeB. I have been treated well by my superior officers Bince coming here and on the whole am very well satisfied to remain here for a while at least. Well, I will close for this time hoping to hear from you again and with much regard for yourself and wife I remain your cousin.

B. TROUTMAN,

Sancti Esperitus de Cuba.

First Brig. U. S. Hospital.

TOWNSHIP REFORM CAUCUS.

How the Republican .Members Were Brought fin to Line.

Indianapolis News: Bits of the story of how the Republican majority in the house was brought around to the support of the bill for reform in township government are coming out. A good many persons realized Saturday that some sort of positive influence bad been brought to bear. It turns out that Friday several members of the Republican state committtee and members of the executive committee of the party organization were called here to consider the situation. It did not take these official representatives of the party long to decide that heroic action must be taken at once if the party waB to be saved from a blunder. Not many persons know what was said and done by the members of the party organization called in, but it is known that after the conference, Mr. Shideler, chairman of the house caucus, was informed that he must call a caucus of the majority in the house. In the meantime, representative Republicans had talked with influential Democrats as to what the attitude of the Democrats in the house would be in case the republicans made the proposed reform a caucus measure. These representatives of the Democratic party assured the Republicans that the Democrats could not afford to withdraw their support of the reform simply because the Republicans decided to make it a subject for caucus. The policy of the Democrats, it was stated, would surely be to vote for the reforms and divide honors with the Republicans.

Members of the house were averse to speaking of the proceedings of the caucus Saturday, but it is known that the Republican state committee wae represented, and that the representatives of the organization insisted that the good name and honor of the party was at stake that to refuse to pass bills for the reform of county and township government would certainly defeat the party at the election in 1900. The opponents of the township bill were not inclined at first to fall in with the suggestion of the representatives of the state committee.

Representative Reser, of Lafayette, maintained that while the party might be committed to county and township reform, it was not committed to the township bill under discussion. "Have you a better bill to offer?" asked a member of the state committee. "I have not," said the member. "I have not much reBpect for a man who goes into a battle without a gun," 6aid the member of the committee.

It was stated to the caucus in positive terms that if the majority in the general assembly turned its back on the pledges of the party to the people in the last campaign, Charles R. Hernly would resign as chairman of the state committee.

The discussion became general, and it was declared that the party's honor was at stake, and that the honor of the Republicans in the house was at stake as well. Members of the state committee declared that the party would receive a blow by the defeat of the bills from which it would not recover for years.

In answer to objections to making the proposed reforms in caucus measures, state committeemen pointed out that any subject dealt with in a state platform might be made a theme for caucus action, and this opinion finally prevailed.

Kxplanation and Defense of Rejoin tions. To the Editor The Journal. We think worthy teacherB of long experience should be exempt from examinations. By having a state license they would have better opportunities for securing good positions any time in the year. The conditions of the license indicated would be an inducement to try to do good work instead of "resting on their oars."

The exemption licenses now in vogue are not thus conditioned and we are sorry to say a few persons holding such licenses seek to get along with as little work as possible. All should not be put under ban because of these few who take advantage of their circumstances.

Under the proposed plan there would be no excuse for continuing a teacher on the exemption list who was found unworthy. The teacher could not know who voted against him when hia license was made void. No one man would be compelled to asBume the responsibility. Each one's acta would be a secret. A teacher whose state license had thus been annulled would have to quit teaching or begin again on a county license.

We favor the continuing of the county license system, for then neither teachers nor school officers are wholly dependent on either Bystem. We do

Would You Like to Know of Some Reliable Person Out of Town Who Has Used Morrow's

Kid'ne'oids and Recom' mends Them

So much has been said about Morrow's Kid-ne-Oids, and their many virtues by people living here and near here, that we sometimes feel that Kid-ne-oids may have but a local reputation in the minds of many. This is not so. Kid-ne-oids are doing a wonderful work all over the country, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and many other states. The several states are being worked by our agents systematically, and it takes not only months but yearB to cover the terretory we would so much like to cover in weeks. When the good news reaches a city or town that Morrow's Kid-ne-oids, which are small yellow tablets, (not pills) cure kidney disease, bladder disorder, uric acid rhumatism, aches and pains, such as arise from a disordered condition of the kidneys, they wonder what this remedy is and how long on the market. When we say, we have made Kid-ne-oids for years and we have recommendations by the thousands, they naturally think we are falsifiers because they never heard of them.

The old maxium—"A thing worth doing at all, is worth doing well," is our motto—consequently we cannot cover or go over the whole country at once. The power of Morrow's Kid-ne-oids has been felt wherever they have been Bold, and so they always will. We would respectfully direct your attention to D. A. Woods, attorney. Residence 121, south Main st., Kokomo, Ind.

Mr. Woods has used Morrow's Kid-ne-oids with such great result, that he has of his own free will, volunteered to repJy to all who will write him for full information, enclosing a two cent stamp for return postage.

This can be readily seen will cause Mr. Woods lots of trouble and work, but he doas it for the sake of Buffering humanity.

Druireists all sell at 50 cenis or mailed by John Morrow & Co., Chemists, Springfield, Ohio.

not believe in enslaving teachers but are willing to have a means of securing good efforts. Be it

Resolved, By the teachers of Union township, Montgomery county, Indiana, assembled, that we favor such changes in the school laws of Indiana that all teachers who now hold a two years' or a three years' county license who have taught sixty months, fifty months of which have been taught in Indiana, shall be given a life state license in the branches in which they hold said county licenses.

Said license to become void upon the failure of any teacher to perform nis share of institute work or upon his failure to t.ake the proper interest in school w'trk while teaching.

The township trustee, the county superintendent, and chairman of the institutes to be the judges, who, when sitting for the purpose of deciding on the merits of a teacher shall vote by ballot, which shall be kept a secret except as to the final decision, which shall be made known to the teacher who has been decided upon, and to the school officers.

A majority of the votes shall decide, which deci6.'on shall be final, except tbe teacher be employed by a town board then said board and the couuty superintendent to decide as set forth herein before.

We favor the granting of state licenses to the graduates of all Indiana colleges who have taught forty-five months in Indiana and who hold either a two years' or a three years' county license said licensee to be conditioned as above set forth.

D. H. GILKKY, Pres.

GEO. LARGENT, Sec.

TOWNSHIP SCHOOL NOTES.

Miss Jennie Sweuney is sick this week and there is no school at No. 7. TeacherB in Union township are paid on an average of near 82.15 per day.

The six months term will close March 10 but several of the schools will have to make up lost time.

The maps drawn for the cash prizes should be handed in by Feb. 4. Maps drawn for a map prize need not be given in until the close of the school.

Tbe first graduation examination will be held at the Fiskville school house on Saturday, Feb. 18. There will also be examinations held on March 18 and April 15.

Repairs to school houses which have been done by the directors, will have to be done by contract, to the lowest bidder, if the township bill becomes a law. Wood will also be given to the lowest bidder.

If the new township bill is enacted into a law, the trustee will be obliged to govern the pay of the teachers in accordance with the lawful length of the term and the levy made by the five members of the township board.

Served By Harrison.

Ladoga Leader: Tbe first Sunday they spent in Indianapolis Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Scott .attended Sunday school and church at the First PreBbyterian, where Dr. Haines preaches. It happened to be communion day, and for the first time Mr. and Mrs. Scott used the individual communion cups. Ex-President Harrison and Governor Mount assisted in passing the bread and wine, Mr. Harrison serving the Ladoga visitors.

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