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THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1898. Washington Office —ISG3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone Cntlft. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 86 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY BY MAIL. Dally only, one month 8 -70 Dailj? only, three months 2.00 Dally only, one year 8.00 3 ally. Including Sunday, one year 10.00 Sunday only, one year 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Dally, per week, by carrier 15 cts Sunday, single copy 5 cts Dally and Sunday, per week, by carrier.... 20 cts WEEKLY. Per year 81.00 Reduced Kates to Cluba. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or send subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, Ind. Persons sending the Journal through the malls In the United States should put on an eight-page palter a ONE-CENT postage stamp; on a twelve or sixteen-page paper a TWO-CENT postage ■tamp. Foreign postage Is usually double these rates. All communications Intended for publication In this paper must. In order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: NEW YORK-Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House, P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and Grand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley A Cos.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Deerlng, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson street a, and Louisville Book C©., 256 Fourth avenue. 6T. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C—Riggs House, Ebbitt House and Willard’s Hotel. The 8223,000,000 of gold In the United States treasury may be said to steady Affairs. The opposition politician was given a hint at Cincinnati that Secretary Alger as a war cry will not get votes. In a camp of yellow correspondents there is more Joy over one soldier who dies than over ninety and nine who recover. The Taggart pledges to reduce the burdens of taxation and the Taggart estimates for city expenditures do not consist. For men considered old the veterans of the Grand Army are showing a great deal of energy at the National Encampment. It would seem that there are not enough Insurgents hi Cuba to make a government by them a government by the whole people. A Washington telegram says General Miles will not be court-martialed. Probably not; men are not usually court-martialed for efficiency. Several papers which had Algerphobia of the worst sort ten days ago have ceased to use poster type in connection with the secretary of war. Li Hung, the famous Chinese premier, has been dismissed as a concession to Great Britain. He had attached himself to tho fortunes of Russia. The British seem to be holding their own in the Orient. The First Missouri, which went to Chickamauga with 1,275 men, lost but seven by disease. The percentage of sick is but 3.C5. Such facts as this will give a quietus to the ‘ sick soldier” as a campaign issue. Colonel Sexton, of Chicago, the com-mander-in-chief-elect of the Grand Army, Is a man of high character and a soldier of Jong service and honorable record. Philadelphia is the first of the larger cities to Invite and get the National Encampment. . If the invalid soldiers are kept in good hospitals until they recover, instead of being sent home while ill, there will be fewer deaths. About the worst thing that can be done with a fevered soldier is to send him where he will be fed pies, preserves and pickles.

The veterans at Cincinnati were too hasty In hissing Governor Pingree, but they indicated very decidedly their unwillingness to tolerate any attack on the secretary of war for the alleged mismanagement of a campaign which was crowned with complete success. It is encouraging to hear that the President will not listen to the complaints of regiments which he has designated to remain in the service. The intimation that the feeling of the men would be consulted was a great blunder. Whatever there is elsewhere, to the army there must be a head whose orders must be obeyed without protest. The report of the proceedings of the Northwest Indiana Conference, published yesterday, was incorrect. It is the State Board of Education, not the superintendent of public instruction, that they want elected by the Legislature, and they ask that no member of it shall be connected with any educational institution. It would appear from this that the nonstate schools are getting at work early. The recent battle between the AngloEgyptikn army and the Dervishes seems to have been one of the most remarkable on record in respect of disparity of losses. The first dispatch placed the British loss at from sixty to three hundred, and that of the Dervishes from 2,000 to 10,000. Yesterday’s dispatch stated that by actual count of corpses on the field the loss of the Dervishes was 10,800, which was probably increased by others not found to 11,000. If the British loss reached the maximum limit of three hundred the disparity was remarkable. Recent advices fiom Honolulu state that among the irst subjects considered by the Hawaiian commission was anew name for the islands. The matter is of some consequence and should not be decided without due consideration. It involves two questions —first, whether the present name should be changed, and, if so, what should be adopted. The islands were originally and for a long time known to the outside world as the Sandwich islands, that name having been given them by Captain Cook, the discoverer. In honor of the Earl of Sandwich, first lord ©f the British Admiralty at tne time of the discovery, In 1778. Hawaii is the native name -of the largest of the islands, which has been extended to the whole group. Abstractly it is not a bad name, being short, easily pronounced and not unmusical. But Hawaii has some unpleasant associations and is rather suggestive of the days of native idolatry and cannibalism. It might be said it is no more so than some of our Indian names which have become so thoroughly domesticated and Americanized that their origin has been forgotten. No person thinks of Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kentucky, Tennesae*. Michigan and Ohio aa pure Indian words, yet they are. Colorado

is of Spanish origin, from the Spanish word for red or colored, and refers to the hue of much of the soil in that State. Nevada and California are also of Spanish origin, the former being from the Sierra Nevada, ‘‘snow-covered mountain chain,” and the latter having the same root as the Spanish "califa,” meaning a ruler. Hawaii may have a distinctive meaning in the native language which would be worth preserving, but it would soon be forgotten. If the commissioners propose to change the name it will bo incumbent on them to offer something better and the public ought to have some voice in the matter before anew name is adopted. If Columbia were not already appropriated by the District of that name it would be a good one for ‘‘the gem of the ocean’’ and have the merit of historic association. In the case of Alaska we retained the native name, and perhaps that is as good a way as any. The Cabots. John and Sebastian, who were British contemporaries of Columbus and the real discoverers of the main land of America, have never been honored by any name on the continent. Hawaii is not a part of the continent, but if it is to be rechristened the Cabots should not be wholly forgotten. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. The most of the serious distress occasioned by the war has fallen upon those regiments which were in the Santiago campaign. The volunteer regiments which were not under fire, but occupied the intrencr.ments for a time, were almost as severely stricken as were those which did the fighting. The regiments coming back from the comparatively light campaign of Porto Rico have long sick lists, while those on the island report much sickness under as favorable circumstances as can be secured to troops in the field. Those who have candidly considered the conditions must arrive at the conclusion that General Shatter pursued the only course by which it was possible to capture Santiago. Had he waited to open roads and to organize the commissary and the medical departments his men would have been stricken with disease before anything could have been done. Thus far no evidence has been furnished to prove that there was willful neglect on the part of those in charge of the troops. Nevertheless, the sensational papers havo been filled with reports showing that the men w;ere not cared for in camp and were sent home in ships ill suited and without medicine or care. The privations and suffering of those troops have furnished the bulk of the charges as to the conduct of the war. Papers criticise the administration for undertaking the Santiago campaign in the rainy season, regardless of the fact that the Spanish fleet in that port rendered the expedition imperative. Yet these were the same papers which daily assailed the President for not sending all the troops in hand in May to besiege Havana. A majority of the Democratic papers in this State joined in this clamor. It now transpires that General Miles convinced the President that a campaign against Havana during the w'hole period that this clamor was kept up would have been fatal. Havana was a fortified city, with an army of disciplined troops twice as large as we could have landed in its vicinity any time before the expedition to Santiago. We did not have half the army necessary to capture Havana. To have yielded to this insane demand would have invited a disaster so great that The loss of men by reason of the Santiago campaign would have been the merest skirmlsn. We could not have taken Havana with the army then in hand, and regiments vanquished in battle and broken by disease would hava been withdrawn without accomplishing anything. Instead of bringing home the broken but victorious fifteen regiments which captured Santiago, we should have brought back from Havana the remnants of fifty or sixty regiments, defeated as well as diseased. The President, listening to General Miles and others, refused to yield to this clamor, in w’hich the best part of the people joined. What if he had yielded? That is the question which it would be well for decent people to consider while sensational newspapers are holding the President indirectly responsible for all the shortcomings of subordinates and the complaints of homesick men in regiments.

THE OUTBREAK. IN CRETE. It will be strange if the present violent disturbance in Crete does not reopen the questions which led to the Greco-Turkish war of 1897, In which “the powers’’ figured very discreditably. That war was the natural result of long-standing Turkish misrule, of the refusal of the Sultan to carry out promised reforms, and of repeated massacres by Christians and Mussulmans of each other in turn. Historically and geographically the Island of Crete belongs, or should belong, to Greece. Its population of about 270,000 people is wholly of Greek extraction, and 200,000 of them are Christians, against 70,000 Moslems. If the powers had permitted Greece to annex and hold the island the present outbreak might have been averted, but their refusal to do so, and their intervention practically in favor of Turkey encouraged the Moslem inhabitants to such an extent that it was only a question of time when another outbreak would occur. But, whether the annexation cf Crete by Greece had resulted in the pacification of the island or not, its condition could not have been worse than it has been under the hybrid protectorate established by the powers and maintained by force. That their action created an artificial and dangerous situation is shown by the fact that it has resulted in an outbreak in Candla, in which nearly one hundred British soldiers were killed, the British consul killed and burned in the consulate, the German consulate burned and probably several hundred Christian Greeks massacred. The moral responsibility for this result rests on the powers which refused to permit the annexation of Crete by Greece and united in a declaration that “Crete is neutral territory under autonomous government, but forming part of the Turkish empire." Another provision of the hybrid government established, or sought to be established by the powers, was for “the appointment of a governor general for a term of five years, to whom taxes will be paid, and who will pay tribute to the Sultan. The Legislature will be an elective assembly, composed of Christians and Mohammedans.’’ As the Christians and Mohammedans in Crete have spent a large part of the time for many years past in killing each other, it could hardly be expected that a Legislature so composed would contribute much to the pacification of the island. To maintain this condition a mixed force was stationed In Crete of English, French, Italian, Russian, Austrian and German troops in different proportions, numbering !n ail about 7,000, and war ships of the different powers were kept within convenient striking distance. It was only a question of short time till so artificial and strained a situation would result in the outbreak of old

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animosities, aggravated probably by' new ones. The present situation is complicated by the fact that the Turkish troops, who were permitted by the powers to remain in the island to assist them in pacifying it, refused to aid in suppressing the recent outbreak, and are even charged with sympathizing with the Mohammedans, as no doubt they did. In short, the outbreak shows that the Cretan question, which has vexed Europe for years, is as far from settlement as ever and the concert of the powers as little worthy of respect. THE FAIRNESS OF A PARTISAN. No one who recalls recent campaigns can doubt the loyalty of the Cincinnati Enquirer to the Democratic party. Unlike many organs of that party, it has a broadminded fairness which has enabled it from the first to attribute to the President and his subordinates a sincere purpose to conduct the war against Spain with patriotic intent and with a faithful devotion to their duties. Time and again, unlike the Chicago Chronicle and the most of the Democratic papers in Indiana, the Enquirer has discussed the various phases of the management of the war with candor and fairness. In a double-leaded editorial yesterday the Enquirer says; What nation ever gained equal prestige within three months? The whole world had waited anxiously to see whether the modern battle ship, now on trial for the lirst time, would be more destructive to the enemy or to itself. Our gunners at Manila and Santiago sent their projectiles with as unerring aim as that of our crack marksmen when shooting necks from bottles thrown into the air. Our soldiers, less than twenty-live thousand in number, attacked an equal number of the enemy in their intrenchments and their fortifications laughing at the deadly fire from ambush which met them on the way. The gasconading Spaniard, Pando, told New Yorkers two or three days ago that the Madrid politicians would not allow the Spanish soldiers in Cuba to save that island to the Spanish crown. Witnout pretending to any knowledge of the possibilities in the ease, we cannot help w’ondering why the Spanish army in and around Havana looked on so unconcernedly while their brethren in Santiago were being captured. The fact goes into history that less than twenty-five thousand American troops forced Spain to capitulate and abandon that island with its two hundred thousand Spanish troops and to give up the w f ar which her brutality had forced. The reader will say: "We knew all this before; why this recital?” The answer is that these glorious achievements ought to be constantly kept in view to restrain the spirit of pessimism now so rife in the country. It is true that our soldiers have suffered and are suffering in hospital camps: that the vast machinery of transportation has not worked without a great deal of friction: that the surgeon general lias been unable to attain perfection throughout his vast department, and that sanitary skill has not in any camp reached the desired state of perfection. But who shall presume to determine how much of this could have been averted by human agencies, and how much of it is due, as the legal phrase goes, to the hand of God? Then, as to human fallibility in camp and field, who can justly apportion the responsibility between chiefs and subordinates? Does any man believe that the President or the secretary of war has been indifferent at any time to the needs of the soldiers? If a single commissary sergeant neglects his duty, how can this instantly be known at Washington? The army is a great machine. The commissary general tries to have it fed: the quartermaster general tries to have it clothed, and the surgeon general tries to look after its health: but through what numberless agencies do these men act? What human power can compel faithfulness and promptness through all these subordinates? Faithless men should be removed. but their misconduct must first be established. The army is governed by articles of war enacted by Congress. The President, the secretary of war and his chiefs of bureaus, the generals of corps, the generals of divisions, the generals of brigades, the field officers of regiments and the officers of companies, all have their duties to perform. What housewife gets perfect service from her handful of servants? What father secures absolute obedience from his minor children when they are out of his sight? And how' is it possible that a great army should move like clockwork and always have at hand just what is needed and at the exact hour? If there have been any unusual disasters in our armies and if they have resulted from criminal negligence, there wfill be a time for the truth to be known, and lawful and reasonable methods for finding it out. But it must be evident to every rational man that just judgments cannot be pronounced upon government officials by mere circulation of ex-parte statements, many of which originate in unreliable sources and most of which carry with them no direct information as to where the blame should rest.

VhE TENDENCY OF TAGdAUTISM. After cutting the estimates of the boards and departments of the city government as much as the controller thinks poss.ble, the mayor admits that the estimates for the next year will be $127,568 in excess of last year. That is, the estimates a year ago were $987,035 and $1,114,593 this year. The mayor treats these figures with his usual blandness, but the Increase of the estimates—sl27,s6B—is more than 12% per cent., which means that the estimates are oneeighth greater this year than last. This means that the general expenditures of the city are increasing much more rapidly than population or property. In 1891 the taxables of the city were $93,569,930; this year, in round numbers, they are $120,000,000. This means that in eight years the taxable property has increased a little less than 27 per cent., or 3.375 per cent, a year, while the volume of the money to be collected from the taxable property is increased over 12.5 per cent, in a single year. Mayor Taggart very frankly admits that it will take a 70-cent levy to raise the money needed to meet this one-eighth increase of expenditures, an increase in taxation of 16 2-3 per cent., compared with a 60-cent levy. His Honor, however, does not trifle with percentages, since he would have the taxpayers believe that the increase is a mere trifle—scarcely worth mentioning except as a pleasantry. The 70-eent levy will bring $840,000 if all is collected, the poll tax scarcely making good the deficit due to noncollection of taxes assessed on property. Upon this basis, $274,000 in excess of the receipts from taxation will be needed to meet the expenditures. The mayor estimates the receipts from licenses and other sources than taxation at $263,000. This shows that with a 70cent levy, by the controller’s figures, there will be a deficit of $9,000. This means that an increase in the taxes on property of 16.66 per cent, will scarcely be sufficient to enable the Taggart regime to pull through next year. If the Taggart regime shall be continued and the estimates shall increase over 12% per cent, next year, an SO-cent levy will be necessary to enable it to pay as it goes. The Journal gives these figures that taxpayers may understand now' how much faster taxes are increasing than the city is growing. BUBBLES IN THE AIK. The Cornfed Philosopher. “A thing of beauty,” said the Cornfed Philosopher, “is a joy until the fashion changes.” The Age. Tommy—Paw, is an age any definite period of time? Mr. Figg— If it be a woman’s age, it is mighty uncertain. The Cheerfnl Idiot. “Time," Said the pragmatic boarder, “lies betw’een eternity and eternity.’ ’ “How ungrammatical,” said the Cheerful Idiot. “W-what?” “Sort of split infinity, you know.** Mode Good Hi* Word*. She—To think that you were the man who

said you would shed your heart’s blood for me! He—Said so, did I? More than that, I did so. “When?” “When I used to serenade you. The mosquitoes used to settle on me by scores.” KLONDIKE HUMBUG. Tricks of Transportation Companies Exposed I>>- a Traveler. Birmingham (Mich.) Letter in Detroit Tribune. Henry G. Hooper, of this place, returned from Dawson City yesterday. He left Le Roy, N. Y., with three others, for the Klondike, March 15. Mr. Hooper is a wellbuilt young blacksmith and is greatly elated to think he got back alive. “You can’t slander the Klondike country,” said Mr. Hooper to the Tribune. “We were three hours behind the snowslide of April 2. I helped to dig out forty-four dead. In packing up the summit a can of hot coffee sheltered under my coat froze solid in an hour. All the way to Lake Bennett we met parties carrying back dead comrades. At Lake Bennett prospectors who were building boats w-cre dying off like sheep with scurvy, spinal meningitis and dysentery. At different times v/hen camped at Lake Bennett I rode down the White Horse rapids twelve times with Rudolph Swiber, owner of a pilot boat. He was at this piloting last year. It was no trick for him to shoot the rapids. Canadian authorities got after him for a SSO license and Swiber jumped the job. I went with him to Dawson City. We prospected all the way on Big Salmon, Little Salmon, Henderson, Reindeer and Indian rivers and Swedish creek, but found no color of gold, nor did we see anyone who had found any. One party w r e met had been digging holes or. Indian river for over a year, were dead broke, no provisions and had not found one nugget. “The trail and river are strewn with dead horses, mules and dogs. 1 carried spring water a couple of miles because I could not stomach the river water befouled with the i t mains of man and bt ass. “Everybody is selfish in that country. Each one elbows his way regardless of what becomes of the others. The only miners who have made strikes there are men who have married squaws. The squaws they married owned the mines that were found years agi by the Indians. Now and then some fellow who didn’t marry a squaw was lucky enough to hit the same lead and get someth ng. “God help the people in Daw’son City. It smells to the heavens with human offal and reeks v.dth filth. The hospital is crowded and they are building another one. It costs $7 a day to lay up in the hospital. About an average of twenty-five die every day ;n Dawson City. "if the government doesn’t help those people they will all be dead inside of a year. There are six sawmills, each employing about ten men. There are 1,000 applicants for every job. I met men in Dawson City that I had seen six weeks before, when they were great, stout fellows; now they w'ere thin, discouraged and with tears rolling down their cheeks. When I asked them what was the trouble the invariable answer was: “ ‘Broke, no grub, and no chance to earn any.’ “I went to the Klondike with S7OO and I came back with a very few. I never dug a bit of gold, and the few nuggets that I brought home I bought, along with my experience. “It is virtually suicide to go to the Klondike. Not one out of one thousand will get anything. The people who make the money are: First, the transportation companies; qoxt, the government, (a ten-dollar miner’s license and a royalty of 20 per cent.); and, lastly, the hospital. I left Dawson City July 16. There was an indignation meeting called for that night to do away with the official robbery practiced by Canadian officials. The officials got wind of it and left the city, but a fresh lot have taken their places. “A miner’s license allows him to hunt and fish. A fellow who did not have a license shot a moose and a calf, which he sold in Dawson City for sSsfi. The authorities go on to his not having a license. He was pulled, his pockets-searched to find if he could pay a tine, .and over S4OO was fo-und on him. The fine was made to fit the pile, and he was also set up for three months. “Everybody that strikes Dawson City with money enough to take him back again to the coast will get there as soon as possible. There are lots of women in Dawson City. Respectable women are treated with great politeness, but the other females are a tough lot. I was taken sick with jaundice. 1 came back to the coast by way of St. Michael’s—l,6oo miles in a rowboat, then about eighty of us “held up” the steam dredge Level Youngs and forced them to carry us to the coast at a rate of sls a head and board ourselves. “You see. the steam dredge was built to find gold in tho river. It didn’t find any more than we did, so it started freighting to keep up expenses. They had no license to carry passengers, aid were greatly tickled to have us bully them into carrying us at a good fare. This cleared them from seizure. “On the steamer Larado the purser came into the cabin and said: “ ‘We want to make a good showing in the papers at Seattle. Now. I have got in my charge about two hundred pounds of gold dust. I want to put you fellows down, each one for a good round sum. It won’t do any harm, and will help us.’ “Then he asked a forlorn, ragged fellow if he would put him down for SIO,OOO. The ragged man smiled in a ghastly way and said yes. The next went down on the list for $15,000, and so on. When they came to me I was mad. > “ ‘lt was just such rascals as you.’ said I. hot clear through, ‘that brought me out to this earthly hell. I won’t help with this trap to get poor fellows to patronize your steamboats.’ “Well, when wo landed at Seattle the nev/spapers had a big account of the Larado landing with 2SO rich miners returning from the gold fields with over a million in gold nuggets and gold dust, “I never heard that the war was over until we landed at St. Michael’s. When the purser published his big yarn he'did not know about the miner and his squaw wife having the 150 pounds of gold dust. “My advice to anyone thinking about going to the Klondike is to jump in the sea, smoke in a powder house, go a ballooning or raise a Spanish flag on American soil—in fact any manner of violent taking off is preferable to the lingering suffering and madness of a trip to that hell on earth, the Klondike. “I want It published in the Tribune, because it’s true,” continued Mr. Hooper. “I’ll back every word of it. It’3 a d—d shame to fool poor fellows into losing their lives and means in order to enrich a few transportation companies. I’ll make an affidavit, if necessary.”

A Word for the President. New York Independent. As the thoughtful citizens of America look back from the peaceful days now at. hand upon this brief but memorable war with Spain, the figure of the President and com-mander-in-chief. who conducted it to a conclusion so successful and gratifying, will rise above all others. From Dewey and Schley, Miles and Wheeler, the regulars and Rough Riders, and all the heroes who fought at sea or in the field will never be withheld the credit they so well deserve; but the calm strength and wisdom of the man in the White House, the man of humane purpose and firm hand, will be seen more and more clearly as the years pass. We shall justly appreciate his self-restraint, his high sense of duty and responsibility, his loyalty to the will of the people, his humanity and his common sense. His name will be associated inseparably with the expansion of the Nation in the Western and eastern oceans, accomplished honorably and naturally by a war waged not with aggressive or greedy purpose, but for the relief of the oppressed. And the American people will give him the highest credit not only for the sagacious direction and control of the contest, and the honorable acquisition of the fruits of victory, but also for the new appreciation by old world powers of the strength, dignity and promise of the new world's great republic. Asthen of Columbus. Washington Post. “It has been stated that the Spanish government will insist on its right to remove the hones of Christopher Columbus from their resting place in the cathedral at Havana,” said Mr. John C. Aytoun, of New Orleans, at Chamberlain's. "As Spain has nothing left but the ashes of its former glory, it might be said that nobody would oppose its desire to carry back the ashes of the man who gave to Castile and Leon anew world. But it Is almost a sure thing that the remains of the great discoverer are still reposing in the Cathedral of San Domingo, Haiti, where they were interred on being exhumed from the Carthusian monastery at Seville in 1526. Columbus was burled at Valladolid originally. but after his remain* had reposed for years in Spain, the bodies of both himself and son, Diego, were taken across the sea to Hispaniola (San Domingo) and laid away in the cathedral there. “On the cession of the island to the French in 1795 it was deemed proper to again take up the august relics, and they were transferred to the cathedral In Havana, or at

least that was what the Spanish intended to do. Asa matter of fact, thev took what was left of Diego, but his illustrious sine s remains were left behind. This was conclusively proved some years ago by a most thorough examination of foreign consuls at San Domingo, who, having obtained permission to examine a certain tomb, found within it incontrovertible proofs that it really held the ashes of the admiral. The body taken to Havana was that of his son, and if Spain wants to take ii back perhaps our government will make no protest.” THE SENSATIONAL PRESS. Effects of Its Ravings Shown in a Striking Way. Washington Special to Chicago Tribune. Adjutant General Corbin, in discussing thy attempt of a Mississippi regiment to assassinate its colonel, asserted that the sensational newspapers of the country are responsible for the conduct of these men. “The demoralizing influence of the sensational papers is beginning to bear fruit,” said the adjutant general. “A short time ago an Eastern newspaper headed a tirade on the War Department, ‘Shoot the Officers,’ and it now seems that the men have followed this bad advice. The sensational newspapers seem to think that the liberty accorded the press means license to say anything regardless of truth and decency. “It is undoubtedly true that there is much suffering in the army, but all the blame should not be laid upon the War Department. If the position assumed by apportion of the press is maintained it is a serious question in my mind whether it will not end in disorganizing the military forces of the country and make it almost impossible to raise another volunteer army if one should be necessary. We are now placed in an unenviable light before other nations by what has been written about the management of the army. Our soldiers are liable to treated as babies and our executive officers either as imbeciles or corrupt.” Special to Chicago Inter Ocean. A military authority of high standing said: “The worst effect of this clamor about the suffering of the volunteers will be felt by the States in their effort to maintain an efficient National Guard. This is the first experience in war the National Guardsmen have had. Their efficiency as soldiers has heretofore been theoretical. “When this force was offered to the federal government as an army everybody insisted that they were as good soldiers as the regulars. But the clamor about them undergoing the hardships which are common to a soldier’s life, and which are borne uncomplainingly by the regulars, has demoralized the men, and made a soldier’s duty appear very undesirable to the young men who make up the National Guard. It will be found more difficult to fill the ranks of the guard in future. “As for the United States army, this clamor has demonstrated that wv must have a standing army of not less than ICO,OOO men, for only with a trained and seasoned army can we expect to go into another war with any expectation of success. “The army which went to Santiago made a great reputation for American soldiers, regulars and volunteers, as fighting men, and this reputation spread over Europe and the whole world. But before it has become a settled conviction that American soldiers are the equal of any other soldiers ever known in war our yellow press has begun to strip the volunteers of every vestige of courage and every quality of endurance, so as to create the impression abroad that they are simply enthusiasts, who will make one rushing tight and then lie down and cry over their hardships in camp. “We want the world to understand that the American soldier is a fighter and a stayer. The United States regulars have demonstrated that they are such soldiers. Most of the volunteers of this war have not had an opportunity to demonstrate their endurance. The yellow press has excited the people, and the clamor has become general to send homo the volunteers because they cannot endure camp life.” Some Good Advice. Detroit Free Press. When the boys in the blue strike town and you crowd around them — Don’t ask them if they didn’t have an awfully hard time of it. Don’t tell them that you feel just as sorry as can be for them. Don’t require an explanation of why the fever was so bad. Don’t beg them to give you a button off their coats for a hat pin. Don’t ask if the hardtack was wormy and the canned beef spoilt. Don’t say you can’t imagine how they lived in such heavy uniforms. Don’t ask them how many Spaniards they killed. Don’t beg them to tell you how a Mauser bullet sounds when it strikes. Don’t ask them if they ever met John Jones, of the Umpty Umpth Regiment. Don’t inquire their opinion of division hospitals. Don’t ask what the temperature was in the trenches. Don’t tell them you have worried so very much about them. Don’t ask whether the\ water was really so tad in Cuba. Don’t ask how badly Bill Smith was wounded. Don’t ask if it got hot on the cars. Don’t try to find out if the stories of the insurgents are true. Don’t ask if they are glad they enlisted. Put GIVE ’EM SOMETHING TO EAT! ! !

In SampNon an Irishman? Springfield Republican. A correspondent of the Cork (Ireland) Examiner claims that Admiral Sampson is an Irishman who “first saw the light almost under the shadow of the Moore abbey (now in ruins), just outside of the village of Galbally, County Limerick, and close to the confines of the glen of A’nerlow, which latter glen is celebrated from not alone a historic point of view, but also on account of its magnificent scenery, and the fact that the glen has given birth to more distinfuished athletes than any part of Ireland.’’ n more detail we learn that “Admiral Sampson’s father was a blacksmith at the place above mentioned, amKat the present day fracas of the forge are vo be seen where his brawny arm wielded tlie hammer. He emigrated to the land of the stars and stripes to better his fortune while his son (the admiral) was a mere child. For further particulars we arc referred to Simon Sampson, of Carrickaroehe, and Michael Sampson, of Mitcholstowndown, near Knocklong. If this be true, the admiral ought not to lack defenders among our jiopulation of Irish descent in case an attempt is made by Congress next winter to deprive him of his rewards as naval comSpeaking GaglUh. Springfield Republican. The amusement which English papers found in George Kennan’s remark that an English attache in Cuba had only a slight “English accent,” recalls a story which George Grossmith, the English musical humorist. likes to tell at his own expense, "A New York gentleman,” he says, “was once chaffing me about my pronunciation of certain words, and I was very much amused at it. So I said to him: ‘lt's our language, you know. We invented it before you were discovered.’ He was a bit abashed at first. Then he said: ‘That’s so. Well. I think it’s about time you learned to speak it.’ ” Roosevelt’s Advice to lII* Men. From Sunday Talk to Rough Riders. Now here's a thing I want to warn you against: Don’t get gay and pose as heroes. Don’t go back and lie on your laurels; they’ll wither. The world will be kind to you for about ten days, and then it will fay: “He’s spoiled by the fame of the regiment in Cuba.” Don't think you've got to have the best of everything, and don’t consider yourselves as martyrs in the past tense. What I want of all ol you is to get right out and fight your battles in the world as bravely as you fought the Nation’s battles in Cuba. His Reasons. Washington Star. “No.” said Senator Sorghum, with emphasis. “I can’t talk for publication to-day.” “But, senator, in all the years of our acquaintance this is the first time you ever declined to let me quote you.” “I don’t want you not to quote me. I want you to say I decline to be interviewed. This is confidential; I’ve concluded it's time for me to act as if I’d got to be so important that I dasn’t talk for fear of giving something big away.” Kitchener'* Privilege. Washington Times. General Kitchener will have the privilege of kicking a London cabman without being subject to arrest when he returns. That is about the chief value of the “freedom of the city.” Including; C. D. G. Let the girl the average artist draws. Be short or tall, or stout or slim. She has the same face every dme—All girls must look alike to him. —Detroit Journal. finite So. Cleveland Leader. Stephen Crane is In Havana. But then It is quite possible that General Blanco doesn’t consider him a correspondent. Need* a Typewriter. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Anew proof of Dewey’s greatness has come to light. He writes an awiul hnr>

JOHN HAY’S DEPARTURE MADE OCCASION OF A FRIENDLY DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON. ■ ♦ Presented with an Address Advocating Co-Operation Between Britain and the United States. ■ ♦ LONDON, Sept. B.—A committee of the Anglo-American League, headed by its chairman. Janus Brice, presented the United States ambassador, Col. John Hay, to-day, with an address congratulating him on his acceptance of the portfolio of secretary of state at Washington. The address expressed regret at his departure from this country, “where you have discharged the weighty and delicate duties of ambassador with such eminent tact, judgment and courtesy as to win the cordial appreciation and confidence of the British people.” Continuing, the address says: “It has been your fortune to represent your country here at a time of exceptional interest, when the war, now happily ended, gave occasion for an expression of the feelings of affection and sympathy towards the United States which the British people have long entertained, but never before have they teen so conspicuously manifested. You carry back the assurance of the depth and strength of these feelings. The principle that there ought to be permanent friendship and cordial co-operation between the British empire and the American Republic is one that all parties and all statesmen here agree In regarding as a fundamental principle of British foreign policy, and by it the whole people desire that their government should be guided. “We rejoice to believe that in your country corresponding sentiments are entertained, and that a corresponding principle Is now largely accepted. Knowing that no one holds those convictions more firmly than yourself, or can express them in clearer or more felicitous terms, we gladly acknowledge the great service you have rendered to both nations, and console ourselves on your retirement by the reflection that you are called to duties in your own country even wider in their scope and graver in their responsibility and more important in the results they may secure.” Mr. Bryce, during the course of the remarks which he made upon the occasion, dwelt upon the “admiration for s he splendid gifts and boundless energy of the people of the United States and file sympathy wan the principles of their Constitution which have Leen quietly ripening among the British people, and which this vear lound a sudden and hearty expression. ’ He also said he saw in the universality of these sentiments here and the fact that they were reciprocated by a large majority of the Americans, a happy augury, as he believed, that nothing would contribute more to the peace of the world and the welfare of both nations than the sense of essential unity of the two peoples. A ' . Colonel Bay. in reply, referred to the gratification he experienced in hearing such words front men so qualified by experience and character to speak for the British with certainty. He added: “My voice has no sanction as yours; but, I give it for what it is worth, to assure you that your sentiments of kinship and amity are reciprocated to the utmost in my country/’ The ambassador also said that his work In England had been made easy by the instructions he had received from home and by the franknes and fairness of her Majesty's ministers and of all Englishmen he had come in contact with. He then said: “On both sides of the ocean the conviction is almost universal that a clear, cordial and friendly understanding between Great Britain and the United States is a necessity of civilization. I shall hold myself signally fortunate if I am able to do anything to continue and strengthen the relations of fraternal amity between our two nations.” Raised the Stars and Stripes. LONDON, Sept. B.—The stars and stripes were raised to-day with the British union jack and the royal standard on the marquee erected on Salisbury plain during the march past of the troops at the end of the army maneuvers, as a compliment to Col. Alfred H. Bates, the United States military attache, Henry White, secretary of the United States embassy, and Mrs. W hue, who went there by a special train with Lord Wolseley, commander-in-chief of the British forces, Prince Christian, the Duke of Connaught and other notabilities. The foreign military attaches seemed to be surprised at the sign of the American flag.

THE BIG STEEL TRUST. Basis of tlie Sow Consolidation—'Tlie Jones Mixer Patent. CLEVELAND, 0., Sept. B.—The Iron Trade Review this week says: “The various committees that have been at work on details of the Minnesota iron and Illinois steel consolidation have made good progress during tlie past week and it is expected that officers will be elected and that the Federal Steel Company will be a working corporation by the end of the month. Minnesota Iron Company stockholders will exchange one hundred shares of their stock for 135 shares of preferred and 108 of common slock in the Federal Steel Company. Illinois Steel Company stockholders can exchange one hundred shares of their stock for one hundred shares of preferred and eighty shares of common in the Federal Steel Company. Elgin and Joliet Company stockholders can exchange one hundred shares of their stock for eighty-seven and one-half /shares of preferred and eighty shares of common. In addition all these stockholders pay $26 per share for Federal Steel Company preferred stock. That is, Minnesota Iron Company stock shares of preferred and 108 shares of common stock in the Federal Steel Company. The cash thus paid for preferred stock will be used in purchasing a two- ' hirds interest in the stock of the Lorain Steel Company. The Federal Steel Cornpony, it is understood, will not buy the properties of the various companies that are to be merged in it. but will buy the stock of these companies. This obviates the necessity of buying out all the stockholders. The latter can sell or not as they elect. Only a controlling interest in the stock of each company is necessary, hut the Federal Steel Company will exchange its stork on the hasis stated above for all stock in the various companies that is offered. Thus the individual companies will retain their corporate powers.” Commenting on the Jones mixer patent at Pittsburg, the Iron Trade Review says: “The decision in the United States Court on the Jones mixer patent is one of far-reaching importance to the steel manufacturers of the country. The common use of the direct process of thr Ressemer steel works and the eeonomics resulting from the interposition of a hot metal reservoir between the blast furnace and the converter have made it an almost indispensable adjunct of steel making in this day of cheap steel and close competition. If the derision just given shall be sustained in the court of last resort It can be appreciated that enormous tribute will come to the Pittsburg company in royalties and penalties and that bv so much will its competitors he handicaped in the race for cheapest production.” THE BODIES FOUND. Gen. .Joe "Wheeler** Son and Lieut. Kirkpatrick Wnslied Ashore. CAMP WIKOFF, Montauk Point. L. 1.. Sept. B.—The bodies of Naval Cadet Thomas H. Wheeler, the son of Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, and of Second Lieutenant Newton D. Kirkpatrick, of the First United States Cavalry, who were drowned while bathing in the sea yesterday, came in with the tide and were thrown on the beach about 2 o’clock this morning. The bodies were found lying close together Just below the life-saving station, about a quarter of a mile from where the young men had gone in bathing. A detail of sixty men from the Second Cavalry had been patrolling the beach with lanterns. The life savers who knew the coast, had predicted that the bodies would drift in where they did. Two rude biers were formed out of planks taken from near the life-saving station and the bodies placed upon them. In the meantime the cavalrymen had gathered from up and down the beach and followed the bodies to General Wheeler's huaduuarura. With

General Wheeler were three of his daughters who were in camp nursing the sick. The uniform of an infantry private, with the shoes, hat and underwear, were found on the beach this morning a few hundred yards to the westward of where Cadet V\ heeler and Lieutenant Kirkpatrick were drowned. It is inferred that a third man was drowned last night. A name Is on the inside band of the trousers, but it is illegible. HAWAII NO ELDORADO. People Rushing: There Tilth Little Money Are Quickly in Need. HONOLULU, via San Francisco, Sept. B. The Chinese of the Hawaiian islands have presented a memorial to the members oi the congressional commission asking that alt the Chinese that have become naturalized under the laws of Hawaii and all children born In Hawaii’ be granted the right of transit to and from all parts of the United States; that In laws affecting the immigra-% tion of Chinese labor especial provision be made for the importation by the owners of rice plantations of a limited number of Chinese laborers to work such plantations; that the Chinese be permitted to bring into this country their children from China and also women of good character; that Chinese merchants be permitted to import clerks for their business establishments; that Chinese be given the same privileges as given to other residents in the community; that the system of ptnal labor c ontracts be abolished. There is much distress here among a targe number of people who have rushed to the islands expecting to engage in business. They have come with but little money and they find that there is nothing here for them to do. Numerous applications are being received for free transportation back to the United States on the part of the people who have come here with a misapprehension as to the conditions.

CHAMBERLAIN IS FRANK BRITISH COLONIAL SECRETARY GIVES A REPORTER POINTS. ♦ ■- DtacuHNes the Question of United States Acquiring Colonies and How They Should He Governed. * 1 NEW YORK. Sept. B.—The Tribune says: Joseph Chamberlain said frankly to a Tribune reporter that the treaty with Germany had actually been signed, thus making it known to the world for the first time that such an alliance had been made. Dispatches from England yesterday made it clear that in that country it was still a matter of conjecture whether there was any true basis for the reports that England and Germany had come to an understanding. Moreover, while not stating it in so many words, for the reason, as he explained, that he did not wish to appear presumptuous, Mr. Chamberlain made it clear that the English government favors the retention of the Philippines by the United States. When Mr. Chamberlain was asked as to the opinion he he’d regarding the most advantageous course which the United States could pursue respecting the Philippines he replied diplomatically: “Howevei much I would like to talk upon this matter, I must not do so, for the simple and sufficient reason that anything I might say in that direction might seem like giving advice or suggestion to the United States by a foreign statesman, and that, Resides being invidious, would be impertinent.” Leaving, thereupon, the direct line of inquiry, Mr. Chamberlain was asked for his opinion in the abstract, as it were. It became apparent from Mr. Chamberlain’s conversation that he viewed the holding of the Philippines as an advisable course for America, both from a national and mercantile outlook, “Colonization is always a good thing for any country.” he said. “England’s experience bears out that statement thoroughly. In the first place, it tends to uplift the whole character of a nation. The go\ eminent of colonies compels a country to wider and broader policies and national thought because of the further responsibilities woich are Incurred. Instead ot spending every moment of its time in the consideration ot parochial or local matters, the homing of colonies imposes an enormous trust upon a home government, the carrying out of which undoubtedly helps any administration because of its broadening influences. and these influences will always permeate with advantage through the country wnich gives them rise. Colonization is beneficial to any nation. It elevates that nation and makes its people more interested m public atfairs. The cry is sometimes made that to govern outside possessions dotracts from the proper attention which should be given to internal affairs. But that has not been England's experience. The government of our colonies has not prevented us from giving necessary and adequate attention to national and local issues In a word, colonization brings out qualities among the people at home which insist upon domestic reform.” In reply to the suggestion that possibly the United States would he influenced in its attitude on the Philippine question by intrinsic consideration, Mr. Chamberlain said: “1 hat Question is an important one, of course, but, as a rule, all our colonies pay their own way. Os course, we don’t expect anything from our colonies in the shape of actual tribute. They have the spending of their own revenues, and their receipts usually are sufficient to cover the expenditures. In solitary cases, like the West Indian islands, where there was distress because of the failure of the sugar crop, we gave help; but these instances are exceptional. “Another factor widt h should he worthy of the deepest consideration is that if you took the Philippines it would make It manifest to the world that you do not intend to be left out of the Pacific and China trad'-. The tendency of recent eve nts, as you well know, has been to close China, which has hitherto been open—to cloee its ports, in fact, to the United States and England. The efforts of the British government have been to keep the ports of China open, and most assuredly it is to the interest of the I nited States that those ports should be kept open. Just how far the United States Is willing to go to further her interests in that direction, either by acting herself or leaving her interests to he taken care ,f by us in connection with our own, is a matter w'hich has to bo determined. “From all I can learn in my capacity as colonial secretary,” continued Mr. Chamberlain significantly, “the one thiig the continental riowers are afraid of is that an understanding should come between the United States and England.” The queeilon of protecting American trade Interests in her possible colonies by placing similar tariffs upon outside imports as are imposed in this country was broached to Mr. Chamberlain, but he dismissed it with this reply: “If you become a colonial power and place tariffs upon foreign imports into your possessions, I venture to say that your colonies would not pay. In view of the fact, however, that you have tried tariffs here and proved the policy successful for years, 't would not be becoming cn my part to say anything further on this head.”

THE IMMUNES SUCCUMB. Six Cases of Yellow Fever In Colonel Sargent's Regiment. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Sept. B.—Six cases of yellow fever have developed in Colonel Sargent’s Fifth Immune Regiment. The cases have been watched closely l'or several days, and in the opinion of Colonel Havard, chief surgeon of the military department of Santiago, the diagnosis is unmistakably correct. The victims have been sent to the yellow fever hospitals and a strict quarantine has been established against the regiment, which is encamped on tho hills along the Morro road about two miles south of the city. There is a great deal of sickness in this regiment, hut in the opinion of the surgeons no more yellow fever. All the other regiments now doing garrison duty are in fairly good health. No uneasiness is felt by General Lawton or General \\ ood. The four members of the Fifth regular infantry who were sent to the yellow fever iiospital ten days ago when they disembarked from the transport Knickerbocker from Tampa are doing well. The battalion is still Isolated, but no new cases have developed. The destitution among the Cubans is still appalling. General Wood issued 52,000 free rations yesterday. The capacity of the free supply depots is not great enough to meet the demand, and a. new one is to he est&b* lished shortly.