Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 286, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1899.

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. It now appears that the. city Council will .' consist of eleven Republicans and ten Deml ocrats. One vote Is a slender majority, but the eleven Republicans have it in their power to render the city timely service if they stand together. They can make the Louncil a co-crdlnate branch of the city government, which it has not been the past four years. The Council is the legislative body; It votes the money and can Investleate. The inauguration of the mayor yesterday was not a reputable proceeding. It was an Official function In whirh the rmvr.r o . aumed the duties of an office which has to do with all the people. The chatter of the retiring clerk and the speeches' of one or two friends of the mayor were better fitted to a precinct Democratic meeting "With a free-beer attachment ' The whole bffalr was lacking In that dignity which characterizes such proceedings in large cities. The mean of the estimate of the three best authorities for crops makes the wheat Crop of the world for 1S0Q 2,540,000,000 bushels, which Is 227,000,000 bushels less than the estimate for last year, which is equivalent to falling off this year by one-eighth of the crop of 1S9S. In connection with the estimates It is stated that the average yield In Great Britain last year was thirtynfive bushels to the acre, or mere than twice the average of the United States. This larga yield is due to the better tillage. Would not such tillage pay In this State? The Chicago Record asks why the government, with so many millions of money locked up In the treasury vaults, does not do something to relieve the stringency of the money market In New York which causes borrowers to pay from 6 to 40 per cent, for money. The obvious answer to the question Is that the government has no uuthority to do anything of the kind. As the stringency is caused very largely by speculation In stocks, it is a question whether the government should furnish the money to inflate a class of stocks In which there Is no real value. The Record also declares that "for several months the disbursements of the government have been inconsiderable in comparison with Its' receipts." The excess of receipts over disbursements during the months of July, August and September amounted to $G31,S00 a fact which does not warrant the statement referred to. In reviewing the result of the School Board election the News cays: "The Goss Issue was really the issue which, more than eny other, appeared in the election." In to far us this Implies that the result was an anti-Goss victory, It does him an Injustice and misrepresents the situation. Of the llrst five persons at the head of the ticket Jlessrs. Sloan, Sweeney, Moorcs. Sickels lnd Bamberger the first four were elected by very large votes, evidently due to their "position a the ticket. The exceptionally large and complimentary vote for Mr. Sloan was due to hi wide acquaintance and universally recognized fitness for the position. Mr. Sweeney, a Goss man. received a much larger vote than Mr. Sickels, who was known as an anti-Goss man. The only candidate on the ticket who was able to break Into the charmed line of the first live was Alr. Emrlch, standing seventh on the list, and a pronounced Goss man. He received 700 more votes than did Mr. Sickels, an antl-Coss man. who was fourth on the list. The successful candidates were all fairly elected, but the result shows that the Gos-a and anti-Goss question did no: cut any figure. Assistant Postmaster General Heath made surprising statement in his address before the Michigan Newspaper Association. In discussing the course pursued by the Filipinos and Agulnaldo'a treachery, he said: "President McKinley's instructions were that Aguinaldo should be given a commission In our army, and that he and those asc:dated with him should be treated as our citizens." It would be interesting to know trhen cr to whom the President gave such trj-truetisns. Thero were. aevaraLl mnrvH

aftcr the destruction of the Spanish squadron and before the cessation of hostilities with Spain when it was the policy of the United States to cultivate friendly relations with Aguinaldo and encourage the rebellion against Spain, but it has never been stated before that the Filipino leader was offered a commission In our army. imiTisn on noi:it r

In the British-Transvaal war about to begin there Is likely to be some division of sentiment and of sympathy among Americans and probably a disposition on the part of some to censure the government for the neutral attitude it will doubtless assume. The first impulse of a majority of Americans will be to sympathize with the Boers, while a respectable minority will be inclined to sympathize with the British. It will be the duty of th government to pursue a strictly neutral course. Every nation that engages in war desires the sympathy of other nations, if not in the hope of material aid at least for moral support. No matter how just a cause of war a nation may have, or think It has, It still desires the approval and sympathy of other nations. In such cases governments are apt to be controlled by political and international considerations, while popular sympathy follows its own lines. At the beginning of our war with Spain the latter fully expected to have the moral support of all the European powers and even the active Intervention of some of them. She did have their sympathy, and one or two would have intervened if they had dared to do so. The governments, of France, Italy, Austria-Hungary and Belgium all sympathized with Spain, as did their people also. Germany's tricky and incomprehensible course is still well remembered. The only government and people that openly and strongly sympathized with the United States were the British. The friendly attitude of Great Britain was worth a great deal to us at the beginning of the war, and more than counterbalanced the more or less open unfriendliness of all the other governments. If she had sided with the continental powers or had let it be understood that she was absolutely indifferent there would probably have been intervention in behalf of Spain. The British people were open and outspoken In their American sympathy, and it was worth much to us. In the present case various influences will operate. In the first place there is the old, traditional hostility to England, dating from revolutionary times a very unreasonable sentiment, that should have died out long ago and that is unworthy to be perpetuated. Then there is a feeling that Great Britain is an aggressive power and that she "wants the earth." There is some truth in that, but our own history is also one of expansion. Again, it is the national impulse of Americans to sympathize with the weaker power In a conflict, the "under dog in the fight." That is a commendable feeling if not outweighed by other circumstances. Then the Transvaal is a so-called "republic," and many Americans feel in honor bound to sympathize with a republic against a monarchy. Finally, the large body of Irish-Americans will sympathize with the Boers for old country reasons, as they would with any people fighting the English. So will the Hollanders and their descendants, who, though not numerous, are a very intelligent and respectable class of citizens, embracing some me,n of high standing. It is probable the bulk of the press will favor the Boer side. On the other hand there will.be the influence of blood, which is thicker tran water, of kinship and language, of mutual interests and of Interest in Ihe spread of Anglo-Saxon civilization. Poetically speaking there is nothing in common and no ground of sympathy between the American Republic and the so-called Transvaal republic. The Transvaal government 13 an oligarchy of brute force, with scarcely a semblance of constitutional liberty, and the Eoers are but little more than half civilized. The government telerates a gross form of slavery and the native Africans are very harshly treated. President Kruger, who is now serving his fourth term, of five years each, is an exceedingly Ignorant but very cunning man, of gross habits, a heavy drinker and, In spite of his religious cant, a frequent associate of low and vicious characters. The Philadelphia North American publishes a letter from a resident of that city who lived several years in Johannesburg, in which the writer says: In his own home in Pretoria "Ooai Paul" leads a sleepy and possibly a pure life, but the old fellow is sadly prone to take little unofficial trips to Johannesburg, which, like all mushroom mining cities, is liOt entirely free from spots In which no respectable person, much less the President of a free and independent repuDlic, sr-ould be seen. Yet It is an absolute and indisputable fact that the "Father of His Country" frequents the back parlors of Johannesburg liquor saloons, every one of which is provided with a piano-forte, on which some painted wreck of womankind strums noisy accompaniment to loud and ribald ditties. In these dens Paul Kruger is often seen, blowing clouds of rank Boer tobacc6 smoke, quaffing Catawba wine or his favorite concoction of strong ale and sweet lemonade, which he calls "shandy." "Oom Paul" drinks a lot. but never by any chance does he p-y a penny. The conversation on these occasions, which he thoroughly understands but rarely Joins in, is neither statesmanlike nor redolent of Biblical quotations, although the name of the deity is frequently and profanely mentioned. Almost any resident of Johannesburg during the early months of 1S0O will recall the occasion of a demonstration against "Oom Paul," when he was smuggled off through the back door of one of these dens, while indignant uitlanders wrecked the place. Of course this does not prove that Great Britain has the right to overrun the Transvaal, but it shows that President Kruger is about as little of a George Washington as Aguinaldo Is. There will be some who will think that civilization has nothing to gain by perpetuating a mongrel government like the Transvaal, administered by ignorant and brutal boors like Paul Kruger and his colleagues, and that not only Africa, but the world at large, would be better off by the conversion of the Transvaal into a British colony or dependency, including the abolition of slavery and the substitution of a progressive civilization for the stolidity and inertia that constitute the Boer government. Something like these are the lines on which the sympathies of the American people will divide In the coming conflict. As for the government it will, of course, maintain an attitude of dignified neutrality, no matter how much noise the anti-British societies of New York may make. DRY AX FREFERS CASH. Mr. Bryan has said so much about placing man above money that some of his opponents In Nebraska have recalled an Incident In which he declared. In asking an office in that State, that "it Is the money that is In the office, and not the honor, that attracts me." The office which Mr. Bryan was seeking was secretary of the Nebraska Board of Transportation. He had not made any headway In Lincoln, Neb., as a lawyer up to 1SS3, and naturally desired a place that would help him out. Having denounced mha out money above honor, Hon

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J. Sterling Morton, who was Mr. Cleveland's secretary of agriculture, in his paper, the Conservative, called Mr. Bryan's attention to the fact that he had once sought an office for the money in it. Mr. Bryan's friends promptly challenged the truth of the statement and called upon Mr. Morton to present the evidence. Mr. Bryan himself denied the statement In an Interview, declaring that he had never sought any office for the money In It. Thereupon Mr. Morton printed in his paper a facsimile of the following letter: Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 11, 15S9. Hon .J. Sterling Morton. Nebraska City. Neb.: Dear Friend Your kind letter to Mr. Lease was received and delivered. I think it was well received. The postscript was Judicious. I think I am grateful to you tor your Indorsement. Had hesitated to write you because I dislike soliciting aid. I assure you that it is the money that is in the office. and not the honor, that attracts me. if successrui in getting It. it will tide me over my beginning here. With regards to the ladles, I am yours v truly, W. J. BRYAN. Mr. Morton was led to print this letter by Mr. Bryan's declaration that whatever Mr. Morton "might say.ln this connection was false," showing that he must either have forgotten the Incident or believed Mr. Morton could not present the proof. It s?ems, however, that Mr. Morton preserves all letters written to him, expecting that in good season some of them may be of use. This letter, it Is certain, will not give Mr. Bryan satisfaction, particularly when electrotyped copies shall ibe scattered broadcast through Nebraska. As Mr. Bryan cannot Ignore the letter, there is much curiosity to hear what explanation he has to offer, not so much for what Is In the letter, but for his emphatic denial that he had ever used the expression, "I assure you that it Is the money that Is In the office, and not the honor, that attracts me." AS TO A CONTEST. The Journal expressed the opinion Wednesday morning that if the vote were very close and the grounds for the suspicions which were created by the tardy returns of many precincts seemed, upon Investigation, to be good and sufficient, a contest should be made. It holds to that opinion now; but if there Is nothing to proceed upon but the belief that sufficient irregularities and frauds were committed to offset Mayor Taggart's plurality; of 347 votes, it does not seem advisable to make a contest. Belief is not evidence. The law specifies that contests can be based upon four grounds, two of which may apply to this case, namely, the malconduct or irregularity of any member or officer of the proper board of judges and canvassers, and on account of illegal votes. Have those who are acting for the Republican city committee evidence of irregularity or malconduct of any election boards which will be regarded as sufficient proof of fraud? If so. have thoy evidence that the cases in which irregularity is charged are sufficiently numerous to wipe out Mr. Taggart's plurality and give Mr. Bookwalte- the lead? The number of protested ballots has been or can be ascertained; is there good reason to believe that the number of these ballots which can be counted for Mr. Bookwalter will offset Mr. Taggart's plurality? Outside of these ballots, can they prove that any considerable number "of legal voters who Intended to vote the Republican ticket were prevented from voting by the election officers, and can It be proven that there were enough of them to materially affect the result? If the men representing the Republican committee have, in the Judgment of sound lawyers, sufficient evidence to set aside the Taggart plurality, it will be well to proceed. If they are not certain of their ground, and go Into court with so poor a case that Mr. Taggart will retain the office, it will be very unwise to commence1 proceedings. XOT A "WISE' COUNSELOR. In his speech at the mass meeting in New York called to express sympathy with the Boers, Mr. Boufke Cockran said: I promise you that intervention of an effective kind will come. The United States happens to have a question with Great Britain about the Alaskan boundary. The day that England engages in an unjust war, that day our claims will be advanced with all our force and power. I promise that will be intervention in its most effective form. I promise thl3 intervention because it is the only thing that the President of the United States can do, if he performs all the duties of his office. Such talk as that does not do Mr. Cockran any credit. Aside from the fact that he Is not authorized to promise anything for the administration, how would it look for the United States to take advantage of a supposed stress or preoccupation on the part of England to press, a boundary question "with all our force and power?" Suppose that England had taken advantage of the beginning of our war with Spain to press her claim with all her force and power. Mr. Cockran would have been one of the first of American orators to denounce such action. Again, Mr. Cockran commented on the position that the United States has nothing to do witli the affairs of South Africa by saying: Whoever Indulges in that criticism must have forgotten that, with the closer relations between members of the human family, engendered by the growth of commerce and civilization, the preservation of peace throughout the world becomes a matter of Importance to every civilized country. Perhaps it was some feeling of this kind, a responsibility for the preservation of peace throughout the world, that Induced the representatives in Washington of six European powers on April 7, 1S93, to present a Joint note to President McKlnley deprecating war between the United States and Spain. The note read as follows: The undersigned, representatives of Germany. Austria-Hungary, France, Great Britain. Italy and Russia, duly authorized In that behalf, address in -the name of their respective governments a pressing appeal to the feelings of humanity and moderation of the President and of the American people in their existing differences with Spain. They earnestly hope that further negotiations will lead to an agreement which, while securing the maintenance of peace, will afford all necessary guarantees for the re-esta -llshment of order in Cuba. This collective note of six powers was presented to the President by the British ambassador at Washington. In his reply the President expressed his recognition of the good will which had prompted the note and his hope that peace would still be preserved, and added: The government of the United States appreciates the humanitarian and disinterested character of the communication now made on behalf of the powers named, and for its Eart Is confident that equal appreciation will e shown for its own earnest and unselfish endeavors to fulfill a dutv to humanity by ending a situation the indefinite prolongation of which has become insufferable. This incident is recalled to show that an attempt by outside powers to preserve peace is apt to fall when war has become inevitable. If the United States were to intervene now in behalf of the Transvaal Great Britain might reply In almost the exact language used by President McKlnley. Mr. Cockran' advice In this case is not wise. Judge Day's letter regarding the treaty with Spain makes it quite clear that he regards the fc3.C00.CC0 paid to Spain for the

Philippines as purchase money. He quotes from the records to show that the first proposition of the United States for Spain to cede the Islands and receive $20,000,000 on account of moneys expended by her In Improvements was rejected and that a subsequent proposition' to pay a lump sum of that amount was accepted. Judge Day says distinctly that "It was not claimed that the United States had a right to the Philippine islands as a matter of conquest." This view differs from that of Hon. Whitelaw Reid, also a member of the peace commission. In an article published in the Anglo-Saxon Review in June last Mr. Reid 3ald it was a mistake to suppose, as many did, that the $20,000,000 was paid as compensation for the Philippines, but that it was Intended to reimburse-Spain for expenditures made in the islands for Improvements. The difference between the two constructions of the treaty is radical, one holding that the United States acquires its title to the islands by conquest, or as a war Indemnity, and the. other that the title Is acquired by purchase. The difference Is one of construction only and cannot have any effect on our title to the islands, one way or another. Judge Day says: The advanced position which the United States has always maintained In Its international relations, its opposition to anything like harsh or severe treatment of a fallen foe. as well as other cogent reasons, would seem to Justify the payment of the twenty millions as an act dictated from a high sense of national honor as well as sound policy under the circumstances of the case. , This shows that he attaches moral weight to the fact that the United States acquired the islands by purchase and not by conquest, though he nowhere implies that the question affects our title. The latter will never be questioned and posterity will not trouble itself as to how it was acquired. The Boston Journal, the leading Republican paper in New-England, recently took occasion to criticise the platform of the Republican convention because it was not sufficiently positive In support of the President's policy In the Philippines. One of the men who drafted the resolutions condemned the action of the Journal, saying, in conclusion, that its course in criticising a weak platform would lose the paper hundreds of readers. To this the Boston paper retorts that "neither newspapers nor parties sufCer through dealing fairly 3vtth their supporters. It Is evasion and concealment, not frankness, that they . despise." The point Is well taken. In some comments based upon an unofficial vote for mayor published by an evening paper, the Journal said that Mayor Taggart's vote was less this year than it was in 1897. It appears from' the. officiar count that Mr. Taggart's vote is 20,388, which is 383 in excess of his vote In 1S97. But such an Increase is inconsequential when the effort which was made to get it Is considered. Every vote of that Increase . represents more than a thousand; dollars. The official returns reduce the number of : those who voted for mayor and -no other candidate to 1,336. Mr. Taggart had , 772 more votes than the next highest on his ticket and Mr. Bookwalter 561. A State exchange contains among Its serious items of correspondence the Information that "quite a number of our people attended the funeral of Aunt Polly Fudge, at Buzzard Roost, Tuesday," and mentions also "the "teacher of the Scuffletown school." These are not fictitious names of persons or "places, though they would sound well in . fktian.VcJens, would have given a goodly porHdn 'of 'his 'life for.sueh a help. " DUDDLES IN TUB AIR. lie Would Take Action. "Do you know who was the originator of the coon song?" "Of course, I don't. Do you think I would be sitting around in this, peaceable fashion if I did?"

Qualified. The Woman of Few Words sometimes wish I had studied for'the stage. The Brutal Husband I thought as much. Several times I have yet the Idea you were practicing for a monologue' turn. ' Interurban Amenities. The Chicagoan Great , towns, mine and your9. Pork and eans,' you know. See? The BosJtonian I perceive. Yet there is more of a difference than is at once visible to the thoughtless. We do not rear our beans in the city. The British Mind. Oom Paul, he got his dander up. And said that he would like To see each Outland Britisher Make haste to hit the pike. "That clears the way!" cried Johnny Bull, A-grlnding of his sword; "I'll have to have those mines and lands 'Tls ordered by the Lord!" THE CITY ELECTION. The election was really a Republican victory, though a Democratic triumph. Elkhart Review. , . Mr. Taggait got there like the Israelite caught the train by the skin of his teeth. Kckomo News. Had not several of the Republican leaders of Indianapolis sulked in their tents. Bookwaiter would have been elected by a handsome majority. Their treacherous lethargy Is alone responsible for the retention of the political machinery of Indiana's greatest city in the hands of the Democratic party. These men will be long remembered, and not soon forgiven. Crawfordsville Journal. The election of Taggart as mayor of Indianapolis is not a vindication of his past administrations. Had he made a gain of even one vote a claim of vindication might be laid. But a loss of over . three thousand votes shows his political prestige to be fast waning. The result of the election yesterday buries all hopes of his'nomination for Governor on the Democratic ticket. Elwood Call-Leader. The returns from the Indianapolis election v ere decidedly meager yesterday morning, and a few hundred votes either way would have elected the mayor. Taggart is probably re-elected, but by such a small majority as to make it a defeat in principle, at least. The Republicans have won a moral victory, if nothing more, and out of it all will come no little benefit to the growing capital city. Cambridge City Tribune. Mr. Taggart may "smile" his war into three successive terms as mayor of Indianapolis, but talk of him for Governor is rather far-fetched. He Is not of that calibre. He may do fairly well as mayor of a city like Indianapolis, and he may be smooth enough to corral the votes of many thousands by the blandishments he has to bestow, but the people look for something else when they are seeking a Governor. Anderson Herald. . Mayor Taggart, of Indianapolis, if elected by a small majority, as indicated on the first footing of the returns, cannot rejoice as a man would who had asked for an indorse"ment by the people of his administration. Two years ago his plurality was 3.S14, which was about one hundred more than his plurality four years ago. The powerful machine which his associates have built while he has been in office was put to its full force in the effort to pull him through. Terr -j Haute Tribune.Mr. Bookwalter went into the fight under positive disadvantages, and ; has done admirably in reducing a majority of over 2.S00 two years ago to a paltry few hundred at the present time. Fraud is charged, but fraud in elections is easier to assert than to prove, and unless errors in figures are discovered. It is probable that Taggart will show up with a plurality in the end. Taggart's race, however, has destroyed in large degree that sentiment which regarded him as a prospective Democratic candidate

for Governor, for the politician who can show only declining fortune and such declinefast loses surport. Lafayette Cour-

Mr. Bookwalter made a remarkable race, lacking a few hundred votes of wiping out Mr. Taggart's former majority of 3.SW. The Democratic candidate's personal popularity won out for him. It is probable that enough of those peculiar Republicans with whom a pleasant personality outweighs their moral or political convictions voted for Mr. Taggart to give him the mayoralty. Behind the satisfaction of being the winning candidate must lurk an uneasv consciousness of rebuke. Terre Haute Express. All the corporate interests were .on the Taggart side the railroads, the street car company, the various brewery interests wielded their influence in his behalf. Yet, despite all this, Taggart sees his plurality of 3.S14 of two years ago reduced to less than 4j0. and this with the knowledge that, had he received no more votes than did the gentlemen whose names followed his on the ticket, he would have been defeated by a much bigger margin than that by which he has apparently won. This certainly is not very consoling to Mr. Taggart nor very encouraging to his political ambitions. Logansport Journal. The result may be accepted as evidence that Indiana is to-day a reliable Republican State, and that it will make a better showing in 1900 than was made in 1896. The situation Is especially gratifying in view of the fact that this Is the "off year." in which elections usually go against the national administration in power. While the election of Taggart. even by the skin of his teeth, is chagrining to the Republicans of Indianapolis, they have ample reason to be elated over the general victory they have achieved. They have set a pace for the party In the State that leaves no uncertainty about the race in 1900. Richmond Palladium. The Republicans of Indianapolis who have been training with Mr. Taggart on local issues and "fat deals" should be reminded that by electing Mr. Taggart mayor at this time they are making capital for his cancldacy for Governor. And it should be borne In mind that Mr. Taggart will not be a weak candidate for Governor. He will be a strong one for the Democratic party. He would not be for the Republican party. The Democratic party is after a "vote getter." Mr. Taggart is that kind of a politician. He can be all things to all men. He can swallow tree silver or take gold. He is now, by his election the third time, mayor of a Republican city, made a dangerous man for the Republicans to defeat. The Indianapolis Republicans should ponder over the matter. They should get together and quit monkeying with and supporting the enemy the Democratic party for Tom Taggart, when in office, is a Democratic spoilsman, and turns evvry wheel for the use and benefit of the Democratic party. Noblesville Ledger. CtRRENT MAGAZINES. ' The October Critic contains the fall announcements of the publishers, and they make a formidable list. It has also among other attractions a new and pleasing portrait of Mrs. Fiske. The October installment of Mary Johnston's serial, "To Have and to Hold," is thrilling and breathless enough to suit the ta3te of the most jaded novel reader. The Atlantic made a lucky "find" when it happened on Miss Johnston's work. The Cosmopolitan has been directing a good deal of attention to domestic science lately and the current Issue departs from abstract propositions and devotes a chapter to the mysteries of candy-making. Mark Twain has certified to the biographical sketch of him in McClure's magazine for October. It is written by his nephew, Samuel E. Moffett, and Mr. Clemens says It "suits me entirely In simplicity, directness, dignity, lucidity in all ways." Chicago's magazine, the International, naturally gives the place of honor this month to the Chicago postoffice, whose cornerstone was laid with so much ceremony the other day: The picture of the building as it will appear when finished shows a handsome and imposing structure. Another readable article is descriptive of the picturesoue Island of St. Kitts. one of our "new neighbors" in the West Indies. The pleasure of seeing a genuine municipal reform accomplished has been possible even to New Yorkers, as Jacob A. Riis shows in his article in the' Atlantic Monthly describing the opening of some small parks and play-grounds in the crowded tenement districts. The moral transformation in these districts, as a result, apparently, of letting in the air, is a circumstance worth considering by the authorities of other large cities. Mark Twain has directed his attention to Christian science and Mrs. Eddy's book, and the humor and satire of his cosmopolitan article show the weakress of both In a way plain argument cannor equal. His analysis of the book is one calculated to arouse the wrath of the faithful, and though no one who has accepted the work as gospel and affects to understand its mysteries is likely to be convinced either by ridicule or reasoning it is difficult to understand how any intelligent person can take the book seriosly after reading Twain's exposition of it. ' How enough material pertinent to the subject can be found to keep the monthly magazine, the Automobile, "running" any length of time Is a question that naturally suggests itself In considering this periodical; but evidently its publishers have confidence in the future, for they begin on rather an ambitious scale. The first issue opens with an illustrated paper descriptive of the automobile festival in Newport. Other subjects discussed are: "The Automobile Club of France." "Genesis of the Automobile," "A Missing Link Vehicle," "The New Pegasus," "How the Horse Runs Amuck." "Liquefied Air" and "An Amphibious Automobile." Considerable space is given to technical questions relating to the new machine. The magazine is attractive in appearance. It is published In New York. There is a beautifully illustrated article in last week's number of the Outlook descriptive of an American landscape garden at "Dolobran," a country home near Philadelphia. Its distinction Is the use made of native American plant life, including some commonly and unappreclatively known as weeds. Dolobran, the writer says, is becoming an epitome of America's plant wealth, but he adds: "Dolobran can have no monopoly of our native flower Jewels. A shady city back yard will give kindly place to ferns and trilllums from the woods, and a suburban place of limited extent may become a thing of unique beauty if we dress It in the inexpensive, easily procured plants of America. These plants need not the coddling of the hotbed, nor do they require renewal (from gorgeous catalogues) every year; they lived here before you were born, and they are suited to the climate." It is doubtful if Marion Crawford's serial, "Via Crucis," which reaches Its concluding chapter In the current Century, will have the popularity of those which deal with a more modern period, but it is a work which bears evidence of being written with great care and after close study of the time and the personages of the second crusade. It is an extremely artistic story. Two other serials reach their end in this issueBenjamin Ide Wheeler's "Alexander the Great." and Paul Leicester Ford's "The Many-sided Franklin." Two descriptive articles, one by Frederic C. Penfield, on "Fascinating Cairo," the other by Miss Soidmore, on "The Streets of Peking," are entertaining. Myron R. Sandford tells of the representation, in costume, of a Roman chorus by a college class. Admiral Sampson contributes a eulogistic article on Admiral Dewey; Lieutenant Eberle describes the Oregon's great voyage; there is a study of John Morley by "A Member of Parliament;" James B. Pond tells an interesting story of a pioneer boyhood, and there is the Inevitable Irish dialect story by Seumas McManus. Bishop Potter, of New York, writes in the North American Review of some social tendencies In America, and In the same periodical .Ian Maclaren gives his Impression concerning the "restless energy of the American people." The two articles curiously supplement each other. Bishop Potter bemoans conditions that, in his opinion, are leading to the disintegration of family life. Ian Maclaren thinks there is nothing the American cannot do except rest. "The idea of making a competency," he says, "and retiring, say into the country, never crosses an American's mind. To seclude an active American in an old-fashioned country house with ivy -cllmblnc around his Tudor winj dows, even though there should be a library or black oak inside and a rose garden outside, would be cruelty; It would be to imprison a squirrel in a golden cage." Both these articles are well worth tbe reading by the restless energetic American who takes neither the time to rest nor the time to enjoy life if the enjoyment involves peace and quiet and the seclusion -of the home circle. Another contribution of note in this issue of the North American Is Henry James's review of the literary situation in France. His observations are those of a very close student of the literature and shrewd observer of the conditions. Other topics considered are The Peace Conference and the Moral Atpect cf War." by

Capt. Mahan; "In the Clutch of the Harpy Powers." "A Transvaal View of the South African Question," bv the editor of the Pretoria Volkestem; "The Alaskan Boundary." by Prof. J. B. Moore, formerly assistant secretary of state; "A Trained Colonial Service." "Five Years of American Progress." by M. G. Mulhall; "The Decline of British Commerce," by A. Maurice Low; "America and England in the East," by 81r Charles Dilke. and "The French Press and the Dreyfus Case." by M. Do Blowitz. The North American has greatly Improved under the management of Mr. Harvey. DRYAVS DIG LECTIRD FEES.

Business ncd Politics Combined by Canny Candidate. Kansas City Journal. It Is reported that William J. Bryan, who has been making a political lecture tour over the State of Illinois, received recently $2,500 for one week's work. This is. perhaps, the first Instance in which a presidential candidate has received so much for his services in booming his own candidacy, although it was reported that Mr. Bryan was to receive almost as much as this out of the brief engagement at Dallas, Tex., in the course of the Democratic love feast in that city. Indeed, it has not been recorded that any other presidential candidate ever received more than his expenses for taking the stump in his own behalf. Mr. Bryan, however, has simply made a business of politics and has given the old-timers some new points. Plenty of other people make business of pcMlcs, but they are usually men who have obtained office, or who. are engaged to help other people obtain or hold office. But Mr. Bryan has devised a way by which he can keep himself before the country as a presidential candidate and a professional lecturer at the same time, by playing the one against the other. The fact that Mr. Bryan Is willing to use the position he has attained In his party for pecuniary gain shows him to ce exactly what unprejudiced observers pronounced him long ago a demagogue and a charlatan, ready to us-e any and every means within his reach to become President, regardless of his own convictions of good national policy, and also ready to use is position as head of his party to procure for himself all the personal emoluments and benefits that those circumstances can be made to yield. If Mr. Bryan makes use of his candidacy to get money, would he be a good man to entrust with the opportunities, the temptations and the responsibilities of the presidency? . ' Wllhelm and Wonen. Chicago Daily News. Emperor William has made a contribution to the woman question by his four k's. or kinder and kuchen, kleider and kirche (children and cooking, cloths and the church). A3 a f tatement of the old conservative view of woman's sphere the kaiser's definition is the briefest and best. The new ideas of the advanced woman find little response in the Teutonic mind end in defining woman's destiny thus comprehensively the kaiser may be regarded as the spokesman of his people. Germany's ideal, however, has changed since the days when Tacitus described the woman of the Teutons as accompanying their husbands to battle and engaging in the fight and it may change again, despite the kaiser's clever saying. Jnst Think of It! Fargo (N. D.) Forum. This McKlnley prosperity is raising & good deal cf bother. Two years ago we got in a carload of wood and had as many people wanting to saw it as there were sticks. Now we've been trying for a week to get some man to cut the wood, and everybody is too busy. We want someone to put on storm windows and fix up for cold weather around the house. It's the same way we've got no time to hunt for a man, and no man seems to be hunting for a Job. It wasn't that way before this man McKlnley came in and brought that old fraud prosperity along. It's beginning to look like we'd have to saw our own wood. - Lota of Pennies. Philadelphia Record. What becomes of all the pennies? A superficial answer might be that we spend them, as in truth we do; but did you ever stop to consider the enormous quantities of the little copper coins turned out by the Philadelphia mint every year? The figures are really appalling in their magnitude. There are at present about 1.000.000.000 cents in circulation, and vet the mint is compelled to turn out nearly 4,000,000 a month to keep up the supply. It seems as though this most common coin must In some mysterious fashion vanish in thin air, or surely nobody hoards them. Cofcts Too Much. ; - New York Letter. New Yorkers do not take kindly to the proposition to perpetuate the Dewey arch In marble. The arch is of beautiful design and an imposing creation, but as it will cost In the neibhborhood of a million dollars, in round fltrures. to duplicate it in marble, the people who will be called on to pay the bill turn their backs on the project. If an arch could be constructed in imperishable stone with talk alone. New York would construct one a mile high. " "Why Kansas Smile. Kansas City Journal. That expression of smypathy by the Massachusetts Democrats for the "distressed" .people of the Wert is causing a great deal of amusement. There never was a time when the people of the West had less need of sympathy, and the spectacle of a State which has George Fred Williams and Edward Atkinson pitying the woes of any other community Is too laughable for anything. - - Was Once Devuttfol. Springfield Republican. The curious, fact is revealed l y the discontinuance of the coining of Ths th iler of the free city of Frankfort that the etcat actor, Fanny Janauschek, was once beautiful as well as interesting 'n :ounti;ance. She was chosen queen of beauty at a Frunkfort schuetzenfest, and her features m profile were chosen for the head on the Frarkfort thaler. The Difference. Boston Herald. Pompey buys a brush, whitewashes a fence and earns 50 cents. Millet, with the same outlay, paints the "Angelus." which sells for $150,000. Which demonstrates that the notion that all men are created equal is an iridescent dream. That's a fair sample of the stuff that John James Ingalls is contributing to the newspapers nowadays. Hurting: the Party. Philadelphia Record (Dera.) Aguinaldo in declaring that he wants the Democrats to win in the next presidential and congressional election has done the Democratic party a bad turn. When the enemies of the country take sides with either political party they drive support away from it. Tbe Financial Ontlook. Boston Journal. When David B. Henderson, of Iowa, stands up andi says that the incoming Congress will nail the gold standard on the statute books it Is reasonably safe to calculate that that idea is going to have the fowerful support of the speaker of the louse. Flattering. Boston Globe. "The Filiplnes hope." says Aguinaldo. "is placed in a great party in America that insists on the government s recognizing our independence." How flattered Messrs. Atkinson and Bradford must feel. . Hard Job. Washington Post. Admiral Dewey's hard task Is before him. He is going up into Vermont among a lot of people who will expect him to recall a horde of boyhood incidents which never happened. Unsafe. Baltimore American. Ex-Presldent Cleveland and General Shafter are to go on the lecture platform. Unless they can train down a little they had better do their talking from the ground. - Afraid of His Indorsement. Baltimore American. Agulnaldo's remaks In behalf of the Democratic party are causing some consternation among his American allies. It's a little more than they were looking for. Small Politic. Washington Post. Mr. Bryan's effort to array the farmer against the city folk is rather small polltics and a reflection on the intelligence of his intended victims. Undeterred Affliction. Washington Post. Oom Paul Kruger Is a kindly old gentleman and doesn't deserve the support of the New York World. It Hidden Danger. Baltimore American. A man never knows how dangerous a letter may be made to appear until he hears It read la court.

FOR CAPITAL IN CUBA

GOOD CHANCES FOR INVESTMENT IS LAND AND SIORTGAGES. Feature of the Cuban Lnnr-?orae In accurate Survey Statements of a Native Lawyer. New York Evening Post. With the approach of the cooler fall weather there his come, this year, a particularly large Influx of visitors to New York from Cuba and Porto Rico. Some of them have come to put sons to school here, nrd some merely as visitor, for pleasure; while the object of a number is to interest American capital in various enterprises In the Antilles. One of the last-named class, a bright young Cuban lawyer, educated partly In this country, .said in conversation with a reporter for the Evening Post: "There Is today in Cuba an absolutely unprecedented opportunity for the investment of American capital, with a certainty of big returns in the immediate ;'uture. But I have found that the investing public here Is somewhat shy, chiefly by reason of having been persist ently misinformed by unscrupulous schemers, who advertise extensively, and hava nothing more bolld to back them than very elaborate office stationer Most of the socalled Cuban land companies are not very safe to deal through, for the reason that they do business entirely on options, and an option is something that the average Cuban landholder cannot be made to understand. If he wishes to sell his land ho is probably hard pressed for money as most people in Cuba are to-day and the first manj who brings him his price will be the purchaser, regardless of the option given last month or clx weeks ago to a firm in the United States, of whom the Cuban proprietor, after all, knows nothing. The fact is proverbial with us that such options are mere papel mojado (wet paper) that is. worthless. "Loaning money on rxortgages, however, offers an excellent field to foreign capitalists. Under the present system in Cuba no mortgage may , be foreclosed until loL Then, if both principal and accumulated Interest be not immediately forthcoming, foreclosure takes place within fifty days. X foreclosure Is the easiest thing in the world in Cuba. Thirty days are given to pay me amount due; then, unlet the mortgagee cam present at a public hearing the stiongest Hnd of legal proof that he is being unjustly dealt with, the sale is announced In the Gaceta Oficial for twenty days, and theo the auction takes place. A WEYLER IDEA. "The Idea of postponing all foreclosures till 1301 was General Weyler's. He made thia law to mitigate In' a measure the evlla of the famous 'reconcentratlon edict, which! had driven thousands of people off their farms and into the towns and incapacitated them so long-as the insurrection lasted from earning anything or paying off any clalrru against their property. This 1901 foreclosure law is still in effect, the American occupancy having done nothing to change it. But, as ' money is scarce In Cuba to-day, excellent mortgages are to had fco cheap that, even though the mortgagee failed to pay his Interest the. sale ot the property In lyoi would amply compensate the mortgageor. In this manner some excellent-estates could be fccured much better than by purchase outright, and then either held and worked byi tho buyers or sold off at considerable profit. Tobacco and coffee plantations, and in a lesser degree sugar-cane fields as well, are hard to keep running without some technical skill and experience. But ranching is far easier and very profitable. Mortgages oa residential property in Havana are also excellent. Most houses are built of mamposteria, or lath covered with cement, andl tbey vary in price from email $3,000 cottages to mansions on the Prado valued at fromj 170.000 to $90,000. Many of these bring in. monthly rents, and the law allows a moi tgageor to levy on these rents for payment off his interest, although he may not foreclose till 1901. "Our Cuban system of registering titles and conveying property I have this from Mr. Earnest Co nan t, of the American commission, himself a lawyer is better tham that in vogue In most States of the Union, and second only to that provided In Australia by the well-known Torrens act. Your system here Is based on the English common law; ours, derived from Spain, on the Prussian system of Frederick. 11. To be brief, the Cuban system differs from that of Kngland and the United States in that it exacts a careful search of every title before recording themle or transfer of any piece of property: Here, you tee. the foreign investor will find an additional safeguard. "One thing, however, is to be guarded against, and that Is the Inaccurate surveys of a great deal of land In the provinces of Santiago and Puerto Principe. To this day there are in the two provinces mentioned numbers of people who could not for the life, of them telU.Just where to .build their fences, and many cases where a plantation is held Jointly by fifteen or twenty persons more or less related to each other, none off whom knows which particular corner he or she individually owns. SOME SPANISH WAYS. "This state of things came about as foN lows: As you know, during the eighteenth century Spain paid very little attention to Cuba and Cuban affairs. Her economic the ory held mineral wealth to be the only criterion of a. colony's value, and so all her efforts were devoted to the South Americas, which were rich in precious ores. There was but little emigration to Cuba. The country was sparsely settled, and planters lived an easy selgnorlal sort of life, that was too pleasant to spoil by quarreling over land which was to be had almost for the asking. A Spanish gentleman on emigrating would secure a land grant of o manr furlongs radius' from a given point. He would build his house, cultivate perhaps one-half of the grant, and never trouble himself further. By and by another grantee would come and settle within visiting distance on horseback-from the first and on a similar 'radius grant. They might live and die in good friendship with each other, but their heirs are to-day frequently surprised by discoveries that the family property overlaps somebody else's by one-halfor is half covered by some neighbor's real estate. So it is that many pieces of property called haciendas comunates especially, as I said, in Santiago and Puerto Principe are held Jsintly to-day by fifteen or twenty persons, who don't dare to insist on any Individual apportionment, because somebdy will be sure to get nothing but a lawsuit for his share of the ancestral domain. "I do not know that there is much retail trade to be done in the Cuban cities by Americans. We buy American shoes, but stick to English clothing and French manufactured articles. Then, too, our people prefer the Spanish-speaking shopkeepers. But it would only take a careful study of our market on the part of American manufacturers to change this, I am sure. The United States' occupancy has already done great things for us. the disappearance of the established church and the law establishing Judicial marriages, for instance. Only the question of schools remains to be dealt with, and it is an important one. We need schools public schools more than any? one can imagine who has not seen and studied Cuba, and the solution of this problem is what every right-minded Cuban hopes to see next attempted." Support Ills War Tollcy. Philadelphia Record (Dem.) The generous, public-spirited and effusive populace of Chicago have made President McKinley's visit to that city an occasion long to bo remembered for its spontaneous overflow of patriotism and good will no less than its splendid manifestation of lavish hospitality.' It has been made quite clear, at all events, that the executive Is of and for the American people, without regard to petty partisan consideration, and that" in the pathway of public duty his administration has no enemies thit are not also hostile to the Republic. Open recogritlon of this vital truth might serve the turn of the President's contingent of car-platform speakers far better than veiled and feeble Imputations of disloyalty designed to Mir up evil passions and elicit mere partisan applause. The Folltlcal Game. Cleveland Leader. Even though It forever plays a losing game, the Democratic party Is always ready to anti. la This Kind? Scranton Tribune. " All seem to agree that General Otis' li paved wlta coed intentions.

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