Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 297, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER, 24, 1899.

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In order to recelre attention, be years tne board creates ty tne law ais accompanied tj the name and address of the charged Its duties, when It was discovered Rejected ma&uirripti will not be returned un- that the alma of certain persona would not us postage is inclosed for that purpose. )e secured if the work went on. ConsequentTI1E INDIANAPOLIS JOtRNAL 9ome flaw ,n the law was and Can be found at the following places: found- Tl,e Constitution declares that a KEW YORK As tor House. term pf office shall not exceed four years. CHICAGO-Palmer HouTe, P. O. Nw Co., 217 and the terms- of the Park Board were llmDearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and lled to flve year8p Because of this defect the Grind Pacific Hotel. . . ' CINCINNATI J. R. Hawley & Co., lZi Vine law was declared unconstitutional, the Board limsvi-C. T. IVerlnr" northwest corner Pu&"c Works became Park Commissioner Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville era1, and a new site was discovered and purBook Co.. 2Gi Fourth avenue. . . . . . . . . , , . . chased which is not as desirable as could ST. LOUIS Union News Company. Union Depot. e found. .WASHINGTON. Y. C Rlggs House. Ebbltt The acts of the last Legislature creatHouse and WUlard's Hotel. lng county and township boards are genIf Russia and France are to. intervene in admitted to be the most useful legtehalf of the Boers they should lose no time Islal,on that has been enacted for years' about It. These laws have already put county and i township affairs upon a business basis. seThe most malignant Influence which Mr. curing economical and intelligent manageTJryan has to combat In Nebraska is abund- ments. Nine-tenths of the intelligent peoant crop pie In the State believe In the-se laws. There ', " "" are those who do not, and they are bent on Mr. McLean, the "alien" of the i Cleveland getting rid of them. Their lav yers have Plain Dealer, will need all those prayers i00ked over the law with quizzing glasses which Agulnaldo urged his followers to of hIgh magnifying power to find a fatal Offer for the success of the Democratic defect. They have discovered that certain part-- positions shall be held by freeholders only, and this they hold to be unconstitutional. Because Mr. Bryan said In Kentucky that . ilA t, . A. , - , 4. , . because the Constitution has another quallthe few state elections this year would have AJ a m t , , M , . A. , fication for offlce-holcllng. Upon this alleged el powerful influence upon the presidential .i - u tJ t, . , ,, . . defect lawyers will ask to have a measure election, the gold Democrats In Maryland . . ... , . of vast Importance to good government have declared for the Republican ticket. , ...... . declared unconstitutional. Does not the There are Indications that the people of 8ame defect hold in regard to election inthe South have a very kindly feeling for spectora? Why should not those who are the President, which was increased by his fighting good government seek to have the Evansvllle speech, which was so apprecia- election laws declared unconstitutional? tlva of the'Southern people for volunteering Sensible people are very impatient with for the war against Spain. such pettifogging to get rid of wholesome laws. The decision of Judge Lacombe, of the United States Court In New Tork. Is that PEACE THROUGH CIVILIZATION, the court-martial found Captain Carter Governor Roosevelt, besides being a stuffullty of four distinct charges and that a dent 0f history, is an original thinker, and separate sentence was Imposed upon each wnen he speaks he generally says . someconvlctlon, making a perfectly legal ag- thins for other people to think about. In grcgate Of penalty. This should settle the his speech at Cincinnati Saturday night Carter case. he advanced an idea which, if not entirely m .... . original, is at least a new presentation of The decision of the Illinois Supreme Court . . . , . . A, . - - ' . . . an old subject. Discussing the situation In Jn the glucose case Is provoking much com- -nuni i v u t.n , . , , , , , the Philippines he said: "Remember that ment. The general expression of opinion is . . . . , . 1V ..... . . . . . , . , . expansion Is not only the handmaid of that if the decision shall hold, a remedy to . m . . . lt , A. . ' . , greatness, but, above all. It is the handtreak, up monopolistic combinations has al- - . , ..... . . ., , , maid of peace." Amplifying this idea he ready been discovered. So early a solution . . , , , ,,, . ' . . . . . , . . ... . argued that every advancement of civi izaof the problem involved In trusts will ruin . ... . . tlon and every substitution of superior for a campaign Issue. , , , . inferior government, of stable government "Mr. Goebel Is conceded to be a beaten tor revolutionary or semi-savage governman In Kentucky by his friends," says the men tends to the preservation of the correspondent of an Independent Democrat- Pace of the world. He maintained that ic paper; "but he has the election machin- the day when universal peace is possible ery, and that can perform wonders." Still, can on,y come when the nations of the the Goebelites will find a difference be- world have grown civilized. "The whole tween counting out negroes in Alabama and history of our century." he said, "shows Louisiana and white men, many of them a diminishing tendency to war between Democrats, in Kentucky. civilized powers, and shows also that the . existence of a savage or barbarous state The New York correspondents in Ohio Inevitably means war sooner or later, agree In the statement that Senator Mark Every expansion of a civilized power is a Ilanna Is becoming popular. He has been conquest for peace." Bringing the arguunmercifully caricatured as a boss, creating ment home directly to an Ohio audience much prejudice against him. During the ho said: present campaign he has made sensible if we had refused to expand over the speeches, chiefly to -worklngmen, to whom West do you think that the West would be . . . . . 41 peaceful now? If, Instead of your forehe has made himself agreeable. Continued fathers settling here in Ohio, you had left abuse of a man often reacts. Ohio to the Indians do, you think the country would have had peace? Indeed, it .... would not. Just so long as there was an In a recent interview Admiral Dewey re- independent Indian power on your borders iterated his determination not to be a can- 'ou were cPsed t0 the certainty of conMt. . . . . , . . A stantly recurrent war. dldate for President. When asked what .... ... , . . . , . On the same principle he argued that policy he would pursue toward the Filipinos . . . . fl. a i w w w u the establishment of free government In the he said: "One straight from the shoulder . . . ... , . - . . . . . T Philippines and the extension of the area and with plenty of force behind it. In the . .... . ... 0 u nvm . . . . , of civilization would, by so much, add to case of the Philippines there is mercy in . , . . . . , . , , ...... the Influences making for universal peace. force and untold misery In procrastination." . . ..... w i ... ., . , This Js a broad and philosophical view Still, the flag-furlers will continue to de- . v i . iii . . . . of the subject. Anti-expansionists may clare that the admiral is opposed to the , . . .. .. . . . ,ar laugh at the idea of laying the foundations of peace by war, and Mr. Bryan may A great deal of unnecessary anxiety was talk flippantly aboit the folly of trying to caused by those persons who arrived In shoot civilization into the Filipinos, but the Minneapolis on Saturday and gave out that fact remains that peace Is an outgrowth the transport Senator, loaded with troops, of civilization and that some of the greathad probably been lost in a typhoon. Those est advances of civilization have been made telling the story knew nothing whatever through war. From a near view "war is about the matter, but expressed the opinion nei: and n unmixed evil, but thus far In that a ship so much out of water could the history of the human race it has not withstand the storm. It Is time enough oexssxd to be- the mccessa? y ffeature of the to talk of calamity at sea when the fact evolution which Is finally to "bring about Is actually known. universal peace. "Doubt not through the . . ages one increasing purpose runs," says How much better It would have been If Tennyson. As far as human vision can the Senate, in 1S71, had ratified the treaty perceive that Increasing purpose or divine which President Grant made annexing San plan is to bring about a survival of the Domingo, but which was defeated by fittest by tae successive, annihilation or Charles Sumner and General Schurz. Revo- absorption of Inferior races by superior lution after revolution has swept over the ones, of savagery by civilization and of island. A few weeks ago a President was lower civilizations by higher. One does assassinated. The condition of a fertile not see the progress of this movement much

lsi-na wnicn, wnn peace ana intelligent ellrectlon, WOUld be the home Of a large and prosperous population, is worse than twenty years Ago. The extent of the Jones movement It, Av. ... The correspondent cf the Chfccairo Record . , .w . . ,,, . , . .1 that-he will draw most of it from Republicam. On the other hand, the corresnondent of the New York Times is confident that vi m v - . it v Mia vic n lit uc a nuati uuj vci;tU9C 113 e ki ii. v.,, the old Parties will muster their followers -bout the aame es the nast five vMr, n.f that the Republicans will have their usual maloritv - Those who may imagine that the Carriage Uakers' Association has no other purpose than a good time in Its annual meetings are very much mistaken. Business is the prime incentive of the meeting. They do not expect to aell each other carriages, but each expects to get some new ideas about the construction and marketing of all sorts . T- , - carries, eacx. rrcacowiuvo an enterprising house can add some new Idea

,..i r.m r government. The American idea Is not that to the general stock of existing knowledge ;elf-government is necessarily the best all will know many things when they go government; the true American Idea is that v -li.,. , K, wa wherever it is at all possible self-govern-away which they did not when they came ment , a better thlng tnan tne gQv. together. It Is altogether probable that the ernment. members of the association will discusi This la plausible but fallacious. In efrlam which will prevent the waste of ener- feet It argues that the worst possible form and the loss of money incident to eager of self-government Is better than the best cttltlcn ia the carriage business. It la I Government possible under a superior

r055lbI they mar dlvd tne field among themselves so that the representatives of a ficore of houses win not travel over the same district. It Is also possible that they will take steps to regulate prices so there will Le a profit in making and selling carrlases- A11 thl3 13 lKltmate protection of business, and there is a difference between lt an(l the tru.t which seeks to limit production, control prices, prevent competition . . . . , , . and Issue for rale a lot of stock which represent3 no value. PKTTIFOOGIXIJ. One 0f tne flr!at moves against a good law, which has been placed on the statute book

jn a generation, any more than one notes the steady recession of Niagara Falls or the gradual subdence of a continent. But lt goeg on all the sarne lt follow- then that a c11 PI pie may at their option or pleasure make war on undvillx-eU peoples and either an nihilate. absorb or subjugate them? Hy no means; but. U doS folIow that When a CiV illze(i natlon by the forCe f ClrCUm stances or overruling Providence, compelled to choose between advancing along lined I that lead through war towards civilization and peace or falling back before an in ferIor PeoPle and a l0Wer civilization, it 8hould not hesItate to advance 11 13 llter" I ally true as Governor Roosevelt said, that I "Expansion means not only the extension of J American influence and power; it means the I extension of liberty and order and the I bringing nearer by gigantic strides of the I day when peace shall come to the whole earth." One of the speakers at the Chicago antl expansion conference of last week said: I Fellow-citizens I .warn you against the I constant talk about good government. The greal principiH ioT whlch lhls country I stands Is noi good government, but

power. It Is an argumpnt for the survival of the unfittest. As matter of fact the United States has never recognized the principle of self-government In Its dealings with savage .tribes or semi-civilized peoples. On the contrary, it has always acted on the principle that the progress of civilization required that they be brought under civilized government, no matter how much force might be required to do It. By our treaty with Spain we have a better right to enforce American law over the Filipinos than we had over the Indians. As Governor Roosevelt said: "Every argument that can be made for the Filipinos could be made for the Apaches; every word that can be said for Agulnaldo could be said for Sitting Bull." We are justified in baling our right to

suppress the Insurrection in the Philippines on the Constitution and treaties of the United States. These are the supreme law of the land; but there Is a higher law, namely, the law that requires civilized nations to do the bidding of Providence in ex tending the area for a universal peace through universal civilization. 3111. BKYAVS DLlTiDEH. It appears from an interview with Mr. Bryan in yesterday's papers that in Ne braska he will make the President's policy in the Philippines the issue during the next two weeks, for the reason that he believes the people are hostile thereto. It is not a question whether or not the President is right or wise in the course he is pursuing, but whether a political Issue can be made out of lt. It is of no consequence whether the government would be disgraced and thel Nation humiliated by pursuing a different policy, so long as there appears to be a winning Issue in denouncing the war, and practically In opposing fighting the Issue to victory. Looking only to party advantage, the Journal is much gratified to . have Mr. Bryan assume the position he has in re gard to the Philippines. He makes a mis take when, with a few others wbo made mistakes about silver, he assumes that the people of this country would get out of the war and out of the Philippines as soon as possible. The American people are not flag-furlers. They are not in favor of re tiring from territory secured by treaty. If we do not hold the islands permanently unJ der our sovereignty, a's Admiral Dewey advises, we are bound to establish a decent government in the Islands, and protect that government. The feeling In favor of such a line of action la much wider than the Re publican party. How wide lt is in the East ws-s manifested by the unprecedented hon ors conferred upon Admiral Dewey, who stands for the occupation of the islands. Already Mr. Bryan and his fellow-demagogues are calling the conflict in Luzon a Republican war, or a McKinley war. He ought to know that sort of talk will not af fect patriotic men. Between 1S61 and 1SC3 the peace-at-any-prlce Democrats stigmatized the war for the Union as "Abe Lincoin's Abolition War," but they did not deceive patriotic people. A clasa of Democrats seem not to understand the patriotic purpose of the American people. In 1S63 the McLeans and the Cincinnati Enquirer supported Vallandlgham for Governor under the conviction that the loyal people were weary of "Abe Lincoln's War." They made all they could of that issue in a very dreary period of the war, yet when the votes of the people of Ohio were counted the anti-war candidate was buried under a plurality of over one hundred thousand. Have the Bryans and the McLeans forgotten the lesson of 1863, or Is it Impossible for them to comprehend that the American people, like those of Great Britain and Germany, are for national honor before partisanship? It will be much better for Mr. Bryan to stick to his dead silver heresy in Nebraska, since in that State the chances of defeat will be less than If he forces an Issue in which he is the champion or a policy which would delight Agulnaldo. Mr. W. D. Howells, who Is West on a lecture tour, was In Chicago a day or so ago, and of course was interviewed. Among other things his opinion was asked as tothe propriety of Superintendent Andrews's ac tion in forbidding the reading of Kipling's "Rjcesslonal" in the schools on the ground that lt is too sectarian and violates the liberal policy of the schools. Mr. Howells made this reply: "The lines certainly represent a vigorous Christianity. I may say that there is no Christianity in our common schools. It would be manifestly unfair to the spirit in which the common schools of this country were conceived and to the Jews who attend the schools, to admit the Recessional." " Of what could Mr. Howells have been thinking? If there was ever a poem which acknowledged the Almighty as a power above all and ajust judge the judge of the nations that poem is the Recessional Its a Christian poem only In its recogni tion of God. and does not Mr. Howells allow the Jews a share in "The Lord God of Hosts?" Even Mr. Andrews objected to it only because "agnostics" might be offended. The test of the voting machines In Rochester, N. Y., was so satisfactory that another test will be made in Buffalo at the election in November. The city has pur chased 110 machines, for which it paid $35,000. This seems a large amount, but it will be saved in four years by the reduction of election expenses. The cost of an election will be one-third less with the machines. One saving is in reducing the number of polling places nearly one third. But the re duced cost is not the most important item. The machine means absolute accuracy and makes fraud Impossible, while the result of an election in a large city can be known In an hour after the polls close. The Journal hopes that some arrangement may be made by which voting machine9 can be used in Indianapolis and other cities in the State. The cost of an election is very great In Indiana because of the cumbersome machinery. If in any State the reduced cost of elections by the use of machines will be sufficient to pay for the apparatus in four years lt will be In Indiana. By an act of the Republican Legislature of Nebraska voters, if they choose, can give the name of the party whose ticket they propose to vote. In Lincoln and Omaha such registration the first day showed large Republican gains, which so alarmed the Bryanltes that they have con sidered the advisability of securing an Injunction to prevent the question of party preference being asked. Somebody writes to the New York Sun to ask if the Church Is a variety show and then cites some illustrations which seem to answer the question in the affirmative. He quotes from a column of advertisements The Iadies Foreign Missionary Society of one congregation announces a "pancake social" in the church parlors. A "hard times social" Is the attraction in one other church "fried chicken, baking powder biscuit and sherbet for 15 cents." In another church, supper will be served "mucins.

ham, pickles, coffee, 15 cents." Also, at

another tiire the Christian Endeavor So ciety will givj a concert, "with ice cream and fun for all." The young ladies of still another congregation announce a "soap bubble social"' "cake of soap, pleasant en tertainment, scngs, recitations, etc.. In exchange for a silver dime." At another church a lecturer will deliver a side-split ting address on "the uses of ugliness." There will also be a chicken-pie supper. At yet another the "comic cantata, Cox and Box," will be given, "supper and heaps of fun." And so on. The most of these churches appear to be in Brooklyn, and allowance must be made for the aprarent frivolity on the ground that life is rather dull in that city, and the people mut have some amusement. Besides, it must be acknowledged that the variety shows the Sun cor respondent complains of are not really of a 6ort to warp the morals, whatever the weakening effect may be on the stomachs and the minds of those in attendance. I "To settle disputes" people will continue to write to the newspapers for the next year asking when the nineteenih century ends and the twentieth begins. The Journal has already answered the Inquiry many times, but still "constant readers" and "old subscribers" go on putting the question. The answer has been that the twentieth century will begin Jan. 1. 1901, and It may be of some Interest to the various querists to know that this date has been fixed by what must be considered the highest authority. The Chicago Tribune asked Director Christie, of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, to decide the matter, and in reply he writes as follows: I beer to inform vou that the twentieth century begins on Jan. 1. 1301. It has been generally agreed to call the first year of the Christian era Anno Domini 1, not A. D. 0, and consequently the second century begins with A. D. 101. one hundred years alter tne beginning of the first year, and so on for the succeeding centuries. The question was fully discussed at the Century dinner at Glascow on Anril 13. 1S70. when the lord dean of the guild, after quoting various authorities, gave his decision as arbiter that the nineteenth century did not commence till Jan. 1. 1S01. An account of this meeting was printed for private circulation at the time. All the doubters should accept this and re gard the matter as officially settled. "Champ" Clark, the Missouri statesman. Just now engaged -rn telling what a great man Bryan is. says the crying need of the Republic Is a robust and active foolkiller. There, will be plenty of- people to agree with him, and some to point out Mr. Clark to the foolkiller when that functionary ia ready to begin. Ill HULKS I THE AIR. Explained. She Why do they call them sample rooms? He They are great places for getting trial packages. The man first gets the pack age, and the trial follows. In Advance. The Critic That does not look the least like nature. The Artist True enough, no doubt; but don't you think nature will reach it some day if she keeps improving? The Com fed Phllonoplier. "Of course, the only truly happy man Is the man who devotes his life to doing good for others'," said the Cornfed Philosopher. "That is the only occupation a man can engage In, In which people will let him have hLs own way." ' In a Quandary "What puzzles me," murmured Chollie, as he found the other fellow had. reached the house of the adored one ahead of him and was monopolizing her attention, "what troubles me is the question whether I am this evening more of an outlander or a bore." '. ... A GERMAN INTERVIEW. General Hnrrlnon Gets) Off Easily from n Ilerllu Journalist. New York Tribune. A German interviewer for the Berliner Tageblatt made an attempt to get an In terview with ex-President Harrison during his brief stay In the German capital, and the result, whicn he spreads at length in the columns of his paper. Is somewhat amusing to readers of American newspapers. The Interviewer was deeply Impressed with General Harrison's high position and distinguished record before he started on his errand, and gives full expression to his misgivings as to his reception by such a per sonage. "Perhaps It would be possible to have a talk with him as to what he thinks of Germany, that he is visiting for the first time; as to affairs in France, that he has just left after a long visit; as to England and the Transvaal, as to the Dewey excitement, as to the insurance commlssloa, as to ah, there are so many things It would be Interesting to find his views about!" But It is first to be found out whether so eminent a man can be seen and whether he will have the kindness to communicate his opinions about all that one would like to ask him. That Isn't always so easy as you might think. The reporter went to General Harrison's hotel early In the morning and asked the clerk whether, and. If so. how, when and where, the distinguished guest could be seen. At first he was told that General Harrison would give no Interview. But patience and perseverance accomplish all things. By the kindness of the private secretary the Interviewer gained the promise of a short Interview only the general would not discuss politics of any kind. "Not even with journalists?" asks this innocent German interviewer. The secretary twists his moustache to hide a grin at the naivete of the question. "Especially not with journalists. What would you like to learn from him?" In the first place, I'd like to see him If I rnnld" He could and did. and gives a flat tering description of the ex-President's agreeable reception of him, his short, but courteous greeting, his firm grasp of the Viarirt ThP inurnnllst heerins to ask about France and Dreyfus. The general and his secretary' look at -each otner. ine general smiles regretfully and courteously: his secretary mirrors the smile. Then the same thing wun n;ngiana ana tne unaia una d.n r Tinrlln u'hatV(r it miht DP,. "May I askhow long you intend to stay?" "Five days-then General Harrison goes to London?" Thprp-it la all over. Political questions were barred, and the interviewer confides regretfully to his readers that since last night the city's guest could hardly have formed an answer to the question how he liked Berlin apparently he did not ask the question so they exchanged adieus. His little daughter was playing on the f..tiAi.i nt thf nrt room. "It was a niaisnnt s!ht to soe the elderly, fresh, energetic man with the sharp eyes, who so decisively refused to discuss pouues. anu with him the pretty child, who did not even yet know there was such n thing as hateful politics and that papa was so distinguished a .tntpsman." And that is the story of a column In terview with General Harrison in me rer liner Tageblatt. Should Reap the Crop. Omaha Bee. The farmer who raises a good crop and then falls to gather it would not be counted a wise man. The country has raised up the finest crop of prosperity under Republican administration ever known, and it does not propose to let it go to waste just to accommodate a lot of Democrats seeking offices. Trnde nud the Fine. Chicago News. Trade is usually described as following the flag, though Bourke Cockran avers lt goes in the opposite direction. However that may be, the trade that follows the flag is all richt. It is only when it wants to get on the flag in the shape of an advertisement that the American people object. A Theory. Baltimore American. It is probable that the Kentucky orator who referred to Mr. Bryan as "standing like a great rock" had the Shamrock in mind at the Unit. ,

DEFENDS THE FRIARS

ARCHBISHOP C1IAPPELLE SA1S THE FILin.NOS OWE THEM MUCH. He Think General Fnnnton Han Been Misquoted In Charging Them -tvitli Fomenting; Revolution. MANY ARE IN REBEL PRISONS UNDERGOING TOHTLHE AT HANDS OF AGLI.NALDO FOLLOWERS. Tribute to the Work of the Hellfflous Orders In the Philippine Cbnrch l'royrrty. WASHINGTON. Oct. 23.-Archbisop Chappelle, of New Orleans, apostolic delegate to Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines tpday gave out the following statement to the Associated Press: "In answer to General Funston's state ment made in an address to the students of Stanford University that 'Jf Congress would drive out the friars and conttseate every Inch of church property the bottom would drop out of the insurrection within one week. The inhabitants of Luzon are completely under the church.' I deem it I roper to make the following public statement: "Knowinz what I do from m;,st relia ble authority of General Funston's broad-, rrindedness and sense of fairness. I do not believe that he has been Quoted correctly.. He may have stated that the Insurgents de mand this as a condition of peace; but that he gave them as his own sentiments l cannot credit. From my own experience I know how easily it is to be misquoted. All I can eay is, if General Funston did make this 6tat?ment he manifested a dense ignorrrce of the work done by the religious orders In this archipelago. On the very face of it, however, it shows quite plainly mat it did not come from one as well posted as General Funston should be on affairs In Luzon. He is quoted as saying: 'The inhabi tants of Luzon are completely under the church.' Now I would ask ho at can this be possible when every priest (with the ex ception or a few natives) in tne island or Luzon, outside of the walled city of Manila, is a prltoner of the insurgents? For the past eighteen months this state of affairs has existed and during all this period more than 3.V) friars have been undergoing unheard of tortures in Insurgent dungeons. This being a fact, it is hard for me to see how the islands can be under the friars. It looks to me as though just the opposite were the case. "That the insurgents have asked as one of their terms of peace the expulsion of the friars and the confiscation to the insurgenas cf all the church property is a fact well known; but we are told by the government official (and I know it to be a fact from other reliable sources) that the insurgents represent only one tribe out of the eightyfive tribes peopling the archipelago, so the sentiments voiced by the insurgents about the friars and church propery cannot be taken as the sentiments of the great body of the natives, no more than they can be taken as the sentiments of the natives towards our people and government. OWE MUCH TO THE FRIARS. "Whatever the natives are or have they owe to the friars. By them they were lifted out of savagery and brought under the blessed and refining influences of Chris tianity. By them' they were educated, not only In the schools, but in the fields and the workshops; were taught by them the very Industries which are now the source of their prosperity. Mr. Peyton, the agent of the Episcopal Foreign Mission Association, tells us that 'the natives are the most moral and religious people on the face of the b.wc iuvf, me men wno taught them to be so cannot be such men as some narrow-minded people would try and have us believe. Rev. Dr. Abeel. a Scotch Protestant missionary, also tpstiflps that 'noariv the whole population of the Philippine archipelago has been converted to the amonc raitn oy the Spanish monks, and a wonderful improvement i n their soMal condition has been the result.' He then goes on to snow that if any one doubts this improvement it can easily be made manifest by comparing the Christian native with his southern neighbor of the same blood the fanatical Moor. "As to the confiscation of the estates, you might as well talk of confiscating the estates of the Vanderbilts, the Astors and other millionaires whose estates have, in the course of years, grown so wonderfully. There would be just as much right and justice In one case as in the other. The estates of the religious orders have been acquired in the usual way by purchase, and n the course of nearly four centuries have naturally grown large, but if even unbiased Protestant witnesses are to be credited, large as they are, all are used for the betterment and uplifting of the natives. "A former British consul (a Protestant), writing on this subject, says: 'It was bv means of these estates the friars introduced agriculture and settled habits of life among tribes originally nomadic.' It was by means of these estates that they got them to live in villages and introduced among them the arts of civilized life. It was by means of these estates that they acquired the power of inducing them to labor with a certain amount of regularity and method the great safeguard against a relapse again into their original state of savagery. IN NEED OF TUTELAGE. " The natives, he says, 'are, with some rare exceptions, in need of tutelage, without which they would fall back to the customs of their ancestors; a tutelage that no one can exercise better than the friars. Within the precincts of the monasteries are to be "found carpenter shops, forges, brick and tile yards, etc., to teach the natives various trades. The villages around them presented a pleasing picture of happiness and content, in startling contrast to those who were still pagan and uncivilized. "In a short time I will start for the Philippines and I will personally investigate all charges made against religious orders, titles of property, etc. Until I have completed my work I would ask the good people of the United States not to be too ready to swallow as facts the opinions of gentlemen whose previous training and lack of opportunities to get at the real facts do not warrant their statements concerning the Catholic ministers of religion, the intellectual capacity and the moral and social condition of the people of the archipelago. Their statements should not be taken as undisputed facts by sensible and just minds; nor can they, therefore, be taken as an -exact presentation of a condition of things in the Philippines upon which the United States government could prudently and equitably base its policy with regard to this archipelago. The church asks only justice, and I will not countenance the retention of one Inch of property which is not legitimately held. "One word now on another subject. I see that it is said that the object of my visit to the White House on Saturday was to protest against the looting and desecrating of the churches In the Philippine This was not the case. As to the looting and desecrating of these churches I am informed by a person, whose word I cannot doubt, that this looting was not done by our American sold!ers, but by the insurgents and the Chinese. h "P. L. CHAPPELLE, "Archbishop of New Orleans, Delegate Apostolic." FOR PARNELL MONUMENT. $10,000 Contributed hy N'evr Yorker -Cheers for Oom Paul. NEW YORK, Oct. 23. The movement for a monument to the late Charles Stewart Parnell, in which Lord Mayor Tallon, of Dublin, and John E. Redmond, M. P., have come from Ireland to Interest Americans, was given great Impetus last night at a largely attended meeting In the Academy of Music. Almost every Irishman of local Im portance was present, including Richard Croker and ex-Mayor Patrick Gleason, of Long Island. The audience received the names of the distinguished visitors by standing up and cheering for some mo ments. A the cneenng oegan to subside some one called, out: "Hurrah for Ocm Paul!" The sentiment was a popular one. and the Boer leader's name was cheered again and asaln. Addresses were delivered by Lord Mayor Tallon and lr. Redmond, cxjj.alirm. the oh-

ject of the meeting and eulogizing Mr. Parnell's work. Baskets were then circulated, and it Is estimated that over JIO.GO was collected. Richard Croker gave $."", Bourke Cockran oo. Mayor Van Wyck $100. Twenty thousand dollars will, it is said, buy the Parnell homestead. .WORLD'S WOOL PRODUCT. An Addrean by Herbert Gibson nt the Commerclnl ConRreas.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 23.-The members of the International Commercial Congre3 listened to-day to papers dealing with the compiling of international statistics and with the commercial situation In South Africa. Congressman H. H. LIngham, of this city, presided and introduced P. Llewellyn, who spoke on "Uniformity in Trade Statistics." Carroll D. Wright. United States commissioner of labor, spoke on the same subject and offered a number of suggestions for unifying systems. Herbert Gibson, representative of the government of tho Argentine Republic, read a paper on the world's wool product and Argentina's contribution thereto. He gave statistic to show that of three districts where the production of wool is in excess Of local requirements Australasia. South America and the River .Platte regions of Argentina and Uruguay there was an. appalling decrease in the sheep stock in the two tlrst named regions. In Argentina and Uruguay, he said, there is to be found the solo exception to the general decrease in sheep throughout the world. The sheep stock ot Argentina is now approximately S5.0u0.000 and of Uruguay 17.0uO,X), an increase for the two countries since lyO of more than 20,000,000. In concluding his address Mr. Gibson said in order to create a regular supply of Argentina raw wools for the manufacturers of the United States there are three things of capital importance. First, the presence of agents or representatlevs of manufacturers at the wool market of Buenos Ayres; second, the establishment of direct steam communication between the countries; third, direct financial relations. M. Berliner, delegate from the Chamber of Commerce, Cape Town, Cape Colony, on being introduceu, disclaimed being a resident of Cape Colony, although he came here, he said, as a delegate from the Chamber of Commerce of that colony. He regretted, as all ieople did, the grievous war now in progress ir. South Africa, 'its effects," he said, "will not be ended with the end of the present strife, nor with the end of the present generation or many generations to come. Those who are acquainted with the character of the Boers well know they will hand down to their posterity a feeling of resentment. Of the 1,500,000 Inhabitants of South Africa eight years ago, less than 4oO.OuO were white people, and the settlement of the South African question is a serious question." N BEHIND WITH ITS WORK. The Lous of a Session Delays Bnslneaa in the YV. C. T. U. .SEATTLfc, Wash., Oct. 21-Owing to the fact that the W. C. T. U. abandoned the morning session to-day, the convention Is somewhat behind in Its work. The committee on resolutions, for whose report the convention is aytiously waiting, went over until to-morrow. The committee briefly outlined the resolution favoring the flag law, anti-divorce law. against seating Congressman Roberts, anti-canteen, and hinted at several other special resolutions. The narcotic branch of the union addressed public schools pupils, twenty-two of the schools of the city being visited. Some ten memorial life memberships were taken out. The resolutions offered by the National Suffrage Association, through Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, of New York, who Is here, was voted down upon recommenadtion cf the executive committee, the W. C. T. U. declaring that it preferred to handle the women's suffrage question upon the lines already laid down by it. Telegrams from the Mothers Assembly, of New York, and various organizations were received, congratulating the convention on the unexpectedly large attendance of delegates and the work done. In the Sunday school branch contest Ohio took the first prize banner, northern California second. New Jersey third and Illinois fourth, each State, however, being first in the special branch of work for which the banners were offered. Home for Inebriate Women. COLUMBUS, O.. Oct. 23. The members cf the Central Woman's Christian Temperance Union have decided to undertake the establishment in this city of a home for in ebriate women. There Is no institution of the kind in the United States, and but one which remotely approaches it In the world. This is the Duckworth Home at Duckworth, England, an asylum founded under the patronage of Lady Somerset. MRS. CRAVEN SCORES A POINT Court Decides She Slay Try to Prove She Is Senator Fair's Widow. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 23. Mrs. Nettle R. Craven scored a slight victory to-day in a branch of her litigation against the Fair estate. Superior Judge Troutt decided that she is not In any way estopped from claiming heirship to the late Senator Fair, and she may proceed with her action to establish, if she can, her right to a portion of the estate as the dead man's widow. The Fair heirs maintained that Mrs. Craven was estopped from claiming heirship by the decree of partial distribution granted by Judge Slack in April. 1899, in which his honor decided that the three children of Senator Fair were the sole heirs. Mrs. Craven demurred. Judge Troutt sustaining her. The hearing of Mrs. Craven's application for a family allowance is set for Nov. 13. As all demurrers have been sustained and issue has been joined, there is nothing in the way of the legal battle which will settle for once and for all the question of Mrs. Craven's right to call herself Senator Fair's widow. CONFLICT OF TESTIMONY Develops in Connection with a Con fesslon of Murders Committed. GENEVA, 111., Oct. 23. The confession of George Bullock, a convict in the Stillwater (Minn.) prison, that he murdered two policemen and Miss Julla Buckmire in Geneva fifteen years ago is met here with a strange conflict of opinion. Most of the people think the author of the confession might have committed all the crimes he is willing to shoulder. W. A. Howell, son-in-law of Joseph B. Grant, one of the policemen Bullock claims to have murdered, says he will take steps to have the state's attorney investigate the matter, with the intention of bringing the self-confessed culprit to justice. Hiram McChesney, who was mayor at the time the murder took place, says liullock had nothing to do with the murder, and Mrs. Frank Hunter, a sis ter of Bullock, says her father had George shut up in jail when the crime was com mitted. SIXTY-SEVEN GIRLS. Rebels from Io ra Industrial School CauKht hy the Sheriff. DES MOINES, la., Oct. 23. Sixty-seven of the most refractory girls of the State In dustrlai School for Girls, at Mitchellvllle. Ia., who revolted against the management on Sunday night and destroyed more than 410.000 worth of the property of the instltu tlon, were corralled and brought to this city to-night by Sheriff Stout and his deputies. and placed in jail. It Is believed the trou ble is over for the present, and the ring leaders will be severely punished. Planks Spiked on the Tracks. WATERTOWN. S. D., Oct. 23.-An at tempt was made last night to wreck a train on the Northwestern by placing obstructions on the tracks, consisting of planks spiked down and ties plied on them and braced with Iron bars. A boy named Mc Dowell discovered the obstruction Just be fore the train came, secured a lantern and storped the train. Hospital Destroyed by Fire. FINDLAY. O.. Oct. 23.-The Cltv Home and Hospital building was destroyed by fire to-day, caused by an electric wire. By herclc work the helpless patients were removed, the last being taken out but a moment before the walls felL Seven of them are in a precarious- condition from the exposure ana excueaenu -as icsj u tj,vw.

REVOLUTION IN COLOMBIA

THREE DEPARTMENTS OF THE LITTLE HEPt llLIC IN INSIHUECTION. Mnrtlal Lair Proclaimed Venriuela'a PrcKfdent in Flight and the Itebcl General Installed at Caracas. WASHINGTON, OcL 23. A cablegram has been received at the State Department from United States Consul Gudger, at Panama, slating that an insurrection has broken out In Colombia and that martial law has been declared. Mr. Gudger stated that the departments of Cundimamarca, Tolima and Santandar are in insurrection, though the city of Panama proper is as yet unaffected. The State Department haa already called upon the Navy Department for a gunboat to proceed to Panama or some nearby port. The Marblehead Is now on the west toast and if she can be reached it Is probable that she will be ordered to go at once to Panama. On the gulf side the'Detrolt la nearest, being at Laguayra, and if the conditions In Venezuela are regarded as warranting her withdrawal she will be sent across to Colon. A dispatch from United States Minister Hart, at Bogota. Informs the State Department that the government is informed that a Venezuelan force is coming over to as-' . sist the revolutionists. No Magdelena steamers are running. CASTRO ENTERS CARACAS. Revlntlonlsts in Complete Control of the Veneinrlan Government. WASHINGTON. Oct. 23. The following cablegram bearing on the revolutionary situation in Venezuela has been received at the Navy Department from Commander Hemphill of the cruser Detroit, now at Laguayra: "Castro entered Caracas on Sunday evening, and was glveu an enthusiastic reception. Quiet in this viMnlty. but factional differences awaiting adjustment," A cablegram from Minister Loomls, dated at Carcasas to-day states that President Andrade &Dandoned the government without noying the Cabinet or Government Council as required by the Constitution. His whereabouts is unknown. The Vice President Is in full power according to the Constitution. Castro Welcomed nt Caruras. CARACAS, Venezuela. Oct. 23. Gen. Ciprlana Castro, the insurgent eommander during the recent revolution, has entered the city. A warm reception was accorded him There was no trouble when Cstro arrived and no fear of renewed flghtln? is felt, as everybody wants peace without re taliation. Gen. Ciprlano Castro la from Capaolio, and s about thirty-six years old. He Is well edu cated and hard working, and is credited with being possessed of ample means of his own. He has been a stanch iipporter of the liberal party. At the outbreak of the revolution of Lcgalismo. und-v Gen. Joa quin Crespo. who aspired to the Presidency or tne itepubilc. General Crespo proved hla powers as a warrior. Crespo offered Castro on more than one occasion a portfolio, but Casnro could never be Induced to accept lt. oeverai letters passed between Cresno and Castro, and the latter published a pamphlet criticising and condemning Cre po's admin istration. It was at that time Ccstro began to surmise that Crespo would Install An drade as President of the Republic, and an agitation was started against Andrade and Crespo. Then followed the "Mocho" Hernandez revolution, which failed. After the defeat of the "Mocho" General Castro appeared at Los Andes and attacked the forces under command of Genenal Mo rales. President of the State. Morales was defeated and tak?n prisoner. Caslro next at tacked en. Leonoldlo Larria. who was on the frontier of Colombia and Venezula. It was an easy victory for Castro's follower, who were dally increasing in numbers. He took the towns of Trujillo. Merida. Tovor. Colon. San Cristobal, Rubin, and finally suecessiuuy Desiegeu tne capital. SITUATION IN SANTO DOMINGO. Consul Jouhert Suva Peace Nov Reigns on the Island. NEW YORK. Oct. 23. Senor Emllo Joubert, the newly appointed consul from Santo Domingo has assumed charge of the Dominican consulate in this city. In re gard to affairs of the new government Senor Joubert said: "There is no truth in any of the rumors that have been circulated of late to the effect that General Horacio Vasquez has any designs on the presidency of the government. He Is in the most perfect accord with the newly elected President JIminez and In the office of vice president, to which he has been elected,he will heartily second the president. There, have been no demonstrations of revolutionary character since the new government was organized. Our citizens are all contented and the island is rapidly becoming very prosperous. The Clyde line steamship that last left San Domingo was unable to take on board all the shipments intended for her. American money is being imported to the cojntry in large quantities. Ihe ollicers of the new government were elected on the 2"th of the month and will assume charge of the government about Dec. L To Restore the Finnuclitl Equilibrium KINGSTON, Jamacla, Oct. 23. Advices from Colombia, Just received, announce the commencement of a revolution there, with the object of restoring the financial equilibrium. The revolt was prematurely started In the department of Santandar last week, but is reported to be gaining headway. It Is also said that other departments' are prepared to support the movement, although the government is endeavoring to prevent combined organization. In the meanwhile suppressing the publication of information by means of martial law and censorship over the news channels. Burning Hallway Dridires. CARTEGENIA, Colombia, Oct. S3. News Just received here shows the revolution is general. The Insurgents have taken river steamers and have armed them and have burned railroad bridges. The government is arming and dispatching river steamers with troops. A government commission has arrived here. STRIPPING THE SHAMROCK. Crew of the Yacht 1'rcpsrliiK for tho Trip Across the Atlantic. NEW YORK. Oct. 23. The crew o! the yacht Shamiock began work early this morning stripping the yacht of her racing rigging at her berth in the Erie basin. Her topmast was sent down on deck and then transferred to her storage lighter, after which her running gear was unrove. and all her sails taken from the yacht's hold and transferred to the lighter. Captain Hogarth said he expected to take the mast off tomorrow and to have the yacht under Jury rig by the end of the week. To-morrow niht. Captain Hogarth, Captain Wrlnge and the Shamrock's crew will meet Captain Barr and the victorious Detr Island boys lroni the Columbia in Prospect Hall. Brooklyn. A feast and general entertainment has been prepared tor the vanquished and the victors by the yacht masters, enginers and yacht onicers' association. Sir 'Itiomas Lipton will go to Chicago to-morrow. He has already expressed his intention of challenging for YAH. a he does not care to try to git ready for next year. He will give way, however, to anybody desiring to challenge before him. William Fife, the designer of Shamrock, is still very seriously 111 at the Fifth-avenue Hotel. So much is he suffering from Inflammatory rheumatism that a trume had to be built over his bed to prevent e ven tne tiedclothing from touching him. It is suld that it is extremely doubtful If he can return to England with Sir Thomas Lipton. An elaborate dinner was tendered to Sir Thomas Lipton at the Metropolitan C!ub to-nUht by J. Plt-rpont Morgan, commodore of the New York Yacht Club. The dinner was attended by about flfty persons, nearly all prominent In yachting circles. Comniodoro Morgan acted as host and on his right sat Sir Thomas. Following the feast, which began at 9 o'clock, there wsi several Informal seeches, among the sptaker being Sir Thomas Lipton. He thanked th members of the New York Yacht Club for the courtesies which they had extended to him during his stay on this tMs cf tha ocean