Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 300, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1899 — Page 4

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THE DAILY J PUTIN AL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27. 18P0. Tflrphnnr Call. Business OS!. 2C3 Editorial Booms St ' tk it rt vci r"srn c r Tpt iosl DAILY BY MAIL Pally onlr, rne month I .79 Pally onlj. three months 2.00 I cnlr. rp year I)ml'.y. Inolu.llns Sun-lay. one year 10.00 EurUay only, cne year 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. rally, p-r wek, ty carrier 1 Fundaj, lns!e ccr.r 5 eta Dally and Sunday, per week. bytarr!r.... 20 ct WEEKLY. Ter year Jl-W Reduced Rates to CInl. Fub.rrile with any of our numerous agents or end subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis. I nil. Persons sendinr tht Journal through the mails In th United J-tatfs rhouli put on an elght-pa? r-aper a ONE-CENT postage stamp: on a twelve cr slxttn-rage iarr a TWO-CENT postaje tamp. Foreign icsta;e is usually double these rates. All communications Intenlf1 for publication In this paper must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and adirees of the writer. HeJectM manuscripts will not he returned unlets pcstajre Is Inclosed for that purpose. Tin; ixdiaxapolis joihnal Can be fonnd at the following places: Knw YORK Atcr House. ' CHICAGO Palmer House. P. O. News Co.. 217 Iearborn ?treet. Great Northern Hotel and Cranl Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI-J. R. Hawiej fc Co.. 134 Vine street. XOUISVILLE C. T. Deerlnr. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Loulsvill2 Bock Co.. 20 Fourth avenue. ET. LOUIS Union News Company. Union Depot. .Washington, d. c rises House. Etbitt House an WMarl's Hotel. Five transports loaded with troops landed at Manila yesterday, which will more than ffset the "aid which the men who praise .Agulnaldo are able to render him. In 1S93 the people who voted wrong and those who did not vote slaughtered prosperity on election day. It Is not probable they "will repeat the "folly in Ohio this year. The Louisville Courier-Journal speaks of Democrats not good enough to vote for Goebel, but good enough for McLean In Ohio. Doth will be glad for any kind of oters. Mr. Bryan seems to be devoting himself these days to bracing up Agulnaldo. It may fce good politics; It Is giving aid and comfort to an armed enemy, and that Is deHeed to be treason. The visitors drawn to the city by the meeting of .the Carriage Builders' Association are a fine looking body of men, fit representatives of a great industry. They fcave the air of men who are prosperous. Under a New York law soldiers in the field are entitled to vote, and an agent is now on tho way to Cuba and Porto Bico with the necessary registry books and ballots to take the vote of the New York soldiers lit those islands. The effort which the Ohio correspondents of alleged independent papers are making to magnify the candidacy of "Golden Rule" Jones is unaccountable, except on the ground that nonpartlsanshlp, even when it means nothing, is attractive. A report comes from Washington that the Democrats in Congress and a few antiadministration Republicans willopen war upon the Pesident's Philippine policy. It Is probably true as to the Democrats, but who are the anti-admlnlstratlon BeDublicar.s? In the speeches Mr. Bryan Is now making In Nebraska he predicts a fusion victory, but in private he warns his friends not to be overconfident. The Republican managers admit that many Republicans attend his meetings, but they say it is merely out of curiosity. Chairman and Senator Jones, of Arkansas, Trill find it difficult to convince the Southern farmers that there la no prosperity, now that cotton has advanced 50 per cent. But the senator has not heard of it. Arkansas is where politicians go to get out of- the reach of Information. Reports from Kentucky indicate that the Goebe 1 leaders are already preparing for extensive frauds at the ballot box. In several counties the Democratic election commissioners have revised the lists of election officers agreed upon and have substituted men entirely from the Goebel faction. 'I do not hesitate to say," is the declaration of Father McKennen, chaplain of the First California Regiment, "that every drop of blood shed beneath the tropical sun since last April Is upon the shoulders of Atkinson and hi3 followers." But Agulnaldo hopes for more aid from Mr. Bryan and his party. The Junction of the British forces under Generals White and Yule gives them an effective force of 8.000 to 10,000 men. The Boer force available for operations against Ladysmith Is at least two or three times as great, tut a British force of 8,000 to 10,000 acting on the defensive can make a tremendous fight. Senator Hanna seems to accept abuse as a matter of course. For weeks the Cincinnati Enquirer has been assailing him in staring headlines as the owner of some coal mines in Ohio where the men are "human slaves. toWlng long hours for a mere pittance." It turns out that the mines belong to a coal company in which Mr. Hanna is not interested.

The prosecuting attorney of Cook county, Illinois, in which Chicago is situated, is about to file the papers In S.OoO suits against that number of corporations for violating a state law. The penalty in each case is 5$.X, making a total covered by all the suits of $24.XVX). The principle cannot be asserted too often that corporations must be held to a strict compliance with the law. President Ifadley. the new president of Tale University, publishes an article on trusts. In which he concludes that in as far as they are due to a desire to reduce expenses of production and distribution they are a legitimate outgrowth of commercial conditions and probably cannot be prevented by legislation. This Is the conclusion to which intelligent public opinion seems to be tending. There Is another class of trusts, however, namely, those formed for the purpose of flottlng watered stocks or cornering prices, which do call for legislative restriction. The forecast of tho President's coming message may be guess work, but tha suggestion is a very wise one that Congress should immediately on assembling declare the unalterable purpose of the United States to establish its authority In and over the Philippines. Agulnaldo has undoubtedly been encouraged by the hope of a division in Congress representing a supposed division in public sentiment regarding the prosecution of the war. Mr. Edward Brady, ct Kansas, a lawyer and a graduate of tho

State University, who served for a year in a Colorado regiment in the Philippines, r.ays: The Democrats, by lending their moral support to Agulnaldo, help to keep up the rebellion. It Is the opinion among the Tagals that the Democrats will win. and then, the American soldiers wi!l be withdrawn. Agulnaldo quote? Atkinson. Billy Maron and Bryan to show that the Democraitc party is with them. Aguinaldo's paper, the Independence, published at Malous, quotes expressions In their favor and states that Bryan will be the next President. " Tho Democrats in Congress will not dare to go on record against the establishment of American authority In the Fhillpplnes. The declaration of such a purpose should be made by Congress as soon as possible In order to hasten the collapse of the rebellion.

A TRIUMPH OF TUB FACTORY SYSTB.1I. In no field of production have American skill, enterprise and Ingenuity been more fully displayed than In the development of the manufacture of carriages. In no line of production has the factory system more fully demonstrated its superiority. Fifty years ago carriages were made mostly, If not entirely, by hand In small shops scattered over the country, in which from six to twenty men were employed. For laborsaving machinery there were a few saws and the lathe. All other work was done by hand. Fifty years ago there were few carriages In the country; the farm wagon, made in the village shop, with wooden axles as often as with iron, heavy and unwieldy, was the vehicle. The chaise, or the pleasure carriage, as it was called, was the luxury of the very well-to-do. Even if the roads had permitted their use . they were so costly that people of moderate means could not own them. And say what we will at election time, the' people who have means to purchase are now a much larger part of the whole than fifty years ago. But the hand-made carriage would have precluded its general use, as It is used today, both because the people would not be able to purchase and the output would be insufficient. It was the development of the factory system in the manufacture of carriages as In the manufacture of all tha necessaries and conveniences of life. In the factory system capital. Invention and skill meet and out of the co-operation comes a new product with a reduced price. A better carriage can be furnished to-day for than could be made for $150 under the old method. The carriage at 1150 was the luxury of the well-to-do; the carriage at Jp) is the necessity of all who live outside of cities and of many inside. Brain?, invention, capital and skill have made immense carriage factories here and there, and these immense establishments alone make cheap and good carriages possible. There are those who deplore these extensive establishments. They bemoan the good old days when a man's work for six months represented tha making of a carriage and that carriage was a luxury. They fear the result of that development which has combined a halfdozen factories into one, with a large number of men. Men lose their individuality and the weakest are driven to the wall. This may be true in a certain sense. But If the development of the factory system has done this, it has given better wages to many more men, permanence to an Industry, and cheap and good carriages to the people. CANADA'S LATKST PROPOSITION. Canada's latest proposition for the settlement of the Alaska boundary dispute gives the case a new and Interesting aspect. Considering the proposition Itself and the time and manner of Its presentation It looks like a very shrewd piece of diplomacy. Involving a deceitful concession on the part of Canada and a nicely baited trap for the United States to walk Into. After many months of almost fruitless negotiation, and right on the heels of a modus Vivendi or provisional agreement for a temporary settlement of the question, Canada comes out with a proposition that It be submitted to arbitration on practically identical terms with those Imposed by the United States In the BritishVenezuelan dispute. As a condition precedent and absolutely preliminary to arbitration Canada proposes to concede Skagway and Dyea to the United States if the latter will concede Pyramid harbor to Canada. This Is by far the most important part of the proposition and discloses its real animus, which undoubtedly is to obtain for Canada a seapcrt which can be utilized for commercial purposes and also made a naval and military station. In considering this proposition or any other looking to the settlement of the question it must be assumed that the United States intends to act with absolute fairness and honesty. Canada has some rights In the premises, and if they can be ascertained and defined they should be yielded without hesitation. We do not need and ought not to desire to deprive her of an Inch of territory that Justly belongs to her. On the other hand, we are Justified In standing firmly for our own rights as defined by the deed of purchase from Russia and by undisputed possession for a term of years, and we thould not be driven or coaxed Into surrendering anything of importance. That the possession of a new seaport on the Pacific coast would be of great importance to Canada is shown by the persistence" with which she clings to that point The question Is whether she has any just claim to It, and whether. In the absence of such claim, the United States should concede it. It Is difficult to see onvhat ground Canada can base any claim to a seaport or. to any territory within ten marine leagues of the coast. In February, 1S25, Great Britain and Russia signed a treaty whereby Russia became the owner of Alaska. In defining the boundary along the coast tho treaty provided that the line should follow the summit of the mountains from a certain point to a certain point, and added: Wherever the summit of the mountains shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of the coast which is to belong to Russia shall be formed by a line parallel to. the windings of the coast and which shall never exceed the distance of ten marine leagues therefrom.. . This was Great . Britain's title to Russia. In 1SCS the United States purchased Alaska from Russia with exactly the boundaries fixed by the treaty of 1S2S. From 1S23 to 1SS3 the boundary was not disputed, so that the present claim of Canada dates back only ten years and really attacks a boundary fixed by Great Britain herself. The provision of the treaty above quoted shows that Great Britain intended to cede and did cede to Russia for a long distance the coast line and ten marine leagues Inland. The line was to follow the summit of the mountains except where the mountains were more than ten marine leagues from the coast, and then the line was to fclow the windings of the coast, never nearer than ten marine leagues thereto. A glance at a map of Alaska will show the extreme importance to Canada of a seaport somewhere on the long stretch of coast

from which she is now debarred. The strip of Alaska sometimes called the "Panhandle," nearly five hundred miles long, which stretches between the Dominion of Canada 2nd the ocean, comprises about 23,(00 square miles. It would be worth a great deal more to Canada than It Is to us because she needs tho outlet and we do not. But the treaty gave it to the United States, and this country cannot be blamed for standing on treaty rights. Canada's proposition to concede Skagway and Dyea to the United States without further claim looks fair, but the United States has never yielded an iota of her claim to those points. The American commissioners positively refused to submit the question of their ownership to arbitration, claiming tint besides our treaty rights we had the claim of long undisputed possession. Nevertheless, Canada's proposal to abandon claim to them does somewhat simplify the situation. Pyramid harbor,' which she now asks be conceded to her. is a landing place on the northwestern branch or arm of the Lynn canal. Its possession would give Canada a good port of entry about three, hundred miles from Fort Selkirk, on the Yukon river, and a good starting point for a railroad and base of supplies for the Interior. Of course. It could also be fortified and converted Into a military and naval station. It Is situated almost due south from Dyea and Skagway, and completely commands the approaches to them. Whatever fairness there might be in a proposition to submit the whole question to arbitration is nullified by the proviso that the concession of Pyramid harbor shall be a condition precedent and absolutely preliminary to arbitration. This is about equivalent to Canada saying, if you will give us what we want above all things we will submit the rest to arbitration. The truth is, Canada Is completely fenced In from the ocan by the treaty of 1825, and If the United States stands on treaty rights she cannot get out. She has no more right to Pyramid harbor than she has to Dyea or Skagway that is, none at all. The question is whether the United States shall make her a free gift of a seaport preliminary to submitting other indisputable rights to arbitration. THE LAST BUGABOO.

Militarism is the scare which Mr. Bryan is trying to work upon the people of Nebraska at present. He raises a cry of alarm, saying that if things go on as they now are militarism will strangle the liberties of the people. Mr. Bryan will search the country's history in vain for an instance where a federal soldier ha3 threatened the liberty or the rights of any citizen of the United States. When Mr. Bryan was yet a child the peace Democrats of the North were filling the country vith their warnings against the dangers of a vast army in the hands of Abraham Lincoln. We were then told that, with a million of men, Mr. Lincoln could make himself dictator. When the war had been three months over, nearly the entire one million of soldiers had faded away. By tens of thousands they wre mustered out and became citizens, taking up the vocations of civil life. With this example before them Mr. Bryan will not be able to frighten the sensible people of Nebraska or elsewhere. The fear of militarism which seems to trouble the timid Bryan is very absurd. In the regular army there are sixty-five thousand men, of whom thirty-five thousand will go out of service in two years. In addition to these there are thirty-five thousand volunteers whose period of service expires in two years, or before, and, unless Congress should take action, this will reduce the regular army to thirty thousand men two years hence. And this is the bugaboo with which Mr. Bryan Is "trying to frighten the American people. Consider some figures: France has 14.5 soldiers to each one thousand Inhabitants, Germany has 11.5, Russia 6, Italy 7, Great Britain 5.6. The United States, on the basis of sixty-five thousand regulars, has S6-100 of a soldier to one thousand Inhabitants. That is the ghost which Mr. Bryan Is holding up to the people of the West. Again, France has a soldier to 37-100 of a square mile, Germany one to 33-100, Great Britain one to 5S-100, the United States has a soldier to 53 43-100 square miles. In 1SS6, to build fortifications and maintain the army, cost the people of the United States 72 cents a head. It cost Great Britain $3.21 per capita and Germany $2.70. Mr. Bryan had better stick to his 16-to-l fad if he has nothing better to add than his scare about military usurpation. The regular army has never menaced the peace, and it has never taken from the citizen the right to vote and to have his vote counted, yet Mr. Bryan went out of his way to support Goebel in Kentucky, who is the author of an infamous scheme to" rob anti-Goebel voters of their votes in the machinery of counting a positive menace to the liberties of the people of Kentucky. The New York Journal (Bryan Democratic in 1S) has been looking over the ground in Ohio, and as the result of the survey concludes that the Democracy cannot win this time. It says: The Journal would like to risk a prediction. The Democrats are going to be unmercifully thrashed in Ohio. And they are going to suffer their punishment because they have abandoned the pound Democratic olicy of expansion and have stupidly alowed themselves to be put in a position which no American party has ever occupied without ruin the position of encouragement to armed resistance to the national government. The reason is a sound one; no party should win by giving encouragement to those making war upon the Nation's flag and its authority. The movement for the Ohio centennial exposition in 1902 has more historic fitness than most of the expositions of recent years. The admission of Ohio to the Union in 1S02 was an epochal event and the beginning of a procession of new States which resulted in great national expansion. As the first of the States formerly called Western States to celebrate a centennial, Ohio's exposition should interest the whole country, and especially those States, including Indiana, which were part of the original Northwestern Territory. In 1916 perhaps we will be asking Ohio to assist in celebrating Indiana's centennial, and we should begin by setting an example of neighborly interest. The voting machine is advocated by many papers in this State on the ground that the large number of ballots iejo:ted in a state election might change the result if they were all counted and that the present system Is open to frauds. One exchange says that "we ought not lo hava another election by ballot." All the arguments are In favor of the machine except its firs- to:. Fiom the outset the saving which the machine will cause will pay V l.irg? dividend on the Trice of the machines. The staff correspondent of the Cleveland Plain Dealer (anti-McLean Democratic) at Columbus says that McLean has not put the million dollars into the canvass that he

said he would give to be elected Governor of Ohio, burhj ;as stopped paying out money because he Is disheartened at the outlook. The writer says "the whole campaign, which, with McLean, a one-man campaign, seems to have fallen flat." It is now assorted thit Mr. Bryan's trip did more harm than good. One of McLean's friends says that Mr. Bryan would never have been invited to the State but for the clamor of the Republican press and the fear that the silver vote would desert him. A Washington dispatch sayg that Secretary of Stats Hay, has issued an order fortlddlng our ambassadors abroad to speak at public banquets. The prohibition really applies only to England, as our representatives elsewhere seldom speak the language of the country. The order is a good one. Our ambassadors to England have done too much talking In recent years so much thai ability to make banquet speeches has almost coma to be regarded as the test of fitness for the office. British ambassadors to this country never make speeches, and ours might profitably adopt the same rule. BUBBLES IX THE AIR. ,

The Cheerful Idiot. "I see," said the shoe-clerk boarder, "tho Boers are razing Mafeking." "Is that all they are raising?" asked the Cheerful Idiot. Philosophy on the Ronil. Dismal Dawson Oh, well, the pore man can't choose his lot, as the feller says. Everett Wrest No; but he has to take a lot he don't choose. The Savage Bachelor. "How women do love to stare at a hero!" said the Cynical Youth. "Yep," assented the Savage Bachelor. "That is one reason why they always flock to weddings." The. Cornfed Philosopher. "The young man who gets cheated," said the Cornfed Philosopher, "thinks the other fellow wonderfully smart, but the elderlyperson who goes up against it admits himself to be a fool." Congress and Cuba. Washington Letter. Certain agitating Cubans are becoming impatient over the length of the island's probation and anxious for a trial at selfj government. They do not want to wait for the completion of the census and are for Jumping right in. The three hundred years of bondage and the year of comparative freedom the island has since enjoyed are as nothing. It is the present and to-morrow that engage their ambitions. They cannot see why Washington should not recall General. Brooke lnstanter and install c self-constituted commission to run the affairs of the liberated people of Cuba. The evolution process Is going on to the satisfaction of the conservative residents of the island and in the fullness of time the natives will have the opportunity so ardeitly desired by a few of them. Congress will be given the fullest information as to the status of Cuban affairs and it will be for Congress to hasten or delay the culmination, as the case may be. England and the Powers. Hartford Courant. Of course the jealous and unfriendly powers are secretly "taking counsel together" against England this year as they did against the United States last year. And probably no more will come of it now than came of it then. England is not unaware of their ill will. In the swift mobilizing of her forces, the calling out of the reserves and the sending of the channel Meet to the Mediterranean she has given them, food for reflection. They cannot be quite sure that the United States would see with unconcern a coalition against .England. Probably they will end by letting "I dare not" waitupon "1 would," as on several previous occasions. .. .... - .".'. " . The Ea -President Abroad. New York Christian Advocate. The honors paid to ex-President Harrison on the continent and in England are, in part, intended for the country of which he was President, in part the result of the habit in Europe of honoring kings, emperors and presidents, but in very considerable part because of the Impression of his ability and legal attainments, made by the exPresident in his discussion of the Venezuelan claim before the arbitrators, the fame of which has gone throughout Europe. Astor's Gift. Philadelphia Times. The gift of ..William Waldorf Astor of $25,CO0 to the Windsor Red Cross fund for use in the South African war, while entirely commendable. Is bound to Incite reminiscences of a time when he was a citizen of a country to which he gave nothing in time of stress and his allegiance to which he renounced because, among other things, he found the taxes too burdensome. The Cowardly Boycott. Boston Journal. There is a woman in Paterson, N. J., named Polly McGrall 'who Is supporting a little child and an Invalid husband in spite of the taunts and missiles flung at her by men who are boycotting the shop in which she works. She is a fine example of everyday heroism, and her assailants are examples of tho cowardice that almost invariably springs from a boycott. Looking' Forwnrd. London Leader. Even if the Transvaal's present system of government were to be brought to an end Mr. Kruger, though he would lose his salary of 7,000 a year, is said to have capital invested In Germany which brings him in about 30.000 a year, and would probably settle in that country, supposing he did not care to remain in South Africa. The Real rt'onUer. New York Press. A woman recently dragged herself up to the top of Fopocatapetl and came down again. Ono can understand why some foolish people fnsist'on climbing up impossible peaks, but why they insist on coming down again is more puzzling. What the Bolter Did. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. "What did the bolter do in lSDC?" asks Colonel Bryan. He captured Kentucky, smashed the Chicago platform, helped to elect a Republican President and incidentally snatched a few other thorns from the brow of labor. . Should Have Known Better. Kansas City Journal. Mr. Tissue is a Missouri man who has just been sent to the penitentiary as a counterfeiter of Uncle Sam's currency. Tissue isn't heavy enough for that sort of thing and he should have realized It In time. Who Knows f Baltimore American. There is no limiting the spread of modern progress. We now have smokeless powder, noiseless weapons, horseless carriages, wireless telegraphy, and who knows but in time we may have voiceless pugilists? II In Itenerved Right. New Y'ork Mail and Express.. Able Journalists in various parts of the coun.ry are already writing the President's message for him. It is understood, however, that the lresldent reserves the right to revise their copy. Probably. Washington Tost. Admiral Dewey 13 probably acting on the theory that an ounce of prevention Is worth several pounds of picture In the "after-taking" department of a patent medicine advertisement. Tnk.cs the Cake. New York Evening Sun. There is a church uptown which Is famous for its sermon notices. The last one, however, took the cake. It read as follows: "How to be happy though pious." The 3IcKlnlr Handshake. New Y'ork Mail and Express. The McKlnley grip deserves special description: it is unique In its line.. It allures

waller, holds hJm an instant nnd then fJ,ly,and deliberately "shakes" him. Mr. i T SK,Ple 13 not a tall man by any means: indeed, he is, if anything, considerably below what I should consider the medium height-five feet ten inches. Consequently his "shake" is considerably lewer than a handshake you get from the average-sized man. The hand goes out straight for you, there 1 a good warm pressure of the palm, a. quick drop, a jerk forward and the thing is over. There Is something besides the extended, outstretched palm to allure you, and that Is Mr. McKlnlev's beaming countenance. When greeting the public he never ceases to smne. It is not a forced sr.ile; it Invites you forward and compels your own smile in spite of yourself. It is so genuinely honest, too, that one cannot but conclude that, onerous as these receptions must be to the President's physique, he nevertheless enjoys them thoroughly. Long before the reception was over the President showed unmistakable signs of fatigue; his Jaw began to droop and blackish rings formed under his eyes, but the smile beaming, invitingremained, and it lasted as long as there was one citizen to greet. THE JEW IN AMERICA. .

According to Mr. Zang?rIU Their Morul Average la High. New York Journal.. All the Jews feeling the stimulus of American life, which is Western life in Its latest expression, have shaken off or modified Oriental life. This wave of modern thought and this Western way of living, combined with their dispersion through vast spaces, instead of being huddled together in the warmth of a common religion, has de-orientalized them here more than anywhere except Germany. But at present, stimulated by v.orks published by the Jewish Publication Society, of Philadelphia, there is a reaction toward orientalism, of which it Is impossible now to foretell the oxtent. The Jewish Journal this week saysthis will be increased by this play of mine. Hitherto these peculiar Oriental manners, customs and ceremonies, being conserved chiefly by the poorer classes, have been considered vulgar instead of picturesque. But the mere fact that forms and ceremonials are conserved by poor people does not make them vulgar. And in so far as American Judaism is beginning to perceive this it has a tendency to gravitate back toward the point of view it thought it had shaken off forever It begins to perceive that these things are part of a vast historical chain, which links them on to the period before Greece and Rome flourished. In short, the Jews are beginning to evolve the historical sense, which is only a variety of the aesthetic sense, since whatever is past begins to gather color and atmosphere. Thus, I am told, many American Jewish lamilies, who a generation ago rold off their Sabbath lamps as vulgar evidences of their past, have not hesitated to buy them back at ten time. thoir former price, perceiving that they are beautiful and historical obJects. I have not personally noticed any antiSemitism In America. Indeed, I have been pleasantly struck with the magnanimity and tolerance of the American people. Thus, last year, when I was in Philadelphia at the season of Jewish New Year, I was much gratified to find a great daily organ coming out with the Jewish New lear greeting, printed In Hebrew, above its title. This is a thing I have never before seen in any newspaper in the world, and it shows the sympathetic ties between Jews and their fellow-citizens. Many New lork Journals have had kindly notices of tho festivals which the Jews have observed this month in celebration of the year 5603, according to the Jewish calendar. I believe it has been established that the United States is not a "Christian Nation, Inasmuch as there is no established church of any kind, and that the broad principles of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God suffice as a basis or modus Vivendi for all sects and classes. It Is onlv in newspapers that I have read of petty examples of American anti-Semitism, such as the exclusion of Jews from a few summer hotels. Although I am willing to believe that the blame is to be divided both between the excluded and the excluders, yet I could wish, for the sake of the great principles of the American Constitution, which should override the comfort or discomfort of a few summer boarders, that public opinion should stamp decisively upon this embryonic germ of come future Dreyfus drama. Possibly some few Jews who have gained money before they have had time to gain culture may be a little loud and a little unpleasing to many gentlemanly , Americans of the same income. But exclusion carries with it such tremendous dangers and such peril of resuscitating the old mediaeval savagery which Americans came to overthrow, that this deadly weapon of social excommunication should be resorted to only whenever any other method fails. And as one who has closely studied the Jewish character in its shades as well as its lights, as one who has always written without fear or favor, I can assure our squeamish and inpatient American aristocrats that the disappearance of any unpleasant social taints in the Jew is only a question of one generation. The most offensive Jew who has made money is humbly anxious for his children to have better social advant.-ges than he had. And from the strident and assertive Jews who have grown coarse in the struggle for existence will come the quiet and cultivated ladies and gentlemen who will be an enormous force for good in the America of to-morrow. The same 13 true of America at large, not merely Jews. Y'ou may see these finer specimens springing up all around and coming to the front In your schools and universities. As an example very near at hand, and one that naturally occurs to me. here am I sitting in the rooms of Dr. Hollander, professor of political economy in the Johns Hopkins University, whese work on "The Financial History of. Baltimore" is already a classic. I have Just migrated from the rooms, in Washington, of Dr. Cyrus R. Adler, the famous Orientalist and keeper of MSS. In the Smithsonian Institution, and Dr. Friedenwald, who Is one of the librarians of Congress. When it is remembered that another Dr. Adler was the projector of the Midway Plaisance in Chicago, which was built by a Jewish architect of the same name, you have high examples of the striking way in which the Jew is to the fore, promoting the best interests of every nation. There is not a country In Europe In which investigation will not show the hand of the Jew behind the greatest national organizations. The importance ol all that he does for good is negatived by the disproportionate attention concentrated on the few Jews who happen to be wicked and vulgar. That the Jews are a race of angels is not more true than that they are a race of devils. The truth is that their average of public and private virtue is higher, rather than lower than that nf Christian people, many elements of which have never yet been redeemed from their primitive paganism. This is only natural when we consider that Jewish civilization is some three thousand years old, whereas a thousand years after Christ half of Europe had not accepted Christlanitj even nominally. Rhodes Faces the Foe. Minneapolis Tribune. Cecil Rhodes is certainly a bold man. He knows that the Boers hat him with unutterable hatred, that they have set a price upon his head, and if they should capture him would not treat him as. a prisoner of war. but would make him the victim of a prompt military execution. And yet Rhodes takes up hi3 position at Kimberley, right in the center of the hostilities, and has. according to report, put himself at the head of a battalion of rough riders and raided a Boer camp. If Rhodes comes out of this war alive ne will be a greater man than ever in South Africa. A Duke aa a Correspondent. London Letter. The Duke of Manchester confides to his friends that he is going to the Transvaal as correspondent for an American paper, and he boasts of the facts that his social position will prevent the censoring of his dispatches. He goes to America first to get instructions. Winston Churchill, another member of the nobility, has already gone to the front in a similar capacity. Farnaworth Oversight. Chicago Post. Walter L. Farnsworth, who claims the same matrimonial rights as the Sultan of Sulu, forgets that he neglected to negotiaate a treaty with this government, and that he acquired the wives where polygamy isn't recognized. Accounted For. Chicago Post. Just how Walter L. Farnsworth managed to marry nine women In quick succession be-, comes apparent only when it is remembered that he is a candy manufacturer. 1'nccrtnlntles). Washington Post. Cecil Rhodes doubtless looks in the mirror occasionally to see if his head is on straight.

LOUISIANA FILIPINOS.

Colonies of Manllamcn In that State for Half a Century. Philadelphia Inquirer. . Perhaps there is not a score of geographers or historians in all the United States who even know that Louisiana contains a Filipino colony. But, nevertheless, there are several of them. All about the mouth of the Mississippi river thero are hundreds of tiny islands covered with tall marsh grass, some of which are only a few feet out of the ocean. On the west side of the delta, in, a little bay called Baratarla, and to the north of the famous Grand isle, are numerous little islands on which are settled the colonies of Filipinos, which Just now are being visited by many Southern people anxious to learn for themselves just what sort of people our soldiers are fighting with in the far-away Orient. Besides these colonies there are other smaller ones in Lake Borgne, on the other side of the delta, and in the many contiguous islands of the Baratarla group. The principal island In the latter group Is Clarkchenlere, and on this island is the main Filipino settlement. These little blue men are called along the gulf "Manllamen." These sons of the far-away Filipinos are natural born fishermen and sailois. There are, all told, in this one colony, or rather series of colonies, perhaps as many as fifteen hundrtd persons. The colony seems to have originated more than fifty years ago. In fact, some of the oldest of the colonists says that they have been in this country for fully seventy-five years. But about a half century ago "Manllamen" first settled on Grand isle, the last in tho group in Baratarla bay. It was on this Islands that the famous pirate, Lafitte, made his headquarters for many years. In 1J3 a great storm swept over" that region, completely submerging iast isle, its four hundred souls being washed Into the sea. The next morning not a trace remained of that "Strange wild spot In the Mexic sea. Where wind and wave and wild bird wandered free " This storm created fear In the hearts of the "Manllamen," and by degrees they moved a little nearer to the mainland, and again settled on an I?land called Cheniere Caminado. This island, beirfg somewhat higher than the others, was covered with large cak trees. Here these quiet people built up a flourishing colony. They had a .ittle church, a schooihouse and had made more or less attempt at an organized government. ,nen came anoher fearful hurricane, in im. during which eight hundred persons one-half uf the population of Cheniere Caminado were swept into eternity in one slrgle night. Other storms of more or less severity 1 olio wed, the last occurring In l&tf. carrying with it terrible loss of life and rroperty. These sad experiences have inspired a sen of superstitious dread of the outlying Islands In the hearts of those who escaped from the fury of the terrible hurricane, and they gradually gave up their old homes and went further in shore, where they built new ones. It Is for this reason that now the greater number of these peculiar people inhabit the low, marshy islands in the sheltered bay of Baratarla, and the little strips of land along the banks of the sluggish baypus, on whose bosoms are myriads of water lilies in peaceful repose. Scattered here and there all through the tall marsh grasses, nestled among the scrub willows, half hidden at times under the dense growth of tropical vegetation, are ruddy and curiously constructed houses of palmetto and straw, presenting a half civilized appearance, the homes of these wanderers from the islands of the South seas. They are a silent people, never mingling with strangers, and taking little interest In the doings of the outside world. Their lives are devoted to the peaceful career of the fisherman. Their wants are few. With little sail boats and outfits for fishing this colony has lived for more than half a century, content with a good c?tch which would furnish a frugal dinner, in bliisful ignorance of what has been going on In the great world. They are inclined to be suspicicus of strangers, r.nd when one goes among them he is very likely rq be received with coolness and indifference, but when by the use of tact and diplomacy their suspicions are once allayed they will talk without restraint and even open their homes with most cordial hospitality and place before a stranger the best that they contain. The Filipinos are hopelessly ignorant so far as book learning and knowledge of the world go but the great majority seem to he endowed with a natural intelligence wnlch mnrks them as vastly superior to many clashes of foreigners who make this country their heme. They are interested In the war In the Philippines, and are proud to talk about thtlr native land. They have heard of Dewey, too, although it is with great reluctance that they can oe induced to talk about the war with strangers. They have heard in a vague sort of way something of the recent history of their native country, and some few express the desire that it should be free. "Do you like the Spaniard?" was asked of a group of old men. "Me like a Spaniard? Me like a snake? The fapaniard steal our money. Take all we have. No one in Manila like a Spanlard. Dewey good man; he give Manila people 'friendship," were the replies which came from many sources all at once. The writer landed a few days ago from a little steamer on the island of Clarkchenlere, armed with a camera, and was greeted with very bad grace at fln;r. but the colonists were soon won over to amiability. Soon It became noised abroad that a white stranger had landed In the colony to take pictures. Little brown eyes and shining black heads were visible everywhere, peeping out from behind window shutters and half-closed doors. Their suspicions were at length overcome by curiosity, and before 1 had been among them three hours the crowd of curious spectators men, women and children had assumed enormous proportions. Mothers washed their babies' faces, dressed them in their best and paraded them up and down, hoping their darlings would favorably attract the artist's eye. "What you charge to draw my baby?" "I will pay you money if you will draw me a picture of my house." These were the entreating remarks which came from all sides when they found they were not all to be "drawn." The most remarkable fact noticed about this Filipino colony was that there are no Manila women in it. Never yet, so they said, has a native Filipino woman been seen in the colony. One old man of superior intelligence explained that it was a characteristic of Manila women that they never left their homes. A very few, he said, had gone to Spain, but these were the only known instances of Manila women having left their native land. These "Manilarnen" took wives from among the Spanish and French Creoles, and, in a very few instances, from among the negroes. They seem well contented In their matrimonial alliances. A great many of trte.se Filipinos are very old men. "We live to be much old." said one. They have one vice, that of gambling. In the center of the colony stands a gambling hall. At night, when the day's work Is done, the men congregate in large numbers around the gaming tables and play until their last nickel is gone. Crowds of women enter and stand around as spectators of the game, but seeming to take as much interest as the men. For the "Little Americans.' Providence Journal. There Is a disposition' to argue that there is something Immoral In winning lands by the sword. But this is mere assumption; we must look to the facts for its Justification. A war of aggression against Canada or Mexico or South American republics would not meet with the approval cf thoughtful Americans. Two years ago no one would have advocated fitting out ah expedition to take the Philippines from Spain, even although It might be shown that such a proceeding would be for the ultimate advantage of ourselves and the Filipinos alike. But it has been no mere lust of conquest which has put us where we are. The question Is not one of taking or not taking. The little Americans must know as well as anybody that our position in the Philippines Is the rerult cf the war with Spain, not the object of it. They must know that to withdraw now would be a national dbgrace. Sound Democratic View. Nashville American. With but few exceptions, the exceptions being men and newspapers who seem to think It's smart to talk about "Mr. McKlnlev's war" and the oppression of the "gentle" Filipino, the people demand that armed resistance to United States troops shall cease and that the Inhabitants of islands belonging to ihe Un'i States shall recognize and yield to the ".'.lority of the United States. RateH and rroflcs. Washington Star. That the lowest possible rates for any service depending upon public support not

only Increases business, but Increases profits as well, everybody believes, and the fact has often been demonstrated, and In many different ways. But one of the most conclusive Instances is furnished by the recent experience cf the Japanese government In the matter of the railway lines of that country, which It owns and manages. The department having thm in charge decided some time ago to increafe the rates of fare by one-third, the old charge bing a half cent, a cent and a cent and a half per mile for third, second and first-class iiassengers. respectively. The result, preaty to the surprise of the authorities was an immediate and marked loss instead of a gain, both in receipts and net protlts. HONORS TO GEN. HARRISON.

A Renrcftcnfntivc American Who Coca Ills Country Credit. Philadelphia American. Every American can take a just pride la the attention which Is be:ng shown General Harrison on the other side. The French began it. Emperor William continued it and now these who mako the British nation what it is and who stand for crown. Parliament and people are leaving nothing undone'to show an ex-President of the United States that he Is truly welcome and a persona grata In London. Europe has honored an ex-President before In the person of General Grant, but the situtalon is somewhat different to-day from wh;tt it was In the seventies, and In this des re to make an official demonstration of good, will to the American people In this yea of grace one can read much In between the lines. Great Britain, It Is true, has no occasion to be overcorrect, but France and Germany have reason to know the state of things during the Spanish-American war calls for some definite effort on their part to show that they can make amends for past dereliction, a dereliction no less lenlncant if largely national rather thaa official. It is fortunate, perhaps, for the United States that General Harrison at thi stage of events happens to be the American thus honored, since he exemplifies in his attainments, his public experience and in his quickness of mind all that is best typical of tna Aw.aImm 1IU . 1 1 .1 , wo nmuami, tus icjuuy uz a spcaKcr on all occasions is equaled by an ability to say something that is worth listening to. And. ill addition to this, he possesses a reserve which, while not popularly accepted abroad as "American." is yet not an Unknown clement In the American make-up. Representing, therefore, as an ex-Prtsldent and as a citizen the 73.000.000 at home, none need fear but what the Impression on ruler and diplomat will be favorable, and tn 0 much a convincing argument for the AmericanIdeals. Americans who are endowed with common sense will take all honors In the spirit In w hich they were given, lnat a deeper note Of cordiality should be struck in Great Britain was to be expected, but this is not an untoward circumstance. It is another proof of that amazing change on the part of tho British towards the united States which, whatever the reason, cannot fail to impress at the present and be full of meaning for the future. Unquestionably if cations ara to live up to the ideals of the peace conference they cannot begin better than by realizing what each other's standards of life and men mean. In so far as General Harrison has demonstrated American ideala abroad he has done his country a great service, and his reception, it is to be hoped. Is an earnest of the days of a better -general understanding to come. Off the Earth, .Maybe. Milwaukee Sentinel. Those 30,000 traveling men who have been thrown out of employment by the Democratic newspapers on account of the trusts must have been thrown out of the country by the same potent influence. The men out of employment cannot be found. An Unnecessary Question. Chicago Dally News. A contemporary wants to know "what wa are fighting for" in the Philippines. . Such questions are usually answered with more' calmness and clearness after the lighting is over, or, .as Napoleon would have said, "when the empire is at peace." Automobile Stock. New York Financier. Up to the present time announcements have been made of the organization of eighty-one automobile companies with a capitalization of $430,O00,OH. It would bo interesting to figure what proportion of tills sum has been paid in. SBBBBBBBMMiBBBBSMiSBBlSBSBBS Beautifully Touching. Boston Advertiser. Hon. W. J. Bryan says he is hopeful that the Democrats will carry Iowa. Hardly anything in this world is more beautifully touching than is the sweet illusion of hope when Indulged in by unsophisticated youth. A Finished Product. Philadelphia Ledger. The Illinois papers are debating anions themselves the question. "Who Is responsible for Senator Mason?" We have always understood that Senator Mason was a selfmade man and proud of the Job. Dangerous Jokes. New York Press. An Indiana girl laughed five hours over a joke and it took two doctors to persuade her to stop. Editors as a rule have a great number of such Jokes sent them, but they are always afraid to print them. A Powerful Ilenaon. Chicago Tribune. o'juitruuuy propounus uic query: now does the Hon. A. E. Stevenson, of the exvlce presidency, stand on ' the Philippine question?" His initials appear to Indicate that he is anti-expansion. A Symptom of Reform. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A surprising change has come over the Sultan of Turkey. He ha3 not only commuted the death penalty in twenty-four cases, but agrees to let the Armenians rebuild their schoolhouses. Quite Clear. New York Evening Sun. The Hon. Benjamin Harrison is having a nice time abroad. It .Is clear there is no better capacity to travel In than that of cxPresident of the United States. Will Get Paid. Kansas City Journal. The Chicago Tribune remarks that Mr. Bryan has teen wasting his time in Ohio. V.e hardly think so. Mr. McLean Is amply able to pay his bills. The Secret of Their Wisdom. Atchhxm Globe. Some people have never purchased a gold brick for no other reason than that the goldbrick man has never suspected them of having the price. ' To Plene Ilourke Corkran. Minneapolis Tribune. Bourke Cockran Is worried over th standing army. A law should t passed to allow the army to sit down when business is slack. "Well, Xo. Detroit Newt. In all his biblical research Oom Taul doesn't appear to have been impressed with the injunction , concerning the other cheek. A Marked Omission. Baltimore Hra!d. Mr. Kipling refrained from copyrighting his last poem. He evidently intended It to be his contribution to the campaign fund. Why Illchnrd la Silent. Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Richard Harding Davis Is the only man who can tell who captured Torl, nnd modesty forbids him to enter into particulars. Mere Imagination. Atchison Globe. A heavy box fell on the toe of an Atchison Christian Scientist the other day. nnd ..... 1 ........ ..V ..... . s . . . . One Difference. Philadelphia Ledger. One difference between Bunker hill and Majuba hill is that the former never found it necessary to repeat Itself. 11 V If... I ff f CI m m m n 1 Chicago Dispatch. which he states that he intends to live per manently In New York.