Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1905 — Page 2

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WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and General Gossip of the National Capital. Special Correspondence to The Demoorat: The much heralded board of consulting engineers for the Panama Canal met in Washington Saturday and commenced tbe deliberations tbftt will determine the recommendation to Congress whether the canal shall be bnilt at sea level or made a lock canal which some engineers claim is more practicable and will suffice for all the needs of commerce for the next century. Tbe board contains a great many distinguished names, the chief engineer, officers of the Army, prominent engineers from civil life and foreign engineers nominated by England, France, Germany and the Netherlands at tbe request of this government. What will come or tbeir deliberations it is of course too early to state. But it is said that they will have some sort of a report ready for Congress by the time it meets in December and that this will be forwarded by the President accompanied by a vigorous message that will settle the question of a lock or sea-level waterway so long left open. It is a question, however, how much time the board will take in deliberation for some of them have suggested the necessity for another trip to Panama at goverment expense, though the most of them have been over the ground before with various commissions and they will have at their disposal in Washington all the maps and plans of the many commissions and surveys that have visited the Isthmus without definite result heretofore. There is already whispered talk in Washington that the canal never will be bnilt, but in all probability this is mere ill natured gossip. It is said that the project is impracticable from an engineering standpoint for lack of canal foundations. It is also said that definite information to til's effect is already on file in the War Department. However, everyone knows that nothing is going to be done till the question of whether the one or the other sort of canal shall be built and that is what the consulting engineers are here to determine.

They are having a lot of trouble with the canal project anyhow, and the determination of the government to go into the general storekeeping business to furnish the laborers in the zone with enough to eat, has aroused vigorous protests from “leading merchants” of Panama. These protests brought out a vigorous letter from Governor Magoon, made public today in which he makes some sensational statements in justification of the government’s proposed step. He says that the laborers in the canal zone have been living principally on sugar cane. This was the only thing they had money enough to buy at prevailing prices, and in spite of all the efforts of the government to furnish them with decent food, the local store keepers had kept up prices so that tbe laborers could not buy. Tbe men were so weak from improper nourishment that their labor was very scanty and consequently expensive. Therefore the only thing was to give them food at reasonable prices, and this the government promises to do If the men are properly fed and housed and the sanitary features of the situation are attended to, which Chairman Shonts says is now a problem overshadowing the actual digging of the canal, there is some hope that the canal may be done in the course of years. t t t There has been much third term talk in Washington in the past few days as a result of the shower of congratulations received by the President for his part in the Peace agreement. It would be churlish to want to take from the President any of the honor due him for his great work in the cause of peace. But the third term talk is very inopportune at this time and probably strongly against the President’s wishes. It will be remembered that when the announcement of the result of the last presidential election was made to him one of the first things he did was to make a statement in the plainest and most unmistakable English, such as he can use at need, saying that the unwritten law against a third term was a wise one and that he proposed to observe the spirit and substance of that law, not the letter of it. That he would under no cirouinstances be a candidate for another nomination. It would be impossible for the President to reverse himself on that statement without absolutely disregarding his own word, and that is a thing that neither his friends nor his enemies would

ever expect—of him. Thereto e the third term talk at the pre*en< juncture may be taken as entire y uninspired and impertinent. t t t There is a plan on foot ‘to give President Roosevelt a rousing welcome on bis return to Washington. There will not be much formality about it but the President wilt simply be met at the depot by a party of oitizens, prominent ami otherwise, and escorted to the White House without any formal speecbmaking or parading of auy sort. That is a demonstration in which most Washingtonians will want to take part and the President is likely to have about the most strenuous time of his life on his next return to the capital. Cqme to think, he may have evert a more strenuous time when he gets Congress on his hands a little later. t t t It is stated that the champion penman of the State Department has started for Portsmouth taking with him the material for engrossing the coming treaty? This is principally interesting as an indication that the treaty will be signed there and not in Washington. So it may be known as the Treaty of Portsmouth after all.

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Famous Yellow Fever Expert.

Dr. John Guiteras, who has taken part in every fight against yellow fever since 1881, was born In Matanzas, Cuba, In 1852. At seventeen he came to the United States and took the medical course at the University of Pennsylvania, from wfiich he graduated in 1873. Returning to Havana as a member of a commission to study yellow fever, he entered the United States marine hospital service in 1880, served during the yellow fever epidemic at Key West a year later, went to Mexico to study the disease in 1883, and as an expert on yellow fever is tbe peer of any man now living. In view of the epidemic now raging in Louisiana, this makes him of especial importance in the present crisis. In 1887 and 1888 Dr. Guiteras was professor of the practice of medicine In a college at Charleston, S. C. He was also professor of pathology in the University of Pennsylvania fer a number of years. Having been a prominent advocate of the liberation of Cuba, he returned to the land of his

DR. JOHN GUITERAS.

birth when the war came and served on tbe staff of General Shafter as yellow fever expert in the Santiago campaign. If the frightful plague that ravages the southern climes is ever overcome. It will be by the skillful and unselfish work of such men as Dr. Guiteras. Born a Cuban, he has made bimself one of the leading physicians on the American continent. Devoted to a profession, he yet found susclent time to help free his native land. With perfect fearlessness he has risked life ’to save others. He has lived to see the dream of Cuba llbre become true and to feel that he himself is an honored representative of science in two republics.

TARIFF REFORM DEMANDED.

Comblaatlon of Ropablicans aad Trust, in the Way. Just as the Democrats hare claimed, tbe protective tariff, which protects the trusts and combines und not the people, has about rained our export trade. The Nesv York Merchants’ association has discovered this and is urging that congress adopt reciprocity to save them. A letter just sent out by the association to B.COO loading business men of the country declares that important changes are about to be made, or have been" made, in the tariff systems of nearly all of continental Europe, and unless some favorable agreements can “be arranged between each of these nations and the United States tbe Merchants’ association fears a disastrous effect upon the export trade of the United States. As the protected interests are all powerful with the Republican leaders .'and Speaker Cannon is a stand patter, which indicates nonaction by congress,; the only hope for relief lies in the election of a Democratic congress next year, for there is not much hope that the coming congress will do anything to help the merchants or the people who pay the tariff tax. Reciprocity cannot be accomplished without mutual concessions on the part of the two parties to a treaty. Each country must sacrifice some of the protection on some of its products. That is what prevents the* ratification of reciprocity treaties by the United States senate, for each of the protected industries does not intend to be the one to be sacrificed on the altar of its country if It can help it. As some Republican United States senator or a number of them are special representatives of trusts or combines that have lodgment in the state they represent, they object to any reciprocity treaty that reduces the protection of their clients, and by hanging together they have prevented the ratification of the treaties. This state of affairs can hardly be remedied until the people elect representatives and the state legislatures elect senators who will represent the people’s interests instead of the Interests of the protected trusts. The two senators from New York are protectionists and represent special Interests, and the New York Merchants’ association, however influential and Important the Interests It represents, will find itself secretly defeated by the interests that would suffer If a reciprocity treaty should be ratified. Protection has fostered special interests, commonly called trusts, and these trusts have seen to It that tbe Republican leaders have been protected in return. The railroad corporations, tbe banks and trust companies, the insurance corporations and the industrial trusts are nearly all controlled by the same Interests, and the Republican party as represented in congress represents those allied interests more than it does the people. To unhorse the trusts and combines there must first be established reciprocity between the congress and the people, and that cannot be until the Republicans are defeated.

SMITHSONIAN SCANDAL.

Affairs of the Institution Should Be Investigated. Probably the worst scandal this administration has had to face is the embezzlement of the funds of the Smithsonian institution. What makes the affair mortifying from a national paint of view is that the funds embezzled were those of a trust committed to the United States by an Englishman three generations ago. It will be nothing but right that congress should make restitution by appropriating the amount that is found to have been taken. The peculations appear to have gone p:i for a number of years, which show a moot lax system of management. S. P. Langley, the secretary, has evidently given more time to experiments wlin flying machines than to supervising ii»o institution of which he is the acting manager. How much of the trust funds have been squandered on such useless experiments is not known, for the management is a close corporation that does not confide in the public by publishing its receipts and expend.tures. Congress when it meets should order that the accounts of the Smithsonian be audited as the accounts of other government bureaus are, and the institution should” tie added to the department of commerce and labor or the department of the interior, so that them can be a responsible head. As it is niw an irresponsible secretary has no one to control his actions unless it be the equally irresponsible executive committee, which has evidently not taken the trouble to investigate the receipts and expenditures for some years. As President Roosevelt is the presiding officer ex officio of the institution, be should order a thorough investigation of its affairs and see that a competent executive official be placed in charge.

War Tax la Peace Time.

Senator Dick of Ohio Is teetotally opposed to meddling with the sacred tariff, but he favors the Imposing of tho Spanish war revenue taxes, especially the stamp taxes. That would be a pleasant prospect for the taxpayers In time of peace. In case of the calamity of a war what would the Republicans propose to tax? About tbe only thing then left would be a direct tax of so much per capita—the poor man would pay as much as the rich man, which is about the case under the present protective tariff law.

To the Point.

The minister to a Latin-Amerlcnn republic in particular should keep clear of syndicates, concessions and claim* —Chicago Tribune.

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