Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 2, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 May 1899 — Page 3

EDWARD ATKINSON’S CRIME. Why the Administration Has SU lcncfd the Erstwhile Repsb> llcan IMmosopber, For many years the American public has been familiar with the name of Ed* ward Atkinson. Edward has been, from early childhood, a stanch republican. In his eafly manhood he established a reputation as a statistician. What Mulhall has been to England Atkinson has been to America, in a slightly different sense. Mulhall is a statistician who gathers statistics and compiles figures for the entire world. He covers every land and clime and publishes them for what they are worth. Atkinson is a statistician, too, who has compiled columns upon columns of figures to show that the republican party was the greatest political party that ever existed in the tide of times. That under its beneficent rule men did not need money, clothing, -food nor any of the etcetera^ of civilization. The average man could not understand, according to Mr. Atkinson, when he was well off, and was an uncivilized nss if he could not live luxuriously on a pint of kerosene, a tin stove and 50 cents a week. Mulhall was a vulgar mathematical historian who compiled figures to illustrate existent facts. Mr. Atkinson was a mathematical philosopher who would lead the world past the antiquated systems of Aristotle and Bacon, to the fields of Elysian economy that would enable the poor to become rich and the rich to place an honest penny in a rainy day stocking. , Mr. Atkinson was hailed as the solver of a great national problem and the deliverer of a nation. His praises were sounded from east to west, from north to south. On the highway, from Dan to Beersheba, travelers told of his philosophy. The dwellers in Jerusalem heated the city with kerosene Jumps and the makers of the old-fashioned 92-per-cent.-of-waste cast iron ranges went into bankruptcy, and Gehenna Atkin

language: **1 know no men whose lames will go down among tAe mothers cf the land, even in the near future, aubjaefc to greater execration than the x ames of the men who ha ve brought this act of criminal aggression upon the nation.”—Kansas City Times. MILITARISM RAMPANT. Philippine Hews Must \ Rnn the Gauntlet of AinlalitiatUa* Favored Authorities. When the facts of the military censorship of news dispatches; from the Philippines come to light—ait they will, following the close of the war—the people of the United States will receive a startling object lesson of the military despotism inseparable from a policy of f oreign conquest. The Republic has already been privately notified by staff correspondents on the scene of action of the arbitrary workings of the system of press censorship inaugurated by GenL Otis. It i s not a pleasant story for Americana to read—the sound, popular doctrine of the freedom of the press is not favored by army autocrats who have their own ends and their own friends to serve. Otis’ system, it is stated, “is exactly the one Weyler enforced in Cuba, against which Americans made such an outcry.” i, , It is an everyday occurrence, the Republic learns, for correspondents to l ie compelled to strike out the names of men or regiments who deserve mention, a nd to be Compelled to send the names of those who have done nothing. “We don’t propose to have the newspapers make any heroes here,” the army press censor tells correspondents. “If any heroes are to be made, this department makes them.” Therefore the censor “kills all praise and almost all mention of certain regiments and officers not liked at headquarters, and insists on flattery of those officers and troops that are in favor, the general trend being

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son was exalted. His name was heard throughout the land. “Mr. Chairman,” said the republican orator of 1896, “we are not having hard times. The poor are not growing poorer and the rich richer, as I shall prove from recent statistics compiled by one of the hiost eminent authorities in the world^-Hon. Edward Atkinson, of Boston. I pity the V man, Mr. Chairman, who would question the honesty, independence and fairness of Mr. Atkinson.” Mr. Atkinson is no longer an idol. He has come into disgrace, along with Tom Heed, Eddy Hale, Georgie Hoar and other-numerous members of the republican pantheon. He has been charged, as was the most sublime philosopher of the ages, with, the commission of a political crime. He is corrupting the youth of the nation, and must be made to drink the Socratic hyssop. His tracts, pamphlets and miscellaneous pieces, heretofore held in the highest regard and receiving the commendation of the profound"McKinley, the literary Hanna and the New Jersey „ trusts, are now barred the mails, and, ^ like Mahomet’s coffin, suspended in transit.

‘To be honest as the world goes,” said the prince of Denmark, “is to be one man picked out of 10,000.” Edward Atkinson, even though often mistaken, is always honest. This is the head and front of his offending. He has committed the crime of lese majeste. You don’t believe, being an American, that one. can commit treason by being honest and telling the truth. You are not familiar with recent developments and are unacquainted with the Dreyfus case. You are not aware that a man may be thrust into outer darkness for criticising the reputed head of the nation, as in Germany he may be arrested and imprisoned for questioning the divine and godlike characteristics of the kaiser. Mr. Atkinson may corrupt the youth of the country and the soldiers in the Philippines with the facts and figures of the last congressional and senatorial history as culled from the columns of that wide-awake and truthfully sensational sheet, the Congressional Record* but no word must be uttered against the immaculate gentleman who rules the empire and the illustrious coterie of Atkinsonian economists who surround him if he would save himself from everlasting infamy and disgrace. Listen! This is the real reason, found ‘in-his pamphlet, why “the governncsnt” has undertaken to silence the erstwhile republican philosopher and sage : “la it not our misfortune to have in the chair of the president of the United States a man of weak and uncertain purpose, without convictions and unequal to the emergency, who, having declared that an act of aggression would b^ a national crime, has trifled with the* question?” He disposes of the president and his cabinet in this

to discriminate against volunteers and tor regulars.” In many other ways the correspondents’ legitimate freedom of expression is hampered and the Philippine news service interfered with. The development is new in American history—it seems to be a consistent phase of imperialism and militarism, of wars of aggression and conquest waged in distant lands. The iron hand of the professional soldier is felt in a way that is full of menace to the best interests of a great and peace-loving republic. “I want you to understand,” said the American censor in the Philippines, “that, this is a military despotism. We do not recognise that anyone except the army has any rights.” When the people of the United States learn the full facts of army autocracy in the Philippines the sentiment against imperialism will crystallize into sudden and most material substance. The peril of military dominance has been swift to show itself in the far east. It will be promptly recognized by the people. They will see to it that the necessary correction is administered. Under a republican form of government there are many other interests besides “the army” which have rights that must be respected. The public press, always the safeguard and the informant of the people. is one of these interests.—St. Louis Republic.

PRESS COMMENTS ——Alger in the senate! Well,'there are places where he might do more harm, and one of them he holds at present.—Utica Observer. -With portentous gravity the McKinley cuckoo organs announce that the executive will say “cutting things’’ about the war critics. IIow very dreadful!—Chicago Democrat. -Quay’s friends jubilantly announce that Mark Hanna will vote to £eat Quay in the United States senate. It will be recalled that Hanna himself was annoyed by some slight technicalities affecting his negotiations for a seat.—Albany Argus. -A great moral party could not afford to shoulder responsibility for Hanna and Hannaism, but the republican party has ceased to be representative of anything except a distorted interpretation of Americanism and the refuge of trusts, syndicates and multimillionaires. It is, in short, organized eviL—Lafayette (Ind.) Journal. -There are two elements in the republi can party, just as there are in the country at large. One represents Hanna, iklger, Eagan, Carter and carrion meat and the other represents the partisan:!) who are for expansion, the honor of the flag and the punishment of the poisoners of soldiers. The latter class is rather out of place in the republican party, but it exists.—Washington Times - ■

VANQUISHED FIVE LIONS A Plucky Stork to Gerauajr That Btlci a Dca of the Klig of Wild Boasts. Baron Stein of Poppelsdorf neat Bonn, Germany, is an amateur animal tamer, and has for his amusement a small menagerie in a park adjoining the old summer residence of the Cologne electoral princes in Poppelsdorf. Among other wild beasts, he owns five African lions, from two to six years old. They were raised with hyenas, with whom they live on good terms, though occasionally one of the big cats knocks a hyena down and scratches its face, just to show who is boss of the cage. Having taught these animals all that he could, the baron decided to introduce a novelty into the performance which he is in the habit of givingbefore an admiring circle of friends. An old white 6tock named Frits has lived for years on the highest tower of Poppelsdorf castle, and, as he was reared in the baron’s poultry yard, never has indulged in the migratory habits of his kind. Fritz, who is four feet tall and has a bill more than seven inches long, was kept in the big training cage alone for a week to accustom him to it. On the tenth of his imprisonment the lion rage was rolled up to the cage. Fptz viewed the lions with healthy curiosity, but without the least alarm. Zampa, a two-year-old lion, was the first to be driven into the cage with the bird. He looked at Fritz for a second or two. and then tried to crawl back to his family, tail first; but, finding tl^e means of egress locked, he raised himself to his full height and uttered a defiant roar. At this the stork’s neck feathers bristled. He lifted his bill in protest, “clappering” as!only a stork can. The strange noise upset Zampa’s selfconfidence. He stood still and dropped

his tail sadly. But the blood of his fathers rose in him again, and, whipping his flanks with his tail, heTcautiously advanced on the enemy, cowering occasionally, as if preparing to spring. The stork viewed these warlike preparations with increasing anger, and his bill worked like castanets. Standing for a second on his strong middle toes, he raised his wings and aimed as if about to hit the lion in the eye. The lion hesitated again, nnd was lost. The stork flew at him and bored his sharp beak into his adversary’s nose, which began to bleed. As the bird stepped back to prepare for another onslaught Zampa turned swiftly, and, forgetful in his bewilderment from which side he had entered, jumped to the other side of the cage and cowered there. Fritz had no taste for pursuing his vanquished foe. Leaving the rear part of the cage to the lion, he marked off the extent of his own territory by walking up and down a straight line, which limited his sphere of influence to about three-quarters of the total area. Within this space he strutted a conquering hero. Zampa’s brother, three years old, then was sent into the cage. He showed in turn astonishment, a disposition for flight and half-hearted defiance. The stork, on his part, tried to keep out of a fight as long as he could, finally turning

his back upon his foe# The lion couldn’t let that opportunity pass without trying to profit by it. He was about to spring upon the stork, when the latter wheeled about with incredible swiftness and hit the lion in the face, drawing blood. Zampa’s brother ran at once. He had enough. Lion No. 3 fared not better than his predecessors. The two remaining lions, however, had more perseverance. Each returned to the attack after being punished once, and in consequence Frits bled each twice, after which they ran away as fast as the others had done. On the next day the two biggest lions were sent into the stork’s cage again. Fritz awaited them, with his back against the wall, and each had to retire, bearing the mark of his bill on his countenance. For some time the lions have spent their days with Fritz in the training cage. The bird holding the front half of the cage, and the five cowed lions occupy the rear. The two contending parties take their meals separately, and seem to pay no attention to each other. Only the fact that Fritz always walks with his tail to the bars indicates that there has been trouble.—N. Y. Press. Australian Weddings. In Australia there are so few natives left that anything but a white man’s marriage is a comparative rarity. The curious difference, however, be-' tween weddings there and in the mother country is that here we license the place for the solemnization of the ceremony and at the antipodes they license the man who performs the rites. Marriage can be performed at the registrar’s office for a guinea, but if a minister knowingly marries a minor without her people’s consent he is liable to imprisonment and a fine of £300. If, however, the contracting parties have taken the oath that they are oi full age, he is safe, though i£ ^has happened more than once that young lovers have gone to the registry office and obviously perjured themselves oh the age question. A smart but very younglooking girl in Australia who was once asked: “Have you the written consent of your parents?” responded: “No but I’m over 21.” “Are you sure?" doubtfully. “As sure as I stand here,*8 was the answer, and, indeed, what site said was accurate enough, for she had written the number 21 on the sole oi each of her shoes!—Cassall’s Magazine.

Justice Laughlin, in Supreme Court. Buffalo, he* ordered a permanent injunction, with costs, and a Ml accounting of sales, to issue against Paul B. Hudson, manufacturer of ‘°Dr. Clark * Foot Powder," and also against a retail dealer of Brooklyn, restraining them from making or selling Dr. Clark’* Foot Powder, which is declared, in the decision of the Court, an imitation and infringement of “Foot—Ease," the powder for tired, eehing feet to shake in your shoes, now so largely advertised and sold all over the country. Allen S. Olmsted, of Le Roy, N. Y., is the owner of the trade-mark “Foot —Ease," and he is the first Individual who rrer advertised a foot powder extensively. He will send a sample free to any one who writes him for it. The decision in this case upholds his trade-mark and renders all parties liable who fraudulently attempt to profit by the extensive “Foot—Ease" advertising, in placing upon the market a spurious and similar appearing preparation, labeled and put up in envelopes and boxes like Foot—Ease. Similar suits win be brought against others who are now infringing-on the Foot—Ease trade-mark and common law rights. The Giving o* It. I*nsion—The bride was given away by her father. Platt—And it waa "he newspapers, I be* here, that gave the count away.—Philadelphia North American. The Beat Preaerlptfcm for Chill*, and Fever Is a bottle olf Gnovs’s Tasraum Chill Toxic. It is simply iron and quinine ia a tasteless form. Nocure—no pay. Prioe^Oc. Sometimes you hear of a perfect man. He is the fellow your wife could have married.—Town Tomes.

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