Richmond Palladium (Daily), 18 February 1904 — Page 4

RICHMOND DAILY PALLADIUM, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1904

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HONOR MEN CON DEMN PRINCIPLES. The Dayton Press has a very sensible editorial on the death of Senator llanna and the late President MeKiuley. It says: i ' Will the world ever learn to esteem and honor such men according to their merits while they live? During their life they meet with enough opposition and misconstruction in spite of their good intentions to shorten the life of the strongest man. After they are dead, the grandest eulogies pour in from all sides. The sudden departure of such men should be a lesson to men and the press of the whole country, not to be too severe and never offensive in our attacks. Condemn principles and wrongs, but not men. Death has not made Hanna better and yet who would dare to talk of his faults now? "A good heart has ceased to beat and many will feel sorry when they remember the contradictions of former years they engaged in. But there is consolation in it for us. "It is a poor man that has no enemies. The constant struggle with them tempers and moulds characters and without enemies, men in such positions would never become great. The unexpectedly broken career of Hanna has brought sorrow into the homes of the wealthy, into the political world, and into all business offices." THE PAY OF RURAL CARRIERS. There is a tendency to increase the pay of rural carriers and such is the proper thing to do. Pay them what it is worth to carry the mail and prohibit them from being express messengers. If there is any government work that ought to be efficiently done, it is the delivery of the farmers' mail. Promptness is just as essential a factor as efficiency and cannot be secured when the carrier is compelled to devote his attention and time to more than one thing. The package business is a side line and detracts from the very purpose for which the rural free delivery has been established. It will be better for the city merchants when the system of carrying anv kind of merchandise, by rural carriers, has been abolished. When the farmer comes to town, he buys what he wants; when he orders through the rural carrier, he buys what he must have. In the first case he does his own having, and in the second case, another does his buying for him.

People are dazed at the energy and pluck of the Japanese and their success in the first days of the war against Russia. To the casual observer it would seem that it is only a matter of time until Russia is completely whipped. At the beginning of the South African war, it was -thought the Poers could never be subdued by the English but England had more resources and the same is true of Russia. Japan can scarcely expect to hold out against the great Empire' of Russia. What Russia lacks in skill and modern tactics, she makes up in resources for protracting the war. There is no doubt that some of the cartoonists, who brutally distorted the character of Mark Hanna, are now sorry and wish they had pursued a different course. Put men like Mark Hanna men who are the very salt of the earth care little about the lampooning they often get. Their lives and works are the best answers that can be made to the pictorial venom that comes often from the liar and sneak. Congress appropriated $5,000,000 for the St. Louis fair and people thought that was enough. Now there is a bill before congress to increase the appropriation $4,600,000 and stands a good show to pass. The St.' Louis exposition ought to be the greatest one ever held in the world but St. Louis ought to do more in a financial way for it than is evident at present. -

Senator Piatt of New York has declared that the Democratic party has become "sane and dangerous." The Louisville Herald thinks this may be true in New. York, but it is not true in Kentucky. In the latter place they are dangerous all right, but are not burdened with the other quality belonging to the New York type. Congressman Shafroth has done the unusual thing in politics. He discovered that his election was illegal and moved that his opponent be seated. If every one who has discovered that fraud was a factor in his election would do likewise, there would be several other changes in con-

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RUSSIA AND

JAPAN

SOME INTERESTING NOTES ON THE STRATEGIC POINTS BY REV. A. PARKER Who Made a Tour of 2,000 Miles About Japan and Yellow Seas. Editor of the Palladium: In response to jour request for something about the seat of Avar, I will just touch upon some of the stragetic -points which I chanced to visit in a tour of some two thousand miles about the Japan and Yellow Seas. Starting out from Nagasaki, in' Japan, the first place I struck that has become conspicuous in the present war was the vicinity of Saseho, the point of assembly and departure for the Japanese1 fleet. To me it was noteworthy as a place of refuge for two days from a typhoon which very likely would have sent us to the bottom had we been out on the open. I would rather take my chances in a battle than in one of those terrific storms of the Eastern ocean. Knowing well the threatening aspect of affairs over there I could hardly dream that within a year and a half the magnificent war fleet of Japan would be going for Russia hot-footed right over my tracks. Indeed, I could not dream of much of anything under the wild roar of that tempest, the tossing of the shin, and the awful smell of the ship's cabin. Fusan was my first landing in Korea. It lies just across the straits, a hundred miles westerly from Japan, and is destined to be, when a railroad now building becomes connected with the Siberian l-ailroad, the Easternmost terminus of Asiatic railroads. Fusan is a place of perhaps twenty thousand people, with Japan ese and Korean settlements. For 300 years the Japanese settlement has been held as an outpost for their trade and extensive Korean fisheries. Though not yet much heralded it is a place that cannot fail to become of great strategic importance, as the commercial gateway into the heart of that countr Under the Japanese, who are now building 300 miles of railway into the interior. Fusan is alive with engineering operators needed to make it a great mart of trade. Twenty-five miles to the southwest of Fusan, shut in behind islands and promontories lies a secluded harbor, that more than any other spot is the stragetic prize for which war is being waged. It is the harbor of Masanpho. For position and security it must become the Gibraltar of those seas. Whoever holds that has the key to the situation. Within two or three days of sailing distance lie the possessions of Japan, Korea, China. Germany, England and Russia. To which of the two great nations now in contest will it fall as the prize of war? Russia wants it. About four years ago she thought she had its concession safely in hand through diplomatic wheedling. Once it were hers she could dominate the straits of the Japan sea, link together Port Arthur and Vladivorstock, iioav so isolated from each other by 1,200 miles of sea route, bid defiance to Japan, and gather to herself for commercial as well as governmental a prestige over 1 500 millions of Asiatics. But just then Japan interfered with the trade; had it called off, and then bought up the land about the harbor by individual purchase. The Japanese felt they could not afford to yield that key of influence to its colossal rival. Till now neither party has ventured upon its occupation. When I was there it was but a lonely spot, only the crudest beginning of a town, on the land locked bay only a little mat covered quarantine boat not much larger than a saucepan and asmall Italian gun boat rode at their quiet anchors. Now Japan has taken naval possession 'of Masanpho. And they say, whatever may be the issue of the war they will not let go of it. Though Masanpho seemed peaceful enough when I was there it became the scene of a small international struggle between my travelling party of three Americans and the officials of Korea. We had committed the unpardonable crime of taking out of the country without a license, for the space of 25 miles four Korean coolies and our Korean servant. It seemed as if the only expiation for such an i offense against the edicts of the

"Lord of a Thousand Isles" was a generous fee to placate ttie officials. Somehow, after hours of delay, we were allowed to take our departure for a journey into the heart Of the Hermit nation. . Later I was at Chemulpo, where'ten days ago v two Russian vessels went down under the fire of a Japanese fleet. Chemulpo lies about two days sail northerly from Masanpho, and is important as the seaport of the capital of Korea, which lies inland twenty-six miles. It has a poor harbor, though the best that stretch of coast line offers. The immense tides of the Yellow Sea, leave bare at their ebb great mud flats. Ships have to anchor three miles out under the lee of some islands. But the party that would dominate the capital must hold Chemulpo. As I recall the city. it seemed even then to have been taken by the Japs. For Chemulpo, like Fusan in the south of Korea and Sensan in the northeast, has become of late very largely a Japanese , settlement. The Mikado's birthday was being celebrated on the. day' of my arrival as a general holiday. From the fluttering of Japanese flags and the joy of the people I can imagine how Chemulpo must have looked when the people there found victory perched upon their banners, last week. In Port Arthur for two days I was a visitant, at what is now the objective point of the present struggle. Russia has grasped and held it thus far with iron hand as her only protected harbor on the Yellow Sea. As Peter, the Great built St. Petersburg to have a window looking out on Europe, so Port Arthur has become a window through which to look out on all. Eastern Asia. Russia has spent on Port Arthur and its approaches within the last six years as much as it will cost us to dig the Panama canal. Russia does not design it for a commercial port. For that they are building the new city of Dalny on the coast and Harbin in the heart of Manchuria. Cant. Soltan of the Rus

sian Army and till recently the chief L i. L V ! I go eriiiiiem unrein at j un viiwaug told me what they want of Port Arthur in an expressive way. Doubling his daintv fist he thrust it out at arms length, as if in defiance of everybody and thing, ."That" said he, "is !vhat we want of Port Arthur." The Japs want Port Arthur because it was theirs by right of con quest eight years ago and Russia dip lomatic bulldozing robbed them of it. Said a Japanese gentleman to me as Ave sailed into the harbor. "Ever;. Japanese sheds tears Avhen he enters Port Arthur." They Avant it because a knockout bloAv there Avill tell as nowhere else. They Avant it because, as Prof. Tom id zer, a law professor in Tokio University has told me over and again, "We are so little a country with so croAvded a population that Ave AA-ant Korea and Ave Avant Manchu ria Who will haA'e this last great prize Avhen the Avar ends? Prof. Tomidzer, Avhose company I enjoyed for a Aveek on the good ship. The Fairer Mary, Avas just returning from a spying expedition through Manchuria from Vladivostock to Port Arthur. He used to tell me the military strength of Russia in the Far East was OA'er rated. He further said that outside the Russians in government employ there were five or six Japanese in Manchuria to one Russian. For myself I feel that if . the Japs can take Port Arthur from the Russians the achieA'ement will be mareIous. To me the place seemed absolutely impregnable and its protecting navy to have a secure asylum. And A'et that navy is today a broken thing. The soldiers of the Island Empire, are SAvarming, in myriads, for a struggle. Can Russia send along the long thin line of their railway forces enough to hold their bold advance to the shores of the Yellow Sea? Rev. A. Parker. AS TO ADVERTISING. We sometimes receive inquiries as to the standing of persons Avho adAertise themselves in newspapers and magazines as Christian Science practitioners. We ansAver these inquiries by saying that Christian Scientists do not advertise, and it is safe to assume that the persons who thus bring themselves to the attention of the public are not in any manner identified with our denomination nor with its healing Avork. The following reference to the methods employed by unauthorized persons who pose as Christian Scientists, is copied from a previous issue of the Sentinel: "It is unnecessary for us to. say that methods of advertising akin to those of quack doctors and vendors of natent nostrums are not countenanced by Christian Scientists. On the contrary, they are reprehended. "Christian Scientists haA-e dope allf they properly can do in the way of advertising when they unobtrusively make known the fact that thev hold

themselves in readiness to respond to calls for healing sickness or otherwise aiding those who desire such services as come within their province or line of duty." The above. is as true today as when it Avas written, and correctly sets forth the attitude of Christian Scientists as being one of willingness and readiness to help those who desire their ministrations, rather than that of soliciting the attention and patronage of persons yho may be attracted by a skillfully Avorded advertisement. Christian Science healing is not a thing of barter and sale; it is a holy ministry into which greed, selfishness, and self-seeking cannot enter. The commercialism that bids for patronage and dollars is inconsistent Avith the true sense of Christ-healing and must ultimately prove to be a delusion to both practitioner and patient. Christian Scientists know that those avIio would avail themselves of the healing power of this Science

must turn it naturally and Avithout j undue influence. j If may be urged that' unless Chris-j tiau Scientists advertise, the public; will not knoAv how nor Avhere to find I a practitioner, but this will not suf- ! fice as an excuse for adopting meth- j ods not in keeping Avith the proper j reserve and dignity which befits the high calling of our, ministry. Those Avho are ready for Christian Science Avill experience no difficulty in finding help and healing. There are but few communities in-which some beneficiary of Christian Science cannot be found; the churches of the denomination ai'e many, the free reading rooms maintained by the churches are easily accessible, and a comprehensive directory of practitioners is published in the official organs of the denomination. M. CAMBRIDGE CITY Dan Drischel made a business trip to Richmond yesterday. Robert Duncan has returned home from New York, Avhere he has been for the past few months. The members of the Baptist church gave Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Marson an agreeable surprise Tuesday evening at their home on Main street. Elegant refreshments Ave re sered and all present had a delightful time. Mrs. Ora Wheeler, of Hagerstown, ;. i'tl, ,r- of relatives here. P". y. fUudv Avas the guest of his brother in Indianapolis yesterday. Fred Hastings Avas the guest of friends and relatives' in . Hagerstown yesterday. C. T. Wright was called to New Lisbon yesterday to take charge of the remains of George Gilbert. Mrs. John Lackey, Avho has been seriously ill for the past seA-eral Aveeks, is sIoavIv recovering, and is noAV able to sit up part of the day. Miss Fannie Pierce is in Indianapolis, attending the millinery opening. Homer Benson made a business trip to Knightstown the first of this Aveek. One of the most interesting and amusing features of the program of the bean supper to be given Monday evening, February 22, by the G. A. R. at the Masonic temple will be the old:fashiohed' "school of fifty years ago. ; '(', . John and Tom Copeland were in Richmond on business Tuesday. Bert Zumalt has accepted a position in Indianapolis. The Rebekah Aid society held a A-ery interesting meeting AA'ith Mrs. George Doll this afternoon. Mrs. John Beard and Mrs. Har'' Miller Avill entertain a number of their friends next Wednesday afternoon and evening. LaAvrenee Bertscb, av):o has been the guest of his parents here for the past AA-eek, returned to Ann Arbor, Mich.. Tuesday by way of Pittsburg, Washington and Baltimore. Mrs. BroAvn, after a feAv weeks' visit Avith relatiA-es in Hartford, returned home yesterday. Harry Ware delivered to the high school yesterday morning a very interesting paper on the ' 'Possibilities of a Navy. " Simeon Crockett is adding another story to part of his residence and othewise improving it. 1 The Appean club met Avith Miss Opal Wallick this afternoon. .Mrs. Zook, mother of William Zook, living north of this city, died suddenly Sunday morning and Tuesday morning his Avife, after an illness of fourteen months, also passed away. The funerals wore held at the Dunkard church, near Hagerstown, this afternoon. All Races of Man, Strange, curious and interesting are among the myriad sights at the St. Louis world's fair, open April 30th, and reached by Pennsylvania lines direct route. "Look at the Map!"

A CANDIDATE FOR REPORTER. For some weeks past Frank M. Smith of this city has been considering the propriety of offering himself to the Republican State Convention as a, candidate for Reporter of the Supreme Court. Having been accustomed to carefully Aveighing evidence pro and eon, lie has applied some of his legal wisdom'- to enable

itt - - rA v 2 ft fFrank M. Smith. him to arrive at a safe conclusion in the matter of seeking a place on the Republican ticket. lie sought il:e. atlvice of many of the leadis a;:d oilier friends in the party in whom he had confidence and visited many sections of the state before he came to the def inite conclusion. He found rr'h encouragement during his im-estiga-tions. He has concluded to beeomo a candidate for the nomination and bs authorized The American to so announce, which The American dos Avith a-great deal of ple"o nd h great deal of confidence that he will be nominated and elected.' The confidence . Ave thus express: is based, upon an intuitive knowledge that the ticket which will be nominated by the Indiana Republican convention this year Avill' sweep the state; that Mr. Smith is too good a judge of political conditions to enter a contest in which the result is doubtful to the point of discouragement, and the knowledge that Mr. Smith is one of the most active campaigners in 'the state. And herein lies his A-alue to the Avhole ticket. He Avill be in the fight till the close of the . polls and Avill cover more territory than the average campaigner. , Mr. Smith's moral character is good. IJis family connections are first class. He is affable, genial and pleasnnt as a companion, and is patriotic and public-spirited as a citizen. There is no discount on his lo3alty to the party and there is no service in its interest that he is not always ready and willing to perform. He has a large acquaintance in the state, made during the years of his laAV practice and through the greater opportunities afforded him Avhile acting as chief deputy in the revenue office at Lawrenceburg. He makes a good impres sion ana last mends AvhereA-er ne goes. The American fully and cordially indorses Mr. Smith for this nomination and will be pleased if it is giAen him. We are sure that the Republicans of the county and the whole district will be pleased. Frank M. Smith was born near Whit comb, Franklin county, Ind., December 3j 1866. He taught school in the fall and winter of 1884-5. He graduated from DePauv University with the class of 1S91, and in the same year graduated from the laAV school of the same institution, receiving the degrees Ph. B. and LL. B. In 1894 he received from DePauw University the degree of A. M. In July, 1891, he began the practice of law in Brookville, and in the latter part of that year, on account of the conspicuous part he had taken in the prosecution of certain criminal cases, he was appointed Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for this circuit by Geo. W. Pig-man, Prosecuting attorney, a Democrat. This appointment was the more complimentary because of the fact that the commission of a deputy of the opposite political faith of Mr. Smith was canceled to make his appointment possible. This position he held two years. In 1894 he was nominated by the Republican party as their candidate for Prosecuting Attorney for the 37th judicial circuit. Up to this time no Republican had ever been elected to this position. From the time he Avas nominated he belieA'ed he could be elected. In this opinion he stood alone; no one else believed he could OA-ercome the majority of more than 800 that Avas against him. From the time he was nominated till the election he never ceased Avorking and to his credit he placed a victory. Mr. Smith's family consists of a wife and one son four years old. He Avas married in September, 1898, to Clara Wood, oldest daughter of Rev. E. II. Wood. Brookville American.

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