Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1905 — Page 7

POLITICAL COMMENT

Postponement Not Abandonment. It is given out from Washington with ’an air of semi-authority that President Roosevelt will not discuss the tariff in his forthcoming message, and there is an inference implied that he has concluded there should be no revision. If it Is true that he has abandoned his intention of recommending a change In the Dingley schedule, The Blade ventures to say that it Is not because he has modified his views on that subject. As every one knows, President Roosevelt’s heart is set on bringing about a reform in railroad rates. He believes religiously in a government supervision that will put an effectual check on rebates, discriminations and unreasonable charges. He knows,'as every one else knows, that there is a radical defect in the present system. He knows,too, that this defect spreads to almost every branch of human activity. He thinks that he can confer a lasting benefit on the people if he can discover and apply that remedy. He looks upon the existing condition as threatening the country’s prosperity, as militating against the many to the benefit of the few, even more acutely than do the inequalities of the Dingley bill. It Is the President’s natuife to grapple the most pressing questions first, and if he is silent on the Dingley bill in the message he is now preparing, it is because he regards the railroad rate question as paramount, and its solution most urgent. That important matter out of the way, the stand-pat-ters may rest assured that he will return to the tariff question and thresh it out with all his accustomed vigor. The President is too close to the people not to know that they are demanding of the Republican party revision, and he Is too well versed In commercial life not to know that this demand is both just and reasonable. As to the extent of this revision, as to how it shall be brought about, these are problems a Republican Congre&s must determine.—Toledo Blade.

Massachusetts Republicans. The action recently taken by the Republicans of Massachusetts In State convention is remarkable as showing the growth of tariff revision sentiment. f That rock-ribbed fastness of the Home Market Club, spoke for revision and the distinguished Senator Lodge him’self, hitherto a strong stand-patter, declared that the tariff schedules should be changed by the friends of protection. It was a propitious sign, too, that the radicals, headed by the irrepressible Foss, did not insist on forcing their claims for reciprocal trade relations, but declared themselves satisfied with the concessions made by the standpatters. It Is a hopeful Indication that the Republicans of the Old Bay State will go into the fight this fall united. Both wings of the party in Massachusetts are as firm as admantlne for the upholding of the great principle of protection. There is an honest difference of opinion as to the extent revision should take, and happily in this respect each has met the other halF way. The tariff plank fulfills this condition admirably and is In line with the conservative thought of the party. The nomination of Curtis Guild, Jr., . who is a prominent revisionist, for Governor, and the harmony that has been brought out of the controversy over the tariff, promise the Republican party In Massachusetts a victory of the good old-fashioned kind.—Toledo Blade.

How It Happened. The value of general exports was heavier for June than the months before, which shows a much larger foreign demand, and contradicts tne fears of the Free-Traders that this country Is losing its foreign trade because of the Protective Tariff. The value of breadstuffs exported hi the last June was much over $2,000,000 more than in June of last year. There is still another point of importance to the labor of this country shown in the report, and it is. that with the short wheap crop of last year there was a much smaller export of wheat and the figures for flour sent abroad remained nearly the same as the year before. That was caused by the importation of more Canadian wheat, which was made into flour by American Workers, for wages, and then sold outside the country. That happened under the Republican policy of business for Americans, capitalists ns well as Workers. —Worcester “Telegram.”

The Logic of Facta. , in short, the exports of manufactured goods under the Dingley law, which free-traders claim would Injure our export trade, are Just double what they were under a Demomrntlc tariff designed for the express purpose of our export trade, according to the accepted logic of the free-trade-tariff-re-form school. This demonstrates the trouble with free trade and tariff reform arguments. They are all right for closet purposes; but the irresistible logic of facts persists in proving the precise contrary to the closest deductions. Nevertheless, It is to be expected that the Democratic free traders nnd their tariff reform allies will persist in their claim that the present tariff law is txd for expansion of foreign trade—-

not just now, maybe, but at some time in the future it will work out that way. It has expanded our exports steadily for nine years, but that does not prove anything to the free trader. —Seattle Post-Intelligencer. No Hurry. The New York “Staats-Zeitung,” the most influential German American paper in the Atlantic Coast States, hears from its Berlin correspondent that the German government Is disposed to extend the present tariff arrangement with the United States beyond March 1, 1906, when the new general tariff law will go into effect in the Kaiser’s dominions. It is said that the Berlin government will continue the present tariff provisions without change, as far as they concern the United States, for an indefinite period in order to allow this country ample time to arrange its tariff schedules so as to take advantage of the “conventional” schedules of the new Teutonic law.

There is little doubt that the “Staats-Zeltung’s” information is correct; far more correct than that of Gustav H. Schwab, who is trying to make the commercial organizations believe that our exports to Germany will fall off to little or nothing if we don’t hurry up and show the white flag. There is no cause for hurry. Germany will give the United States an indefinite period of time, all the time it wants, to decide whether or not to go into a reciprocity dicker. “It may be for years, and it may be forever.”—American Economist

Many Objections. Commercial reciprocity sounds well but it is usually open to many objections. It violates the principle that a protective tariff to be justifiable must be for all like, and it Invites competitive aggression by helping to reward it It also grants favors to the less friendly which to the more friendly are denied. Germany imposes a high duty on American products and therefore gets a special rate on certain things it sells In the American market. Great Britain admits American merchandise free, and is therefore debarren from sharing in the concession which Germany enjoys. That is how the principle of reciprocity works out, and there is no need to direct attention to the inequity of the result. There will probably be no reciprocity treaty with Germany. How far the discrimination to be practiced under the new tariff will injuriously affect the United States remains to be seen. Possibly it will not do so to any considerable extent. Should the contrary happen and should it become necessary for this country to protect itself a special schedule for the benefit of German imports can easily be prepared, as was done recently in Canada, with consequences which led the Germans to regret they ever began the scrap.—Philadelphia Inquirer.

Help from the South. From the Southern States comes the promise of help in maintaining tariff 'stability. What time the tariff revision and reciprocity elements of the Republican party in Massachusetts and other States are bending their energies toward the demoralization of the prosperity producing system which is 3" the outgrowth of the “cardinal principle” of Republicanism, the Democrats of the solid South are veering away from free trade—the “cardinal principle of Democracy.” There are numerous Indications of a determination on the part of Southern Congressmen to withhold their support from the movement to force upon the Fiftyninth Congress the revision of the tariff. Representative Lester of Georgia, who is entering upon hls ninth term as member of Congress from the Savannah district, expresses the opinion that Southern Democrats will hereafter be slow in favoring tariff revision downward, and that there will be no tariff legislation during the coming winter. The situation seems to be that while the South Is not actively and openly for protection Its Industries are too largely the gainers through protection to warrant any Interference with that policy. It is a healthy and encouraging sign.—American Economist

Cowardice. If there is anything despicable In manhood it is that element which runs when the first threat of a charge reaches fts ears. We refer to the people now crying for free-trade, free-er trade, reciprocity nnd other kindred schemes for opening our home market to the cheap producer of Europe because Germany nnd a few other countries have declared they will scrap us commercially If we don’t. Great Caesar! are we cowards? It looks like some of these think we are! But we are not. It will be found that our policy, which is purely American, was mnde for Americans and is not for Europe. We are for the American laborer, producer, manufacturer. The rest can go hang.—Salem (Ore.) “Statesman.”

If Left to Farmers. If left to farmers, the present tariff schedules would not be touched. But it is easy to guess what will happen if the Importers, who sit by the seaside and take toll, are to decide the tariff policy of the United States. —Burlington "Hawkeys.”

PEACE TREATY TERMS

TEXT OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE AGREEMENT MADE PUBLIC. Text of Compact Given Out in Russia Same Day Mikado Puts It in Effect— Japanese Army Warned Not to Criticise Settlement. - 1 The text of the treaty of peace concluded by Russia and Japan at Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 5 and signed by Emperor Nicholas and the Emperor of Japan, Oct. 14, has been made public, and is as follows:

The Emperor of Japan on one part and the Emperor of all the Russias. on the other part, animated by a desire to restore the blessings of peace to their countries, have resolved to conclude a treaty of peace and have for tjjis purpose named their plenipotentiaries; that is to say, for his majesty, the Emperor of Japan, Baron Koniura Jutaro, ‘Jusami, grand cordon of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun, his. minister for foreign affairs, and his excellency, Takahira Komoro, Imperial Order of the Sacred Treasure; his minister to the United States, and his majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, his excellency Serge Witte, his secretary of state and president of the committee of ministers of the empire of Russia, and his excellency Baron Roman Rosen, master of the imperial court of Russia, his majesty’s ambassador to the United States, who, after having exchanged their full powers, which were found to be in good and due form, have concluded the following articles:

Article 1. There shall henceforth be peace and amity between their majesties the Emperor of Japan and the Emperor of all the Russias, and between their respective states and subjects. " Article 2. The imperial Russian government acknowledging that Japan possesses in Korea paramount political, military and economical interests, engages neither to obstruct nor interfere with measures for guidance, protection and control which the imperial government of Japan may find necessary to take in Korea. It is understood that Russian subjects in Korea shall be treated in exactly the same manner as the subjects and citizens of other foreign powers; that is to say, they will be placed on’the same footing as the subjects and citizens of the most favored nation. It is also agreed that, in order to avoid causes of misunderstanding, the two high contracting parties will abstain on the Russian-Korean frontier from taking any military measures which maj’ menace the security of Russian or Korean territory. Russia Gives Up Manchuria.

Article 3. Japan and Russia mutually engage: ’ t . _ 1. To evacuate completely and simultaneously Manchuria except the territory affected by the lease of the Liaotung peninsula in conformity with the provisions of the additional article one annexed to this treaty, and, 2. To restore entirely and completely to the exclusive administration of China all the portions of Manchuria now in occupation or under the control of the Japanese or Russian troops with the exception of the territory above mentioned. The imperial government of Russia declare that they have not in Manchuria any territorial advantages or preferential or exclusive concessions in the impairment of Chinese sovereignty or inconsistent with the principle of equal opportunity. • .. Article 4. Japan and Russia reciprocally engage not ,to obstruct any general measures common to all countries which China may take for the development? of' the commerce or industry of Manchuria.

MEET DEATH IN HUGE WAVE.

Six Killed and Thirty-six Injured in Canard Line’s Campania. Five persons swept overboard, one dead after an operation and thirtysix injured Is the roster of victims of the tremendous wave that descended upon the Cunard line steamship Campania off the great banks of Newfoundland Wednesday. So sudden was the coming of the disaster and so great the confusion which attended and followed It, that even the officers of the steamer themselves were unable upon the vessel’s arrival in New York to estimate the full extent of the tragedy. The Campania was plowing along under full headway. A heavy quartering sea was running, but the weather conditions were far from unpleasant and the big boat’s decks were crowded with passengers. The steerage deck was covered with merry-makers and there was nothing to indicate the approaching disaster, when suddenly the big steamer lurched to port and scooped up an enormous sea. The wave boarded the steamer about midships on the port side and swept clear across the steerage deck, completely fill|ng the space between that deck and the deck above, carrying everything with it. So deep was the steamer’s side buried that the passengers on the deck above the steerage were submerged to their waists as the Immense volume of water rolled aft and then surged forward. Others, dashed against the rails and other like obstructions, escaped death, but many of them received severe injuries. One young woman had both legs broken at the thigh and several persons suffered broken arms and ribs, while more than a score were bruised and battered.

All the cabin passengers on the upper deck succeeded In clinging to supports, while the waters surged around them, and were saved, but the unfortunates on the steerage deck found themselves utterly helpless. The irresistible rush of waters, sweeping toward the forward part of the ship, carried everything before it. So great was the volume and force of the rushing waters that a door in the rail was smashed and through this opening five of the helpless ones were swept to their death.

Article 5. The imperial Russian government transfer and assign to the imperial government of Japan, with the consent of the government of Chian, the lease of Port Arthur. Ta lien and the adjacent territory and territorial waters and all rights, privileges and concessions connected with or forming part of such lease, and theyjjjso transfer and assign to the imperial government of Japan all public works and properties in the territory affected by the above mentioned lease. The two contracting parties mutually engage to obtain the consent of the Chinese government mentioned in the foregoing stipulation.

The imperial government of Japan on their part undertake that the proprietary rights of Russian subjects in the territory above referred to shall be perfectly respected. .Article 6. The imperial Russian government enga'ge to transfer and assign to the imperial government of Japan without compensation and with the consent of the Chinese government the railway between Changchunfu and Kwanchigtsu and Port Arthur and all the branches, together with all the rights, privileges and properties appertaining thereto -in that region, as well as all the coal mines in said region belonging to or worked for the benefit of the railway. China’s Consent to Be Gained.

The two high contracting parties mutually engage to obtain the consent of the government of China mentioned in the foregoing stipulation. Article 7. Japan and Russia engage to exploit their respective railways in Manchuria exclusively for commercial and industrial ■ purposes a:.d nowise for strategic purposes.. It is understood that this restriction does not apply to the railway in the territory affected by the lease of the Liaotung peninsula. Article 8. The imperial governments of Japan and Russia, with the view to promote and facilitate intercourse and traffic, will as soon as possible conclude a separate convention for the regulation of their connecting railway services in Manchuria. In Article 9 Russia cedes to Japan all of Sakhalin Island below latitude 50, and both powers agree to construct forts or military works in Sakhalin. The straits of Tartary and Perouse are to re(main free to navigation. Article 10 protects Russians in ceded territory in their former rights. The treaty then says: Article 11. Russia engages to arrange with Japan for granting to Japanese subjects rights of fishery along the coasts of the Russian possession in the Japan, Okhotsk, and Bering seas.

It is agreed that the foregoing engagement shall not affect rights already belonging to Russian or foreign subjects in those regions. Article 12 provides for a commercial treaty on the most favored nation basis. Article. 13 provides for tlie repatriation of prisoners of war. It says Japan and Russia shall prepare statements of expenses incurred in maintaining prisoners, and adds: “Russia engages to repay to Japan, as soon as possible after the exchange-of statement, as auove provided, the difference between the actual amount so expended by Japan and the actual amount similarly disbursed by Russia.” M. Teraoutchl, Japanese Minister of War, has issued an order instructing the Japanese army in the field to abstain from criticising the terms of peace on the grounds that the declaration of peace and of war are entirely the outcome of sovereign power. His order forbids the criticism of either subject, especially by those engaged in military service. He advises the soldiers to utilize the opportunities of peace after the disbandment of their regiments by engaging in their respective occupations, always holding themselves in readiness to join the colors at the Emperor’s command.

BIG FAIR PAYS DIVIDEND.

Remarkable Showing Made at Portland Exposition’s Close. The Lewis and Clark exposition came to a close at midnight Saturday, completing the biggest enterprise of its kind ever held on the coast. The closing ceremonies were appropriate. When the gates of the exposition closed at 1 o’clock Sunday morning, a total attendance of 56,960 for the dpy had been registered, making a grand total for the entire fair period of 2,545,509. The attendance for the last day ranks third in point of numbers, Portland day and Fourth of July being the only greater days. The exposition was entirely successful. In point of attendance a,ll predictions were beaten. While the fair was well patronized by the home people, great throngs of visitors from all parts of the United States were constantly in the city, often taxing the hotel capacity to the limit. Naturally the merchants are well satisfied with the success of the exposition. Financially also the exposition went beyond all expectations. It is known beyond a doubt that the stockholders will receive a dividend of at least 30 per cent, while it is more than possible that a 40 per cent dividend will be declared. *This places Portland second only to Omaha in financial records for world’s fairs and fourth in point of attendance among twelve that have been held.

The State of Oregon appropriated SSOO 000, of which $50,000 was expended in making an exhibit at St. Louis and $400,000 in the erection of a building nnd expenses of the exhibit in Portland. More than $50,000 of the appropriation will be returned to the treasury unused, with additions from salvage. Alone of all structures of the 1905 fair the forestry building, the largest log house ever built, will remain. It is the purpose to retain it as a permanent exhibit building and several acres of land surrounding it will be acquired as part of the park system of Portland. Population of Portland by recent census of assessor is 115.000 and of entire Northwest within a radius of 200 miles of Portland 1,800.000, hence the attendance was most gratifying. Official estimates were 1.000,000 below the actual figures. The greatest benefit of the fair, however, is the permanent good it hat done to the city of Portland and the Pacific Northwest in general.

News of Minor Note.

Assistant Secretary Loomis has given out a letter written by President Roosevelt vindicating him in the BowenLoomis controversy.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Williamsport Husbands Make Public Protest Against the Social Duties of. Wives—Mine Mule Figures in Labor Troubles—Stabbing at Vincennes. Driven to desperation by the numerous social functions which their wives.) attend, 200 husbands of Williamsport adopted a novel way of protesting against its further continuance. The other afternoon after discussing the situation and explaining that they were being neglected at home, their dinners late, their business engagements interfered with and their purses depleted, they inarched in a body to houses where their wives were being entertained and protested publicly. Some of the women admitted that there were grounds for complaint and one euchre club disbanded on the spot. Other, wives were less quiescent, but the husbands believe that they have given an effective check to social functions and that the women will be more moderate in the future.

Mine Mule us a Labor Factor. The mine mule has come to the front as a dominant labor factor in the Indiana coal field." Just now the men at the Woolford mine in Terre Haute are on "strike because the driver was discharged for refusing to pay a fine for beating the mine mule. The largest labor disturbance of the year was at Linton, where 700 men struck because of a controversy over what constituted cruelty to “Old Ben,” a mule with decided ideas of his own about how a mine should be operated. Only, a short time ago 200 men struck in a mine near Terre Haute because they alleged the mules did not get enough to eat. Another strike was due to the fact that the- drivers refused to give the mules a daily bath with a hose, saying mules needed no more baths than they did. Dynamo May Oust Farm Hand. The man with the hoe and the patient beast of burden may be driven from the farms of the' Wabash valley as the result of a novelty in electrical service which is proposed by the Fort Wayne and Wabash Traction Company, operating eighty miles of interurban lines in that section. If it is successful dynamos will displace hand workers, draft animals, steam and gasoline engines now used. The company proposes to install at cost an electrical outfit for each landowner within one mile on either side of its tracks, and furnish current at annual rates to be based on the extent of the service required.

Stabbed in Gaming Fight. With his life in the balance, J. M. Murphy, traveling salesman of Lansing, Mich., lies in his room at King’s hotel in Vincennes, and his constant companion is L. C. Frederick of New York, who arrived there with Murphy. Meanwhile a search is on for Dr. J. N. Harwood of Russellville, 111., who in a dispute over a game at the Manhattan saloon stabbed Murphy six times with a lance, while Murphy and Harwood clinched and was in the act of chewing the doctor’s ear to pieces. Little can be learned of Murphy and Frederick, who are perfect strangers, and persist in being extremely reticent.

Balloon Runs Into Chimney. A balloon ascension and parachute leap at the reunion of Dublin old citizens came near ending in the tragic death of Prof. Stiles Thompson of Martinsville, the aeronaut. As the balloon cended it collided with a building, Prof. Thompson striking a chimney and knocking the bricks among the people gathered below. Herman Jones of Cambridge City and Mrs. John Ferguson of Milton were struck by the bricks and seriously injured. Prof. Thompson was slightly injured, but fell safely.

Within Our Borders. Benjamin McFadden of Posey county found a pearl in the Wabash river, which he sold for SI,OOO. Carl Evans and Charles Fall were seriously injured in a fiercely contested football game at Michigan City. John Knapp was found guilty of murder in the first degree for killing Marshal Leonard Geisler of Hagerstown and given a life sentence. Joe Notting shot and killed Henry Repmeir, a wealthy farmer, at the Freelandville carnival. Notting’s brother four years ago killed Joseph French. The Bachelor Maids’ Club of Dunnville has passed a rule that its members are not to marry men who have their hair cut short or who wear broad-brim-med hats. Charles Maid, the bandit leader of Hobart, was indicted by the Lake county grand jury in Hammond, five minutes after in was convened. As soon as the

indictment was returned into open court by Prosecuting Attorney D. E. Boone, young Mahl was arraigned before Judge E. Tuthill. Maid's atorney induced him to turn state’s evidence and throw himself upon the mercy, of the court. Mahl then made a remarkable confesion to the prosecuting attorney. Mahl said that three weeks ago in Chicago he made the acquaintance of a stranger who revealed a plot to him that would line his pockets with money. The plan was to execute a series of daring robberies in northern Indiana cities in quick succession. Chicago crooks were to commit the robberies and one man of “nerve” in each place was to give Information and then throw the local police off the scent. Mahl agreed to perforin this service in Hobart. Within a week twelve successful robberies were committed. Judge Tuthill withheld sentence until Nov. 6 to give the police opportunity to prove his story and make use of it in Chicago. Bert Lyon of Mount Sterling was crushed to death in a sewer cavein at Dayton, Ohio. H. S. Watkins was badly hurt. Elmer Cochran, aged 3 years, was pushed into a tub of boiling water in Evansville by a pet dog and died in an hour of his scalds. As a result of the unusually warm autumn strawberries all over southern Indiana are yielding a remarkably heavy second crop. The berries are much (letter in size and quality than the first crop and if a heavy frost does not come the yield will be a record breaker.

NEW WATERWAYS.

Some Proposed Shortenings of Northwestern Transportation Routes. The canal, ancient institution though it is, so far from having outlived its uses, commends with increasing urgency as the ydars speed by. Canals do not hold their place in the public eye directly as means of cheap transport, but as short cuts between great navigable waters. A short cut is a time-saver, and a time-saver is a money-maker. And this is the universal demand.

From the days of the Pharoahs a waten-link between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea was talked of and a generation or so ago the Suez Canal became a fact So well established is it now that commerce between Europe and the Orient marvels how it got along before De Lesscps made a dream come true. Then on our continent was the Erie Canal that brought the Great Lakes in touch with the Atlantic through the Hudson River. There was the Manchester Canal, the Kiel Canal and the Soo Canal. The Panama Canal Is in near prospect, a ship canal between the inland seas and the Mississippi River is in mind, and now comes a proposition to join Lakes Superior and Michigan 135 miles west of Sault Ste. Marie. It is contemplated to utilize White Fish River, which flows from very near the north shore of the northern peninsula of Michigan southward into the Little Bay de Noquette, due north of Chicago. Of the forty miles across the peninsula only about sixteen would need to be dredged. The time is perhaps not distant when engineers will cut a canal

POSSIBLE CANALS.

through the base of the Michigan peninsula and thus couple up Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. A ditch 155 miles would reduce by 450 miles the allwater route between Buffalo and Chicago. The route across the Michigan peninsula which has been suggested lies from Toledo on the east to South Haven on the west. The topography of the land presents none of the great obstacles which were overcome In the Erie, Chesapeake and Ohio and other great American canals. The com merce of the Great Lakes Is vast enough to deserve all the short cuts which engineering skill and wealth can command.

TELEPHONE KING DEAD.

John I. Sabin, Manager of the Pacific States Company. John I. Sabin, manager of the Pacific States Telephone Company, died suddenly in San Francisco after

JOHN I. BABIN.

States Telephone system. He was born in New York, Oct. 3, 1847. After six months he became an operator and during the years 1864 and 1865 he was In the United States army, following his trade. At the close of the war he returned to the Western Union, with which he remained until 1877. With the invention of the telephone he became superintendent of the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company on the Pacific coast. He soon consolidated all the small telephone companies and afterward formed the Pacific StatoaJielephone and Telegraph Company.

Nature's Best Remedy.

Laughter Is undoubtedly one of Nature's greatest tonics. It brings the disordered faculties and functions Into harmony, it lubricates the mental bearings and prevents the friction which monotonous, exacting business engenders. It Is a divine gift bestowed upon us as a life preserver, a health promoter, a joy generator, a success-maker. Life, with the average American, is too serious at beet. Never lose an opportunity for relaxation from the stress and strain of your business or profession. Every draught of laughter, like an air cushion, eases you over the jolts and the hard places on life's highway. I.a ugh ter is always healthy. It tends to bring every abnormal condition back to the normal. It Is a panacea for heart aches for life’s bruises. It Is a life prolonger. People who laugh heartily keep themselves in physical and mental harmony, and aro likely to live longer than those who take life too seriously.—Success Magazine. Music note: It is becoming a late fad to put the piano in the hall, thus making It more convenient for the family to keep their hats and wrap* on It than If it were put in the parlor.

a week’s illness. Until a short time ago Mr. Sabin was president and general manager of the Chicago Telephone Co., having come from the Pacific coast where he had built up the great Pacific