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The National tribune., 1892-03-17

They both have splendid military records. ana
have held good positions In the State Of Nov Tor
and either would be acceptable the old soldiers
The Buffalo papers think that Comradc Orr has
the inside track for the appointments.
story emsnating from Syracuse, ~ Y. thsa
the express robber. Oliver Curtis Perry. wss o
kinsman Of the hero Of Lake Erie. Commodore
Oliver Hazard Perry. has received an indignant
contradiction from Henry @. Perry. Of Chicago.
Er-UDited States Senator Gen. William J. ScweIl
one of the Worlds Fair Commissioners for Now
Jersey. has appointed alternate lady Manager
Mrs Charles w. Compton. of Newark
News comes from Michigan that the Presidential
boom OF Gen. Rnsseil A. Alger which tho New
York Sun tried so hard to witisr by publishing
h6eious article rejecting the Generals war
record. Is now HouTishing like green bay tree.
The General announces that he will. at the earnest
solicitation Of his friends and Grand Army cou.-
rsdes. allow his name TO be used at the Minnsapo-
lis Convention.
The venerable mother of Gen. Dasus 2. Coon
the gallant Colonel Of the I'd lows Cav who nov
resides at San Diego, Cal. died at Mason City
Iowa, on the I'D of February. She was "a years
old. 1t will be remembered that is vxas Gen. Coos
who telegraphed the President while IL was
thought there was possibility Of q skirmish wish
Chile few months ago. that he could raise . bri-
gade of veteran soldiers for such q war he was
given the authority.
Gen. Lew Wallace has written a letter to stats
chairman Cloudy declining to serve as delegate 70
the minneapolis Convention, 70 which position he
was chosen on Friday. March 4 at CrawfortisvflIo.
Ind, stating that Charles " Williams wa. really
the choice Of the primaries, and should be the
delegate
The National tribune., 1892-03-17

MORE trouble for the gentlemen who are
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Notwithstanding practically every
one from Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan,
Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania
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of S., 5000 for providing deep channel
90 and q feet-from Lakes Superior and
Michigan to Lake Erie The COMMITTEES
can scarcely refuse to make recommends.
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House to adopt it. 1t is a matter in which
all the people of the northern tier of States
have the deepest possible interest, az il
means cheaper transportation and conse
quently higher prices for all their farm
products.
The National tribune., 1892-03-17
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The National tribune., 1892-03-17
THE BERING SEA DISPUTE.

Reduced to its simplest terms the Bering
Sea dispute is this:
j. The seal-skin industry is an important
branch Of the worlds business, in which an
immense amount of capital is invested, and
upon which many thousand people in Europe
and America depend for support. It is to
the interest of the whole civilized world that
the industry be maintained.
9. Owing to the lack of proper precautions
the seals have been virtually exterminated
in every part of the world, except two little
islands in Boring Sea, which islands are the
property Of the United States.
3. They are almost exterminated there
and will certainly be so this year unless the
Government Of the United States takes
energetic measures at once to protect the
struggling remainder.
4. This danger has been imminent for
years, and known 10 be SO by all who are at
all familiar with the subject. 1t has been
generally conceded that it was clearly the
duty Of the United States toward the rest of
the world to give the seals the needed pro-
lection.
5. The United States has accepted this
view of it's duty, and attempted to do what
it was conceded should be done.
6. While admitting all these facts, Great
Britain has opposed the performance of our
duty on the plea that we had no authority
over the waters of Bering Sea outside the
limit of three miles from shore. This limit il
is universally admitted is utterly insufficient
for the purpose. Besides, the United States
| adheres to its claim of entire sovereignty
ever the waters of the American portion of
Bering Sea.
Z. Last year the United States agreed to a
modus UiUendi with Great Britain, by the
terms Of which the latter agreed to Join with
Us in preventing all sealing in Boring Sea.
excepta limited catch for the support of the
inhabitants of the PrbyIoff Islands, and the
| United States agreed to submit its claims OF
entire sovereignty over the sea to arbitra-
ton.
6. This year, just before the opening Of
the sealing season, Lord Salisbury, the head OF
the British Ministry, announces that he viii
not continue the maodas Uiceadi This means
that the British fleet viii not assist that OF
the United States in keeping the seal
poachers out CT the sea. As these poachers
are generally British subjects, sailing ships
under The British flag, it follows that any
The National tribune., 1892-03-17

THE House Committee On Naval Affairs
makes some important recommendations in
its report. The first is that more stringent
measures be taken to rid the Navy of obso-
letc wooden vessels. The rule has been to
allow no more than 20 per cent of its origi-
nal cost to be appropriated for the repair of
any old ship. The Committee would cut
this down to 10 per cent, but would make
an exception in favor of the Kearsage and
the Hartford, because Of their glorious his
tories. The Committee wants all the vessels
already authorized completed IS soon as
possible, and therefore recommends that q
sufficient appropriation be made for that
purpose. II recommends that no new battle
ships be started, but that another commerce.
destroyer, like the New York, be authorized.
The National tribune., 1892-03-17

If the land is good for anything. New
Mexico, when che becomes State, will be
as "well heeled" as any of the newer States
except Texas and California. The House
Committee has agreed to give her one-ninth
of all the public lands in the Territory for
school purposes (the other States received
-eghteenth), and besides this, 100000
acres for reservoir purposes, and 100000
acres for technical and scientific schools,
and asylums for the defective classes. New
Mexico's population will require an unusual
amount of education to fit them for citizen
ship in the United States, as large proper
ton are Mexicans, and poor whites from
the South We are glad that Congress recog-
nizes this need, and will provide for it.
The National tribune., 1892-03-17

We hope that there is not soul so timid
as to be disturbed by the possibility of a
war with Great Britain over the Bering Sea
matter. There is not going to be even a
runor Of war. All that is necessary is for
the President to maintain firmly the posi-
ton he has taken-send sufficient force to
Bering Sea to intimidate the poachers, cap
ture if necessary few of the most de-
termined, and the matter will be amicably
settled. Our position is so clearly right, and
it is so clearly for the advantage of the
British people themselves, that Salisbury
will make the greatest mistake of his po-
litical life if he persists in any course that
looks like embroiling the two countries in
even so much as a serious dispute. We
don't want to quarrel with England and
the English people don't want to quarrel
with us, especially over matter in which
their interests lie in the same direction as
ours. They want the seals protected even
more than we want to protect them, for they
have millions of dollars invested in seal
skins where we have thousands
The National tribune., 1892-03-17
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The National tribune., 1892-03-17
The House of Representatives has taken

The House of Representatives has taken
another backward step in its loudly pro.
claimed policy Of Retrenchment and Reform
The Senate voted to cut down the numbel
of copies of the eulogies on the late Repre-.
sentatives L. C. Houk and w. H. F. Lee which
the Government Printer was required to
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The National tribune., 1892-03-17

The veterans in Kentucky are strongly
dissatisfied with the distribution of the
Offices in that State. The Republican Party
in Kentucky is mainly made up of the men
who went into the Union army, and their
sons and kinsmen, yet very small proper
ton of the offices have been given to the
veterans, and their right of preference seems
to have been wholly ignored by the manag-
ing politicians
The National tribune., 1892-03-17

AT the end of last week there was net
balance in the Treasury of over s31 100000.
The net gold and bullion had increased since
the LIST of March S2,5O0OOO and the gold
certificates S6,000,000. The receipts of the
Port of New York-which average about
665 per cent. of the entire receipts of the
days of March of 5000, 900, which is the first
increase noted since the Mckinley bill went
into effect.
The National tribune., 1892-03-17
WE believe it would be a good thing t

WE believe it would be good thing to
extend the Presidential term to six wears.
and make the incumbent ineligible for re-
election, but it is a sheer waste of time to
agitate such Constitutional amendment.
We do not believe that any amendment to
the Constitution will ever succeed until there
is an intense agitation, almost leading to
civil war. Then only will the people arouse
themselves to the extent of making an
amendment possible. The golden opportu-
nifty of making amendments relating to the
election of Presidents was during or imme-
diately after the Hayes-Tilden contest.
There will not be another such opportu-
nifty until we are involved in such another
crisis.
The National tribune., 1892-03-17

Editor Weekly Juggernaut Ito ASSISTANT
What in the name of goodness can I safely
choose as q subject for editorial criticism? If
| censure public man, from the President
down to theTown Constable, l offend his friends,
and doa'tcatch subscription from his enemies.
Assistant {(sarcastically) Then, why not
claim that the Prophet Elijah was stuck on
himself? He has been dead long enough
To-
Editor-Yes, and lose the subscription of the
Rev. Mr. Choker! There is nothing left for
ME to do but to fall back on Senator PETER.
The National tribune., 1892-03-17

THE highest-prieed apprentice in the
world is Prince George of Wales. The
British taxpayers are paying him $4,000 a
year to learn how to govern them after his
grandmother and father shall have died.
He will probably not have to do it then, for
it is likely that by that time Great Britain
will be a Republic, and ruled by President
who has got his training at vastly less ex-
pense to the taxpayers than Prince George
has been.
The National tribune., 1892-03-17

attempt to interfere with them on what
Great Britain claims to be the high seas,
will constitute q distinct offense against
British sovereignty. We are therefore
warned that any attempt to execute our
own laws on what we hold to be our own
territory, will endanger the peace subsisting
between the two countries
9. This is bad faith and sharp practice.
Having agreed to submit the question OF
sovereignty to arbitration, good faith re-
CURED that Great Britain should continue
the modus Uirendi until the arbitration was
concluded. Good faith required that she
restrain her subjects from committing overt
acts while the question was pending. No
other course is possible in private disputes
among honest men, and diplomacy should
have at least as high morals as obtain in
private life. This case becomes particularly
aggravated from the fact that the seals of
Boring Sea have already become so nearly
exterminated that another seasons unTe-
strained slaughter would sweep away the
last vestige of them.
TO- Our course seems, therefore, very clear.
Unless Lord Salisbury changes his determi-
nation not to renew the naodus riuendi, we
must execute our own laws in Boring Sea,
and take such steps as will effectually pre-
vent the determination of the seals. This
is plain duty, which we must do without
regard to consequences. 1t is altogether
unlikely that these consequences will be
anything more serious than little harmless
buster, for Salisbury is so manifestly in the
wrong that he dare not go farther in the
matter than strong bluff The public
opinion, not only of England, but of the
whole civilized world, would overwhelm-
ingly condemn him if he provoked even the
possibility of war ON such uni ustifable
grounds.
The National tribune., 1892-03-17
A BAD JOB,

Sims (entering Dentists of1ice)-Howggy
gOoth, Thocthorth!
Dentst-What on earth is the matter with
your tongue. Sims2
18th hadth theth thooth-acheth. an tn NTH
thithe -
"Your what?"
"Thithe-thomanth tn tharried thooth %
"Oh, your wife, the woman you are married
to. eh ?"
"Theth. Thi the, sthe thred thu pthullth
18th outh thith the thnut thrathketh, anth -
with the what? Heavens, Smsl l never
heard such talk"
"Thnu!" Untherthanth thath?"
eyes, nut"
"ThnOwth thlithen."
"I'm listening"
hrathketh-thnutt hrak eth ! Theeth ="
" Yes, l seo-nut-cracker Good thunder,
man, you don't mean to tell me that your wife
pulled your tooth with nut-cracker do YOU ;,
"Thnoth. 1 til thaid theth Mried to-"
The National tribune., 1892-03-17

THE United States certainly does not
want to go to war over the seals, and still
more certainly the English people do not
want to fight to protect lot of Canadian
pirates in their barbarous warfare upon the
seal tribe The English people have been
grossly deceived as to the nature of the dis
pute between the two countries. They have
thought that it was merely some political
question involving the honor of their country,
and the interest of the Queens subjects.
Of course, then, they would support the
Government to man. Now they are COM
ing to understand that this is not the case,
and the Government of the United States is
proposing to do what the whole civilized
world says should be done. The horrors of
the slave trade, which stirred up the
English people 30 profoundly, were scarcely
more repugnant to civilized feelings than
the unnecessary brutalities of pelagic seal
fishing, Seals seem almost human in their
intelligence, and the cruel slaughter of them
in their annual migrations is revolving to
every humane mind. Ten are killed where
one is caught, and this is without regard to
age, sex or condition. The descriptions of
the scenes on the decks of the poachers-
which are covered with dying mother-seals,
heavy with young, and whose woman-like
eyes show an agony which should touch the
hardest heart-are enough to stir everybody
up to some course which will put an effectual
stop to this barbarity. AS soon as the English
people come to understand this, they will
be as determined as our own in demanding
that the flag Of their country shall not be
made cover for this savagerY.
The National tribune., 1892-03-17
THEY ARE BUILT THAT WAy.

Boastful Man ION cars)-Forty years ago
came to the metropolis. a barefooted boy with
16 cents in my pocket. Now I am at the head
of manu- featuring business which employs on
the road alone % men in pushing our products.
What do you think of that?
Quiet Man-Pretty fair. Thirty years ago /
made my way to the city practically penniless,
and now about 100000 men in this country
alone pushing the products of the manu-
featuring company Of which am the head.
Great Scott! What do you manufacturer
"Baby carriages"
The National tribune., 1892-03-17

EXPERIENCED legal artists, using the
guillotine, seem to bungle just as badly as
our nervous sheriffs manipulating the
hempen moose for the first time. A sicken-
ing scene took place recently in Germany,
where the exeeutioner made two Ineffective
attempts to cut off the condemned mans
head with the guillotine, and finally
wrencLed off the halc-dismembered head
with his hands.
The National tribune., 1892-03-17

The only tangible reason for Lord Sails
bury's course in the Bering Sea matter is the
earnest appeal of Sir Charles Upper that
the Canadian capital invested in seal poach-
ing be not locked up OF destroyed AS there
is probably 100 times more capital invested
in England in the manufacture of seal-skins
than in the illicit capture of them, this rea-
son should not have much weight. Then,
the slightest breath of actual war talk
would destroy 1000 times as much business
as the Illicit sealing amounts to. We may
expect to hear some very vigorous protests
from the English merchants and manufac-
turers against any further bluffing" by
their Prime Minister. They could well
afford to buy up every Canadian vessel en-
gagged In seal piracy, and pension all the
Captains and crews rather than have single
week of threatened hostilities between the
countries.
The National tribune., 1892-03-17

WE have conceded much to England, in
Sea shall be a question for arbitration. 1t
is as if a should buy house from B, and
few years later C, who never had any
ownership in the house, should come in and
demand that A should share his property
with him, and A should good-naturedly
agree to submit the question to arbitration.
The National tribune., 1892-03-17
A DIFFERENT SPOON

Friend-I understand your daughter who
has just returned from abroad brought home a
decidedly unique souvenir spoon.
Old Gotrocks (wbo means weIll-I guess you
are mistaken. told her before she started for
EUROPE that IL any Of them blasted French
counts came traipsing home after her she'd
hear from me.
The National tribune., 1892-03-17

RICHMOND is to have another monument
to treason. A statue to a. P. Hill has
arrived in the city, and will shortly be placed
on granite pedestal, to teach young Vir-
ginians how noble and praseworthy thing
it is to fight against the Government, and
desolate peaceful country with long and
bloody civil war;
The National tribune., 1892-03-17
A BIG LOAD

"My stars!" said bystander to man with
q huge barrow load of bricks. "You must be-
a tremendously strong man to be able to wheel
such heavy loads"
at is not SO much strength as the result of
long practice" was the reply. "You see was
employed for seven years in Wheeling, West
Virginia"
The National tribune., 1892-03-17
A SOL EnIN WARNINd

Druggist-Do you know what you did last
night?
BOBBY Clerk-Naw, sir.
We'll, you filled out Jagger's bottle with
aconite instea of whisky, and this morning
he is deader than herring. How many times
have l warned you to be careful and Try to
learn little something? This is the third or
fourth fatal mistake you have made, and am
The National tribune., 1892-03-17
THE MIGHT OF THE LAW.

Rural Justice Ito citizen who has just entered)
Jim Wickwire, fine you SIS for contempt of
court.
Wickwire-But. pshaw, Judge, bain't said
q word since came inl
JUSTICE know it, but that horse you traded
me the other Gay is stone blind, and this is the
first chance Pye had to get even with you.
Fork over or go to Jail
The National tribune., 1892-03-17

TIE Tammany machine can count in
bogus votes with great success, but when it
comes to counting in bogus citizens of New
York City, the belts slip and the wheels aye
thrown out of gear. IL is only calculated
Tor one kind of dirty work.