Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-05-21

BULL al otttIHDb WOuAu DC lCSdiNOt 90 s'AA
extravagant waste. 1t doubtless would
represent sufficient number of tons to
take the President on several Of his duck
shooting cruises in the light house tender
The knowledge obtained from the ex-
periments at Indian Head is Of variable
quality. First, armor plate will win vic
tory over the projectile. Shortly after the
results will be reversed. Last week 13-
inch gun hurled shell weighing 1l00
pounds with the force given it by burning
SAB pounds of powder against an 1s-inch
plate Of the Carnegie armor. The shell
struck the plate blow measured at 20,
500 tons Through the outer IL inches
of the plate a round hole was made. The
plate then burst as did the shell and
flake of the armor six inches deep and 4S
inches in diameter was torn away, the
entire end OF tho armor plate being shat
tered A few days previous to this a
charge Of elnmensite, the powerful new
explosive, was fired from a gun, with the
result that the gun was shattered into
fragments. Experiments in this line have
not safely got beyond gun cotton. The
shattering of that armor plate demonstra-
ted the ability Of the 13-inch guns of the
Indiana, Oregon and the Massachusetts,
TO hurl projcctile through the armor OF
any warship afioat Even the magnificent
battle ships now building in England will
not provo exceptions in this respect.
1t would indeed be strange if there were
not perils for the Hawaiian republic, al
though the latest report that an uprising OF
royalists was on foot should be taken with
a grain of salt The Hawaiian republic not
only has to guard against British schemes
for getting control of the country through
elevating Kaiulani to the throne but is
obliged to be wary of tho influence of
Claus Sprcckles and of the Japanese who
wish to get political footing on the is
lands These are the sources to which the
royalists are looking for aid and no SEN
siblc person can for a moment question
that there will be forthcoming from these
all the aid they may dare to give Neither
can any sane man who has studied the
conditions existing in that country doubt
for a moment that these influences arc
those that would work for harm to that
country. that they are corrupt and as
greedy as they arc corrupt. Does
any one doubt on which side of the
question the administration of the United
States government is: There would be
rejoicing at Washington if Kaiulani were
restored to the throne. But there would
be u wave of Indignation sweep over this
country such that Cleveland and Gresham
would take to the cyclone cellar if they
saw it coming in time to do so.
Secretary Carlisle has at last delivered
himself of his sound money speech and
defied the free silver propagandists to
show wherein he is inconsistent with his
past record In many respects the ad
dress, which he delivered at Coyington,
last evening. was a strong one. His re-
sumo of silver legislation is of considerable
interest. He is acquainted by personal
experience with that legislation and is
BILE to refute much of the falschood con-
cerning it sowed broadcast by the fiat
money men, especially that which refers
to tho so called crime of 1878. In defining
sound" money he is a little indefinite
but in ripping up and letting the light Of
common sense upon the false statements
aud absurd claims of the fiat money mer
he is not only very definite but very
effective. He cannot avoid indulging ii
specious pleading for the administration
at the opening of his speech, but that wa:
expected probably at the White House as
much as by his hearers. Perhaps he cal
| be pardoned for much of this, as in under
taking to combat even to the extont tha
| he does, the sentiment of such large con
stituency of the Democratic party, be Il
| assuming an OHerouS tash. Ilc iuaho'
good use of his opportunity, however tC
explain his royious positions on the ques
tion, declaring that when he favored tht
ratio of l6 to l there was difference o
but seven cents between the value of {
gold and u silver dollar and he hoped tba
the adoption of this ratio would bring
silver up TO par with gold. The condition.
he contends have greatly changed sine
1878. So they have and men hav,
changed with them, no among the nun
ber He says his statements on th'
question have been garbled and twisted
with malicious ingenuity. But he is a
dishonest with the Republicans in hi
opening as his follow Democrats hav
been with him. He attempts to thrus
the responsibility of the Sherman law on
tirely upon Republican shoulders, know
ing as he does that had it not been fo
this substitute, in itself vastly bette
than free coinage, the Democrats of tina
Congress would have been able to fore