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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-12
Senator Quay Reconsiders.

The inner meaning of Senator Quay's
sudden visit to Harrisburg, conference
with the governor and announcement
contrary he would be a candidate for
reelection is as yet a matter of con-
lecture. That there is a motive of some
urgency can hardly be doubted in view
of the suddenness and dramatic fea-
lures of the reconsideration.
Be this as it may, the news will be
welcome both to friends and foes. To
friends It will indicate the retention in
political leadership in Pennsylvania of
incomparably the ablest and shrewdest
politician of his generation, and the
continuance at Washington of the ad-
vantages accruing to Pennsylvania
business and political interests from
Colonel Quay's prestige among the
powers that be.
To foes, on the other hand, it will
afford fair and early challenge to
combat. Not a member of the next
legislature has yet been nominated or
even considered seriously for the nomi-
nation. The field is clear for fight to
the finish. Those who derive pleasure
from wrestling with Quayism now have
the chance of a lifetime to grapple with
its arch representative in person, under
conditions which must make the VIC
tory decisive. They, too. must therefore
be glad for such a chance.
1t is we'll to have the matter frankly
presented in abundant time to permit
the people to pass deliberate judgment
1t has been estimated that Ameri-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-12

Hon. M. A. Foltz. of Chambersburg,
Pa, Is receiving congratulations upon
the fact that his sixtieth birthday,
which befel the other day, coincided
with the twenty-ninth birthday of his
excellent newspaper, Public opinion.
The Tribune, which considers Public
opinion one of the best weekly Jour-
nails in the country and esteems its
gifted and courteous editor as one of
the most successful and conscientious
workers in the field of Pennsylvania
journalism, wishes, even If little late,
to contribute it's quota to the express
sions of good will which that inter-
esting coincidence has elected.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-12
FIN NLEY'S
Sale of
Shirt
Waists

To enable Ills to close out
our entire line i'm short
order we have cut prices
to the lowest notch and
will offer every Shirt
Waist i'm stock cheaper
than the cost of manu-
facture. Remember, we
carry NO low priced or
trashy goods at amy time,
and those mentioned be-
low comprise the cream
of the two most popular
brands ON the market,
viz, the "King" and
"Derby" Waists:
One lot reduced to 6oc.
One lot reduced to 85c.
One lot reduced to $1.oo.
One lot reduced to $3.50.
One lot reduced to $I.5o.
One lot reduced to 81. 90.
I'm connection with Shirt
Waists, we are showing
the finest stock of Belts,
and at the right prices.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-12

The sensational papers are now retlr-
ing President Wilbur of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad company almost with
the same regularity of re-iteration that
they were once won't to down Senator
Quay. Evidently real news is scarce.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-12

The process of flushing asphalt pave
ments has just been introduced In New
York. 1t certainly is q better method
OF street cleaning than disseminating
the dust filth and disease germs by
means of dry brooms.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-12

without teaching religion. To make
the children see the light in the litera-
ture which burned in the great authors
lis not this teaching religion? If re-
ligion is shut off from the schools then
training will cease to be scientific and
will become empirical, and instead Of
having men strong and women pure We
will have nothing but cultured par
rots"
This pointed talk uncovers the very
vitals of the problem of true edcuation.
OF mere smartness we have already an
abundance In this countrywide much,
1t seems, when we view the manifesto
tions of 1t as often in crime and roguery
as in honest enterprise. 1t is not, after
all, essential that the average pupil
should come out of school with head
full of book-learning. Algebra will not
bring one living. Psychology and
physics seldom aid one in his search for
remunerative employment. When the
average man has need of information
on these subjects he can derive it from
books or hire specialist. But it Is
fundamentally necessary and impera-
tive for every good interest Of civiliza-
ton that the human output of our
schools should be sound in their ideas
of morals, inclined toward instincts
which are pure and ennobling, and
broadened and strengthened and up
lifted in their ideals and aspirations.
Until the heart and the soul of the
pupil share equally with the mind in
the culture-p processes of the school
room, our Wanted system of public in
struction will remain in great degree
farce and the level of our morals, in
business, politics and social relations is
more likely to fall than to rise.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-12

The Michigan Colonel Sellers who is
urging the formation of a new party
is evidently determined to live up to
the suggestiveness Of his name,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-12
Boarding the Lion.

We are likely soon to have, in the
neighboring state of Ohio, a demon
stration whether the voting public
distrusts or admires q candidate for
office who has the courage of his con-
victions. TO the general and thread
bare charge that Mark Hanna is tool
of the trusts, the Populists of the
Buckeye state are adding the specii-
cation that it was Hanna who knocked
the antitrust amendment out Of the
Dingley bill; and, curious to note, Mr..
Hanna doesn't deny it.
"They charge me-" says he, with
being the friend of trusts and corpora
tions. Well, I am not afraid to take
the odum of being a friend to the
business interests of this country, If
there is any odium attached to it. I
am not a defender of trusts in the
sense that 1 want to perpetuate any
monopolies or uphold any oppression.
But great deal of this anti-trusc
talk is demGgogsm pure and simple
1t comes from men who do not know
what they are talking about, men who
are full of theory, but who would not
know a business operation If they met
1t walking down the street. These
men who howl about trusts and make
themselves believe they are friends of
the people and that they are winning
popularity by alch a course simply
bow to whpt they think is popular
prejudice and make war on the busi-
IN, 70
senate say it is impossible to frame
stronger antitrust law than the
Sherman act. If we go further than
that we simply persecute business and
interfere with the rights of property.
II am willing to go before the peo-
nle of Ohio" continues Mr. Hanna, las
a senator who is coura ageous enough 70
stand out against the prevalent craze
for calling business trust and at
tacking it through the statute books.
If they say 1 killed oft antitrust
amendments proposed to the tariff bill
they say truly. / used what in
nuence I had to put a stop to insincere
efforts to make political capital for
certain people by bringing amendments
which they knew very well had no
earthly show Of passage, but which
were designed to put the Republicans
in a hole and give the Democrats
something to talk about in the coming
campaign. There was not the slightest
chance of perfecting any legislation of
value concerning trusts. and the men
who brought in these propositions
knew it,"
This is boarding the lion with a ven-
geance; but we are not sure that it
will hurt Hanna. In all likelihood
the public has grown somewhat sick
of the demagogism and theatrical gal
lery-playing which has lately charac-
terized much of the political treat
ment of this general subject of wealth
and enterprise. The one extreme of in
discriminate and affected denunciation
is quite as vicious as the other, and it
| would contribute to rational thinking
| on this topic if the common sense of the
| intelligent voters of Ohio would rally
| to Senator Hanna's support and re-
elect him by a majority big enough
effectually to rebuke the knaves and
! takers in politics.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-12

Private advices from Cuba are to the
effect that both sides are tired of the
fight and hope soon to compromise. But
il Cubans compromise this time, it will
be by taking the oyster and giving
Spain the she'll Autonomy Of the
real sort would be simply the fore
runner of absolute and unconditional
indenendence
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-12

The temporary shutting Off Of scran-
toms water supply gives citizens a
chance to appreciate that service. But
they could appreciate II even more
If advance notification were given of
these Interruptions.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-12

let's to commemorate the battle of Chat
tanooga, and they are on priavte proper
ty In that city.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-12

out. England has always had ships
TO burn" and Americans have burned
them,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-12

The pith of Japan's reply to Secretary
Sherman is that international law
doesn't count. Japan will know better
in time
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-12

1t has been estimated that Ameri-
cans pay s50,OOO.o0O annually for soda
water. 1t is an open question whether
they get the worth of their money.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-12

A story is going the rounds of the coun-
try to the effect that the makers of tablets
marking historical spots in Chattanooga
park in Tennessee have put the name of
a car and foundry company, "H. Clay
Evans, proprietor" on nearly every tab
let that has gone in this national park.
Mr.. Evans denies the story most en-
phatically, and says that the name OF the
maker has only been placed on four tab
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-08

this trade is one which the Republican
tariff makers found it necessary to
protect by the imposition of duty
on the imported product.
This is an object lesson. Why should
not American citizens have the advan-
tage of the same low prices for steel
rails which our manufacturers make to
East Indians and Chinese and other
foreigners in their successful COMPETE
ton with British ironmasters? And
why should not other trusts follow the
example of the steel rail trust, dissolve
and push their business on regular
llines?"
Perhaps other trusts will follow the
Example of the steel rail trust in time
am dissolve (the government will never
fo1ce them), and perhaps in some far
distent future Americans will be per-
mitted to buy in what market they
please without paying tribute under the
guise OF protection to combinations at
home
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-08
'I GUESS AND .HI RECKON. -


In his Literary London Twenty
Years Ago" in the current number of
the Atlantic Monthly, Colonel Higgin-
son says that his first duty in England
was to ascertain his proper position
as an American, and to know what
was thought of US. One of the first
houses where he spent an evening was
at the home of a distinguished scholar,
the highest authority on the various
dialects OF the English language; but
he was led to think that his sweet and
kindly wife had not profited by his
learning, for she said to him: Us it
not rather strange that you Americans,
who seem such a friendly and cordial
race, should invariably address a new
conner as stranger while we English,
who are thought to be cold and distant.
are more likely to say my friend p .
She would scarcely credit it when 1
told her l had hardly ever in my life
been greeted by the word she thought
so UNIVERSAL; and then she added, Il
was told that Americans began every
sentence with Well, stranger, 1
guilty to the national use of the first
and last of these two words, but still
demurred as to the stranger
The Nashville American takes excep-
ton to this, saying:
1t strikes US that the colonel was
doing some guessing on his own ac-
count when he was compelled to plead
guilty to the national use of the word
guess People south of Mason and
DiXon's line do not do much guess
ing" a great many of them reckon -
A number don't know" and then you
find out they do know; some
suspect" while others expect" but
none guess They leave that to
their friends of New England. The
genial Colonel Higginson should not
criticise the ignorance of the English
when he, upon his own evidence, is
guilty of culpable ignorance as 10 a
frequently commented upon ard wide
ly known characteristic of a section
Of his own people.
What the genial colonel said and the
comments of the American upon it, go
to show how great a country the
United States are. Undoubtedly Colo
mel Higginson was of the impression
that the Yankeeism 81 guess" is ma
tion-wide in use, and, taking it east and
west, he was not far wrong; but tax
ing it north and south he appears.
from what the American says, and it
is an authority on southern peculiari-
ties of speech, to have erred. In the
far west Il guess" is so common that
no one notices it unless special atten-
ton is called to it.
Another thing that Colonel Iiggin-
sons remark emphasizes, and that IS
that each section of the country I'm
Willingly regards itself as having
more national characteristics than an
other. This is perhaps natural and
not offensive if not disagreeably OBJ
truded on other sections. Boston being
the Hub of the Universe, how could
Colonel Higginson do otherwise than
regard any Massachusetts habit as a
Enthusiastically national habit?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-08
AMERICAN RAILS IN INDIA.

The Boston Post says that the Mary
land Steel company is about to ship its
first consignment on a contract with
the Indian government of 5000 tons of
steel rails, to be used in building a
railroad in British India. 1t says that
the same company is also sending rails
to England itself, to Australia and to
Mexico; that the Illinois Steel company
has sent some 10000 tons to Japan, and
that the Carnegie company also sends
rails to continental countries.
There are two interesting points in
connection with this extension of the
market for American iron and steel"
says the Post. In the first place, it
follows so closely upon the breaking up
of the steel rail trust that we may rea-
sonably connect the two incidents as
cause and effect. And in the next place.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-08
GOLD REDEMPTION Oh NATION
AL BANK Norris

Congressman Walker, of Agassachu-
sets, chairman Of the house commit
tee on banking and currency, lalses al
most as much alarm at what FAosident
Mckinley has to say on the cI-rency
question as he took at what Professor
Andrews said on the silver question
On the currency question he seem. to
take alarm quite as easily as a flock Df
geese, feeding in a stubbIe field, TAX
at the approach of a stranger.
Congressman Walker is very mucl
alarmed about the greenbacks, and
/ says that what is recommended, if put
I into the form of law, would enable a
man with million dollars in gold tc
retire the greenbacks. 1t would GER
tainly be better to retire the green
backs by the means made possible by
the recommendations of the president
than to be continually exhausting the
governments gold reserve and forcing
it to make bond issues to maintain the
reserve.
But that which alarms Chairman
Walker most is the recommendation
that national banks be required to re-
deem their notes in gold Such a re-
quirement, with no other provision. he
says, would cause every bank in the
country to surrender its circulation.
And then he asks: what other
agency would keep the country on a
gold basis?' His assumption that the
banks would all withdraw their circu-
lation is by no means certain. And
why shouldn't the banks that have the
power to issue money be required to
redeem their notes in gold? There are
no stronger advocates of gold as the
money of final redemption than they,
and there is no reason why they should
not redeem their notes in the money
they favor for redemption. Those who
favor the discontinuance of the issue
of paper money by the government
and the RELOCATION of that function to
banks of issue, urge as a chief reason
for the same that the government
should go out of the banking business.
This recommendation of the president
is directly in line with that desire; and
yet Chairman Walker has a severe fit
AT the present time these bank notes
are redeemable in lawful money. Such
redemption throws upon the govern
ment the burden of supplying the
money of final redemption. Why
should all that burden be placed upon
the government and not upon the
banks of issue? There is no reason in
the world WhV if ShOuld Con oreSSn1an
Walker was speaking for himself, and
not for the banks. but if his view is
their view. then they need not expect
any consideration at the hands of con-
gress.
By this time it should be evident to
all that the currency question is still
the great issue before the country. And
the president shows no inclination to
grapple boldly with it. The American
people like a bold. man, no matter what
his views may be. President Mckinley
is not such a man
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-08
Dutch sugar must pay the counter
vailing duty. This beats the Dutch.

The Forum for December has as it's
leading article THE Policy of Annexa-
ton for America" by the Rt. Hon.
James Bryce, author of "An American
Commonwealth" Nothing could be
more timely than this article, as it is a
discussion of the Hawaiian question, a
question destined TO be a very import
ant one this winter. He is of the opin-
ion that a policy of creating great ar
maments and of anneXing territories
beyond the sea would be an unAmeri-
can policy, and q complete departure
from the naxins Of the founders of the
republic. Hon. Daniel AgneW, eX-chief
justice of the supreme court of Penn
sylvania, discusses the 'Unconstitu-
tionality of the Hawaiian Treaty."
"The Wolcott Commission and it's Re-
suits" by Comptroller James H. Eek
els, is a discussion of what the famous
commission accomplished. He thinks
the impossibility of obtaining a confer
ence was apparent to the French sup
porterS of Senator Wolcott and his as
sociates, but that the responsibility of
demonstrating the fact was shifted to
the British cabinet. Senator Justin S.
MONTHS very interesting Notable Let
tiers from My Political Friends is con-
tinued. A question of great interest
that is discussed in the present num-
Der is Railway Pooling-from the Peo-
pies Point of View" by Hon. Charles
H. Prouty, member of the Interstate
commerce commission. This is ques-
ton that is destined to be prominent
before the present session of congress.
There are other interesting articles, all
timely.
The Forum Publishing Co., Ill Fifth
avenue, New York. Price, So cents.
The American Monthly Review of
Reviews has the usual variety THE
Progress of the World" department
contains portraits of the members of
the international sealing conference,
Hon. John A. Kasson, Hannis Taylor,
ex-minister to Spain, Sir Robert Giffen
and other notables. Current History
in International Cartoons" is exceed
ingly rich. The leading articles are
John Gilbert and Illustration, in the
Victorian Era" by Ernest Knaufft, am
ply Illustrated; and How the Bible
Came Down to U.s." by Clifton Hardy
Levy 1t is an unusually interesting
article, and one conveying much valu-
able information. 1t is illustrated with
facsimiles Of biblical manuscripts. As
a resume of the leading events of the
month and of the magazines, there is
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-08

According to the New York Tribune,
not only in Prussia, but also in all
other German states, have the univer-
stiles modified the conditions for the
admission Of medical students in a
manner that is directed against Ameri-
cans. According to the new regulations,
transatlantic applicants, no matter
what the diplomas which they bring
with them from the United States, will
be compelled to submit to preliminary
examination before being admitted to
the privileges of students of the uni
versity. Ambassador White has been
appealed to by the American students
in Germany, and has promised to do
what he can about the matter But it
is not believed that he will be able to
accomplish anything.
It cannot be charged that there is
any hardship in this If American stu
dents are prepared to pursue university
studies in Germany, they should be
willing to show their efficiency by sub
hitting to an examination to prove the
same.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-08
FIVE HUNDRED CUT.
Pennsylvania Coal Miners Want
Square Weights.

Pittsburg, Dec. THE 500 miners
employed in the Nottingham and Ger
mania coal mines of Henry Flore-
sheim, on the Wheeling division of the
Baltimore & Ohio, struck today be-
cause of the refusal of the Floresheim
company to weigh coal before it is
screened, in accordance with the act
passed by the state legislature last
winter. Last week Judge Frazer of
the county court declared the act I'M
constitutional and Floresheim at once
removed the scales from the mine
A mass NC ing OF all the n liners
employed on the Wheeling division has
been called for tomorrow to consider
the question of refusing to work if the
other operators follow Floresheim ex-
ample.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-08
WORSE THAN A BULL FIGHT.
Comments of a Virginia Legislator
Hostile to Football.

Richmond, Va. Dec. TN view of
the fact that a bill is pending in the
Virginia Legislature to prohibit the
game of football on Virginia soil, an
exhibition contest was arranged at
Broad street park between the Cottage
and Richmond college teams, to which
invitations were sent to all members of
the legislature. The game was hot from
start TO finish, closing with the score
to 0 in favor of the college team.
State Senator w. P. Barksdale, the
author of the anti-football bill, watch
ed the contest with interest, and re-
marked at the close of the game: MY
opinion is not changed I think the
game more brutal than a bull fight
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-08

Ogden Press: The younger generation
of Mormons who will soon constitute the
majority in the church feel that church
and state must be separate and will not
tolerate dictation from church officials.
The older heads are beginning to realize
this and can be depended upon to govern
church dictation has been largely exag-
gerated of late, but the stories, while
overdrawn, may serve a good purpose
that is to warn those in authority in the
church to keep their hands off of political
matters further than to exercise their
rights as individuals
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-08
Philadelphia Record: Minister Angell
STATE PRESS COMMENTS.

Southern Censor: Were Brigham Young
to visit Utah now and see what a large
number of the people were half volun-
tarily giving UP life on the small farms
to become day laborers, what would he
say? What would he do? 1t is usual to
contrast the old and new Utah the favor
all on new Utah's side. but when we re-
worthy people who lived on them, the in
dependence and freedom they had, old
Utah is the better for that.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-08

The presidents message does not APP
pear to have impressed members of
congress very deeply. In fact, it is not
such a message as to impress anyone
very much.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-08

DR.. Parkhurst says that his vocabu-
larry is no match for the ignominy of
the situation in New York. Why
doesn't he buy dictionary and make
his vocabulary equal to the occasion?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-08

Kansas wants to send a train load of
position next year. Why not send Mrs.
Lease? People would much prefer to
see her, a genuine Kansas product.