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manufacturers, business houses and
public men by the Press Clipping Ru-
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The times., 1897-06-30
Hides and Argentina .

One of the Pan-American Commercial
representatives has presented. few tariff
views which come appropriately to the
front, in cenne ton with the tax On hides
just adopted by the Senate. The gentle
man i'll question is from the Argentine Re-
public He calls attention to the trade
relations between the two countries. In
1895 the balan ce of trade in our favor
amounted in value to $4,000, e0o. Our
principal Argent re imports are wool and
hiies. The Hanna Havemeyer tariff will
prohibit wool, and the Beef Trust and
New England tax on hides will put an end
to that commerce.
The South American gentleman asserts
that bis government will not accept any
reciprocity" overtures based on trade
prohibition It's sheep and CATTLE prod
ucts can find free entry into Great
Britain, whi ch country is able 30 supply
all the manufa ctures needed In Argentine.
II the United States chooses to close the.
markets OF the hemisphere to It's pro-
dactive enterprise nobody win be hurt but
The times., 1897-06-30
CAPT. DESNY's CAREER.
Sketch of the New Quartermaster
of the Marine Corps.

Capt. Frank Lee Denny, who was On
Monday nominated by the President 70 be
major and quartermaster of the United
States Marine Corps, is a very popular
officer and much-esteemed citizen Of
Washington. He lives at Chevy Chase. In
May, 1850, he became second lieutenant
OF the Marine Corps, and four years later
he was promoted to be first lieutenant and
in 1891 became captain. Capt. Denny's
duties have taken him TO nearly all the
eastern countries, and he was at Alexan-
dria when the British fleet bombarded that
city
He was in command Of the United States
marines that were landed afterthe lombard
ment and rendered signal service. He was
alse active in the einsurreetion in Pananain
1885. and it was through his efforts that
the railroad across the isthsDus was saved
Since then the greater part of the cap
tafn's time has been occupied by shore
duty, and for a number OF years he was
assistant quartermastcr at tie Marine bar
racks.
The times., 1897-06-30
MOVEMENTS OF wARsHIPS.
Cruisers and Battieships Prepar
i1u for the ~gzIfrner Drills

Cruisers and Battieships Prepar-
ing for the Sgnmer Drills.
The cruiser Cincinnati is on her way
to Hampton Roads. On July II the mag
nificent vessel viii go to Telcbester
Beach, NIL and be placed at the dis
posal of the Naval militia OF that State
for the annual drill exercises, which Will
last one week The drill is to be a
thorough one, and the reserves are making
great preparations for it.
The Texas Y i'll be used by the Reserves
from Connecticut and New Jersey, the
Massachusetts, by the Bay State boys,
and later viii assist the Maine and Erics
son iii drilling the naval militia of New
York The Wilmington will be assigned
to the North Carolina reserves and rhe
Montgomery VIII be used by the militia
of Louisiana. The Michigan has been
ordered To care for the naval militia Of
the Great Lakes States, the monitor
Comanehe is to be at the disposal OF
the San Francisco boys, and the Benning-
ton Will care for those in San Diego. The
Monadnock is assigned To the Eureka
reserves.
Acting Secretary Roosevelt expects to
go to Cleveland Friday next to witness
some of the drills on the lakes
The times., 1897-06-30
the "Iand of the free and the home OF
the brave"
The people Of this country must suffer
under such conditions; but kr. Armour the
enincnt Chicago boss butcher, will be pro
tected,'' and what are Hanna Havemeycr
tariffs for, anyway?

Mfr. Hebs appears to have abandoned the
n,nDwealth III Washin gtou. a few Of the
unemployed are 10 seek homes in that State
under a system OF general socialist eensri-
that of MIR. Debs Is that they need cash
capital and trained ability to start rhen,.
Under present nation al conditions the first
all the capital with which we are aequaint-
ed is in the haEds OF persons neJ par
ticularly anxious for the redemption of the
dom to which gold standard destruction
has doomed them
The times., 1897-06-30
The SDuhbing of Uncle yohn.

! 1t is all right for people and papers
not coparceners in the financial crimes OF
the Gold Trust, to hold Secretary Sherman
responsible for most OF the misery that
| now renders the masses of this country
miserable, hungry, and desperate: Because
| that is but justice. 1t is quite another
thing for the individuals and combinations
that have fattened on his work, and have
come into position and power in eonse-
Quence Of it, to turn on him and treat
him like the squeezed lemon Of song and
story.
While regarding the man and his public
record with just horror and resen tnrent,
we have been unable to contemplate the
utter violation OF the principle OF honor
anong-we.l, let US say Republicans
that characterizes the treatment To which
the venerable Nestor of the party has been
grovelirg in obscurity today but for his
master hand in the organization of That
terrible curse which has fallen upon the
nation, exemplified in its enslavement and
pauperization by the Hanna -Ha-eTneyer
association of Syndicates, trusts, and mo-
popolies.
Such i s the ingratitude Of the "busI-
ness manager and his followers, that
even the poor compliment OF inclusion in
the omnibus praise of the Ohio Republican
platform was denied to the old leader
MI Mckinley was eulogized Hanna was
eulogized- But the State machine, of
which John Sherman has been at once
proprietor and chief engineer for nearly
two generations, had not a word of kind
ness for him
lie may affect to ignore this outrage,
but his own particular Buckeye henchmen
do not The Mansfield Shield, his home
paper, is Indignant. 1t says:
Mckinley Is President and Sherman is
premier Why should not the premier be
recognized by his party, his old admirers
and faithful followers for IN any years, in
party's convention? Mr.. Sherman may
say he does not care. He may yet have
some friends who viii care for him. The
most disgraceful thing about the Sherman
snub is the high-handed attempt of
corrupt man to steal the honor and glory
of one OF the founders of the Republican
party.
Whati Republican papers in Ohio talk
ing about the business manager as "a
corrupt man. stealing the ''honor and
glory of one of the founders of the Re-
publican paTtyr' Really, 1t hooks as IL
our sixteen to one friend, Mr. Mclean, had
a chance to occupy tafter fumigation} the
Hanna seat in the Senate.
The times., 1897-06-30

personally and Without much reference to
anything but his own views and wishes.
Sometimes he would divide both patron
age and pow er with his partyf in the Con-
gress; but in fact, as well as in theory,
the imperial power Of the American Ex-
ecutive really vested in the hands of the
citizen to whom it was supposed to be
entrusted by the suffrages Of the nation.
When Samuel j. Tilden was robbed of
his election and Rutherford B. Hayes seat
ed in place to which be had not the
ghost of a right, all this was changed
signally. deeisiveiy, and, 1t well may be
feared, permanently. Hayes was not y
leader OF the people. He necessarily Was
the creature OF the conspiI acy that treas
onahly put him in the White House. His
acts were neither spontaneous nor vol
untary; they were controlled and dictat-
ed by his masters. AS Victoria represents
the extinguishment of personal rule in Eng
land, so Hayes represented the biotting
out of the independent, constitutional
American Executive.
From this time en- the revolution Is seen
to have steadily advanced. Wall street
seized upon the national political oFgani-
nized the ease with which control Of the
Presidency could be taken from the people
and lodged in the hands of combination
strong enough to manipulate conventions.
Wall street dictated the nomination of Gar
field, of Cleveland, of Harrison. of CleVe-
land again, and finally of McKinley In
each case Wall street has welded the
power and patronage of the office, and
the incumbent has been little more than
chief clerk to the real National Government.
In the Latest event another turn of the
screw has been attempted and successfully
accomplished Not satisfied with doninar
tion over ali legislation and governmental
policy, through the influence OF the nominal
Executive and a paid or subsidized syn
dieate OF Lobbyists and legislators, the
citation with the trusts and monopoIies, sub
scriLed SIG, 900 to buy the election OF
an American President who should be but
the shadow of their real Executive In
nominating and electing Mfr. Mckinley
they deliberately and knowingly elected
master over him, in the person of the
campaign organizer and ''buaness mar
ager,'' Marcus A Hanna. He was the
person they intended actually to place in
power; and they placed him there
With Hanna the revolution becomes CON-
Plete. The American President, like the
Queen OF England, at last is a mere ma
tiondl and ornamental fiction. The real
sovereign of the country is the man who
stands behind the throne with the baton Of
supreme authority from the foreign and
native elements that have bought, paid
for aud own the Chair of State AID its
occupant.
The times., 1897-06-30

Mr. Charles II. Coe, of this city, writes
Co The Times calling attention TO what
that distinguished American writer and
all-around sturdy American, Capt. Mayne
Reid, once said on the Cuban struggle for
freedom in the ten years war. Mr. Coe
informs US that in the columns of the
magazine called onward, which Capt.
Reid Conducted, there appeared from his
pen in it's issue for December, 1869, the
following words:
The United States VIII yet feel shame for
the part she is playing in this, the latest
struggle for liberty. Cur behavior is some
thing more than colily selfish, it IS bastard
ly mean. There VIII come time when
the children of this great Republic VII
feel their humiliation; wnen they viii speak
utterly ofthe Summers and Stewards, whose
doemas about "bejliGerent rights and
false do ctrines OF Internationally have not
only hindered our people from showing
their sympathy with human suffering, but
even from giving proofs OF their manhood
Noble words these, from the grave of a
srae patriot. They are as pertinent to the
conditions in 1897 as they were to
those of 1869. We have worse than
Summers and Stewards to call to account
for our latest national disgrace We have
Cleveland, 0lney. the Spanish bondhold-
ers, the Hanna Havemeyer Republican
sugar Administration, and a lot of elected
,nisrepresentatives of a great nation cry
ing aloud for justice, mercy, humanity and
recognition of the rights of brave peo-
pie struggling to the death for liberty.
''How long, o Lord?''
The times., 1897-06-30

When the TURKS discover that they have
TO eyacuate a conquered province, they
proceed in most pious and methodical
way to indemnify themselves for its loss
Their mental processes are simple, direct
and theological. They argue that Mo-
hRmmed is the prophet OF God, and W hat
ever is portable is the profit OF the Mo-
hammedan So they take everything that
can be nieved, and destroy the rema :nder
The same line of reasoning underlies the
fiscal POLICY of the Republican pachas,
beys and effendis who have captured,
rule and are running and. ultimately. must
evaeuate the rich province Of Fair Co
Iumbia They know they must get out
and their one present purpose is to ma ks
as complete job Of the national looting
as time and circumstances viii permit
The tariff bib is the principal instrument {
of their enterprise
II does not provide revenue. It was
net framed with any such intent ton It's
makers and finisilers do not care hawbee
if it does not put cent in the Treasury
indeed, they rather hope il viii not, for
then there VIII be more bonds and an
other Cleveland-Pierpont Morgan rake
Off" in short, they do not give pro-
fame adjective what il does, so 1T &C.
composites its single purpose-to rob the
people right and left and pour millions
and billions into the pockets of the gang
The Dingiey bill, as IT left the House of
Reed, was a measure for the general
taxation of the masses, with incidental
piunder for the classes. The Hanna Have
meyer BILL as it goes back to Thomas, the
Autoerat, is a device to squeeze the popu-
lace for the direct enrichment of a given
number of individuals and interests thai
specifically are in the deal Everybody
not in the mutual Cooperative combina-
tion, whether he be of the oppressed OF
of the oppressor class, may go hangl
This is a good, shrewCt, Mosiem policy
and gospel, and Hanna is its prophet He
and his pachas, beys, and effendis. VIII
loot the province Perhaps they may be
able TO buy another term OF occupation
with a liberal percentage of the booty
So much the bettert In any case they
viii be loaded down with plunder, and,
in 1901, can afford to fill trains with
good things, settle down in CambrlGge,
university town, get a degree of IL. D.,
and finish out their span in Orienta
luxury, with plenty Of fishing tackle and
bottled bait
What a pleasant thing it must be, to
be a first class Republican Pacha?
The times., 1897-06-30

Bradstreet's is prophetic After several
years, during which il has been unable to
take really optimistic view of the situs-
tion. last week it felt Just flied in recogniz-
ing the dawn OF Mckinley prosperity"
to the great strike of tie coal miners, which
has been ordered for Saturday next, and
which win extend all over india I'LL
Pennsylvania. We are likely TO see plenty
Of that sort of Mckinley prosperity be-
fore the Ohio election.
The times., 1897-06-30
TAAAIANYs FOURTH OF JULY.
Long and Short Talks to Be Made
by Distinguished Speakers.


New York, June 29.-The program for the
Ta.rnauy Societys Fourth OF July ce,e-
brsstion was completed today. The otinci-
pal speeches are long talks and viii tie
made by James d. Richardson, onpressnan
from Tennessee, who was acting chairman
Of the Chicago convention in 1895, and
Henry st. George Tuo.ser. Congressman
frorn Virginia. With the short takers will
he Congressman Meyer, OF Louisiana: Stall
iings and Taylor, of Alabama; Lewis, Of
Washington, H. o. De yries, of Cal fornfa.
Hunter, of Illinois: and NJ :ers, of Indiana;
Cummings, Nee iellan, and SuIzer. of this
city, and De.1egate Smith, of Arizona: also
John T. McGraw, of West Virginia: E.
Kelly, of South Dakota: Norton Chase, Of
Albany; r. C. De Graffenreid, of Texas;
c. NJ. Cooper, of Florida. j. r. Ridgeway,
of BROOKLYN: ex-Postmaster Dayton: Civil
Justice o'Gornan: Supreme Court Justice
O'Brien and Comptroller Fitch.
Civil Justice Lynn will read the declara-
ton of iudependen ce, and Secretary Ne
GoldriCk will read letters from prominent
Demo Gratis, who will be unable to attend
in person. Ex-President Cleveland has writ
ten short note of regret, in wli ch he
touched On Democratic prospects, butsays
nothing on the financial question w J
Bryan announ ces his ina bility TO be present
I'm a ter to John C. Sheehan H., ma kes
reference to the issues Of the last cam
paign, and says that the promised era
of prosperity has not come, and liz too long
delayed.
The times., 1897-06-30
HE BLAMED HIS WIFE.

Prosperous Jeweler Suicides Be-
cause of Domestic Infeficity.
Springfield, Mass, June 29.-Robert
WhiJhy, jeweler OF Midiletown, Conn.
shot himself twice in the head at o'clock
today and died few hours later at the
hospital. When asked why he attempted
suicide, he replied: MY wife has been
raising the devil with me-
Six weeks ago he had threatened .,is
witt with divorce, naming a prominent
man in Middletown as correspondent No
papers were served, but Mr.. and Mrs
Whithy had retained counsel
afr. Whitey has been associated with his
haIt-Sfother at MiddIetown in the jewelry
business for six years and was a very
prosperous man.
The times., 1897-06-30
Before Passage of the Tariff Bill.
Let Sepators Read.

Thomas Jefersoa-March Is, 1898.
WHEN I first entered ON th. stage Of
public life tuew twenty four years agD) L
eaue to resolution never to engage, while
il public .,ffire. in any kind OF enterprise
for the Improvement of nay fortune, nor To
wear any other character than that of a
farmer. 1 have never departed from 1t ia
single instance; and have in multiplied
instances found myself happy in being able
te decide and to act as . public servant
Clear Oe all interest in the multform qises-
Gans that have arisen, wherein have seen
others embarrassed aud biased by having
got themselves into a more Interested stu
alton Thus, 7 have thought myself richer
in contentment than / should have been
with any increase of fortune. Certainly I
Should have been much weather. had
remained in that private condition which
renders it lawful and even laudable TO use
proper efforts to better 1T. However, my
public career is now closing, and will go
through Oh the principle on which have
hitherto acted
The times., 1897-06-30
Extinction of the Executive,

The jubilee of England's Queen forms one
Of those anniversary occasions upon which
the werld is bound to fall into reminis-
ccnce, and to review the history Of the cur
rent generation In the present instance
much is being said in British and ether
prints in connection with the deeadence
of royal executive power since Victoria
ascended the throne 1t is recalled that her
predecessor was the last English monarch
to exercise tie crown right to appoint or
dismiss ministry without reference to
the fact of its majority position or other
wise, in the House of Commons. Also, it is
remembered that the royal veto power
has become a tradition Both preTogatives
stu exist, but their exercise has so long
been surrendered that an attempt to re
v1ve them would be considered revolution
ary and iaighteost the SOW erei gn w no should
attempt it veIy dearly
In Great Britain the power of the crown,
though fictionalIy exercised by the Queen.
passed directly to the prime minister, hold
Ing only during the pleasure of bis party
For years the prime minister WAS the real
sovefeign-the personal strong man and
leader. Later, the political chief has held
office, not only on the warrant of his
party, but subject to the will and interests
of the British financial power, which for
at least one generation has dominated and
Controlled all political organizations and
policies in the United Kingdom Lombard
stree. rrles the party, whether 1t be Tory
or Liberal, and consequently, the premier
The latter rules the crown, and there you
have Ill
A parallel revolution has been going on
In the United States. The President of
this country Is endowed with enormous
power and patronage. The seat used to
be occupied, ard the pewer exercised. by
sor..e strong man ofthe people. Sometimes,
iike jackson or Grant. he exercised It
The times., 1897-06-30
LAuRIER.s MESSAGE OF PEACE.
The Canadian Premier Says Ameri-
cans Love the English.

The Canadian Premier Says Ameri.
cans Love the English.
London, June 29.-Sir Donald A. Smith,
Canadian commissioner in Great Britain,
presided tonight at the Doninion day BAN
quet, given at the Hotel Cecil Mr.. WiIfred
Laurier, the Canadian prime minister. in the
course OF u long speech, said that since he
came TO England he had found evidences
that there was Some rnsapprehension in
the minds OF public men respecting the
feelings of the people OF the United States
toward the naotheriand. 81 e declared, with
out hesitatien, that the latent sentiment of
the American nation toward Great Britain
was one of affection and reverence.
Mr.. Laurier dwell upon the Queens per
sonal sympathy with the side OF liberty
during the American civil war, her
sympathy with Abraham Lin coins widow,
ami upon the fact Of her majesty person.
ally erasiug the offensive words in a dis
pat ch about the Trent affair. These things.
Sig Dsnaid declared, had had their ef
feet, and in conclusion he said:
LET US pray God that we will never
see the wings of warspread between Great
Britain and the United States.-
The times., 1897-06-30
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

This is trying weather" said the gov
ennor OF North Carolina TO the governor of
South Carolina
'.ExeIIse me-" said the governor of South
Carolina to the governor of North Caro-
tina. From certain reports hear from
my neighbers should judgeit to be lynch
ing weather.
"The doctor says muscd Baiters, "that
had better go to Texas; but he said it
Just after / Kicked his dog out of my yard,
and am la doubt whether ne meant it as
professional advice or Us a maledctiun
1t makes a great difference as to the
healthfulness Of Texas air whether one
goes there az lyncher or as lynchee''
och, Lord" cluckled Farmer Corn--
stalk, ''these city felleIs will drive me
crazyr'
Whats the matteT2'' asked his wife.
why, here's one of the burned fools
becn tryin' TO pump up his bicycle tire
at our pump. You kHoJ it aIwers takes
five minutes to bring the, vater. and then
ther's a delooge-"
must do all he could to amuse the other
visitors. .tlonZo AZariah thought or THIS
as he entered the parler. and he was SO
busy thinking of it that he trimmed oveI
the rug and went in head first In his
fall he upset the pafDts perch, and that
surprised bird sGuawked, fluttered and
ujupetl Alonzo by the ear. Tne other
visitors were undoubtedly amused, but not
ia. the sense Alonz0 could have wished.
II try to draw some useful lesson from
everything see, 'said Miss Lydia, gravefy,
s'andr cannot see what especial intellectual
discipline there is in my going to the
circus"
That's just the point, aunt" said her
nephew John. III you should go to the
circus and try to draw some uscfnl lessen
from everything you saw there, I think
you w9uiI find 1t about the severest mental
discipline you ever struck