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The morning times., 1897-03-08
The Maple and Violet.

When the Maple started one of its
unofficial leaves, and the Violet gave
forth its fragrance at the wharf at Nor
folk, situation was created for Presi-
dent Mckinley which was not like the
sirup OF the enc or the delicate perfume
OF the other In fact, il was one which
must have been embarrassing and annoying
1t involved the refining act Of nerve on
the part of his predecessor, which, with
otner things, must ever emtam that per
sOnage in history as probably the most
Indifferent creature 10 laws. conventions
and decencies who ever occupied the
Presidential palace and bullied the people
wlo put him there.
Grover Cleveland, when President Of
the United States, ordered two public
vessels TO he rcfitted and equipped To take
him on ducking expedition after he
si.ould cease to told any Official relation
to the government. II would have been
exactly the same Thing if lie Lad ordered
lheIh 10 Itlb- pdHli, ttdls anu ElONlhlOii
for the purpose of furnishing a yachting
cruise AZ public expense 10 any other pri-
vate citizen. When he stepped OH board
the Violet after the inauguration of his
successor he was in no sense the guest
Of the government, or of the Officers of
that lighthouse tender, or Of the light
house board. The law neither provides
for nor allows such guestship. He was
simply taking advantage of a previous
usurpat:on Of authority, which, even as
President, ne did rot possess. and trustin .
to the patience and good nature OF Presi
dent Mckinley TO say nothing about it.
Out OF respect for the dilemma in which
this amazing action places the latter, We
shall say nothing more, either.
The morning times., 1897-03-08
4 Vigorous Opening.

The opinion OF fSecretary Sherman'sfriends
that lie would develop vigorous foreign
policy as soon as be should reach the
Cabinet has received distinct and the
earliest possible Notification. Indeed, it
could not have come earlier, for the inau-
guration proceedings at the Capitol were
not half done before this nation was
plunged in the vortex Of row with most
of the powers of Christendom, and some
outside Of thatpale only what we ma ven
ture to call the ambassadorial powers were
exempted from the Common affront and
tentative declaration OF war.
AS chairman of the Senate Committee of
Arrangements Secretary, then Senator Shcr-
man, provided places for the corps dip
lomatiQue in accordance with his own
views of rank, dignity and merit. He
placed the four ambassadors, with Sir
Julian Pauncefote at the front of the pro-
cession, ahead of and the remainder of
the diplomatistS behind the Supreme Court
OF the United States. To this object les
son the rward ministers objected in
tensely, and under the leadership Of the
accomplished and gallant NJ Kotzebue,
plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Car,
adjourned TO the Marble room, where Il
genuine Indignation meeting was held
after the most approved American models.
We are very much afraid that it will
require considerable tact on the part of
President Mckinley to overcome the fric-
tion which this small and early diplomatic
episode may occasion. There are several
sentatives may take the matter seriously
though they will be anything butidentical
in character. MI, Dupuy de Lone may be
inclined to feel that the slight was aimed
directly at him, toindicate that his lease of
the governments foreign office had ex-
pired with the retirement of his friend
Mr- olney. Mr. Kotzebue might suspect
it to mean that the friendship Of his
sovereign and people for the United States
had given umbrage to British influences
and therefore must be frowned upon, while
the Japanese minister perhaps would see
in the affair a mark of black ingratitude
in view of the recent adoption Of the single
gold standard by Japan.
AS matter OF fact, there could have
been no slight or discourtesy intended.
That a painful soclal blunder wasperpetrat-
ed is too apparent, but in trying to over:
look and TO excuse it, as we are sure they
Will, the offended ministers should remem-
ber the contempt in which the State Depart
ment under Mr.. Oiney has been for some
time held, and the consequent embarrass-
| ment which must have been experienced
in any effort Of cooperation between that
Official and a committee of the Senate
Things ought now to be different and
pleasanter.
The morning times., 1897-03-08

of Gen. Vara del Rey by division COM
1000 Spanish Troops were left dead on
the field, the patriots capturing several
batteries of artillery, several thousand
small arms, an ammunition train, and
whole supply train intended for the pro-
visioning of a large garrison town. One
would suppose that President Mckinley
could discover a considerable amount of
''belligerency'' in a battle like that.
With Europe, Asia, and America throat
cutting, or on the verge of it, the Dark
Continent might feel lonesome WITHOUT
war cloud of some sort, and that is fur
nished by very lively prospect that Great
Britain shortly will send an expedition
languishing in chains in the Tower OF
London, but is eating terrapin with the
Prince Of Wales, and Mr.. Chamberlain
is not having dungeons prepared for him,
but is sending dispatches to President Kru-
ger, notifying the latter that the Transvaal
alien laws, by which the ''Uitlanders" are
denied any voice in the government to
which they contribute the great bulk Of the
revenues, are not in accordance with treaty
stipulations, and must he changed at once.
Dom Paul declines to back down, and Gen.
Lord Wolseley is of the opinion that it
will take about twenty thousand of his
troops to make him.
And so there is blood on the face OF the
moon, and if all goes ill, there win be
such an universal row that production
in the principal countries competing with
US must stop for awhile, and the demand
for American commodities become great
enough to pull lis out of the present hole
of depression to u considerable extent
Then all good Republicans would rise up
ontheir hinder limbs and howl: Nick mley
did it with his little tariff
The morning times., 1897-03-08

suppose it can carry coal; il n ship-car-
penter prepare vessel TO carry pas
sengers to Liverpool, 1 suppose it can
carry passengers to Liverpool; and If
the Lord prepared u fish to carry one
passenger, / suppose it could carry u
passenger, and the ventilation have been
all right.
$50 all the strange things in the Bible
can he explained if you wish to have
them explained. You can build them into
beautiful and healthful fire for your
hearth, or you can with them put your
Immortal interests into conflagration.
"oh, my friends, want you to under
stand that in our deliberations about this
Bible we are not at calm anchorage, but
we are rapidly coming toward the coast,
and | don't know whether it is going
TO be harbor or shipwreck.
Would God that there might he some
one today who would go forth and bring
in these souls that are drifting In this
assen.tiage, how many, not quite certain
about the truth of the Bible, not certain
about anything! Drifting, drifting, dIift-
ing! Oh, how / would like To tow them
in! throw you this cable. Lay hold
of that cable of the Gospel! Lay hold of
wide enough, large enough for. all the
shipping. Come in, o you wanderers
on the deep. Drift no more; drift no
more See the glorious lighthouse of
the Gospel. Come into the harbor. God
grant that it ma be said of all of you
who are now drifting in your unbelief.
as it might have been said OF the passen-
gers OF the steamship Edam and as it
was said centuries ago of the wrecked
corn ship OF Alexandria: 1t came to pass
that they all escaped safe TO land
The time Will come when we will need
this old book. One who had served the
world and jeered at Christianity, and
pronounced the Bible cheat and hum
bug, n the last hour said: 1T Is so dark,
1t is so dark, 1T is so dark Then, in the
exhaustion he lay quiet for d little while,
and as his soul was going out Of life, re
sulned the cry: 1t is so dark, it is SO
dark, 1t is SO dark on the dav when
the Coffin goes out of the front door, and
down the front steps, ii leaves house
very lonesome If there be no Bible on
the stand and no Christ TO give conso-
lation at the desolated hearthstone. II YOU
have noticed, on the dying bed there are
apt 10 be four or five pillows in order to
give easy position to the departing loved
one, runipled and disheveled pillows. Some
times it is one pillow under the head,
| and at other times another pillow My
brother, when YOU and | leave this world
we want our choice of pillows. Let it
not be pillow of regrets, for that is
| stuffed with nettles Let it not be 4
| pillow of gloomy anticipations, for that
is stuffed with nightshade. Rather let
| it be the soft, soothing, comforting pillow
| filled with what David, the Psalmist, in
powerful metaphor has been pleased To
call the feathers of the Almighty
The morning times., 1897-03-08
Bunsby to the Fore.

1t is the deliberate opinion Of Judge
BUnsby that eX-President Cleveland and
Mr.. Olney have not quarrelled, and that SO
far as the ex-President is concerned Mr.
Olney is still Secretary Of State. In an
editorial article in an esteemed contem-
porary Judge Bunsby develops his views
as follows:
The President is the head Of the admins
tration, and his authority is sLpreme Mr.
Olney is not the man to remain in office
where his opinions ire set aside, his actions
oVerruled, and his propositions treated with
contempt Ii may be said also, and with
equal truth, that Mr., Cleveland would not
dream or tolerating in one OF his official
subordinates Sch contumacy and antagon-
ism as the recent dispatch ascribes to Mr.
Olney. We do not know that the two
were in perfect harmony OF feeling and
opinion 1t is easy to Believe that they
Were not.
Judge Bunsbys fame as a SNUG and
Capacious reasoner is known and felt in
regions impeneJrablc even to the strains
of the Sousa march, and it would be
useless for us To reply to him that ali
powers granted by the Cons titution of the
United States are divided between the
Legislative, Executive and Judicial depart
would be any attempt to oppose his mer-
ciless logic by citation from the Supreme
Court decision in the memorable case of
John Doe VS.. Richard Smith, wherein the
rule is laid down that while great atmos-
pheric pressure at the base of a writer's
brain may cause unwarranted distress
TO the readers of his newspaper,
an action would lie against any man
who should arm himself with Il beers
liver and attempt to club the Iogician
to death Our only course is to accept
the judges naive sta tement quoted, that
he knows nothing about the matter at
issue, and then draw the deduction that
he cannot assert without fear of sue
cessful contradiction that n all things,
from the beginning Of the insurrection to
Mr.. 0lney spoke and acted exactly as the
President wished For the truth is tia t
Secretary Olhey and Mr.. Cleveland did
quarrel over the Lee matter, and Mr.
olney was only prevented from resigning
his Office to President Cleveland personally
by the fact that he had already resigned
it to him in trust for President Mckinley.
The trouble with the Bunsbys of the
| world is that, having laid down a series
Of irrelevant or incontrovertible premises,
| they invariably proceed to deduce from
them a conclusion which is not SO.
The morning times., 1897-03-08
AN ARCHBISHOP'S APPEAL
Most Rev. DIR. Chappelle, of Santa
Fe, breaches at St. Patrick's.


Ee, Proaches at St. PatriCk'S.
Archbishop Chappelle, OF Santa Fe, de
lvered the sermon at high mass yester-
day at st. Patrick's Church. The discourse
was warning nd an appeal to avoid
temptation. The sermon was based on
the gospel Of St Matthew which tells OF
the tempting of Christ by the devil in
the desert while our Saviour was suffer
ing the pangs Of hunger after his fast
OF forty days.
Before taking up the discussion of his
theme Archbishop Chappelle paid high
tihute to all Americans especially Wash
iEgtonians, a large ma jority Of whom, he
said, Were relsious-niinded. At no time,
however, in the history OF the country than
in the present generation was there ever
more need Ia feel and believe that man
lives and prospers by obedience to the
word of God. II ever MAJORITY should
forget obedience To the Divine Master
the consequences would be terrible, but
still worse would be the yielding to the
temptation 10 turn from God and become
slaves to worldly things
The lesson Of the gospel, Arch
bishop Chappelle said, teaches the
necessity OF notifying the flesh and
humbling the spirit i'll obedience,
and nc where is it more beautifully
ana forcibly illIsbra ed thaa in the endeavor
ana failure OF the devil to tempt our
Saviour. The reverend speaker then con-
trasted the temptation OF Christ with that
of Attain, showing their similarity and also
their greater differences. By the tempta-
ton of Christ the world was saved; in
the yielding of Adam the world fell Re
ferring TO worldly success, the archbishop
said it was 10 be sought Civilization, art,
science, and worldly good are TO be craved,
but we should more fully glorify God.
At this time the speaker said it is
well that we should remember that
we live not by bread alone, but by the
word of God, and that we tempt him not.
How many do we find every day who
like Satan tell us not to fear. all Will be
well; and how many OF US yield daily
to the seductive voice. As there is only
certain amount of energy in each of
us we can hardly 10 anything which
has not eternal consequences, whether it
be to affect ourselves or others. No
matter how we may appear TO others
or even how we may deceive ourselves,
d man is worth only what he thinks. We
are what we do and what we think, and
nothing more. So, then. let US he prudent
and tempt no God but make the most
of this short life in glorifying Him by
chewing His comma ntiS.
Man loves power, he loves to rule, hence
the striving for political supremacy. The
money in it Is not always the inducement
This tendency is not bad in itself for it
shows mans likeness TO God. But we
should beware of extremes. Man is not
here to set himself up for a god to be
adored and worshipped. Man must serve
and adore God alone. There is no posi-
BILE declaration of independence of man
as against God, for He is the source of
all power, all life and light.
The morning times., 1897-03-08
Shall We Kiss the Rcd2

Readers generally viii have taken note
OF recent Senatorial utterances of
much bcnignity toward the pro-
tecuve tariff program of Mr.. McKinley's
administration. Certain leaders among the
bimetaIlists of the upper house, Of late have
been pretty constantly quoted as saying
that they did not purpose any serious OPP
position to the enactment of new Nc
Kinley tariff As far as we now recall the
circumstances, these expressions have been
confined TO Senators who formerly were
themselves high tariff Republicans, but who
withdrew from the party on the financial
issue In their cases it is not to be
wondered at that they should look with
comparative favor upon the success of
policy which they would vigorously pro-
mote, if the money question were out of
the way, or f they did not feel, under ex-
listing conditions, that tariff protection
would be Of no avail TO help matters as long
as we have gold contraction To defeat pros
perity in any event
There are, then two motives that prompt
certain ex-Republican silver Senators to
regard the coming movement in tie extra
session with observation-disclosures to make
them say they will not fightit They are
still unrcgenerate as far as the principal
underlying protection doctrine is concerned,
and then no doubt they think honestly
enough that as long as the tariff nostrum
has not been tried as remedy for national
depression and economic anarchy it may
never be quite possible fully 20 convince the
people and all of the people that the evils
Of their present situation are due to the
fraudulent and destructive demolition of
the American currency system under which
the nation formerly thriyed and flourished.
Thus, the Senators in question, with per
haps more single e-mindedness and honesty
Of purpose than political acumen, are will
ing to helpthe Republican power by surren-
dering one position of vantage which prop
erly defended might compel important con-
cessions TO silver, but which carelesIy
abandoned can only result in strengthening
the party in power, for the time being 1t
least.
A further and closer analysis of the
tariff purposes OF Mr.. McKinley's adj
The morning times., 1897-03-08
A Kindly Appeal.

No one needs TO be told that a great
responsibility rests upon the shoulders
OF William Mckinley He has been put
in our highest office by a ma jority of his
fellow-cItizens, and the people Of the
country, and especially the members of his
own party, expect certain things Of him.
It is important that he should have much
OF his own time for his own use and for
the consideration of those really impor-
tant public questions which he must dis
cuss with his official advisers and with
Or later and very seriously.
This is gratuitous advice, of course
and does not have TO be heeded, but we
should like TO suggest to as many OF the
offlceseckers as are willing to confess to
themselves that their room is better than
their company, to keep away from Mr..
Mckinley and TO let him entirely alone.
He will have no trouble in filling the Of
fices, and in most cases Will fill them with
e'"i hteh' Il iCseho SouU CidlillS III IL
decent sort of way, if you Will, but stop
at that Annoy and harass other people
besides the President.
Mr.. Mckinley is the chosen Chief Magis-
trate of seventy millions OF people, but
1t does not follow that he must see Them
all and hear their tales of Woe, or be at
the trouble Of personally turning them all
down The cares Of state will be weichty
enough. 1t is a part of patriotism, and
especially is il the part Of good politics,
as we conceive, to give the new President
chance to attend to serious things
The morning times., 1897-03-08
A DUTY OF CHRISTIANS.
Their Obligation TO Government Al
Sacred One.


Sacred One.
The Rev. DR.. Stakely preached an inter
esting sermon at the First Baptist Church
last evening, on the duty OF Christian citi-
Zens toward the civil government.
The Inauguration of a President of the
United States, ne said, is rich with sug-
gestiveness TO the d-fearing man, of his
relations to government A man cannot
claim to be true Christian who fails in
his duties toward the civil government.
Men who are oStensibly upright Christians
frequently make false returns to the tax
assessor, others collect rents from houses
devoted to anything but moral uses, while
many embark in speculative enterprises in
the race for wealth. None of these things
can be reconciled with true Christian
life, nor are they more compatible with
pure and upright citizenship. IF we wish
to honor our country" said the speaker,
''let US live honorable and blameless lives
in all our relations TO the civil law
The morning times., 1897-03-08
Senator's; Not Gentlemen.

u IOIII uIIe IIItIIdIttp'JIIs JOUTndI,T
Ieut.-Gov. Haggard perpetrated bull
yesterday afternoon that was regarded as
one Of the best jokes of the session Senator
Sweeney was on the floor. He referred to
the gentleman from
Il want to call the attention of the
senate to one thing" said the presiding
officer, rapping his gavei.
The senators are senators-not gentle
men,
There was moment of amazed silence
The senator's will address one another
as senators, not as gentlemen he added
Then every man in the senate chamber
began laughing.
The morning times., 1897-03-08
And Rumors of War.

Such are the humors and Inconsistencies
of life and fate that it generally happens
when good people reach the point of mutual
congratulation upon a present millennial
advent of peace, good VIII and arbitration,
all the neightors fall by the ears and get
TO fighting Thus it seems to be at this
time Tie Eastern question is revived
and making more trouble than ever. If
it should manage to get completely loose
it would involve Europe and Asia, while
the Western hemisphere has war of its
own in Cuba, which is showing itself to be
an important and full-grown one.
But yesterday news came Of an impor-
tant uban victory over the Spanish column
The morning times., 1897-03-08

In attempting to limit the business of
the extra session to consideration of ''such
communications as may be made by the
Executive" President Mckinley may find
that he has Congress on his hands 1t is
very likely that he will early see the neces-
sIty for sending such communications as
the Senate may think it wants in addition
to tariff, arbitration and the held-over ap-
preparation bills, or some of the things he
most desires may find thorny path TO
enactment.
The morning times., 1897-03-08
Journalistic Trials.
From the Chicago Tribune.

Ut IUIII UIIU NIICttEU ITIUUIIH.I 7
THAT was very queer poem on The
Three Ages of Man you published in your
paper this morning. said the man who
had happened in. "The general under
standing is that there are seven ages of
man.
1T was written The Seven Ages of
Man. ~ explained the worried Sunday
editor, 'but had to cut it down to three
On account of q lack of space
The morning times., 1897-03-08
A PURE FABRICATION.
That Story From Mexico About Res
toratiGn of Anne rican Flags

Chicag go, March IA special to the
Times Herald from City Of Mexico says
The story telegraphed To the United
States that bitter feeling exists among
Mexicans on account OF the demand for
restoration OF the fla gs captured from
American troops in the war of 1917
and that American women are insulted
in the streets, is a pure fabrication. M
demand has been made for the flags, nor
has any commission appeared from the
United States.
The morning times., 1897-03-08
A Cheerful Sign.
(From the New York Sun.

tF TOIfl Gut NCW OK sun.
Everybody will find in the first cf-
ficial utterances of President Mckinley
the traits of simplicity, apparent sim
certify, and an unaffected modesty in lis
attitude toward the other departments of
the government and the people who have
elected him; and this last quality is as
welcome as breath of fresh air.
The morning times., 1897-03-08

Citizens who read Of the Cabinet being
sworn in the Blue Room perhaps are not
aware that the apartment takes it's name
from the custom of doing all the White
House swearing within it's walls Therecent
Jackson who extended the practice to the
whole house.
The morning times., 1897-03-08
Aged Princess kills a Bear.

Berlin, March THE aged Princess Marie
Won Hohenlohe. wife of Prince Won Hohen-
lobe, the imperial chancellor, has per
formed the notable feat OF killing a bear
while hunting on her estates in RCssa.
The princess is sixty eight years Of age