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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-18

After the closing Of the supplementary TRANSATLANTIC
mails named above additional supplementary mails are
opened piers OF the American. English. French
and German and remain until within ten
mnntes Of the hour " sailing ~ steamer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-18

Inc Hotel Westminster at Paris much frequenel
.! american tourists and by European royalty has
Just LOST Its proprietor N. Gabriel Carrie who COM
'i''ed suicide the other day during fit of tempo
rary insanity
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-18

Norway has just given a fresh indication of the
extent TO which her domestic and foreign no,,cv
differs from that OF her sister kingdom OF Sweden
For whereas the latter applies to Krnpp Of Essen
for all her heavy ordnance and armor plates the
Norwegian War Department has intrusted the or
der for the guns and plates needed for It's FORTH
cations in Bergen TO French firm
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-18

Miss Helen Gladstone. who for so long has been
associated with the direction and management Of
Newman College. AT Cambridge has now severed
her connection with that institution In order to
devote herself entirely TO the venerable exPremer
and TO her mother. during the limited time which
that remarkable couple reasonably expect 10
remain with their family
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-18

In London the conviction prevails IN official cir
cles that the mission OF VI. Lagarde. Governor OF
the French Red Sea colony of Obock. King
Menelek is destined to dssuade the latter from
his contemplated attack OF the Dervishes- at
tack which would have proved of great assistance
10 the forthcoming British expedition to Khartoum.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-18

mile there Is no prospect yet OF any dividends
Tor the unfortunate shareholders OF the Manchester
snip Cana yet the report just issued by the man.
agement of the latter shows a considerable increase
IN the traffic OF that great waterway the amount OF
cotton reaching the Manchester docks direct from
America during the last twelve months being more
man seven times large as the quantity landed
there In 1929 II was mainly with the expectation Of
cheapening the raw material for cotton manufact-
ures which led 10 the construction of tho canal and
this object appears TO he in course of attainment.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13
An Unacceptable Compact

. According to the best-available un-
official information, Secretary Olney,
acting for the United States, has sub
mitted to Premier CanOVas, acting for
Spain, and the latter has accepted
terms of peace for Cuba. The alleged
agreement provides that Cuba is to
govern herself, collect all taxes and
disburse all moneys, Spain being de-
barred from any participation in the
revenues and from interference in Gu
ban elections. The United States, for
its part, is to try to persuade the
Cubans to pay Spain an indemnity,
and will offer to indorse a Cuban bond
for that purpose. This will afford Gu
ba Independence in everything save in
name. There will still be a Spanish
governor general and a retnue of
Spanish hangers-on like England
maintains in Canada, but they will be
fgureheads.
All this makes interesting reading,
but it directly leads to number of
pertinent questions. I'm the firsi
| place''-we use the admirable language
of Hon. Charles Emory Smith in the
Philadelphia Press-"if the government
of the United States became a party
to any such understanding with Spain
| it would imply an engagement on our
| part to exercise all our influence to
| secure the assent and acceptance of the
| Cubans. Such an effort would prob
| ably be abortive. But, even if it
could succeed, it woud defeat our
hopes and desires. The American peo-
pie do not want Spanish rule continued
| in Cuba. We want Cuban independ-
ence. We may not believe that this
is the oppOrtune moment to take a de-
cisiVe step, but that is the aim and
| end which we keep before us. Any
adjustment now short Of separation
would only be postponement of the
sure destiny.
There is, however a second and
more serious side of the proposition for
us. If the question We're simply be-
| tween Spain and the Cubans if Spain
We're to offer home rule and Cuba
We're freely to accept it, that would
be another matter. With our desire
to see the horrors of this cruel and
bloody struggle closed we could wit
ness such a conclusion with much sat
isfaction, even though it involved the
delay of independence. What Spair
and Cuba might agree to between
themselves is a matter for themselves
!. But this negotiation apparently in
wolves the participation of the United
States as a direct party. 1t contem-
plates that Spain shall pledge the re-
forms, that the United States shall
guarantee them, and that Cuba shall
accept our guaranty when she woult
not accept Spain's pledge. The success
and stability of the plan would depend
, wholly on our sponsorship. 1t would
put us into practical partnership will
Spain in the administration Of Cuba
1t would require our constant watch
!, fulness and frequent interpostion. l
would subject US to the ever-recurrinl
appeals of the Cubans and compel u
to make ever-recurring protests t,
Spain. Can we afford such a partner
ship? How could we carry it on? Wha
agencies or methods would be practic
able and effective under such condi
, tions?"
\ This statement of the practical OBJ
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13
For Secretary of State.

The report that the president-elect
is considering the appointment Of
Charles Emory Smith to the secretary
ship of the treasury is creditable to
both We have said repeatedly and we
are prepared to reaffirm as often as the
necessities of the situation may seem
to warrant that Mr.. Smith is in every
way worthy of the highest honors
which his party can bestow upon him.
With few superiors as an orator he is
moreover a close and careful student of
public questions, a man with power
to originate ideas and one whose nu-
merous graces are ballasted by a large
and wholesome quantity of Yankee
common-sense. There is no position in
public life in which his admirable
qualities would not speedily assert
themselves, to his own distinction and
to the discriminating publics decided
qualification.
But it is perhaps true to say that
Mr.. Smith has one special fitness, and
it points less to the treasury than tc
the state department.. He has fol
years been interested in our diplomatic
history. His writings for the press
while full of charm and instruction nc
matter what the theme, have been most
happy and effective when treating o.
American policies in foreign affairs. I
is easy to perceive in which direction
his personal inclinations trend. TIL,
diplomatist, using this word in it.
broader significance as applying to on,
who fits the teachings of history to tht
contemporary politics of nations, Il
stamped all over him. We question i
there is another living American who
without official opportunity and incen
tive for following in detail the progress
of international negotiations, is bette
Informed than is Mr., Smith concerning
American precedents and traditions o
more fully equipped to step into tn
position in American diplomacy lef
vacant at the death of James G.. Blaine
We realize that this assertion seem
a bold one to make; but we make it il
full knowledge of all that it implies
If Pennsylvania is to have a represen
tative in the next cabinet, and that rep
resentative is to be Mr.. Smith, let u
hope that he may sooner or later b
placed in the position where he can b
of the greatest and most effective ser
vice.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13
SPANISH BRAGGARTS.

Senator-elect Money in n. y. Journal.
1t would amuse Americans to listen to
the clap-trap gable of some of the Span
ish officers of inferior grade in Cuba. The
possibility of a war with the United
States is frequent subject of discussion
with these gentry. And they would seem
to hold us in vile repute as lighters. They
unhesitatingly declare that 10000 Spanish
troops could easily capture all of the prln-
cipal cities on the Atlantic coast, which
they say would end the war. This valu-
able opinion comes from Spanish officers
who, with 900 effective troops in Cuba,
are utterly unable to corral, capture OF
cope with a scattered aggregate Of 1000.
insurgents.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13

The treaty signed Monday by Sir
Julian Pauncefote for Great Britain
and by Secretary Olney for the United
States, and now subject to the ratitca-
tion of the senate at Washington, is
greater in significance than in intrinsic
worth. 1t provides for the reference,
with one exception, of all pending dis
putes between the two countries to ar
bitration, the exception being the Be
ring sea controversy; and stipulates
for a similar reference of all future
disputes within five years, save such as
concern the honor of the contracting
nations. The loopholes are ample;
but the moral effect is far more ample,
and that, after ALL is the chief consid-
Grafton.
The example set and the lesson fur
nished by the successful operation of
this treaty are sure to be felt" writes
President Cleveland, land taken TO
heart sooner or later by other nations;'
and it is in this sense rather than IN
any particular inherent merit in the
treaty itself that the treaty's ratitlca-
tion will constitute, in the language or
the London Chronicle, the event or
the nineteenth century" War has by
no means been eliminated from the
problem of statecraft; but the con-
tributary causes to war between kin
dred peoples, speaking the same tongue
and Joined together by all the ties oil
common traditions, common instltu-
tions and common aspirations nave
been so materially decreased as 10
leave little necessity for fear of future
armed conflict in this direction.
1t is significant that this epoch
marking feat of pacific craftsmanship
comes as the direct fruit of the Virile
and aggressive position assumed by
President Cleveland one year aSo in
his message concerning the VeneZue-
Ian boundary dispute. All the honleu
speeches. all the soft words, all the
pretty chatter about common kinshir
and common destiny which have been
offered on the altar of Anglo American
peace since this republic began would
not in aggregate have made the seri-
Gus impression upon the British gov
ernment that was made when the
American executive on that memorable
occasion laid down the law to Grea1
Britain in choice, wholesome Anglo
Saxon. 1t put a spur into the muscles
of good citizenship on both sides o.
the water and caused it to pull togeth
er, as never before, for the conservation
of international peace.
All credit, then, to Grover CLEVELAND
in this one thing, be his other faults
what they may.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13

To Congressman Hicks of Altoona,
who is chairman of the committee
for Pennsylvania of the house commit
tee on public buildings ana grounds
Wilkes Barre is largely indebted for
the favorable reporting of the Wilkes
Barre public building bill. That bill,
along with about 20 others, is now tied
up by reason of Speaker Reeds un-
willingness to allow such private ap-
preparation bills a place on the calen-
dar. There is talk of revolt against
the speaker but it is not likely to
amount to anything Wilkes-Barre
will have to wait until the financial
clouds roll BY
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13
GOOD CITIZENSHIP.

From the Christian Endeavor Journal.
The corner stone of all work in the
line of good citizenship consists in the
installation into the MINIS of all citizens
of their sacred duty to take part in all
political movements. The good citizen
cannot be neutral; he must be an active,
positive unit in the sum total of the body
polite The worst citiZen-the one most
dangerous in our complex political life
the one most to blame for political cor
ruption and municipal rottenness, is ne
who refuses or neglccts to take part in
political contests particularly in the
primary elections and then rails at tho
candidates who are nominaies, and the
systems which secure such nominations.
1t is the citizens first and most sacred
duty to attend all primary elections or
Cauceses of his party, and there use his
best efforts to secure the nomination of
candidates who will be u credit to their
party and an honor to the community.
The voice of the people is the supreme
law, and If, as sometimes is the case,
their voice Is stihed or not allowed express
sion by fraudulent and Illegal methods, it
becomes the duty of all good citizens to
bring the perpetrators of this, the most
heinous crime known under popular gov
ernment, to justice. The best citizen Is
he who with the most faithfulness and
diligence and conscientiousness performs
all his duties TO the state.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13
First.Rate Common Sense.

AS bearing upon the recent factional
intimation that President Mckinley
would use his control of the Pennsyl-
vania federal patronage to break down
the regular Republican organization,
the following extract from Major Car
sons Washington letter to the Phila-
delphia Ledger will prove timely read
ing. Under date of January this tho
roughly trustworthy correspondent
writes:
President-elect Mckinley has given an
indication of his policy in distributing
patronage to an Ohio member of congress,
which leaves the inference that he in
tends to follow the plan of President Ar
thur and throw the responsibility of max
| ing local appointments upon the repre-
| sentatives and state appointments upon
| the senators. When three or four appli-
| cants for particular office came to
Washington with their recommendations
| he would send them to their representa-
tive and require him to decide which
| should have it, If the official was to eX-
ercise jurisdiction over more than one
district candidates were sent to the send-
| tors from the state, and If they came
| from Democratic district and state
| where there were no Republican senators
| or representatives General Arthur would
| refer the matter to the chairman of the
| Republican committees. He took the
| ground that members of congress were
| the representatives of the people, and
| that their acquaintance, association ana
experience in their several districts quail
| fed them to make selections for office
| better than he who was an entire strang-
er to the wants and conditions of the
| people If it was poor appointment ne
could hold the representative Responsible
TO the people of the district and require
him to name another man.
1t can easily be seen that the Arthur
plan is based on first-rate common
| sense.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13

EX-Chief Justice PaXson joins with
enthusiasm in the movement to take
dietary. II fear the time is not far
distant" he says, "when men will be
elected TO the judicial office by reason
of their Willingness or unwillingness
to grant licenses. 1t is unfair to the
eminent and upright men who now
preside in our courts to impose this
duty upon them. 1t is not of judicial
nature. The Legislature has no more
right to require the judges to grant
licenses than it has to order them to
sweep the streets" The worst thing
about this whole subject is that what
Justice PaXson says is literally and
entirely true.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13

President Clevelands order putting
all local medical pension boards under
civil service rules would command
more respect If it had not been preced-
ed by a general sweep of Republicans
from these boards. The custom un-
der Republican administrations was to
select two Republican and one Demo-
cratic pension medical examiners for
each county. When Cleveland took Of
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13
SCRANTON, JANUARY 13, 1897.

And now Pittsburg is going to OPP
crate free public baths. Need we ask
what to do with our own fragrant
Lackawanna?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13

TIE story is revived that in his
fight for Penrose Senator Quay wrote
for help to various Pennsylvanians on
the backs of letters received by him
from them at different periods when
they wanted fayors from him. This
story appears every time Quay has Il
fight on. Someday he may verify it.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13

Says Senator Sherman: 81 do not
sympathize with the movement pro-
posed to retire United States notes form
circulation. l believe it is easy to main
tain a limited amount of these in cir
culation, without danger or difficulty.
The maintenance in circulation of $3i6,-
600, 900 United States notes, supported by
a reserve of 800, 900, 900 in gold, not only
saves the interest on $246, 100000 of debt,
but is a vast convenience to the peo-
pie at large. The best form of paper
money is that which is backed by the
government. and maintained at the
specie standard. The absolute security
of these notes was never called in ques-
ton, after the resumption of specie
payments, in 1879, until the reserve
was being trenched upon to meet de-
ficiencies in current revenue brought
about by what is known as the Wilson
tariff law of 1894" That is the whole
fact in brief.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13

fee he made the great majority of the
boards solidly Democratic, in many in
stances choosing ex-confederates to
pass on union applicants for pensions.
BY putting these boards under civil
service rules he hopes to keep his fol-
lowers, including the eX- confederates,
in position after he shall retire. The
places are worth in Pennsylvania from
$500 to 81 800 a year apiece and do not
interfere with other practice. 1t re-
mains to be seen how far such civil
service reform" will be relished by
the people.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13

The Carbonate Leader objects to the
erection of a monument on the court
house square in this city to the memory
of the soldiers and sailors from this Vic!n-
ity who pelished during the civil war, If
it is to be built at teh county's expense.
1t says: This county has built for
Scranton a court house and jail costing
nearly a million of dollars, has put as
much more into the pockets of her lawyers
and tradesmen, and will continue to pour
money into their Golfers but it should not
be expected to beautify scranton beyond
reason, and this scheme is beyond rea-
SON" VIII the Leader point out where
else the county has property of its own
for the site of such n monument, and
where else the monument would look SO
appropriate?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13

The Christian Endeavor Journal OF
this city, of which Mr.. James j. Il.
Hamilton is editor, has issued for jan
uary Good Citizenship number, con-
tanning half a dozen trenchant and
outspoken editorials on notorious civic
abuses. These editorials are pungent
thoughtful and timely, and merit
Midespread perusal.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13
What Do They Think of It?

Senator r-elect Money, of Mississippi,
who went to Cuba recently for pur-
poses of Independent investigation and
who is now telling in the New York
Journal what he saw there, says of the
Spaniards:
They never take prisoners. They butcher
the wounded of the enemy with their
machetes on the field of battle. Every in
surgent is killed who can't get away.
Weyler makes no secret of this. The
Spanish policy would seem to be one of eX-
termination. An English gentleman at
Havana, becoming shocked at the afro
cious method of the Spanish and their
butchery of wounded rebels, went to
Weyler and offered at his own expense to
found Red Cross society to accompany
the Spanish troops to the field as hospital
people The Englishman offered to pay
all expenses and to take care of the
wounded of both sides with equal impair
tiality. Weyler cut him short. NO. sad
he 1--WE want no Red Cross society. we
will dispatch the wounded rebels as they
deserve. They are traitors and deserve
DEATH As for my own wounded, l can
take of them myself
Furthermore, he says:
1t is the invariabe Spanish custom to
destroy insurgent hospitals wherever they
| find them. IheN cut GOWN tne hui ScS, nc
| doctors, and kill the patients in their
| cots. They make u clean sweep. Ihe
| Spanish victory is decisive whenever they
| find an insurgent hospital
The foregoing are few of the en-
tertaining facts which Mr.. Money Of
| fers in evidence concerning Spanish
methods of warfare in Cuba. Mr.
Money disclaims any connection what
ever with the Cuban Junta and says
on the honor of a member of the Ameri-
can congress that what he has told and
is telling in his daily letters in the
Journal is the actual, unembellished
truth.
What do the American people think
of it!
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13

astute business man and hnancler,
Churchman, traveller, conversationalist,
orator good fellow, possessor of social
entire and known for "A good many otAer
desirable traits, qualities and thlngs-hls
friends ingenuity will be taxed to decide
along which line to write his cpitaph. lie
is one of the several remarkable and COM
mendable examples i'm Scranton of whole
souled men who refrain from rather than
seek conspcuousness, but whose good
works shine while hid under bushel
whether they will or no. IT is said OF him
that he has no enemy, a rather unusual
thing to say truthfully of one who Is so
much concerned in public matters. one
reason for that is his conservatism; he
agrees or disagrees with others according
to his honest opinion and never from un-
worthy motive.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13

A correspondent, "Cymro,' wants 10
know If in our opinion Rat Portage, can
ada, is a good place for two or three
bright, young and industrious Americans
to locate in, with the idea of improving
themselves financially. Honestly, we
don't. Rat Portage is a good town as
Canadian towns go: in fact, rather better
than the average. But it Is no place for Il
live American citizen used to hustlins
American ways and accustomed to seeing
things move. our advice to "CNmro' and
his friends is to remain in scranton. 1t
offers as good inducements to energetic
persons as are to be found in any other
city on the continent.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13

iections is unanswerable, but there IL
a third difficulty yet to be reCkoned
with-the positive unwillingness of the
American people TO have their delegat-
ed authority used in an attempt to
ram down on a neishboring people II
compromise with foreign domination
when they are within reach of outright
independence. If the power of the
United States is to be used in this
matter at all, let it be used once for all,
in the behalf of Cuban liberty without
qualification or condition.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13

Senator Penrose has himself ended
the controversy as to when he VIII
qualify as United States senator by
saying he will do so as soon as the
Fifty-fifth congress is convened.