Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-11-13
HISTORICAL WAR SCARE.
Consul General Lees Instructions
Pensions rIaryland Senatorship.
tFrom our Regular Correspondents

tFrom our Regular GoFrespondent)
WASHINGTON, Nov. President
Mckinley aud the members Of bis
Cabinet would doubtless be much
amused at the persistence with which
new war scarces are iunehed through
the columns of the yellow journals, if
the subject were not too serious aud
important to be regarded from jocu
lar point of view. Seeing how easy
the scarces have been floated and
with what avidity they have been
pushed along by the gullible. gang
Of Wall street spectators got up one
and according to the financial reports,
they succeeded in fleeing thousands
of easily frightened spectators ont Of
large sums of money by using their
war scare to hammer down prices of
speculative stocks. As long as PEG
pie will swallow any sort of a crazy
story that INSCRIPTIONS newspapers
may choose to print, it will be impos-
sible to stop this sort Of thing OF
late, the Navy Department cannot or
der vessel to be repaired or the Gen
efal of the ARMY cannot discuss the
need Of additional coast defenses with.
out it being taken in some quarters to
mean that war is expected in few
days. The only remedy is for sensi-
bic people to exercise their sense in
the choice Of the newspapers they
read AS matter of fact, while the
yellow journals OF New York and the
spectators OF Wall Street are hysteric-
al over the alleged danger Of war, the
President and his Cabinet are quiet
| ly attending to the routine duties Of
their positions, not dreaming of such
an awful thing as war. 1t would be
lexpecting too much of perverse hui
man nature to presume that this
country would never again engage ia
war, but it can be truly said that there
is no danger Of the good people ofthe
country going to sleep some night in
reace and waking the next morning
to find the country at war. Presi-
dent Mckinley desires no war, and
expects no war with Spain or any
other country. Peace and prosperity
are what he wishes continued.
The keystone of the instructions
given to Consul General Lee, who
will return TO Cuba this week with
the expressed intention to remain un-
til the war is over, was watchfulness
OF the persons and interests Of Ameri-
can citizens in Cuba, and in order to
impress those instructions the more
strongly upon the mind of General
Lee, they were given in person By
President Mckinley. There are no
new developments concerning the re-
lations between this country and
Spain and none are expected in the
immediate future, sensational rumors
to the contrary Notwithstanding
The annual report of Hon. II. Clay
Evans, Commissioner of Pensions,
has been made public. 1t shows the
net increase in the total number OF
pensioners for the year ending June
20, last, to have been $3.50, and the
total number drawing pensions on
that date o76,oI4. There are still
seven widows and nine daughters of
Revolutionary soldiers drawing pen
sions Among the i'm 1ortant recon
mendations OF the report are the pub
LEGATION Of complete list of pension
ers, and the adoption Of legislation
by Congress that will prohibit the
payment Of pension to the widow Of
any soldier of the war of the rebellion
who shall marry after the date upon
which such law shall go into effect
Washington Republicans are much
interested in the selection Of Repub-
lican successor to Senator German by
the Maryland legislature. Location
makes that interest perfectly natur-
al but in addition to that is the fact
that four of the gentlemen who are
being talked Of as probable candidates
are as we'll known to Washington
people as any citizen of Washington
They are, Judge McComas, who was
put upon the bench OF the Supreme
Court Of the District Of Columbia, by
President Harrison, alter having made
an unusual record in Congress for the
length Of time he served Postmaster
General Gary, whore business-likc
administration Of his great depart
ment has made him hosts OF new
friends and admirers; Governor