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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-31

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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-31

"Resolved, (5) rhat We most EN- &.
phallcaliy protest against government
By Injunction, which plays havoc
with even such political liberty rs
workingme have eaved from tue
steady enuroacnmsnt OF capital sm;
aud be II finsny
The sun., 1897-11-29
Secretary Longs Report.

The keynote of Secretary LoNG's first
annual report is its call for new dry docks
This he puts as the very foremost of our
naval needs; and public opinion, after sec.
ing the Indiana resort to Halifax for lack
of docking facilities at home, will probably
support him in that view.
1t is true that there are two new Gov
ernment docks on the Atlantic coast and
one on the Pacific large enough to accom-
modate the Indiana; but the BROOKLYN
structure is still under repair, and the
one at Port Royal requires the dredging
of its approaches; while of course ships
on Atlantic stations cannot resort to
Pacific docks. Besides, we have now,
either built or building, nine battleships
as large as the Indiana, and the number
will certainly be increased. Again, to the
Indiana class, as to the newer ones, it Is
found necessary to affix bilge keels, and
the Port Royal dock will be too narrow to
admit them safely with such keels. Final
ly, our home ships, instead of making long
voyages in search of dock, should find
facilities at moderate intervals all along
our extensive coast.
The programme of Secretary LONG in this
matter is mainly that of the special board
which We recently set forth. 1t includes
new docks at Mare Island, Boston, and
Portsmouth, the enlargement of existing
docks at Brooklyn, League Island, and Nor
folk, with concrete entrances for them, a
steel floating dock opposite New Orleans
and possibly two docks constructed Jointly
with the Newport News and Internationa,
companies.
But this is not the only project to which
Mr.. LoNG would give precedence over ad
ditional ships. He wants more reserv,
ordnance and ammunition, especially fo
merchant ships which may be used a,
auxiliary cruisers; the equipment of tn,
navy yards with greater repairing facilities
an enlarged personnel, both as to officer
and men. Asa consequence of these de
mands, he recommends the authorization
of only one new battleship aud a few tor
pedo craft.
We should be sorry, however, to see tn
! supplying of needed docks, guns, repai
shops and mvn checking or unduly limit
ing the increase of the fleet. Last winte
no battleship at all was ordered, wherea
at the session before provision had bee
made for three, and also for about ten tol
pedo boats. If, therefore, at the comm
session two battleships and half doze
torpedo boats should be authorized,
would not be an excessive contribution I
The sun., 1897-11-29
what's happening in that part Of Turkey are
exaggerated, the fact that the Aibanians,
who are the stormy petrels of the East are
on the move is an omen Of trouble.
Roman Catholics and Public once.

1t was, to say the least, q violation OF
good taste on the part oil the rev. Dr.
JOHNSON of Washington, whose church
the President attended on thanksgiving
Day, to inject into his sermon a special
reference to Roman Catholics as ONCE
seekers or office holders.
In the first place the time was most in
appropriate and, secondly, the presence
of the Chief Executive Of the nation should
have restrained the reverend gentleman
from singling out large number OF his fel'
low citizens as subjects for indirect, II not
direct attack.
The President represents the whole peo-
pie of the United States, and in matters of
religious belief or unbelief 1t Is his duty
to make no distinction between them,
either collectively or individually. No one
recognizes that fact more clearly than does
President MCKINLEY, and lecture on the
subject was very much like an affront by
him who delivered 1t.
DIR. JOHNSON seems to think he was
exhibiting great magnanimity in declar-
ing that Catholics are entitled to public
Office and honors the same as other citi'
zens. In reality he was only making an
exhibition of qualities the opposite to
magnanimity. The expression of such sen.
timents carries with it the implication that
the distinction might be made without over.
stepping the strict line of justice, but that
he in his generosity is not in favor Of 1t.
From the days of the Revolution, Roman
Catholics have done their share in the work
of founding, defending, and perpetuating
the republic They have not been behind
the members of any other Church in their
devotion to the Constitution; and, standing
on an equality with them before the law,
they are as much entitled to the honors
and rewards of public life as are the mem
bers of other denominations. 1t is not a
matter of favor; it is question of right.
Two Catholic nations, one directly and the
other indirectly, helped the colonies to
achieve independence; and it is a note
worthy fact that when the Congress Of the
Confederation decreed the second national
Thanksgiving Day to be held on Dec. 80
1878, it enumerated among the reasons fol
praise and gratitude the goodness of the
Almighty in "disposing the heart of q
powerful monarch to enter into an alliance
with u.s." That alliance with Catholic
France settled, If it were ever in doubt be
the fate of British rule in the colonies.
Down with all religious tests That is the
American principle. AS to candidates fol
Office, the only questions asked should bt
the great Jeffersonian questions: "Is ht
honest' Is he capable9 Is he faithful te
the Constitution
The sun., 1897-11-29

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUs-Sfr: wish TO express
my appreciation OF your report in the Issue OF Now
81 OF Swami Abhedapandas address. Though there
Is a widespread interest In the teachings OF Hindu
philosophy. comparatively few people are able TO
enjoy directly that It must come to those out
side OF the largest cities strained through newspapers
and magazines.
When vivikananda gave course two years ago
those in attendance were 80 anxious TO get the
lectures reported in full that they went TO the eI'
pense OF hiring all expert stcnographer that they
might circulate his addresses among their friends.
Doubtless many OF your readers would consider It a
great privilege reports of the lectures OF such
men US Abhedan anda and Gandh beg leave to
ask you to consider the feasibility Of giving an occa
sIonal place in your columns TO this subject
PEQuAKET, N. H.. Nov, 25 H. X, A.
The sun., 1897-11-29

A perfectly honest and expressive name
for an association of persons eager to convince
the public Of their divine right to govern has
been found in Philadelphia. 1t is the Leaders
League. According to the Philadelphia TIC e.
graph, the Leaders League was organized
ostensibly as a protest against eman power
and boss rule; but the end at which 1t has
aimed from the start has been the sub
stitution of its own authority in the
management of the Republican party Of
Philadelphia for any and oil other influences,
individual or collective factional or popular"
This is an exact description of the inevitable
purpose of the bands Of boss-quellers. whether
they call themselves Citizens Union or q
Leaders League. But the latter name is the
more appropriate. These fellows arc bound to
lead. II they can gull the community into giving
them the Job
The sun., 1897-11-29
Harvard ana tho Dropped II.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sh: should like to
express In your columns the view OF Harvard grad.
uate concerning tho trouble which has lately been
stirred up between Harvard and Yale by the Harvard
Crimson, the college daily published at Cambridge,
The Crimson II II supported tho action of the coach
ers In removing the II from the sweaters Of the Iar
ward eleven after the Yale game. expressed only n
foolish spirit OF evaporation and disappointment
which was not shared 10y any sensible Harvard man,
graduate or undergraduate.
The average Harvard man who saw the game VIII
agree that tho loss OF touchdown against Yale wa,
due not so much 10 the eleven rs 10 the men who
had the eleven IN charge this season, Yale played n
great game at Cambridge aud NHrN ard also did her
best the result was u tie, The crimson should have
performed Its usual duty OF wishing the men better
luck next year. Calling The work OF the eleyen u
disgrace to the college was unsporsmnnlkc, ami WAS
slur ON iHl IS prOwess, Repeating the statement
after the Harvard Ppnusy lvaua game was still
But let me say, FOR the benefit Of all ale men and
for those Harvard " hO have the hest interests
OF their college At heart thar the Harvard IriEtEOH
is an irresponsible organ edited for the greater part
nv young men who do not represent their cuiirg" IN
the real way That the Yale paper represents Yale,
Tho Intimacy OF year or IwO with the methods uf
the Harvard Crimson enaLes the writer To state this
In the strongest terms II Yale men have been
irsulted they have been insulted by little Harvard
junior or senior. and not by any great body OF ar
ward men, A HARVARD GRADUATE.
NEW YoRK. Nov. "a.
The sun., 1897-11-29
why Cuba Must Reject Autonomy


The proclamations issued by Gen. MAx1Mo
GOMEZ and by Gen. CALIXTo GARCIA afford
convincing proof that no compromise is
possible between the Cuban rcvolutionists
and Spain. Both announce that any Cuban
military commander, who shall even confer
with any Spanish envoy regarding terms
Of peace short of independence, shall be
forthwith arrested, tried by court-mar-
tial, and, if found guilty, sentenced to
death. The same penalty is to be inflicted
upon any envoy from the Spanish Govern.
ment or from any Spanish military COM
mander, or from the so-called autonomist
party, who shall approach the Cuban lines
for the purpose of persuading the Cubans
to accept anything less than complete indie.
pendence from Spain. Such an envoy is to
be treated as a spy.
The hope, therefore, of maintaining a
nominal connection between Cuba and the
mother country through the concession of
so.called autonomy to the island Is def
nitely at an end, and those Americans who
are acquainted with the history of the last
twenty years, or with the actual state of
things in Spain, can be at no loss to under
stand why the hope was, from the first,
without foundation.
If Cubans are to bring about a revival
of their agriculture they must be able not
only to sell freely their own products to
their chief customer, the United States,
but to buy in the cheapest market the
products whereof they are consumers. At
present they are obliged to get nomnally,
at least, their -four from Galicia and their
manufactures from Catalonia and the
Baearic Islands, when similar commo-
dities, obtained from the United States,
would be much cheaper and of better
quality. Indeed, so great Is the prefer.
ence given by the existing tariff to articles
exported from the mother country, that to
ship flour from the United States to Spain,
to pay the import duty there, and to reship
1t under Spanish trademarks to Cuba, is
an necessarily practiced and most lucra.
tive transaction.
Already Catalonia, which has long been
the workshop Of Spain, has protested We.
hemently against the intention of the Sa.
gasta Government to concedc to the Cubans
an ostensible control of the insular tariff
under the proposed scheme of autonomy
We say ostensible, because the Council
which is to frame the Cuban tariff, is to be
composed half of native Cubans and half OF
Spaniards resident in the island, and he
cause, moreover, the tariff framed by then
will require the sanction of the Cortes al
Madrid to make it valid. What is there
as Sefior SAGAsrA pointed out recently tt
delegates from Barcelona, to prevent
Council thus constituted and thus tram
melled, from entering into special ar
EanSsmePt which should give the desiret
The sun., 1897-11-29

Some men of law in Illinois assert that
the magnificent antitrust act of that State will
not hold water. 1t is said that an amendment
to it which went into force last summer permits
corporations engaged in mining, manufuctur-
ing. or the production of articles Of merchan-
disc, the cost OF which is mainly made up of
wages" to combine all they want to. provided
the chief object or effect of the combination is
to maintain or increase wages. AS any trust
which has for its object the increase Of profits has
by necessary implication the etfe"t of keeping up
wages, the Illinois corporations protected by the
amendment in question should be able to form
trusts to their souls content, il they had any
souls. Perhaps the amendment has been incor-
rectly described. 1t seems open to attack itself
on the ground of discrimination. However that
may be, it is a saddening fact that the more
trust laws there are the more trusts there are.
The monster seems to be more ingenious than
tho law-wright.
The sun., 1897-11-29
Not Disorganization but Unity.

The movement to disorganize the Re.
publican party in this State, begun by the
late Citizens Union of Democrats, Mug
wumps, and disgruntled or deluded Repub.
licans, is still trying to move.
WH1TELAw REID, the rejected applicant
for place in President MCKINLEY's Cabi-
net, JOHN +. MILHoLLAND, his political
and literary tutor, WILLIAM BRooKF1ErD, d,
whose anti Platt malignity has reached
the stage Of acute mania, ANsoN G. Nc
Cook, chronic offlce-seeker, and WAGER
SwAYNE OF the Vestry of st. Georges
Church, wherein the Low conspiracy was
hatched, are the engineers of the enterprise.
They are working industriously to make
mischief for the Republican party. The
organs of their movement are the three Mug
wump papers, the Nc,o York Times, Trib
une, and Ercning Post. In those papers
its proportions are described as portentously
enormous.
Actually, however, the disorganizing en-
terprise amounts to nothing, or to no more
than its engineers amount to. The great
body Of the Republicans in this city are in
different to it. 1t expresses a malignity
against their party which has no place in
their breasts. They want to see the Repub-
lican party united in preparation for the
momentous political contest of next year,
when In this State are to be elected Gov
ernor, Legislature, Congressman, and,
incidentally, a United States Senator.
They understand that in the election of
next year in New York the fate of the Re-
publican party in 1900 is likely to be in
volved, and they have no patience with the
vanity and malignity which are impelling
the few men we have named to frantic
efforts to break up the solidity of the party
and give the State and the Union over to
the Organized Democracy in revenge for
disappointed ambitions.
Congressman BELDEN of Syracuse has
been represented as an ally of these con-
spirators, but he has denied promptly the
injurious accusation. Mr.. BELDEN being u
loyal Republican, declares that so far from
seeking to foment and promote party dis
organization, his efforts will be used to
produce harmony and restore unity. Every
honest Republican is of the same mind. 1t
is an obligation of good citizenship for all
Republicans to resist the malicious at
tempts of this little band of marplots to
set the party by the ears'in order that it
shall defeat itself next year.
The session of Congress is about to begin
and it will bring to the attention of the
Republican party and the whole public
questions of large national concern which
will tend to draw closely the lines of politi-
cal division. The malicious enterprise of the
Milholland. .Brookfeld- -McCook gang,
already without consequence in the eyes of
the public, will soon pass out of considera-
tion altogether, even by the Mugwump
newspapers which are now trying so hard
to galvanize it into the semblance of genu.
ine vitality.
The day when the spiteful activity of
petty and vindictive politicians could ex-
cite public interest has gone by. Now has
come the time when the Republican party
must save all its energies for the supreme
contest so near at hand. 1t has powerful
enemy to fight, and mutiny in its own ranks
would be high political crime.
The sun., 1897-11-29
The Bear Northward Bound.

On Saturday night the revenue cutter
Bear steamed away from Seattle, with
Lieut.. BERTHoLF and his party, bound for
the relief of the whalers who are caught in
the Arctic ice. The voyage to Ounalaska
is not likely to cause any trouble, and
thence the Bear will go as far north as
possible, through Behring Sea, the relief
party landing, when the ice blocks them,
and making their way overland to the
whalers, with reindeer and dogs.
1t is this overland journey which absorbs
all interest, and includes, probably, all the
hardship and danger. 1t will possess q
special Importance from putting to use the
reindeer herds which the Government has
for several years been collecting and main
tanning in Alaska. There are several rein
deer stations on the coast, north of the
mouth of the Yukon, at no great intervals.
and containing few hundred reindeer
each. Thus, with these animals, or with
dogs. or both, the relief expedition will
have the means of accomplishing it's task
of saving the whalers from starvation and
carrying them not only food, but clothing,
medicines, and other supplies. Incidental
to this expedition may come much valuable
knowledge of Alaska, and contributions to
the subject of winter transportation, so
important to its future. But for the mo.
ment the interest is in the safety of the
crews imprisoned in the ice, and in that of
the little party that will make the attempt
to succor them.
The sun., 1897-11-29

the increase OF the navy. We admit that
there ia one obstacle in the way Of author.
izing any new battleships, namely. the fail
ure thus far to settle the armor question;
but should that settlement come, 1t will be
as practicable to provide plates for two
ships as for one.
It may be noted here that Secretary LONG
awaits the report OF the armor factory
board before fully indicating his views on
that matter, and the report of the personnel
board before discussing the line and staff
controversy and the current attempt to
settle il. However, he recommends the ad.
dition of 10 Captains, 90 Lieutenants, 20
Junior Lieutenants, 75 engineers, and 20
nav corps officers, and there is certainly an
argument for some additions In the grow
ing number of commissioned ships.
The sun., 1897-11-29

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS--Sfr: The article OF Dr.
Luigi Galvanl Doane published in THE SuS OF Nov. 26
on the subject OF "Girl yivlsectionsts," IS worthy
the attention OF all humanity. ana deserves especial
consideration as coming from a physician. and It
would be well II every would express his disgust
with 'inhuman females" AS forcibly as Dr. Doano
has done.
II nils me with Indignation 10 know that there aTo
those of my own who indulge IN the cruel prac
ice OF infctng untold agony ani torture on helpless
living animals. IL Is ~ mystery 10 mo now any wo
man with a human hea can witness sunerng un
moved and the moro helpless any small creature tho
more It should appeal TO our humanity for Kindness
and projection
/ quite agree with DR.. Doane that masculine females
who devote their time to vysecting living amin as are
unht bee wives mothers, or teacherS Ihey are
dangeIo ouy and miserable specimens of the sex which
should make Its piss on to nj up wounds ana re-
lieye all suffering whenever possible "ht.her II be
man. bird, beast, HUMANITY
PERTH AMBoY. Nov. 27.
The sun., 1897-11-29

The junior professor of rhetoric in the
University Of Michigan has founded Museum
of Student Composition, and he is anxious to
obtain for it specimen compositions written by
children in the United States and abroad. The
necessary nucleus of such an institution is a
complete file of the Nursery of this town, with
photographs and locks of hair of tho young
composers. Here is opportunity for some
such friend Of man as the Citizens Union to do
good to Ann Arbor and to put upon enduring
record the achievements OF tho gifted toddlers
whose leading-string articles have long excited
the sympathy of the pedagogic world.
The sun., 1897-11-29
The Troubles in Albania.

The troubles of the Turk in Europe gen.
orally begin by risings in the provinces
bordering the Adriatc. The news that the
Arnaut clans of Ipek and Djakova in north.
ern Albania are in revolt against the
authority of the Sultan, is not without i'm
portance. This is not the first time that they
have disputed his sovereignty, which is not
even now established over them. In 1878
they murdered his Commissioner sent to
persuade them to hand over part of their ter.
ritory to Montenegro under the award of
the Berlin Treaty, and they were among
the most active members of the famous
Albanian National League that was formed
Immediately after the Russo. Turkish war
to resist the partition of Albania. This
came to an untimely end in 1881 when
the leaders were invited to a friendly
conference at Pristina by that past master
in craftiness, old DERvIsH Pasha, and in
the midst of their conference found them
selves suddenly surrounded by Turkish
soldiers, manacled and carried Off to the
railway station near by. whence they
were conveyed by special train to Salon.
lea, put on board transport that was in
waiting, and taken away to various parts OF
Asia Minor and Arabia.
A new generation has arisen since then
and the Sultan finds them as defiant MS
their fathers and more distrustful. If the
report is true that their rising Is against a
newly appointed Governor, it is probably
because they regard him as another DER
WISH Pasha, and the number reported as
in the field shows them to be supported by
other clans. If the rising is really as seri
GUS as described, there is rough work before
| the Turkish troops and unless 1t is prompt
| ly suppressed it may lead to further move
ments in other parts of Albania and Mace
| donia. 1t is the prospect of this that ha!
caused the Servian and Bulgarian Govern
ments to hurry troops to those points OF
their respective frontiers nearest the seen,
of disturbance.
The air of southeastern Europe is highl,
charged just now with electricity, ant
| though it is possible that the reports o
The sun., 1897-11-29

OF Michigan's Governor from PoTATo PNuRER to
ASPHALT PISGREE.-Rochester Herald.
When SHAKEsPEARE's Christian name is
changed TO BACON by joint act Of Parliament
and IGNATIUs DoNSELLY; when New York
transmutes herself into Hohokus, n. j.; when
Rochester begs to be known as Buffalo; when
gold becomes the accepted synonym of currant
jelly; when naturalsts agrco to call the tiger
titmouse; then and not until then can the au-
gust, indivisible. inseparable. and immemorial
name of POTATO PINGREE be changed by one iot
or little. POTATO PINGREE he always has been.
Potato PINoREE he must continue to be while
there is money devil to scare or an octopus to
bait.
The sun., 1897-11-29

Having acquired the science of football
by putting on gold-and.black sweater and
giving one fell kick in the presence of the awed
thousands Mt Columbia, Mo-, the Hon. WILLIAM
JENNINGS BRYAN will now take up the subject
of the finances of Mexico. Proceeding to the
city of Mexico in company with the Hon. Tom
CKITTENDEN. from whose cigar boxes an ex-
pressive IL limited Spanish vocabulary may be
learned on the way, Mr.. BRYAN will fash
the light OF one of the most brilliant OF
minds and diamonds upon the silver question in
Mexico. Returning to his native land. he will
exhibit his new stores OF learning for the usual
fee of half the gate money. Whether he is upon
the road or at home, this leading juvenile can
always be depended upon for rapid work, and
few OF his rivals in the profession can learn
their lines more quickly than he learns his.