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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-12-07

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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-22

TX It's foundations on n surer basis" II
adds n hint that may interest other Euro
penn nations. namely, that " In Australasia
the tendency TO absorb the Eastern Archi-
pclago and to link on with India and
the Malay peninsula mi grow" Eng.
lands occupation Of Egypt is becoming
more and mora fixed, and at this very
time, on the Upper Nile, the Anglo-Egyp-
tian forces arc regathering around their
standards for an expedition to Khartoun.
In the Pacific, England and Germany
have OF lato years parcelled out between
them nearly all the islands not previ.
ously gobblcd, and perhaps it is doubt.
less to n surpius ~greediress of modern
British imperialism that VIC owe tho de-
nunciation in some quarters OF our proposed
occupation of Hawaii. Hawaii herself
urges it, and it constitutes our solitary
foothold in that Pacific where England has
scores; yet we find some British critics de.
scribing it as n grabbing of what does not
belong to us, and of what We ought never
TO be suffered to keep without first getting
England's permission.
Provided England respects the Monroe
doctrine, and confines her aggrcssions to
other parts Of the earth than ours, she
may go her way. Only, it is impor.
tant that we should not mistake her
ideas and her purposes, as avowcd with
the extra burst of frankness which the
citation Of the jubilee brings. We encour-
ter them now in Venezuela, now in Mica.
ragua, now in Hawaii, and now in Bchripg
Sea. And they come very strikingly before
us when England is amazed that we should
step beyond the shores that mark this con-
tinent, whereas she Is to seek fresh ave-
MUGS of imperial growth and expansion "
all over the earth.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-22
Tho Whole O

At the County Convention of the Demo.
Gratis of Cuyahoga county last Saturday an
attempt was made by some of the trimmers
to limit the declaration of continuing belief
in the Chicago platform to the financial
plank. The attempt failed utterly. The
whole platform was Endorsed. Any other
course was impossible. The whole of the
platform is still the law and gospel Of the
DemocratI, party, and must remain so
until 1900; nor is there any visible
CLEAN Of probability that it will then be
changed except in the direction of still
moro radical demands.
Some of the Democrats who swallowed
free silver with only a mild complaint, still
have contortions over some other parts Of
the Chicago platform. They do not believe
In government by riot, or at least they do
not believe that proposals for such n gov
m or no-government are attractive to
voters or likely to aid tho silver propa-
ganda. They have some lingering regard
for the independence of the Supreme Court,
or else they think it is inadvisable for
their party to avow its intention of packing
that court in order to have the income tax
declared constitutional. And some Of
them the income tax pinches and frightens,
or else they are afraid that 1t will be i'm
possible to reconcile States like New York,
New Jersey. and Connecticut to that tax.
These men, whatever their objections to
certain parts of the platform, aside from
principle or calculation. are only a small,
indeed an Insignificant, minority of their
party. They are a handful of conservatives
in an organization which is ficrcely radical.
and they will have to & to the wall. There
can be no modification of the Chicago plat
form for local convenience. The whole
platform stands and must be Endorsed
or rejected, all together and at once.
Free riot, the income tax, the packing of
the Supreme Court. count just as much as
free silver counts. Whoever leaves or takes
the Chicago platform must leave or take
the whole OF It. 1t cannot be divided. The
Democrats Of every county will have to do
what the Democrats of Cuyahoga county
have done; and any Democratic leaders
here or anywhere else who try to monkey
with the official principles of their party
will be likely to get into trouble.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-22
SUNDAY CYCLING.
Hr Preachers Don't Like u, n Cyclist Asks
Them. why DO They Encourage HS

-
Them. why DO They Encourage 1ti
PHILADELPHIA. June 21.-Thc Rev. DIR. Wills
read at tho weekly conference of Presbyterian
ministers to-day a communication from Daniel
McAvoy, President OF the Northeast Wheelmen.
in reply to n letter from the ministers depre-
eating the practice Of Sunday bicycling. Mr..
McAvoy, signing himself Your Brother in tho
Methodist Church" says he never rides a wheel
on Sunday and the constitution of his club for
bids club runs on that day.
But what will our efforts avail u.s. says
President McAvoy. IF some of our ministers
advertise wheels checked on Sunday, and. in
fact. advocate to a certain extent Sunday riding
when they. above all others. should try to frown
1t down Now. II they ride at all on Sunday. it
will not be long before church service DO
neglected entirely. Why 1t Is excused by some
pastors and advocated by others ! cannot under:
church. as well as those ont Of church. ride
should try and demonstrate with his members
and point out to them the growing evil, they
might check 1t TO some extent As YOU
know. there is no excuse in u large city
like this for any one riding to church on sunday.
as there are within reach OF every one by walk
ing churches OF every denomination. You can
not expect TO meet with much success unless all
the ministers agree on this important question"
The letter WAS referred to the Committee on
Sunday Bicycling, of which DR.. Wills is Chair
man, for action.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-22

Tho plant of the fairy Queen emerttG OF
the Hawaiian Islands comes from Washing
ton with u sound Of many robust tears.
The monarch on the retired list bewails
the fact that there Is no provision for her
in the Hawaiian annexation treaty, and she
looks back with regret to the $4,000 pin
money which Gen. HARRIsoN's treaty pro-
posed to allow her.
These wailings and these tears cannot be
meant for the American people. 1t is not
the fault Of the American people that the
lady from tho South Seas Is not enjoying n
pension from the United States. GROVER
CLEVELAND of Princeton, n. j., is the man
who Is responsible for her deprivation. To
him her reproaches must be addressed. Has
she not a good case In equity against that
false fricnd2 Is 1t not his duty In equity to
pay out Of his own comfortably and eStraor-
dinarily filed pockets the pension which
he prevented her from gettingl As n Doctor
of Laws, he should see that justice is doIeto
a lady who looked to him for protection,
| who has lost through him q fat income and
who is built, so to speak, atterhis own lines.
The case Of DoMrN1s against CLEVELAND
ought to be referred to arbitration at once.
DIR. PATTON of Princeton can represent
tho retired Boss. Mr.. JULIUS A. PALMER
| Of Washington and Hawaii can represent
tho retired Queen. The third arbitrator,
chosen by them, might be the Hon.
LARRY" GopKIN or the Hon. EVERETT p.
WHEELER. But perhaps DR.. CLEVELAND,
with his habitual generosity, will nntici.
pate the necessity for arbitration, and send
the lady IA check for her back pay and a
bond to pay her a pension in the future. 1t
is scandalous to SEQ two consecratcd OK.
rulers quarrclling about money matters.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-22

Tnmmany Hall and tho Hon. GROVER
CLEVELAND are again in harmony. Each of them
thinks that the issue OF tho New York campaign
should DO home rule" or q local Issue Of the pur-
est type. Curiously enough, Herr OSWALD CLEvE.
LAND o~rTESpoRFER, OF tho Zcitun0,
thinks that the homc-rulc idea is a meaningless
tnichtsagcnde) phrase" and that "dns Issue 4"
is not homo rulo, but the smashing Of tho two
great machines, Republican and ~Tnmmany.
We have horo q concentration of sublimated
humbug truly extraordinary. Although Herr
O~TTENDoRFER says TINT anti.machincry is tho
issue, We know that tho purpose OF his hearts
bottom is to repeal, or rather to nullify by disap.
proving non-administrntion, the Raincs law.
Mr.. SHEElIAN Of Tamnany 10 for homo rule. OF
course. with no other idea worth mentioning
than tho restoration OF the Democratic party.
BRYAN or no BRYAN. Mr.. CLEVELAND says he
Is for homo rule. but that being peculiarly
inane under the circumstances. we nre unable
to imagine what his suppressed longing Is. other
than to be in with the boys again.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-22
Dead Rabbit AGulliEan.

To THE EpiToR OF THE srS-Sir: with more riRor
than Congressman Holman I protest. This opens tho
closing paragraph of "Billy Mulligan's Last Day i" in
THE sun OF June IS:
BILLY Mullisan was a New Yorker by birth. and
was a typical representative OF the old.time CaIifor.
mia tough" gSmSler,a class which got its tone and
and dead Rabbit" days.
The Volunteer Fire Department in its representa-.
tive day" was largely composed OF business men. II
had it, good and its bad. Just rs every class in every
community has to-day. Tho illuminate who ever aud
anon write of the old department know It no more
than they have ever known that short lived band. the
Dead Rabbits. They couldn't guess n fireman from a
"shystor." i read recently that tho Dead RaGnbits
or Taininahy Hall demolished Ambrose c. kingsland's
Wood ran for Mayor In 1880. 1t is quite probable that
the booths OF both Wings and Democratic were upset.
upset is own. ,Tiers was sympathy init when votes
s Sstf ' %ara In t sSt 'h rhSy w DID n no l pSnS H Hs nn,Ii in !, the The
clcSo o. 1895, and they went down before 1897 was
many Hall, as led by Fernando Wood and issac y.
Fowler: The two gangs were known as the Dead
10 do with the sccaiisd Dead Rabbit and Bo~sry boy BOY
riots in July, 1897. Real nremsn had less 70 do.
simply a Hash gambler, Who worked the %irottias
TRACKS on Long Island In order to form acquaintance.
y y"S nti Irishman and as "a Ssw = 9or him l Sot hirs e. Il" Il
y, tn certain y Amt th a. he S Vas born n nowhG r. IN the tstrS,douht
coast, abou; 1884. this city knew him as an English,
London growth.
Tho article does not venture TO give even the an.
proxiniAte year In which the militia. US it states, wa,
called ont and shot him to death in Carson City.
Nor does a recital protesting TO he from personai
knowledge OF the man any where attempt to descnbe
one who was odd in his physical equipment and
odder In his dress. II declares that Ibis neck was in
danger In the days OF the san Francisco Vigilance
Committee Having no time TO be positive, Ifimply
doubt that he was "a San Francisco in the days OF that
committee. which disbanded about lS5B.b7. Mulligan
did kill two men. hut he was Tim fanny - drunk,
Not two years before he neglected TO enter an onni.
bus nv BrOA1Why anil Spring street RimDly bacauao an
editor inside told him he did mot desire his company.
Then he was sober. We G~OthAmltes may be wrong,
but we have always thought that II was ueaT tbs
window OF an upper balcony OF a house In San Fran.
cisco that Mulligan stood when he was shot and killed
July b. 1893. "OLp WHIrE GHosR"
INV YORK. June IA.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-22
British Expansion.

A most significant feature of EnRland's
Jubilee Is that the note of imperialism is
everywhere struck. The growth In Eng
lands power between 1897 and 1897 is con-
~tinually pointed out, and the coronation of
the young Queen Is contrasted with the far
reaching sway of the Empress of to-day.
IL appears, too, that the historians of the
Jubilee do not need to go back threescore
years for tho starting points of current man
ifestations of British imperialism. Accord
Ing to the admiralty and Horse Guards
Gazette, u spirit quite different from the
present prevailed less than twcnty years ago:
ut was the epoch OF tho Little Englandor, OF tho
perish India. away with the colonies school. In the
last ten years a healthy change has come over public
opinion. and the mass OF our CountFymcna are now rs
alive To tho importance and advantage of our vast
slnpira as a low specialists wero q generation ago.
such spcctAsles as will be untolded to their Wow on
June 20 must nS the lesson on their mind. and sug.
sest fresh avenues Of imperial growth and expansion.
% the result OF the continuous International compcti.
ron going on throughout tho world"
Doubtless to this spirit and to the search
for fresh avenues of imperial growth we are
10 Necfibe highlands assault upon Venezue-
u and her endeavor TO strip that little re.
public ot q great part OF Its domains. The
Trangyaal has had a recent experience of
the same sort, AZ have other countries / in
the same region indeed, the military jour
nal Just quoted frankly says that sin
South Africa no one can think of assigning
" limit to Anglo-Saxon expansion, and
opposition VIII but carry it further. and
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-22

FFVWF ~ q
In application OF Prof. Max Mllleris remark. in
his recently published "Reminiscences. that Emerson
and Ruskin did not get on too well together. tho fol.
lowing opinions expressed by the two illustrious men
to friends after their meeting have been ranged side
by SIDE:
Ruskin wrote; "Emorson came 70 my rooms q day
or two ago. I found Ills mind a total blank on mat
tiers of art, and had q fearful sense OF tho whole being
OF him M q gentle clcnd-intanglble.'
Emerson said: 81 had seen Ruskin at Oxford. and
had been charmed by hts manner IN the lecture room.
but in talking with him at his room I found myself
wholly out OF sympathy vita Ruskin's views OF life
and the world. ] wonder such . genius eau be pos.
sessed OF 80 Hack q devil. Icanuot pardon him for a
despondcn' y so deep. 1t 10 detestablo In q man OF
ouch powers, in a poet, a seer such as he has been.
Children arc right with their everlasting hope. TImon
Is always inevitably wrong"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-22
Laudation of Seth Low.

There is a ~well-known proverb about men
being damned by faint praise. Such is
not likely to be the fate of SETH Low. II
he falls by the political wayside this au.
tumn, his discontinue will be largely
attributable to the folly of the hero-wor.
shippers who are continually holding him
up for the admiration OF their fellow.beings
as the Model Man.
An example of the tendency in this
direction is furnished by a sermon which
was preached in the Second Collegiate
Reformed Church in Harlem on Sunday
by the Rev. DIR. WILLIAM JUSTIN MARSHA
upon the text Because he had no DEPTH"
In this discourse the clergyman dwelt upon
the shallowncss of American life, declaring
that shallowness of thought, shallowness
of love, s~hallowncss of trust In one another,
and shallowness of trust in GoD were very
sad features Of these degenerate times. He
then went on to say:
Tho few great men who arise into prominence
and usefulness nro they who have cultivated depth
OF thought, love. and trust. SETH Low would never
have taken tho place enow occupies In our municipal
and educational. life II he had not cultivated depth OF
character from his young manhood steadily on to the
present time. II ho should become Mayor of the
Greater New York. it would be because men OF var-
GUS parties recognize this fact"
1t seems, then, that SETH Low Is the
President of Columbia College and favora.
bly, considered for the office of Mayor, be.
cause he has cultivated depth of character
from his young manhood steadily up to the
present time" We confess our inability
to understand exactly what this means, or
exactly how n person cultivates depth of
character. SETH Low was born wealthy, M
has always lived amid wealthy surround
ings and has made u most admirable and
generous ue of the wealth which he in
herited from his father. That father Guilt
waited the young mans mind by sending
him to school and college, and his morals
by sending him to Sunday school and
church but A, A.. Low was too sensible n
person to talk or think about cultivating
his sons "dcptA }: character" There was
no nonsense about him.
We have no doubt that the Rev. DR..
MARSHA was actuated by the best motives,
and desired only to promote the cause of
good government by what he said of Mr..
Low on Sunday.
Such ~cNtravagant talk, however, does
more harm than good to the object of
admiration. The people ut large do not
believe In the existence of demi.gods, and
even If there are any, they do not want one
for Mayor of the Greater New York.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-22
aI0s soR roRpEDo noArs.
Ten FIRMS Eater the Competition, but d
IIcrroshons DID Net nrid.

WASHINGTON, June Cit was demonstrated
to-day ut the opening OF bids for building thr..
3O-knot torpedo boats for tho navy that a larrs
number OF slip building firms arc prepared IN
construct small naval vessels within short peri.
dds OF time and ut reasonable cost. Ten Arm,
entered tho curnpotition. among them several
that had not appeared In previous cndcavora 10
secure contracts for warships. Tho licrrcshoys
who have bdilt some of tho fastest NtorpcJo
boats and have becn particularly fortunate in
satisfying all requirements. did not bid, while sev.
oral OF the lurgcr firms that heretofore confined
their efforts TO securing contracts tor tho bs
ships submitted proposals. Tho conditions 10
which tho successful bidders will I've oblIgeo ia
subscribe call for an excess OF "ia knots over III,
highest speed heretofore required. One Of "a,
vessels must no not less than 26o tons, and ;hs
others not less than $50 tons. Eighteen month";
are allowed TO complete tho boats. Congress
appropriated 100000 to build all three.
Tho bids were opened in tho Office OF tho SEQ
rotary OF tho Navy. In addition 10 the ten !cgit
innate bids made, ono freak proposal was
offered. This bidder guaranteed Il specd Of
forty knots an hour at a cost OF 1925, 900. lie
did not inclosc tho required certified check. and
tho bid was thrown out. Tho bids were too com.
pick TO classify properly, and tho lowest bid can.
not DO determined accurately until tho Navy
Department has done n lot OF figuring. The
proposal OF the Columbia Iron Works OF Bali.
more appears 10 DO tho most reasonable in
price. In detail the bids and bidders are:
Columbia Iron Works, Baltimore. ono boat
$50 tons. for 100000. or two for S4l5 900; one
boat, $50 tons, on different plans, for Sl95. 900,
or two for 1886, 900: ono boat, go tons, for
$225, 900. or two Tor $444,000.
George Lawler. Boston. ono boat, 4l0 tons. fop
$3.50, 600.
Union Iron Works, San Francisco, ono boat.
$50 tons, for $245.250 or two for 1870. 800; one
boat. 225 tons. for 1925 900, or two ior $40, 900.
Harlan & Ho~llingsworth, Wilmington, Del,
one boat, $50 tons. for $244. 900. and one boat,
$40 tons. for 1885, 900. or both Tor $ti0. 0OO; ono
boat, 267 tons. for S212, 900, and one boat, 40
tons, for $235 900. or both for SAT- .OOO; Two
boats OF $40 tons for $iG7 900: two boats OF 218
tons for $425.OO0. and two boats OF 267 tons Tor
$42l. 600.
Gas Engine and Power Company. New York,
one boat, 235 tons, for 100000. or two fof
$40. o 0 y
John II. Disloguc, Camden, n. j.. one boat
243 tons for &2I3.0 900. or two for $3.50, 600.
Bond Equity Trust Company. one boat, 20
tons. for $3.50. 600.
Wolf & Sewicker. Portland, Orc. one boat
GAO tons, for S2l4.5OO. or two for $424, 900.
Company, Philadelphia, one boat, o7O tons, for
$3.50, o
William Cramp Ship and Engine Building
Company, Philadelphia one boat, $40 tons. for
$245,000.
Bath Iron works, Bath, Me-. ono boat, 800
tons, for S217 900, or two for $432,000.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-22

Reckless driving may be exciting sport.
but It is apt to be costly. as was shown in tho
Sorkvillo Police Court on Sunday. JAMES r.
fenced to four months in the penitentiary for
driving hoedlcssly down the Boulevard and
smashing things in his path. He wrecked a wo-
mans bicycle, and several wheelmen barely es-
capped injury. The Magistrate declared that
CLARK's offence was SO serious that he meant to
make an example OF him. Heretofore the police
courts have been very lenien: with reckless or
maliciously inclined drivers. The decision cited
above Is q loud warning.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-22
LEAKING FOE rWEsrF YEARS.
Jersey Cits's CostIy water stored In q Leahy
Reservotr..

jersey Cits's Costly water stored In . Leahy
Reservotr..
A discovery has been made that the high scr.
vice reservoir on Jersey City Heights leaks, and
that it has been leaking for probably twenty
years. The leak has been gradually growing
larger. and IL is estimated that the loss OF water
is probably half o milton gallons daily. Some
time ago a sewer was built in Summit avenue
TO carry off tho water which overfiowod the land
near the reservoir, but which was not suspected
at that time to come from the reservoir. After
the sewer was completed the land, which had
President hollywood OF tho Board of Street
and Water Commissioners. Superintendent
Hooker. and Water Purveyor Coar made an in.
vestigation Yesterday and found that q portion
Of the reservoir wall rests on q big rock and
that the water had worn an outlet on either side
of the rock. In order to make repairs it will 70
necessary to draw of the water, blast the rock,
and rebuild the wall. This will take about three
weeks, and during that time tho people who are
supplied with water from that reservoir will b
on short allowance.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-22

The corner stone Of a Socialist college,
the College of New Economy. at Ruskin. Tenn,
was laid with due solcmnity Sunday. The Hon.
HENRY d. LLOYD. author Of THE Cooperative
Commonwealth and ooopcrator with DEBs
in the Social Democracy. delivered the Grafton
of the day. Tho New Economy is q mighty
queer thing. and some Of tho professors of It are
queerer still. The Ruskin College will DO n
remarkable institution. 1t is not true, how
over. that Ruskin Is 1.-The first Socialist college"
The Democratic party as at present constituted
is n vast socialistic college, and tho Chicago
platform Is it's text book Of socialism; and be-
fore that book wns published the Hon. GROVER
CLEVELAND was an itinerant professor OF
socialism.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-22

Mr.. JAMES PYM, q poet with a historical
English surname. adorns tho Boston Herald
with q jubilee poem which is at once tender and
strong:
"The guns are nring round the woridl
What are they firing for7
A million masts fy Gags unfurledi
What are they dying for?
myriad throats ring out with cheers!
What arc they cheering for"
So asks Poet PyM. but he must know that tho
firing. unfurlinG. and cheering are largely for
the grand jubilee parade OF the Ancient and
Honorable Company in Boston. The almost ro-
mantle affection OF that band of braves for
Queen VICTORIA Is known to all men and has
brought tears to many eyes. The attempt OF the
Ancients to eat sixty meals and take sixty drinks
to-day will DO watched with brcathlcss interest
by n great nation. But one word moro from
Poet PyM:
Filing tho banners to tho breezes; into space let
booms be hurled -
to. but it Is altogether too carly In tho year to
bo hurting booms. There can DO no objection.
however. to hurlinG jubilee poems into space.
and the further tho better. Poet PyM must be
sure to enter into the jubilee poem COMPETE
tion which will take place at Canterbury next
month. and In which Mr.. ALFRED AUSTIN. Mr..
LEWIS MORRIS, Sir EDWIN ARNOLD, Mr.. Eric
MACKAy. and the New York Chamber OF Com
merce are to take part.