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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-12-08
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23
The Outlook for Peace.

The man who thinks that an arbitra-
tion treaty with the United States will
cause Great Britain to discontinue the
fertilization of her Canadian frontier
and inspire her to have no further
hankerings after good coaling stations
in the North Atlantic takes a great deal
for granted.
So does the man who thinks that
when the pending negotiation Is finally
ratified, it will no longer be necessary
for this government to invest in armor
plate, to plan additional warships or to
buy cannon, shot and shell for use in
emergency along our exposed coasts.
There has been some figuring on the
great economies of arbitration, but it
has been chiefly speculative. 1t is true
that several of the foremost powers of
Europe are spending at present about
ten dollars on standing armies to every
dollar spent on education. Such a con-
dition, of course, is indefensible in the
ory, yet it seems to be indispensable in
practice, and we must confess that we
cannot exactly see how arbitration is
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23
BILLY.

Have you heard the news from Spring
field? Greatest triumph ever seen-
They have nominated Mason and have
smashed the old machine"
They have plainly told the nation that
this country doesn't need
A senate stuffed with millionaires and
statesmen gone to seed
our "Blly" isn't very big. except in
heart and brain,
But 10 valet needs to tell him when to
come in if it rain,
And in sizing up a statesman who would
measure from the floor?
Long legs attract attention, but a "long
head" counts for more.
our "Billy" isn't very rich so far as dol
lars go.
But he owns 2 mine of useful things a
statesman ought to know.
He has a host OF loyal friends, and calls
them all by name.
And though he's now a senator he is
Billy just the same.
They say he isn't "dignifed." That
doesn't make him shrink
A graveyard may be dignifed, but a
tombstone doesn't think.
Those fossils in Washington may be Il
trhe chilly,
But If he doesn't warm them up Wen
lose our faith in Billy"
Chicago Times Herald.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23
The Nicaragua Canal Job Again,

Speaker Reed puts his arbitrary pow
er to most excellent use when he de-
cides that the present Nicaragua canal
bill shall not run the gauntlet of the
present house. AS the bill stands 1t is
nothing less than an attempted gigantic
steal. 1t provides that the government
shall subscribe for $70,000000 of the
stock and guarantee the bonds of the
existing company to the amount of
500 900. The company figures that
the canal can be built for $125, 600 900 at
the most; but the governments own en-
gineers after careful examination, say
it will cost $175, 100000 additional, at the
least. In its practical aspect, there
fore, the bill now before congress
means that the United States in return
for the privilege of naming five of the
company's eleven directors, shall by it's
Endorsement make marketable a pri-
vate corporations now almost worth
less stock and involve itself so far
that if the canal is ever built, it will
have to build it. 1t would be cheaper
for Uncle Sam to buy these spectators
off with q lump sum and then go to
work on the canal on his own terms.
We agree with Senator Turpie, of
Indiana, that the abstract question Of
the desirability of a transisthmian ship
canal between the Americas, and under
the control of the United States, is
entirely different from the proposition
which now confronts congress to use
the credit of this nation to pull lot of
stranded spectators out of hole. We
believe in the wisdom of canal under
American control and at a suitable
time would favor the direct appropria-
tion of money to this end. There is
however, no immediate hurry. Under
the Monroe doctrine no foreign power
can step in ahead of us. And in the
meantime it would be far wiser for
congress to save the public funds for
application on the new national debt
which is inherited from Democratic
administration and to other pressing
domestic purposes than to think of tap
ping its depleted bill for the benefit of
a down -at-theheel, speculative corpor-
alton. At least that is how the matter
seems to US.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23
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Weather and Other Predictions fol
the Coming Week.

Sunday Jan. 24-Thrd Sunday after
Epiphany. Weather mild. a child born on
this day will be clever yet rash and i'm
petuous and not very fortunate.
Monday, Jam 25.-Mercury seNtile to
Saturn. Weather stormy. A child born
on this day will be clever but not success
full in a business way. Avoid superiors
and keep quiet.
Tuesday, Jan. 2G-Mercury sesquiquad-
rate to Mars. Weather stormy. child
born on this day will be successful if born
early in the morning. and will be of an
inventive nature. Sell.
Wednesday, Jan. T.-Moon in conjunc-
ton with Saturn. Weather stormy. A
child born on this day win have a check
cred career. Sell.
Thursday, Jan. 2S.-Sun $50 degrees from
Jupiter. A child born on this day Will
succeed best in the employ of others.
Avoid superior and don't quarrel.
Friday. Jan. 29.-Mercury seXtile to
Venus. Weather unsettled. child born
on this day will be careless and eXtrav-
agant. Avoid women and travel in the
morning.
Saturday Jan. 3O.-Sun quintile to Sat
urn. Weather unsettled. child born
on this day will be rather fortunate and
rise in life; . female will marry not
tempered man and will not live happily
with him. An uncertain day.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23
AND GROVER DOES NOTHING.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

For pure brutality and reckless waste
of human life it would be difficult to match
Weyler's order that all men not Spanish
soldiers who are caught one mile away
from a fortified city shall be killed. 1t is
hard to believe that in this age of the
world Il nation calling itself civilized can
countenance the taking of human life
without justification or even the form of
a trial, but there seems to be no reason
to doubt the report, and it is quite in
keeping with the general tone of reports
OF Spanish cruelty in Cuba. Weyler was
called the Butcher" before he rose to his
present rank and he seems determined TO
sustain his reputation. The consequence
of his order can be we'll imagined. With
the men dead, the crops destroyed the
cattle slaughtered nothing but starva-
tion is left for the women and children.
The plague of smallpox is ravaging the
island, too, and thus the dreadful state Of
affairs in India, at which the world turns
sick, Is repeated in Cuba on a smaller
scale, but with little If any less intensity.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23
That Telephone Franchise.

Select council acted wisely Thursday
night when 1t resolved TO take time to
consider the ordinance granting GER
tain important and valuable privileges
othe Lackawanna Telephone company.
For aught we know to the contrary,
this new concern is what it purports
to be-namely, a bona tide company
willing to do in good faith all that 1t
agrees to do In return for the privileges
it seeks But if this be true, it ought
to court ample investigation and be
glad to have its ordinance held open
for public consideration and discussion.
In many places where competitive
telephone franchises have been granted
on similar representations, the result
has been disastrous to the public. We
could cite a number of cities where the
experiment of cheap telephone service,
after being conducted for time at a
loss, had finally to be abandoned. There,
the public in the long run paid for the
failure, either through decentralization
of its service or through subsequently
increased rates. In other places where
~ -
speculation, the public also has been
mulcted, after the fashion of its eXper-
fence in this city in the case of the
Valley Passenger street railway or
dinance. We think we voice the opin-
ion of nine Scrantonians out of every
ten when we say that councils should
not again lend themselves to private
speculation in public privileges, We
trust that that kind of swndling is
played out in this neighborhoOd
If. however, careful inquiry shall dis
close that the Lackawanna Telephone
company is a genuine and an honest
business enterprise, holding out the
promise of cheapened rates in good
faith and prepared to give the city suf-
fcient guarantee that it is not the vic
tim of an iridescent dream, then it
ought to be possible so to frame the or
dinance that the public's interests will
in any event receive ample protection
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

oratorical, and the terpsichorean microbe
may exist and flourish unseen about us.
1t may be that men will be forced to be-
come politicians, and seek for appoint
ments against their will, all through the
invisible germ contracted by association
with the ambitious or from minute parti-
cles that float on the breeze. The miser-
ly man may become generous; the SIAN
derer may speak we'll of his neghbor, and
the landlord be brought to a realization
that his tenants house needs new paper
on the walls without asking. Who knows?
If we can only keep off the present ter
rors what possibilities are before u.s.
What triumphs for surviving men of
science! But let us pause for breath.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

There is a fine tone to the language
of General Calixto Garcia when he
says: II am more convinced than ever
that we Cubans do not need help from
any other country to achieve our inde-
pendence. We can fight the Spaniards
alone and drive them out of the island
Notwithstanding their superiority in
numbers and resources. Interference
on the part of the American nation is,
therefore, unnecessary. We can have
the glory of being an American coun-
try that can win it's freedom without
any aid from abroad. What we have a
right to demand from America is fair
neutrality. If America would permit
our friends to send us supplies without
molestation, just as the captain general
could do for his army, within few
months not an inch of Cuban soil would
be under the flag of the king of CASTLE" p"
The generals point is a fair one and
the rebuke which he administers to us
by inference is every syllable deserved.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

to affect the situation for several gen.
eratons to come.
We favor the Olney treaty and do
not underestimate its moral sig
nificance, yet there need not
be any raising of false hopes
in the premises, It's chief prac-
tical merit is that 1t affords dig
nified way to the settlement of minor
disputes concerning the ownership of
property. In time this may so lessen
international asperities growing out of
such disputes as to induce the arbitra-
ton of more weighty issues and there
by reduce by considerable percentage
the chances of war. When this is said,
though. all is said.
In the meantime, congress will do
well to go right on with navy building
and with the fortification of our coasts
AS an insurance against loss, good
battleship and first-rate mortar gun
are worth several gross of peace treat
les as human nature now stands.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23
Exceptionally FINE.o
From the Philadelphla Ledger.

The Scranton Tribune, which deservedly
holds an influential position among the
newspapers of interior Pennsylvania, has
issued an exceptionally fine almanac fol
the current year. AS the Tribune takes
an active part in political affairs, it is
quite appropos that its almanac should be
devoted largely to such matters. To the
politician and, indeed, all who take al
interest in public concerns, this "poltica
handbook as the publishers call it, vii
be especially valuable. But there are
other things besides politics treated, ant
this will make it welcome in the house
holds of all The Tribune's readers.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

of the germ revela-
tions; that It may
yet be demonstrated
that there is a mi
crobe escaping from
the think tanks of
many of our restless
citizens that bids
fair to increase the
army of cranks to
an alarming degree
in the near future.
1t is possible also
that the musical the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

An excellent illustration of the right
man in the right place is shown these
days in the pages of Leslie's Weekly
since it passed under the editorial con-
troll of John Gilmer Speed. Mr.. Speed
has infused a degree of vivacity and up
todateness in its text and pictures which
is rapidly carrying it to the front of
American illustrated journalism. 1t is
now a journal well worth reading.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

So far as the main point is concerned
it makes very little difference what has
occurred in the past with reference to
the management of the state treasury.
The past in any event is beyond recall.
What is needed now is a law providing
for the future; one which will make it
compulsory for the state treasurer to
keep the funds of the state in safe de-
positaries and turn over to the state
reasonable interest thereon. There can
be no factional advantage in such
bill and politics should not hinder it's
way through the legislature.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

If the authority of this nation is to
be asserted at all in the war between
Spain and Cuba, how much better it
would be to make one clean job of it
by anneXing the stricken island to the
United States and thus affording its
impoverished Inhabitants the one pos
sible assurance of better times to come.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

that there are
numerous d | s.
e a $ { d persons
who unwittingly
or otherwise dis
seminate germs
W / I h e V e + y
breath; persons
who look harm
less enough but
who are more to
be feared than IA
l0-pound can OF
dynamite in the
hands of a small
boy. These peO-
pie n o I o n ! y
breathe, but they
S p / I on the
$ re e I 5 ana in
street cars. Au-
thorities W h o
have had no APP
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

habit; men who, per-
I'm this line by eject
ing tobacco juice in
sundry places. are
becoming alarmed at
the d a II & G + $ that
lurk in the saliva of
one afflicted with
catarrh. Spme un-
easy individual not
long ago made the
statement that hum
dreds about us were
afflicted with con-
sumption and did
not know it. These
people spit on the
st ee t $ and the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23
TWO GOOD OBJECTIONS.

From the Troy ~ Y, Record.
All talk about the purchase of Cuba by
the United States is idle. If Spain sold
the island it could not deliver the goods,
since it is in control of little more than
the cities and a little strip along the
coast. Besides, it yet is to be shown that
1t would be to our advantage to take it at
any price.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

From the Sun we learn that the gov
ernment printing office at Washington
last year used 5,457 tons of paper, which
went into 1,255,4J4 bound volumes, 6,4Gl, =
O6S pamphlets and speeches and II ,176,
los copies of bills and resolutions. What
pity that so much of this good white
paper was daubed with ink to no con-
Ceivable purpose
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23
DON'T YOU BELIEVE 1T.
N the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
1t is estimated that the Anglo-American
arbitration treaty would save Great Brit
ain at least 81, 100000 annually which would
otherwise have to be expended in forti-
fcatons and in fleets for American wa
ters; and, of course, there would be cor
responding saving to our treasury.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

The time will come when J. Donald
Cameron will be better appreciated by
the dispassionate judgment of his coun-
trymen than he is today. And the most
creditable of all his public actions will
be his determined but unsuccessful eff
fort to aid the cause of the republic
of Cuba
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

In the opinion of the Olyphant
Record, mo one could be nominated
for governor who would command
more universal support than Will
liam Connell. The knowledge of such
a fact would be worth more than any
office.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

The most severe blow that the microbe
alarmist has ever received was the state
ment made recently that germ aided
mans digestion. Some of the sorrow
full have never entirely recovered from the
shock. The majority, nevertheless. have
rallied and are ready to aver that the
germ of digestion is of small consequence
when compared to the awful specimens
that are daily consuming US. am begin
ming to believe that we are but on the eve
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

1t Is to be hoped that the new SEN
ator from Illinois will make no effort
to adapt himself to senatorial tradi-
tions. billy" Mason as the frolic-
some, good-natured warm hearted
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23
AS GOOD AS EVER.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York sun.
Actually there has been no decadence
in the United States senate. The charac-
ter of the senate was never better than it
is now, it's stability never greater, and 1t
was never more deserving of consideration
as a deliberative and conservative body.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

Judging from some recent court de-
liverances, we infer that in the eye
of the law a mans fitness for jury
service increases in exact proportion
lenCe.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

Will it be possible, we wonder, for
railroad influences at Washington to
defeat the proposition to authorize def
mite surveys and estimates for a sys-
TEN of ship communication through the
great lakes and to the Atlantic? This
is a subject in which all Americans
should be interested. 1t is big with
future significance.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

Mr.. Bryan says he expects to stand or
fall in public estimation according to
his ideas. not according to his oratory.
In that case he had better get ready
to do some more falling.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

By all accounts Governor Tanner of
Illinois has, in the triumph of billy"
Mason, received his first public lesson
concerning the difference between a
governor and a boss. Let Governor
Bushnell of Ohio profit by his example.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

Titled foreigners who want American
heiresses like the Princess Chimay can
have 'em, and good riddance.