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The times., 1898-05-30
PapaI Diplomacy Again

Just as might have been expected,
the Madrid scheme for French alli-
ance against the United States, based
to France, came to an untlmely end at
the point where it became necessary to
sound Germany on the subject 1t did
not take any time at all to elicit the
short and frank statement that the
Kaiser's government. of course, would
allow nothing of the sort.
So the diplomatic center shifted back
to Rome and the Vatican From there
we are told that the Pope has never
ceased his efforts to induce Spain to sue
for peace. OF late his exhortations
have not been received with even po-
liteness at the Escurial palace, and the
venerable pontiff is said to feel much
correspondence Of certain influential
journals in Europe, two weeks ago Leo
XIII represented TO the courts at Ma
drid and Vienna that he had good rea-
son for believing, if Spain would ask for
a cessation of hostilities and express
her willingness to surrender Cuba,
the American Government would be
willing to restore the Philippine Islands
To- their former owner and forego any
designs it may have entertained upon
Porto Rico.
If this story is true, and it has every
appearance of probability, it would
crafty US to find out just where and
how the Vatican derived such volume
of misinformation. The anxiety in the
papal encourage to avert the annexa-
ton of the Eastern archipelago to the
United States Is wen known and easily
understood. One-third of the Philip
pine area under Spanish rule was held
by various monastic orders free of any
taxation, and it has produced enormous
wealth. Late labor conditions have
made it possible for the Franciscans and
other orders to keep the natives on their
rich estates in a condition of serfdom,
which would be impracticable under
The times., 1898-05-30
Patience and Dry Powder.

''Watchman, tell US of the night, what
its signs Of promise are" That is about
the remark that We would address to
the Secretary of the Navy, if We were
on such terms Of intimacy with him as
our old friend Dupuy de LONE used to
be with his department before war was
declared. As matters stand the Amer
3can people must be patient. The Times
has counseled patience ever since the
outbreak Of hostilities. The fact that
the hostilities have been of a peaceful
character, save in the exceptional case
OF Admiral Dewey at Manila, does not
figure in the argument.
Surely there is need of patience
where war boards" abound, making the
earth howl with the terrors of their
frightful and fiendish pacific blockaies,
and iong-distance telephone operations.
The particular War Board which gives
us such golden opportunity to exercise
patience is not a rough nor an un-
s.ghtly thing. 1t is planed on both sides,
tongued and grooved, beaded, beveled.
painted blue and lavishly gilded. Those
who belong TO it are busy because men
could not change their minds twice a
day, or keep the teapot sacred to their
official orgies always boiling, without
some degree of activity.
Do We recognize the strategic value
Of this War Board? OF course We do.
But for it there would be difficulty in
eencealing governmental knowledge of
current events from the press and the
public. The Board obyiates all that.
The Government cannot disclose what
it does not know. and there viii be
nothing for it TO know under the War
Board" system Of how not to do it,
Wherefore, patience! Something may
turn up in spite of the old ladies and
their teapot strategy.
The times., 1898-05-30

F-
of the several States will do their part
in bringing about the reform
The change of the day of Inaugural
ton Is purely weather change. 1t is
one of the few measures which have re-
ceived attention from Congress purely
on climatic grounds. We are sure of
comfortable If not ideal weather in
May, and we know enough about the
month of March -in Washington to be
certain that it. Is undesirable for any
sort of celebration. At the time when
March 4 was designated as the date on
which Presidents should be inaugurated
this country was much smaller than 1t
is now. and the fathers of the Republic
had no rsasenf to suppose that 1T
would ever. contain its present
immense population. or that any
event could possibly attract such
crowds as are now seen every in
auguratiOn week in the city of Wash
ington. Hundreds and thousands OF
people flock TO Washington from all the
States in the Union and the number in
creases every four years. with the
population of the country and the
ease of transportation. These peo-
pie do not all expect to hear the
inaugural address. A large proportion
of them have no hope of anything of the
kind. They simply wish to catch a
glimpse OF the Chief Magistrate at some
time during the day Spectators line
Pennsylvania Avenue with temporary
tiers of seats; they rent out windows to
eager observers, and still there Is huge
crowd wandering about on its own feet,
in the open air, without any shelter be-
yond umbrellas. and another huge
crowd causing the steps of the Capitol
to resemble the resting place of
swarm of bees. The people on the COW
cred seats and inside the Office buildings
are sheltered from rain, or snow, or
sleet, all Of which we have had on in
auguration days in the past; but those
on the seats are not protected from the
piercing winds which often sweep down
the Avenue on a March day, nor are
those who take part in the parade in
any way comfortable if the weather
happens TO be anywhere near the freez-
ing point. Many organizations which
appear in the parade are partly COM
posed of men past middle life, who are
/ liable TO suffer quite seriously from be-
/ ing obliged to stand for hours in a bitter
wind. Many of the spectators on the
uncovered seats and on foot are people
in moderate circumstances. who cannot
! afford to pay for comfort. or who are
strangers and do not know where to go.
1t is time that Inauguration Day ceased
to be followed by a long train of miser-
les resulting from exposure TO cold and
dampness. After every Inauguration
Day for the last thirty years lists have
been published of people who have died
from exposure of one sort or another. all
traceable directly to the inclement
March weather. There are much longer
lists which might be made of those who
have been seriously i'll from the same
cause. 1t is time this mistake was rec
titled Not another Inauguration should
be allowed 10 take place on March 4.
The times., 1898-05-30
MONDAY. MAY 80. 1898.
The MiIitary Annexation of Haunii.

Among other stirring events Of this
week. it seems certain that if the Tor
les in Congress succeed in delaying ac-
1icn On the resolution annexing the Ha-
Wailan Islands. President Mckinley
Will take the bull by the horns and as
sumo possession of them as a military
necessity.
We earnestly hope that he will not
hesitate cne minute after he is satisfied
that the Spanish tactics of the opposi-
ticn are likely 10 postpone action, even
If only to Friday.
The conditions which render it i'm
perative that our flag should fly over
Hawaii are as we'll known to those
who are playing the role Of obstruction
as to any patriot in either house. With
the certain knowledge that only by get
ting immediate control over the coun-
try can we maintain our position in the
Pacific, or find the means to complete
our occupation Of the Philippine Isl
ands. we are lost in amazement at the
spectacle Of elected representatives oi
the American States and people de-
liberately attempting to hamper and
defeat their Cwn Government in its con-
duct of the war.
1t is fortunate that the Commander
in-chief has the personal power to
bring the counsals and the dark designs
OF the Tories to naught. We are as
sUred that he has the viii, as well L
is an excellent chance for the display
Of Jacksonian executive backbone.
The times., 1898-05-30
Inaueuration pax.

The Senate has lately passed a bill
changing the Inauguration Day of the
President and Vice President from
March 10 May 4. It remains for the
House to pass this bill, and for the leg
islatures Of three-fourths of the States
of the Union to approve it, after which
IL will become constitutionally effective.
This matter has been under discus
sion at irregular intervals for the last
twenty years. The plan which has here
tofore been proposed was to change the
date from March 4 to April so, the date
of Washington's first Inauguration; but
the Senate finally decided to make it
May 4, a date on which Washington
City is reasonably certain of pleasant
weather. Loud and numerous objec-
tons to March as date of inaugura-
ton have usually been heard for several
months after Inauguration Day, and
then gradually died away into silence
as the discomforts of inclement weather
were forgotten, and the victims of in
flUenza. pneumonia, and rheumatism
either recovered or died. But now some-
thing has really been done in the mat
ter, and il is TO be hoped that without
delay the House and the legislatures
The times., 1898-05-30
The Peach That Fails.
(From the Brooklyn Eagle.l

lFrOm the brooklyn Eagle-t
The appalling news has come to us that
the peach crop is a failure this year.
Frosts, bugs, damps. rlildews, fungi,
mortgages and other besetments of the
farmer have been more than he could en-
dure and now he sits under the shade
of his Ieafiess trees-lucus a non lucendo
and dreams of the things he would do
if he were a capitalist. And the kind OF
capitalist he would like to be would be
a commission merchant in peaches. Be
cause he remembers with amazement that
every time that the peach crop is a fall
ure-that is, every year-there are more
peaches than people can eat and the
markets are full, and those who deal in
them, even when confronted by narrow
MAJ gins of profit, handle such quantities
that when the season is over they buy
diamonds and take ice.
This year the peach crop Is such dead
and emphatic failure that the chances are
that there will not be a peach on the
street stands, and some even think that
they will not appear in the cheaper res
taurants before the middle of May. The
situation is complicated by the utter de-
structien of the pineapples In Maine in
the last blizzard, the neglect of the chest
nuts in Texas to blossom last February
and the robbery of melon patches in New
Jersey last Fall. We are in a parlous
state, surely, and may have to trim our
appetites to the smaller satisfactions of
spuds and ham before the Summer is
over. Yet, England grows peaches and
so does Argentina, and from those coun-
tries some OF US may gain certain dietary
comforts. The Delaware peach is much
esteemed, but the finest peach is the
farmer who grows it.
The times., 1898-05-30

A little paragraph that has gone the
rounds of the press affords this interest
ing information:
When annoyed or excited the Prince of Wales
winks the left eye rapidly, the Emperor of Aus
tria puifs out his cheeks, the Gar lays his hand
fat on the top of his head and the Sultan of Tur-
key grasps his throat tightly with his hand.
For the benefit of anyone who finds
this list incomplete 1t may be added that
when annoyed or excited Speaker Reed
pounds his gavel and shouts "Or-derr,
Mr.. Roosevelt is said to show his teeth
in broad smile, and Mr.. Hanna dances
up and down and looks abused. keeping
both hands in his pockets and never TAX
ing them out.
The times., 1898-05-30
Names of snanish ships.
Too Much for Him.
(From the Chicago Post.I

tErOm the tuicaSO Tostl
When the cuIprit was brought into the
prisoners dock the justice giowered at
him savegely and held up bottle filled
with a dark brown fluid.
DO you recognize this?" askei the JUS
tice.
II do" replied the prisoner.
''When the poor old man who is COM
plainant in this case was feeling I'll yes
terday." continued the justice, you are
charged with giving him coplous draughts
from this bottle. Did you do it?''
81 did
These draughts." went on the justice.
you referred to as prescriptions. and in
other ways you gave the impression that
you had diagnosed his case and were
treating it from the standpoint of a IL
censed physician"
He may have gathered that impression
from remarks that were made in his pres
ence."
Now. sir" said the justice. Il suppose
that you will admit that practicins
physician is supposed to know the COM
position of whatever he prescribes.
81 will admit that he is supposed to
know it
The justice became very stern.
''Do you know the ingredients of this?''
he demanded.
i 40 not, ItpiiCu Llic pAA9oiaCA Jul.
he hastened to add. II know its thera-
peutical action on the system
'eYou know its what?''
81 know it's therapeuticai action on the
system.
Gentlemen" said the justice. address,
ing the crowd assembled in the court
room. and speaking with the caimness OF
despair, Its up TO me and l pass. Tho
prisoner is discharged.
''The idea that expert testimony in Grim
inal cases is of no practical value said
the discharged prisoner as he passed out
of the courtroom. is all wrong"
The times., 1898-05-30
If Gen. Merritt has good luck. he will

be able to forward about 5000 more troops
to Manila by the middle of the week. The
authorities seem to be having better for
tune in securing transports, and We judge
from San Francisco dispatches that the
full complement of men for the expedi-
ton. $4,000 or 10000 in all, win be able to
get away as soon as arms and equipments
can be provided and issued. The Gov
ernment is still uncomfortably behind
hand in that respect.
The times., 1898-05-30
cen. Rlanco,s message to cen. Mites a

Gen. Blanco's message to Gen. Miles, as
surfing him Of .'as pretty fight as he can
ask is highly encouraging, and We trust
that, when the time comes, Miles will ask
Blanco for a very pretty one, indeed 1t
should be SO comely that it will COM
pletely satisfy the Spanish sense of honor
and of being whipped, and develop an
ardent desire to get home. By the way,
how are all those Spanish prisoners that
will fall into our hands with the capture
of Havana to get to Europe? During the
rainy season, we are told that the walk
ing between Cuba and Madrid is very bad
The times., 1898-05-30

American control. The heads of the re-
! ligious societies most interested natu-
rally would make every possible exer-
| ton to preserve the old conditions, and
| in so doing they would have the assist
ance of their members in this and all
other countries.
In thinking, however, that the AmerI-
can people would ever tolerate the rele-
cation of the unfortunate inhabitants
of the Philippines to the ghastly horrors
of Spanish rule. these monastic mag
mates are sadly wanting in knowledge
| of our national character. Neither they
| nor anyone else around the Papal
| Court seem able to understand the fixed
determination Of this country to free
Cuba and TO occupy and annex both
! the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico.
That intention has been sufficiently ad-
yertised. and We are unable to see what
| good is to be gained abroad by per-
sistent refusal to accept it as a fact.
1t would be better, in our opinion, for
| the Pope and his advisers to bow TO the
inevitable. remembering that their
church is free and fiourishing in the
! United States, and need not be less SO
| in its Asiatic colonies. But the peculiar
privileges and golden opportunities of
| the orders under the former insulaf
regime are hard to give up; SO hard.
indeed that every cabinet on the conti-
nent is being besieged and beseeched to
take part in European veto upon our
| continued possession. This again.
strikes US as extremely impolitic, and
calculated to awaken prejudices in
America which it were much better not
to excite
This is especially the case when we
| consider the futility of such a move
ment on the part of the Vatican. II
! its diplomacy We're even successful in
arousing the Old World powers, and in
ducing them to enter objections to our
occupation of the archipelago. that
would only precipitate an Anglo-Amer-
| lean alliance and the universal war the
menace Of which we are told clouds
with gloom the declining years of the
Pope.
All princes, potentates. and powers
might as well learn once and for all
that America will not relinquish any
| former Spanish possession which has
or may come into her keeping through
the fortunes of war. No peace Will
! ever be made which shall not at least
| include the political independence of
Cuba and American sovereignty over
| the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico.
The times., 1898-05-30

We wonder If it has occurred to the SEN
ate Committee on Foreign Relations to
look into the case of that person McGarr.
late consul at Cienfuegos. who is reported
to have turned his relief stores over to the
Spanish authorities and to have failed to
notify Americans that a vessel had been
sent to rescue them? These are very .se-
rious charges. and it would seem they de-
mand some attention
The times., 1898-05-30
The Bivouac of the Dead.

The muiied drums sad roll has beat
The soldiers last tattoo;
No more on life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And Glory guards. with solemn round,
The bivouac of the dead.
No rumor of the foes advance
Now swells upon the wind;
No troubled thought at midnight haunts
OF loved ones left behind;
No vision of the rnorrow's strife
The warriors dream alarms;
No braying horn nor screaming fife
At dawn shall call to arms.
Their shivered swords are red with rust,
Their plumed heads are bowed;
Their naughty banner, trailed in dust,
Is now their martial shroud.
And plenteous funeral tears have washed
The red stains from each brow.
And the proud FORMS by battle gashed,
Are free from anguish now.
The neighing troop, the flashing blade,
The bugle's stirring blast;
The charge, the dreadful cannonade,
The din and shout, are passed;
Nor wars wild note nor glory's peal
Shall thrill with fierce delight
Those breasts that nevermore may feel
The rapture Of the fight.
Like the fierce Northern hurricane
That sweeps his great plateau,
Flushed with the triumph yet to gain,
Came down the serried foe.
Who heard the thunder of the fray
Break Ger the field beneath.
Knew we'll the watehword of that day
Was Victory DEATH
Long had the doubtful conflict ragged
Ger all that stricken plain.
For never fiercer fight had waged
The vengeful blood of Spain;
And still the storm of battle blew,
Still swelled the CORY tide;
Not long our stout old chieftain knew,
Such odds his strength could bide.
Twas in that hour his stern command
Called to martyrs grave
The flower of his beloved land,
The nations flag to save.
BY rivers of their fathers gore
His frst-born laurelS grew,
And well he deemed the sons would pour
Their lives for glory, too.
Full many norther's breath has swept
Ger Angostura's plain
And long the pitying sky has wept
Above its nodded Slain
The ravens scream or the eagles fight,
Or shepherds pensive lay
Alone awakes each sullen height
That frowned Ger that dread fray.
Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground,
Ye must not slumber there,
Where steps and tongues resound
Along the needless air.
Your own proud lands heroic soil
Shall be your filter grave;
She claims from war his richest spoil
The ashes OF her brave.
Thus meath their parent turf they rest.
Far from the CORY field,
Borne to a Spartan mothers breast
On many bloody shield;
The sunshine of their native sky
Smiles sadly on them here,
And kindred eyes and hearts watch by
The heroes sepulcher.
Rest en-, embalmed and sainted deadt
Dear as the blood We gave;
No impious footsteps here shall tread
The herbage of your grave;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fame her record keeps.
Or Honor points the hallowed spot
Where Valor proudly sleeps.
Yon marble minstrels voiceless stone
In deathless song shall tell,
When many vanished age hath flown,
The story how ye fell,
Nor wreck, nor change, nor Winters bligh
Nor Times remorseless doom,
Shall dim one ray of glory's light
That gilds your deathless tomb.
Theodore O'Hara, 1Si
The times., 1898-05-30

President Mckinney. have you forgot
ten that Capt. John D. Hart is in fell
on's cell for aiding the cause of liberty In
Cuba; for doing just what you are send
ing an army and a navy to do? Is 1t not
true that you promised Capt. Harts de-
voted wife that you would issue pardon?
What is the matter; is it Griggs? Then
Griggs needs speedy attention.
The times., 1898-05-30

Queen Regent Christmas friend and
correspondent, Love, has been promptly
turned out of independence Hall by the
Philadelphia authorities That is not
enough. He should be prosecuted and
made an example of. Adherents OF the
public enemy cannot too soon begin TO
learn the dangers of Toryism and trea-
son in time of war.
The times., 1898-05-30

The seaside eottagers have been worried
for fear Spain would fire shots costing
her $1,000 apiece at them. Judging from
the way Spain has behaved thus far in
this war her officers may possibly stand
on the deck and pop at the hotels with
revolvers. but nothing worse.
The times., 1898-05-30

II might not be Irrelevant to suggest at
about this time that the more money we
spend now in raising and equipping
American soldiers the less we shall have
to expend in pensions when this cruel war
is over.
The times., 1898-05-30

The operations of the Marblehead and
Brooklyn against Cienfuegos last Tues
day suggests that the southern port may
have been selected as the base from which
to move against Havaua- The excellence
of the harbor and the ease with which
Blancos position can be reached from
that direction make it probable that at
least part of the army of invasion will be
sent around to Cienfuegos.
The times., 1898-05-30

A great deal has been said about Ad-
miral Cervera being bottled up." Would
1t be impertinent to suggest that now is
the time for Commodore Schley to prove
that he is a corker?
The times., 1898-05-30
He Heard From His Hoy

tFrom the AtIanta COnst1tution.)
neighbor was trying to console farmer
whose son had enlisted. Don't be worried" he
said. 'It's my opinion that boy'll be heard from.
'.He's been heard FROM the disconsolate
reply; .He's Jest drawed on me fer S50.''
The times., 1898-05-30
snanish Prorer Names.

AlfOnso-Ahl-fohn-sO.
Maria Cristina-Mah-ree-ah Crees-tee-
nah.
Praxedes agasta-Prah-heh-deh Sah-
gahss-tah.
Leon Castillo-Leh-ohn-ee Cahss-teel-
yo.
COrrea-COr-reh-ah-
AunOn-Ah-oo-nOhn-
Romero Giron-Ro-meh-ro Hee-rohn.
Lopez Puigcerver-LOpeth Pooeeg-thaty
vair.
GamazO-Gah-mah-t
apdepon-Cahp-deh-p
Groizard-Gro-ee-thard
(The last name. from It's spelling. ap-
pears to be French. but the above would
be the Spanish pronunciation-l
Bermejo-Bair-m -meh-hO.
Cervera-Thair-yeh
Weyler-Way-ee-lai
(This again is undoubtedly a German
name and is variously pronOunced-)
Ramon Blaneo-:Rah-mohn Blahn-cO-
SiIvela-Seel-veh-lah.
Romero y RobIedo-Ro-meh-ro-e Ro-
blay-do.-
Names of Spanish ships
Almirante Oquendo-.AhI-mee-rah
O-kehn-do.
Pelayo-Peh-lah-yo.
Cristobal olon-Crees-to-bahI Co-lohn.
Pluton-Ploo-tohn.
Terror-Ter-ror.
Furor-FOo-ror.
Ciudad de Cadiz-The-oo-dahd deh Cab
deeth.
Azor-Ah-thor.
Ariete-Ah-ree-eh-teh
The times., 1898-05-30
Gaining an AI;y.
rrom the Chicarn Recor,l

(From the Chicago Record.)
'sAiss Gimp, would you pray for while /
was engaged in dangerous undertaking.
Eyes. Mr. Junbles.
''well, pray for me while propose to YOU
The times., 1898-05-30
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

Re=eers Of The Times who may at any time
be enable 20 procure copies Of it at any news
stand or railroad station or on railroad trains will
confer favor upon the management by sending
60 tIds Office information Of the fact
The times., 1898-05-30

Communications intended for publication in
The Times should be tersely and plainly written.
and must in ali cases be accompanied by the
name and address Of the writer. Rejected com
mrnications viii not be preserved, and only man
TO their authors
The times., 1898-05-30
Give the Devil ni. Due.
(From the Philadelphia I

(From the Philadelphia Times.)
They say Spain never made invention. It's
true they didn't first contrive disappearing guns,
but who invented the disappearing heet?