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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

the money expended upon her, her ex-
ports being in 1897 trifie over S50O,0OO,
and her imports about the same. But
England would probably not sell Ber-
muda for Sl00OOo,0O0.
A glance at the map, or better yet, n
globe explains. These islands are on
tircly by themselves in the midst of the
Atlantic. No land is within 600 miles. A
closer survey will show that they are
about ccui-dstant from Newfoundland,
Nova Scotia, Maine, New York, Virginia,
Georgia, the Bahamas. Haiti and the
Northern Antiles--all of them from 600
20 100 miles away. The map will show
them to be the center of a circle, the
western half of which is outlined by all
these other islands and the United states
coast. In case of war with Spain
France or Denmark. England could
swcop down on their West India possess
sicns in one-fourth the time they wo lid
require to reach them. In war with the
United States she could be within the
above distances of all our ports.
o
Now, what the Bermuda Islands are to
Great Britain the Hawaiian Islands are
TO the United States in the Pacific. They,
too, are & midoCean group. Ihey, TOO,
are isolated from all others. They, too,
Gle, with a radius of 1900 miles, which
reaches the various ports of California
Oregon, Washington, British America,
Alaska, the Aleutian Islands. Siberia and
North Japan. They are the center OF
this almost unislanded sea. Then, South
America, Korea. China, India and the
nearest Of the Australasian islands are
hardly twice that distance from Hawai-.
Geographically she belongs TO us, as well
as redemptively, through our early teach
ing of her children, British America is
n IS near to her almost as US, and England
would undoubtedly find her desirable
link to join her Asiatic to her American
possessions. But we need her immense
ly more than she. She is the middle of
the Pacific. like a huge turreted mont-
tor at sea, facing the approaching enemy
from any and every side.
o
The best way to defend our western
cities is to occupy and arm we'll this great
stronghold in the middle of. the Pacific
herself Let congress act at once. ana Sc
cure our Bermuda Islands in the Pacific
ocean,"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

This newsgathering organization, the
greatest in existence, whose complete and
superior report The Tribune prints cv-
cry morning. is composed OF 69S members.
Twenty-four hundred daily and weekly
newspapers are served through its agen-
Cies, aside from the service given the
membership newspapers. The leased
wires of the association extend across the
continent, from st. John, n. B., to Seat
tie, Wash, and San TieCO, Cal, and from
Duluth. Mimi, to New Orleans, Calves
ton and the City of Mexico. The total
mileage of this leased wire system is:
Day wires, $3.50 miles; night wires 1850
miles. The annual revenues OT the As
sOCiated press derived from assessments
levied upon the new spaperS served eX-
coed 81, 100, 000 The number OF words
daily received and transmitted at each OF
the more important offices of the asso-
citation Is over $1,000, or the equivalent
OF thirty columns of the average news
paper. That is, one of the important
offices of the association in year trans
mits 1S $50, 900 words. or the equivalent OF
10950 columns of newspaper matter. The
foreign Offices of the association are to
be found in England. France. Portug H.,
Switzerland, Srain, Germany and all con-
tinental Europe. Special agencies are in
New South Wales, Egypt, New Zealand,
Samoa, Siam, lava, Syria, India, South
Africa, Chira, Guatemala, Peru, Hon
duras, Brazil. Persia, Chile and Japan.
Under an exclusive contract the Asso-
ciated Press is furnished all the dis
patches of the London Times in advance
of publica ton. 1t is literally omnipresent
and argus-eyed. Nothing of Importance
escapes it's all-pervading ken.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

truth as he sees and realizes IT, dispas-
sionately and candidly.
The news Of the battle Of Waterloo
took seven days in reaching London
1t was then regarded as a phenomenal
ly expeditions dispatch. The first ru-
NOR of the battle Of the Nile reached
England almost seven weeks after the
battle was fought. 1t was almost three
weeks after the event took place before
Englshmcn learned of the death OF
Nelson. What marvellous changes
have taken place in the transmission
of news since those days! The trans
ition did not come at once. 1t came
about gradually and imperceptibly al
most. The telegraph was an establish
ed institution for some years before 1t
became the hand maiden of modern
journalism. 1t is not fifty years ago
since the dispatch boats of the New
York Herald lay in wait outside Sandy
Hook to meet incoming European
steamers. The laying Of the first At
lantic cable revolutionized the modern
newspaper IT was not that newspaper
propriet1rs were slow to realize the im-
mense potentiality that lay in the
scientific results of the tclegraphic in
Nention: but they were then beyond the
reach Of their eXchequers. With the
revolution that set in in printing ma
chinery and the cheapening of paper,
the submarine cable and the overland
telegraph become the sheet anchors of
the daily newspaper.
With this Tremendous evolution in the
sphere of journalism, the war corre-
sp2ndent tool: his place. Caesar might
legtimatCly be called war corre-
spondent even in this modern sense of
the word, so might Xenephon They
were not journalists, however, but gen
erals. The war correspondent in
his sphere and character first APP
peared during the Crimean war. The
first ana most renowned of modern war
correspondents, Sir William Russell. is
still living. This gentleman went
through the Crimean war, the Indian
Mutiny and our own 81 eat war of Sc
CcssOn in the interest of the London
Times. Then arose simultaneously or
III Ia l)Ii SCNiutllCt SS lllt ONNCSlDll NdIltl
them forth, such men as Archibald
Forbes, Edmund O'Donovan Skinner,
and MaCGaghan. who having spent his
youth on an Ohio farm, first drew the
attention of Europe and especially Of
Mr.. Gladstone, to the Bulgarian massa-
cres. and involved Russia and Turkey
| in a war. He died of fever in Adrino-
! pie just before the close of the war
| which he was instrumental in having
| waged, not yet thirtyfve years of age.
! War cores spondents are not regarded
| very highly by the military authori-
! ties. They would willingly do without
! them, and tolerate them simply be-
| cause it is not possible to exclude them.
| General Lord Wolslcy, commander in
| chief of the British army, says in his
soldiers Pocketbook" they are nom
| belligercnts who eat the food Of the
| army and give information to the
| enemy AT any rate. they know how to
| die and no war could well be sustained
| for week without the relief they bring
! to the curiosity and anxiety Of the peo-
| pie. Official dispatches are all very
we'll: but the war correspondents war
| news is still better In fact, it is indis-
| pensable.
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probably been done If such Is the case.
It is understood that the State Medi-
cal society will take steps to correct
the evil at once, which action will be
entirely within its sphere. The study
of physiology properly conducted is
one of the most beneficial ever intro
duced in the school room; but directed
by incompetent persons and guided by
misleading text books it can become
the most dangerous.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
Our Unpreparedness
for Effective War
From the Philadelphia Times.

From the Philadelphia Times.
0nnITH a foreign war on its hands
MANI the country is being furnished
lVnVI with an object lesson on the
II|I folly Of maintaining the insS-
nifiCant standing army Of but
% 600 men, trusting 10 luck to furnish an
efficient fighting force if we set in scrap
with foreign government. Congress has
steadily refused TO increase the army or
to appropriate sufficient money for coast
defense or an ample supply of modern ar
tillery. 1t has pursued a tooliShly Mig
gardly policy in regard to every detail
of our military equipment, and While do
ing little better in regard to the navy
has hagged about the price of amor for
battleships and when war became immi-
nent the ships ready for service were
short of armament and other necessary
supplies for d campaign at sea.
o
When war was declared and a call for
troops made there was no hesitation
about the response so far as men were
concerned. The call was promptly filled.
and could have been filled three times
over if necessary. But men are not SOL
diers uISil they are drilled, armed, uni
formed and provided with camp equip
age and a conrmssary department An
army of men could he and were enlisted,
almost In a day, but uniforms, tents
rifles, cartridge boxes, cartridges, blank
cts. and rations. horses for cavalry and
artillery and the thousand one other
things necessary for the equipment of
an army cannot be imprOvised in a day,
especially hen no provision has been
made in advance.
1t is useless therefore, for congress,
the newspapers or any one else to crti-
else the administration for not being able
tn 4 AT nd
within Il week. As a matter of fact, the
government at Washington Is doing Won
derfully we'll in view of the state Of un-
preparedness for war in which, thanks
to the congress of the present and the
past, we found ourselves upon the break
ing out of hostilitieS. We have men, and
money can be furnished if congress Will
permit; but rifles, cannon uniforms. tents
and other military furnishings must be
made and distributed to the men before
they can become soldiers or 80 on a
campaign, and this precludes taking the
field in haste,
The lesson is so obvious that even a
foolish jngo congressman ought TO be
able TO learn it, and that is that a nation
of 1O,OOOOlO of people with double line
of seacoast to defend and commercial
interests to guard in every part of the
world, should have an active military and
naval 1Orce IN some reasonable prOpor-
tion 10 the importance of the interests
to be protected and a sufficient supply
of military and naval stores to equip
force three or four times as great if such
force should be suddenly required, as
ii is al present, We come very near be-
ing in the position of the man in the par
able who began to build without counting
the cost, and the result is likely to be an
unnecessary prolonCation of a war that
should have been short, sharp and decis-
i've
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Dawn by Ajacchus
The Tribune AstroiOger.
Astrolabe Cast: 4OS a. m. for Saturday,
May 2l, 1895.

E12 g sa: $
A child born on this day will notice
that another utimatum has been sound
ed in the sworn and unsworn circulation
war.
The members of the Scranton Column
ba Cavalry company may join Teddy
Roosevelt's rough riders.
Some of the Scranton editors are
swearing about their circulation, but
most people feel more like swearing about
the weather.
Pawnee Bills show received a combina-
tion of the freshet and frost In Scran-
ton yesterday.
Weyler probably expects TO land his
army of $4,000 in the United States at
the close of the rainy season.
The month Of roses and open street
cars is at hand.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
FROM MORRO CASTLE.


For The Tribune.
Where dark across Havana's bar
Night gloom has settled low,
They sudden fash forth as star,
The lights of old Moro.
But never do they kindly gleam
To guide our precious fleet,
But only far would send a stream
OF golden light to greet
The shadowy ships that wearily
DO waver thro' the night,
To creep to haven sullenly,
once all their own by right.
We may not follow where they gleam-
The false fair lights aglow;
'Tis not for us they sudden stream
o doomed lights that briefly beam
Afar from old MORO!
H c. p
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
OUR ASIATIC BERMUDAS.
New York Mail and Express.

New York Mail and Express.
What would England take for her Ber-
mudas? She has been their owner tor
300 years. Though numerous, they con-
tain only nineteen solid square miles.
Bermuda's commercial relations are al
most altogether with this country; her
exports to us are forty times as great as
to Great Britain, and her imports twice
as great Financially she is not worth
to England one one-hundredth part OF
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
Not Allowed to Forget II.

yesterday" said Jabson, 81 refused a
poor woman request for small sum of
money, and in consequence of my act I
passed a sleepless night. The tones of
her voice were ringing in my ears the
whole time"
Your softness OF heart does you cred
It," said MADISON; "who was the wo-
man."
my wife. ."-Detroit Free Press.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

The officers in command Of the In
diana troops have issued orders that
the faces of men in their regiments
who wear chin whiskers shall be
shaved. The Indiana troops evidently
do not intend to be mistaken for "reu-
hens"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

If Kansas does not have a cyclone,
or grasshopper fog, or something Of
the sort soon it will lose its identity as
the home of calamity.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
An Irish Nationalist View.

The Irish Nationalist organization
of Ireland and Britain" has addressed
to its fellow countrymen and comrades.
the Irish Nationalists of America, a
scorching protest against an Anglo
American alliance. in the course Of
which it says:
1t is announced that today the Brit
ish flag waves above every American
consulate in Cuba. hoisted by Ameican
hands. Is this possible? Is this the re-
ward which a British faction in the
background and behind the scenes of
American politics gives to the millions
Of Irish-Amevicans who guarded with
their hearts blood the starry standard
OF the Union when English intrigue
sought to plant secession on the ruins
OF the Republic? Arise in the dignity
of your insulted citizenship and insist
upon the reputation of the English al
lance and on the reputation of Brit
lsh protection! 1t is contrary to the
spirit of the Monroe doctrine, as we'll
as to every principle Of manly nation
hood, that the United States should
commit the protection of their interests
even for "a single hour, even in a single
island, to a European monarchy and
least of all to such a monarchy as Eng
lands. Remember, too, that when all
the nations of Europe have Joined
against the rapacity and greed of Brit
ish policy, it can only injure the United
States throughout the world if the Brit
ish flag is allowed to take the place Of
the Stars and Stripes upon a single
American consulate. Are there not
which would be proud to perform con-
sular duties for United States citizens?
Why go to Europe, and why go to Eng
land for a protecting flag? In the name
of American freedom, in the name of
Ireland, Ensland's victim, in the name
of the memory of ninety-eight. tear
down that insulting and unnatural
connection"
one very good reason for putting
American interests under British con-
sular protection where it has become
necessary to withdraw our own consul
lar officials is that adequate care will
thus be taken Of them. Even crazy
Spariards eVince . wholesome fear OF
the consequences which would follow
any meddlins with British preroga-
tives.
If the Monroe doctrine forbids Amer
lean acceptance Of British courtesy
then it must also draw the line at any
attempt by the Irish Nationalist or
ganization of Ireland and Britain" to
instruct the American government and
people The Monroe doctrine would be
poor rule if it couldn't be used both
ways. But Of course our Irish friends
across the sea are not serious and don't
mean to be taken seriously.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

Prince Bismarck has given evidence
Of the effect of the rainy weather upon
his system by emitting another growl
at the United States. 1t is probable
that the princes unkind remarks are
due to neuralgia rather than to any
real feeling Of hostility.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

1t begins to look as though the gov
ernment will be obliged to let Sylves-
ter Scovel run the war again if we are
to have any more excitement.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

The Alabama ought to be completed
in time to show what she can do.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

The Tribune's tclegraphic news
is from three to five hours fresher
than that of any Philadelphia or
New York paper circulated in its
field. Those papers go to press at
midnight; The Tribune receives
news up to 3 a. m. and sometimes
later. All the news in The Trib-
une while it is new.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

Spains war news seems always to be
seasoned to suit the Spanish taste.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

New York Ofice: $50 Nassau ST,
:. s. NREEbAND,
Sole Agent for Foreign Advertising
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
Let Sampson Cut Loose.

Whatever may be the backwardness
in preparation for actual fighting of
our land forces, the American navy
is as ready for war at this time as it is
likely to be during the existing cam
paign. Dewey at Manila showed its
quality in an achievement that seems
to have embarrassed the authorities at
Washington almost as much as 1t did
the authorities at Madrid, since they
have been unable to follow ii up with
anything like a corresponding prompt
ness in the despatch of reinforce
ments.
What Dewey did 5000 miles away
the public expects Sampson to do with
an enemy Of inferior strength which
has the hardihood to venture within
few hundred miles of our own shore.
This does not appear to us to be an
unreasonable expectation. Sampson
has four or five ships to Cervera's one.
He has the benefit of cable intelligence
from nearly every strategic point in
the western Atlantic and Caribbean
sea. He has an abundance of fast
scout boats all the coal he needs and
a fighting strength in his high power
guns which would annihilate a much
heavier force than that which now con-
fronts him in the harbor at Santiago
de Cuba. He has every incentive to
pursue the enemy until a fight is forced
and he should be permitted to do this
at the earliest possible moment, with
out hampering restrictions from the So
called strategy board at Washington.
1t is not strategy but fighting which
the situation calls for. Otherwise much
Of the good which Dewey did at Man
lila will be neutralized by fruitless man.
oeuvering in the waters about Cuba.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

The state Medical society has made
the discovery that the study Of physi-
ology in the public schools as it is
pursued at present is productive Of
more harm than good. Examination
has shown that many of the text books
used are misleading, and that the in
structors are incompetent. This dis
covery seems to have been made rather
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
EGe Scranton trtBune

Published Daily, Except sunday, by the
Tribune Publishing Company, at ffty Gents
q Month
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

New Jersey farmers have decided to
protect snakes on their property in
future, as the reptiles are said to be
useful in destroying worms and in
sects that prey upon vines. If the
average citizen down there could be
taught to regard the serpents with in
difference one-half of the terrors of
jersey lightning" would be done away
with.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

ENTERED AT THE PosToFFtCE AT sCRASToN,
PA, AS sECoND-cJAss MAIL MATTER.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

The best way to defend our western
cities is to occupy and arm we'll this great
stronghold in the middle of the Paciic
herself. Let congress act at once, and Sc
cure our Bermuda Islands in the Pacific
ocean,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-11-08
Florida All Right Politically

Jacksonville, Fla, November 5.-On
Tuesday Florida will elect two justices
of the supreme court, three members
of the railroad commission, a state
treasurer, Legislature, which will meet
in April and name successor to SEN
atOr Pasco, and two congrssemen to
succeed NJ. Sparkman in the First dis
trict and r. W. Davis in the Second.
Both are democrats and each has
been nominated to succeed himself.
Their only opponents are white repub-
licans of more than average intelli-
gence. They have made a more active
canvass of the districts than has been
made since the days of Horatio Bisbee.
The gold democrats have returned. to
the democratic fold and populsm has
gradually returned to the party from
which it became estranged, SO that the
state chairman of the democratic exc
cutive committee predicts that each
democratic congressman will be return
ed by even a larger majority than III
1896
In Florida the causes influencing the
return of the pOpulists and gold dem
ocrats to the old party are in a less
degree than those obtaining in North
Carolina.
Joseph E. Lee, the negro leader OF
the Florida republicans, has recently
been elevated to the highest federal Of
flee in the state-cOllector OF internal
revenue-and this fact has not only
alienated and made lukewarm the
lilly whites but has as we'll had its
influence in cementing the whites of
Ghe state in closer unity. All Of Flor
ida'S democratic state ticket will be
elected and almost every member OF
the state Legislature and senate. Flor
ifa's educational qual;fcations-the
AIS stralian ballots an insurmountabl BILE
barrier TO misrslle
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-11-08

ers Must Know That They Put the
Ballot in the Proper Box" Chairman
Holton says in il that section II. OF the
election law says "the voter shall hand
in his ballot to the judges. who shall
carefully deposit the same in the
proper ballot box" Then the chair
man says: IF the ballot is folded the
judges have the right, and II is their
duty. 10 make an inspection sufficient
for them TO know that there Is but
one ballot and that IT is the ballot for
the box the voter is desiring 10 vote
in. We want reported TO republican
headquarters all violations OF the law"
There is postscript which requests
that our judges and registrars have a
copy Of this"
1t was said at the executive Office to-
day that it was not thought Governor
Russell would go TO Wilmington for
the election.
Everything is perfectly quiet here
and in fact everywhere in this immed-
late section. Interest in the cleo
tion is very keen and the Raleigh DEM
ocrats are determined TO make a fine
record on election day by polling a
heavy vote. There appears TO be entire
confidence that they will carry this
county.
Estimates are made that Wake county
will give as much as 1000 democratic
majority Perhaps $50 to 800 will be
a safer figure.
Three miles Of track on the Cape
Fear and Northern railway has been
laid, from Apex towards Holly Springs.
Judge Clark has stricken from the
registration book Of the outside east
precinct of this township no fewer than
eighty-eight names. The fusion reg
istrars had refused TO allow the book
to be revised.