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sitlon Of this territory must bring about
The platform. therefore. ostensibly, by
an amendment, reiterates the old chest
nut that the Republican party Of Mark
Hanna and Dan Burns IL the champion
Of the wage Garner, and demands the en-
actment of such legislation regarding
Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines
as will protect the American workman
against Chinese. Japanese and other
contract labor found therein, and pre-
vent any further influx or extension
thereof, and, finally, 1t proposes to pro-
hibit the Chinese and japanese now 40
Gated" in the Hawaiian islands from en-
tering the United States.
These planks show that Mr.. Burns
platform is intended as a vote-catcher.
The truth is the Republican party Of
this state has no principles upon which
it can make a winning campaign, and,
in its desperation, It is driven to make
absurd declarations.
Having adopted these plarlxs, It now
remains for the representatives Of the
Republican party to explain how It is
possible to annex foreign territory with
out, at the same time, making its In
hahitants members Of the American
Union. Do they propose to drive the
Chinese and Japanese out Of the an
nexed territory? And, If so, does any
sane person believe that such purpose
will ever be carried out?
BY the constitution Of the United
States, under the protection Of which
the inhabitants Of the annexed terri
tory will be brought, equal rights and
liberties are guaranteed to every person.
While the articles Of annexation be-
tween sovereign countries may. perhaps,
abridge the rights and liberties Of the
inhabitants Of the annexed territory and
force upon them a status peculiar In
citizenship to themselves, no one believes
that 1t Is in the power Of any civilized
country to sell its subjects into slavery,
or that the United States could, II it
desired, discriminate between different
classes of wage earners by declaring that
laS duOpteU CltIZenS Snail De restricted IN
the free exercise of their constitutional
right of pursuing their avocations, while
its native citizens shall have a free field.
The absurdity, therefore, Of platform
which attempts to fool the laboring men
of this state upon a matter Of such vital
Importance to them needs but to be men
toned to be discovered The Republican
party, which stands as the sentinel for
highly protected mill owners wants ter
ritorial expansion for an enlarged mar
ket, but always with a stone wall Of
protection around 1t. It wants also the
millions Of laborers within this territory
with which to supplant the wage-earners
Of the United States. And the Repub-
lican platform declaration, that the
American laborers must be protected
against the coolie labor Of the annexed
territory, is falsehood promulgated for
campaign purposes.
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will bear with crushing force. and in his
helplessness he IL aiming to personally
escape by saddling at least part Of the
blame on the active head Of the army.
Thus disgraceful scandal supple
ments the fame achieved for the nation
by Its army and navy. We had good
and sufficient ground for Directing to
some of Europe's structures while the war
was In progress. but any case that may
be made against US now. relative to our
war department scandal. may go by de-
fault
The herald., 1898-08-30
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tence and neglect Of the war depart
ment."
1t 10 stated. with what truth we cannot
say. but with the appearance Of proba-
bility. that the real object in locating
the soldiers in Camp Merritt, was to
throw business into the hands Of the
street-car lines that run out from San
Francisco. II this be true. then we must
add to the charges Of incompetence and
neglect charge Of jobbery. As the
street car system Of San Francisco il
largely owned and controlled by the
Southern Pacific Railway company. I'M
der the management Of Boss Herrin,
II is easy to understand that a power
full pull may have been exercised on the
authorities to place the camp where they
did II that was the moving cause. what
a pitiable spectacle 1t presents All for
few paltry dollars! Think Of it, We
patriotic American citizens! Think of
it. fathers and mothers, brothers and
sisters, wives and sweethearts, whose
hopes lie buried in the graveyard of
Camp Merritt!
One thing is certain: The matter will
not be allowed to rest until there shall
have been thorough investigation to
place the responsibility for this crime
where 1t properly belongs. When that
responsibility shall be determined, the
vengeance Of an outraged people will
pursue the culprits as long as they live.
It may not be possible to hang them
more's the pity!-but they must suffer
public condemnation and execration
that may give them a foretaste Of the
Internal regions. They will be branded
as murderers.
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WE SECOND THE CAR


note to the powers is surprise at its gen.
eral scope, and at the manifest sincerity
of its author. The next Is an impression
that a most admirable dissertation in
favor Of international peace has been
presented to the world. 1t inspires the
belief that the present car is moved by
an impulse to do an act, in behalf of
humanity, in some measure paralleling
his ancestors edict which gave Russia
freedom from serfdom.
1t would be difficult to present argu-
ments in favor of universal peace in
more concise and forcible form than the
car has shown them. He says, very
truly, that with the vast ornaments
now employed by the nations, labor
and capital are mostly diverted from
their natural application and are un-
productivity consumed" And again:
National culture, economic progress
and the production of wealth are either
paralyzed or checked in development"
In considering the probable effect of
|
is noticeable that Europe and Great
Britain generally concede its sincerity.
There is no question that 1t will be so
regarded In the United States An i'm
pediment appears at the outset in the
coldness with which 1t is received in
England, If we may Judge from the brief
expressions of newspapers that have
thus far reached US. Even in England,
however, the force Of the proposition is
likely to grow the longer the matter is
considered and the more closely 1t is
studied.
OF course It Is only partial or rela-
tive disarmament that the car pro-
poses. What fraction Of armed strength
he would eliminate. whether one-fourth
or one-half or more, has not yet been
disclosed. The czar's proposition Is that
a conference of the powers shall deter
mine this important question and all
others pertaining to 1t. He simply
pledges Russia to such disarmament as
the rest Of the powers will amicably
agree to.
It should be borne in mind that the
Russian bear has never really been the
ogre Of Europe that cartoonists have
so lavishly portrayed. Asia is the field
which the great paws have been slowly
but surely moving upon. With the ex-
ception Of aggression toward Turkey
and Poland, the car has shown but
little inclination to trouble himself with
the map Of Europe. When Napoleon
oracularly declared that within fifty
years Europe would be "all republican
or all Cossack," he had in mind the
hordes that were pressing him in the
retreat from Moscow.
AS the cars invitation, of course, ex-
tends to the United States, 1t must arouse
profound interest here. 1t comes just
at the time when our government is
making preparations for large stand
ing army and vast enlargement of the
navy. So far as the sentiment of the
people Of the United States is concerned
1t may be counted as unanimous in "a.
vor of peace. The American people are
firm believers in the apothegm tina,
peace hath her victories no less re-
nowned than war;" Victories in the
broad field of the worlds industry, moi
on the battlefield, are the kind to which
Americans are now looking eagerly for.
ward.
The herald., 1898-08-30
SIMPLE SONGS FOR SUCKERS
White Ants

Don't say word to anyone, but We have
had fright!
White ants have been a-gnawing at our
platform, day and night,
Until upon my word they've left US but an
empty skin.
All fair and sound to look upon, but rot
tenness within!
Don't tread so heavy, Arnold, or you'll sure
ly break a plank!
And Waters. mind your trotters; better
lock EN- in your bank!
Van Fleet pick up your feet or you will
have them breaking through!
Good gracious! I'm SO nervous that
don't know what to do!
There have been insinuations that the ants
are not to blame
For. the rotting CT our timbers, and the
gnawirg of the same;
They say that any fool that knows thing.
can understand
White ants are not around where Uncle
Coils takes a hard.
Down on the Banks at Alessandro
We are down on the banks where the Silly
Waters f1ow
Where the greenbacks rustic as they
waver to and fro,
Where the notes Of the birds are borne upon
the air,
With the sweet ten-per-(s)cents, which
they are paying there.
Where the gold bug BUNDLED as he doomed
upon the " nc.
And left little smell Of prosperity be-
hind,
Which the simple sucker shifts as he cinches
up his belt.
And says that the times are the best he
ever felt!
Yes, we're down on the banks where the
Silly Waters run,
For we have got the sack, while the bank
er got the mcn..
But the banks are so low, and the Waters
run SO fast.
They are liable to run In gopher hole at
last.
The Gold Standard Mother and Her BIZ
Metallic Child
Mother. I am hungry; give me something
/ can chew. -
II have no money. darling. and the rent
Is over due;
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The municipal authorities OF Venice have
petitioned the Italian government to take
diplomatic steps to recover 5000 pictures
which were carried on by Bonaparte be-
tween 1905 and 1873. and which were ap-
propriated from various powers after his
fall. The city also desires that demand
shall DO Addressed to Austria for the re-
turn Of ls6 pictures which were carried on
by Emperor Ferdinand in 1855, In time Of
peace. for the galleries Of Vienna.
The herald., 1898-08-30

Now Kansas City holds UP its finger
and says it wants a peace jubilee. The
jubilee fever is working westward from
Chicago. How would 1t do for Los An.
geles to jubilate. as compensation for the
loss OF Fiesta?
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In a dispatch from London 1t is said
that the emperor Of Germany intended
to do the olive branch disarmament act
in declaration from Jerusalem. Well,
let him and all the other monarchs chime
in. The idea Is not patented.
The herald., 1898-08-30
LIST OF SICK IS APPALLING

From the following table, says the Ex-
am.ner, a fair id=a may be had of the ex-
tent of sickness and suffering among the
soldiers. The tabula ton is by no means
complete, and cannot be made so until COM
piled from army records, but is made up
generally from the reports received from
the camp hospitals.
Thousands of whom no record now ex-
lists, or ever will exist have gone to their
homes on furloughs and are being cared for
there. Hundreds of others are arriving
almost hourly in the hospitals and camps Of
the north from Cuba and southern camps.
Following Is a partial list of the number Of
eli
The herald., 1898-08-30

San Francisco reports light earth
quake Sunday night. If the city were
blameable for crimes committed there
against suffering soldiers, it would de-
serve such a visitation as the one that
The herald., 1898-08-30

The report of the Republican. state
convention in Delaware, in allusion to
the platform, says: Nothing was said
regarding territorial expansion" The
Delawareans are evidently satisfied with
the magnitude Of their own state.
The herald., 1898-08-30

Now the Spaniards have set up the
plea that they ought to be paid for public
works and buildings on their lately trans
ferred property. As their gall enlarges
they will probably claim a reservation
of tree stumpage. mining claims and un-
cut grass. ..-r
The herald., 1898-08-30

That Enoch Arden story from San Pc
dro indicates that that ambitious sea-
port is alive to the benefits of advertis-
ing. Romance Is all we'll enough in its
way, but the beginning of that harbor
work is what we particularly want to
hear about.
The herald., 1898-08-30

In Berlin somebody, lie worrying with
the question. whether America has not
reached her zenith." We think hardly,
but 1t does seem little dizzy. up where
we are.
The herald., 1898-08-30

A project Is on foot to colonize large
number Of Hebrews in our new territory
Of Porto Rico. Its success would be very
doubtful. Such an attempt was made
at Vineland, in New Jersey. few years
ago. and 1t completely failed. Several
other failures Of the kind might be cited.
The herald., 1898-08-30

One Of the Hawaiian commissioners.
in an interview on his arrival at Homo
lulu, said to the people: 1.-The United
States has assumed 100000 of your
debt, but that Is no reason why you
should be estopped from mourning
more" They must be supremacy happy
now.
The herald., 1898-08-30

The San Francisco Chronicle prog
nosticated the entire ticket Of the Re-
publican nominees with absolute accu-
racy two days before the late funeral at
Sacramento. AZ a shepherd Mr.. De
Young deserves due credit, II the sheep
still maintain that the pasture had not
already been staked out for them.
The herald., 1898-08-30

They evidently do some things fairly
we'll in the staid old keystone State.
Governor Hastings was nettled at the
way Pennsylvania sick soldiers were
treated at Chickamauga. He personally
solicited subscriptions for a hospital
train to bring them home. and In half
an hour he collected five thousand dof-
lars. Roosevelt, Hastings-who next?
The herald., 1898-08-30

1t has cooling effect to read that Pas
adena Is already making preparations
for its annual New Years tournament.
Our New Years days are so balmy, how
ever, that they are hardly suggestive Of
the eastern holiday season. Pasadena
evidently intends that there shall be no
diminution in the attractions to be pre-
sented In future. and those In the past
have made the city famous.
The herald., 1898-08-30
A KNIGHT ERRANT

George A. knight Of San Francisco
has announced his intention to be a
candidate for United. States senator
should the Republicans have majority
Of the legislature. He also has declared
his purpose to stump the southern coun-
ties to aid In achieving realization of
his senatorial aspirations Mr.. Knight
has ever been a stalwart advocate OF
free and unlimited coinage Of silver. In
going to the St. Louis convention he
made several speeches for 1t. and he
voted against tabling the Teller substi-
tute in the convention. We suggest that
when Mr.. Knight appears on the stump
he be Intercepted as to his silver Views.
In coming out for senator Mr.. knight
displays more courage than judgment.
for he ought to know that the senator
ship has already been slated for De
Young.
The herald., 1898-08-30

The gift battleship business is beins
run into the ground. metaphorically. An
American Girl" battleship scheme has
just been launched in Chicago. and
American women and girls are to be i'm
portuned to chip in. Our advice Is to
put no coins into the enterprise. The
government can afford to buy battle
ships when 1t needs them. A battleship
would cost perhaps five million dollars.
What oceans Of caramels and chewing
gum that would buy! ;f
The herald., 1898-08-30
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while there nor loses the political residence
which he had before entering the Home.
It would therefore be a reasonable presump-
ton that the political residence is where the
old soldier has property. Whether 1t was
the intent Of congress to provide this beau
tiful park and free home for men with prop
erty Is doubtful. But that is another
story.
The assessor knows the law as to this
Home. He assesses no land or buildings
there; he assesses no personal property To-
Gated within the reservation either of SOL
der, officer OF civilian employee
The tax collector knows the law, and col
lects no taxes there. It Is left, then, for
the county clerk to play catspaw to the po-
litical monkey and register the whole COM
munal Home into five voting precincts.
II the assessor and tax collector are
wrong In their law and the county clerk ia
right. then the former officers and their
bondsmen are liable to the taxpayers OF
this county for a deliberate neglect of duty
These gentlemen can relv on the fact that
the approaching settlement Of the politi-
cal status OF the Soldiers Home WILL inter-
est them and their bondsmen.
The Soldiers Home either Is a federal
reservation. the property Of the United
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-20

Foreman w. II. Dunton of the jour
nal job room has had to stand much
good natured ''jollying" in the past few
days from his many friends, regarding
his conviction on several different in
dictments as a liquor seller. At first
Mr. Dunton didn't see through the joke
when his friends approached him on
this matter, and offered their con-
dolences or asked If he was going into
the business again. But when he read
the court news in the Journal and saw
that w. II. Dunton had been convicte1 !
for selling liquor to Togus veterans, he
appreciated the situation. 1t is only
Justice to Mr.. Dunton to state that ho
never before heard of his Togus name
sake, and that his business IS confined
to his duties In the Journal job depart
mcnt
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While c. X. Partridge was sitting at
his desk in his drug store. about gu
Tuesday evening. cracking sound at
tracted his attention and he saw names
leaping up in the show window. lie
subdued the blaze with several glasses
of plain soda and found that the drap-
cry was badly burned and small
amount of goods damaged. The cause
may have been dropped match or
cigar ashes. The discovery was timely
as a few minutes start would nave
caused heavy damage.
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Pleasant Affair.

A large number of the young people hao
very delightful time at a dance III 'oio
an Cross hall Tuesday evening. Inc III :
fair was arranged by John Martih anu
tI,rrv Griffith in return for the Nalen-
tine marty given by the young ladies some
,,,aeks ago The hall was handsomely
aaoor,t.d with bunting and flowers.
,,us;n ro, dancing was furnished by Bail
ey'S orchestra. At lnterihiSs'oii he
freshments were served anu "he'' ''' y,
party broke up at an early hour 'heS an
were very grateful to the young seh''e-
men for providing them with sneh "'' e"
iovable evenings entertainment.
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SUPERIOR COURT.
April Term. 1898. Oliver G. Hall Justice
Presiding
w, S, CHoATE. Clerk.

w. S. CHoATE. Clerk.
A. l.. MCFADDEN. Sheriff.
GEO. w. HEsELToN. County Attorney.
LIZZIE p. WEIGH, Stenographer.
Augusta, April 10.
Owing to illness of parties and detention
of counsel in other courts. the cases as
signed for trial, today could not De
taken up.
Four Spaniards from the quarries IN
Manchester We're in this forenoon, aho
filed their declarations to become citizens
of the United States In response to a
question as to what they would do in case
of war, they said there were lots OF span
iards. who if there is to be war, would
prefer to fight for the United States
rather than Spain.
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GOOD REWARDS L:
Offered by the Postofice Department for the
Conviction OF Criminals.

u
A great deal of interest is be'ss, mani
tested In the circular letteasAsent out by
Postmaster General Gary to the postmas-
tiers In relation to the various rewards
given by the postoffice department for
the conviction of persons of robbing the
mails and postoffices One of these circ,l-
lar letters has been posted in the Au-
gusta postoffice and is being read by near
ly all who see it. The rewards range all
the way from $1,000 to $50 The convic-
tons are all to be made in some one of
the United States courts
The $1,000 reward is for the conviction
OF any person on the charge of robbing
the mails while being conveyed in any
mail car attached TO a railway train and
IN violation OF the following statute:
Amy person who shall rob any carrier
agent, or any other person intrusted with
the mail, of such mail, or any part there
Of shall be punishable by IMPRISONMENT
at hard labor for not less than five years,
ana not more than ten years; and If con-
victed second time for a like offence,
or II, III emecting such robbery the first
time, the robber shall wound the person
having custody of the mail, or put his
NE IN jeopardy by the use Of dangerous
weapons, such offender shall be punish
able by imprisonment at hard labor for
the term of his natural life
The sum OF $500 will be paid for arrest
and conviction of any person on the
charge of robbing the mails beinp CON
Veyed over any post route other than n
railway one half the above reward win
be paid for the conviction of ,nv narcnn
ATTEMPTING to rob the mails hajna con.
Veyed over any post route.
For the conviction of any nereon nm
the charge of breaking into any nnstof.
flee with the intent TO commit herein
larceny or other depreciation -
For the arrest ana couvirtio, NJ ony
person on the charge of breakin,, ~, =
postofiice and sterling thcrefrnn7 ~. ~
robbintr n postoffice or of larceny fra,, -
nostoftice4. $40 in zach casa uba,oi,, ~,
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A CARD.
TO nv friends in Kennebec valley:

TO my friends in kennebec valley:
take pleasure in introducing TO you
Mr.. W. A. Carlisle. who represents The
N. SteineIt \ Sons Co., piano dealers,
Portland, Me. Ibelieye him to he up.
right in all his dealings. What he tells
you at night, you will find true in the
morning. lie is located permanently in
this city, and those desiring first class
plano at the lowest possible price, and on
the most liberal terms, will do well to
call on him before purchasing.
20. Vickery.
Augusta, Me-, April Z, 1898.
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