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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07
That Ice Fund.

The question is asked, and not with
out reason, why the people who cheer
fully pay war tax to provide for war
expenses should also have to contri-
butte money for the support of soldiers
in camp. There are those, for example.
who think that Uncle Sam, and not
private beneficence, ought to provide
the soldier boys in fever-stricken
camps-not only those who are sick
but those who, although not yet in
valided, are compelled in obedience to
government orders to swelter like in
mates of an inferno in sitting tents
with such a necessary article as ice in
this phenomenally hot weather.
We cannot answer this argument
and do not propose to try. The fact
is enough that the government does
not supply ice and that ice Is impera-
lively needed. At Camp Meade the
spirit of the Pennsylvania volunteers
who enlisted for war and have been
kept by the war department in the
background while far less efficient reg
iments were given early assignments
in the fighting corps is none too cheer
full at this time and it is now doubly
wise for the friends of these volun-
teers at home to raise no technical
objections but to contribute for their
comfort promptly and literally.
We are gratified at yesterdays gen.
erous response to the call for an Ice
Fund for the Thirteenth; but we trust
that the contributions will continue.
All money thus raised will be put to
a noble use; if there should be more
than enough to purchase the required
amounts of ice there are many other
comforts and some essentials that can
be procured in addition. Go on with
the subscriptions,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07
ACTION AND INTELLECT.
From the Chicago Record.

From the Chicago Record.
1t would seem that Mr.. Benjamin
Kidd's idea that human progress is not
primarily intellectual-an idea clearly set
forth and strongly buttressed with facts
and reason in Mr.. kidd's remarkablo
book entitled Social Evolution"--has "a
fresh and convincing illustration in the
developments springing from the cuban
problem. Mind seldom or never has been
a pioneer force in preparing the way for
Ne great movements of the race. 1t has
ventured far into the future and beck
I'd civilization on. Rather has nina
IN content to occupy itself with obser-
ition and analysis OF what already has
Jeen achieved.
This Is but another way of saying that
theory lacks much of being tho worlds
light and salvation. Man proposes and
God disposes,. Man dreams, speculates,
theories, dogmatizes; but his dreams,
speculations, theories and dogmas are
like pins in a bowling alley before the re-
sistless force of social evolution. Even
the most audacious thinkers now and
again are compelled to acknowledge that
civilization outruns them, overwhelms
them and puts their most treasured phil
osophies to rout.
Mind was not the pathfinder in the Gu
ban matter. Mind did not plan this i'm
portant development in modern history
nor does mind foresee its consequences.
Cuba's freedom. Porto Rico's escape
from tyrany, the prospective liberation of
the Filipinos, our own radical change of
national policy-none of these was due to
the intellect of America, to the reason
of America, to Americas Interpretation
OF abstract justice or international law
Progress in this instance, like similar
progress always, was the result of a kind
Of spontaneous forward movement of So
ciety.
There is no doubt that President Me-
kiuley stood In awe of what has hap
pened and wanted to avoid 1t II by any
possibility 1t could be avoided. There also
is no doubt that in his apprehension, In
his proneness to keep close to the terra
iirma of precedent and principle, he had
the sympathy OF the best thought of the
country. President Eliot, of Harvard, de-
plored the nations policy of intervention
and Professor Norton of the same institu-
tin Is even now depressed by the belief
that we have made a tremendous mis-
take. Mind hesitates, but society acts
and history is born. 1t Is another in
stance of the stone rejected by the in
tellectual builders becoming the head Of
the corner.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

ut is claimed that we have MEM
bers in our party so potent and so
powerful that they are responsible for
the acts of the party. I do not admit
this. j claim that the Republican party
in Pennsylvania is greater than any
man in it. 1t is party of the people.
1t is the peoples party. No one man
can stem the tide of Republican sway
nor impede Republican thought. The
time has not come with the people of
Pennsylvania when in order to kill one
man in the Republican party we must
slaughter the party."-Colonel William
A. Stone.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

The brief one-act tragedy to be
known to future generations as our
war with Spain has been accompanied
by many odd. not to say exceptional
incidents. Not unneted among these
have been the violations of military
law by inexperienced soldiers. From
the outbreak of hostilities it has been
difficult for vast portion of the troops
to realize that an actual war was in
progress. Scarcely until the sick and
dying began to return from southern
camps did the country believe that the
army was not exempt from the in
evitable results Of war. That the men
themselves regarded it in a different
light from the real thing is frequently
illustrated. Take the case of young
Behringer, of the Twelfth New York,
who took a census as to the views of
the regiment concerning further SER
vice. Suffering disgrace and severe
punishment for the offense, he uttered
no complaint against the edict, yet
firmly declares that he had no idea that
1t was breach of military regulations.
The officers became convinced that he
had not meant to commit so serious a
fault and he has finally been sent home
on sick leave. The many Irregularities
and the lenient treatment which has
somewhat generally followed put a
more agreeable face on the stern front
of war and seem not to have greatly
disturbed the discipline.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07
COLONEL STONES PLATFORM.

1t will be my purpose when elected 10
so conduct myself as to win the respect
and good will of those who have opposed
me as well as those who have given me
Their support / shall be the governor
of the whole people Of the state. Abuses
have undoubtedly grown up In the legis-
lature which are neither the fault of one
party nor the other, but rather me
growth of custom. Unnecessary inVcsti-
cations have been authorized by commit
tees, resulting in unnecessary expense to
the state. 1t will be my care and pur-
pose to correct these and other evils In SO
far as / have the power. 1t will be my
purpose while governor of Pennsylvania,
as it has been my purpose in the public
positions that l have held, with GOD
help, to discharge my whole duty. The
people are greater than the parties %
which they belong. I am only jealous or
their favor. l shall only attempt TO win
their approval and my experience has
taught me that that cae best be done ny
an honest, modest, daily discharge OF
public duty.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

General Goblin is receiving great ova-
tions at Camp Sherman, where he is
commander-in-chief of the Grand Army
of the Republic. The brave veteran Of
many battles. whose appointment came
too late for him to distinguish himself
in the war with Spain, this week stands
on a camp ground made familiar by
the presence of comrades who love and
honor him. Doubtless to him the tent
ed field, little indeed like that of war
time, means more almost than the one
recently occupied with the remnant of
what was the National Guard. May
he live long to enjoy the distinction of
commanding the Grand Army of the
Republic.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

If the citizens of New York are as
patriotic as we think they are they will
demand the opportunity offered by a
parade to tender an ovation to the
Rough Riders and other brave soldiers
who fought before Santiago. The OBJ
jections of the secretary of war to such
a parade should not be allowed to tri-
umph in this case. The heroes of Ell
Caney should be asked to parade. IL
not while in the service then as soon as
they are out of 1t.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

DR.. Swallow labels himself "a farm
er's boy, a school teacher, an editor
and a hunter of thieves" The doctor
ought to know his proper classical
tion, but there is a shrewd suspicion
abroad that he has been steadily retro
grading since leaving his first condi-
tion.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

County fairs have received a black
eye under the recent construction of
the revenue law. All county fair as
sociations must pay $40 and all other
shows in connection with the same
must pay so each. In the case of the
defunct Lackawanna county fair.where
the prize COW ate up the big pumpkin
and burst the entire combination. such
a tax would have meant ruin. For
tunately this year no such catastrophe
is to be feared.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

The Venezuela scare during Cleve-
lands administration had at least one
good effect. 1t caused an overhauling
of our naval matters, resulting in the
admirable system that showed up so
splendidly in the war with Spain.
When an effort was then made to mod
ernize the army it was tabooed as un-
necessary. We know better now.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

Base ball is on the wane. and it is
probable that as a national sport it
will soon sink to the level of cock
fighting. The trouble seems to have
been a misunderstanding as to the
mission of the players, whom many
believe should cultivate rowdyism rath-
er than skill on the diamond.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

The death of Lieutenant Stacey at
Montauk Of typhoid fever opens anoth-
er phase of the question as to whether
violent athletics do not weaken in
stead of strengthen the constitution.
Lieutenant Stacey was perhaps the
most famous foot ball player on the
West Point team. His sudden collapse
under the ravages of fever is regarded
by many physicians as an argument
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

The way in which royalty seems de-
termined to eXterminate itself prom
ises to put foreign anarchists out of a
job. The Empress Frederick of Ger
many is the latest to suffer a catas-
trophe by fall from her horse.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

The papers say that General Shafter
took a dose of quinine Sunday night
supposed to size up with his own avoir-
dupois. 1t was forty grain dose, but
as the general still lives it is possible
that the reports of the dose have grown
in proportion to the demand for news
from Montauk.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

The cause which has to be bolstered
up with falsehood and scandal lacks
the intrinsic qualities of success, and
that is why nothing but disappoint-
ment is in store for Wanamaker and
Swallow.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

against the over physical training at
colleges. Not at all infrequently cele-
brated athletes have found upon pre-
senting themselves for examination for
a,my service that under no considera-
tion would they be received.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

An ice famine is rendering the con-
dltion of New Workers more pitiable
in this heat. Ice went up from 50
ton to $40, and in some cases to $21
in one day. so the soldiers are not the
only ones who suffer. There is a vast
difference, however, between being pro-
tected by a roof or lying on a bleak
hillside with only a thin tent to keep
off the burning rays of the sun.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

Signs of good times abound. Indi-
vidual deposits in national banks were
$252, 900 or IA per cent. larger on July
IA of this year than one year before;
bank clearings in August were Is per
cent better than in 1897 and 90 per
cent. better than in 1892; and the ma
tional gold reserve is now at the high
est point in it's history. Let everybody
look cheerful.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

General Miles emerges from the war
with clean record of uniformly good
work to his credit and with the conf
dence Of millions who have none in his
war department detractors.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

With the return of the summer tour
list golf will again claim attention as
a healthy autumn sport. There is really
nothing Objectionable about golf aside
from the golf suits.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07
A GREAT CANVASS.
From the Elmira Advertiser.

From the Elmira Advertiser.
Colonel Stone 10 making a great cam
vass in Pennsylvania. He is on the stump
and meeting the enemy's arguments at
every point, besides pushing unanswer>
able Republican arguments at them. The
hope of defeating him has vanished into
thin air already and every day shows
more clearly that his high character and
intellectual strength and splendid record
have made him one of the most popular
of Pennsylvania statesmen.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

Now that the war is over, General
Pando tells how it might have been
prolonged if several things had hap
pened. If all Pando says is true the
public will probably be glad that he
kept quiet until it was all over.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

Congressman Jerry Simpson deliv-
cred a speech Saturday night which,
instead of making his audience vio-
lently i'll. had that unfortunate effect
on the speaker himself.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

General Kitchener's irresistible cam
paign in the Soudan shows what an
army can do that is trained for its
special business and not made the foot
ball of politicians.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

England has evidently resolved that
the only way to shed light upon the
dark continent is to close the eyes of
as many Dervishes as possible.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07
THE BAND WAGON A DRAY.
From the Maryvllle Tribune.

From the MaryVllle Tribune.
The time will come when Willie Bryan
would cheerfully give UP at least rs per
cent. of the gate receipts if he could re-
call that Omaha speech in which he so
emphatically opposed the retention of the
Philippines. What Willie mistook for a
Landwagon has turned out to be a dray,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

The state treasury has not lost a
dollar through defalcation since 1t
passed under Republican administra-
tion. This is hard fact which pune
lures a vast deal Of flatulsnt accusa-
ton
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

European nations will now be pleased
to hear what Queen Wilhelmina thinks
about universal peace.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07
Trade Chances in
fhe West Indies.

CD HE interest In the business oppor-
tunities offered in Cuba and Porto
Rico which is felt by the business
men of the United States Is shown
by the large number of letters ON
that subject now being received by the
treasury burt au of statistics. These
come from all parts of tho country, but
especially from the great manufacturing,
producing and business centers. The in
quiries are generally for statistics as to
the imports into those islands, the pur-
pose evidently being to determine the
class of articles demanded and the coun-
tries from which the supplies nave been
drawn in the past few years. This in
formation the bureau of statistics has
been able to supply very fully, it's figures
showing in great detail the articles inn
ported into those islands from each OF the
leading commercial nations during the
past decade.
In general terms it may be said that
the imports into Cuba and Porto Rico
have averaged about S60000,000 a year
during the past decade OF this about
one-half was from Spain, about one
third from the United States, and the re-
mainder from England. Germany, France
and other nations. This average of $780,.
100000 per annum is probably consider
ably below the normal consuming capac-
NY VI lHe lSldnuS, tHe HnpuIlS VI tlc past
two or three years having been greatly
reduced because of the war. OF this av-
erage annual importation of $50, 900 into
Cuba and Porto Rico about IS per cent.
has gone to Cuba, about one-third, az in
dicated above, being from the United
States, one-half from Spain, and one
tenth from Great Britain. The large
percentage of imports of Cuba and Porto
Rico which Spain was able to retain for
her own people was due both to Spanish
influence among the merchants and i'm
porters, and to the discriminating tariff
in favor of goods coming from SPAN
Now that these influences in favor of
Spanish merchandise are to be removed
there is an especial interest in the ques-
ton of the class of articles which have in
the past been imported from Spain into
these islands, ard this information the
figures of the bureau of statistics supply
in detail.
The following tables show the chief ar
ticles exported to Cuba and Porto Rico
in 1895 and 1896 from Spain, the value be-
ing given in Spanish pesetas, the value If
the peseta being 1913 cents.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07
COUNTY.

Congress-wILLIAM CONNELL.
JudgeAF. w. GUNSTER.
Coroner--JOHN ]. ROBERTS, NJ. ID.
Surveyor-GEORGE +. STEVENSON.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchu
The Tribune Astrologer.
Astrolabe Cast; 2.Si u. M, for Wednes-
day, September Z, ls9S.


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A child born on this day will notice
that there is nothing the matter with the
backbone OF the hot wave.
Osman Digna has escaped again. Os-
mans charmed life is doubtless due TO
ability to show clean pair of heels.
Alger's face is liable to take the place
of the Spaniard target in the shooting
gallery of the future.
Contributors to the soldiers ice fund
no doubt feel like attaching a revenue
stamp to their offerings
Although the war is over the street
commissioner will please notice that there
is Trocha still maintained on Meridian
street.
General Shsfter is said to be the only
fat soldier left.
Ajacchus' Advice.
Never let another man tell your fish
story If you expect to become famous.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

The shallow well is getting in its
work at Camp Black at the rate of
twelve typhoid patients q day.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

In his own good time william Nc
Kinley will unload Alger and remedy
Algerism, the bane of the army.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

The British at Khartoum appear I,
have remembered Gordon.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

The Spanish people, says a Madrid
dispatch, are apparently convinced
that Spain must accede to whatever
the United States demands. We con-
of wisdom
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07
LEGISLATIVE.
Senate.

Senate.
Twentieth Dist.-JAMES c. VAUGHAN
House.
First District-JOHN X. FARR.
Second District-JOHN SCHEUER, JR.
Third District--N. c. MACKEY.
Fourth District-JOHN +. REYNOLDS.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

regulating the employment and provid-
ing for the health and safety of men,
women and children employed in man
ufacturing establishments. renovating
works, printing offices and cigar and
cigarette factories, which act was
aimed at the sweat shops of the
large cities, and was q wise and proper
law. 1t passed law preventing the
publication of immoral writings or lit
erature. It passed a law authorizing
boroughs to make appropriations for
free Libraries. 1t passed law to pre-
vent the spread of diseases among
horses and cattle; n law prohibiting
the discharge of soldiers from public
positions In the state; law to protect
employees of corporations in their right
to form, belong to and join labor or
ganizations; a law to prohibit the adul-
teration of milk, cream and cheese; a
law preventing penitentiaries and other
penal institutions from using machin-
cry for the manufacture of articles
inside the institution so as to take
away the competition between machine
made goods by criminal labor and hand
made goods by honest labor; a law
authorizing labor claimants to take
Joint appeals; a law prohibiting mine
officials from soliciting contributions
from their employees; a law preventing
superintendents and other officials of
jais, penitentiaries, ETC., from employ
ing more than per cent. of the in
mates in making brooms, brushes, etc,
and not more than 10 per cent. in the
manufacture of all other goods except
mats and mating, in which only 20
per cent. of the inmates can be en-
ployed a law to protect the people
against quackery in medicine. 1t passed
law making eight hours days work
by the employees of the state and NUM-
cipal corporations.
These laws are not complained of.
They are not criticised, neither are
they mentioned. Many other good and
wholesome laws were passed by the
last legislature, but the Republican
party is criticised not because of the
laws it did pass, not because of the
laws IL ulu nOl pass, DuI because OF
some bills introduced by individuals
that did not pass. 1t seems to me that
such arguments are a reflection upon
the intelligence of the people of Penn
sylvania. And when you come to get
at the real complaints of our critics
they grow out of and exist because of
the personal annosity which some
members of our party seem to have
against other members of our party.
There have been grievances no doubt
There have been disappointments no
doubt. But they are personal and in
dividual. Are the people ready to make
the grievances of individuals their own
grievances? Are they ready to over
throw the party which has blazed the
path of prosperity in the state and in
the nation because some member Of
the party has an individual grievance
against some other member of the par
ty?"-From Hon. William A. Stones
Speech at Williams Grove.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

Sir Herbert Kitchener is the Dewey
of the desert.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07
Ajacchus' Advice

Never let another man tell your FISH
story II you expect to become famous.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-07

The following tables show the chief ar
ticles exported to Cuba and Porto Rico
in 1895 and 1896 from Spain, the value be-
ing given in Spanish pesetas, the value Cf
the peseta being 1913 cents.