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The times., 1898-02-09
Act at Once,

Believers in the patriotic policy of Ha-
waiian annexation are in the salts
factory condition of knowing that there
is a positive, large and unquestionable
Majority in favor of the project, not
only in the Senate. but in the House of
Representatives.
While this is true, it must be conced-
ed that il is not so certain two-thirds
majority In the Senate can be counted
upon with complete safety for the
treaty. There. are those who think 1t
can. After looking over the situation
very carefully. We do not believe that
it viii do to take the chances. There
fore. we think it well to urge upon an
nexationist Senators that they drop the
treaty and take up the Morgan joint
resolution which can be passed in the
Senate without difficulty, and with al
most as little in the House, whether
Speaker Reed likes it or not AS an
Administration measure il is not pos
sible that he would be allowed to OBJ
struct it, The joint resolution now be-
fore Congress, or the Morgan amend
ment to the White resolution, which
has been referred To the Senate COM
mittee on Foreign Relations, either OF
them would do the business.
Chances and delays alike are danger
Gus. The annexation of Hawaii is de-
manded by every consideration of ma
tional interest. honor and safety, and
by vast majority of the American
people. Not a respectable reason why
we should not acquire the Islands has
been shown in the debate. or published
in the press Of the country. But one
substantial obstruction has been op-
posed to the measure. and that has not
been successfully defended on the floor
of the Senate by the gentlemen identi-
fed with it.
Let Congress act, and act quickly!
We want to see the ice OF American
patriotism broken in some direction. A
little taste of good old-fashioned pat
riotism somewhere viii do us good, and
give US all the better appetite for Cuba
and the Nicaragua Canal.
The times., 1898-02-09
GOING 20 cERrAIx pEATH.
A Correspondents Picture of the
spanish SOldiery.

spanish SOldiery.
One Of the most vivid and strongest
pictures of the Spanish army in Cuba
recently published is that OF Lais
Bonefoux. a Spanish writer OF some
note, recently published in La Campana,
a Partisan newspaper. under the date
of January i. The article has attract
ed considerable attention among Cuban
sympathizers and Americans in Paris.
and is translated for the first time for
an American newspaper for the benefit
of the readers of The Times this morn
ing.
The articles. in speaking Of the poor
soldiers sent 70 Cuba from Spain. says.
They go happy and joyous 70 look
for the enemy. They go to their tomb.
The Spanish soldier like the French
soldier on his return from the Russian
campaign. goes across the steppeS
without finding anyone. Choked by tue
malarial atmosphere and surrounded
by flames and seeing but the fieeting
shadows Of the insurgents. who only
appear when they can Kill with GER
tainty. nature there is on the side OF
the enemy. Against nature nothing
can be done. In this horrible pere-
grination in search of an anonymous
i0nD young men OF twenty years sun
denly become old men. The immense
majority fall one by one in the brush
A large part dies in the hospitals full Of
infection. and those who return after
having given their youth 10 elevate
Weyler seem like walking corpses gstt-
vanized by the supreme effort of their
will Yellow as wax. with their bones
covered with nothing but the skin Gn
them. their eyes moving with the IN
tensity of fever. splitting blood from
their consumptive mouths. bent by the
age of the tropics. and shiyering under
their duck uniforms, those who nave
not had the good fortune TO be thrown
into the sea are landed. huddled To-
gether in a train. and sent across the
desolate plains of CASTLE To dance the
.danse Macabre." with their galvanized
bones. and those who send them 10 their
death continue To live. warmed by the
stoves of Congress, whispering that
cuba is lost. but without having the
courage 10 publicly declare it,
And the cattle continue To go 20 ihe
slaughter house. ,.,.a,
we have already buried 2oo.oev-
There is still youth We can YET pFE!
more. Let US open their graves
The times., 1898-02-09
No Man Can Explain.
rErnrl the HnmanilaIlan.I


Isaw Hindu out in the open street axe
hree good sized balls. larger and heavier
thanhens- eggs, and commence tossing them
nm in the air, catching them as tnel fc-
turned. SoOa his hands Were nsoticnleS>,
but the balls kept ascending. and, So far as
/ know, are ascending still They did not
retgru. wer. they dematerialized by some
invisible psy ychic power; such is my opin-
ion.
During M stay in Madras there came
own from the mountain a genuine psychic
and seer. H. was truly n veneer bic mystic
In bungalow on a bright sunSniny Gay,
O'Clock p. IN. a dozen present. this old Yogi
burned incense, repeateds some Aantras, and
said in substance: Now / can move any
object in this room by M will. Rejecting
a few moments, said. Make the book IL
ing on that stand move" Pointing mis- lean,
bony figure toward it, he said, Come /,
GOMEZ The stand trCmbicd, the book fel4
UPON the floor, and slid to his feet. There
was No hypn ptiSm, no jugglery. about this
phenomenon Command those peacock
plurnes up .Eere to COM to you,' contin-
ued,
focusing his thought. his VIII. upon them,
they leaped at his bidding from the case,
and, sailing around the room. fell at his
feet. Other objects wera moved in similar
manner. This was genuine white ma gic
The times., 1898-02-09

ed. and John Bull will be left out in
the weather, although he will try to
shut his eyes to the fact, as well as he
may be able The fierce desire of the
British ministry to find peaceful so
tuition of everything at the present
time is not without it's advantages to
the Gar. Russian diplomacy is always
able to sugar-coat or gild any pill
which its opponent is willing to swal-
low. In this way the real continuous
defeat of England in China at and on
every point in controversy, while con-
spicuous enough on the face of the
returns, is covered up for parliament
tary and press consumption, by such
subterfuges as il is reasonably sup
poSable have been resorted to as
means of retreat in this Chinese loan
business. What the succeeding devel-
opment may be is unknowable; but,
as long as the present entente between
Russia, France and Germany, as to
Oriental matters, shall continue, Great
Britain is practically helpless. This
consideration is important in connec-
ton with any effort that may be made
to entangle America in the anti-Rus-
sian policy OF England and Japan.
The times., 1898-02-09

ment by injunction, by controlling a
great national election through bribery,
fraud and intimidation, and by the
suppression of one branch Of the ma
tional legislature.
In view of these necessary adnlis-
sions, perhaps we are not in the best
position to criticise our neighbors. But
two wrongs never made a right. and
the present manifestation OF corrupt
oppression and governmental crime to
cover crime may be useful to us
as light upon the rocks of political
subjugation and perpetual slavery to
which we as a people have seemed to
be drifting fo1 number of years.
The Zola case is pretty well known to
readers of The Times. 1t grows out
OF letter addressed by Zola TO the
French Government, in which he pro-
claimed the Innocence of the prosecuted
Hebrew captain. Dreyfus, denounced
the court-rnartial which whitewashed
his accuser the bogus Count Ester
hazy, whom Zola pronounced the real
criminal. and declared that Gen. Billot.
minister of war, had in his possession
documents which would entirely eXcul-
pate Dreyfus. but which were being
deliberately suppressed. For some of
his aspersions on members of the Es-
terhaZy court-martial the government
has sought to prosecute him, without
allowing him to touch upon other dan
gerous matters contained in his letter.
In this. however, it was defeated, the
judges deciding that he is entitled to
prove all of his charges if he can.
This is the more surprising and cred
liable to the judges, as they are not
independent officers as with us, but
subject TO substitution or removal at
the will OF the minister of justice. They
have gone a step farther. and ordered
that all the material witnesses de-
manded by Zola, except Gen. Billot,
minister of war, shall attend and tes-
tify. What the government may do
to meet this defeat is hard To guess. 1t
is certain that it is engaged in con-
spiracy to prevent NJ. zola from prov
ing his case
The times., 1898-02-09
Ana ly8ing 1t.
(From the Cincinnati Enquirer1

(From the Cincinnati knquirerJ
The India lapoiis monetary conference
has again suggested plan OF finance. In
its general features it is the same old at
tack on the interests of the people. 1t pro-
vides for the retirement OF greenbacks, the
issue OF bon.is which may be used as q
basis of banking. and so on There is a
constant temptation to fall back on the
terse obsery 1tiou OF Congressman Joe Can
non that we do not need currency re-
form" ana s.uld not get il If we did need
it. We surely do not need anything that
would be opposed to biinetaliism. 1t would
be better to maintain the present condition
til bitnetalliSIn is in the saddle
The times., 1898-02-09
4 List WARMING

Mr.. Mckinley may as well realize that
the time has come to do something
about Cuba, and that that something
must be done at once. Patience. Con-
gressional and public, has been ex-
hauste3. Every excuse. subterfuge and
lie have been swallowed. until the Ad-
ministration has reached the length of
its tether. and faces d:shonored, out
ragged and betrayed nation ready for
almost anything.
1t is said that Mr.. Mckinley is pale
and hasgard, So is Senior Sagasta! A
common policy and purpose may have
produced like facial phenomena under
present circumstances, But that pol
icy and that purpose have reached the
parting Of the ways. The day of the
Hanna -Sagasta alliance for the benefit
OF the Spanish Cuban bondholders and
the Sugar Trust is over.
1t would have been over long ago if
art influence and money had not been
used to convince this people that if
America We're To touch the match of
Cuban Intervention. or even of recog-
milton, to the powder magazine of the
worlds international relations a uni
versal cataclysm of grief and gore
would Immediately follow
The hour Of President McKinley's
probation is past. The horrors of the
Spanish war against patriots. prison
ers. non -combatants, virtue and baby
hood in Cuba must instantly cease. If
the present Administration is under
orders from its masters to acquiesce in
such reign of inhumanity and afro
city, tEe American people are not.
They intend that there shall be i'm
mediate intervention in Cuba, in be-
half of liberty the common brother
hood OF man and fatherhood of
God! In the Senate today the tocsfn
OF freedom for Cuba will sound. Let
the Administration and the hitherto
Spanish Republican party heed it!
The times., 1898-02-09
NEW CURRENCY DOCTRINES.
Ex-Governor Jones, of Iowa, on TIE
Nations Duty


Fairfield, Iowa, FEB. 8.-Ex-Gov. Jones
addressed a large audience here tonight
under the auspices of the Library AS
sociation on the subject, "A National
Duty: What Should 1t Be-" In handling
the monetary question. the governor ig
nored all party lines, and presented
views entirely new to the discussion OF
the subject
After reviewing the present status of
the national currency and predicting
that, ten years hence, national banks
would either hold the purse-strings of
the Government or be upon the high road
to extinction, ne said, in part:
II would not retire single dollar of
the existing national currency.
Let Congress provide that for the re-
dempticn of existing United States and
Treasury notes there shall be main
tained in the Treasury a reserve of %
per cent Of the aggregate Of the face
value of such notes outstanding, one
half in silver bullion at the market val
ue and one-half in gold bullion at the
same value; that three days grace shall
be allowed fer their redemption after
demand and deposited In the Treas
ury for that purpose; that they shall
be redeemed in gold or oliver at the
CLftiHltDI > OplfCU dl tlt HidIhtt
price Of the mstal used for such pur-
pose, or in coin Of either met tai if coin
is demanded, and shall theTeupOn be
reissued as at present provided: that on
the day Of redemption th5 Treasurer
shall purchase in the open market a
quantity Of bullion equal to that re-
quired for the redemption Of the notes.
Let Congress further provide that.
upon receipt of either gold OF silver
bullion at the Treasury. there shall be
issued to the depositor certificate ex-
pressing in dollars its highest market
price on that day.
Make these certificates not the bullion
they represent a legal tender in payment
for all claims. public or private. and pro
vide for their reissue as fast as redeemed,
and so legiSldte 10 turn the gold and sill
yer streams that filter through our mines
away from the open markets for the
world and into our national Treasury.
zone thing more, and our national cur
rency would be complete Preserve our
present silver coinage and silver GER
tificates as we have them now, and let
the Government increase their volume.
They are the money Of the masses.
The times., 1898-02-09
Eng land i'm the East

Matters in the Orient are apparently
in something the condition of a dead
lock. China cannot accept loan from
Great Britain, owing to the objections
of Russia, nor, according to the dis
patches. from Russia, because Eng
land objects. So. the Tsung-Li-
Yamen will issue 100. 0.000.0 900 taels in 5
per cent bonds. and sell the same to
anyone who will take them If we
are not very much mistaken, this
means that Lord Salisbury is to be
let down easy in consideration of his
prayerful desire to avoid fight Rus
sia will not insist upon making the
lean, and r,t.sh pride viii be p,acated.
But syndicate of financiers with
headquarters in st. Petersburgh, and
hindquarters in Berlin. will snap up
those bonds as soon as they are print
The times., 1898-02-09
CONCL DIES ITS HEARING.
The Sena.e Civil Service Committee
Is Dope Taking Testimony

The Senate Committee on Civil Serv-
ice and Retrenchment concluded it's
hearing yesterday. This committee
has taken a great amount of evidence
both for and against the benefits of the
civil service law, with view to formu-
lating amendments thereto. The COM
mittee has decided TO consider the
great bulk of evidence now before it.
Yesterdays hearing was principally
devoted to the refutation of Mr.. Proc
ter After Mr.. Proctor had filed the
minutes of the commission on ali the
cases cited by Mr.. Bailey. in which he
alleged the rules had been violated, Mr..
Bailey was permitted to cross examine
Mr.. Proctor.
Mr.. II. A. Baker of the anti-Civii
Service League, was the last witness
before the committee. He gave figures
which he claimed proved that the cost
of transacting the Governments bust
ness was greater under the civil service
law than under the former system.
The times., 1898-02-09
THE PeATT REQUEST BILL.
Powerful T.obbies for and Against
1t at Annapolis.

'seBDltS lDf dhu Against
1t at Annapolis.
Annapolis, Md, Feb. S.-A number OF
the leading lawyers in the State were
here today working for and against the
Pratt bequest bill This measure leaves
to the Shepard Asylum for the Insane,
at Baltimore, s1s50O. 600, provided that the
present legisla ture changes the name of
the institution to the Enoch Pratt and
Shepard Asylum. These were the cOndi-
tons imposed by Enoch Pratt.
Six of the nephews and nieces of Mr.
Pratt, who live in Massachusetts, and
who, by the terms of the WILL would
come into possession of this money in
case the legislature failed to change the
name. are now engaged in fighting the
bill 1t has passed the senate, but is now
being held up in the house.
There is said to be a barrel of money
ready FOR use on both sides. and large
sum has already been spent on lawyers.
There was a public hearing today. at
which arguments were heard for and
against the bill
The times., 1898-02-09
THE TRIAL AT wILKESBARRE.
Judge Woodward Indignant Because
of an Anonymous Letter.


WiIkesbarre, Feb. S.-The only note
worthy incident in today's proceedings of
the trial Of Sheriff Martin and his depu-
ties was the announcement made by
Judge Woodward that he had received
a communication threatening him bodily
harm.
The judge denounced the writer of the
letter as a scoundrel and a coward-''A
scoundrel for trying to influence my
Judgment in cause at trial. and a cow
ard for sending an anonymous communi-
cation. 1t will not influence my judg-
ment nor cause me any fear
After the buzz which the judges rig
orous declaration had elected had sub
sided, the judge ruled against the ad-
mission of evidence as to the threats al
legged to have been made by Deputy Hess
against Witness Costello.
The testimony elected from the wit
nesses examined today was not substan-
TALLY different from that heretofore
given concerning the firing of the depu-
ties upon the strikers and the disastrous
results and panic that followed the fusil
lade
The times., 1898-02-09
MR.. PETTIGREWS SPEECH.
The Argument BE Advances Against
AnnexafiOn


The executive session Of the Senate
yesterday was taken UP entirely by Ser
ater Pettigrew. who spoke in opposition
to Hawaiian annexation He Will cCn-
ciude his argument today.
Mr.. Pettigrew, in dealing with the
commercial side Of the question. showed
that vessels travelling in straight line
from San Francico 20 Japan would not
touch at Hawaii at all. The straight
line was 900 miles shorter. which meant
three days less sail
Hawaii. he contended, would never
become mart for trade because il was
not "a distributing point ard could only
consume the goods needed by its own
limited population.
In discussing the military phase OF
the subject. Mr. Pettigrew took the
ground that the islands were useless fer
the reason that ships Of war could not
SAIL frorn them TO the mainland ard
then have coal enough aboard to per-
NIT them to do any fighting.
Mr.. Pettigrew proceeded to show that
there was nowhere Cn the globe an
Anglo-SaxOn sett1ement in a tropical
climate. In the English colonies in the
tropics the British subjects formed
scarcely more than a garrison. In Brit
ish Guiana. for instance. he showed
that cut of a total population Of mere
than 100000 there were less than 5000
whites. This was intended 70 prove
thatthe whites could net live in Hawaii
and that American labor would not sup
plant the cheap Asistic labor OF che
islands.
Mr. Pettigrew produced statistics 20
show that the sugar lands were not de
creasing as has been claimed. and also
statistics to show that the imports into
the islands have been falling. while the
population has been increasing. This
trade was going TO Asiatie countries
and reDresented the consumption Cf
Asiatic goods by As.atic laborers.
The times., 1898-02-09
And the Spanish petticoat was, as usual,
in extreme evidence.

According TO State Department adrn:s-
sions. the Clip Ter note from Minister Wood
ford discloseS the highly novel proposition
that Spain wants more timei" There is
not particle of doubt that the dministra
ttOn is agreeable, and would give it gladly,
IL it had any more time Itself. But il
happens that, on the Cuban question.
time" has been called on Mr.. Mckinley.
lie cannot give what he has not in stock
and neither Congress nor the American
people VIII make further advances to him.
The times., 1898-02-09
Mr.. :,pohn Is Honored.

Mr.. Milfard Spohn was last evening
elected an honorary member of the Build
ing Trades C1until as a testimonial of its
appreciation of his services in behalf of
the trades lnioEists Of the District. The
meeting was well attended and Presid ent
Richard In lis was in the chair. The
committee n CHARGE of the arrangements
for the mas meeting in the interests IF
suffrage for the- residents of the District
on February Is reported that there is no
doubt that the Ineeting will be a success.
The times., 1898-02-09
CHARGED WITH HIS MURDER.
Mrs. Sorg Arrested While Leaving
Her Husbands Funeral

Buffalo, Feb. S.-As soon as the body
Of Michael Sorg was in its grave today
his wife was placed under arrest, ON suS
picion OF having murdered him. Two
thousand people who. attended the funeral
at Lancaster were watching for this in
Cident but Constable Merkle lost sight
of the woman for a moment when the body
mad been 10 Eered, and Mrs. Sorg quietly
made her way through the crowd and
started rap. iiy toward her home. The
constable 'rtOok her and delivered his
warrant
Mrs. sorg took his arm and they pro
ceeded to tn house, where she attended
TO some hn4sehoId affairs and then ac-
companied he constable 70 the Buffalo
jail. Her son, George. who was arrested
yesterday as an aCComplice. attended the
funeral, escorted by a deputy sheriff.
The times., 1898-02-09
The meph,tic effect upon the at,pospber

The meph,tic effect upon the atmosphere
OF a gathering of Tammany braves in
their own Higwam is indicated by what
happened to Mayor Van Wyck the other
night in New York, when he attended an
initiation meeting. He was so overcome
by the heat, after partaking of the cere
monies for some time, that he had to be
carried home. But 1t was not a serious
stroke, and, rom the published accounts,
we judge tn 1T he went peaceably.
The times., 1898-02-09
Lending the Helping Hand.

tFrOm n Phil1 deiphia Leuget.J
The agreement Just concluded between
our Government and hat of japan COnferS
upon Japa aase in the United states all
the rights accorded to the people OF the
most favored nation, including those cf
naturalization and full citizenship. This
is IN unusual proceeding. never considered
necessary in the case Of Europeans Of any
nationality, but justified by the affinity
of the Jap1neSe to the Chinese and the
la ws against The latter. It Will strengthen
the friendly Citations between the United
States and Iapan n and viii help the latter
To reach that position among the Lead
ing nations of the earth 70 which her
ambition prompts her.
The times., 1898-02-09
FINDS FAULT WITH COLLEGES.
Secretary Wilson says They Are
Not Practical Enough.

jacksonville, Fla, Feb. S.-Secretary
Wilson, OF he Department Of Agriculture.
THINKS tina. the colleges OF today pay
more atten ion to Greek and Latin aIg,l
not enough 90 the practical side OF life. and
he illustrated this In his talk here to
night by giving instances of the trouble he
had i'll securing assistants in special lines
from college graduates ID.
Secretary Wilson and Dr. Harnold ar
rived here mis- morning FOR weeks trip
through the state. During their stay Mr.
Wilson visitel he tobacco and other farms
near the city.
This evenI 1g he was entertained II the
board OF trade rooms, nut il was prac-
ticaI business reception. as he devoted
the time - giving advice to Florida
farmers on sobacco and other crops grown
here. He eft tonight for south Florida
The times., 1898-02-09
STANDARD OIL COMPANY RATES.
Continued Inquiry ny the Ohio Sen
ate -estlgatiDg Committee.

dte III t~tledtib- toiAiii'i'''S.
Cleveland. Ohio. Feb. S.-The senate
investigating committee made further
examination into the Standard Oil
Company affairs today, investigating
few minor institutions. and at !
o'clock adjourned and returned To Co
lumbus
&. w Brown. secretary of the SEQ
field. Shurmer & Teagle oil Company,
threw some heavy shells at the Stand
ard Oil Company.
Brown said that rates on part car
lots of oil had been increased So per
cent in the past ten years, while rates
on full cars had been lowered 40 per
cent. This. he said, operated against
the small companies.
The times., 1898-02-09
French Notions of Jus,tce

The opening of the ZoIa trial in Paris
affords an illustration of the not alto
gether new fact that the worst corrup-
tion and despotism can exist under
nominally popular institutions. We
have seen something Of the same thing
in our own country, where the liberties
of the people have been encroached
upon by the application of govern