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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-07-15

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ADIEU

Adieu, Sons and Daughters Of the first
pair of mortals!
Adieu, City-you know not of celestial joy
ripping in tune with nature!
Adieu, Fame-a sunbeam following the
darkness of night!
Adieu, Gold-glittering dust of the earth,
valuee,s in the land of Heaven!
Adieu, Mansions-you wall the sky, hide
the moon and the stars!
love the unbroken peace Of the country
uniting the purple heaven with the
green-carpeted earth below;
love the sanity chant of the winds touch
ing their odorous fingers to the harp of
the angel Spring;
L love the undiscording sounds of thou
sands of birds, whose concord of song
echoes on the rivulet afar;
muse on the solemn mountain which
waits in sound content for the time
when the Lord calls forth;
I roam with the wings of high-raised fam
tasy in the pure universe
Oh, 1 chant in the garden Of Adam and
Evel
Behold! The nights shadow grding round
our half-sphere, the world goes into
reverie-
Yea, my spirit in a dream rises afar to
steal the matchless pearls of eternal
stars
Hark! the far-off fowl sings of the divine
morn of light! hail the glorious suns
ascent!
chant again of the complete order of the
universe with the earth, with the
heaven above! -Yons Noguchi.
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resentatives OF the administration? Has
1t not had everything its own way? Has
not the Dingley bill become law. and
lis it not in full force? Was not this all
that the Mckinley advocates demanded
as a condition precedent to the full
restoration of confidence and the return
of prosperity? There was certainly
nothing in the Republican platform
about the declaration of the gold stand
ard; but. on the contrary. a pledge to
promote the double standard. Indeed,
the president has subsequently declared
that our currency is all good, and some
of the ablest members of his party have
publicly asserted that, whereas some
charges are desirable, they are not es-
sential at this time.
Mr.. Cages impetuosity would be dis
turbing did 1t not promise to prove an in
strumentality in the working out Of that
desirable event foretold by Senator
Chandler few weeks ago--the distrac-
ton and disruption of the Republican
party, the election of free-silver con-
gress this year, and the triumph of Bryan
in 1900. That faith will reconcile us to
any display of desperation upon the part
Of Mr.. Gage and his gold cohorts.
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FATUoUS PROMISES

In his talk in the New York Times of
yesterday morning, Mr.. Gage explains
that the enormous accumulation of mon
ey in the financial centers of the coun-
try is not an indication of want of con-
fidence, but simply an evidence of the
abnormal richness of the country; that
it represents mortgages cancelled and
debts paid by the people of the west
to the people of the east, and that just
as soon as the agitation of currency re-
form is concluded, and it is certified
that sound conditions underlie national
finance" we shall witness prosperity be-
yond parallel.
This is simply the Republican cam
paign pledge of go attired in a new
midwinter suit, and it is as unreli-
able as it is contradictory. 1t will be
noted that he denies the absence of con-
fidence, and then, in the next breath,
states what is necessary to secure a re-
turn of confidence. 1t Is doubtless true
that the surplus cash at reserve centers
has been somewhat augmented by con-
tributions from the interior, represent
ing the receipts of the farmers for their
grain; but it is fact, which the weekly
reports of the New York banks will
abundantly prove, that the reserve at
that chief financial center had reached
the highest point ever known before a
bushel of wheat had been harvested and
before a bale of cotton had been placed
upon the market.
Mr.. Gage neglected to tell the readers
Of the Times that in this great and pros
porous country, with q surplus of grain
sufficient to feed the world, and no sim
gle drawback to universal prosperity ex-
cept adverse financial legislation, the
money men Of the nation refuse to take
chances upon investment in any pro-
ductive property, in real estate, mills or
factories, because of the continuing fall
in the price of everything except gold,
and that for the first time in the history
of the nation American capital has been
sent abroad for investment He might
have told the Times readers that the
London balance of his own bank at this
moment approXimates four millions, and
that it has placed loans there during the
past four months at per cent.
But why these frequent explanations
and apologies upon the part of the rep
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Patronage a Bar to Success

1t is the belief Of the politician that "the
people" are opposed to the reform Of the
civil service and favor the spoils system.
If the politicians would think about the
matter they might reach different con-
clusion. Some day even the most blinded
will admit that patronage is not an aid.
but an obstacle. to success The most
clamorous applicants for place are not the
most efficient supporters man may have;
often the case is quite contrary to this
Louisville Post.
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A MoRIBuND ISSUE

Senator Perkins has again changed his
mind, or one of his minds or part of
his mind, on the question of Hawaiian
annexation. At the last reckoning, the
senator said that while he was not per-
sonally in favor of annexation he should
vote to ratify the treaty because. as he
asserted, the great majority of the peo-
pie of California were in favor of it. The
basis of the senator's assertion was
promptly challenged and shaken by the
opponents of annexation, who showed
that his statement concerning the senti-
ment of the people of this state were, to
say the least, not well taken.
The senator also vouchsafed the opin-
ion that the treaty would easily receive
the necessary two-thirds vote when it
should be acted upon by the senate. His
views have changed upon this point also,
if an interview printed in last Thursdays
San Francisco Call affords any criterion.
The senator says, among other things:
So much opposition is disclosed and
so much apprehension exists as to the
danger Of departure from long-recog-
nized principles of national policy that
1 am convinced that annexation is dead
for this session and perhaps for all
time.
The senator is undoubtedly honest in
his individual opinion, and it is to be
regretted that he did not follow it from
81 %
expressions.
An interesting question remains,
whether annexation can be accomplished
by resolution or bill in case the treaty
fails of ratification. Upon this point
Senator Perkins said:
A resolution or bill would be uncon-
stitutionaL In fact, leading senators
who are now favorable to ratification
of the treaty would oppose the process
of acquisition by resolution. Texas
was brought in by bill because the
territory acquired Joined the United
States and was adjacent. Moreover,
the proposition was submitted to vote
of the people of Texas, and by a vote OF
nine in ten they asked for annexation
Senators of great influence now favor
able to the ratification of the treaty
adhere to the opinion that the treaty
making power rests wholly with the
president and senate.
The senator's explanation throws new
light upon this important point, while it
takes away prop from beneath the
hopes of the annexationists. 1t would be
unseemly to preach funeral sermon be-
fore the subject is dead, but it may be
we'll to practice a decorous countenance
to be worn when the Hawaiian treaty
shall be acted upon by the senate.
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Should Cease Quarreling

People who appreciate the good that is
being done by both the Salvation Army and
the American Volunteers wild regard with
distress the quarrel which has broken out
between those two organizations over the
illness of Mrs. Ballington Booth. 1t is
unseemly, and reflects upon the reputation
of both sides for charity and true religion.
There is work enough for the Volunteers
and the Salvationists in combating the
misery and sin IN the slums without vast
ing energy in fighting one another. The
quarreling and recrimination should cease
at once.-lChicago Chronicle.
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Better Than the Klondike

In spite OF all feverish haste to be rich.
maugre all Klondike crazes, and all so.
cialistic crazes pursued by those who ex-
pect or hope In some magical or indefinablo
way to live off society, with little personal
effort, 1t is still a truth. and ever will be q
truth. that the rewards of this world will
go to those who earn them by slow. pa
tent, steady industry: by careful. prudent,
calculating endeavor; by painstaking APP
plication, temperate living and slow saw
ing.-Portland Oregonian.
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BUSY Times for the Kaiser

The emperor Of Germany has been dis
tinguishing himself of late In his conduct
of foreign affairs. Just about two years
ago came his message Of congratulation
to Paul Kruger, and since then he has been
striking swashbuckler attitudes all over
the map. In the spring he directed the
campaign against Greece and gioried in
the Moslem triumph, under German drill
masters, over Christian civilization; and
now, within two weeks, he has seized the
territory in China and trained his guns
upon a city Of the West Indies Meanwhile
he is teasing his people at home for larger
navy.-Springfield (Mass-) Republican
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been too much perversion Of public in
stitutions from the uses for which they
are legitimately designed to the selfish
influences and purposes of politics and
politicians. Once more, Hands offl
Keep politics out of the public library"
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The arbiter appointed by Secretary
Olney has decided against the claims OF
Charles Oberlander and Barbara M.
Of San Diego for claims ag-
aggregating $4,000 for harsh treatment
accorded them by petty Mexican off,
cials. Their demands, it was thought by
state department officials, were espec-
tally meritorious.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-01-05

American politics. Federal interference
ina STRUGGLE Of this nature would be bad
enough were the means employed open
and above board; this resort to sleuth-
ing caps the climax Of Republican au-
dacity, and emphasizes the Importance
Of defeating the man in whose interest
1t is invoked.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-01-05

Senator Teller. as our dispatches this
morning indicate. takes serious view
of the mooted ACKNOWLEDGMENT of China,
so far as that consummation would eff
feet the interests of this country, and
thinks we should join Great Britain in
a protest. His strongest point is that
the Chinese would become a nation of
slaves with whom it will be impossible
for American producers to compete.
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Fears the Power Of Trusts

Secretary Sherman talked 50 bravely q
few weeks ago against the growing power
and multiplying evils of trusts that the
people were led to hope the subject would
receive earnest attention from the nations
chief magistrate in his first exhaustive
state paper. The presiuenss a al 1,,,
Important matter can be accounted for
onw on the hypothesis that he did not
choose to expose his party to the re-
nroaches and enmity Of the benefciaries Of
the trusts.-St. Louis Republic.
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nossn,t Need MOVE Food

Colonel Charles Page Bryan, whom the
president has selected for the Chinese mis-
sion, is pretty nefvy and premature in
dfvidual, II 1t be true, as reported, that
he asked the secretary OF the navy for 9
hatt1eship 10 carry him to China. Colonel
Bryan may consider himself lucky II he Is
permitted to travel to Pekin by the usual
route.-Rochester Herald.
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The conviction is beginning to force
itself upon the several peoples of the
earth that General Weyler is succeeding
in making of himself several
different kinds of an ass, all pale gray.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-01-05

The appointment of Judge Paxson as
receiver of the Interstate commerce COM
mission would seem to be in accordance
with the eternal fitness of things. 1t is
a railroad asset and he is representa-
tive railroad man.
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to Improvement is a thoroughly aroused
public sentiment. with this, the legal
remedies. 50 far as practicable. will be sure
to be provi led in course of time, and. what
is more to the purpose. win be enforced
MINNEAPOLIS Times.
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The Broadway Toboggan slide

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Herald
Can something be done for the unfortun-
ate horses that must pass over the Broad
way toboggan slide opposite The Herald
office? A street foot and half too high
in the center certainly reflects a want in
some branch Of the city government Let
the crusade Of street improvement be ex-
tended to Broadway, between First and
Second. OBSERVER.
Los Angeles January a.
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An Inquisitive

| To the Editor of the Los Angeles Herald
| Will you inform me. through your columns,
| IL Harry Johnson. secretary of the board
of education, is of Swedish origin?
QUERIST.
| (Mr. johnson is authority for the state
ment that hts ancestors were Germans
| Ed.)
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Cause and Effect

One of the minor consequences that gem
orally follow the formation Of a trust. only
Of course, has already mate.
rialized from the new cracker trust--that
Is to say, the price of crackers has been
advanced.-Detroit Free Press
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The fifteen majority on joint ballot,
claimed so confidently by the Hanna
crowd last month, seems to have lapsed
into "Reminiscences.
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The Cincinnati Commercial-Tribu
insists that Foraker is for Hanna, and
we doubt not he is, but opposed to his re-
election.
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The identical note stage has not
yet been reached in the Chinese i'm
broglio, but the type-writers are being
limbered up for the inevitable.
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Mr.. Thomas G. Sherman has plan
all his own for the solution of the cur
rency question. 1t will take the usual
reference.
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THE PUBLIC PULSE

(1ho Herald under this heading printi
sponsibflity for the sentiments expreseed
Correspondents are requested 70 cu!tlv1te
brevity a. far a. Il con3istent with tnc
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IT am thinking Of rendering my rssigna-
ton" remarked one official.
II envy YOU" was the reply. II wish
dared
ssWhy, It's free country" E
"Yes-but mine would, as likely as not,
be accepted. --Washington Star.
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Our Washington correspondent notes
the departure for Ohio of considerable
division of the treasury department the
object of their mission being but i'll con-
cealed. The honor of the administration,
it is claimed, is at stake in the senatorial
contest in that state, and it is proposed
to preserve it by methods as dishon-
orable as any the ever disgraced
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-01-05
Eos ANGELES DAILY HERALD
SWORN STATEMENT CIRCULATION

State of California, County Of Los Ange-
1es.-ss.
L. NJ. Holt. superintendent Of circulation
of the Los Angeles Daily Herald. being
drst duly sworn. deposes and says: That
for the 1--WE months from February L 1897.
to June 30. 1897 Qnclusive), the total circu-
lation Of the said Daily Herald was 1890 Gas
copies, being an average daily circula-
tfon Of S004.
That the weekday circulation during the
above time was 1.07l.567. being n daily
average of S3O6 copies.
That the Sunday circulation during the
above time was 2ls,05s, being an average
for each Sunday of 1O,431.
L. NJ. HOLT.
Superintendent Of Circulation.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day of July, 1897.
FRANK J. COOPER.
Notary Public in and for the County OF
Los Angeles State Of California
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After Hanna has Joined Plat, some
thing like seventy million people will
again try the experiment of self-govern-
ment
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Bright Outlook for Annexation

The outlook for Hawaiian annexation
grows brighter every day--brighter for
this country. The longer annexation il
delayed, the less probable It becomes.-@
indianapolis News.
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Cages talk about prosperity is simply
plea for an extension on Republican
promissory notes, long overdue.
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If it be demonstrated that money will
no longer buy senatorship in Ohio,
then can the friends of liberty take new
hone
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President Singerly is rapidly becom-
ing converted to the doctrine Of COM
prehensive national bankrupt act.
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The administration should stop fill
clustering in Ohio as well as on the
Florida coast
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-01-05

England would doubtless agree to in
ternational bimetallism according to the
Gage definition.
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Chandler may not be profound
statesman, but he is doing pretty good
service Just now as bugler.
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Let not charity die with the old year
Give to it something of the freshness
and vigor of the new.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-01-05

Hanna has discovered that convention
endorsements are more ornamental than
useful.
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A commission to codify the currency
bills seems to be needed.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-01-05

Ohio clearances are likely to show a
Marked increase next week.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-01-05

The Chinese problem is no longer a
strictly local issue.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-01-05

Prosperity has struck New England
with a dull temper cent-reduction thud.
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SPECIAL EDITIONS

The San Francisco Chronicle issued Its
annual edition Sunday, and without dis
paraging the special features OF its con-
temporaries, it is only just to say that its
Industrial, agricultural and horticultural
summaries were the fullest and most COM
plete issued. The Chronicle alone of the
San Francisco papers seemed to compre-
bend the value and Importance of secur-
ing these statistics and presenting them
In an Ineligible manner. The whole state
is covered, and the edition is invaluable
for reference purposes.
The Albuquerque IN. ny Democrat
would not be satisfied with less than TWEEN
ty pages for its New Years edition, and
they make splendid showing for the COM
mercial metropolis of New Mexico
The Ventura Free Press has issued a
very creditable 16-page edition, especially
devoted to the large and varied interests
of Ventura county, celebrating thereby Its
twenty-foure- birthday.
The San Diego Unions 16-page illustrat-
ed special edition takes good care Of the
interests of San Diego county, and gives
information that many people desire.
The Pasadena dailies, the Star and the
News published excellent Tournament OF
Roses editions. The event was very well
handled by both papers
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We are likely now to have season Of
Yellow sea journalism.
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Prosperity dependent upon famine and
distress elsewhere comes high.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-01-05

The business of the modern prize
fighter appears to be to b1oviate.
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Again we remark that, az an eye-openers
Mr.. Mckinley Is more Of & SUCCESS than ~
q mill opener. atlanta Constitution.
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Sound papers discount the Klondike
starvation stories.
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The classified list has not been ex-
tended to postmasters, but there is a
law that should be stronger and more
binding upon the president in making re-
movals than any act of congress or rul-
ing of department officials. But this law,
as will be seen by a perusal of our Wash
ington letter, elsewhere published this
morning, is about to be violated by the
summary dismissal of the widow of the
late Senator Kenna of West Virginia,
who has been the postmistress at
Charleston, in that state, since the
death Of her husband. She is efficient,
worthy and needy as well, for she was
left dependent, and her only offense
consists in. being the widow of Demo-
crat. But Steve Elkins needs the berth
for one of his strikers, and the good Mr..
Mckinley will lend his signature to the
consummation of the outrage.
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A GOOD START

Mayor Van Wyck's initial message to
the assembly of Greater New York
should be reassuring to all interested in
a wise prudent, conservative and decor
Gus government for the second city of
the world. 1t must at the same time
serve to confound that narrow class of
hide-bound partisans who affect to be-
lieve that no good can come out of Tam
many, and that Democratic government
is organized robbery. Judge Van Wyck
is credited with an ambition to give to
the metropolis the best government it
ever had, and if he shall live up to the
doctrines of his first public utterance,
he may achieve that lofty ideal. His
definition of the duty of public servants,
by which he proposes to hold all to a
strict observance, is in itself a model
platform, covering the whole PROPOSE
ton of municipal government. The
declaration of the president of the police
commissioners, in connection with the
commendable utterances of the mayor
who appointed him, is also indicative of
a purpose to give vigorous enforcement
to laws nationally construed.
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And when the man Of business had read
this far he ejaculated: Great scotti I
must have left that blamed phonograph
running all last night. "-oakland Tribune.