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Washington sentinel., 1898-01-08
King George of Greece.

Prince George Of Greece, following
the example of his brother, the Crown
Prince, has obtained leave of absence
for twelve months on the pretext Of
recruiting his health. The fact is that
the Princes are exposed to so many
virulent attacks in the press, and to such
offensive manifestations of unpopulafity
on the part of the public in connection
with the late war as to render their ex-
istence IN their lsther's dominions intol-
erable.
Their absence from Greece will Ieaye
the King alone with his wife and his
two Younger sons--Prince Nicholas and
Prince Andrew-the latter a school boy
and the former a captain of artillery.
Nicholas lacks strength ofcharacter, and
in the event Of trouble at Athens King
George will find himself practically
without support, moral or other.
The King of Greece was a.penniless
Danish princelet serving in the English
navy as a mIdshipman when elected to
the throne OF Greece, and happened to
be mastheaded by way of punishment
when the Greek plenipotentiares came
on board the British man-oi-wsr to
offer him the crow n OF Greece. He has
anlassed thirty or forty millions OF
dollars. not as, IN the case OF King
Charles OF Roumauia. by real estate
transactions in his dominions, or as, IN
the case OF King Oscar OF Sweden. by
Keeping hotels, brewing beer and COM
petIng in other forms Of industrial
enterprise and under exceptional advan.
taRes against his own subjects, but by
speoulating in foreign stocks. The
foundation OF his enormous fortune was
laid at the time OF the Turkish-Russian
war bycolOssal transactions in American
wheat.in Ehich he was supported and
aided by the then United States Minister
at Athens, the late General Meredith
Resde. An unfortunate editor Of an
Athens paper who published this fact
had his journal eonfscated and sus-
pended aud was sentenced 20 six months
imprisq Snent.
Washington sentinel., 1898-01-08
wheat Prices win Hold Up.

There is a general disposition to
consider this years high price for
wheat as something that will
wholly expire with this years crop,
and to look for a return to low
prices next year, barring some
shortness in the European crop.
The Financial Record, of New
York, does net think this view is
correct. The present scarcity Of
wheat is due, it says, to natural
causes more largely than to acci-
dent.
In our early days Of wheat ex
port, when our rich Western prai-
ries were being broken up and
sown to grain, it W IS the common
thing to get, in Ohio. Indiana,
Michigan, Illinois, and on west
ward to Kansas, as the tide of emf
grafton flowed on, crops Of fifty and
sixty bushels per acre. Our area
has spread, il the ground has since
then reduced its productiveness to
twelve or fifteen bushels per acre.
Our area has spread to make up
for loss in yield, because we had
wonderful expansion OF railroad
building all oyer our western
prairies. et
Now IN Russia, in Southern Rus
sia. wheat growing has been on
soil very much like our Western
prairies. Here, too, the yield per
acre has been decreasing steadily,
but new railroads have not been
built to open up fresh land. The
same thing applies in Argentina.
In India many causes will prevent
an early return to production 10
permit any large exports of wheat.
In Australia there has been done
by two years Of drouth and OF peri
ods Of very light temperature, a
damage it will take good while to
get over. Canada will make some
addition to her production, but our
own wheat area is likely to be
taxed to its capacity for several
years to come to meet the worlds
demandiOr wheat. There is good
deal more permaneEcy about pres
ent prices, or, at all events prices
not much below a dollar, than is
generally thought. This means
that wheat growing will become
profitable again, and this is a dis
tinct and a large help in turning
the general business OF the country
forward to bettGr times.
Washington sentinel., 1898-01-08
Worst on Record.

The auxiety of the Presi dent
over Hanna's election, says the
St. Louis Rcbu6hc, increases as
the day for meeting of the Ohio
Legislature approaches. For two
weeks the working force of the
Post Office Department has been
weakened hv the absence IN Ohio
of an army OF its employees who
have been foing Hanna's spy
work. Nipht and day during
these two weeks they have been
dogging the footsteps OF every man
OF prominence suspected of un-
friendliness 60 Hanna. Even their
travelling expenses will be paid by
the Government While they are
engaged in this nstlrious business,
Tor they dare not confess that they
were not pursuing their official
duties while touring the Buckeye
State.
Still doubtful Of the result of
the Legislatures action. President
Mckinley has sent FiIst Assistant
Secretary OF State Day 5us to Ohio
to logroll and bulldoze and to bar
ter Federal patronage for Hanna.
Judge Day has in charge the inn
portant work OF the State Depart.
ment. He has been conducting
the correspondence with the Span
ish Foreign Office. 1t Is not prob
able that anyone can take up that
correspondence at the critical
iuncture in the relations between
the United States and Spaiti and
do justice to the tremendous and
momentous interests involved.
The impetuous and i'll advised
Dons may precipitate crisisl at
any moment. II il should come
now, Judge Day would De away
from his desk and out OF immetii-
ate reach of his subordinates.
No such shameful disregard of
the public interests was ever be
fore showed by President Of the,
United States. No such misu sc
OF Federal officers and employees
was ever before countenanced by
a President.
Washington sentinel., 1898-01-08
ENGLISH HAMS.
0aEly GrseAie-London. Dec. a.

DafH GyabAic-London. Dec. a..
The Secretary Of the Bacon curers'
Association of Great Britain and Ireland
INVITES our attention to the conviction
OF the Junior Army and Navy Stores for
selling, as English and irish, hams
which, as a matter of fact, came from
Canada. II grave offe nse, aud v Would
have received our attention in any case;
but we cannot follow our correspondent
in his representation that protest is re-
quired in the interest Of British trade
and agriculture" Canada is an integral
part of the British Empire, and there is
no conceivable reason Why Canadian
hams should not be bought aud eaten by
those Londoners who prefer them. Rus,
OF course, il is just as immoral TO
Canadian hams as and at the pric \
Irish hams or York hams as il would
to sell British wines or cigars nnder II
eign labels. When this is done, mo x.
Is being obtained under something
like false pretenses; and il Is sinql
to be hoped that the fines impose
Mr.. de Rutzen will operate as a whole
some warning to those members Of the
trade who need the caution.
Washington sentinel., 1898-01-08
Plea for the FIng.

TO governments as well as in
dividuals actuated by a laudable
desire to avoid trouble there
comes sometimes the danger of
accomplishing their purpose atthe
expense Of their self-resPect. This
seems to have been illustrated in
case OF the American schooner
Wallace Ward, just arrived at New
York.
In the harbor OF Barcelona,
Spain, recently, the spectacle Of
the Wallace Ward lying at anchor
with the American colors floating
from her masthead appears to
have aroused the ire OF the Spanish
populace, incensed at the United
States for alleged overofficiousness
in Cuban affairs. The American
Consul was informed that this hos
,ile feeling had reached point
where a mob was proposed to be
organized for the purpose of burn
ing the Ward There was no
reason for this contemplated des
truction of the vessel, save that
she carried the American colors.
DESTROYS of avoiding trouble.
the Consul sent for Captain Kel-
sey, commanding the Ward, and
advised that skipper to haul down
the Stars and Stripes. The advice
was Indignantly rejected, and Cap
tain Kelsey boldly defiec the Span
iards. The next day, however,
Spanish hatred had reached such
pitch of intensity that the Consul
again repeated his advice, upon
which Captain Kelsey struck his
colors, stored the United States
flag below decks, where it could
not offend the eyes of the Span
iards, and the Wallace Ward then
rocked IN satetY IN the harDor oil
Barcelona. a ship without a coun-
try, or, at least, afraid to avow its
nationality.
a flush of shame is exceedingly
apt to follow any good Americans
reading OF this story. Jingoism
and national bumptiousness mag
not fairly be charged as instigating
an insistence upon the right of an
American vessel to display the
American colors in any port of the
world to which her business may
call her. 1t is the duty of Ameri-
can shippers to carry the flag at
the masthead OF the crafts they
command, and it is the duty of
American Consuls to see, at all
hazards, that the flag OF this coun-
try is respected in foreign waters.
Washington sentinel., 1898-01-08
Tsmes-London. Dec. a.

II will be plenty Of time to take mate
rial steps OF decided l.ind when we see
a little more clearly exactly what it is
that the Russians and the Germans pro
pose to do, and what the immediate
consequences of their conduct are likely
to be. But no time ought to be lost by
us in preparing to take a firm course if
the development OF events should show
that our commercial and political inter-
ests in the Far East will be injuriOusly
affected BY the new state OF things ~ the
Gulf OF PechiIi. As all the world knows,
our trade interests in China enormously
outweigh those OF all other nations put
together, We cannot afford to have
them hurt by the action of any Power or
OF any group 81 Powers, whether that
action is dictated by the spirit Of Chris
tan chivalry or by the rGis0H d'ekaG we
have repeatedly acknO wledged that bolh
the desire OF Russia for an open port Ia
the Pacific and the desire Of Germany
for coaling statiCn in the Far East are
not in themselves unreasonable. But at
the same time we have never hesitated
to affirm that any changes in that region
by which our rivals gained must be fol-
lowed by fair compensation" to this
country, All that at the moment we
need do is to make clear our determin-
alton not TO suffer our secular position
in the China Seas to be weakened by
the action of other European States.
Washington sentinel., 1898-01-08
FOR EIcN Ew s
TyaHSEaEed asd SsIscEeH irons leading
Hssr06saaS SdbsYSI01 tie SENTINEL.
ENGLAND.
RUSSIAN occUpAr1oNo OF PORT ARTHUR
.S1anaayd--London, Dec. "a.

SEasaard-London, Dec, "a.
From Yokohama comes intelligence
that the Court of St. Petersburg has
notiiedto the Japanese Government the
Temporary occupation" of Port Arthur.
Here the fact of the formal intimation
is the really serious thingj the equalifying
adjective can be interpreted only as one
of the conventional phrases required by
diplomatic fashion. That Russia has
taken permanent possession of a position
of supreme Importance at the entrance
OF the Gull OF Pechili, and that Germany
has concurrently made provision for
establishing something in the nature OF
a fortified settlement on the Shantung
Peninsula, are two dominant and indis-
putable facts. They may not involve at
once a wholesome disruption, but they
constitute change in the pre-existing
status which marks the beginning a new
order of things. 1t would be premature
to prescribe to the British Cabinet the
precise lines upon which English action
should proceed. To select aright the
positions which should be occupied as
an answer to the spirited initiative of st.
Petersburg and Berlin is a mixed ques-
ton OF strategy and of commerce.
Military and navil advice may be pre-
sumed 20 be already at the disposal of
our authorities, aud no nation possesses
a larger store OF expert knowledge on
matters reiqtinP ~ 'radG and industry.
Il must ~ fecoEui 1ed that Raasia hy
securing the naval station o. Port
Arthur, not only acquires the means oi
carrying out, at her own pleasure and in
her own way, the absorption of Korea
and Of Manchuria but obtains extraor-
dinary facilities for bringing pressure to
bear upon the Court Of Pekin.
Washington sentinel., 1898-01-08

United States and thereby driving
il to the next most favorable con-
ditions, will arrest development
here, chill Canada's sentiment and
desire to join us, and build UP a
neighboring government which
may become a troublesome factor
on this continent.
"The contention that immigra-
tion reduces wages, | hold, is not
well taken. For the last thirty
years the tendency OF wages has
been gradually upward, with
hardly a check The trouble is
that labor is not distributed. The
cities are congested, while in many
parts farmers 6ud it difficult to OBJ
tain help.
at is claimed that the ignorant
element controls legislation and
does our voting, and in the cities
administers public affairs gener-
orally. But the ignorant vote is
not all on one side OF the political
line. The indifierences and lack
of energy on the part Of the natives
to actively participate is more to
the point.
"It is held that we are over
crowded and that the population
is becoming so dense that we are
actually in need OF elbow room.
The best authorities say that we
can accommodate seven times our
present numbers without over
crowding, and even then fall be-
low the condition of Europe in
density OF population. The State
ofTexas alone could have taken the
entire overflow for the rast ten
years with great advantage to her
interests.
"1he only practicable method
whereby undesirable immigration
can be restricted is to hold the sub
agents of the great steamship lines
responsible. We cannot reach
these men by our law, but we can
reach their pockets. There are
many thousands of these agents
scattered all over Europe, and
these men have an intimate knowl
edge OF the intending emlgrants.
No one knows them better. l
would subject these agents to fine
through the steamship offices in
this country for every undesirable
person they send to US.
"Then extend the period one
year at present specified and keep
an immigrant constantly passing
through the Immigration Bureau
until he becomesa citizen. In the
event OF his becoming a pauper or
developing into criminality deport
him. Follow this up by guarding
more closely our naturalization
requirement and many OF the evils
of immigration will disappear.
The Anarchist and the trouble.
some foreigner is the very one
whom the educational test permits
to pass through. The poor, SIM
pie, pic dding laborer seldom gives
us trouble. He is content to dig
in ditch and glad OF chance to
live. 1t is the fellow who is edu-
Gated beyond his station who gem
orally proves to be discontented."
Washington sentinel., 1898-01-08
Glo6e-London Dec. a..

What Port Arthur will be in Russian
hands il is easy enough to imagine. AS
the southern terminus of the Siberian
Railway, it will be a seaport OF enor.
NOUS strategicaI. and commercial possi-
bilities The Notifications which al
ready render it so formidable will
doubtless be materially strengthened in
the near future, and the harbOr will
be made absolutely secure against tor
pedo attack, 1t is safe, too, to predict
that the whole OF the peninsula on
which Port Arthur stands will quickly
become Muscovite territory. Russia ls
not accustomed to do things by halves,
and when once her right to remain
permanently at Port Arthur has received
general recognition, it will soon become
clear that the security OF Russian inter-
ests at that important point demands
the acquisition of all the territory lying
between it and Siberia.
Washington sentinel., 1898-01-08

1t is probable that King George will
shake the ancient dust OF Greece from
his feet shortly alter the marriage OF his
daughter, Princess Marie, TO Grand DaCe
George Of Russia, few weeks hence,
and will reside IN his beautiful palace az
Copenhagen, which is being made ready
Tor his arrival.
Washington sentinel., 1898-01-08

Seveasl inanciers az Paris hAee re-
eeived the Ls0iOn Of Honor from the
French GOverum~Tt at the personal
request ol KING George Dy way OF reward
for keeping hlm posted ana iCesiEg
after his interests on the Bourse.
Washington sentinel., 1898-01-08
Rsstev LLovd--Vienna.

Eighty per cent. of the Chinese trade
is still in English hands, and the chief
object of the Germans in settling in
KiaO Chau, and of the Russians in
gaining foothold in the Gull of Pechili,
and Of the French, who having sent a
my sterious scientific expedition to the
Yunnan, is naturally 10 oust, by com.
bined action, the English from their
political and commercial position--In
other words to unsaddle John Bull
throughout Asia. The compliance OF
England is made use of, or rather
abused. She not only gave Port Ham
ilton back to China. but with costly
forbearance, suffers the continuance
of well known conditions in Thibet.
All this Is for the safe of peace; but a
combined attack upon England's COM
mercial superiority must drive her INTO
action, and it is, perhaps, unwise on the
part OF her rivals to challenge a Power
which has still the largest fleet in East
ern Asiatic watera. Russia knows what
she would risk in a war which, from the
Yellow Sea, would spread to all the
Continents, and il is difficult to believe
that she can mean anything serious for
the present-least OF all the division of
China.
Washington sentinel., 1898-01-08
CosMo DE MEDIcI, as srArEsaAS.
Consular Journal.

There must have been some strange
force in the family of the Medici, which
enabled them for three centuries to
make their own history in the history of
Florence. Cosmo was one of the first
who left his stamp on his country, and
handled the men OF MS time to his own
glory and the peoples gain. Cosmos
natural gifts were backed by immense
wealth, and he exercised over Europe
the influence that money gives. The
Medici were essentially money lenders,
but always on a magnificent scale. They
we're cruel--the strong are often cruel
but they used their gold. their power,
their genius, for the advancement Of
Learning, Art, Beauty, and well beingl
When governors are great there is often
a parallel Outourst of genius IN the gov
erned which seems to do honor to the
rulers, and it was so II the Republic Of
Florence. Cosmo de Medici held ho
titulaE position as Ruler OF Florence
He was simply the first citizen of the
town. There was a tacit admission on
the part Of the people that they must
follow his counsels.
The Government was Republican;
there was a Council OF Six; and there
was chief oil the Executive elected
every two months, called the Gonfalon-
Washington sentinel., 1898-01-08

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warships in one port or another should
have a powerfully disentegrating effect.
Moreover, the political situation in
Eastern Asia, so far as il can be surveyed,
affords no grounds for the belief that
any European Great Power Is disposed
to give les interests in China form that
could lead 10 such far-reaching cOnse-
quences.
Washington sentinel., 1898-01-08
Mera4enese6e zsiknnr--tBerIin.l J

The conjecture that the present events
are the beginning of the partition OF
China is really without basis. The oc-
cupation OF Hong Kong BY England,
and that OF a considerable part ofSouth-
ern China by France, have not brought
about the disintegration Of that Empire,
and It is, therefore, impossible to see
why the stay OF German and Russian
Washington sentinel., 1898-01-08
THE WONDERFUL MORNING GLoRrHs s.
OF Japan.

q Sef&ssOye. Z. the "CsnEssyy
Va Gzine,
The Portland daily press., 1898-07-29

What has been done in Westminster
County with gross and cynical impudenoe
is what is done in less fragrant way in
every rural community in which city
people have "places" These people feel
that they are made to pay more than
their fair share of the expenses OF govern
ment, and that the natives ana per
manent residents are favored at thelr eA-
pense. The local government represents
the natives and the taxation OF the prop
erty of the summer residents IS really 81,
taxation without representation. Ino
same discrimination has long been ex-
ercised upon large scale against the ciIy
of New York and in favor OF up 1Le
State" In this case there seems TO %
no real remedy when an appeal fails 10
the justice and honor of the assessors
But the case of MIR. Rockefeller shows
that q private taxpayer may obtain re-
dress when the proceedings against MIN
have been marked by lack not merely OF
justice but of decency or shame. When
the inequality is not great. the taxpayers
Disseminated against commonly prefer
to submit to injustice rather than to re-
sist, although the rural communities
which thus discourage the acquisition In
them Of summer places exhibit themselves
the golden eggs. But there is limit at
which patience ceases to be either v1rtu-
GUS or decent, and the assessors of Mount
Pleasant have passed this limit. We
should be sorry to believe that there is
any community in the State of New
York in which an assessor could increase
his own popularity by proceedings SO
outrageous as those taken against Mr..
Rookefell er
The Portland daily press., 1898-07-29

The conclusion of an early peace means
the saving Of great many millions OF
dollars and, what is of vastly more i'm
portance, of many thousands of lives
The conditions of living in an army camp
are favorable to the propagation and
spread of disease, and while our volun-
teers remain in camp. even if they are not
called upon to do any fighting, the death
rate from disease will be very much high
er than in the same number of men liy-
ing under ordinary conditions. But the
continuance of the war means more fight
ing, and more loss of life from wounds. A
prolongation of the conflict by us for day
beyond what is necessary to accomplish our
just purposes would be indefensible. To ex-
pose our volunteers to sickness and deaJh
one moment purely for the sake of extend
ing our territory would be crime.
They enlisted to accomplish certain def
mite and well defined objects. of which
the extension of territory was not one,
and to use them for this last purpose
would be to break faith with them.