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Christmas tree exercises were held
yesterday in the kindergarten classes
of the public schco 1t was a great
day for the little tots, and a great day
for their teachers
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02
Crime a Costly Luxury

The fact which stands out most
prominently in the statement of the
county commissioners for The fiscal
year ended Jan. 3, 1898, is that COM
monWeaith costs. court EXPENSES and
prison expenses aggregate nearly S92,-
900. or about SO apioce tor every voter
in the county. We suspect that an
analysis of these costs would show that
two-thirds of them are the result of
crimes. That is to say, every voter in
the county is put to an expense aver
aging 81 year hy reason of the scant
obedience shown to the laws OF the
commonwealth in this vicinity. Put
ting the average at 81 understates the
case, for there are criminal costs that
never so on record and these are per-
haps equal 10 the recorded costs. It
also is to be noted that perhaps one
halt of the voters of this county are
not payers of taxes on property. Sub
tracing these and estimating the un-
official costs as equal to the official, we
have an annual average per capita
criminal cost Of $S which has to he car
i'NN ~ N'S '"il'ls VI AdAelJlt property.
If there were included in this estimate
the sums paid in the different cities and
boroughs for police protection the fig
ures doubtless would be doubled
1t t'would be an interesting study, if
one had the time, TO tabulate the fig
ures from the commissioners state
ments since the erection of the county
and to note in what ratio the court
costs have grown as compared with
the growth in population. Such a tab
ulation would give a tolerably fair an
swer TO the question, Are the morals of
the inhabitants of the anthracite coal
region improving? Another interesting
study might be made by comparing the
trend of court costs In Lackawanna
with the court costs in purely agricul-
tural counties whore the racial COM
plexities incidental to immigration are
unknown. President Judge Stewart of
Franklin county once told us that the
years criminal business in that county
could usually be disposed OF in from
one to two weeks. there being only
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

one court. Lackswanna, with three
times Franklin's population but also
with three courts, would consider her
self fortunate to get through the years
criminal dockets in twelve weeks.
There is now ample business for a
fourth court.
Put this is somewhat aside from our
purpose.It would seem that comprehen-
sion Of the foregoing figures would move
the uplifting influences of the COM
nurity to renewed activity in the de-
vclGpment of better citizenship, and
also create n demand for the better en-
fcrcement of law all along the line. IL
the single item Of speak easies were ac-
corded the attention it demands 1t is
not unreasonable to suppose that our
tremendous and multiplying court costs
would sensibly tighten.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

The New Brunswick preacher who
denounced the women of his congre-
cation who confessed themselves ex-
hausted because of playing cards until
o'clock in the morning. had certainly
grounds for complaint, but his argu-
ment that according to Anthony Com
stocks statistics, six people had COM
mitted suicide in one year on account
Of losses at cards will scarcely have
much weight. More than that number
commit suicide in a year because of
domestic infelicities, and yet the clergy
man would scarcely denounce mar
riage, neither would he protest against
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02
TEN PAGES.
SCRANTON. MARCH 9, 1898.

Undoubtedly the happiest spectators
of the pending effort 60 ascertain the
legal status of the Scranton board Of
control are those candidates for school
directorship honors who had the fore
sight to reserve a place under both
umbrellas
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02
THE DANGER POINT.
From the Fhilado nhia Press.

From the Fhilade rhia Press.
The Spanish ministry and public are
scarcely considered by Americans in dis
cussing the chances Of collision between
the United States and Spain, but the
present Spanish situation is the most SER
ious and perilous element in all the var
ious factors which make for peace or
war. Spain is so nearly bankrupt and
her resources have been so exhausted by
the Cuban struggle that most Ameri-
cans deem war next TO impossible on the
part OF the peninsula. In addition, the
Spanish navy is notoriously inefficient
and the Spanish army almost worthless.
Individual courage the Spaniards have.
History has no finer instances of head
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02
Senator Quay In Motion.

Senator Quay Is without doubt the
abest politician in the country; a man
Of wonderful qualities, whose equal
after he shall have retired may not
appear for generation. The idea
which prevails in some quarters that
he is nothing more than a schemer is,
Of course, wide of the truth. Those
who have had opportunity to study him
know that there are few men in public
, life who have his natural equipment
for constructive StateSmanshp or who,
If called to some position making eX-
traordinary demand upon them for
prompt and efficient executive work
as. for example, the secretaryship Of
way at the beginning of a great mill
tarE campaiCn--Could acquit them
Selves as brilliantly as he could
on q battle-fi field. too. it is believed
trat hc would easily take rank among
tho greatest living commanders. His
resource in strategy. in accurate es-
timating Of men, in the ability to for
rlulatc q plan Of action without dis
CuvorN If itS details to the enemy and
IN thc facility With which he rises to
emergencies and comes luckily out of
surprises, is wcll-niEh inexhaustiblc.
Added to all this is q peculiar per-
Sonal fascination which wins men to
him and holds them sometimes even
against their better judgment. Not at
oil magnetic man in the conventional
sense of the word, nc nevertheless is
clothed with hypnotic power which
fcw who have been brought into per-
sonal contact with him have failed to
realize. Beyond all this and perhaps
accounting for a good deal of his sue
cess in life is the fact of his loyalty to
friends and his generosity. lie is nee
essarily cruel az politician. and the
field of his operations is often blood
stained: but the man himself, in his
personal relations, is sinEularly good
natured and humane. Had politics
never compelled him to carry the torch
and gum Matthew Stanley Quay very
probably would have risen to renown
as a philanthropist.
His besettinG sin-and We propose to
he as frank in criticism as in praise
is lazness. He is prone to procrastin-
ate. His Sclf-COntidence is not ogOtis-
tical. it is rather philosophic. hut it
often gets him into trouble which a
little PROMPT activity on his part put
forth at the right time, would have
averted. 1t was so in the Delamater
episode. 1t looked for a time as if il
might prove true also in the peculiar
and OmnOus situation now prevalent
in Pennsylvania politics. Fortunately
the report comes that he is moving;
that he has begun To get a knowledge
of the situa don by personal inquiry
and investigation, and not through the
percOlated adviccs Of none too trust
worthy lieutonauts who, it is strongly
suspected, have been somewhat adj
dicted to the narration Of fairy tales.
All of whftl is important if true, and
Of it's truth we are convinced.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

1t is to be hoped that the house Judi
ciary committee at Washington, will
listen attentively to the presentation
this morning by representatives of the
Lackawanna bench and bar of argu-
ments for the creation in Pennsylvania
of a new federal judicial district. The
arguments with which our people are
armed are unanswerable
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

The Cuban junta, it is said, has in
structed General Gomez to hold himself
in readiness to cooperate with the
American navy in reducing Havana.
The junta should not be too eager.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

A resident of Upper Lehigh writes to
the Philadelphia Press timely letter
protesting against the jeopardizing of
our costly warships and the lives OF
their gallant crews by the use on them
of bituminous coal, with its large la
bility 10 spontaneous combustion. The
point is we'll taken. All naval vessels
should burn anthracite.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

If the aim in holding back the court
of inquiry's report is to wait until the
American people have lost their resent
ment at the destruction of the Maine,
the hold-back will have to continue
until perdition freezes.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

Representative Mahaney, Of Buffalo,
won the admiration OF the patriotic
everywhere the other day when in
frey terms he called attention to the
members of the New York "4OO," who
made attempts to lionize the officers OF
the Spanish warship Viscaya while
the sailors of the Maine were being
borne to their graves. Mr.. Mahaney's
rebukc was timely and no doubt was
merited. but the doings of that un-
thoughtful band of goslings known as
New York's "400' are scarcely or
enough consequence to claim the at
tention of a congressman.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

Bishop Newman is quoted in pub
lished interview as having said that
eve are now passing through the most
unsettled condition of the whole world
since the crucifiXion of Christ" and 1t
is added that he predicted a general
smash-up. We don't believe that he
said a, word of il.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

people annually kill themselves as a
result of going mad over religion.
-
1t seems evident as the days go by
that the yellow press of the country is
steadily and surely bringing itself into
general disrepute by the manner in
which it is manufacturing and pub
fishing sensational dispatches con-
cerning the present difficulties with
Spain. The majority Of readers whose
nerves have been kept at an awful
tension during the past few days are
becoming disgusted to find that much
OF their anxiety has been caused by
fake stories originating in the heated
craniums of New York space writers,
and they are turning to home papers
or to the few reliable metropolitan
journals for news. This fake business
when confined to the discovery of sea
monsters, mdwinter snakes, and en-
counters with bears and ghosts, can be
endured, but when such wholesale lying
is brought to bear upon matters of vi
tai interest to the nation, even the in
dulgent and long-suffering public is
liable to become weary.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

Ioldl ..........,,..........,.. 10
The fare from. San Francisco to Dyca is
S4S first class and 500 second class, and
about s15 in addition must be paid for
freight on the outfit, which will weigh
about $500 pounds. Then comes the
overland travel which is expensive. The
entire cost of a journey from San Fran
cisco to Dawson City including this outfit
cannot be placed at less than 500. or
course many will not prepare themselves
in so complete way. They will omit the
provisions. a good share of the clothing
and camp outfit and all the medicines.
They will expect to obtain these after
they get to Dawson City, but they will
have to pay more for them. The cost
then of miner going to the Klondike,
obtaining his outfit and sustaining him
self during the brief mining season can
scarcely be less than 800. And if 100000
men go the total outlay will be $4,000, 900.
Large as this sum is it is moro likely to
be increased than lcssened.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

What return will there be for this Ia rye
outlay? The largest yield of gold in Cali
fornia was in 1858, the sixth year after
it's discovery, when s65, 900 was mined
In 1919, the second year after the discoV-
cry, s25,000,000 was taken out, and 10000
people had gone there then, and the con-
ditons of mining were vastly more tavor-
able. Mining could be carried on through
all the year, while in the Klondike three
or four months is the limit. The utmost
amount of gold tho l[londike mines can
he expected TO produce in 1925 will not be
beyond $50, ,000. 900 But IL ii costs $40. 000.-
600 to obtain this where Is the gain? If
half or threc-quartcrs Of the 100000 men
who think of going to the klondike will
consider these facts and stay at home
the country will be better off. There is
undoubtedly gold there, but if 1t costs So
for every 81 mined the hunt for it will
make the country poorer instead OF
richer. TO say nothing of the suffering
privation and loss Of life which will have
to be added
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

The practical result of this is that IL
the Maine disaster ends in n diplomatic
demand for indemnity Spain is in a sit
uatlon and Spanish public opinion in a
posture which may make IT practically
impossible for a Spanish Ministry to do
anything but refuse and court war as
the pest way to reach defeat without dis
grace Granted that the Maine was
blown up by negligence on the part of the
local authorities, an adjustment would
be far easier with any one of the six great
european powers than with Spain. The
Dig country could pay the bill and be
done with it. Spanish pride and preju-
ulce are OF exactly such type and tenn
per as TO make frank reparation danger
Gus ior any ministry, and perhaps i'm
possible: III our government therefore.
is forced to ask some reparation. the con.
sequences may be most serious. not be-
cause our claim was not just but be-
cause powerful party in Spain has long
urgeu war with us as the best way out of
a bad business.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

In connection with Superintendent
Howells wise plan to have instruction
given in the public schools concerning
Cuba it might he we'll to place special
emphasis upon the history of the var
ious attempts which have been made
by the Cuban people to liberate their
prosecuted island. The history of
Cuba is one of the most interesting,
dramatic and pathetic pages in the
book of modern history and it is far
too little understood in this country.
our sympathy for the Cuban aspira-
tion for freedom is general when IL
should be definite and based on ac-
curate information. With every neces-
sary allowance made for differences in
standards, social commercial and poli-
tical, between the latina American and
the Anglo-Saxon races, the fact shows
up clear to the careful student of Gu
ban annals that no cause in history is
more thoroughly grounded in Justice
and more worthy of approval and. SUD-
port than the cause of those ill-fed and
desperate patriots who. under an ener-
waiting tropical sun and in the face OF
great discouragement and desolation.
are fighting against tremendous odds.
but fighting successfully, for Cuba
Libre.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

M man has suffered more from
newspaper criticism and carica ture
than David 4. Hin, yet he openly OPP
poses the Ellsworth bill, saying that
an honest public man need not he
afraid of the criticism or witticisms of
the press, and he is right.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

While impotent in organized warfare,
Spanards possess both pride and individ-
ual courage. Failure in Cuba has been
an intolerable national disgrace. The
monarchy is In grave danger. No Span
ish public man can permit himself TO be
associated with the surrender or loss of
Cuba. IL is doubtful IL the throne would
stand the shock of such an event. A
short war with the United States could
not injure Spanish credit, because It is
gone. An American invasion of Spain
is deemed out of the question. Spain has
no mercantile marine. Many Spaniards,
from those near the throne down, un-
doubtedly feel that the dynasty would be
safer and the position of the nation i'm
proved before Europe If Cuba were lost
at the end of war with a power five
times the size of Spain than If the is
lana wrenched itself free and left Spain
impotent, exhausted and discrodited
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

Ir, silence Senator Billy Mason Is
decidedly more eloquent than in speech
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

long courage than occur in Spanish
annals. The idea that Spaniards will
not fight is nonsense but In the CEN
tury since Wellington recorded the
brutal judgment that his dispositions
must be made exactly as If he had no
Spanish troops. because in action they
were worse than worthless, there has
been no reason TO revise this opinion.
Spanish arms have had no success In
century and Spain in that time has been
twice invaded without appreciable resist
cnce from the Spanish army.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

religious enthusiasm because many
people annually kill themselves as a
result of going mad over religion.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

The Tribune's telegraphic news
is from three to five hours frcsher
than that Of any Philadelphia or
New York paper circulated in its
field. Those papers go to press at
midnight; The Tribune receives
news up to 3 a. M. and sometimes
later. All the news in The Trib-
une while it is new.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

Beginning at San Francisco the dis
tance to the Klondike by the way of the
Yukon river is 1850 miles. If the over
land route from Juneau is preferred the
distance from San Francisco TO Dawson
City is about 900 miles. Taking the lat
ter route as the shortest, Il computation
can be made as to the cost of getting to
the mines and sustaining oneself for a
season. An old and experienced miner
who has prospected IT, Alaska gives the
San Francisco Call the following figures
q = m tho npcessarv outfit md ire coct.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02
THE COST OF KLONDlKE GOLD.
From the Philadelphia Press

FTpSS.
Unless all signs are misleading or there
s,ouiu De a sudden change i'm the aspect
Oh national affairs the country is likely
20 70 wl'ness this year an exodus to the gold
helds of Alaska such as has not been seen
IN the United States since the rush to
California in 1Si9. Some estimates place
the number of people who are preparing
TO go to the klondike as soon as the
weather permits as high as $4,000. This
is probably an eNaggeration, but that
great numbers will go there is no reason
10 DOUBT. According to shrcwd managers
OF transportation lines and those who
expect TO make money by fitting out
mining parties there will not be less than
lnoCo men who will seek their fortune in
Alaska this summer, and this number
may be doubled.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02
How to Get at Pension Frauds.

In the North American Review this
month there is an article upon the con-
tinually recurring pension question
which is very liable to stir up a hor-
nets nest. 1t is by DR.. John II. Grid
ner. for many years a pension exam
iner. His way to purge the pension
list is as follows:
let congress pass a law requiring
re examination of every pensioner, or
applicant for pension, who bases his
claim on physical disability contracted
While discharging his duty as a Union
soldier. A board Of medical examiners
should h. established in each state
two or more boards might be required
in some states to facilitate matters.
Each beard should be composed of
two members, one 4 surgeon and the
other physician. They should be Sc
lectcd solely for their eminent and ac-
knowledged professional ability, and
their honesty and standing in the state.
They should give all their time to this
work, and he paid Il salary of twenty
thousand dollars each per year. They
sioner in their respective states. and
report to the government exactly the
physical condition of each, and how
much, if any. disability in any case was
the result of service in the war of Sc
CcssiOn. They would be Influenced by
nothing except the physical facts pre-
scented, and always give the applicant
the benefit Of any doubt. Such a re-
examination would require about one
year to complete it, and would cost the
government from two tC three millions
Of dollars
Twenty thousand dollars year for
such work is putting 1t a little strong
ly. \ better suggestion would be to di-
vide DR.. Girdrcr's suggestion by four.
Eut here is the Hornets nest: "No
man can predict certainly what the re-
suit of this rc-eXamination would he.
My experience for twenty years In the
practice of my profession has made me
familiar with the physical condition of
number Of pensioners, and basing my
opinion on my own experience believe
ut least one-third of those claiming to
have been permanently disabled while
in the discharge Of duty will be found
to be frauds, and would be dropped
from the pension roll" What DR.. Grid
ner believes is. Of course, his own af-
fair; but he will find it difficult to get
the public in this instance to believe
with him. There is a suspicion widely
prevalent that publication of the PEN
sion rolls would lead 10 the detection of
many cases of misrepresentation and 10
a considerable saving to the govern
ment without injury to the honest pen
sioner; but this suspicion has never
gone so far as DR. Girdners has. His
suppostion impresses us as incredible.
One thing remains TO he said on this
subject. The citizen who has knowl-
edge of pensions being fraudulently
drawn is in duty bound to commune
cate his knowledge to the pension de-
partment, and thus open the way to an
investigation. Failure to do this where
knowledge of fraud is specific makes
the citizen particeps criminis.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

VIII it pay these men to travel thou
sands of miles to hunt gold in frozen
region? A very simple calculation will
snow whether 1t Will CT not. Probably
only a sn al number of those going have
sat down and made a dispdssionate csti-
mate as to what it will cost to get to the
l<londikc and be ready to begin work.
Most of them will go in a haphuzard way
trusting to luck to bring them out all
right These, however. who have pru-
dcnce and foresight will count the cost
before starting and listen TO the expert
enCe of those who have been there before
them. AND if those who have not looked
at the journey other than as an advcn-
turous summer trip can nc brought TO
face the facts and the situation as 1t Ia
by n plain statement in figures much
fruitlcss effort and suffering and loss of
life may be aN oidcd,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-02

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