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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

proprietors means less than is sup
posed. They are in the fight more for
notorlety than for profit.
At the beginning OF the war or rather
for some months preliminary to the
declar0t ton of war, one yellow journal,
the Journal by name. became a public
nuisance and 1t would have been we'll IL
1t could have been suppressed as such;
but no one could object to its methods
during the actual contest. Sylvester
Scovel when he attempted to strike
General Shafter struck blow at yell
low journalism from which it is still
reeling. Miss Banks insinuates that
President Mckinley was forced to war
by the yellow journals. This is a fair
specimen of the character Of her argu-
ments and the cogency of her reason
ing. The president has had something
else to attend to than the vaporngs
of the New York journal and the New
York World. 1t was the Skbereen
Eagle. OF County Cork, Ireland, that
startled the chancelleres of Europe by
portentously announcing that 1t was
keeping its eye on the Emperor of
Russia" at a critical moment. No
doubt they helped to formulate public
opinion on the Cuban question but
their part in this work, after ALL was
very small. Substantial opinion is not
formed by such agencies.
Miss Banks trots out for the thou
sandth time the girl reporter who comes
to New York to earn her bread as a
reporter and to clear off the thousand
dollar mortgage on the family farm.
There, too, stands the wicked city edi-
tor, with a birthstone thirst>for salac-
ious news, who sends the innocent rus
tic in quest of questionable copy. How
familiar it all is, and how libelously
untruthful and egregiously absurd.
Miss Banks is ringing the changes for
the benefit Of English readers on a
very antiquated alarm bell What sur
prises us is that a magazine of the
influence and reputation of the Nine
teenth Century should be taken in by
such film fam.
Miss Banks is presumably an Ameri-
can. She has written evidently not
with a view to state the facts about
yellow journalism, which we have no
desire to conceal or to apologize
for, but rather to sell the article
to a popular periodical under the i'm
preston that the farther it diverged
from truth, the more readily 1t would
find acceptance. 1t is, in fact, as good
specimen of yellow journalism in the
guise of magazine article as we have
recently come across.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17
Manila's Fall.

The difference between entering Ma
Mia by virtue of protocol and en-
tering it by virtue of open conquest
is mainly sentimental; yet we are glod
that the soldier boys who braved 1000
miles of sultry sea in the hope of bat
tlinG their countrys flag to victory on
a distant shore were not cheated out
of their triumph. Fhey will not now
feel that their expedition was in vain
and the moral effect of their prowess
upon the neighboring peoples in the
Orient will be considerable and valu-
able. Inasmuch as we are to become
permanent occupants of Manila and
future competitors for commercial su-
premacy in the hemisphere to which
Manila is one of the gateways it is
well to have an unclouded title.
Capture, tCo is bound to strengthen
our attitude with reference to the ma
tive population of Luzon. To them the
victories at Santiago which forced Spain
to sign the protocol are very dim real
tiles. but they can readily appreciate
the irresistible potency of Deweys and
Merritt's guns. When they come to
learn, as in time they must, that the
strength thus symbolized before their
wondering eyes is not a strength for
pillage or oppression but for freedom
and civilization the educational effect
will be most salutary. Nor can the
attendant evils of Spanish rule here
after cry our mercy on the plea that
Manila was yielded without struggle.
The victory as it stands is clean-cut
and complete, and we assume as n
heritage of it no Objectionable obliga-
tions.
All praise, then, first to Dewey, the
intrepid and saGaci0us. and next to the
soldiers and sailors who backed him
up. They have added an empire to the
domain of republican institutions and
their reward will be immortality.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17
Our Interest in China.

In the opinion of the Philadelphia
Press the United states has less inter-
est in the future of China than would
appear from contemporary comment.
That journal admits, of course, that
our growing export trade to the Middle
Kingdom must be protected at any
hazard against unfair discrimination;
in other words. the treaty rights which
we now enjoy in China on a par with
the most favored nations" shall not
over our protest be abrogated by con-
tinental European influences working
either behind dummy Chinese officials
or in open assertion of suzeraintv or
dominion. Inasmuch as Russia buys a
few locomotives from a Philadelphia
mandatory the Press virtually offers
the opinion that so long as our treaty
rights are respected we need not care
particularly whether China is seized by
Russia or England-our duty, it argues,
is to preserve a benevolent neutral
ity"
Within certain narrow limits this
view is unquestionably correct. Ger
tainly no one save an insane person
would contend that the United States
ought at this time and under present
circumstances to rush in as an armed
interloper among the European powers
that entertain designs upon China, and
put our army and navy unsolicitedly
and unreservedly at the command of
Great Britain with a view to forcing
all the other Powers out. Neutrality
in the legal sense is our obvious duty
so long as we are left uninjured by the
prospective belligerents. But it is idle
to contend that as between civiliza-
ton in China dominated by Anglo
Saxon principles and one laid out along
the lines characteristic of the Slav or
the Teuton we have nothing to choose.
The Russian who buys from the United
States does so because his own civil
ization does not yet provide the degree
of skill in modern mechanism which he
seeks from ours, and it is distasteful
to him to go to England for it. But
the dollar that Russia spends among
us in a temporary contingency is not
to be weighed against the tens and
hundreds of dollars that pass and re-
pass in the continual and steadily in
creasing commerce which is maintained
between kindred branches of the Anglo
Saxon race, whose institutions. ideas
and ideals make irresistibly for multi
piled ties of trade. If we view only
the commercial aspects involved in the
coming renascence of the Orient we
must yield to the conclusion that it
were better that Englishmen instead
of Slavs gained the mastery of China's S
new DESTINY.
Looking at it from the other stand
point of democracy, liberty and en-
lightenment in the social relations and
in religion the genuineness Of our in
terest in the continued success of Brit
ish influence becomes even yet more
apparent. In all essential aspects
England's battle in China is our own.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17
Grover Cleveland, Philanthropist.

The public learns with pleasure that
Hon. Grover Cleveland has diverted
from politics sufficient time, energy and
money to aid in the institution near
Princeton of a work of philanthropy
that seems hopefully founded on q
common sense basis. We refer to the
farm school for which Mr.. Cleveland
has given the land and Mr.. John Henry
Vroom, of Princeton University, the
brains. In brief the plan of the school
is this:
On the siXty-fve acres of good farm
land which Mr.. Cleveland has placed
at Mr.. Vroom's disposal a farm colony
will be located, to be made up of boys
transplanted from urban slums. Says
Mr.. Vroom: THE boys will not be
herded together in one great building
We shall build a number of cottages,
each of which will accommodate from 10
to sixteen boys. In that way individ-
uality and certain degree of home life
will be preserved. Wherever it is pos
sble, the boys will have separate
rooms. Not more than two will occupy
any department. A matron and a man
In charge will be assigned to each
house. Each boy upon entering the
school will have an acre of ground ad-
joining the cottage in which he lives.
This he will consider his own, and upon
1t he will raise whatever he pleases.
The separate acres will radiate from
the house like the spokes of a wheel
from the hub. Nearest the dwelling
there will be a flower garden, then a
tract devoted to vegetables or to poul-
try, whichever the boy wishes TO raise,
and at the outer circle berry bushes.
The products of each boys little farm
will be sold and he will receive the pro-
ceeds. With this he will pay a certain
percentage to the school and keep the
balance for himself" In addition, dur
ing the spare moments, notably during
the evenings, instruction will be given
In the common English branches, mus
fc, ETC., also In Industrial pursuits "It
is our theory" adds the protector of
this interesting enterprise, that good
citizens may be made out of many of
the boys whom unfavorable environ
ment now impels toward badness. We
want to utilize what might be the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

1t is reported in various ways from
London that the British Foreign Of
flee, having played with Russia and
China at the old style game of diplo-
matte finesse and lost, is about to
adopt the Yankee trick of plain, blunt
speech. There isn't particle of doubt
that the latter STYLE al things con-
sidered, is far more dignifed, manly
and honorable: and it is also more
successful-when you have the force
to back II I'D.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

One report from Hong Kong says the
Philippine insurgents are satisfied with
our terms of peace and another says
they are not But no matter. De-
cency and civilization have won the
biggest triumph in those parts that
they have experienced since Spain en-
tered the neighborhood, and public
opinion in the United States is rapidly
shaping itself to insist upon the per-
manent retention of all that civiliza-
ton has won.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

waste material OF society. turning a
possible disgrace into an ornament"
1t remains to be seen how this new
scheme will operate in practice, but the
theory Of 1t is certainly prepossessing.
And we venture TO say that Mr.. Cleve-
land Will get far more pleasure and
do far more good while witnessing its
development and planning it's enlarge
ment than he has experienced during
the hybrid associations of his grue-
some political career.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

The congratulations which are being
received by the Diocesan Record upon
the excellence of its ninth anniversary
number issued last Saturday, are we'll
deserved. Under the capable editorial
direction of James O'Connor the Rec
ord has improved with every issue.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

The first diplomat in Washington to
congratulate President Mckinley upon
the conclusion of preliminary peace ne
gotiations WAS the Italian ambassador,
Baron Fava, who once left these
shores in huff. Reflection is evident
ly good for the Latin temperament.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

Nothing but good words is spoken
by the press concerning the appoint-
ment of Colonel Hay as secretary of
state, but the designation of Whitelaw
Reid for the London embassy reveals
IN unfortunate difference of opinion
What, we wonder, can be the secret Of
this able mans persistent unpopular
itN?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

OF course the riff raft in Cuba are
no good. They are not much better
in the United States. But those have
jumped to rash conclusions who assert
that there are few capable or honor
able Cubans, as the sequel is going to
prove.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

The president of course cannot force
General Lee to accept the military gov
ernorship of Cuba in view of Lees
preference for a Virginia senatorship;
but evidently the place is his if he
will take it. And moreover it is the
public opinion that Lee is precisely
the man for the place. Any old thing
can be a senator.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17
REMINDERS.

1--WE are in danger" said one Spanish
statesman, "of sinking into oblivion; of
being almost forgotten by the rest of the
world"
"Never!" replied the other, proudly.
I'VE still have our debts. Washington
Star.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

The recent war has been of benefit to
other nations as well as to this 1t
has taught foreign powers that it is
dangerous to get in front of Ameri-
can guns.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

Those big-talking Cuban autonomists
at Havana must begin to realize now
that they drove their wares to the
wrong market.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
STATE.

Governor-WILLIAM A. STONE.
Lieutenant Governor-J. i. s. GOBLIN.
Secretary Of Internal Affairs-JAMES W.
LATTA.
Judge of Superior Court-W. W. POR-
TER.
Congre ssmen at Large - SAMUEL "A.
DAVENPCRT, GALUSIA A. GROW.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

Poor, old Professor Norton. How
fate has given to his aspersions a
quick and complete recoil.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

The German admiral at Manila is
likely to emerge from this unpleasant
ness with nothing but his Spanish
friendship for his pains.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17
LEGISLATIVE.

Senate.
Twentieth Dist.-JAMES c. VAUGHAN.
House.
First District-JOHN r. FARR.
Fourth District-JOHN r. REYNOLDS.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

1t is to be regretted that Dewey
couldn't reach Paris in time to serve
on the Peace commission. AS a light
ming pacificator he has no equals.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

From very remote time the East has
been a source of wealth to every people
trading with it. 1t inspired the commerce
of Phoenicia made Venice a queen city;
laid the foundations of England's conf
mercial greatness. Tho reasons for this
are not far to seek. The immense popu-
lations of the East demand the products
of civilization, and her wretchedly paid
labor furnishes, at incredibly small
prices, what she has to give. Civilization
will raise her wages, but it will still more
rapidly increase her efficiency and en-
large her demands. 1t is not strange
that Germany, France, Russia, and Eng
land are all eagerly competing for the
enlargement of this Eastern trade which
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of China and the
crumbling down of her wall are opening
to the commercial nations of the world.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

Blanco says it would never do for
man who has talked war as he has to
try to superintend a transition into
peace. Blanco could never rise high
in American politics.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

The map will give to our readers at
glance the relation of the United States
to the several islands over which our flag
Is now flying. Cuba and Porto Rico
stand near the gateway of the future
Nicaraguan canal. to protect our future
highway from attack. Hawaii serves as
a halfway house between our western
border and the East. The Ladrones and
the Carolines-if the latter shall be even
tually inCluded-constitute other and con-
venient depots. the former on the ocean
highway to China and Japan, and the lat
ter on the highway to Australia. That
Cuba and Porto Rico are to be either
American in fact and name, or bound to
us by ties so close that for all CONNER
Cial purposes they may be regarded as
one with us, even though they fly diff
ferent flag, may be taken for granted.
Hawaii is now a part of the United
States, and will, we may safely assume,
never be sundered from us. The ques-
ton for the American people to consider
with care and to determine with wise
judgment is, Shall we secure and main-
tain either American supremacy over or
an American partnership with the Philip
pines? Or shall we suffer them to laps :
into the hands of Spain, to fall into anar-
chy, or to be divided among the Euro
pean powers?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

There may be some doubt left as to
who exploded the Maine but there re-
mains none as to who avenged 1t.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17
G0LDSMl1H'S o. BAZAAR.
Price Pounding

particularly
ebbng merchandise
quicker the goods change
us-it notpr we
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idpplOhllidlSly)' j.
Distance from Philippines
to Liverpool via Suez
Canal .................... 1900
Distance from Philippines
to New York via Near
aGuan Canal ............. 12OOO
Distance from Philippines
to San Francisco ....... 1900
In this statement we take Liverpool as
representing the European Atlantic coast,
New York city as representing the Amer
lean Atlantic coast and San Francisco -
representing the American Pacific coast.
Substituting for these Southampton, Kiel,
Havre, Boston, Baltimore, Seattle. Port
land, would make some difference In the
distances, but would not vitality affect the
comparison. Germany, England, and
France are more than half as far again
from the Philippines as the United
States; and when we have built Nicara-
guam canal, as we shall before long. our
Atlantic coast will be, in round numbers,
a thousand miles nearer to the Philip
pines than either of those countries.
Whether we have any right in the East
or not, geographically the East does not
belong to Europe. 1t is not in her hemis-
phere.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17
No Longer The Far,
But The Near East.
From the outlook.

From the outlook.
N PREVIOUS editorials we have con-
II sidered what national duty and honor
III demand of us In our attitude toward
Ii the Filpnos. We have insisted that
this question should take the preced-
ence of all questions CT commercial inter-
est and diplomatic expediency; that our
question is not, What can we get out NJ
the Philippines but, What is our duty
toward the Filipinos? Last week, In re-
stating our duty from this point of view,
we intimated that we would, in future
issue, consider "the question of our self
interest" To that question We direct
the thoughts of our readers in this arti-
Gle. A great deal of current discussion In
the press and in private circles assumes
that the Philippines belong naturally in
the domain of Europe and European in
terests, and that in putting our flag up al
Manila we are leaving our hemisphere
and entering theirs. The following APP
proxlmate estimate of distances should
serve as a sufficient correction of this
curious but common error:
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LANDED ON CUBAN SOIL.
Tampa Gets News OF the Arrival in Cuba.
The Landing Made on the East
Side of the Island.

TAMPA, FLA, May 3O.-With the re.
ceipt of information here Of the sue
cessful landing of the Florida expedi-
ton, which left Port Tampa for Cuba
on May l6, the military authorities have
renewed the censorship concerning the
departure of the expedition and its sub
scquent movements, which they i'm
posed when the fact became generally
known that it was about to start.
Dawn of the morning of May l6 was
the hour selected for sailing of the ex-
pedition. The force consisted of 3SS
Cubans. The Florida was unable ia
load and get off at the time intended,
but got away the next day at noon.
The Cubans gathered along the port
side and shouted and ges.iculatcd to
their cOuntrymen on shore, who an
swered in like manner. Five minutes
later the Florida was well down the
bay, heading for the Cuban coast. She
arrived at Key West the following
night. There she remained until Nav
81, when she again sailed for Cuba. BY
Gen. Shafter's direction, Col Acosta and
Gen. Nunez took a small steam craft
and attempted to make landing near
Havana, unaccompanied by guard.
They found the coast so strongly pa
trolled by Spanish soldiers that landing
was impracticable, They therefore re-
turned to Key West.
Orders to Capt Dorst at Key West
from Gen. Shafter, it is said, directed
him to land the expedition on the east
coast of Cuba, which he did
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ON TO CUBA.
No Further Concern Over the Spanish Coal
Chasers.

WASHINGTON, May 29.-Much work
has yet to be done before American
troops can be landed in Cuba. The
authorities are, however, doing all in
their power to have the entire invading
army ready TO move to the point of en-
bGrkaliOn as soon as Commodore
Schley definitely reports that he has
Cervera's fleet cooped up in Santiago
de Cuba, Secretary Alger positively
said to me that no troops would leave
the United States for Cuba until such "A
report has been received.
Senor Quesada of the Cuban junta in.
forms me that the United States has
made arrangements with Gen. Gomez
for an immediate junction with the
United States troops in Cuba. Mem.
bers of the junta say, also that the in
surgent force under Gen. Gomez is
2j,O00 strong. They admit, however,
that this army is greatly lacking in
arms and ammunition. | am informed
that it is the purpose of the United
States to provide the Cubans with such
ammunition and arms as they actually
need.
1t was reported early this morning
that Gen. Miles would leave during the
day for the South, to direct the move.
ment of the troops into Cuba.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-06-04
SIGSBEE SPlED THEM.
Commander OF the Maine Took a Daring
Cruise to Get a View of Santiago Harbor.

Commander OF the Maine Took a Daring
Crlise to Get "A View of Santiago Harbor.
MOLE ST. NICHOLAS, IIayti May 90
| can state positively that Commodore
Schley has part, if not all, of the Spanish
fleet bottled up in Santiago harbor.
This has been suspected for several
days, but it was not definitely known
until this morning, when Capt Sigs,
bee, of the st. Paul, who had been
cruising off the harbor for the past
week, steamed close enough to dis.
tinctly see two cruisers of the Vizcaya
class and two torpedo boats lying just
inside the mouth of the harbor. 1t is
believed that the rest of Cervera's
squadron is also there.
The st. Paul has been watching San.
tiago for eight days. Sigsbee thinks
that two Spanish torpedo boats ven,
tured out of the harbor Saturday night
to attack the st. Paul, but, anticipat-
ing such move, he changed his posi-.
tion every night, in order that they
could not locate him.
Today Commodore Schley took a
position with the entire squadron to
prevent the escape of Cervera, He
hopes the Dons will come out and fight.
The opposing fleets are about of equal
strength.
Ii is probable Admiral Cervera will
remain inside and postpone an engage.
ment indefinitely, but the blockade
will be effectively maintained.
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sullivan Succeeds Walthall.

Hon. William Van Amberg sullivan.
of Oxford, Mississippi has been ap-
pointed senator TO succeed the late
Gen. Walthall, The commission was
signed last week by Gov, Nc
Laurin, and Mr.. Sullivan notified of
the fact of his elevation to higher po-
stion.
The appointment was no surprise to
those who keep conversant with the
run of affairs in the State, though a
certain "scooped' contingent has stead
fastly denied the possibility of Mr..
Sulliyan's appointment up to the last
moment.
Mr.. Sullivan will probably be the
youngest man in the senate. He is at
present not over - yaars of age. The
position of congressman from the Sec
ond District, which he has not had
quite one term, is the first political of
fee he has ever held. During his in
cumbcncy he has gained "A reputation
by his opposition to pension and Union
Pacific frauds, as well as by his attempt
to prevent dealing in futures.
Mr. Sullivan is a natiyc-born Missis-
sippian, and since his manhood has
been resident Of oxford, where he
had large law practice until nomi-
mated for congress by the Holly Springs
conventions His nomination was to
break deadlock he not having been a
candidate during the original canvass.