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The times., 1898-08-06
BarnacIes and Round Robins

Even unprofesSional people know
what a source of annoyance barnacles
are to the navy-how they stick to the
bottoms of ships as well as to the
desks in bureaus. IT is not so uni
versally understood that there is an
equally agitating and sleep destroying
creature which attacks the serenity of
the War Department, and it is called
the round robin,
When the round robin is excited into
action by Col. Theodore Roosevelt, it
is twice as hot as at other times, and
then is able to bore into a Secretary
deeper than the sharpest-tailed Teredo
Navalis in the Summer seas can gouge
holes in stick of timber. The partic-
ular round robin now in evidence at
the war office-the one of protest
against exposure to yellow fever at
Santiago, constructed by the div sion
and brigade commanders there-has
caused more Cabinet grief than the
moving of Camp Alger and more sur
prise than would obtain if Sampson
We're to get near a fight AS that
eminent member of the hospital ser
vice, Sairy Camp, would say: And
with good region, Lord forbid"
People with fair mental balance and
honest intentions will always try to
consider the point of view of others
with whom they do not agree. 1t is
hard, sometimes, but it is salutary and
right, and on that principle we cannot
help sympathizing with Mr. Alger and
the Administration. We will be frank
enough to say that the exposition of
unfortunate and perilous conditions at
Santiago, by our leading army officers
there, was military blunder, the tech
nical Nervousness of which cannot
properly be mentioned without profane
emphasis.
AT a critical time, when the Admin
istration is trying on the one hand to
show the masses in Spain that their
country is at our mercy, and can hope
to be alive next winter only in case the
fatal American snickersnee is sheath
ed, while, on the other, it essays to do
the American people out of the Phil p
pines, for the benefit of whom it may
concern, the round robin business be-
comes as dangerous as a lighted match
in powder mill.
What if the state Of our army in
The times., 1898-08-06
THE AMERICAN BOY FUND
me President Gives Ii His Most
Hearty Endorsement


Messrs. w. Rankin Good and Harry ].
Price, the two Cincinnati High School
boys who are in the city representing
the national committee of The American
Boy" fund. have received a personal let
ter from President Mckinley most hearth
ly indorsing their worthy and patriotic
undertaking. President McKinIey's letter
is as follows:
Executive Mansion.
Washington, Aug f.
Mr. ". Rankin Good Cincinnati. o.:
My Dear Sir: The circular which You
have presented to me outlining your plan
for raising a fund with which to build
and present to the Government a battle
ship has greatly interested me. Love of
country and devotion TO the flag were
never moro conspicuous in America than
they are today and I am sure our boys
and girls will deem it privilege to be
numbered among the contributors 70 this
patriotic undertaking. Very sincerely
yours WILLIAM NJ KINLEY-'
1t was the intention of Messrs. Good
and Price to have gone to Baltimore to-
day to interest the boys and girls of that
city in their purpose of having them con-
tribute to the fund which is being raised
to build battIeship TO take the place of
the Inflated Maine, but their reception by
the residents of Washington has been so
cordial and they have met with such
great success that they have decided 10
remain here until Monday.
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will not hold that the implication to
the effect stated was not clear and
irrefutable.
What, then, is to become of the good
ruler, who wants to please his peo-
pie without offending important pol IT,
cal hackers, or those who are. willing
powerful style of the art, at the price
of our surrender of the Philippines?
The outlook for him and for the great
commercial interests of the American
people in the Far East is rather
gloomy. because he has been induced
through i'll advice to walk" and, when
he opened his mouth to Spain the
other day, to put his foot in it. Yet.
We are not without hope that a kind
Providence, which has never forsaken
the American Union, and has showered
the luck of a Fortunatus upon w liam
Mckinley. may work miracle of some
sort and pull it and him out of the
nearly bottomIess situation into which
his complacency to adverse and un-
American influences has precipitated
both.
Something may yet happen to pre-
vent a consummation of the current
peace deal with the Madrid au.hori
ties on one side, and the various con-
tributory political, industrial, or finan-
cial interests on the other. In such an
event, the clean hands of a great and
pure man would be united, and his
ability to cry, mo surrender of any
captured territory be fully restored.
Then once more he would find h mself
in a position to obey, and TO lead his
people in their march toward destiny,
and, supported. and sustained by Their
confidence, their principles and arms,
be able TO defy Vienna, Rothschild.
Sugar, Edmunds, Day or Devil.
The times., 1898-08-06
A Surprised EngIishman.

(Atlanta special to New York Tribune.)
''You American people-you the queerest
lot on Gods green earth.'' and the Englishman
called attention to a little scene being enacted
in the street Just beneath the window the other
day.
An old Confederate veteran, in the worn and
weather-beaten gray uniform, carrying his tat
tered red flag with its OF stars and insc-ip-
ton, "l2d Georgia Regiment had stopped to
exchange a word of greeting with dapper young
United States regulars in a spe-and-span blue
uniform and perky cap. The two shook hands
cordially. The old veteran pulled of his gray
slouch hat and pointed out 10 the young soldier
how ''the Yankee bullets most turned it into a
sitter" The young fellow in blue shoulde-ed the
old flag saving it was ''too heavy toy for
chap of your age to be s-playiug with on a
hot day." pinned little star-spangled banner
on the front of the gray uniform. and the two
went eff rejoicing to drink together the late
unpleasaptness.
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COOL WEATHER IN STORE.
General Conditions Throughout the
Country Are EayOruhIe

The storm which was centered over a
greater portion of Maryland night before
last, and which broke the backbone of
the hot weather spell in this vicinity.
has travelled rapidly toward similar
storm center in the st. Lawrence Valley.
and Washington may see several more
days Of comfortable weather.
The various atmosphere, and barometric
relations are now such that the weather is
moderate all over the country and fast
settling down into the ordinary channels.
The most noticeable exception has been a.
decided fall of temperature from the
Rocky Mountain Slope 10 the upper lake
reat ons are now sch that the weather Is
night was partly attributable TO the fall
of the thermometer in the West -
The cooler strata of air seems to have
been waited this way.
The terrific thunder and rainstorrn
which occurred in PhfladeIphia-.las
Thursday. fioo6ing the cellars of hundreds
of downtown business houses. and the
tail end of the agitation which reached
this city last night We're also responsible.
especially so in the popular mind. for the
pleasant and agreeable change which
was everywhere noted yesterday.
The forecast of the weather for today
as arranged by the Weather Bureau last
night is brief and 10 the point. predicting
as il does. fair wsa her. va liable win Is -
No mention is made of rise or tall of
temperature, but the impression is that il
will remain stationary.
Last night was the first really cool night
that stay-at-hOme WashingtOnians have
experienced for three weeks. and the-iux-
ury was universally appreciated Many
more nights of a corresponding nature
would make life enjoyable and cause the
entire pOpulace considerable happiness.
besides contributing in a large measure
toward commencing the weather sage to
the long suffering public. from which he
was unfortunately becoming estranged BY
the scorching weather. for which he has
been held responsible. the past two weeks
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Newport and Tuxedo. not TO mention
the veriest top cream of less noble places
like Nara gansett and Bar Harbor, will
now indulge in d fiutter of pleasurable
excitement. 1t is rumored in London that
the Prince of Wales, after weary ab-
senee of thirty-nine years. will again IL
lumine the United States with his genial
presence. to help us wish the present CEN
tury a hearty goodbye next year. AL
bert Edward is older and steadier, COM
paratively, than when he was here in
1860 but he is the same merry prince. all
the same, and he will be welcomed in an
outburst of gold mounted pipes and vio-
lent plaids, the like of which he will have
never seen before
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The pc. iodieal Ang.o- Russian war. scare.

The pc iodieal Ang!o- Russian war scare,
the recurrence of which We have been
appearance, perhaps by arrangement.
Things of that sort are very useful in
times like these to convince the American
people that since our two friends In Eu-
rope are reported as about to engage in
mutual hostiities 1t IS nanifestiy the
safe thing for US TO return the Philippines
to Rothschild and the other continental
influence most interested, for fear that
Germany and France might seize the op-
portunity to jump on US. After we have
been done out of the islands we may ex-
pect TO witness the normal condition of
good relations again '9-s
The times., 1898-08-06
DIR. GUITERAS At HOME.
There Was No Trouble Between Him
and the Red Cross

Philadelphia, Aug. DIR. John Cutie
ras, the yellow fever expert. who was
sent by the United States Government to
Santiago few days after the breaking
out of the disease at that place and Vi
cinity. arrived here at o'clock this
morning.
\ reporter called at the doctors rest
dence this morning. but he could not be
seen Emiles Dominguez. a cousin of the
physician. said DR.. Guiteras was unwell.
IT was emphatically denied by Mr.. Do
minguez that there had been any conflict
of authority or rupture of any kind be-
tween DR.. Guiteras and the members of
the Red Cross Society or anyone else.
The times., 1898-08-06
JIMINEZ rs ACQUITTED.
The Leader of the Recent Revoiu-
ton Goes Free

Nassau, N P, Aug. 5.-Juan Jiminez.
the leader of the recent attempt to over
throw the government of San Domingo,
was tried here today on the charge OF
violating the foreign enlistment act. and
was acquitted.
Jiminez engaged a man at Great Inaa-
qua, one of the Bahama group, to pilos
the revolutionary expedition 10 Monte
Cristi, San Domingo. On the failure OF
the revolution, Jiminez escaped and
made his way to Great Inaagua. where
he was arrested on the above charge.
The times., 1898-08-06
Could Re Eoreseen

(From the New York Commercial Advertiser. }
Gen. Alger's declaration that nobody is respon-
sible for conditions that could not be foreseen,
and that, therefore. blame attaches to the
medical any other department of the army for
the privation and suffering of our sick and
wounded before Santiago, would be ludicrous
it possible to make joke of human misery
Could no one foresee thar rotten camps chosen
by political intrigue would breed typhoid; that
battle would result in wounds, and that a
tropical campaign would breed feyers? Congress
will deal with this matter in different spirit
from that of the Secretary of War.
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SATURDAY. AUGUST 6. 1895.
Keep the Philippines

In his copy OF The Times yesterday
morning President Mckinley VIII have
noticed that at the great Metropolitan
Opera House meeting in New York
Thursday night, at which Lieut.. Hob
son presided, the vast audience went
wild with enthusiasm at every refer
ence TO the universal American santi-
ment in favor Of holding all territory
captured from Spain. He will also
the country is vigorously insistent upon
the same thing.
Now, the American people include in
their idea of "an territory captured
from Spain" the whole Of the Philip
pine archipelago. This is a view which
We understand is combated very deter
minedIy by the Secretary OF State and
his special advisory counsel, the Hon
Gel rye F. Fdmunds, who is at the same
time supposed to have legal relations
defeating American sovereignty over
the islands The influences seeking to
secure a restoration of Spanish own
ership and control argue that. s.nce
Manila has been allowed to remain in
the hands of the enemy. if peace can
be provided for in advance Of the per-
functory action of landing and taking
it, the case of this country. which in
any case would be weak enough before
a packed international tribunal, would
surely be thrown out of court by a mix
ed Spanish and American comm. .ssion,
constituted as such a body certainly
would be in accordance with the Day
Edmunds-Ireland program
This is not putting the case too
strongly. If Day. who is openly oppos-
ed to Philippine possession, should
name the peace commissioners, or ex-
ert as much influence in their nomina-
ton as he has in constructing a foun-
dation for the surrender policy, We need
not stop to consider what kind of men
they would be. Already Administers
ton newspapers have assumed that
Edmunds will be one and Stewart L.
Woodford another as matters of
course The ante-bellum pro-Spanish
tendencies and associations of these
two gentlemen leave little room for
doubt as to what would be expected
of them, or what they would do under
the circumstances.
Friends of Mr.. Mckinley are noto-
riously worried on account of the
strength which the Imperial senti-
ment has developed, and is developing
every day. They solemnly aver that
he is not unalterably opposed to taking
over the Philippines; that the question
is an open one, and that he will do
whatever he finds the country wants
him to in the premises. We are more
worried about him than any other
Of his friends, because we are able to
see that he has committed himself if
he has not the nation, to terms which
are hopelessly tantamount TO an offer
to Spain of a release of the Philippine
Islands on condition that she shall cede
to US g naval and coaling station,
and one of the Ladrone Islands 1t may
be said that the language of the Nc
Kinley note did not express such an
offer. It is sufficient answer that
there Is not an international lawyer
Of intellectual honesty and sanity who
The times., 1898-08-06
ENGLAND rs INTERESTED.
A Hold in the Persian Gulf Desired
by One of the Powers

London, Aug. 5.-Replying TO question
in the House of Commons today, as to
the desire of one of the great powers to
acquire. by lease or otherwise. a posses
sion on the Persian gulf, Mr.. Curzon said
that rumors had reached the government
to that effect. Considering the magni-
tude OF its responsibilities, he added, the
government took special interest in those
waters.
Mr.. Curzon also stated that ne under
stood that the loan which had been ne
gotiated by the Persian government with
Persian bank had fallen through, in
consequence of larger sum having been
asked than the bank was disposed to ad-
vance.
The British government, he said, had
supported the bank to the utmost in the
negotiations.
The times., 1898-08-06

eight S-inch. instead of four 13-inch and
fourteen 6-inch guns. such as the designs
OF the proposed vessels call for In ad-
dition TO all these S-inch guns there will
be a number of rapid-fire fives and skies
as well. The S-inch gun is thought to be
one OF the most effective guns on ships.
owing to its greater rapidity of fire than
the heavier pieces and its capacity for
penetration
The times., 1898-08-06

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A Capital Crime
(From the New York Sun. J


Feelings for the past must not be permitted
to check the energy and resolution needed to
give all guilty officers such a shaking up as will
arrest the miserable inefficency and protect those
still bearing arms in whatever health or comfort
the skill, alertness and afiuence of the American
people may afford. The Seneca should have cost
some officer his commission. For the Concho a
life would be no exaggerated price.
The times., 1898-08-06

The only wise way, the only safe way, is 70
take the Philippines absolutely and govern them
ourselves, OF leave them absolutely with the ex-
ception of what port ports may desire as
coaling stations. ANY middle course any at
tempt to turn loose and yet hold On, to avoid
direct responsibility and yet exercise il through
guardianship of Spanish incompetents. will
simply result in injury TO ourselves without
benefiting anybody e!se.-The Louisville Courier
Journal
The times., 1898-08-06
THE PHILIPPINES.
some of the Reasons Why We Mast
Hold on to Them

Clemency TO Spain is cruelty to the Philippines
Mercy to Spain means that some WeyIer with his
european Apaehes, goes to the Spanish East
Indies to wreak a savage vengeance on the help
less and carry outrage and robbery and pestil-
ence and famine through the Islands, as one Wey-
Ter did in Cuba.
Mercy TO those who need IT.. Since Spain win
not sheS mercy this county rnust-The Chi
cago Journal.
The times., 1898-08-06

The advocates Of a policy of scuttie in the
Philippines are being hard put to it for argu-
ments. They hive modified indeed, their original
demand that the United States withdraw its
ships and troops from Manila Bay and leave the
islands TO their fate Such a course is too re-
pugnant to good faith and sound morals even for
them.-The Pt5vidence Journal.
The times., 1898-08-06
EXEsperatiur

(From the Rochester HeraId)
1t is exasperating to reflect that in spite OF
our tremendous resources and in the face of the
splendid record fighting men have made on
land and sea, Government is Justly charge
able with disgraceful failure in the humane work
of healing and caring for the men laid low by
fever and Spanish bullets
The times., 1898-08-06

There is food for reflection in Aguin-
aido's letter 10 Consul Wildman. The
Malay general says: Tell me this: Am
l fighting for annexation, protection or
independence" Poor Aguinaldo! He has
ais eyes pretty well opened 10 wha: he
is fighting for. and, by this time. knows
that il is for a Spanish-American COM
mission to arrange the details of his bar
Ter and sale 20 Spain, or what will mean
the same thing under such euphemisms
for 1t as the genius of an Edmunds
and the zealousness of Day can united
ly hunt UP in the lexicon of diplomatic
mendacity.
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Mr. Seward, it will be observed, was more
Tadicai as an snneSationist than any be-
fore the public. BY the Alaska treaty, which he
carried through later our territory was extend
ed almost TO the shores of Asia.-The St Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The times., 1898-08-06
PrecOcifN.


al tell yOu,' cried Nupop. enthusiastically.
''that baby Of mine is a wonder Think OF il,
only eight months old and can talk
''Pshaw." remarked his friend earelessly, 1--WE
known some men that cursed the day they wers
horn"
The times., 1898-08-06
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The times., 1898-08-06

An important. message. was received in
London last night from Madrid. IT an
nounces that the efforts of the Sagasta
government yesterday to secure the sup
port of various parliamentary groups and
factional leaders has been not altogether
successful. and that there is a feeling of
gloom at the palace and the foreign office
Fears are expressed in the Spanish cap
ital that Sagasta may have to reject the
American demands and do what he can
TO continue the war. This news is en-
couraging. and if its predictions should
prove true Mr. Mckinney viii be very
fortunate. Refusal in Madrid 10 accept
his conditions would enable him. the next
time, TO put his foot down hard on any
proposition to surrender the Philippines.
The times., 1898-08-06

We, like everything else in the world piysfel Il
and moral, are under the law of development
which works generally slowly and mperceptibiy
these has just appeared in our history, and a
tidal wave of destiny has swept US from our
ancient, isolated moorings, and can no long
er, II we wish, live to ourselves alone
Perplexing problems will doubtless arise, but
we are strong enough and wise enough TO solve
them, and with broader horizons MANY of the
narrowing questions of small politics will dsap-
pear, and serener purer political atmosphere
prevail Let us not hesitate To stand where we
belong. In the forefront Of the nations. using
every power and advantage we have and every
opportunity that comes TO US. fully for our own
benefit and for the advancement and uplifting
OF mankind. Archibald Hopkins. in New York
Tribune.