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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-29
FLYING SQUADRON READY FOR BUSINESS.
Commodore Schley Takes Command at Hampton
Roads Enthusiastic Men Long for
Chance at the Enemy.

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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-29

Turner's Mate Carl RaEaquist. one ssg
ihs divers, said be went dawn in the after
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29


Many Inquiries are being sent to the
newspapers as to the right Of the United
States to intervene in the war which
Spain Is waging in Cuba. The inquiry is
one that cannot be answered without a
careful search of the authorities on in
ternational law, few of which af-
ford very satisfactory information. Some
the right of the United States TO inter-
vene is of a rather shadowy kind. while
others appear to Justify Intervention.
Vattel says that when "a nation has ris-
en- against insupportable tyranny every
power has the right to assist an Cypress
ed people who ask its assistance, ana
whenever civil war results foreign powers
may assist the one of the two parties that
appears to have just cause" Modern
writers on international law do not le
gard Vattel as good authority on the ques-
ton at issue. He opens the doors of in
tervention so wide that il his statement
of the law were accepted one nation would
have the right TO intervene in the trou-
bles of another nation under almost any
circumstances.
Wheaton, In his Elements of Internal
tional Law, says that "non-interference
is the general rule, to which cases of
justifiable interference form exceptions
limited by the necessity Of each partic-
ular case" and Woolsey, in his "Intro-
duction to the Study of International
Law" says that Intervention is justified
either on the ground of self preserya-
ton" or "by some extraordinary state
of things brought about by the crime of
a government against its subjects"
In a recent article in the Independent,
Theodore S. Woolsey, professor of inter-
national law in Yale University, said that
there were three reasons for the inter
vention of the United States between Spain
and Cuba, namely. "the burden of our
neutrality, our commercial interests and
the call of humanity
The right of the United States to inter-
vene is one of the exceptions to the gen.
eral rule, to which Wheaton refers, and
that they have good reasons for interven-
ing as stated by Prof. Woolsey, there is
no doubt. While the right may, not be ss
clear as it might be, the reasons are az
strong as they could possibly be. 1t has
been stated by the President that the
United States have endeavored to main
tain neutrality, and that the cost of DO
ing so has been millions of dollars. That
the commerce of the United States with
Cuba has been almost destroyed, there is
no doubt and that the call of humanity
is one that ought to be needed, the whole
world will admit If the United States
want to intervene, therefore, their rea-
sons for doing so are sufficient, and their
reasons being so strong 1t is doubtful if
their right would be questioned.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29
The Part proctor Played.

1t is evident now that the President did
not reach his decision to intervene in the
Cuban war until after Senator Proctor had
visited Cuba That he was strongly in
favor of intervening is highly probable.
He found out what the condition of af-
fairs in Cuba was from the reports of
our consuls, but he was afraid that the
pictures of distress and suffering which
these reports contained were overdrawn,
and, therefore, requested Senator Proctor
to visit the island and see whether the
consuls had not represented the situation
TO be more horrible than 1t really was.
Having heard Senator Proctor's report,
he hesitated no longer, but announced the
course the administration intended to pur-
sue
He would have favored recognizing
the belligerency of the Cubans or their
independence in all probability if he had
thought that a policy of that sort would
have accomplished the end aimed at,
namely, the relief of the reconcentrados.
And that policy, while it would not have
done the Cubans any good, might have
been interpreted by Spain and other Euro
pean powers to mean that we wanted Cuba.
An Interpretation of that sort, il accepted,
would have given Spain an advantage so
far as public sentiment in Europe is con-
cerned.
Under the policy which has been adopt
ed the sympathy of the civilized world
cannot be extended to Spain, because 1t
is made apparent that we do not want
Cuba and do not want to NEEDLE in tho
affairs of Cuba, except for one purpose,
and that is to save thousands of people
from starvation and bring to an end a
war which the civilized world regards with
feelings akin to horror.
Spain cannot, without losing the respect
of all Christian people, object to our send
ing food to the starving Cubans, and it
Is doubtful if the President will interfere
in the war in a way that would be hui
initiating TO the Spanish people. He will
make a proposition which Spain can ac-
cept without the loss of honor or dig
nifty. Spain may refuse TO permit interior
ence on any terms whatever. In that
event. the only thing for the President to
do is to carry out his policy of feeding the
starving Cnbans and restoring peace to
Cuba, If Spain should see fit to oppose
his policy, with force In that event there
would be war, but 1t would be war IN
which the people of the United States and
of the rest of the civilized world would
sustain the President
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29
Women as Smokers.


London cables from time to time refer
to the perceptble increase in the number
of women smokers in the European capt.
tails. A recent cable asserted that not
only are cigarettes now affected by the
women, but that women may be seen on
the streets putting cigars, and at least one
woman of the nobility has been seen on
a main pleasure drive. in her drag, nom
chalantly smoking brier pipe. We Amer
leans are apt to look upon such departures
from the conventional in Europe as some
thing merely to be wondered at for the
moment, and then dismissed from the
mind
There are, however, evidences that we
have the woman smoker, IN large and in
creasing numbers, in our own country.
We may have had limited number of
them for some time, but heretofore women
smokers have taken their consoling puffs
in secret. Now they are beginning 10
smoke in public, and to desire that public
carriers shall provide for their accommo-
dalton as smokers. The president of a
New York street railway line a short time
number of women. the list of signers
headed by Annie Chambers Ketchum, of
400 West F'ifty-seventh street, asking that
separate smoking cars for women be pro-
vlded for the summer traffic The petit
ton alleges that smoking is a habit that is
becoming very popular with up-to-date
women, that it is an ancient and honor
able custom among the sex, and that It
is the right of women to smoke, in private
or In public, If they choose TO do so. Since
some provision have been made for male
smokers, the petition says it is no more
than fair that such courtesy should be ex-
tended to the female smokers.
The president of the company replied
that no provision further than the prIvil-
eye of smoking on three back seats of
cars had been arranged for men, and he
had no doubt that if women desired TO
smoke on the cars there would be found
gentlemen enough in those seats to make
get on board. He was willing that the
women should have equal rights, but he
could not see his way to making for them
a special privilege in the way of smoking
cars.
The railroad man was right If the
women insist on taking up the bad hab-
its of the men, then they ought not to ex-
pect more consideration than the men.
If the railroads were to furnish separate
smoking cars for women, it probably
would not be great while before ii would
be expected to furnish the matches also,
and probably after short time would
be requested to throw ia" a cigar with
every fare. If the women insist upon
smoking in public they should do it upon
their own responsibility. and without the
assistance of men or corporations.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29

somewhere in the vicinity of New York,
but out of reach of the Gotham tax gath
erer wishes to prevent Commander Stay
ton of the naval reserves of New York
from being given a place of honor In the
service in the event of war. Stayton is
lawyer, and was at one time her attor-
ney. He managed case for her involving
Sio,OOO,OOO. and saved her 100000 or more.
She declined to pay his bill for services,
and he sued her for the amount. Mrs.
Green says that any man who would sue
a poor. defenseless woman is not safe
man to trust with government secrets,
and that he would betray his country to
the Spaniards.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29
Kipline,s MRecessionnI.y

Representative Cousins quotations. dur
ing the course of his speech in the House
on the Maine affair the other day, from
,Kipling's ''Recessional," has renewed pop
ular interest in what is generally concea-
ed by critics to be the finest poem of the
present day. Indeed, the New York Sun.
which devotes especial attention to cur
rent verse, in an editorial on this poem
hailed the author as the laureate of the
English-speaking race. The poem was
written as a sort of finale to the Queens
jubilee, and bears as its subtitle, "A Vic
torian Ode" The poem in full follows;
PROFESSIONAL.
God of our fathers known of old
Lord of our far-flung battle line
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine
Lord God of Hosts, be with us vet
Lest we forget-lest we forget.
The tumult and the shouting dies
The Captains and the Kings DEPART
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice.
An humble and contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet
Lest we forget-lest we forget
Far-called our navies melt away
ON dune and headland sinks the tire
10, all our ponp OF yesterday
Is one with Ninevah and Tyre.
Judge of the nations spare us vet
Lest we forget-lest we forget.
IT, drunk with sight of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe
Such boastings as the Gentiles use
Or lesser breeds without the law.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us vet
Lest we forget-lest we forget.
For heather heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube or iron shard
And guarding calls not Thee to guard.
For frantic boast and foolish word
Thy mercy on Thy people, Lord.
Amen.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29
lNDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Savannah Lodge No. 1888, B.
p. o. Elks; Truck Growers Association
Special Notices-Ship Notice. Paterson,
Downing & Co.; Heating Bicycles, r. D.
& VIM. baltimore.
Business Notice-E. & w. Laundry.
Wee Tots-B. H. Levy Bro.
Observation-Disclosures Ladies' Home
Journal.
Your Easter shirt--Georgia Steam
Laundry.
Auction Sale-Mackerel, Etc. r. F. Ba-
ker, Auctioneer.
Amusements-Base Ball To-day, Balti-
more VS.. Savannah.
The Hat, the Shirt the Neckwear and
the Suit-Metropolitan Clothing Company.
Cow Peas, Lemons, Etc.-W. D. Sim
kins & Co.
Proposals-For All Labor and Materials,
Etc, for United States Court House,
Etc.
Easter, Display, Etc.-Leopold Adler.
Steamship Schedules-Ocean Steamship
Company; White Star Line.
Postum Cereal Food Coffee-Postum Ce-
real Company, Limited.
Gold Dust Washing Powder-N. K. Fair
banks Company.
notwithstanding; Johann Hoff's Genu-
ine Malt Extract; Hoods Sarsaparilla;
Ayers Sarsaparilla; Worlds Dispensary
Preparations; S. S. s.; Cuticura Remedies;
Castoria; TT Cures Grip and Colds
Cheap Column Advertisements-He
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29
war Way BE Averted.

There is now some ground for thinking
that the United States and Spain will ad-
just their differences without war. The
feeling in Washington yesterday. after
the cabinet meeting. was of a more hopeful
character, and it is worthy of notice that
the stock market was much more buoyant
than it had been for many days. The trou-
bic may, after all, be settled by diplomats
instead Of soldiers. No one would regret
1T if il should be. Nobody who has any
thing al stake wants war. if it can be
avoided with honor, and 1t is quite certain
that there will be no settlement that is not
wholly satisfactory to the United States
Our government has been in correspond
ence with that of Spain for several days
In regard to plan for the adjustment of
the trouble in Cuba, and it is said that
Spain is willing to make very great con-
cessions with the hope of maintaining
friendly relations with the United States.
II is reported that it is the Presidents
plan that hostilities in Cuba shall cease un-
til next October-that there shall be an
armistice for six months-and that in the
meantime the United States with the help
of Spain shall feed those of the Cubans
who are not able to provide for themselves.
During the six months negotiations will be
conducted for a settlement that will be ac-
settlement which will amount practically
to the independence of Cuba. The Maine
affair will be pushed aside for the present
and when taken up viii be considered as
separate matter.
This is thought to be about the situation
at present. The foregoing plan is given out
as that of the President The Spanish gov
eminent may not accept it, and may offeE
a plan of its own. If 1t should offer plan,
however, that did not grant, practically,
independence to Cuba it would not find
favor either with the President or Con-
gress. If there is to be a settlement it
should be one that would be permanent.
If Spain should retain her grip on the is
land there would be another insurrection
within a few years. Besides, there would
be continual dissatisfaction and threats of
trouble which would interfere with bust
perity. The President probably understands
the conditions in Cuba thoroughly, and
that is why he is striving to bring about
permanent peace. "A patched up peace
wouldn't command approval either in
this country or Cuba.
The report of the Court of Inquiry in the
Maine disaster, together with the Presi-
dents message in regard to it. having been
referred TO the proper committee. will re-
main there in all probability until the Pres
ident knows whether or not the trouble
with Spain can be settled by diplomacy
whether the government at Washington
and the government at Madrid can come to
an understanding and avert war. Within
very few days, il is safe to say, it will be
known whether or not diplomacy has sue
ceeded
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29

only in this country, but abroad, ought to
have the effect of enlivening the market
for cornstalks. Possibly there are those
who imagine it to be very far cry from
cornstalk to a warship; but such is not
the case. A substance called cellulose.
used for packing the sides of warships,
is now being made from the pith of corn
stalks. There is one factory for the pro-
duction of cellulose in Kentucky, and an
other has been talked of in Alabama.
the cellulose, becoming wet, swells and
closes the vent
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29
A Tale That Hits chaunccy Depew.

A good story, of which John Kendrick
Bangs, the humorist, is the hero, has late
ly leaked out, says the New York Com
mercial Some time ago Mr.. Bangs re-
ceived the following letter from a citv In
one of the Pacific states:
John X. Bangs-Dear Sir: I have been
asked TO respond to toast at our BOARD
or Trade 8 annual dinner next month. and
l write to inquire what would be your low
est terms for preparing a good rafting
Iunny speech for me to deliver on that oc-
casion. prompt reply will oblige. yours
very truly,
To which Mr.. Bangs immediately SAT-
down and penned the following answer.
Dear Sir-I am in receipt of your es-
teemed favor of the - inst. and in re-
ply would say that my regular rate for
after-dinner speeches is $500 per speech. 7
have not as yet, however, opened up tbis
line of goods In the West, and, as / am
anxious TO secure custom in that part of
the country. ! will offer you special terms
namely $3.50 for such an address as Won
describe, the amount to be sent as soon as
shipment is made. If the terms PROMISED
are satisfactory kindly let me know az
once, but in that case / would request Won
not to mention the matter to Chauncev
Depew or Gen. Horace Porter. as I shoulS
NOT like them to know that 1 am cuttins
rates. Yours truly,
John Kendrick Bangs
This letter was duly Sent and on the
day when It reached its destination Mr.
Bangs received the following telegram:
Your letter just received Ii Chauncev
DePew's speeches are written by you. then
don't want one"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29

The Duke of veragua, who speaks of
President Mckinley as an Ignorant suit
Ter" is the noble Spanish don who accept
ed this governments hospitality during
the worlds fair at Chicago and whose
poverty so worked upon the tender hearts
of some American milllonaires and soei-
ETY. people that they made up a purse TO
relieve his distress. OF all persons, We
ragua ought to be the last in Spain to
say an unkind word about America or the
Americans. Ingratitude is the most des-
picable of human traits of character.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29

lola is to have new trial. His sentence
has been set aside upon appeal. Puolic
opinion in Paris is row not nearly so
much wrought up. and the novelist may
have better chance then before. On the
former trial 1t was foregone conclusion
that he would be convicted; it was prac-
tically a military necessity that he should
If zola's fool friends do not kick up too
much fuss and arouse the masses again,
his counsel may succeed in getting good
deal of the Dreyfus evidence before the
court
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29

The British corvette Cordelia, now lying
at the dock at the foot of Bull street,
under the shadow of the City Exchange,
will not go TO Charleston. Her commander
wired the British consul at that place in
curing with regard to the depth of water
there, and upon the consurs reply decided
that since his vessel draws twenty-one
feet, 1t would not be practicable for him
to take his ship there. Capt Bourke was
asked If he found any difficulty in get
ting up the river to Savannah, and re-
piled: mo, I found plenty of water on
the bar and in the Savannah river" These
are facts well calculated to offset and
nullify the many jealous filings and mis-
leading statements made from time to
time with regard to the depth of water
to and at Savannah. Savannah has
twenty-six feet of water from the wharves
to the sea.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29
New Orleans and Albany
From the New York Times Dem.).

1t is probably impossible to teach a
Spanish nobleman anything, or we should
suggest TO the Marquis de Hoyos, who is
going to incite revolts in our Southern
states, 10 study the significance of the ac-
ton of our navy department in remaining
the newly acquired cruisers Amazonas
and Abrouil.. The former has been chris
tened New Orleans and the latter Albany.
New Orleans. the Marquis should know,
is an extremely Southern city, and Albany
an extremely Northern one. The navy
department does not seem to think that
one of them is likely to be set against
the other by a revolt
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29
Foolish "Vvind-Jamming."

The cheapest way to win victories is
to denounce and deprecate ones antagon-
ist Many great triumphs have been
gained, in the imagination at least in that
way, and they cost no other effort than a
considerable loud-mouthed boasting and
braggadoeio. The American civil war was
opened with that sort of wind-work and
it was so easy and simple that many peo-
pie wondered that such bloody and des-
perate fighting for so many years was
actually necessary to end a war that had
been so successfully carried on, and that
without the loss of a man, by the wind
TANNERS" and slaughter-shriekers. The
possible war wsth Spain is already being
fought very much in this way.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29

One sometimes hears strange things
about home affairs from people at dis
lance. The Pittsburg Dispatch says: "In
Oregon and Georgia the Populists are no
tifying the Democrats that the next time
they propose to do the swallowing them
selves" In that event, to use the idea
of Mr.. stephens, the Populists would
have more brains in their midst than
In their heads.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29

The Louisville Courier-Journal observes
that the little city of Rome, Ga. has five
new cotton mills under construction, each
with a capacity of 10000 spindles," which
leads it to exclaim: Southwark the star
of cotton manufacturing takes it's wayr'
Rome is splendidly situated for cotton
manufacturing. Already we have num-
Der of 'Lowells of the South" and 1t is
the destiny Of Rome TO be another Of
them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29
Merit in the Navy.
The Louisville cOurier-Journal Dem.>

The promotion of Capt. Sampson to the
chief naval command and the placing of
Capt. Evans in charge of our biggest bat
tleship is a recognition of the fact that
merit not seniority, is now to be the test
Of promotion in the navy. This early
adoption of so salutary a policy is cal
culated to strengthen the confidence al
ready felt in the executive as well as In
the fighting arm of the government. Capt.
Sampson seems to be a man whom only
the rigid rule of seniority has held back
from the post to which forty years SER
vice and great executive ability entitle
him. Capt. Evans is a cripple like Nelson
and perhaps is a trife hot-headed, but ne
is a fighter, and fighters are what we need
now. His desire TO step over to Havana
and refill his cigar box win now have an
opportunity to be gratified
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29

The other day news came from the
KlondilSe country that a 5000 nugget had
been discovered. On the same day the
papers published that the navy depart
ment had started in to do a little painting.
The color of the paint aroused a great
deal more interest than the discovery of
the big nugget. The Klondike craze is
just now a matter of minor Importance