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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-12-06
THE DEGRADATION OF FREE MEN
OF t776.

The Virginian-Pilot does not believe
in doing evil that good may come Of it,;
nor does 1t believe that, In the full ac-
count, good comes that way; IL 1t did,
such is it's affection for Virginia and
North Carolina that 1t might, ut least
passively, assent to do great wrong to
some of the citizens of these States to
benefit the others. But what and
where is the need, in either of these
commemorative. to disfranchise any
citizen? And why shall ex-Confederate
be degraded and stripped of the rights
Of free and equal manhood because they
cannot read and write, or do not pos
sess $500 in taxable property?
Are our poor and illiterate whites a
dangerous class? Docs knuwtHg how to
read and write make men more moral?
"a little learning is a dangerous
thing" and as for the property quail
fication, 1t is. proverbial that men are
poor. but honest" poor and proud"
and the observation OF all intelligent
observers is that while petty thieves
are usually poor, they do little harm
and form but an infinitessimal portion
of the great mass Of honest and indus
trious men. who cheerfully work for
CHIEF rogues and depredators, among
us, are well known not to be those who
are classed among the poor. And in
politics and elections, who, frankly, are
the workers of iniquity? Are they the
poor and ignorant-the illiterate? Even
where the poor and ignorant are cor
rupted, 1t Is not the poor and ignorant
who corrupt them; and if the poor and
ignorant sell their votes, so do all dc,
grees of men, for a less or greater con-
sideration. according to condition.
But 1t Is not in the voting at the polls
that the danger exists and the harm Is
done that threaten our institutions,
principles and interests. These Gas all
men know nre in the count, the re-
turning boards, the lobby, the legisla-
ture, Congress, the Administration, the
courts and vcnal press. 1t is not
poverty and illiteracy that reign in the
iniquity Of such things and places, and
1t is this iniquity that is tcnfold worse
than that Of the purlieus and slums OF
cities, or the Hell's Corners of the
country. The latter are ugly, dirty,
vulgar and foul, but they are impotent
and insignificant as factors in the loss
es, mischiefs and crimes that really
hurt orr desolate the world. Money is
no guarantee of virtue, nor of judgment
or morality; as poverty and illteracy
do not always indicate vice and stupid
tity.
The skilled field hand, city laborcr
or workman. who Lives from hand to
mouth" Gas the saying is) and can ac-
scumulate nothing on small wages and
sas large family, and who has no
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-12-06
JOSEPH BROWN. s20 Ulail ST.
REMOVAL NOTICE.!

would respectfully announce that I
have removed my pharmacy 10 my new
building, corner Clay and Claiborne ave-
nues; In this connection | desire to
thank my trends and patrons for their
lihera! patronage In my old store and eX-
tend 10 them and the public cordial in
vitatson 70 visit me in my new one. where
they will always find ME ready 10 well
come and serve them. ! will in future
carry larger and more complete stock
of drugs, drug stndricS. toilet articles
etct as have far better facilities.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-12-06

The stringency of money in the City
of New York moved the N. Y. Times to
asks:
Can any student Of financial ques-
lions, or any banker or man of busl-
ness deny, then, that this community
would be benefited by the enactment
Of a law which would permit the ma
tiopal banks in time of dear money, like
the present, to respond by new note
issues to the demands of business.
which they can no longer meet from
their depleted reserves?"
The N. Y. Sun replies at some length,
saying. that, whatever bankers and men
of business. suffering from the present
monetary pinch, may think, no student
of finance will agree WITH the Times;
and 1t sums up the whole matter as
follows:
What the advocates of more liberal
bank-note issues are aiming at is the
abrogation of the present requirement
of government bonds as security for the
notes. and the substitution for them of
the general assets of the banks. How
ever plausible may be the arguments
for the change, and however specious
the promises with which 1t may be ac-
comDlished, the truth cannot be dis
gulsed that the present system is the
only. one that affords perfect safety to
the public, and that any departure from
1t will be departure toward the Wild
cat currency from which the National
Bank act delivered u.s."
We are glad to see that the N. Y.
Sun. bad as it Is. is not all bad. though
it Is goldite. whose jaundlced eye sees
naught but yellow. We commend what
1t says to the Richmond Times.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-12-06

Member OF firm OF R. II. Stoltz & Co..
Furniture Dealers. No. 1872 Church street
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-12-06

Z The skilled field hand, city laborcr,
or workman. who lives from hand to
mouth" Gas the saying is) and can ac-
,cumulate nothing on small wages and
~ 81 large family, and who has no
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The Acute Stage
rHe South African war cloud has
mo tp,,

He South African war cloud has
a more threatening appearance
than ever, and the chance of
averting hostilities seems to be rapidly
dwindling. Apparently the only hone
IN that direction lies in a breakdown
by Mr.. Chamberlain. The diplomacy of
that gentleman is not covering him
with any great amount of glory. With
the bulldozing methods that England
has used successfully with many petty
nations, Mr.. Chamberlain ran a bluff
on the Transvaal government, which
was promptly called.
The Beers are ready and anxious to
fight--they are massing on the frontier.
They have secured the support Of the
Orange Free State. The Dutch of all
South Africa are willing to take up
arms in their behalf. With all their
allies, the Beers will be able to put
very strong force in the field. Even in
Cape Colony England has many enc
mics. The Dutch at present are in
their numerical preponderance. The
premier is Dutchman, and while
guarded in his expressions he does not
conceal his sympathy for the other
Dutch states; and if, when the crisis
comes, he is unable officially to side
with his brethren, it is certain that he
will place no obstacle in the way of his
fellow citizens who desire to throw in
their lot with the Beers.
In England opinion is divided. There
is a very strong anti-war sentiment
and it appears to be growing every day.
Chamberlain is in hot water all around.
Nothing but a recession from his de-
mands will stay hostilities.
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built cities. towns and villages, they
have churches, schools, newspapers.
They never owed the slightest al
legiance to this. country and had been
fighting against the sovereignty of
Spain large part of the time for three
hundred years. That they had not sue
ceeded in gaining their independence
signifies nothing so far as the justice
Of their cause is concerned. We might
not have succeeded in our own revo-
luti"nary struggle without the timely
aid France.
When the treaty with Spain was
signed the Filipinos had an organized
government and they had an army of
thirty thousand men in the field-an
army that had beaten the Spaniards in
numerous engagements. taken thou
sands of them prisoners, finally PEN
ming them up in Manila, where they
simply awaited an opportunity to sur
render to an American army In the
face of these indisputable facts, the
administration has claimed the owner
ship of the islands by right of conquest
and purchase, with as much cool indif-
ference to the rights of the natives as
if they had been ten million monkeys
And we are to-day taxing them with
out their consent-that is, we are so
far as we have succeeded in carrying
our authority by force of arms-the
very thing that our revolutionary sires
denounced as tyranny. If man can
see no difference between this case and
the treatment of the Indians. he is truly
an object of pity.
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1 am In good health. I have time which
l could devote to the duties of the office,
and all my relations with my fellow trus-
tees are most pleasant, but my sense of
honor forbids that 1 should retain an Of
flee of trust conferred by you. Respect
fully, GEORGE X. NASH.
1t is we'll nigh impossible to imagine
a more carefully studied and malicious
insult than this letter contains. There
is no doubt that 1t was written and
given publicity. in order to make the
writer solid" with the dominant fac
ton of the republican party in Ohio. In
his private life Governor Bushnell Is
said to bear an unblemished personal
character. His objectionable offense,
in the eyes of Mr.. Nash, was opposition
to the senatorial aspirations of Mark
Hanna, who, if he has any fitness for
the position, has succeeded thus far in
hiding it most effectually from the pub
lie gaze.
1t remains to be seen just what Bush
nell will do to Nash. Perhaps he will
turn the other cheek" but that is not
the usual Ohio way. If he does not
strike back with all the power he can
command, the general verdict will be
that he deserved every word that Nash
said about him. At all events, the in
cident is now causing the republican
management some anxiety
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There is an examining magistrate in
South Omaha who duty it is to see If
people accused of insanity are really
mentally unbalanced, says the Chicago
Post. Not long ago he came down to
his office on a bicycle and opened court
without having removed his Knicker-
bockers and gaudy stockings. A young
man was brought up from the cell
house, where he had been protesting
for II hours that he was the only real
sane man in the state of Nebraska.
The lawyers and the court isendants
asked him a few questions. Usually
these are very direct. The patient is
asked pointedly if he considers him
self sane. That was the case here.
Well" said the youth, Il am not
crazy enough to ride a bicycle between
two trolley cars when they are passing
in opposite directions"
The court took that as reflection on
him-as something personal and scan
dalous. 1t affected him as a man and a
rider. but it was a direct assault on the
dignity of courts as well. And he sent
the patient to the detention hospital
for contempt of court.
This is probably the only thing the
court-martial at Rennes has not
thought of doing.
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SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 50, 1899
TWELVE PAGES.
The Ovation to Dewey.
~ HE ovation to Dewey is all that
1t has been prophesied to be.

~ HE ovation to Dewey is all that
it has been prophesied to be.
History contains nothing COM
parable to it. The ancient Roman
''triumphs," splendid spectacles in one
sense, were essentially garish and bar
barrie; the spells of conquest consti-
tuted their principal feature-the pro-
cessions included thousands of captives
doomed to slavery for life. The Roman
: triumph Illustrated nothing but the
capabilities of force; the power of mill
tarism pushed to it's extreme limit.
The ovation to Admiral Dewey is the
tribute of the American people to an
ideal American hero-a man of honor
of courage, of skill, of strategy, a naval
genius, a diplomatist of consummate
ability, at all times and under all cir
cumstances an American and a gentle
man. The city of New York because of
its location and it's size, has the proud
privilege of welcoming Dewey, but IN
this matter New York is only the rep
resentative of the entire country, Every
city and every hamlet would like to do
Dewey honor, and nearly every one of
them has contributed its quota of Wis
dtors to the metropolis. Hundreds of
thousands of strangers-some estimates
place the number at more than a mil
lion-have poured into New York this
week to contribute to the immensely of
the demonstration.
The preparations for fitting recep-
tion have been going on for months and
the actually is even grander than has
been anticipated. Every intelligent
citizen has felt a personal interest in
the general character of the ceremonies
the programme of events is familiar
TO everybody. The American people
love and honor Dewey as very few
Americans have been loved and hon
ored before. and this weeks ovation is
IA big, popular outburst of patriotic en-
Shusiasm.
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Will He Strike Back?

IF Governor Bushnell and his friends
in Ohio fail to do a few little
things to Mr.. Nash, the present re
publican candidate, they would seem to
be remarkably deficient in the ordinary
instincts of the human race.
1t is well known that Governor Bush
nell belongs to the anti-Hanna wing of
the republican party, and opposed his
election to the senate. The conscience
of Mr.. Nash, educated and refined as it
has been in the elevating school of Ohio
politics, presided over by the pure and
guileless Hanna was shocked at the
moral depravity of Governor Bushnell
in venturing 10 think that some other
republican might be preferable to
Hanna for the senatorial toga.
Nash had been appointed to an office
by Bushnell, but, of course, he could
not think of holding it under such a
man" So en- the second of January,
1895. he addressed to the governor
letter in the following terms:
Hon. Asa S. Bushnell. Governor, Column
bus, Ohio-SIr: hereby resign the office of
trustee for the Ohio hospital for epileptics.
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ONE DEWEY PROGRAMME.
1t Is Illustrative of What People Would
DO IL They Could.

1t Is Illustrative of What People Would
Do IL They Could.
From the Bismarck Tribune.
Promptly as the battleship Olympia is
signaled, 13 torpedo boats will be loaded
into the big guns of the battleshps
Iowa and Indiana and blown to atoms.
10 o'clock-All of the guns on the bat
tleship Iowa will be loaded into the
largest one and blown into space Cap
tain Bob Evans will do a cake walk on
top of the gun during the firing.
10:l5 o'clock-Chauneey M. Depew will
pull up the Statue of Liberty on Bed
loe's island, and smear red paint all
over the canopy of heaven.
1890 o'clook-Theodore Roosevelt will
pull down Brooklyn bridge with his
teeth and catch the structure as 1t falls
with his bare hands.
IL o'clock-John L. Sullivan will drink
all the water in the bay and cham
payne will be pumped into the hole for
the Olympia to sail in upon. The whole
police force of the city will stand, each
man upon the shoulders of the next
smallest, and, at a given signal, the
entire column, nearly five miles high,
will fall into the ocean. Eleven hun
dred railroad engines will race down
specially-constructed tracks and chute
the chutes into the bay. A st. Patrick S
day parade and society of Orangemen
will come together at a given point.
Russell Sage will scatter cents worth
of caramels among the crowd from the
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top of the tallest building in Manhat-

tan.
HE o'clock-The battleship olympia
will be carried through the streets py
school children. Admiral Dewey and
Richard Croker will sit upon the Prov
with their feet hanging over, Edward
Atkinson will have three fts at diner
ent places during the procession -,
1880 oclock-The Tammany Tiger VIII
howl uninterruptedlyf for ~ minutes
Noon-The city hall Will be blown up
with dynamite promptly at noon.
2 o'clock-The AInalgamateu Assocla-
ton Of Baby Perambulators VIII form a
PROCESSION Is miles long.
2:S0 o'clock-The Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Garbage Gatherers VIII pa
rade. go
s o'clock-The Rough Riders VIII eat
the paving stones along the streets Tor
six blocks.
( o'clock-Admiral Dewey will speak
from the band stand.
The street car companies have guar
anteed to run over six babies TO the
mile during the day.
No fakirs or gamblers on the grounds.
Gentlemanly ushers in attendance.
Ladies are requested to remove their
hats
Gee-goo caramels at Whizzers.
The usual concert after the perform
ance.
Come one, come everybody.
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MEMORABLE DAYS IN THE
LIFE or DEWEY
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
Persons who believe in blue blood
may be interested in knowing that
George Dewey is credited with being
of royal descent. However this may be,
he certainly comes of good old stock,
among his ancestors being members of
many prominent Vermont families. He
was born in Montpelier, VT, Dec. 26,
1887, his father being DIR. julius Ye-
mans Dewey, a well-to-do country ply
stefan, and his mother being Mary
Perrin.
George Dewey was the third son.
His eldest brother, Charles, was born
March %, 1926. and three years later
to a day his brother Edward was
ushered into the world. The admiral's
only sister, Mary Perrin, named after
her mother, was born Oct. 26, 1889.
DR.. Dewey, the admirars father, had
good practice in a small town, and
the little house in Montpelier in which
George first saw the light knew all the
comforts of those early days. The
admira's father and mother were de-
vout Episcopalians, and their children
were all received into that faith, which
they profess to-day.
His childhood was like that of most
country boys. He went to the district
school, where he held his own with
the best of them, as well in the play
ground as in the class room, and later
he attended Morrisville academy and
Norwich university, a military school.
His father wanted him to go into the
army, but the lad, very wisely, as the
result shows, preferred the navy, and
he did not rest until he had secured
an appointment to the naval academy
at Annapolis.
There he fought more than one fistic
battle, and on one occasion he prompt
ly accepted a challenge to a duel with
pistols which one of his fellow stu
dents sent him. The authorities, how
ever, heard of the affair, and conse-
quently the duel did not take place
He graduated in 1858, ranking fifth on
the list of IA, and Immediately after
ward he was attached to the steam fri
gate Wabash of the Mediterranean
squadron. From this time until the
civil war broke out he saw much sea
service and developed those sterling
qualities which have ever since served
him SO well. During the civil war
though he was serving in subordi
nate capacity, he made an excellent
record, distinguishing himself by hi
bravery in several engagements. H.
| was present at the capture of New
Orleans in April, 1862, and he displayed
| much gallantry at Port Hudson IL
March, 1868. At Fort Donelson anc
| Fort Fisher he won fresh laurels, anc
when the Mississippi was destroyed
by the confederates after a stubborn
| fight he was the last man to leave thu
vessel, an act of heroism which i'm
PEELED Admiral Porter to say shortl!
afterward, when commenting on thi
| incident: at is in such trying mo
| ments that men show Of what meta
they are made. and in this instance tn
| metal was the best"
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Current Comment.
Our Relations With Japan.

From the Rochester Herald.
The relations between Japan and the
United States are likely to be closer than
those of Japan and any other Western
power. In rousing herself from the leth-
argy so characteristic of Oriental nations
Japan has accomplished a marvel of ma
tional enterprise. In her effort to estab-
fish herself among the great powers she
should receive every encouragement, es-
pecially from America, with whom her
relations have always been most friendly
and with whom she is now likely to be
brought into still closer contact through
trade with the Philippines.
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n rOT once, merely, but great many
M times within the last few months
the attempt has been made to
draw a parallel between the treatment
of the Filipinos by President Mckinley
and the actions of our colonial ancas-
tors toward the Indians whom they
found in the New World. The point
sought to be made is that because the
whites forced themselves into the coun-
try regardless of the wishes of the In
dians, there is no just ground for COM
plant as to the treatment of the Fill
pinos.
1t is probably a waste of both time
and space to attempt to show the alb
surdity of the assumed parallel, or of
the conclusion based upon it, for the
cases are about as wide apart in prin-
ciple as any two cases can be. A man
who can see no difference between them
is not fit to discuss the question at all,
and is not person justified in claiming
intellectual superiority over anybody.
In the first place no matter how IN
just the treatment of the Indians may
doubtless was, it is a principle as old
as the moral law, that two wrongs do
not make a right"
But the cases are totally dissimilar
in a number of ways. The colonists
from Europe simply came to seek homes
for themselves-not to subjugate the
natives. The American aborigines had
merely nomadic tribes, living mainly
by hunting and fishing. They were,
moreover so few in number, that the
present area of the United States could
with propriety be termed an uninhab
tied wilderness.
There was an abundance of room for
both the natives and the colonists. The
new corners did not, in the first in
stance, make any attempt to dispos-
sess the Indians by force. They en-
tered into treaties with them and, gen.
orally speaking, they lived on terms of
| friendship for many years. Later on
as the colonists increased in number
and extended their settlements, friction
| arose, as was Inevitable when civiliza-
| ton and absolute barharism came into
| close contact. Sometimes the Indians
were badly treated, sometimes they
only thought they were. But in either
case war was the result. and the end
was their virtual determination.
| But the great and distinguishing
point of difference lies in the circum-
| stance that the American colonists
never made the slightest attempt to re-
duce the Indians to a state of subjec-
| ton. What American colony ever
sought to lay a tax upon a tribe Of
| Indians, or to interfere in any way with
| their customs or their laws? An In
| dian tribe was treated virtually as n
! nation by itself and is largely SO to
| this day. Sometimes IL was forced back
before the advancing tread of ctviliza-
ton. but that has no earthly bearing
upon the case of the Philippines.
There we have a country densely in
habited by people, many Of whom are
well advanced in civilization. They
have comfortable habltations. they have
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drinking If I become his wife.-chicago
News.
Patience-Did you hear about the elope-
ment?
Patrice-No.
why, the automobile ran away with
the Observation-Disclosures Statesman,
Lives Of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime
Just by doing as they all do:
Advertising all the time
Detroit Free Press.
Don't leave the table, said the land
lady as her new boarder rose from his
scanty breakfast.
Il must, madame; it's hardwood and
my teeth are not what they used to be-
Tit-Bits.
Mrs. Goodone-Don't you know that
liquor is a destroyer?
Thirsty Tatters-Der's somet'in' bout
me, lady. dat it don't pear able to de-
stroy.
Mrs. Goodone-And what is that?
Thirsty Tatters-Me thirst fer iti-Puck.