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La Junta tribune., 1899-11-08

sale by club members and at Guy
E. Smiths music store.
For fresh bread, pies or cakes go
to Fishers postoffice news stand.
Five more engines and five en-
gine crews have been ordered for
Ration.
Have you tried our home rem
fdered lard? Every pound guaran-
teed. F. w. Dice.
. A ten pound pound 10y made
its appearance at the home Of Jack
sSproule last Saturday morning.
DR.. Frank Finney was called to
Las Animas Sunday in consulta-
,tion with physicians OF that place.
|, D. B. Carey, of Denver, assist
ant attorney general of the state Of
Colorado, was in town several days
this week on legal and other bust
ness.
For SALE.-One thousand good
young breeding ewes; heavy shear
ers; not bred; also six Shropshire
bucks. H. b. Fetz, eight miles
northwest OF La Junta.
The wonderful advance in the
price OF iron has made no differ
ence in the price of stoves at
Thompson's. See his line before
you purchase elsewhere.
I The regular semi-monthly meet
ing ofthe w. c. T. U. will be
held on Friday, November roth,
at the home OF Mrs. A. w. Eng
lish Everybody welcome.
James Dornan, of Fort Madison,
Ia., q former boilermaker employe
81 the local shops, was in town a
fer days last week visiting friends,
retaining home on No. Sunday.
Ioring w. Reyner. the osteopath
who has been practicing his pro-
iession in Otero county for some
l1eaft pAst, left last week for AL
bnqnerque, N. NJ. where he will
locate permanently.
A Colorado Southern freight
train was wrecked near Granerous,
between Pueblo and Trinidad,
Sunday night, and trains over that
road came around by way of La
Junta on Monday. The conductor
and brakeman OF the freight train
were injured. The rails had been
partly taken up and it was believed
by the railroad officials that the
rails were fixed by train wreckers
for the purpose of holding up a
passenger train. After a thorough
investigation, however, it devel-
oped that the wreck was purely ac-
cidental.
Grant Bridgman had the mis-
fortune to meet with an accident
in the shops Monday morning which
may cause him to lose an eye.
While at work in a FIRE box chip
ping staybolts small piece OF steel
struck him full in the right eye.
He was taken to the hospital in
the ambulance, and an examina-
tion disclosed the fact that the eye
was badly injured. Mr.. Bridgman
was taken to Topeka on No. 6
Monday night to receive the atten-
tion of an expert oculist. His
many friends hope that the injury
may not prove SO serious as is now
thought and that he may regain
the use of the eye.
The La Iunta football team has
been reorganized for the season
and already has number of games
scheduled. The team is practicing
faithfully and propose to give good
account of themselves during the
winter. They will open the season
next Saturday at Fowler with the
team Of that town. On Thanks
giving day they will play on the
home grounds with the Centennial
team of Pueblo. Following is the
1ine-up of the team: Center Dave
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| East Indian and American mints at the
| ratio OF twenty-five and half to one.
This would keep the East Indian rupee
at its present value of sixteen pence.
| give silver bullion permanent market
price Of ninety-three cents an ounce,
| and maintain a substantial parity OF
value between gold and silver the world
over, thus settling the question OF
monetary exchange between gold-using
| and silver-using countries--a very i'm
portant matter. by the way-one
which many English bimetallists and
some Americans regard as of greater
significance even than the question of
quantity"
But these are points of detail and
argument These men are all opposed to
the gold standard, and hence upon the
main question they all stand to-
gether.
In the United States this question has
become distinctively a political issue.
Those who favor the gold standard,
with only a comparatively few indi-
vidual exceptions, are sustaining Mr..
They cannot do otherwise because the
policy of the present administration is
to more thoroughly commit the coun-
try to the gold standard"-we use the
exact language of Secretary Gage.
Those who are honestly opposed to this
policy are opposed to the republican
party, unless there is something else
which they regard as of greater import
ance in the political situation, and
which keeps them in the republican
ranks.
No man who regards the silver issue
as paramount" or of the highest i'm
portance, can honestly support Mr..
Mckinley. il there is any other party
or candidate that is more favorable to
silver. That proposition is too plain
to admit of argument. There are, in
fact, three parties in the United States
that are more favorable to silver than
is the republican-the democratic, the
silver republican and the populist.
Therefore If any man who claims to
hold silver as paramount" gives his
support to MIR. Mckinley, he simply
proves his own insincerity-or ignor-
enca
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nfzed the government that had beer
organized. President Mckinley threat
ened to veto it in that form, and fore.
ed modification which, while declar.
ing the right of the Cubans to self.
government, left it altogether indefinite
as to when or how such government,
should be established.
President Mckinley has treated the
island exactly the same as If it were a
conquered province. Not that the peo-
pie have been subjected to cruelty; they
have simply been treated as having no
rights in their own country at all, ex-
cept to live and pay taxes as prescrib-
ed by the United States We have be-
come rather accustomed to the plea
that the declaration of independence
does not apply to the Filipinos-we ex-
pect soon to be informed that the Gu
bans are equally beyond it's purview,
and that in the queen of the Antilles
taxation without representation instead
of being tyranny, is wise and enlight-
ened craftsmanship.
The fair and reasonable deduction
from Mr.. McKinley's policy in Cuba is
that he never had the slightest idea of
allowing the Cubans to form a govern
ment Of their own. His manifest pur-
pose has been to hold the matter in
allegiance. gradually build up senti-
ment in the island favorable to perma-
nent annexation. while at the same
time the American people are being
taught to believe that the Cubans are
incapable of managing a government
Of their own.
However, congress is soon to meet,
and it is to be hoped that something
will be done toward bringing our for
American principles.
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much lung power and editorial space
in denouncing as traitor" every
democrat who ventures to oppose that
policy, are respectfully invited to make
a note of Mr.. BoutwelPs statement.
And while their minds are upon this
subject, it is well for them to remember
that Mr.. McKinley's candidate in Ohio,
who made his canvass as the especial
champion of the presidents policy,
only received $4,000 votes out of to-
tai of S0S,000 cast at the election. AL
together the other candidates had a.
900 more votes than Nash received
An assumption of high and holy pa
triotism may be all right if it is well
founded, but when accompanied with
bare-faced and criminal violation of
the laws of the land it makes an in
combination, and the people
of Ohio seemed to realize it.
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One School and Another.

IT is almost a year since the Montana
state school of mines in Butte was
completed SO far as the erection of
the building is concerned. The build
ing is without doubt a splendid one,
well adapted for the purpose for which
it was designed. Yet in the past year
nothing whatever has, SO far as known,
been accomplished towards equipping
and opening the school, and making it
the educational pride of the state which
it was intended to be. To all intents
and purposes the splendid building is
as completely deserted and abandoned
as is the old Blue Bird mill which,
from lofty eminence, it overooks.
There has recently been issued the
annual catalogue Of the Colorado school
Of mines at Golden. The catalogue
shows the total present attendance at
that school to be go, of whom 1856 are
from Colorado. Twenty other states
are represented in the attendance, in
Guiding five from Montana, and there
| are students from Austria, British Co.
lumbia, England and Australia. The
school has turned out $50 graduates,
most of whom are now, in various min
ing states and in mining districts of
foreign countries, occupying positions
| demanding skill and responsibility.
The excellence which has been at
tanned by the Colorado school might
well be attained by the one in Mon
tana. Surely, as mining state Mon
tana is in no wise behind Colorado. Ii
is ahead OF Colorado in the total value
of mineral production; it is not behind
| Colorado in the enterprise and progress
| siveness Of it's citizenship.
| The delay in the opening of the Mon
| tana school of mines is deeply to be
! lamented. and it seems as though the
delay were greater than should have
been necessary. 1t has certainly been
| much greater than was anticipated by
any of those who inaugurated the plan
| for the establishment Of a mining
| school in this great mining state.
! There seems to be no chance that
| further steps will be taken toward the
| opening of Montana's school of mines
until the next legislative session, and
it may be feared that even then it will
| be difficult to secure an appropriation
of sufficient size to properly equip and
open the school. Apparently the only
way by which Montana's school can be
opened is by a popular subscription.
1t ought not to be difficult in Montana
to raise a loan of the size required to
equip the school, on the understanding
that the subscriptions will be guaran-
teed by the state and paid back at a
! date to be definitely fixed.
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~ ECENT advices from Cuba indi-
cate the presence of grow
~ ing feeling Of discomfort among
the people resulting from the continu-
ance of American control in the island
unaccompanied by any assurance as to
when it will cease. There are rumors
of possible outbreaks, and, while the
Cubans are wholly unable to cope sue
cesstully with the power of the United
States. it may very easily come to pass
that the most deplorable conditions will
arise.
Should the dissatisfaction take the
form OF open resistance, it will at once
be claimed by the adminstra ton and
Its supporters that it is merely the rab-
Die, led on by unprincipled demagogues
opposed always to law and order and
anxious for the pillage and plumber Of
war Those who raise the standard of
resistance will be characterized as
rebels and bandits" and all who
venture to criticise the course of the
administration will be denounced as
"copperheads" and TRAITORS" With a
certain order of mentality such cpl
thets stand for argument" and they
sound big. 1t will be insisted, just as
it is in the case of the F1lipinos. that
the Cubans are unfit for sclf-govern-
ment, and therefore that American au-
thority must be maintained.
1t is the easiest thing in the world
to claim that people are unfit to gov
ern themselves. 1t is not difficult to
find men, and intelligent men, too, who
believe and assert that even the Amer
leans fall a long way short of what a
selt-goVerning people should be. There
are many degrees of advancement
among civilized and partially civ
iltzed states, and whether the peo-
pl" of particular country are fit
or unfit to control their own govern
nent depends largely upon the ideal or
| standard that is set up
But in the case Of the Cubans. the
great and salient fact is that the Uni
ted States engaged in the Spanish war
1or the aVoWed purpose of giving them
a government Of their own Up to the
present time not a single step has been
taken indicative Of a purpose to- car
ny out in good faith the resolution Of
congress, nor has even SUGGESTION
been thrown out by the administration
from which it reasonably can be in
ferred that there is any intention to do
So
Every reading person knows what the
attitude of Mr.. Mckinley was concern
ing the Spanish war. He opposed it
with all his power, and argued strenu-
ously against Cuban independence.
The original Cuban resolution recog-
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Ice for Guam.

u GAIN the appeal comes from
Guam, one Of Americas new
possessions. for ice. So import
ant has the matter become in the eyes
OF Governor Leary at least that, after
two notices by official report, he has
sent cable dispatch asking the gov
eminent to favor him with an ice MAX
ing machine and refrigerating plant.
The water is not drinkable and hot
drinks get monotonous in the tempera-
ture of Guam.
1t would be nice thing to be the ice
man in Guam for a few months until
Governor Leary is able to make his
own ice. for If the supply would only
hold out the ice man could make for
tune quicker perhaps than in New
York or Butte. If some enterprisins
navigator could hook on to an iceberg
in Behring's sea and tow it to Guam.
what a boon it would be-
Ice is one of the necessary adjuncts
of civilization and hot times. 1t Is an
outrage that the administration has SO
long permitted one of its new posses
sions to get along without this civiliz-
ing and, at times, soothing and reliev-
ing commodity. The famous remark of
the governor of North Carolina to the
been Invested of half its eloquence had
there been no ice. Governor Leary
should have his ice machine.
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GENERAL BuLLER's COMMAND.
1t Is tho Largest the British Army Ever
Sent Abroad.

1t Is tho Largest the British Army Ever
Sent Abroad.
From Pearson's Weekly.
1t has been officially stated that Gen.
eral Sir Redvers Butler, V. c.. will have
under his command during the present
war in the Transvaal no fewer than TO-
600 British troops. This is probably the
largest number of men ever placed at
one time under the supreme control of
one leader. viewing the fighting strength
of the British army (Europeans) in the
great wars Of comparatively modern
times.
At Waterloo the duke of Wellington
had just fewer than 2i,0o0 British troops
under his command. while Lord Raglan.
in the Crimea, never more had more at
one time than $4,000 Brtishers fighting
under him. In the Indian mutiny Lord
Clyde cthen Sir Colin CampbelD had bat
10000 troops. with whose assistance, and
the help of that portion Of the Indian
army which remained faithful to its al
legiance, he was enabled to auell the
most serious outbreak of modern times.
Going little farther back to the time
OF the great and prolonged peninsula
war, Wellington thought ne was fortu-
nate man if he could direct an army corps
of 10000 British troops. while the great
Marlborough, at Blenheim, led to victory,
and against fearful odds, an army of 49,
900 strong.
Lord Wolseley was expected in the
Egyptian war of 1885 to scatter the forces
of the mahdi, very considerable force,
consisting Of over $1,000 Arabs, and to as
sumo the practical dictatorship of the
Soudan, with a British force only Of so,
900 men, while Lord "Bobs, as the hero
of Candahar is playfully called. that Is
to say, Lord Roberts, could rely on no
more than $4,000 European troops to op-
pose the forces of the then turbulent
Ameer of Afghanistan. in the Afghan war
of 1873. Sir Redvers Butler is, therefore
an exceedingly fortunate man in findine
himself at the head of fighting army
whose numbers exceed by 1000 the tota,
allied forces whom Wellington command
ed at Waterloo.
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Missing Links.

Toronto municipal employees now enjoy
the eight-hour day.
A state organization of druggists
wives was effected at Denver.
Shirt. pants and overall making now
pays from IS to 81 week in St. Louis
Factory work occupies one woman out
of every q In the German empire.
Women employed on Japanese tea
farms work Z hours and are paid Is
cents 4 day.
The Florists Hall association of the
United States carries 600 insurance
on hothouses
German panoforte manufacturers have
virtually secured a monopoly of the Aus
traiian trade.
Milwaukee masters have been conced-
ed the 1O-hour day and So a month.
Two-year contract, too.
Wheelwomen on tour. who naturally
wish to present as neat an appearance
as possible, will welcome the invention
of SOLID alcohol. 1t comes put up in q
tin case, which can be set on a bureau,
and burns Ike a candle when lighted.
The noise Of the cannonading in New
York on Dewey day is reported to have
been heard at Cape Cod, $50 miles away.
An authority on sound reports that
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Parties and Political Issues.

90 Official questions can only be
~ decided through the medium and
agency of political parties. Act
ing alone. men can accomplish nothing
directly in politics, although they may
render valuable service in the way of
educating the public mind. But to bring
about practical results, they must as
sociate themselves with others in Or
ganized political effort. This has been
recognized in all countries where abso-
Lutte despotism does not prevail. and to
some extent, possibly, even there.
1t does not follow that the many in
dividuals thus associating themselves
must or will agree upon everything.
They will differ upon some questions
that are fundamental, and where they
are in accord upon certain main uues-
ton. they will be at variance in many
matters of detail, and while reaching
the same general conclusion. they will
get there by different methods of rea-
soning.
This is admirably illustrated in the
literature and the philosophy of the
great monetary question known as the
battle of the Standards" or more
popularity the Silver question" One
class of economists and financiers holds
that the metallic basis of the worlds
| monetary system should consist of a
single metal and that metal gold. An
other class takes the position that two
! metals should be thus employed, and
| that the metals should be gold and
silver. In general parlance these two
systems are known as the gold stand
ard and bimetallsm.
But upon both sides there are in
Vulnerable differences and standings of
opinion with reference to details and
| matters that are purely incidental or
| collateral. Thus, among those favoring
/ bimetallism we find much divergence
of opinion as to the precise ratio tina
should obtain in the use of the two
metals as money. That is to say how
| much of one should stand as the equiva-
| lent of given quantity of the other.
Since 1903 the concensus of bimetallic
opinion in Europe has generally favored
the ratio of fifteen and a half ounces
Of silver to one ounce of gold. In the
United States, in the earlier years of
the century, fifteen to one was the
favored ratio, while since 1884 the pub
lie mind has centered largely upon the
more familiar ratio of sixteen to
one"
There are, however, many individuals
who are inclined to favor a ratio diff
ferent from either. Professor Foxwall
of England, one of the most eminent
of the worlds bimetallists, thinks, or
did think a year or two ago, that as
the production of silver had so greatly
increased, while many nations had
stopped using it for money, some con-
cession should be made upon the ratio
and that probably twenty to one would
be better.
Other English bimetallists have
favored the opening of the French
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Objected to Foolishn css.

my dear" said the young father,
there is one request 1 want to make
of YOU
"What is it, dear?"
81 wish, dear, that you wouldn't talk
this baby talk to our child. It's absurd
The idea of saying kitchykitchey-ke
and whose wizzcuns is coz to a human
being is little less than barbarous Don't
you let the neishbors 70 it, either"
I'm try not to, DEAR" she answered
patiently But it seems to amuse Doriy
so much.'
Don't call him Dorgy,' either. It's
positively idiotic. His names George.
and there's no use of starting him out
in life with a vocabulary like a Polyne-
sian national hymn"
But he's little fretful to-day and
wants to be amused"
There are rational ways of amusing
a child. You can sing to him.
ST have been singing to him.
We'll, sive him to me and 1 will sing
TO him awhile
She passed the baby over and he pro-
ceeded to do his best with the Torea-
doris song and various other selections,
The baby persisted in Whispering He
continued to sing, and presently the lit
tie one began to smile. In a little while
it was fast asleep.
You have quieted him beautifully"
the mother admitted. by the way
what was that song you sang over and
over again? 1t seemed so tuneful and
lively"
Haven't you heard that?" he ouerled
in establishment. ITS from the latest
comic opera, and it's corker. The chorus
goes
'roodledy foodledy up-i-dee!
Jimmity, jammity jngeree,
Rigsity jiggity. rummity-ho,
biimmity blam, and away We go!
nT,tN
| going to buy it and learn the whole
| thing by heart
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The Standard can be found at the fol-
lowing news stands:
New York at Aston House.
Chicago Al Postoffice.
Chicago al Auditorium Annex,
San Francisco at Palace Hotel.
Denver at 1870 Lawrence st.
Denver at 906 Seventeenth st.
Salt Lake at 81 W. Second South st.
Salt Lake at Salt Lake News Co.
All general business letters and CORE
spondence should be addressed to the
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Anaconda, Mont.
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When the Inter Mountain, in quoting
from the Standard, deliberately chang
es the expression hundreds or thou
sands of our own soldiers likewise" so
as to make it read hundreds Of thou
sands" and then proceeds to comment
upon the doctored passage, it gives a
fine illustration of its fairness in state
ment. and the manner in which it
brushes the Standard in debate
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Worth Noting.

: I ONORABLE GEORGE S. BOUT
~ WELL, one Of the most distin-
i guished republicans in the coun-
try has just declared that if the pres
tnt administration policy in the Phil
ippines is continued Mr.. Mckinley Will
be Overwhelmingly beaten in 1900 The
champions of the president in this part
sf the country who are wasting so
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Current Humor.

A Voice in the Dark-Papa. please gim-
me drink of water; I'm so thirsty.
"No: you're not thirsty. Turn over and
go to sleep
A pause.
Papa, won't you please give me a
drink? I'm so thirsty
.If you don't turn over and go to sleep
I'll get UP and whip you.
Another pause.
Papa, won't you please gimme a drink
when you get up to whip nle?'-Tit-Bits.
"Whut did you smash i'm foh?"
He insulted a frien' er mine.
"Whut did he say?"
He said dat mex ter me, my frien'
wah de mos ignu'nt pusson in dis COM
munity "-Washington Star.
so your little brother is i'll, is he?"
said Mrs Hojak to Freddy Tomdik
What is the matter with him?"
Il don't know, ma'am The doctor
won't let me see him, because he has q
CONTIGUOUS disease. Harper Bazaar.
Miss Glassigh (of Bostom-Are you
never afraid Of sandbaggers in Chi
cago?
Miss Hamfatt (of Chicago)-How lit
tie you know u.s. Why, Chicago sari-
baggers are true gents, you know, and
would never think of soaking lady
never!-Puck
Quadds--Hello. old boy! What are
doing now?
Spacer-Writing for the press.
Quadds-Donit you find 1t rather
thankless sort of work?
Spacer-On the contrary, nearly ev-
erything I write is returned with
hanks.-Chicago News.
1.-THE fellow coming out Of that sa-
loon owes his life to me-" said the
Brooklyn motorman to the new hand
to whom he was teaching the business.
"How's that" asked the beginner, a s
he piled all the passengers to the front
of the car by quick movement Of the
brake
lone night" explained the motor
man. 'he was lying helpless across the
track. and I resisted and conquered
the tempta ton" Brooklyn Life.
British Recruiting officer-Well, my
man, do you want to enlist?
Applicant-Yes, sergeant.
Recruiting Officer--Any experience?
Applcant-Yes sergeant; three years
active service in India; two in Egypt;
four medals for bravery.
Recruiting Officer--Oh, skip your
medals! Have you any practical ex-
perience?
,Applicant-Sir!
Recruiting Officer-Can you drive an
army mule ?-Cleveland Plain Dealer.