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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-07
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.
Miles, Alger and That Beef.

!; Z N the first place-so great was the
81 racket raised by the newspapers
the president appointed a commits
| sion to inquire into the war depart
tment's conduct of its work in general.
1T was real nice commission, kind and
fgentle and true and sure to stand with
out hitching. This commission con-
sducted a real nice investigation, and
then it brought in a real nice report
declaring that everything that Secre-
,tary Alger had done was real nice, and
that, in effect his critics were fine
aggregation of liars.
With the rest, this commission tried
to make it appear that the overripe
beef dealt out to the soldiers by Ayers
contractors was as nice and wholesome
and toothsome as ever reached the
human palate. But the administration
was left with General Miles embalmed
beef talk on its hands. So, another
inquiry was ordered. 1t was specific
ally a beef inquiry; the administra-
tons purpose was to get overwhelming
testimony to the rare excellence of this
beef. and thus lay the foundation for
proceedings to drive General Miles into
private life.
The upshot of it is a mass of proof
going to show that Miles is all right,
but that the beef wasn't--by a large
majority. Day after day this beef tes-
timony is indicating Miles. When the
embalmed meat charges first reached
the public a great cry went up from
the contractors, and in it all the pack
ers Joined. They said that this ugly
criticism of army beef would simply
destroy a great American industry; it
would, they moaned, give Germany and
other European powers the very open
ing they have been sparring for; itwould
arm the foreigners with an excuse for
refusing our imports at Hamburg and
Bremen and all along shore-they would
blithely reject the stuff on the home
testimony respecting its badness.
Then, too these Alger contractors did
their best to make the American public
believe that, for a fact. there isn't such
a thing as preserved beef, in the sense
that was rapidly finding public accept
ance; and when the popular menu came
to include daily mention of salicylio
acid and boracic acid and preservaline
and other relishes, the packers mournet
over this gross unkindness TOWARD
American beef.
Yesterday there was brought to thu
attention of those who are running the
beef investigator an unearthed letter
belonging to an era early in the war
wherein the Armours sought to faster
their hooks onto the beef contract
their proposition being that they were
in control Of the only genuine beef.
drugging process known to the world
This all would be comical if it were not
so immensely reprehensible. The ad,
vancing inquiry into the life and time!
and nauseating nature of Alger bee
makes it more and more certain tina
President Mckinley won't be in a hurr!
to start up court martals and thing.
of that sort against Miles to the en-,
that Alger may be decorated with al
unmerited badge of official honesty.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-07
Bad All Around.

~ ONE of the gossip that circles
~ around the name of Secretary
Alger is doubtless made up of
guesses or Of unfounded assertion. So
stained is this mans record that, what
ever he does, the proposition appears
to be that he merits denunciation ION
general principles
There is enough of crookedness in the
Alger record that can be backed with
the proofs to warrant his dismissal in
disgrace from the public service. And
there is enough of rottenness in his adj
ministration to warrant the criticism
started by those who are saying that
his junket to Cuba was prompted by
schemes for investment and speculation.
Alger fairly exposes himself, in fact,
to suspicion that every movement he
makes has his pocketbook in it. With
him, and undoubtedly representing him
in Cuba, was Colonel Hecker, Ayers
business associate in Detroit, and the
chief purchasing and traffic agent dur
ing the war
Scandalous charges are made in con-
nection with Ayers order counter
manding the plan General Brooke had
formulated for the extension of time
on Cuban mortgages. Without this eX-
tension the people whose property is
mortgaged are simply ruined-they
cannot get themselves in shape to pay
up unless an extension of time be grant
possession of many of these mortgages.
so it is asserted, and under Algers re-
fusal to extend the time for payment
they will simply swoop down on prop
erty just issuing from years of war,
and make fortunes.
Meanwhile the testimony against AL
gers embalmed beef is piling up noun
tain high. 1t is SO cumulative that the
public has already reached a verdict
and the Alger clique itself will admit
that the public was patient in this bust
ness; it was prepared to see General
Miles and the rest of the critics punish
ed if they failed, for their part, to make
their accusations good. Practically, pub
lie opinion is all one way respecting
this bad-beef question. Says the Phila-
delphia Press: THE evidence has
abundantly proved the charges of rot
ten-meat rations. There is overwhelm-
ing evidence that the canned beef was
Unfit for use. There was nowhere in
the staff department the vigilance or
the efficiency needed to deal with the
bought"
The editor of the newspaper that an
nounces these conclusions is postmaster
general of the United States and he sits
in the cabinet circle with Alger.
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Current Comment.
Sampson Sees What Might Have Been.

From the Washington Post.
We are glad to hear that Admiral Samp-
son visited Santiago in the course of his
recent triumphal progress with the North
Atlantic squadron. 1t is a little bit mys-
ferrous that Sampson should be kept at
sea in command of a fleet when officers
superior to him in rank are kept ashore
on waiting orders. But it is comfort to
know that Sampson has been to Santiago
and has made careful and personal in
spection of those fortificatons and bat
teries which last summer filled him with
such respectful apprehension. Now that
he has seen them and measured their real
Importance, how bitterly he must reproach
the timorous imagination which kept him
from doing something to earn that mys
FERROUS and still unexplained promotion.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-07
One Result of Good Prices.
m the Engineering and Mining Jour

nal.
The high price of copper and the
boom in the market for copper stocks
combined are bringing forward, as
might be expected, great number of
copper properties, or at least of So
called copper properties Some of these
are legitimate mining propositions, but
the great majority are of very indefi-
mite value, or of no value at all. The
advertising columns of the papers are
just now full of offers to sell stock, and
the mails are flooded with prospectuses
of very similar character. AS rule,
the more expansive and f1owery these
are, the more they are to be dlstrusted.
The usual formula is to set forth the
profits of copper mining, as eXempiihed
by the Calumet & Hecla or the Ana
conda, and then to describe property
which seems to derive its value from
it's neighborhood to or situation "on the
same formation" with some Well-knoWn
mine. The extent to which the same
formation" is sometimes prolonged is a
wonder to biologists. The present is
a good time for promoters, and they are
taking full advantage of It. IL Is also
a time when investors should scrutlnlZe
very carefully the propositions brought
before them The misfortune Is that
the constituencies promoter VINO mas
no scruples about claiming everything
for his property usually does better IN
boom times than the man who tries
honestly to sell a property OF real
value,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-07
Striking Fouls.

Z T it now predicted that one year more
will see the disruption of the nation
baseball league. The affairs ofthat
organization are still going from bad to
worse. According to the New York
Herald the national game to-day is in
more demoralized condition than it
was during the brotherhood" war in
1890. and during the fight of the ma
tional league and the American associ-
alton the following year The differ
ence now, according to the same au-
thority, is that the conspiracy for
self ACKNOWLEDGMENT exists within the
leading organization, and the conspir-
ators, while smiling and affable in the
light. are treacherously using knives In
tine dark on those whom they seek to
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-07
1t Makes Little Odds.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
The president, according to jour-
nalistic admirer, will strike the Fill
pinos wherever he finds them in force
and show them nothing but the sword
until they yield. Spain did that for
their oppression" continues the admirer
of greatness; 1.-The United States will do
it for their benefit and advancement"
1t will no doubt be greatly comforting
to the Filipino who is plugged with a
Krag- Jorgenson bullet to reflect, as he
climbs the golden stair, that he was
plugged for his benefit and advance
ment--not as an act of oppression. It
will make great difference, too, in his
reception by st. Peter.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-07
THE CUBAN MAJOR GENERAL.

(From "rhe Pirates of Penzance' Up to
Date.1
am the very model of Cuban Major
Gineral;
My sole idea is money, made Of paper or
of mineral:
My love of Cuba Libre is not such as
makes my Twin end
And ] scorn all sorts of warfare that
does not produce a dividend.
We gather in Assembly and shoot off our
mouths ferociously.
And all agree that Uncle Sam has treated
us atrociously.
The proper course for him. we think,
would be to roundly pension us,
Although the war dispatches did not
prominently mention US.
At such affairs as sorties and surprises we
were wary at
And yet we stuck quite closely to the
Yankee commissariat.
We're very well acquainted, too. with
with matters mathematical,
And when prospective pays in sight our
instincts are piratical.
When Cadmus sowed the dragons teeth
armed men sprang up in brave array.
But nothing like the troops we raised by
commonplace chicanery.
The jingle of the dollars far more power
hath to raise force
Than all the patriotic blood that in our
dusky veins doth course.
We garrison the restaurants, ana with
consummate strategy
Pick out the best positions and pose with
mighty hat a-gee,
OF battles that were never fought we
pirate most spontaneously,
And when some one suggests a drink we
accept the same quite graciously.
Our erstwhile hero, Gomez, we now objur-
gate as but a bluff,
Since he agreed with Porter that three
million dollars was enough.
Our honor is too dear for such a paltry
price to dim it.
For Uncle Sans good thing and We'll
raise him to the limit.
| Instead of cursing Spaniards now we exc
| crate the nation
| That freed us from the tyrant and pro-
vides our daily ration;
No canned roast beef or picked pig Of
| tends our able appetite,
And when the Yankees grub gives out
they'll find that they have us to
fight.
| Wen flee unto the mountains as our
fathers did before us,
And hold up peaceful planters to Cuba
| Libre chorus:
| For we are after money, made OF paper or
| of mineral,
And I am the very model of Cuban Ma
| jor Gineral.
| Willard Holcomb.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-07
Years Momentous Changes.

From the Kansas City Times.
A year ago the United States were the
worlds greatest republic and freest coun-
try and OCCUPYING a position that was in
dependent of the other countries, but
bound to them by the friendly ties of
trade interchange. To-day we are a men,
Der of the family of nations and a parti
cipant in the broils and uuarrels of the
other members. And, too, we have become
meanwhile the most grasping of the pow
ers for foreign territorial conquest, in
GLIDING purpose to join in the spoliation
of China. The future historian will be
obliged to quote Senator Hoar: 1.-The
downfall of the American republic COM
menced with the administration of Will
lam Mckinley"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-07
Trying to Curb Monopoly.

From the Atlanta Journal.
The Pennsylvania legislature has passed
resolution providing for the appoint
ment of commission TO investigate the
trust question and to report legislative
remedy. In other states there are on foot
movements which may result in restrict
ing the operations of trusts. 1t is rdicu-
lous to say that there is no preventive of
this evil. If neither the state nor the fed
eral authority can protect the people from
combinat lions to throttle competition and
cripple commerce we have very poor
form of government
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-07
DRESS REFORM FoR SCHOOL.
Comfortable Wearing Apparel Make.
STUDY Easier

study Easier.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
The pupils Of the High school Of New
ark, N. j., are adopting dress reform as
a uniform for school wearing.
Tight 1acing and everything else in
the way of personal attire that might
be detrimental ITO health are to be dis
carded by the girl pupils in the Newark
High school. Abandoning stays and
tight-fitting waists, the girls will wear
pretty loose shirt waists.
Dress reform" is now apparently the
motto of the High school. The girls
are enthusiastic over it and the teach-
ers are delighted, for they have argued
long and persistently for it and have
made it the subject of lessons and talks
in the classrooms and Of private talks
to pupils whose health they feared was
being injured by tight lacing. The re-
form has been FASTENED by the prepara-
lions for the physical culture classes
soon to be started.
The methods of dressing most popular
among the school girls have long given
the teachers cause for worry. Recently
young woman pupil was asked to re-
turn home and arrange her clothing so
that her waist measure would be added
to by several inches. This was deemed
necessary for her health and comfort
at study.
With most of the girls the trim, neat
belt, fashionable and pretty, appears to
be an irresistible temptation and ito pull
in another notch was the easiest thing
in the world for them to do. Arguments
in favor of ample breathing space were
made, and everything is now satisfac-
toriIy settled. The girls are to wear to
school pretty, loose shirt waist, part
of the gymnasium costume which has
just been adopted and in which the
basket ball class will appear at prac-
tice. The entire suit is of black mate
rial and includes bloomers. which are
to be worn only in the gymnasium, and
black stockings and slippers. The shirt
waist is to have red braid trim
mings.
The suit is pretty and practical and
the girls are much pleased with 1t. The
boomers are very full and graceful and
not unduly conspicuous. The waist, not
being a blouse, is proper to be worn in
the class rooms. An adjustable collar
makes it possible to give the waist a
"dressed-up" appearance.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-07
Faulty in the War Department..

From the Philadelphia Record.
The statement emanatng from the war
department relating to the adequacy for
ali purposes of the forces with General
Otis betrays the fatnity which prevails in
the bureaus AS a matter of fact, every
thing has been staked upon the success of
a coup de main in the Philippines. AL
though the outlook for an early and de-
cisive defeat of Aguinaldo is promising. no
preparation has been made for the posi-
bility of a check or for the prolongation
of the campaign in consequence of the
escape of the enemy
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-07
Still Paying OFF His Debts.

From the ST. Louis Republic.
The way the president has cleaved unto
the saw-mllionaire at the head of the war
department. refusing to be separated from
him a. the demand of democrats and anti
Algerine republicans. has had few paral-
lels in the examples of unquenchable
friendship with which history furnishes
us The president has had enough sworn
proof of Ayers utter incompetency and
criminal Encouragement to convince
deaf dumb and blind skeptic. But he
owes to Alger political debts and will not
let him 90.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-07
Bribery in Senatorial Elections.

From the Washington Times.
When man once accepts his first bride
to support a man he would otherwise op-
pose he becomes d rapacious scoundrel.
seeking opportunities to sell his vote for
any purpose. Having flung away the
scruples that most men have in their early
public life he is under no restraint ex-
cept the fear of exposure. So out of the
present system of senatorial elections
grows the utter rottenness of some public
men, who will do what they can TO tempt
others
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-07
Giving New York the Colby.

From the New York Herald.
New York merchants have not been
properly alive to the rapid changes of the
last decade in the commercial situation.
In truth, we had become bit old fogyish
in our ways and depended too much on
the belief that all roads lead to New
York They did once, but between excess
siye freight rates. heavy port charges
and sharp competition in trade all over
the country no wonder that New York
was given the go-by when the pinch of
close prices came.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-07
~ HE North Dakota legislature has
knowingly, willfully. deliberately

and maliciously killed one of that
states most tlourishing industries. 1t
enacted law at is last session reauir-
ing that after July l one years resi-
dence in that state shall be one of the
conditions of obtaining a divorce in
North Dakota. The lawyers and hotel
keepers of Fargo and other North Da-
kota cities are Voicing their grief in
weeping and wailing and crashing Of
teeth 1t is estimated that the vari-
Gus divorce colonies left half million
dollars in the state annually. 1t was
a clean pickup, and the principal bene-
ficiaries feel that the legislature has
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-07
Still Looking for Trouble.

From the Philadelphia Press.
With wars, rumors of wars and A,ger-
ism turning his hair gray. President Nc
Kiney appears to be still hunting trouble
He has announced to his cabinet that he
will soon issue a civil service order plac-
ing $500 offices at the disposal of repub.i-
can spoilsmen.
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been fighting its street railway
corporations for years, is seri-
ously talking of trying to solve the
problem by municipal ownership. I'm
der a law passed at the last session of
the Michigan Legislature, the Detroit
common council has appointed a com
mission of three to investigate the pro-
position in all it's bearings, to ascertain
the amount of the investment and the
earning capacity of the system, and
report these matters back to the COM
mon council for approval before talk
ing final action 1t is proposed that the
city shall pay for the street railway
system with bonds based upon the
earnings.
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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-10-05
Hoyts "A Day and A Night. +"

"a Day and A Night" the latest ef-
fort of Charles H. Hoyt, will be seen at
the auditorium tomorrow night. In
this play Mr.. Hoyt takes his audience
into his confidence and shows them a
picture of stage life, as seen from the
back of the curtain; and to those who
are familiar with the theatre from
that viewpoint, II is startlingly real,
from the manager down to the door
keeper, who has been in his day a
great actor. Numerous pretty girls
who sing and dance charmingly give
color to the play and the groupings are
artistically arranged. AS 10 the story of
the play, 1t relates TO the adventures
of Marbel Hart, an apparently plous
yonng man from New Jersey, who hav-
ing come to New York in search of a
choir for the village church, is intro
duced 10 the theatrical manager a
friend Of his father, Lyon Hart, a re-
tired naval officer The bluff old sail
or having no sympathy for the plous-
ness Of his friends son. the manager
undertakes to reform" him by show
ing him bit of metropolitan life. To
that end he Is invited to little supper
panty at the home of the manager, at
which a number of actresses are intro
duced to him las applicants for places
in the choir. To the astonishment of
the father, who is concealed behind a
curtain, the young man proves himself
to be not SO unsophisticated as was
supposed, and after while throws off
the mask of piety and dlscloses his
tue nature. M. G.. SEIPEL.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-10-05
Romantic Marriage.

One of the most peculiar turns cupid
ever made occurred yesterday after
neon on parlor car 101 on train No. 2,
at st. Marys. A few minutes before the
train pulled out, young couple, ac-
eompanled by ministerial looking
parsonage, entered the parlor car and
in short meter made them man and
wife. The young bride was Miss Sal
lie Hines, the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. w Hines, of st. Marys, and
Charles Berry, a prominent rig builder
and contractor of that place. The
happy couple remained on the same
train, which took them to Plttsburg
on their wedding trip.
1t was at first thought that paternal
objection had to do with the peculiar
marriage, but such was not the case.-
Journal.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-10-05
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